Deals!!

I suggest all you Mamas out there rush on over to your local Toys R Us TODAY! I had to run some errands with the kids today and stopped by to pick up a writing toy for Tristan. (Remember, I am going to start teaching him to write and do Preschool stuff at home now. This thing is super cool and shows you how to write upper case, lower case, and shapes. This alone was $21.99) I walked in to find Crayola crayons, colored pencils, and markers on sale for Buy 1 Get 2 FREE. Yes! I spent $7.49 on 6 packages of Crayola products. I managed to walk out the door for $40 with all the Crayola stuff, the writing toy, construction paper, flash cards, and a Preschool workbook. Seriously, i feel so frugal! Yay for good deals! Now go tell your friends.

Change

I have spent the last few months trying to adjust to our new life here in California. I can't say that i feel like i have fully adjusted yet, but i know that will come with time. Anyway, Jay and I spent a lot of time with our new one income budget and quickly realized money would be tight and some things needed to be cut. One of those things was Tristan's Preschool. It was going to be $200/month and i can spend way less teaching him the same things at home. I was really looking forward to him going so he could get interaction with other kids but it was only 2 days per week and 3 hours per day. Who knows, maybe next year. The other thing we knew we had to cut out of the budget was, sadly, my hair. We just can't afford to get highlights like i did in Georgia. My hair was in desperate need for color so we talked about it and Jay wanted me to go Red. Well like a burgundy. I have done this before so it scared be but i took the plunge. My rockstar husband put the color on my hair, and let me tell ya.. it was RED. It freaked me out. So the next day he dyed it dark brown. I must say i really like it. Though i really am partial to blonde i think it is fun (and cheaper) to do something like this which is closer to my natural haircolor, minus the red of course. Anyway, here is the final result. It is going to take some getting used to for me. Here is to change...

New Fish

Here is our new fish. Sadly, Blue only lasted one day. He seemed sick from the moment we put him in the tank. This one is super feisty though! Hopefully he will actually last!

They really do love each other.

Precious.

Reading Blue a story

Tristan decided Blue needed some storytime. So cute!

Newest addition to our family...

Here he is, Blue, our new Betta fish. Well that is what the kids are calling him right now anyway. We have been promising them for months now that we would get them a fish so today was the day. We really hyped it up and got a cool tank with a filter (because secretly, or not so secretly now, i am scared to have to move that thing to clean the tank all the time) and some fake leaves and rocks and stuff. So, we brought Blue home. We got the tank all set up and the kids were amazed. Super cute. We fed him some fish food, which he didn't eat but whatever. Then, the kids went down for a nap and Jay and I watched a movie (17 again, which was really cute by the way). When Tristan woke up he apparently assumed the fish needed a snack, after all he always gets a snack after nap. So, what is a 3 year old boy to do? Feed his new little friend, of course! And that he did, bread. After fixing that little fiasco, and after Tristan pulled the filter out we took all the water out and made poor Blue come out of his very new home. Cleaned out the tank and tried again. After, of course, having a stern talk with Tristan that the fish does not need to eat bread (or rocks, or grapes, etc.) and the filter has to stay put. It's all for the best though since Jay put it together the second time instead of me and it looks WAY better. Seriously, if Blue makes it through the night it will be a miracle. Although I have heard that Betta fish are pretty resilient. Guess we will see. He has been hiding in the fake grass in the tank for awhile now. No doubt trying to hide from his new owners!!

Oh yeah, and as if that wasn't enough fun for one day the kids were just in the bath and Rylie POOPED. Seriously, that has never happened to us. I think it is time to call it a night. :)

Tristan's Before and After

Tristan's hair has been looking pretty long lately. We went to the beach today and I decided I would "trim" Tristan's hair tonight before the bath. Jay and Stacia always make fun of me because no matter how much I say I am just going to trim the sides I inevitably cut way too much off. Poor kid, I did it again today. I should probably just let Jay cut it from now on, or even... gasp, take him somewhere to get it cut. Here are his Before and After pictures. And seriously, what is up with the baby bangs?! When do those darn things grow out!? Yes, i do realize Tristan looks totally goofy in the after picture. This is the face he makes when asked to smile. Funny boy.

Bath time

Our favorite time of day.