September 27th, 2011 by Busy Mommy

Couldn’t pass up this 99 cent fire truck hat at the thrifstore….I mean, it’s even a CHIEF hat. :)-  Oh yeah and daddy’s shirt finishes out the outfit of course.

September 27th, 2011 by Busy Mommy

See this little 3 year old brown eyed beauty?  Nolan spied her at the park this evening and just was all smiles staring at her.  Her name is Alejandra- how much more exotic can you get?

Then he asked me, “guls (girls)…..kiss hug?”

Mommy: “um….i guess so…”

He walked over to her and tried to reach through some playground bars that she was standing behind to hug her.  Then he toddled off to play and she kind of followed him.  They never talked, but appeared to be smitten.  And what’s not to like? She is totally adorable!  And she’s got natural highlights worth $300 in the salon (kids have it all!)….But the real point to our evening was dinner out at the park, with Daddy Lam as the chef.  Price? Free  Taste?  Superb- Ben makes THE BEST potatoes you could possibly imagine.

The temperature outside was perfect, the lighting was fantastic, and it just felt so fresh and smelled of clean grass.

September 19th, 2011 by Busy Mommy

About a month or so ago a friend asked me to babysit her 2 kiddos for a bit- I thought it might be a nice time to make a day of it and take all 3 kids to the Los Altos Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve- a short 1 mile “hike” in leads you to a cute little farm with animals and an open barn to eat lunch in.  We had just started our hike:when about a quarter mile into Nolan all of sudden threw up- it was this slow spilling up of thick…..okay I’ll stop there but I’ll just finish by saying I had no idea so much could come out of such a small person- anyway- it came out of nowhere- I didn’t know what was going on- the only time Nolan has ever thrown up was when he was about 1 month old.  We trudged in the heat back to the car to change his clothes and see how he was doing.He looked a little peaked and was a bit subdued but after I changed his clothes he seemed pretty perky so we decided to continue on.  I thought maybe something in the granola bar he’d just eaten hadn’t agreed with him or something.  We had a lovely time walking to the farm and took some fun pics along the way.

After this jaunt we started to head over to a sister’s house in Los Altos who has a saltwater pool.  Nolan threw up again while we were driving- again, went everywhere- his clothes, his carseat- uggggh.  We stopped the car and after I cleaned up Nolan I took him out of the car so I could clean the seat.  He started running around and acting totally normal.  I though maybe he’s getting car sick or something?  We continued on to the pool since his behavior was still peppy and normal. Finally we just had to finish the day with a stop at the ice creamery.  How can you not end a day like that with ice-cream?He threw up again that night and then I started thinking hmmmm….maybe he has the flu.  He did.  He threw up several more times in the ensuing week and he hardly ate anything during that time.  He lost a full pound and it was 10 days before he returned to normal.  After that it was like he became this voracious dinosaur eater- I could seem to feed him fast enough- every 5 minutes he was “hungry” and wanted a “snack”.