This Kid Makes Me Laugh

I don't think it is possible for Luke to be any more charming and adorable and then somehow he is. It might be the eyelashes or the high voice. I don't know but he sure is a keeper.

My personal favorite is that he can say ankylosaurus but not T-rex. Gage has a dinosaur obsession as of late and apparently it is rubbing off on Lukey.

Potato Head

I'm a couch potato. It's nothing I'm proud of and I blame this status on a few factors like the fact that I'm pregnant and I just want to put my feet up at the end of the day, and that Tim brings his work home from work so I need something to occupy my time, and until recently I've had a cold and it's also been cold outside. Anyway, I watch a lot of shows and I need to get a few things off my chest. I think I'll begin at Monday.

I used to watch The Bachelor on Mondays but that is over and I know it's been said but it was the sleaziest season I have ever watched and I feel I have to take a moral stand and resolve never to watch this show again. The chick that was publicly humiliated and dumped on TV for ratings has somehow found her way onto Dancing with the Stars. Out of curiosity I tuned in last Monday to see how she would do and proved that ABC is an evil genius because I've never enjoyed Dancing with the Stars before. Anyway, I'm sucked in and I think they have a really good cast this year and I can actually tell who the stars are. Having never watched this show before can someone please tell me what the crap is up with the scoring? The judges will be really negative and then give the star 7's and then they can say really nice things and give the star 5's!?! The cowboy dude on the show is my favorite and he keeps getting really bad scores. Come on people the dude rides bulls for a living and the fact that he is even in a ballroom ought to at least afford him some leniency. I guess it's just me.

Tuesdays are The Biggest Loser night. I love this show. I feel like it is really positive and this season the people so far have been so supportive of each other and there haven't been any "hate votes." Jillian is one of the trainers and it seems like her group always does the best probably because she is about the scariest thing on this earth and I'm sure she implants a secret shock collar on her people so when they stop exercising they get a shock, when the eat more than they should....bzzzzt....and then you see Jillian brushing her finger tips saying "excellent." Bob is gay....figuratively and literally. He is super nice and good looking if you ask me but I think he doesn't scare his people enough so it seems they never win. The only contestant I hope fails is Helen. She dealt a low blow to Tara last week and she just seems trashy.

Also of note is American Idol on Tuesdays...I don't watch this show but sometimes I catch little snippets. My feelings are as follows. The blind dude looks like Garfunkel as in Simon and Garfunkel. I know he is blind so his family should really help him out with the whole hair thing because it is an abomination. He may just be the nicest person on this earth but the dude cannot sing well enough to be on this show. Harsh but I'm just keeping it real. I'm really glad that the girl from Utah is unique and covered in tattoos. I'm really sick of the Mormon next store on these talent shows. Although if she were the Mormon next store she would be doing a lot better in the competition because I swear the Young Women or the Relief Society have some calling tree going one with these shows.

Wednesdays is our Lost night. Lost is the one TV show that Tim watches and we make a night of it complete with junk food. Yum. Lost has officially made me freaked to fly. As for the plot I can't go into details because I don't know where to begin. I will say that I hope Sawyer stays with Juliette because Kate drives me nuts. Frank rules.

Thursdays have me very conflicted. I've been loyal to the Thursday NBC lineup since High School. But in them days I would get Friends, Seinfeld, and ER. Now there is this freaky line up of Kath and Kim, My Name is Earl, The Office, 30 Rock, and yes ER....still. Kath and Kim and My Name is Earl is the equivalent of burning your lawn rather than mowing it.....Trailer Trash. ER needed to go off the air about 10 years ago. For some reason 30 rock doesn't appeal to me and The Office used to be the one bright spot. Sadly, I'm just not feeling it this season. Pam and Jim are together and it seems like it's the Micheal Show and he's just not that funny to me. So I've switched to Grey's Anatomy. I like the characters....especially Dr Bailey and Yang. Izzy needs to go away.

That concludes my loserdom review. Oh, except Extreme Home Makeover on Sunday's is a wonderful show and I cry every dang time. And Meet the Press on Sunday mornings but I can't watch that because I go to early Church. Frontline on PBS oh and NOVA. Ok, I realize I really need some other activity. I wasn't joking when I said couch potato. At least there are no Soap Operas on this list. I gave up Days of Our Lives a few years ago.

Big Boy Bike

Gage has been riding a big wheel trike for the last year. He is so tall for his age and it was starting to get embarrassing to take him around the hood with him cruising around with his knees up to his chest! On Saturday we finally purchased him a big boy bike. I love how seemingly easy things can take up an entire Saturday. We set out early and had to go to 3 different stores before we found a bike even worth buying and then to find a helmet that would fit his head....that was an ordeal. Tim put it together because I'm not about to pay $10 for some adolescent to do it at Toys R Us when Tim has two hands and a shed full of tools. He was nearly finished when we discovered that we had two right pedals and obviously that didn't work so well on the left side. I thought the Toys R Us folks would be jerks about it but we went back and they nicely swapped us for left pedal. We were all exhausted by the time Gage even got on the dang thing for the first time and it was a little hard for him to adjust to pedaling but he got it and now he looks like a totally normal 4 year old on a normal bike. Actually, it is more than just a normal bike. I think it is pretty stinkin' cool!! I never got a brand new bike....that's what happens to the last of 5 kids. So I was all excited about it and tried to ride it myself which considering my girth now days was not a good plan. Tim tried to do some tricks on it....unsucessfully...so we are planning to buy our own bikes.

Luke loves tools. I literally mean he LOVES tools. The first thing he asks for in the morning is a screwdriver and he carries it with him everywhere. Putting the bike together with his dad was like Nirvana for Luke. It was fun watching him work away with his dad. I thought he would be all excited to get Gage's old Big Wheel but he somehow knows it is his big brother's cast off trash and wants nothing to do with it. Being the recipient of many a cast off I can't help but sympathize with him but I really can't justify buying him a new bike when I have 3 old trikes. Is this sound parenting? I don't know.

It's March At Last

Yesterday was the first day of March and all I can say is yea!!! I heard some birds chirping in the yard and I think I've never heard a more lovely sound. Ok, that's not exactly true but I'm just looking forward to spring. Farewell February....I hated every day of you....you were cruel to me and my family. It isn't just that we were sick every day of February and it isn't just that you killed our refrigerator mid-month and it isn't just that Congress passed 1 trillion in new spending last week and it isn't just that people who came to see my house kept asking where the basement was...it isn't just that a weird Russian tried to open my front door for his own private house showing on Saturday. It's that I think February is a weird month...you're the weakest among all the months. You are the shortest and what's up with leap year anyway?

Well, enough about February. Thankfully I don't have to see it again for another year. Let's talk about March. My senior year in High School I went to San Francisco, with my Art History Class, in March. It was one of the funniest trips I've ever been on. My teacher was one of my favorites in High School and most of my closest girlfriends were on the trip. It seemed to mark the end of my senior year. After that trip I did more sluffing and had more fun than any other time during High School. I can't help but get a big wave of nostalgia each March. Sometimes I honestly think I wish I was still 17 and my biggest worry was that we walked through the red light district at night when we weren't supposed to, or that I'd been asked to speak at Seminary Graduation and I'd sluffed so much I was sure I was even going to pass Seminary, or that we got stuck in the airport with only what Sarah had in her backpack to eat (you did have some great snacks) or that I hope Lincoln didn't catch me trying to take a picture of him without him knowing because I thought he was cute! Those were the days. Oh, one last memory....going to the Sunday service at Glide Memorial and how I had to hold hands with the bum that sat next to me and that the female pastor said in her prayer that it was time to turn HIStory into HERSTORY!! I just don't have these kinds of trips anymore.