One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

I have been wanting to redecorate Will and Molly's bathroom since Will was a baby. I wanted to turn it into the "kids bathroom." But I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do, none of the "theme's" at the stores were clicking with me. And I didn't want to pick something just so that I could say it was done. I originally wanted to do a Disney movie theme b/c even before Molly I wanted to try and keep it a gender neutral bathroom, just in case. So I was going to get movie prints and hang them on the walls and then do colorful matching bathroom accessories. But I just wasn't acting on it...I realized I just wasn't DOING it.
THEN!!...I saw the new Pottery Barn Kids Cat in the Hat line. And immediately, I knew that was it. The kids were getting a "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish" bathroom. And, oh man, is it cute!!!

The day I brought the first pieces home, I realized I hadn't seen Will in awhile and it was REALLY quiet, that usually means trouble. But I found him in his bathroom, matching the pictures on the shower curtain to the pictures in his One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish book.

The shower curtain, perfectly matching red rug I found at Target and the perfectly matching blue stool I got for a dollar!

All the counter accessories, LOVE the bright colors.

The One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish lightswitch I found on Amazon!

The matching towel set with Will and Molly's initials over them.

The initials have One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish sheets behind them, found someone on ebay that bought the sheets at PB and made these initials.

San Diego or Bust!?

We took our first vacation as a family of 4 to San Diego, California. Though, not sure if we call it a vacation or a...bust. From the beginning...Will was pretty sick so we took him to the dr. the day before we left. He was okay, but needed an inhaler to help with his breathing and he had a nasty cough. Fast forward to the plane ride, everything is going fine until the last 30 min...Will gets restless and the plane starts to descend. This is when Will's ears start to hurt...and Will starts to scream. I don't mean cry, or fuss, or whine. I mean SCREAM. In between screams, he's saying his ears hurt. As many of you know, rationalizing with an almost three year old is nearly impossible, try rationalizing with one who is having ear pain! He wouldn't yawn and he wouldn't sip his water...so we had to wait it out until the plane touched down. All this fun, created the lovely comments from passengers, such as "Poor little bugger." Thanks for the sympathy. Fortunately, I got Will to fall asleep in the stroller while Jeremy got the rental car. When we got in, Will was extremely concerned with why we were in "someone else's car." Then we realized we lost "the red bag." It's my big red bag full of basically everything, nothing too important, but everything all the same. We figured it was left on the rental car bus, called around, found it, and went back to pick it up. At the hotel we use our key to get in to our room and promptly walk in on another family already in the room. By this point, I'm thinking, "you've got to be kidding me, what's next!?"
In the next couple days, things go a little smoother, we managed to do some sight seeing, eat lunches in the sunshine, visit the beach, and spend time with some friends of Jeremy's. Brandy had us over to their house for dinner and Will had a great time playing with their daughter, Alaska and son Kaden. It was actually quite funny b/c Kaden had a horrible cough too, so he and Will would have cough contests. Kaden coughs 2 times, Will coughs 3 times. Kaden coughs hard, Will coughs harder. Cracked me up. The next day we went to Sea World. (Oh and while we were home, Molly kept up the awesome sleeping through the night routine...we hit CA and she decided sleep was over rated and would have NONE of it.) Sea World is perfect for kids Will's age. Its not overwhelming, doesn't have too much stuff. We saw what we wanted to see in half a day. Will had a wonderful time watching the dolphins, whales (no we didn't sit in the "Soak Zone") and sea lions. They had an adorable Sesame Street area that he had fun bouncing around in, playing music and even went on a ride with Daddy, the tea cups. I tried to get pictures, but I just could not capture the enormous smile Will had and the loud laughter that came from that tea cup as he spun 'round and 'round, faster and faster. That night we went to dinner at another friend of Jeremy's in downtown San Diego, Jeff or "Hober" as we call him, made us a yummy bbq dinner and he spoiled Will with a Pluto stuffed animal, so sweet, now Will calls him Uncle Hober, guess a little bribery doesn't hurt. :-)
This is when the "Bust" part comes in. My throat feels scratchy...kind of hard to breathe. Whatever, probably getting Will's cold. Jeremy's gets me a massage at a local spa as a Valentines gift and the next thing I know, I feel like death. :-) The massage brings it all out. I can't breathe, my ears feel like they are exploding and every being of my body hurts. That night my lungs literally closed. It was a scary feeling...Jeremy convinced me to take a puff from Will's inhaler and thank goodness I did, it helped immediately. Jeremy got me heavily medicated on over the counter medicine, I tried to sleep some and the next morning, Valentines, my boys spoiled me, let me sleep in and brought me Jamba Juice. Through my cold medicine stupor, we managed to enjoy the sunshine and eat lunch outside, one of our favorite things to do when we lived in SF. Will played in the water fountain and we headed back to our hotel to start packing to go home. Everything is going well, glad to be going home since I'm not feeling well. But then Molly...she decides not to sleep...I don't mean an hour here, an hour there, I mean she DID NOT sleep that night. Jeremy's immune system must rival that of Superman, b/c he has been up with Molly all night this whole trip and shows no signs of being sick. Thank goodness for my husband. We are up at 5am, me and Molly sick sick sick and headed for the airport. I called my mom and she got me an appt with Molly's dr. and an address for an urgent care clinic. We fly home (I'm screaming b/c MY ears hurt so bad :-) just kidding) and we literally drive straight to the UC clinic and then straight to Molly's dr.'s appt.
We are all doing better, although I have an infection in my lungs and ears, Molly just has a cold and no infections, please say some prayers that it stays that way!
So...will we be taking a family vacation again soon? Probably not...but I'm sure we will brave it again some day! :-) May not have been exactly what we were expecting for our CA vacation, but if there is anywhere I can feel good, being that sick, it's in the sunshine with gorgeous palm trees reaching for the blue skies.

This is a video of Will in the Sesame Street area building a tower of bouncy blocks.
And last, but not least, below is an ADORABLE video of Molly watching Will and then suddenly discovering her Daddy.

Thank you, Molly!!

Molly has been having a more difficult time sleeping at night, ever since we moved her to the crib "full time." When she slept in the pac n play next to our bed, she slept every night Midnight-8am. It was wonderful. Then we moved her to the crib at 4 months. She slept Midnight-8am, then Midnight-7, then Midnight-6, then Midnight-5am...I thought I was going to die of sleep deprivation. Then it got...worse. :-) She woke up at 10pm, 1am, 5am, and then finally for the morning at 8am...I was getting less sleep than when she was a newborn!! Several times I refused to feed her, insisting that she was not hungry...Jeremy would try to put her to sleep and she just couldn't do it. So I'd give in and she'd eat and...she STILL would not sleep, sometimes it would take up to an hour. I was a little bit glad she didn't fall asleep right after eating b/c that just proved my point that she wasn't starving. We have been wanting to do some "sleep training" (so dislike that phrase), letting her cry a bit, but we are going on vacation, we know that is just going to throw her off, so we want to wait till we get back home.

Well, last night, THANK YOU, MOLLY...she slept through the whole night. 9pm to 8am. We never heard a peep from her. I KNEW she wasn't hungry and I have a feeling she's just getting us in the room to have a little company, have a little party.

Here's how happy sleeping through the night makes Molly.

(Just to clear up any confusion, the wedge is to help Molly sleep on her side, since she won't sleep on her back, as you can see, she still wiggles on to her tummy.)

Disney Live! Here we come...

Last weekend we went to Disney Live! with my mom and Ken...Will is funny about events like this...he gets very...studious, apprehensive and very shy. Completely opposite of his personality at home. When he is in new places or doing something that is new to him, he hangs back, checks it all out, figures out how he feels about what's going on...then...maybe he'll jump in. He does this funny tongue thing, you'll see in one of the pics below. It's like his "nervous" thing, he sticks his tongue in his cheek, sometimes sticks it out and won't talk much. Needless to say, he had a great time watching Mickey Mouse, Pooh, Tigger, Little Einsteins and Handy Manny come to life.

Will checking out the toy table, "Pick whatever you want," says Grandma.

Will picks the baton, just like Leo has. (Here's the funny tongue thing he does).

Will with the show about to start behind him.

The whole family and Leo's blinking baton.

Molly's thoroughly excited about Disney, as you can see.

Thanks for the BLAST of sugar Grandma!

1st Date Night "Post Molly"

This past weekend, Jeremy and I had our first date night since Molly was born. It was a long time coming, but with Molly STILL refusing a bottle, it was pretty difficult figuring out a way to get some time without the kiddo's. We had dinner at Azul, a long time favorite...basically fancy Mexican food and enjoyed margarita's too. Below are some pictures from that night, my mom and Ken watched the kiddo's for us while we went out and "whooped it." (We were home by 9:30pm) :-)

(Lady LOVES Ken, she's so thankful when he comes over because there is FINALLY someone here who can give her some attention. :-))

Will's 1st Back to School Night

Will's school, A World Discovery Montessori School, had their first back to school night this past Friday...But it was for Mommy's only (Daddy's night comes later). I was very excited about this night b/c I was determined to make it about me and Will...and JUST me and Will, sorry Molly. :-) It's been pretty difficult around here for me to carve out some special time just with Will, so I was very happy that this night was for me and him. Being a mom of a newborn, I, of course, forgot my camera, so I only have the "before" shot. Will acted very shy when we first got to his school, didn't want to show me anything or talk about anything. But then he broke out and started talking to his friends and showing me the "work" (that's what they call everything they do at school) he does. His teacher, Miss Maria, said "he's all business" and that it "cracks her up how serious he is." Then she said he has started breaking out of his shell a bit, messing around in circle time and talking when he wasn't supposed to, so he had to go to the "thinking zone." Or time out...She said she was happy he was doing that though b/c it shows he's becoming more comfortable. It was a wonderful night and Mommy and son had a lot of fun together.

Molly's Big Accomplishment

Well I didn't think this would be my next post, I had several others lined up...but Molly had a big day today! She rolled from her back to her tummy, at 4 months 3 weeks. She's been rolling from tummy to back for 2 months now, but the more difficult one, she did today! At first I thought it was a fluke, but then she did it again. She rolled from back to tummy going towards the right, but then I left her alone for awhile and just watched. That's when she really started showing off. She was rolling, left to right, right to left, back to tummy, tummy to back. It was helarious, just-a-rolling all over!

The pictures are the sequence of events as they are happening.

First on her back.

Then mid-roll, trying sooo hard.

There, she did it!

And of course, proud brother had to get in on the action.