Happy Birthday Matthew!!!!

Oh my god, I have a one year old child. How crazy is that? I don't know but this all kinda creeped on me. Its amazing - the whole process from pregnancy, birth and now a year after he's still changing every day. What a wonderful day it will be.

I have made the birthday cake of a century (and by that I mean it took like a year to make). Its HUGE and fluffy, as every cake for a small child should be. There is likely to be an awesome picture involving frosting and a mostly naked cutie pie. Stay tuned.

notes of the day

1. Don't steal and lie about it - especially when you know you're on camera
2. Poprocks and soda do not make your stomach explode, but it does cause quite a fury in your mouth
3. Boss scheduled a mtg, and then forgot and went to bar. oops
4. Trying to buy a house is not as fun as it should be
5. Is it EVER going to be spring?
6. Merci pour cette soiree sympa (April 2 phrase of the day)
7. Happy 80th gramps

jibberish

Jibberish is what we are hearing these days at home, and we love it! I know you're not supposed to laugh at vocalizations of babies, but it's so hard not to...

Since we are trying to teach Matthew french as well as english, we are wondering which language will come first through one of these ridiculous noises we've been hearing. This week the noise of choice is the rolling "r"......for minutes at a time! hahaha...its not exactly french, but maybe that's where its headed. It's hard to tell.

Of course I don't really know how much he hears. D speaks french to him exclusively, however, when I'm around he doesn't say much in french. I'm hoping that's different when I'm not home.

the tantrums have started at night. not really sure why, but we're guessing he wants to sleep in our bed, since he seems to wake up right when we're going to bed. poor little dude.

10 reasons why this week has sucked balls, as they say

1. Spring break means I get up much much earlier than normal. grrrrrrrr

2. Midterms

3. Psycho teacher creates a midterm that is entirely comprised of material not covered in lecture OR text. Everyone left knowing they failed. There goes my 4.0

4. D filled out his application wrong, and therefore was never considered for the program to which he was supposed to be applying

5. D misread his acceptance letter (into the wrong program), so made many phone calls, cried (I'm telling you it was like winning the lottery), and started planning how we could finally buy a house and pay off some debt. This lasted 5 minutes before he re-read the acceptance letter. doh.

6. Engineering school offers $0 financial aid, so even the wrong program which would have been okay is not an option.

7. Renaming the Sears tower???? Seriously Chicagoans...stand up for yourselves! If some bitch tried to rename Yankee Stadium, all those crazy MF New Yorkers would riot. What's left? No fields. No Rosemont. No Comiskey. And I'm embarrased to say I forget what the United center used to be called. Next it will be Warren Buffet Aquarium.

8. They play a "Lost" rerun but not a new one? Why? We saw that one last week. Better to play nothing at all....

9. Does it really matter? "Lost" has been so far off in the Twilight Zone this yr, I would have just been pissed me off to watch a new episode anyway.

10. Its Friday the 13th....I Don't know what's going to happen today, but its not likely to be good.

men are from mars...a very dirty and disorganized place apparently

My husband swears that he can get nothing done with the baby at home during the day.

poppycock.

So far this morning I have done everything I asked him to do this week - and its only noon! The baby has been asleep for an hr, and I have worked out 30min, started some laundry, did the dishes, followed up on work emails and had a quick bowl of cheerios.
In addition to that, I sorted out the stuff that didn't fit him and packed it, and changed out the crib sheet (quite a process) while he played on the floor. Then we picked up his toys and put all the laundry away.

I know what you're thinking - that's ALL you asked him to do for a week?! well, he does do the dishes.

men are hopeless.
(actually, if you're currently single - be prepared. men "forget" how to take care of themselves, and then they do things wrong intentionally so that you won't ask them to do it again...its clever because they win -no matter what he's capable of, you would rather do it than have them do it wrong!)

the stinky cheese arrives

Ew. she's here. the mo-in-law is here for 8 days and nights. will I survive? yes I think so, but if its anything like last time, she will not.

She told my sis-in-law that she thinks I "tricked" my husband by getting pregnant! She thinks I had a "master plan" which is now preventing him from getting a job. She says that he is extremely depressed that he has to stay home with our son, and I need to be less selfish and move to a place where he can work.

HOLY fuck there are so many things wrong with all of this. so many things. I will fight my instinct to sock her in the jaw upon arrival. I will grit my teeth when she takes her little digs all week long about anything she can possible find a reason to be upset about ("why do you use that laundry detergent? that kind is too expensive. you can't afford that"...listen, bitch - you don't know what I can afford, and laundry detergent is not a luxury item! and for god's sake is f*king "ALL")

God save us all. I am stopping by the bar for a drink on the way home tomorrow....maybe I will even start carrying the brown paper bag on the bus ride home.

Trust me, you would too.

weird

I had no idea SNL was going to do a "really?!" segment about Michael Phelps this week. really.