My Sleeping Son

There are few things as sweet as the face of your otherwise wild and crazy son when he is asleep. Xander just looks so cute when he's sleeping - his mouth a little open, sometimes snoring. I took this picture this morning before I woke him up for school:

Aww! The trickier pictures are the ones I try to take at night. I need something to steady the camera, and enough light coming in so that I don't have to use the flash. Over the weekend, I went in to check on Xander and give him one last kiss before I went to bed. He looked ridiculously adorable, wearing my eye shade. I brought in a kitchen chair to prop the camera on, then had to contend with Stuart who jumped on the chair making it shake and kept putting his head in front of the camera. Finally, I was able to get one good shot:

When I then bent over my sleeping babe and gave him a kiss, he woke up and asked me what I was doing. I told him just giving him a kiss before I went to bed. He said, "At this time of night? Don't do that again." And he went back to sleep. LOL!

Check out this great MSN Video: 'Star Wars,' 'A-Team' mash-up

Check out this great MSN Video: 'Star Wars,' 'A-Team' mash-up

Flashback: Wildwood State Park

So I have these pictures of little me at some kind of beach with my cousins, my brother, and two of my aunts (and Uncle Tony minus his head). I checked with my mom and with one of the aunts to see if they knew which beach we were at. Aunt Di wasn't too helpful in this area - still love you though! - but Mom is pretty sure these pics were taken at Wildwood State Park.

I looked online and Wildwood State Park is in Stony Brook, NY. The beach - which looks similar to pictures I saw online - is on Long Island Sound. The controversy, however, is the beach composition. In one picture it's very sandy, in the others is pebbly. After looking at some images of Wildwood State Park on Google, I'm still not sure. They have both kinds of beach pictures on there, so maybe the beach is a mixture and it just depends where in the park you go. That's the theory I'll be operating under, anyway, when I scrap these pics.

Of course my faulty memory supplies me with nothing. (Stupid brain!) So, like I often do with this kind of subject matter, I'll just put together my best guess and go with that. And if anyone knows how I can make my brain cough up the info I want when I want it, please let me know! :)

Valentine Weekend

Valentine weekend was not good to me. I suffered from sinus congestion all weekend, and spent most of my time on the couch reading or napping and just generally feeling miserable. Not exactly the romantic weekend I'd been looking forward to!


But it wasn't all bad. Xander took a cute picture of Joe and I when I was still feeling partially normal. We exchanged our gifts on Friday night, since we had nothing to watch and had gotten each other movies. I got Joe Zombieland (he loved it), and he got me Season 1 of both Roswell and Pee Wee's Playhouse - he has been since regretting Pee Wee because that's all Xander has watched all weekend. LOL! Xander got some Legos and a Batman toy, so he was happy.

We all exchanged cards on Sunday, and then Xander made extra ones all by himself. He's getting pretty good at making hearts! He kept telling me, "I did the best job I could!" I reassured him that he did a great job. Especially yesterday, when he cleaned both his room and the living room. (Can someone tell me how I can get him to stop using the floor as his wastebasket? It's so frustrating!!)

All things considered, not a bad weekend. Hopefully I'll start feeling better soon!