Cute Monster Quiz

Happy Halloween!!!!! Whoo Hoo!! I love halooween! It is possibly my favorite holiday! I love getting dressed up, I love the colors of fall and the cool, crisp air. Of course i love the candy! I just think Halloween is great! I am so excited to take Nico trick or treating this year because it is the first year that he is really excited about his costume and seems to understand the idea of ToT. Of course, I will take tons of pictures! lol

Anyway, in honor of Halloween here is this week's blog quizzie...

What Your Cute Monster Says About You

You are a giving, open, loving person. You truly want the world to be a better place. You appreciate what you have in life. You are very content. Your inner demon is sensitivity. You are very sensitive, and your sensitivity can be a double edged sword. People think you're cute because you're generous. You are easy to love - it's part of your charm.

The Cute Monster Test

Jack-O-Lantern Quiz

What Your Jack-o-Lantern Says

You tend to be a goofy, optimistic person. You enjoy Halloween more than anyone else you know. This Halloween be as silly as you can - dress up as a giant version of a small object The candy you should give out: laffy taffy

The Jack-o-Lantern Quiz

Some Nico Pics

I took Nico to a local park yesterday after daycare to get some fall pics. I noticed the trees were starting to get bare so i wanted to try and capture some of the fall colors before they were gone. I didn;t ahve the best of luck since it was getting a bit late by the time we got there and the sun was getting a bit too low in the sky, but i did get a few cute snaps. I think we are going to try and go back on Friday, perhaps even convince my friend, Ashley, and her son, Rylan, to come. Anyways, here are a few. The will likely be more to follow.

Credit Card temptaion

At 21 years old I have yet to get a credit card. I just don't trust myself with them. Everytime I buy something at Old Navy, Gap/BabyGap, Target, and The Children's Place (which happens really really frequently lol) they ask if I want to open a charge card with them, and I always think about it for much longer than I should before finally chickening out and saying no. I just don't trust myself. Several of my friends are my age and already in debt due to credit cards. I have always been good at saving my money, I have always had enough money to pay cash for what I wanted, I have school loans that are paid on monthly so that my credit is being established and in good standing, and I never needed a credit card. Now that I have a two year old, and gas prices are sky rocketing, and I am in school full time (which means I am working less hours) I am feeling the crunch just a bit. The temptation to get a credit card is getting harder and harder to resist lol. I want to order Nico's winter coat, but I need to wait until payday. If I had a Gap card I could get it right now and just pay for it on payday. Then again, I really don't need it RIGHT NOW! And, better yet, if I went to Wal-Mart right now I could get a coat that I can actually afford right now, but I want the Gap one. Perhaps I don't need a credit card as much as I need some sense knocked into me re: my toddler clothing obsession (which rivals my naming obsession on the sick/sad/weird scale lol).

Forgive me, I was just thinking out loud (is it still "out loud" if it is actually typed lol).

Operation Ditch The Diapers!

So I have finally decided to get serious about potty training Nico. he has been in Pull=Ups for months now and he is treating them like diapers so last weekend I dove in head first and just started putting him in underwear. He is still having alot of accidents but atleast now, when he does have an accident, he knows right away that he peed or pooped and tells me so I can get him to a potty. Alot of times once he realizes he is wet he stops peeing until he gets to the potty so I figure that is a step in the right direction, though we still have a LONG way to go. He's been wearing underwear to school as well and they ahve been pretty supportive with it so thats a good thing, but he has been coming home in a pull-up because around 4 o'clock he gets sent to the toddler room (as kids atart to leave they combine the 2s and toddlers to let some staff go home too) where there isn't an in-class bathroom and its just easier than finding someone to take him to pee. I'm not sure I agree with that but I also don;t want to make it any harder on them than it already is, KWIM?

We also went on a little photography adventure last night but i haven;t gotten around to uploading the pics yet so you will jut have to wait for those =0)

SSD Blog Quizz and some Nico funnies

First, as it is Thrusday, it is time for another blog quiz thingy courtesy (sp?) of the SSD blog.

Halloween Candy Quiz





You are a Chocolate Bar


Like the chocolate bar you are naughty but oh so good


Find out which Halloween Candy you are at Quizopolis.com

And now on to some Nico Funnies. So I am thinking that my kid watches too much TV and/or eats too much fast food because this morning, when I told him we were stopping at Wendy's to get mommy a coffee and him a muffin he said, in the cutest, most dramatic voice, "Its way better than fast food. It's wendys!" I laughed so hard! I should really tape it and send it to the Wendy's corporation. Maybe they will want him to do a commercial! lol My baby could be famous!

And while we are on the subject of funny things my kid does, get ready to be a little grossed out. well, it is really only gross if you aren't in the process of Potty Training, since any p[arent going through this learns very quickly how not to get squeemish about bodily fluids lol. Anyways, yesterday Nico and i were in his room cleaning up before bed and he said he had to go potty. I told him to go ahead and I would meet him in there when I was finished putting away some books (I have his shelf organized according to size because I am anal so I prefer to put his books away myself lol). Like 30 second later i went in to find him standing ontop of the toilet, with the lid down, and no pants on, peeing on the lid! OMG!!! I asked what he was doing and he replied, very matter-of-factly. "I'm peeing on the potty!" I told him he is supposed to open the lid first and his response was "Ohhhhhh, I forgot, pee goes IN the potty, not ON the potty" Oh man, this kid drives me nuts sometimes but he is just too funny!!! lol

SSD Blog Challenge AGAIN

Your Ice Cream Personality:

You like to think of yourself as a fairly modest person. And it's true that you don't talk yourself up... but you're also pretty happy with who you are. You have a wild reputation, but you're not as wild as you seem. You take risks, but only measured risks. You are a fairly open minded person with a wide range of tastes. You are quite accepting of unusual ideas and people. You tend to have a one track mind. You prefer not to multitask. You are a serious and contemplative person. You definitely do your own thing in life.

The Ice Cream Personality Test