This week

Toot at Cheesecake factory with Grandpa

Can you find Sophie?

A new way to eat breakfast. She did this herself.

Sophie & Sophie



Tuesday morning we headed over to Traders Point Christian Church. I met a new friend on IndyMoms.com and we have been hanging out. She goes to the same gym as me. She invited me to go the the MOPs meetings there. Mothers of preschoolers. It is pretty cool. They serve brunch and talk about kids stuff, have guest speakers. They have an awesome play zone there that is open to the public. Sophie and her little girl who is just a few months older than Soph went to the daycare area while we were upstairs. She did pretty good. They have snack time,. and go on a buggy ride in a little 6 seater wagon type thing around the church. It is pretty cute. Then we met them over at the Red Robin to eat lunch. Hallie calls Sophie Fosie. I can see how she may have got that! Darcy said she had Hallie work on saying Sophs name. It is pretty cute. On Wed. We met up with Val and her little girl who is also named Sophie, she is a few months younger than Soph. My Sophie looks like a giant next to her. I think she is 15 months old. She is super cute. Her mom, one of my new friends is so funny. She is alot like me with the dry sarcasm. I love it so much! We went to Zionsville Library. They have different rooms in the childrens area to play in. We went in a room that had a Thomas the train track, and a mini Lego Land, and a big desk to color at, which is what they are doing in the picture. They sat side by side on little stools coloring with a box of broken crayons between them. They colored for a while, which shocked me, Soph likes to go all over the place, especially someplace new and fun! Then we walked out into their giant book area, there was a little hut with a gigantic bear inside. The Sophies took turns giving Mayfield Bear hugs! We took the girls over to the toddler board books and read for a bit. We decided to get some lunch since everything was going good. We went down the street to Patricks. It was pretty good. The service always sucks there, but I told the waiter, the one who is dense and always sweats, that if they didnt want a scene, they would be quick with the toddler food. He did pretty good with that. The girls colored and shared goldfish crackers while we talked. It was a great lunch. Just what I needed. Then it was off for naptime.
Soph went to Gymboree open gym. The usual suspects were there. Of course Soph had to go around and wave at everyone. She saw her little friends Aiden and Melanie. There is this other little girl who is a little older that always comes w her dad, I can't remember her name, but he always says, there's Sophie making her rounds waving at everyone! She makes an impression. I enjoyed seeing little JB, and that he was feeling better (I think) He was wearing the awesome marsh mello people shirt I got him. I didn't get to hang out with him too much,but we had a few moments here and there! I have a couple new mommie friends there that I also hang out with from time to time. Soph was being pretty busy there, so between her running around, I got to talk to the grown ups. Sophie gave Miss Melissa a special request. She went up to her, waved, and made the itsy bitsy fingers, so Miss Melissa obliged and sang it for her. She had Soph climb up the ladder (the spout) and down the slide (to wash the spider out) it was cool that she did that. Soph loved it. She sat right in front of her while they did a second round, she was just looking at her with delight. I wish I would have gotten a pic, but I was in awe of her mezmeration(is that a word) with her. Thursday we were supposed to have breakfast with Grandpa Dykes, but it was newring time to get ready and she still wasn't awake. She has been sleeping till 9 or 9:30 lately. She hasn't been waking up in the night or anything, so I guess she is just cozy in there or something? So I had to call to see if he would be able to come later. He did, he came about 11 or so. We ran over to Keystone mall. I wanted to check out Gymboree clothes, because I had some gymbucks to use. I was sooo disapointed, stuff was so picked over. I did get a couple outfits. I will check another location a little before my other coupon expires in a couple weeks. I was getting hungry, I figured we would grab something in the food court since dad recently ate. But he wanted to go to a restraunt, so we went to the Cheesecake Factory YUM! I ate every bit of my miso salmon, Soph had mini corndogs and fries, in between bites of grandpas banana creme cheesecake. I love their mango iced tea, so did Soph. She kept saying in delight YUMMIE!! We got home and Soph took a little nap. I had to go pick up my mom from work so she could watch Soph for about an hour or so so that I could go to the gym and not stress out about her in the kids area. I usually take her, and she mostly does good. But grandma wanted to visit. She had a very busy day and week so far.It has been a very good week for me too. I am excited about my new friends, and all of these new activities that we are finding that are free or just about, which is good for me! Luckily the other moms under stand that we don't have alot of cash, but we are having so much fun anyways. We have made plans with everyone for a couple playdates next week, not sure where yet. Val and Darcy both live close, we were trying to get some sledding going with the kids if we can find a good spot.

Weirdo

wow. So this afternoon, I was laying on the couch watching Dr. Oz while Sophie was taking her nap. Someone was banging on my door. Well, unless it is UPS or someone I know, I wasn't about go answer it. I was peeking through my blinds like an agoraphobic, and it was this crazy guy who used to mow our grass before we got poor. By crazy I mean usually drunk. If you can imagine a drunk guy and hus buddy on two large mowers in your yard. Yeah, can we say security system. Anyways, he left, I thought. I heard this weird scraping sound. THIS GUY STARTED PLOWING. I thought, well isn't that nice.

But something seemed....not right. Could it have been that he was in my yard with his truck plowing snow up on my driveway? Could it be that this crazy ass was pushing the snow UP TO THE BACK OF MY CAR! YES! Thats it! I stood at my window in disbelief. I knew then, that this guy was just really messed up. What kind of shit is that? Who DOES that? I ran to get my phone that has a camcorder in it, but he backed out just as I got the stupid thing on.

Now, this all took place in about 3 minutes time. I called my husband and told him what this guy did, He saud, call the police. I said and tell them what...A crazy man plowed 2 feet of snow off my drive way for me, but left some behind my car? Yes it was like 3 feet high, but still. I went outside to see what he had done. I had to remove all this snow from behind my car, it wasn't too bad, but inconvenient. If he really wanted to screw with us, he should have done a better job. All I really had to do id get in my car, pull up. Turn the wheel to the right and go around to the other side of the drive way. But I moved all the snow anyways, b=cause who knows if he could have come back to put it back. I also took my shovel and broom inside. I have had enough dealings with disturbed people to know he might take my shovel just to be an ass.

I am not sure what this guys problem was, but I hope he stays away. Weirdo. If some guy in a red pickup truck named Bill, had a blue colts knit hat on with his name on it in white, comes by to plow or cut your grass in the summer, say no! And then watch your back!

We weren't really motivated to do anything today. After a lunch of grilled cheeses, Sophie took a power nap, and I did too. For some reason I could not sleep last night, I just laid in bed. It sucked, because Sophie went to bed on time and didn't wake up once, and slept till 9. Awesome. I needed to go get dog food and cheese, and other stuff, and I did not want to go out. After all, I was still in my p.j.'s at 4 watching Oprah. Open gym was tonight at Gymboree, so since Soph was better, and there is a O'Malias next door to that, I decided the only was I was going to the store was to have another reason to go out.
Gymboree sucked tonight. There was this loud mouthed woman there who acted like a white trash version of Victoria Gotti. I was embarased for her. I seriously thought she was high. No one acts like that normally. What adult tries to slide down a tiny foam slide? It was scary. I really liked it when her and her friend lounged all over the play ramps. They took up two whole sections lounging there. I can also understand taking a couple pictures of your kids playing, but I am not kidding, I thought the paparrazzi was in there. Both of them and the husband had cameras flashing, coaxing their kids to do "cute" things. Barf. When we left there we ran next door to O' Malias. They have some super friendly people working there. You would have thought that the end times were near, or the blizzard of '10 was coming.
It was stupid. There was like 2 loaves of bread left, and it was some weird dark rye, or something. No grilled cheese for me, until I go to the store on Friday, post apocolypse. :) Sophie has new bedtime routines. I put her in her crib, after she has made the light/soothing sound machine, heater and humidifier rounds. She like to sleep in comfort. She watched to make sure i do it right, and then I have to arrange all of her babies and animals. her audience. She has to have 2 pacis, I for now and a spare, and 2 blankets, one to cover, one to hold onto. She goes right to sleep. 15 minutes later, I hear, mom? mommie, mommIE...moMMIEE. and she has turned her light on while standing in the crib peeking around the corner. I put her down, she always "forgets" something. We continue this cycle of going to the living room to get stuff a few times, then she finally goes to sleep.
Its kinda funny. She walks down the hall with such purpose in her little jammies.

I totally stole this from a friends page, but it was so funny

Tell me that you haven't done or thought any of these things before...

* More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can’t wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that’s not only better, but also more directly involves me.

* Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.

* Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you're going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you're crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.

* I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.

* Do you remember when you were a kid, playing Nintendo and it wouldn't work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all know how to fix the problem? There was no internet or message boards or FAQ's. We just figured it out. Today's kids are soft.

* There is a great need for sarcasm font.

* Sometimes, I'll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what the heck was going on when I first saw it.

* I think everyone has a movie that they love so much; it actually becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I'll end up wasting 90 minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that everyone's laughing at the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a little bit harder (and a millisecond earlier) to prove that I'm still the only one who really, really gets it.

* How the heck are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?

* I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.

* I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.

* Was learning cursive really necessary?

* Lol has gone from meaning, "laugh out loud" to "I have nothing else to say".

* I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.

* Whenever someone says "I'm not book smart, but I'm street smart", all I hear is "I'm not real smart, but I'm imaginary smart".

* How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear what they said?

* I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars teams up to prevent a jerk from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers!

* While driving yesterday I saw a banana peel in the road and instinctively swerved to avoid it...thanks Mario Kart.

* MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.

* Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.

* I find it hard to believe there are actually people who get in the shower first and THEN turn on the water.

* I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.

* Bad decisions make good stories.

* Whenever I'm Facebook stalking someone and I find out that their profile is public I feel like a kid on Christmas morning who just got the Red Ryder BB gun that I always wanted. 546 pictures? Don't mind if I do!

* If Carmen San Diego and Waldo ever got together, their offspring would probably just be completely invisible.

* You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you've made up your mind that you just aren’t doing anything productive for the rest of the day.

* Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don't want to have to restart my collection.

* I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.

* "Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this ever.

* I hate being the one with the remote in a room full of people watching TV. There's so much pressure. 'I love this show, but will they judge me if I keep it on? I bet everyone is wishing we weren’t watching this. It's only a matter of time before they all get up and leave the room. Will we still be friends after this?'

* While watching the Olympics, I find myself cheering equally for China and USA. No, I am not of Chinese descent, but I am fairly certain that when Chinese athletes don’t win, they are executed.

* I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Darnit!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What'd you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?

* I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.

* I like all of the music in my iTunes, except when it's on shuffle, then I like about one in every fifteen songs in my iTunes.

* Why is a school zone 20 mph? That seems like the optimal cruising speed for pedophiles...

* Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.

* I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.

* Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, finding their cell phone, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey - but I’d bet my "butt" everyone can find and push the Snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time every time...

* I wonder if cops ever get pissed off at the fact that everyone they drive behind obeys the speed limit.

* I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lites than Kay.

ok, so how's about a week in review. I was far too tired to make individual posts for each day. So my dad came over Saturday so David and I could have a date night. He got there around 4 or so. We went to PF Changs, which was tasty as always. We sat at the bar and ate. The waiter was great! The people who sat next to us, on both sides were a conversation piece for us. Let's just say that no matter what kind of venue you go to, white trash is everywhere. We had made reservations, as we were driving there. Which was awesome because I told the lady that we were on our way and was wondering what the wait was, since everything else was closed because of New Year's. We scored and she said she would have something. Well when we got there, we were waiting to check in at the desk, and this woman, in her royal blue puffy coat and fake coach purse, elbowed her way up. She said rather loudly that "We (her and her crew) were there FIRST" Ok, number one. people make reservations lady, so even though you were physically inside first, does not mean anything. Second, oh my god, are you really acting like a child? I was so embarased for her. So I was just standing there by the front desk (she didn't mean us) and instead of going AROUND me from behind where NOBODY was standing, she and her buzzer in my face go plowing through between me and the desk. It was weird. We just stood there and stared (mind you this all took place in about 30 seconds). I wasn't about to spend my time out sitting at the next table, 3 inches over, listening to her bitch about that all night, because that is what she would have done. So i looked at David and we went to the bar. It was nice and quiet. We didn't have out chairs slammed in to 53 times, like we usually do there. I hate the way they have so many tables crammed together.

After that, we wanted to digest a little before we went to the gym. David was going to show me how all the machines worked so I don't look like a fool when I am there alone. We went over to Borders to have some coffee. I found a new calender , which was awesome at 50% off. I checked out the new Julie Powell book Cleaving, which I will pick up at Books a Million thanks to my Christmas gift card!
After that we ran to Old Navy so David could get some jeans there. I found a couple of Hello Kitty Tshirts for Soph.
So that was New Years Day
Soph had a great time with grandpa. She usually cries if I leave her. Maybe it is because she is at home. Mom watched her last week for me so I could go to the gym and was fine. hmmm. Ok. So Sunday night sucked. Soph was sick. She slept with me. Her nose was so snotty she couldn't keep her paci in. She kept smacking me in the face to wake me up saying bee bee, bee bee (her pace) and did that every hour or so. She finally went to sleep for a few and woke up miserable. I took her over to the Dr. and they gave her a nebulizer treatment. She seemed slightly better today. (Tuesday) So later today we went to Babies R Us to get her a little potty chair. A couple of my friends and my sister have toddlers Soph's age and they are starting. She also got a couple Elmo DVD's. We ate dinner at Chick Fil A. The eating part went ok, but someone does not like to put their coat on, because that means being strapped down in the car seat. She went into limp noodle mode and melted to the floor. I kept my eyes on the prize and just got it done. We made it to the car, but then she realized that there was the car seat. I am not kidding, she plopped down in the parking lot and laid down and kicked her little legs and SCREAMED like I was abducting her. I had to drop my diaper bag by my car, just to try to pick up her little Jello body. It was unbelievable.Then after forcing her to bend at the waist so she could be strapped in, we were off. We got home and she immediatly wanted to see Itsy Bitsy, which is a song they sing on one of her DVD's She makes her fingers into the little itsy bisty spider fingers. Then off to bed.

I was going to write about the wonderful weekend had, however, due to one person being a stupid ass, I just don't think I will. Thanks for being responsible.