Cute pictures make up for a missed day of blogging

Before you start judging me for missing a day of blogging, just know that I spent my normal blogging time (that being once Miles is in bed) with my head hanging over the toilet. Caught some sort of stomach bug that I’m hoping is gone.

But I did take some great pictures of Miles at my sister’s house last night.

The weather was still very nice when we got there, so Chris took Miles out to the trampoline with my sister’s girls. Pictures don’t turn out that great through the mesh cage, but you can still tell he was having a great time.

And then (instead of eating dinner), he played with a ball in the lawn and pointed at airplanes flying over.

And then as Chris was playing video games in the basement with my brother-in-law, my mom introduced Miles to the piano. He got the hang of it pretty quickly.

And so you see, I’m still kind of copping out of a real blog entry by just posting pictures. Maybe tomorrow.

Star Light, Star Bright

How do I keep forgetting to blog about the stars on my ceiling? I have started like four different entries, all about nothing, and as I erased the last one, I leaned my head back in frustration and remembered that in just a few minutes, when I turn out my lamp, the ceiling will look like the night sky.

The first day we were in this rental, we had unpacked the essentials and cleaned the floors (multiple times), but we had no idea what was waiting for us in the master bedroom. It isn’t like the ceiling has those adhesive stars that are popular in kids’ rooms because the ceiling looks completely normal in the daylight. But when the lights are off, it literally looks like the night sky that you would see in the mountains. I have tried googling it to see how it is done, but I have no idea what search terms to enter. Either there is a company that customizes some sort of see through glow-in-the-dark decal, or someone very skilled painstakingly painted each little star (and the entire Milky Way) with some glow-in-the-dark paint and a paintbrush.

I can’t decide if it’s cool or creepy.

I’m leaning towards creepy.

Waxing and Waning

Have you ever gone in to get a simple eyebrow wax and after being directed to the room, you are tempted to leave because it looks more like a torture chamber than a reputable business? That was me today. But did I leave? No. I didn’t want to offend anyone or have to find another place near my house.

It turned out okay though.

But I won’t be going back.

Boon!

While Miles and I were grocery shopping this afternoon, he kept pointing at all of the balloons hanging over the floral department, and I thought it would be a bad idea to get him one of those since he would probably just let go of it; and if I tied it to his wrist (which my mom tried once) it would only result in lots of crying. But as I was walking through the cereal aisle of all places, I noticed a pack of punch balloons (remember those?) and couldn’t resist.

I thought it would be perfect mommy-making-dinner entertainment. And although his face doesn’t show it in this picture, he truly loved it.

All little creatures were super excited to get to that balloon. Actually I think Scout was mostly nervous.

I was pretty sure that if I could just keep the cat away from the balloon, everything would be fine. I was wrong. I’m pretty sure that Miles bit it.

And because I’m not a good mother, I took a picture of the aftermath before I held him.

We only semi-labored today

It being Labor Day today, we did what every family does: checked off items on our to-do list. Oh, is that not what everyone does? It was Chris’s intention to get up early to go see the balloon festival this morning, but I wasn’t keen on the idea of getting up that early, or more accurately, of waking up Miles that early. Perhaps we should have done it anyway because Miles decided to wake up at 6:15. Then we thought we would go for a morning hike, but it was that weird temperature between too cold and just right. So we sat around watching The Today Show in which their C-list anchors hosted. Then we figured we might as well just go run all of the errands that were piling up: REI to exchange our kid carrier, the mall to remove an alarm sensor from a sweater Chris bought in Utah, Kohls to replace Chris’s sunglasses that Miles destroyed (and pick up my first pair of skinny jeans…not quite jeggings though), and Target to pick up a whole plethora of items (including sunglasses because after summer is over, Kohls doesn’t think that men need sunglasses).

During naptime my sister’s family did stop by on their way home from hiking near us, and I’m pretty sure the kids were bothered that we wouldn’t wake up Miles to play with them. But like I said, I’m not real keen on waking him up if I don’t have to.

And since Miles ended up sleeping until 4:30, we decided that an evening hike would be a perfect time to test out our new backpack. We went up a canyon 15 minutes from our door to hike up Mt. Cutler. It is an easy hike, but has gorgeous views of mountains and the entire city.

Is there anything that could make this view better?

Yes.

We tried to get a family shot, but the camera battery gave up the ghost right as a nice hiker was about to snap it. So far, we are loving living near the mountains with such beautiful weather. Thing's that we missed living in Houston and Charlotte. Don’t get me wrong, each of those places had things that we loved. Houston had excellent food, in fact, we still crave Chuy’s. and Charlotte had wonderful seasons (just a bit too humid for my taste), but we are excited to become Coloradoans or Coloradans…never have decided how to say that.