My Baby.

Isn't he just the cutest thing you've ever seen?

LiveJournal

I kind of miss the privacy/community feel of LiveJournal.

EDIT: I just updated my LiveJournal for the first time since April. It's a looong entry and it's friends-only. Enjoy, friends.

Space is not just a place for stars.

Blogger, you've become one of my mortal enemies. Every single time I try to update you, I get side-tracked and lose interest. We'll see how this one goes.

I've been really slacking on taking pictures of anything lately. Both my Canon and my Sony have been collecting dust. I really want to work on that. Mainly focusing on photos of Gavyn.

I start school on Monday. Online school, anyway. My first actual class on campus isn't until Thursday. On Thursdays I will be going to work 7-3 and then getting home around 4, eating dinner and hanging out with Gavyn and James for a few hours and then going to school from 7-9:40, then bed. I'm sure Thursdays will become exhausting. I have one week to decide if it's worth it to take the class at the campus or if I should take it online. It's Intro to the Teaching Profession, so I would like to take it on campus, but at the same time I'll still be getting the 15 hours in the classroom, and I'll have more time to myself on Thursdays. Then again, it might be slightly harder online than it is at the campus. But at the same time, I don't want to get burnt out. I'm a little torn. What are your thoughts?

September can't come soon enough. I am really looking forward to this vacation. I need a break. I know that the week will fly by and be over before I know it, but it's still much needed.

Gavyn is getting so big and so smart. We'll put on NickJr.com for him and let him play the different games and color on there, and he's so intricate about his color placement. First of all, everything has to be blue. Second, everything has to be inside of the lines, clearly. His hand/eye coordination is fascinating for a two and a half year old. James and I sat there watching him color in the tiny speck of paint at the end of the paint brush that Blue (from Blue's Clues) was holding and color both of the tiny clouds blue. Blue is clearly his favorite color, because he'll get mad if I change it to any other color, but he's fine with different shades of blue. So far, blue is the only color that he can identify. He does, however, count all the way up to ten. We're working harder towards potty training now. I only give him one cup of water or milk at night, instead of the usual -- which consists of infinite amounts of Sunny D or apple juice.

We bought him some new Disney DVDs the other day when I got my new HP mini. Cars, Oliver & Company, Finding Nemo, and Monsters, Inc. I'm so thrilled that Gavyn appreciates Disney. Especially because it gives me an excuse to watch my favorites over and over again... And to go to Magic Kingdom yearly for his birthday. James is already sick of it and we've only gone with him once, but he'll get over it. Especially if we get to park hop, he loves Epcot.

I keep trying to plan our mini-vacation to Orlando, but James wants no part in it yet because, well... We still have our vacation to Chicago in September, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas before it's his birthday. I still can't help but think about what I should have as the theme of his birthday party. I'm stuck between Blue's Clues and Toy Story :P Which reminds me, Gavyn wants to be Buzz Lightyear for Halloween. I was showing him different Halloween costumes that I thought he'd like online, he got pretty excited for Blue, but when I pulled up Buzz he got really excited and exclaimed, "BUZZ?!!?!"

Ugh, I got side-tracked again (because I'm at work), so I'm ending this now!

EDIT: I was working with Gavyn on colors and so far he can remember blue, yellow, and pink!

Skewl

I just got my school books in the mail, and I'm excited to go shopping for some supplies! Maybe that's the REAL reason I want to become a teacher.

The Potty Happy-Haps

This is the second day in a row that Gavyn has gone poo poo on the potty! The real potty, too. Granted, he'll begin to go in his diaper and THEN tell us so that he can be transferred to the potty, but we're definitely getting somewhere with him. Remember this post where I told you that he told us that he had to go at Subway?

On a side note, James is currently picking up Emma from the non-profit spay/neuter center in Brooksville called Pet Luv. Unfortunately I found out a little too late that we have to wait two weeks until we can groom her, we should've done it beforehand. I was afraid of that. So her 'Lion Cut' will have to wait. Oh, and... The air conditioning on the Mustang cost us $300, the work Steve (friend of the family) did on it cost $530, fixing the rotation and alignment cost $180, and apparently the front tires are shredding and almost falling apart so that's going to cost another $500. Awesome! James just had to get those $800 rims that require $200 tires while we were separated. Anyway, I'm just thanking my lucky stars that we have good credit and large credit limits, because who knows what would happen if we didn't! We've got a good little chunk of debt, but nothing that our yearly income taxes can't take care of.

I bought some Kahlua yesterday so that we can sip on some White Russians tonight. Mmm. Such a puss drink, but so good.

School starts in 19 days!

Chicago in one month and 20 days!