Driving Cars

BB got his plasma car for Christmas from my parents.

This week he decided to take it out for a spin and "drove" it around our neighborhood and we shockingly ended up at the park!

At the park...

BB climbed through a tunnel,

 went down the slide,

 stretched,

 waved to the gardner,

 pointed at birds,

 tried to carry his plasma car and

 rested after having a ton of fun!

air guitar

This morning while I was folding laundry, BB and I were listening to oldies on Pandora. He LOVES oldies, especially The Lion Sleeps Tonight. While I was folding, he was dancing and jumping on the bed. I wish this photo turned out better, but you can just barely tell he's playing the air guitar! I'm not sure if it was intentional or a coincidence but a few weeks ago we were listening to live music and Seth showed him how to do it. So maybe it was intentional?!

I think we have a music lover on our hands, he was also using an old coffee can as a drum earlier today. Hopefully he wont really really want to be a drummer when he's older... not sure I will be able to handle all the racket from a drums!

PS: There will be some new posts on Reality Bites shortly.

Stats

We went to the kid doctor yesterday for BB's regular check up.

Our appointment was at 8:45, but we didn't get seen until about 9:45. I've waited longer to see a doctor, but it's more annoying to wait when you've got to keep a 22 month old occupied and happy. I'm 99% sure why they were running behind: a lady was on the elevator with us and she had her 3 kids. I waited behind her while she signed her one child in and then I overheard her ask the receptionist if the doctor could see ALL her children. She only had one appointment for one child, ONE CHILD! Not all three. I'm not sure if it was coincidence that her other 2 kids were sick or if she purposefully didn't make an appointment for all 3 because she knew the doctor wouldn't refuse sick kids. HMMMMM maybe it's a secret strategy or something?

All I know is that I wouldn't want sick kids not to get treatment because their mom didn't make them an appointment, but I can still be annoyed that my appointment was pushed back! I had an early morning appointment to hopefully miss the late day back log, I guess all the planning and strategy can't help any of us escape the black hole of wasted time in the lobby of a doctors office. Oh well. It's life. It's over and thankfully BB was a good boy for me.

His new 22 month stats are:

35 inches tall

27.15 pounds

He's always hovered around the 25th percentile for weight, but he jumped from being in the 25th-50th percentile in height all the way up to the 75th! His doc was SHOCKED! Everyone keeps saying how tall he is, but seeing the official number plotted on his chart really made me realize he is a big tall boy! He's still a skinny mini though, no matter how much he eats. It's because the boy is busy, always going and going and playing ALL THE TIME!

The doctor declared BB super healthy and reminded me of all the awful accidents nearly two years olds get into. He said at least twice a month a two year old comes in to the hosptial after being hit by  a car and just last week a two year old drank oven cleaner after watching his mom clean the oven. The poor child burned his esophagus so bad he had to get a feeding tube put in his belly. I've made a mental note to watch BB like a hawk. I was also reminded that children are most likely to drown between the ages of 2-5, so I mentioned I was planning on signing up BB for swim lessons. The doc said to be extra careful becuase many times little kids who learn how to swim are extra brave and can get into scary situations. Again, BB will be watched like a hawk.

Domain

Hi Everyone, a few months again I read on someones blog that someone else lost their entire blog content because someone registered the persons blog name as their domain. It's been on my mind to register I Need A Sugar Fix for some time now, I'd be devastated if I lost my blog and I've never gotten around to using one of those websites that prints your blog into a book. So today I registered I Need A Sugar Fix with Go Daddy. It was easy and simple, plus the directions on blogger to update were easy to follow.

You can still get to my blog via http://www.i-need-a-sugar-fix.blogspot.com/ and then you'll be directed automatically to my new domain http://i-need-a-sugar-fix.com/ ! Seems to make my blog a little more official and important hahahaha :)

In other news........... we went in search of dolphins and tide pools this weekend and found NONE! Well we could have seen the tide pools if we had remembered to bring some cash to enter the state beach park. The attendant informed us they have no electricity, thus can't run a card. We were bummed, but will definitely go back soon to check the tide pools out. So instead, we watched the brave beach goers play in the water from the rocks.

Hat Model

Late last week I was at the mall with BB attempting to order new prescription sunglasses. I say trying because once the eye glass lady told me how much the lenses alone were going to be, I about fell out of my chair and decided I could probably get lasik for double the price of these stinken lenses. I left the shop without placing an order and was in a bad mood about the whole thing and decided shopping would make feel better. So I decided to find BB a St. Patty's day outfit. I found a really cute t-shirt and a cute green sweater on clearance at the GAP, plus 30% off!

I did one last quick look around the store and found two hats that were priced well (plus 30% off!) and cute. Somewhere, somehow BB lost his yellow hat he got at the aquarium last year and was in need of a new one and heck two are better. Here he is today at the park modeling the solid khaki hat, the other is the same style but with a pattern.

Howling

To get Caps to howl all you have to do is howl.

BB likes it when Caps howls.

He gets a big kick out of it and

has started to try and howl himself to encourage Caps.

This is what he looks like when he howls,

maybe next time I'll get video :)

Friday Night Leftovers

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• I haven't been reading that much lately, I decided to catch up last night and read from 8-11 and again from 10:15-11 this morning. Now I've only got 10 pages left in my book.
• BB has 2.5 more teeth that need to come in and then he'll officially have a full set just in time to turn 2.
• A year ago, I was blogging about my dogs and how they entertain BB (click here to read the post). Look how much bigger BB has gotten and WOW, he was still contained in his play n' pack :)
• We tried to look for dolphins last weekend, but were not successful. Seth got some tips on where we can go to find them, so we'll go exploring this weekend. I hope we find them!
• Last week I mentioned I hate carpet... this week I think it should be illegal. I'm constantly vacuuming and carpet cleaning, it's an awful way to spend time.
• I'm totaly grossed out by an article I read last night thta said 70% of ground beef sold in the US contains "pink slime". Thankfully we don't eat ground beef that often. Here is some important info:

How Can You Avoid Pink Slime?



So how do you avoid this kind of beef? Good news is that McDonald’s, Burger King, and Taco Bell have all stopped using pink slime (which means they were using it in the first place). But that doesn’t mean all fast food places stopped using it. You may also encounter it at the grocery store. You should never ever buy ground beef labeled as hamburger. That is almost a guarantee that you will be getting some grounded up pink slime in there. Recently, I have read reports about the USDA purchasing 7 million pounds of pink slime for school lunches.