Micah's Words

My little boy is expanding his vocabulary daily. Last night his new word was "PURPLE". If you don't know... this is Kenzie's favorite color. They were eating these little jello packs purchased at the asian store and he would pick out the purple one and run to Makenzie and say Sister... purple, kenzie..... purple and give it to her. {how sweet}

Here is the extend of his vocabulary at 15 months
1) Uh Oh
2) Momma
3) Play
4) More
5) Sister
6) Elmo
7) Night Night
8) Snack
9) Bubble
10) Fishy
11) Kenzie
12) Purple
13) Milk
14) Daddy/Papa
15) Grandma/Grandpa (I haven't heard this one but was told he says it)

Doctor Call

Well I learned something new this morning. I put in a call to the pediatrician because Micah's eyes have been getting really bad the last couple of days, some yellow mucas buildup. And this morning it was covering his eyelashes so much it almost closed them shut. He has pink eye. I always thought pink eye is the little swollen bump you get but I guess that is a sty according to the nurse. Anyways eyedrops were ordered.

I did 15 minutes of situps yesterday and the kickboxing class. I weighed myself and I'm at the same weight as last January. At least it hasn't gone up with all the junk I ate over xmas but I sure do feel heavier so I'm cutting out the junk food. Trying at least!

My 2008 Goals

1) To floss daily and make a dentist appt
2) To record those family receipes and learn to cook them
3) Use up my scrap stash
4) Teach the kids Vietnamese and learn laos myself
5) Call family & friends

Exercise and loose weight is a goal too but it's always my #1 goal every year and I never do good at following thru after the 4th month so maybe if I lay off the pressure, I will make it happen on my own.

Revive

"REVIVE" I think that is my word for 2008. I am always finding myself tired & exhausted. I want to change that this year. Gotta find me ways to pick me up and put on a smile everyday.

Let's see what happened this weekend...Friday night there were a ton of little kids at grandmas house so Kenzie did not want to go home with us. She kept on saying not yet when we asked if she was ready to go so she slept there. When I went to pick her up Saturday afternoon she still didn't want to go home because Noc was planning to take all of the kids to see Alvin and the chipmonks.

So with Kenzie gone and Micah to bed early, I got some scrappin done Friday night. Saturday I took Micah with me to the mall to exchange a sweater for Lam. I wanted a nice coat but got a $35 leather (blue) jacket instead. (It was 70% off) While shopping, Micah spotted this little girl, she was probably 4 yrs old, he wanted down and walked right up to her....I swear he was wanting to kiss her or something just like he did to Allison a couple weeks ago. She was actually scared of him and went to her mom and he just kept chasing her.

Lam and I went out to eat at Cibolas. Our total bill for just the two of us was $100.86. Talk about fine dining, our gift certificate that a friend gave us was for $100 and neither of us brought along enough cash to tip so we gave the waitress our credit card for 86cents. She came back and told us her machine was giving her problems so we left a balance on the gift card and will be returning. This was our first time there and the food was yummy! We had fried calamari and lobster tails for appitizers and steaks for the main course. I was warned that they charge you for every little thing, like $7 for bottle water without telling you so I always asked if it came with the meal when they were asking me if I wanted a salad and what side dish. But I didn't think it would be $2 just for the baked potatoe topping. It was just the regular bacon,cheese, and onions. Oh well, it was a free dinner except for tip and the service was very good.

Sunday, kenzie was testing my patience. Lam left after church to work at the car lot and when Kenzie asked where her daddy was, she had a melt down. She wanted to go too and didn't want me to take her. It had to be her dad. This crying went on for 1 hour and 1/2 until he got back home to pick her up. She is totally a Daddy's Girl!

WFD???

Don't ask me, ask my MIL. Gosh am I spoiled, I cook 2 nights out of the week at the most. Every week night Lam's mom cooks dinner for us when we pick up the kids. She has it all prepared hot and waiting for us on the table. One of my new year's resolution is to get these yummy dishes down on recipe cards and try to make them myself! Last night we had some BBQ cow tongue with bamboo and mince noodle and spring rolls. It is one of my favorites! Probably not very appetizing if you don't eat asian food but it was good.

Scrap Goals

I signed up for the BPS Get a LOAD of this class. It's to encourage you to scrap a layout a day. So far so good. Here's from day one. Day 2 completed but not uploaded yet.

Happy '08!

This is the whole crew we had at Moody Gardens. Such a fun vacation!

Today is my first day back to work after an 11 day weekend. It was so hard to get up but it was my fault for staying up til 1am reading the MB. Kenzie was up with me til midnight playing with her doll house she got for christmas.

I took the xmas tree down but the decorations are still up. Went to Office Depot with Micah yesterday to buy some folders and boxes so I can get all my receipts organized. I am going to be much better at it this year, no more clutter!

Lam ordered us new cell phones. He's been wanting one with internet access for quite some time. Our current contract with Verizon won't be up til March but they were having an end of year sale so he had to get us the Palm Centro. I haven't had time to play with it much but I now have text messaging so if anyone wants to send me one...I will text you back!