Meet Mary Cozymeadow

Lately, Caityn and I have been spending some time visiting Pixie Hollow online after Sean falls asleep. Mary Cozymeadow is the fairy that Caityn created. She got to choose how the fairy looked, what she wore, and what her special talent is (she picked Tinker talent like Tinkerbell), and even her name from a list of approved fairy names. Mary is the name of her friend in preschool.


The website is pretty cute. You can make your fairy fly around and she gets special quests from Tinkerbell and her friends. The games and tasks were too hard for Caityn to do, but she still enjoys watching me do them for her. The fairies fly around in a chat room type place, so that there are other fairies flying around made by other people. They can request to chat with you and be your friend, but that seems a bit creepy to me. The fairies are all pretty cute, but you never who the person is on the other side of the fairy. It could be an innocent 8 year old or some creepy old pervert. Still, it's a fun website to visit and a whole lot better than watching that whiny brat Caillou on Sprout.

Fancy Footwear

Last year Caityn wore her Crocs nearly every day. She LOVED them. I think that they are way overpriced for being a pair of rubber shoes, but they must be pretty comfortable for kids. I searched around on the internet to see if maybe some website had Crocs on clearance, and was surprised to find that the official Croc website had an outlet section! We found these cute Mickey/Minnie Mouse Crocs for around 50% off! They arrived in the mail yesterday, and both Caityn and Sean were loving their new shoes. Sean kept taking them off the shoe shelf and trying to put them on. It was very cute. Just don't tell Caityn that there were Tinkerbell Crocs on clearance. They were out of her size :(

Topless dancing...girl gone wild!

Don't worry...this is a G rated post!

Just some of the crazy things we like to do in the afternoons.

Friday Flashback

This photo was taken exactly two years ago tomorrow. Remember when she was running at 9 months old! We went to the park with our friends, and she just took off!

We're outnumbered!

BIG TIME!!!

The other day I thought it would be funny to gather up all our Little People and count them. I think I counted 29 people and 7 animals. Our army is ever-growing! Both Caityn and Sean love playing with the Little People. To eliminate some of the fighting, we divide them up - Caityn gets all the girl people and Sean gets all the boys. Sean loves to put the people in the cars and zoom them around. Caityn loves doing...well...whatever it is she is doing with them. I often find a gathering of girl people all huddled together in a circle. I think they are plotting something.

Some random photos and a Sean update

I just uploaded 74 photos from the camera onto the computer. Here are the best of the bunch.

Another gorgeous winter day in San Diego

Sean's 11 month photo with Snoopy. Only one more to go!!

Ready to go Mom! Let's go shopping!!

What Sean would look like if he were a girl

Loving the Merry-go-round

NOT loving the Merry-go-round

Little stinker figured out how to work the baby gate. Now we're in trouble!

Mom's night out with the girls

Caityn finally has someone in her weight class to ride with her on the teeter totter.

Baby Mozarts

Sesame Street zombies

Now for the Sean update. Since the last post about Sean, I haven't had to nurse him at all during the night. Whew! Half the battle is won. We are still working on getting him to sleep through the night, but as soon as I cut out the nursing, the number of wake ups during the night went way down. For a few nights, he was only waking up twice. After a quick hug, diaper change, and sip of water, he went right back to sleep. Last night, however, he was up about 4 times, one of those with a leaky diaper that got his jammies all wet, so I had to change his clothes in the middle of the night. Darn cloth diapers! We're doing disposables at night from now on. Maybe that will help get him to sleep better. I have a feeling I'm going to need to let him cry it out during these few wake ups to get him totally sleeping through the night. Someone give me a push. It's so hard to listen to him scream at 3am. Easier at this point to just pick him up and reassure him that he's okay.

Friday Flashback

We've seen a lot of sand this week! Two trips to the beach and a couple visits to the park. I've just about had it up to here with sand in my bed!!!

For those of you following the Sean saga, I'll have a full update soon. For now, things are going great and hopefully we'll have him sleeping through the night REALLY soon.

Have a great weekend!