Birthday Extravaganza!

August is the birthday month in my family!! Mr.E is the 5th. I'm the 8th. My niece is today:) My Dad is the 17th. And if you want to get deeper into the family I have 2 more Uncles and a cousin as well with birthdays in August :) When you are pregnant, the highlight of birthdays is FOOD!! So we have been eating out and cake like it's nobody's business!!! This is one of the reasons I've been slacking on blogging;(

Mr.E's birthday was nice. He had to work, so we just headed to Outback for dinner. He got some fish stuff for his tank and Little Lion bought him a Bubble Rocket (thanks Target 75% off sale) to play with him.

My birthday was nice. I woke up to breakfast made and roses. My big present was my new Canon S90 Camera which is all the better to blog with.

One of the main reasons, I've been slacking on blogging is that my lovely niece A was here all summer.


Sadly she left today to fly back to Wisconsin to live with her Mom and sister C who was here only for a short week earlier in the summer. So we celebrated her 13th birthday last night. We had dinner at Carrabbas.Then we headed to my parents house for presents and cake.



We are going to miss her terribly!! Especially Little Lion who has enjoyed her company all summer long!

Unfortunately, the blogging will be slacking for another week as we are going on vacation :) We are heading to the Florida Keys for the week. Don't worry I'll be bringing my new camera and sharing pics when we get home :)

I PINK PUFFY HEART Target!!!

Target has it's semi annual toy clearance sale every July and January. They are either getting rid of excess stock in order to get ready for Christmas or vise versa. I always stock up on toys for the holidays coming up and friends kids' birthdays. I try to buy at 75% off for the best deals, but will buy at 50% if it's a popular item. You can always tell when it's about to happen since you see a ton of toys going on clearance at 30% then to 50%. Here is what I got for 50% off.
I bought Little Lion 2 booster seats for when he turns 4 and a ball bouncer for when the baby comes to occupy him in the house along with a few other toys.
Original prices of the items...$168 Price paid...$84 Savings...$84 (duh:)

Well after stalking Target for a week, I hit the jackpot. That means you are there the day they mark down because if you aren't you don't get the good deals! Here is are the toys I bought for 75% off.
The most exciting items are the Little People Fairy House for $5, Fisher Price Tough Light Up Doodle Board for $3, a 3 headed dinosaur for $4, and few baby toys (Can't leave out Baby Girl for Christmas since she BETTER be here!)
Original prices of the items...$212 Price paid...$53 Savings...$159

And Baby Girl needs girl outfits since everything I have is boy. With 75% off, I couldn't go wrong.
I bought 4 full outfits plus onesies and other necessities. I even bought a boy outfit just in case :) Oh and 2 maternity shirts for me :)
Original prices of items...$176 Price paid...$44 Savings...$132

WOW!!! Such deals!! My overall price paid for FORTY-TWO items was $181. Saving $375!!!!! That averages out to $4.31 per item!!!!!! Did I mention I LOVE TARGET!!

Baby is a......

GIRL!!!!!! We think :) So my lovely daughter is stubborn like her Mama! We went for our ultrasound and she was NOT cooperating!!! She had her legs crossed and was not giving up the goods! I even did stomach rolls, jumped up and down, and nothing! Baby Girl did give a few glances where the tech didn't see any boy parts, but not enough for her liking. So the tech had me go to my dr appointment and then come back.

The second scan, Baby Girl, was a bit more cooperative ;) She did spread her legs a bit and the tech could see 3 lines, but not long enough to get a definite picture or a straight on shot. The tech, however, after looking at my expert u/s pictures (haha), said that she'd give 90% that the baby is a GIRL! And I'm going with it!!!!!!!!!!! A daughter on the way, such joy!! Here is a bad camera picture of the profile of baby girl.

We are going back on the 23rd for a verification check ;) Hopefully, she'll be cooperative and if not all pink for the baby boy!!! haha I'm super excited either way!

Summer Fun!

Mr. E is a big kid at heart! He thought since we don't have a pool and the weather has been scorching here that we needed to get a slip n slide! I'm personally not a fan, but he thought Little Lion would like it. I didn't since he's not a fan of water spraying on him. However, being the wonderful wife that I am ;) And Target clearance toy sale started TODAY!! 75%off!!!! I bought him a Slip N Slide.

Boy oh boy was I wrong!! LL loved the "Slippy Slide"! Here he is on his first slide.


Here are my TWO children on the slide :)

I can't forget about my third child :) SHE or he is making their official debut tomorrow via my big ultrasound! I'll keep you posted!! I'm sooooo excited!!!

Boy or Girl???????

Friday is my BIG ultrasound for this little one!!! I'm very excited to hear the news on the gender and of course to see a healthy baby! However, today we went for an impromptu ultrasound. Here is the infamous potty shot. You can see the 2 legs. Look in the middle...is my child going to be scarred that I'm posting this on the internet???:) I have a guess on the gender, but what do you think????
I think in my very expert ultrasound tech opinion :) ........3 lines and no protrusions is a GIRL :) We shall see on Friday for sure!

Gone Fishin'

Now that we are proud owners of a boat, Mr.E feels the need to become a fisherman ;) Which means that Little Lion will be his sidekick! However, they have to practice first. Mr.E's parents live on a lake. So LL and Mr.E have been going over there to fish from the dock. Little Lion has his very own Superman fishing pole with red fish bobber on the end.He has gotten good at casting and reeling it in. Mr.E has also informed me that he has gotten good at peeing over the side of the dock....boys!!!!! (no that's not on the video;)
Mr.E fishes too. He actually caught a fish.....a BIG one! He was so proud of himself:)I am enjoying this new found hobby since it gives me some peace and quiet around the house;o)

My Child Is Gifted!!!

Yes really :) I'm not even saying that because I'm his Mom :) Little Lion didn't talk until he was 3! However, when he started talking, he went from 0 to 60 in 3 seconds! I think he was taking it all in until he had it down. LL has since become obsessed with letters, reading, and spelling. We don't force it on him. He enjoys it.

He started with asking what a word said when we were reading books at bedtime. Then Mr.E, being the proud Dad that he is, thought LL knew how to read when he recited Brown Bear,Brown Bear What Do You See to him. I informed him nicely that LL memorized the book :) But Mr.E said that he was into what he read and continued with the fun (learning). When LL would take a bath, Mr.E would use bath chalk to write words on the bathtub. We started with the important words, his name, mom, and dad. These were also discussed at school. Well LL wanted more and more words. The bathtub became covered with words. When we said the words, we spell it and say it to help with letter recognition. What happened because of it was that LL started reading and spelling these words!!! He's gotten good at spelling and amazes me daily with the words he spells to me!

Yesterday, we were out for a walk and we saw some ducks. LL started talking to the ducks and yelling "Duck, D-U-C-K, talk to me!" haha The biggest word that shocked me was when he spelled Challenger! As in the space shuttle that blew up. LL really likes to watch shuttle launches on Youtube and must have picked up that word! I certainly didn't teach him!!

I thought I needed to document that he can spell because when he is older and has kids, he'll never believe me ;) So here he is spelling for you. You'll have to turn the volume up all the way to hear him.

I love how he self corrects himself when he spelled our last name wrong ;) I had more words, but the video was too big to send to myself from my phone. His list of words he can spell and read are mom, dad, cat, dog, duck, fish, the, at, rat, hat, hot, bat, max, ruby, house, pop, one, two, shuttle, challenger, and a variety of family names. Of course he is 3 and will only spell for you when he is in the mood :) haha My genius or great memorizer!!