In Search of Myself

Another ME page

One of the digital scrapbooking creative teams I'm on asked us to make an "about me" page for her website -- so I used that same picture I found the other day, along with some of my other favorites.  I'm mostly posting this for Kelly, who likes to see pages about me.  :)

Toy Story Overload

Yeah, we watch Toy Story A LOT.  Jake is obsessed with Buzz Lightyear.  He likes Toy Story 2 the best because it has a "bad guy" (Zorg.) 

Today Jake was jumping off the stairs (goes 3 stairs up to the landing and jumps to the living room.  Perfectly safe.)  He was trying to sound like Buzz and kept saying "Ooh up ibbety an beyon."  Bwah ha ha ha.

(He was TRYING to say "To infinity and beyond.")

My other random Toy Story story for the day -- it's impossible for me to not cry if I'm really watching the part where Jessie's talking about her old owner and someone's singing "When somebody loves you."  I know it's just a story and she's a random toy, but it toally makes me sad.  I'm a dork like that.

Random page about me

(dude, 'cause you know some days it's all about me, yo.)

Camping

Remember my wonderful childless days a few weeks ago when my parents took Jake camping?  I'm finally having minute to post a few pictures my mom took.

My parents are saints, have I mentioned that?  Jake had SO much fun with them.

I'm an auntie again!

Great-aunt, that is.

My nephew Mike's wife had their second child yesterday!  WHAT A CUTIE!!!!!  (Michael is my sister Sheri's son.)  WELCOME TO THE WORLD, ELIJAH!

For lots more pictures, click here to see my nephew Chris' blog.

I'm on the radio!

Ok, it's internet radio, and about digital scrapbooking . . . but dude!  LOL.

On Monday night I did an interview on the phone with Digital Scrapbooking Talk Radio.  I was e-mailing with the girl who is in charge of it about something else, and she asked me to be on the show to talk about piracy in the digital scrapbooking industry and my efforts to fight it.  (I have a blog that's like the hub for that . . .  it's a big thing in digi-world.  LOL.)

I'll warn you right now that I'm a total dork.  That's something I can't help.  But still, this is cool.

P.S.  if you listen to it, let me know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I just listened to it -- there's an intro by the girl who interviewed me, then a quick commercial.  And then like 30 minutes of me!  :D

Look at this page, where it lists the "celebs" -- dude, that's MY picture there!  Right next to Ali Edwards.  And four above Cathy Z.  Seriously, I'm feeling WAY cool now.

Silly Jake

Ok, so I started this scrapbook page about a 1/2 a year ago.  I just couldn't get around to finishing it.  But now I'm on another digital scrapbooking Creative Team (yay!) so I had inspiration.  I got 11 new kits from this girl, and I need to make 2 or 3 pages with each kit!  WOW!

Anyway, some of these Jake-isms you've read about already.  They're my favorites from his being 3 years old.  They cover the span of probably last November until current.

Broke the weight barrier

I don't know if anyone remembers me talking about my weight issues when I first started blogging two years ago . . . I'm almost 5'10", and I was stuck at 212 for the longest time.  Well, since then I had gained weight because of stress, being busy, and PCOS problems.  Once I got my PCOS diagnosis, I knew what the problem was and started on my way to fixing it.  I've officially lost all the weight I'd gained since then, AND I lost a few more pounds.  Yes, people, I am officially UNDER 212.  That was a major barrier to get past.

And I have to tell you, it felt DAMN good to go to the pool on Friday 20 pounds lighter than the last time I'd been there.  I wasn't nearly as self-conscious about walking into the pool.  That's good stuff.

I'm right at the point where the jeans I've been wearing for the past year or two are getting pretty loose, but the jeans I'd LIKE to wear still aren't quite fitting right.  'Doh!  (But a lot of my skirts fit and look MUCH better.)  I took last week off from really monitoring my diet -- I still did pretty good, but I was on my period and it's really hard to be hard-ass about food when you're tired, cranky, and in pain.  (Like, I totally ate mashed potatoes and mac & cheese from KFC one night -- a MAJOR no-no for me.  But I just needed comfort food that day and it was the first time since May I'd eaten either food!!!!)  I think it's good to take a week off now and again, though.  It gives my body a break and then I can jump back in to working hard to get more weight off.

My next goal?  Getting below 200, baby!

Jake-isms

Yesterday I talked to my mom on the phone, and she said that Zoe tried to take one of Jake's Thomas books to read, and Jake grabbed it away from her and said "You can't read that!  You have to read GIRL books!"  WHERE did my child get that from?  None of us have ever said anything like that around him.  I guess my feminism card's going to be taken away from me.

We went shopping with Priscilla and the girls on Saturday, and among the tons of things I got for Jake, I got him some Disney's Cars wall stickers.  We put them up together, so now one wall of his room is Thomas, along with his bed, and two walls have Car stuff on them.  We were getting ready for bed last night and Jake said "What this room about?"  Which meant "What's on the walls?"  Then we had to sit there and name every single character on the walls.

I was working on a scrapbook page about Jake and my mom, and I asked him who the page was about.  He said "I wish . . . I want you make a page about you and me . . . .YOU'RE MY BEST FRIEND."  Totally out of nowhere.  It was so stinking cute.

On another day, he asked me if I used to be little like him, and I said yes, a long time ago.  He said "I want . . . I wish . . . you were little like me and we would play in a tent."  HOW CUTE IS THAT?!

Part of what makes Jake Jake is that he obsesses over random things.  We were watching Toy Story 2 the other day and the part where the toys are climbing off the roof of the house to go rescue Woody, they all use the Slinky Dog to get down, then the dog grabs his own bottom, looks at the camera, and falls.  That part totally cracks me up.  I started laughing and said "The dog grabbed his butt."  Yes, in retrospect I shouldn't have said that to a little boy.  For the whole rest of the movie Jake just kept laughing and over and over saying "The dog grabbed his butt."  Even the next day he was obsessing about it, and if I mention Toy Story, that's what he says.

Every day on the drive home, Jake asks "Are we gonna go somewhere today?"  He calls Walgreens "the picture store" because that's where we go with a disk to get digital prints.  And when I DO say yes, we're going to go somewhere, he always says "I want a toy!  I want a little car.  I need a new car!"  The boy has so many cars I had to get a plastic tub to keep them in, but no, he thinks he needs a new one every day.  It doesn't help that on the way home we drive by Kmart, Kroger, Walgreens, CVS, and Publix.  On the other hand, it's nice to be in a civilized area where there's actually STORES around.  (Yes, that was a Colstrip dig.  Haven't had one of those in a while.  heh.)

Oh, and then once we get home, Jake starts asking "Are we gonna do an activity today?  Are we gonna do a craft?  Mom?  Are we gonna do activities?"  Every single day I tell him that when we first get home I want to sort through the mail, put my stuff up, and change clothes before we think about doing anything.  But every single day he pesters me about what we're doing next.

Jake's arm is still kind of nasty where the cast was -- at this point it's mostly a red rash and callouses around his hands.  So I've been putting Eucerin lotion (which is like clear paste) on it and of course Jake hates it -- he hates lotion of any kind.  He starts freaking out and flailing about and says "I'm gonna shake it off!"  Goof.

New Category

Well, I was sorting through my e-mail tonight and then my blog . . . I realized that the majority of what I've been writing about the past month is Jake's sensory issues.  And I'm sorry if that's been boring for some people.  Seriously.  I would probably be bored if it wasn't my kid going through it.  It's just that (a) it's foremost on my thoughts 24/7, and (b) I had never heard of Sensory Integration Deficit / Sensory Processing Disorder before Jake was diagnosed.  HAD I known about it before, I might have realized to get him tested sooner.  So that's why I think it's important to talk about it.

Anyone who comes by this blog and is interested in learning more about SID/SPD can click on the category called "SID/SPD/SensoryIssues" and see everything I've written about it.

Peace, yo.