Happy Mother's Day !

Swim Lessons

My hubby's family loves the water... and they wanted to make sure that MJ loved the water too. So we decided to enroll him in a Baby & Me swim class. It's more of an introduction to water where the babies and mommies play with toys/games in the water and teach the babies how to kick and float.

Anyways, last Tuesday was the first Baby & Me swim lessons at the Rec Center. MJ cried the whole time we were in the water. The water was really cold so I see why he was crying. It was so cute though to see all the other babies in their bathing suits. Also, it's great because I get to talk with other moms and MJ gets to play with other babies his age. BUT the best part is that it is great exercise for me since swim class is twice a week for a whole month. Last Thursday was another class and this time MJ loved it. I knew he would be a water baby !

Since we decided to get MJ swimming lessons, I thought that I should learn how to swim too. (Just in case something happened in the water I can get to him.) So I enrolled myself in the adult swim classes--same days as MJ's swim lessons. By the second swim class, I learned how to swim. I still don't know how to come up for air and keep swimming at the same time... but I'll learn. I'm pretty proud of myself at how much I accomplished in just 2 classes. Class is for an hour and we swim back and forth 50 yards. So it is a great exercise for my arms, back, legs, everything. By the end of the month, I'll be fit. I just need to do situps on the side so that I can tighten my stomach muscles since having MJ... then I'll be fit.

I'm employed again !

This last week has been crazy for me. Two Sundays ago, I put in my resume for an Optometrist Assistant job that my mother-in-law saw in the classifieds. That night I got called back for an interview for monday. So I had my interview and everything was going good. I was actually not scared about the interview. I guess because this was the same position that I held before.

Anyways, getting back to my train of thought. I had my interview on Monday and got called back for a second interview for Thursday to meet with the Optometrist who owns the place. Friday, I got the job and I start Wednesday, April 30th.

It's only a part-time position for right now because I don't want to leave my son for long with a baby sitter. Plus, I'm scared to leave him too. What if he doesn't eat since he's so picky... What if he misses me and I can't be there.... Ahhahhh !!
I feel sorda ready for this becuase it would be great to have adult interaction again. I feel like my vocabulary is reverting back to my son's age and hearing his favorite cartoon songs all day is starting to drive me looney. BUT on the other hand, I'm just gonna miss my little guy while I'm at work. I guess this is what working mothers have to think about. I gonna give it a try and see what happens...

Blogging as a career...

In today's local newspaper (the Virginian Pilot), an article was written about Heather Armstrong whose blog is Dooce.com. It says that she's a stay-at-home mom who blogs for a living and writes about her family, dog, and whatever comes to mind. The thing that blew me away was that her blog is ranked No. 59 among the Web's top 100 blogs according to a blog search engine AND that her site is making as much as $40,000 a month. Her husband even quit his job and now does the advertising for her website. *W-O-W* That is amazing! I know a couple of people who do the pay per post and they make around $200 a month, but not $40,000. I never knew that blogging could be a great career (if you know what to do.)

First Birthday/ Party

My son just celebrated his first birthday. WoW ! I still can't believe that he is already a year old. It went by so fast ! His birthday was on a thursday, so we made a family day. My husband and I took him to church, took our family portraits, brought him to Busch Gardens, and then had a small dinner party for him.

We had so much fun at Busch Gardens. MJ is at this stage where he likes to point at everything. His head kept turning everywhere since there is so much to see. We took MJ to Land of the Dragons and he rode an egg carousel with my hubby and a flying dragon with mommy. My hubby and I have seasons passes so this won't be the last time. There is still so much to show him.

Also, only 3 days separate Mj and his cousin's birthdays...so we decided to make a dual celebration. My brother and I decided to invite everyone to Mount Trashmore Park in Virginia Beach. It has a big playground for little kids and there is so much other things to do like fly kites, ride bikes, fish, skateboard... and so forth.
Plus, renting a shelter is free... so that save us money. Anyways, the whole week I kept praying that the weather would be nice and that no rain. ((All my life, if it is something important to me: It ALWAYS RAINS ! Ring dance, prom, brithdays ))

The whole week leading up to the weekend it was beautiful weather in the 70s. The day of their birthday, the forecast was in the 80s and chances of severe thunderstorms. From the beginning when we tried setting up, the winds were like 40 mph. Everything kept flying away and people were having a hard time eating. Then, in the middle of the party a severe thunderstorm happened so we had to cut the party short. AAAaaRRRggghhhh !!! My dad made a joke that "we prayed that the weather would be nice temperature and that it wouldn't rain, but we forgot to think about wind." It was so crazy... it seemed like a blur to me ! Everyone said that they had a good time while the party happened though and they definitley ate a lot.
**Lessoned learned to me, MJ's parties will be indoors. **

Family Pictures

For some time now, I've wanted to take family pictures. My mom wished that our family took pictures when we were all younger. Now, we're all older and my brother and I have spouses and children. Hmmmm... I need to remember this idea: Mom and Dad will be celebrating their 30th anniversary this year and it would be great idea to set up a family portrait of our growing family.

Anyways, back to my main thought... I wanted to take family pictures while MJ was little and I was still young. We had a matching theme with our clothes. We went to JC Penney Portrait studio and I thought that the pictures turned out really good and the cost wasn't that bad either. Leave a comment and tell me what you think.

*JC Penney sends you copies of your pictures that are allowed to be downloaded and shared if you sign up for their smilesbywire. *

Funny video

Funny video from Yahoo. All the babies are so cute. I want to see baby MJ's reaction to lemons now.