Sorry I haven’t been updating in the past week and a half – I’ve been quite busy finishing up a project of mine. I am quite proud of it, even though it’s not really all that exciting… it’s more of the accomplishment of getting something finished! Well, there it is… my novel! The cover anyway. You can click to enlarge and read the back if you’re curious what it’s about. I am waiting for the printer to approve the files, and in a few days a proof copy will be created and sent to my door and soon in my…

Well, he doesn’t quite express himself in full sentences or say please yet, but the other day Arin asked me to spike his hair! It was so cute. He was under the impression that you use moisturizer to style your hair… so finally after months of wrestling the lotion away from him every time he can get his hands on it and muss it into his hair… I showed him the hairspray can. I explained that THAT was what you used to spike your hair, and that lotion was JUST for skin. He got it right away, and immediately demanded…

This year, we have about 6 million dandelions gracing our backyard. Arin loves them when they turn to puffers, he picks little bouquets of them and waves them in the wind so the little seeds fly and spread to even more of our lawn. The first time he encountered them though… he didn’t quite get the right idea at first. 🙂

Arin really likes Thomas the Tank Engine… big surprise. I never thought he would be one of “those” babies… the ones who are all into baby brands like Thomas or Barney… but hey if it makes him happy I’ll go along with it. He already has a set of a collared Thomas shirt and (2) Thomas shorts that Alex sent ages ago when their factory was producing them… at the time Arin was too little to know what Thomas was or care, but now he sure likes them! We saw this shirt in the store the other day, and as…

No, just kidding, we didn’t actually go to a 70s party (I just used PW’s 70s action on these photos). We went to a baby shower for Mary, a girl my mom works with. It was fun, and we ended up staying until almost 10pm! They had lots of good food – like the empanadas that my mom loves, and a delicious pineapple cake with meringue frosting that Mary’s neighbor (a former pastry chef from the Dominican) made. The only unpleasant part of the evening was a horrifying game they made everyone play… it was traumatizing. I’ll post/describe more later,…

Arin loves trucks and cars, so it was no surprise when he was set into fits of joy over getting to ride and ‘drive’ a huge tractor! It was a windy day and there was a big metal windmill that Bobo found almost as fascinating as his tractor. I just loved all the crazy faces he kept pulling, he was having so much fun! Checking out the whoosing windmill again: Showing mommy how to drive a tractor: Now he has to show Momo how it works: There was a peacock sitting on the other side of the fence. Those things…

Here are more pictures from Mother’s Day, when we went to the Franklin Park Zoo. They had a pretty good selection of animals and exhibits, not too many that you couldn’t cover them all. We got there after the petting zoo was closed, so I’m sure that would have taken up a lot more time, knowing Bobo! 😉 The Stone Zoo is closer to us, but they don’t have lions or tigers or giraffes… just bears. They had an ostrich in with the wildebeast and the zeebas:… it was freaky. The zebras had really pretty coats with very sharp markings……

Oh the things he gets himself into… This also happens to be the 100th post for this blog… guess my resolution to keep updating has been going well these past few months! Thanks for hanging out with us via the interwebs. 🙂

For Easter my Dad got Arin a huge bag of Skittles (along with an unreasonable amount of other goodies), and he had been happily chomping on them asking for his “king-ghee” every day. Until the day he figured out he could do this instead: Just to avoid confusion, those are gooey, icky, drippy Skittles that have been crushed once or twice by the powerful jaws of a Bobosaur and then artfully arranged for his mommy to discover after they had hardened onto the table. Here is a very pleased-with-himself Bobosaur. (Taste the Rainbow!)

A few days ago I took Arin to Snip-its for a haircut since they sent a Grand Opening coupon in the mail. I have to say, I’m not impressed and I don’t think I’ll be going back. They have little tvs and stuff that plays a TEN MINUTE video of stupid stuff that then automatically shuts off… and the waiting area has a little table with a few puzzles on it… and when you check out there is a price machine that gives little 1cent pieces of plastic junk, etc… and after ten minutes this really loud annoying buzzer goes…