Three Mizes + Two

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Look Out Martha

Okay, little insight into my crazy mind...
I feel very strongly about the 3 or 5 (Gram and Pawpaw) of us eating together as a family every night. We plan supper for 6:00 pm every night and sit down the the TV off to eat. Erin has her high chair at the table and for as long as she could sit in it, I've been trying to do this. Call me old-fashioned, but I think it's important for families to eat together.

Well, Erin does a lot of playing instead of eating. It wasn't so bad when she was just on the baby food, because I controlled a lot of it, but now that we're mixing in real table food it's gotten messy.

I went all Martha Stewart today and saved my kitchen wall! I had to clean about a dozen splats with baby wipes before I applied it, but I think I found the magic Martha solution.

I bought a huge roll of that static stick vinyl off of Amazon and went to town. I couldn't just slap it up there because the OCD nut case in my head wouldn't allow it. I had to wait for Erin to nap. Then I got out the laser level, my craft mat/ruler and roll cutter. Lot of measuring and sizing, but I did pretty good. It's clear, so it blends into the wall without much notice.

Ask me in a week if it worked!

Saturday, September 3, 2011

ESPN or Something

Okay, when I was a kid my parents used to tell me that my mom had eyes in the back of her head. I can remember physically looking for them and never finding them, but she ALWAYs knew when I was doing something I wasn't supposed to be doing. Can't tell you how many times I rolled my eyes or stuck out my tongue only to be busted with "I saw that". ???? How???? Daddy would always tell me to be careful, I was going to get busted because Mom had eyes in the back of her head. 9 times out of 10 I walked away rubbing my butt and sniffling. (Time Out was never big in the Wistner Household)

Today, I figured just how she did it. Erin is crawling around like a maniac and for those of you who have never met her, she is NEVER still. She will concentrate on something for about 2 minutes, then move on to something else. She is not one of those sit quietly somewhere and play with one toy kind of babies. She's very quick for a crawler and is so efficient at that you can set her down, and within the blink of an eye she's 15 feet away already.

Today she was crawling/cruising around while I was doing stuff in the kitchen. I was literally one step ahead of her at every turn while trying to get my stuff done. It was like that Mom thing went off and I knew exactly where she was headed and what she was about to get into. So, I finally figured out Sandy's trick. She didn't have eyes in the back of her head, she really had ESP.

For my next trick, I will select tonight's Powerball numbers.

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Life Guard on Duty

Here's a couple of quick videos from Florida

The Mizes Own the Beach

Pirate's Booty

Tommy-Cam

Made in the Shade

Crawling in the Sand

Destin For Greatness!

Well we've been back since Saturday and I just haven't had the time to blog yet. We got back Saturday night from our week in Destin, FL. It was so much fun!

We rented a house on Santa Rosa Beach. The Driftwood! It had a private pool and was a very short trip to the beach. We had the house busting at the seams. We're already planning to go back next year, but we'll need a bigger house!!

While we were there, Erin decided the crib we rented was not good enough. Every time we put her in it, she freaked out and screamed like crazy. So, for the whole week, Momma, Daddy and Erin slept in the queen sized bed. It is really funny now, but last week it was a little uncomfortable. Erin took up SOOOO much room in that bed. Tommy hardly slept because he was afraid he was going to roll over and smush Erin. I didn't sleep well because I kept pulling her more to my side because I too was afraid he would roll over on her. Erin slept like a baby! (Pun intended)

Erin wasn't as impressed with the beach as I thought she would be. She loved the water, but since she's still crawling instead of walking she kept getting a face full of sand. With all the sunscreen I slathered on her, it was sticking to her. She did figure out that it was better to bear crawl around the beach instead of using her knees. It was hilarious. Some people set up beside us for the week were even laughing at her.

I'm going to post some videos and pictures. Feel free to skip the videos. They aren't all that exciting!