Photo Friday With A Twist

 

I took this photo last weekend while I was learning all the settings on my new camera (hence the blue coloring).  I love this picture because it really captures Bink's personality...always curious and looking for something to get into...and adorable.  It helps his case that he's adorable.

Now here's the twist...in the mornings I listen to a great country station on my way to work.  Every Friday the DJ asks listeners to call in and talk about what they got right that week.  At first I thought it was really cheesy, but as I listened to people sharing things they were proud of (even really small things), it grew on me.  I tried to think of something I'd gotten right this week.  I could come up with a huge list of things I did wrong.  

I called the baby by the dog's name (and our dog's name isn't even a human name...it's Buttons).  I lost my temper with K over something stupid she hadn't done the way I wanted.  I hadn't spent enough time with my husband, instead trying to cram a few hours of sleep in during the evenings before the Bink gets up at 1:30 a.m. like clockwork. Unreturned emails and phone calls.  A to do list with nothing crossed off.

It was really easy to come up with things I didn't do well.  It was a lot harder to come up with things I did right.  So I'm going to ask you all each week, what did you get right?  It doesn't matter how small, sometimes you need to celebrate putting your shoes on the right feet or remembering to brush your hair before you leave for work (or maybe its just me).

Here's what I got right...This week I started back on Weight Watchers.  I've spent the last nine months hoping that the baby weight would come off with me just eating junk food and not exercising.  Surprisingly, it hasn't.  So, Monday morning I weighed myself, cringed a little, and wrote it down in a notebook.  I've tracked everything I've eaten this week and while I haven't been perfect I've been pretty good.  And I'm down a pound so far.  I'll weigh in again Monday and I'm hoping for continued success. 

So leave a comment and tell me what you got right this week!  Or tell me how adorable Bink is getting into trouble in the picture above, I'll take either!

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Things I Learned Today

Bink's daycare was closed today, so I took the day off to stay home with him.  Here's what I learned today:

1. Cat toys, especially jingly feathered ones, appeal to both cats and babies.
2. A naked baby, left undiapered for only a few moments while a bath is drawn will pee all over your clean sheets.  If the sheets are dirty, he won't even notice his diaper is off.
3. If you spontaneously decide to give the baby a bath off his regular schedule, he will reward you trying to eat the plastic shower liner.
4. Once you rediaper the clean baby, he will poop before you can even snap his onsie on.
5. A baby can get his socks off before you even finish buckeling him in the car seat.  If the socks miraculously make it until after you start the car, it's only because he was waiting until you were distracted by driving to try to eat them.
6. Nothing is more entertaining to a baby than his reflection in a dressing room mirror.
7. The best entertainment for a baby in a high chair is a few empty plastic sauce cups.  He will spend most of lunch playing with them and throwing them on the floor instead of eating his baby food.  Until...
8. He realizes whatever you are eating for lunch is infinitely more appealing than both the plastic cups and his own baby food. Even if its only vegetables, beans, and rice.
9. A baby can be cranky and screaming at his mommy, but if a stranger says hello he will light up and beam an adorable smile at them.  When the passer-by is gone, its back to crank pot behavior.
10. When a baby is being carried, all he wants is to get down.  When he's down, all he wants is to be picked up.
11. That one time you pick him up and he snuggles into, wraps his little baby arms around your neck, and gives you a slobbery, toothy kiss makes all the rest of it worthwhile.

Photo Friday

Bink as Granddad walked in the room...



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Photo Friday

Lots of other great sites I read do this and I think its a fun tradition.  I always have photos I love that don't go with my posts.

Because it doesn't get cuter than this...