Attention ladies!

To all the wonderful women in my life:

Happy Mother's Day! I hope you all have a wonderful Mother's Day. I feel so lucky when I look at each of you; I really feel blessed with all the amazing people in my life, but especially you women. Thanks for your friendship, your encouragement and your love.

On another note, I wanted to share something kind of cool I found. I'm the kind of person who needs lots of encouragement and help along the way. I found a neat Web site dedicated to moms and providing encouragement for each other with articles, book reviews, suggestions, etc. I've added a button on my blog (see left), but if you're interested, the address is www.powerofmoms.com. Check out the book section and you can see a book review I wrote. :)

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!

We love baseball!

I'm so excited for baseball season -- it's too bad our team here isn't the greatest. But the Bricktown ballpark is awesome! We went opening night a few weekends ago. It threatened to rain, but the skies cleared and we had a fun time.

The ballpark is right downtown; there are restaurants and a big theater across the street as well as a canal that runs all over nearby. We went early to get free T-shirts.

Drew loves to wear his sunglasses everywhere. He's just too cool in them. :) We had to wait a few minutes for the gates to open, but Drew thought it was pretty awesome there was live music.

After we got our shirts and scoped out our seats, we ate dinner at Sonic (which started in Oklahoma, so they're EVERYWHERE), and then walked around the canal for about an hour. It was a great night, despite the fact the team lost -- BAD.

Watch out for Mr. Terrible Two...

Oh yes -- the rumors are true! The twos are terrible, and Drew is now officially two! Although Drew started into his "terrible" phase early, he's really digging in to try and show us how terrible he can be. Unfortunately for us, he got my set of lungs; it's a good thing he's cute...

We celebrated Drew's birthday on Thursday by going to Chuck E. Cheese. He wanted to play any game where he got to hold and/or throw a ball. He did finally settle down and eat some pizza, but only after we had used most of our tokens.

The bowling game he kept wanting to play, even when other people were using it...

Mmmmmmm.... Cold pizza!

What a spoiled little boy! He just has the best grandmas. :)

On Friday, all our friends came over and we had a big dinner and cake. I decided to go the easy route -- you know, box mix, canned frosting -- to make a simple baseball cake. Well, it didn't turn out quite like I wanted, but I guess you get the idea. :)

The stitching turned into squiggles; the frosting from a can was really hard to control. It came out hardly at all or super fast. Oh well... I'll try again next year!

Birthdays are so exhausting...

Happy Birthday, Drew! You may be terrible sometimes, but your little smile is the best. We love you!

Happy Easter!

Thanks to some grandmas, the Easter Bunny was generous at our house. I don't think Drew quite gets the concept, but he was pretty excited to get stuff. :)

Yesterday we went to an egg hunt in Edmond at the UCO campus. A church played host to the hunt, which was in the university's football stadium, and there were a LOT of kids. The field was covered with bright eggs. Drew and Brent went down, and Drew loved picking up the eggs. He was really upset that he had to wait until the announcer said, "Go!"

He got every possible egg he could fit into his basket, which ended up being mostly tootsie rolls and gum. But it's all about the hunt, right?

Today he walked into the living room and saw our chair full of stuff, and he just stopped and looked at it, completely confused. When I finally let him dig in, he was happy with his treasures.

He got two stuffed bunnies, a bubble set, two new books, sunglasses, and a tiny Wii remote that shoots out candy.

Yeah, he looks pretty awesome in those glasses. :) Thanks, grandmas!

We had a great day at church, and he seemed pretty awake afterward, but that might have been the tootsie rolls he had for breakfast. :) (He had some cereal, too!) But about 7:30 tonight, we realized it was kind of quiet. Well, the sugar buzz must have worn out. He fell asleep mid-play!

Big trouble!

So, Drew will be two years old in less than two weeks, and boy, we are learning why they call it the terrible twos. If any of you parents out there have any suggestions, I'm seriously going to need it...

I guess one way to deal with it is to try to laugh at the outrageous stuff. Here's one I thought worth sharing: We live on the second story of our apartment complex, and we have a very nice balcony. Drew knows -- proficiently -- how to unlock and go out our doors. In fact, he's getting so tall he'll probably start playing with the light switches soon. Anyway, he loves to go out on the balcony, but we have a rule that he cannot take anything with him, either because he throws it through the rails to the ground below, or we find it in the diaper champ, which means it just has to get thrown out with the diapers because there's no saving it after it's been in with the loaded diapers.

Thursday evening, Brent and I were enjoying our evening and working on little projects. Unbeknownst to us, Drew took the opportunity of our distraction to break our nothing-goes-out-on-the-balcony rule. Brent happened to look up and see him running out with a ball. He chases after him, and a minute later, I hear Brent say, "Meg, get the camera."

Oh great, I'm thinking. What on earth has he done? Well, see for youselves...

There are even more items than what I could capture in the picture. If you can't tell, that's Brent's flipflops, Brent's socks, Drew's new GAP hat, three rings, two toy cars, two sippie cups and a ball. Needless to say, it was funny but Drew was in big trouble!

Elmo!

Thanks to Aunt BranDee, Drew is in love with a wonderful little book about baby Elmo. I usually memorize his books pretty fast, just because I read them so much, but he actually memorized this book before I did. It's too cute, so I wanted to share his favorite book -- as well as his growing vocabulary -- with you all.

It's all about the red shoes...

I got an early birthday present and Brent took me to see Oklahoma City Ballet's production of "The Wizard of Oz" on the 27th. I very much enjoyed going; it was a treat for Brent to take me because he really does NOT like dance.

Because it was the Wizard of Oz, I -- of course -- had to wear my beautiful pair of red pumps. I was getting ready and the shoes were in the living room. Drew apparently shares my fettish for shoes. :)

In other miscellaneous life...

Drew and Ady are just the cutest. I love it when they play together -- not so much when they fight, and it's a toin-coss for which they're doing. Our friends came over last Sunday for some treats and to hang out for a while. Drew has a book about things that go that has a hole in the middle for you to put your face in so the story is about you. He got out his book, and Ady must have thought it looked like a kissing booth or something. We all laughed at their little smooch, so they did it several times. :) I love it...

Drew thinks he's such a big boy. He'll be two on the 23rd, so I guess he is getting to be pretty big. He's starting to say words more frequently now, and he loves to play computer games with us. The only one we let him play himself is Zuma, so here's our big boy, losing his game like 14 times in a row and loving it.

Finally, Drew loves taking his pants off. But this night, he also had a pretty soggy diaper. We were just going to throw him in the tub in a minute anyway, but he decided he needed to take his diaper off, too. Only kids can get away with this little ensemble of just shirt and socks -- I was laughing so hard as he ran around the house like this, the tears were rolling down my cheeks! Baby butts are the cutest. :)