High Five

Yesterday we went for a play date at our FRG leaders house so that Zilla could play and I could talk to someone over the age of 3. We had a super fun time and really enjoyed ourselves. The high light (for me - boy am I easy to please) was at the end when we were getting ready to leave. While I unlocked the car our hostess picked up Zilla to say goodbye -more likely because he was in her flowerbed playing with mulch- but anyway when she said bye she put up her hand for a high five. Well the second before I took pity on her and explained that he just didn't 'do' high fives what does that little turkey do? He put up his hand and said "five" then tentatively touched her hand with it!!! I must have had my mouth hanging to the floor I was that surprised. Leave it to your kid to make you look like a fool in front of people you just met...lol.

So last night I tried my luck and asked for a high five and he did it again! Actually I get a High Ten (both hands - is that still a high five? hmm) and this morning when I told DZ since he worked a double yesterday (and today - the Army is a slave driver!) and when he asked Zilla for one Zilla came running from the living room with a HUGE megawatt smile saying "FIVE!!" and gave him one! It was so cute so the law of children says duh I didn't have my camera! LOL Oh we are SO proud of him!

Slaving over the stove ALL day

That's what I did today. I have been baking for the majority of the day. So one would think that my house should be filled with the intoxicating aroma of cookies, pies,or breads right?

Yeah well you'd be WRONG cause I haven't been baking yummy baked goods - even though those sound really good right now - I have been baking sand. Yep I said sand. Monday morning we had a crazy amount of rain I mean it was like a monsoon outside. Anyway I looked out the window to see that someone, not me, left the sandbox lid off Sunday night and when I ran out there to cover it there was already about 3-4 inches of water sitting in it. So it still had water in it today and the only way besides sitting it in the sun for like a year to dry it was to bake it dry. I'm almost done doing that and we will be much more diligent in making sure the lid is on from this point forward.

Disaster

That's what Zilla leaves in his wake.
This is his Thomas ornament -the SECOND one-


This was Zilla after he decided to try and mess with DZ's old exhaust from his truck that he just replaced:


And this lovely mess was his attempt at bringing the beach indoors - notice how his trains are having a grand old time! What did my Dyson do to deserve this?

Easter Pictures!!

Okay as promised here are the fab Easter pictures:
These are from the Easter BBQ we had with a couple other families - Zilla had a great time splashing in the water even thought it was FREEZING - those kids are nuts.


Easter Morning with his basket:

Easter Was Good

We had an excellent Easter day together as a family. We gave Zilla his basket this morning and he just loved everything in it - a Cars Notebook, socks and magnets as well as some marshmallows (his fav snack), some peeps and an Easter Coloring book. He devoured the peeps and I stashed the marshmallows for later. After all that we had breakfast and then played outside for a while. After nap we blew up the pool and played some more outside. I helped DZ with the shed we are putting up out back and before we knew it dinner time came rolling around. We had ham, yams, green beans and corn pudding. Zilla ate none of that -cause he's picky like that- and bam it was bed time. We read him his normal books along with the Bible story of Jesus Rising and he also heard the Veggie Tales book Easter Carol. I have pictures that I will gladly post tomorrow but well I'm just too darn tired tonight. Hope your day was filled with many blessings and lots of family fun!!

I also have some pictures of an Easter picnic that we went to on Sat that I will post tomorrow as well!!

HAPPY EASTER

May the Lord bring you many Blessings this coming year! I Pray that you all have a wonderful weekend filled with family fun and lots of love!!

Who Would Have Thought...

That going to bed would be so painful. I just put Zilla down to sleep and the poor kid managed to bang the back and front of his head! We read to him three books every night but since he is unable to sit still for even a minute he moves around. Well tonight while I was reading he decided to sit on his toy box but it's not made for that and he sat back too far and fell inside hitting the back of his head in the process! After the crying (even though he really didn't hit it hard he was just soaking up the love LOL) stopped he began to whine cause I turned on his cd player aka the sign that its prayers then bedtime and he managed to trip (on nothing) and smack his forehead on the bed. Once again he didn't really hurt himself but I swear the kid is so uncoordinated sometimes LOL. I did finally manage to get him laid down - on the floor since he is now opposed to sleeping on his super duper cool train bed - and he's drifting off as I type.

An actor waiting to happen

Zilla has discovered that when someone sneezes DZ and I will say "God Bless You" - every time. SO....with that new found knowledge and his craving for attention he has been going "achoo" ALL day with a huge smile on his face! He does it over and over and over and over. Well it's gotten old but we can't exactly not say it because I don't to teach him that you don't have to say it when someone sneezes so we are left indulging our future actor. Fun really!

New Awesome Book!!

Back in 2007 I was forwarded an e-mail with an eBay listing in it from my mom. It was FUNNY AS HECK I mean seriously it had me cracking up! It was a listing for Pokemon Cards and You can read it HERE It was put up by Dawn Meehan who is a mom of 6 -yes I said 6- kids. That eBay listing literally went around the world and has catapulted Dawn into a whole new realm. She blogs but she has also just released her first book entitled Because I Said So.

Because I Said So is totally funny! It was just released last week I think but I got it from Amazon and read it right when it came in. It's very funny and gives you a glimpse (cause lets face it we are all curious how crazy it is with 6 kids right?) into her wild and crazy life. It really hits home that you can get through anything as long as you keep your sense of humor about it! It was great so: Buy it HERE

Thrift Store Finds!

**Hmm this should have posted last night but it saved it as a draft instead - oh well here it is!
Zilla and I had been couped up in the house for WAY to long due to the monsoon we've been experiencing here in Alabama. So it was finally a decent day so we decided to venture out for the day. Since there is little to nothing to do here I decided we'd visit the local thrift stores - I love finding me some bargains! First we went on post to their thrift store and I found a dress to wear when we visit my in-laws this month and some awesome rubber Lightning McQueen shoes for Zilla they are a little big but he loves them and they were only $1!!! Then we headed to Goodwill in the next town over. That goodwill was a bust it pretty much only had clothes but Zilla liked going up and down the stairs - he actually listened to me and didn't try to go up them on his own he waited for me <~~~~~ progress!!! Then we had lunch and I decided to stop by a Ministries Thrift Store here in town. They had lots of stuff and I found a backpack to take on our Vacation (only $1!) and Zilla found a toy to. I probably wouldn't have gotten it but the lady said it was only $0.10 and he seemed to love it! I did tell him on the way out that we would just hide it from Daddy which totally cracked the clerk up! LOL here it is - he really does love it too he drives his cars/trains through the gates!

Keeping the Boy Busy

Zilla LOVES bounce houses so last week I saw one being advertised for sale on our local craigslist for $30. It wasn't huge or anything but big enough for Zilla and maybe another toddler. I went ahead and got it for him and boy does he love it! I'm thinking that I could probably blow it up in the dining room if I really wanted to which might be a good thing if all this stupid Alabama weather keeps up! He was so funny cause after a while he decided that he wanted a pillow in there to. He went inside and drug out a pillow and tried to get inside but he couldn't get it in. He's pretty focused when he decides he wants something so after trying for a little bit he thought and then decided to go around to the side and try his best to throw that pillow up and over the side! It was SOOOOO darn funny to watch - I kept thinking what a smart kid but since he didn't have the strength to heave it over I helped him out. Then he could jump and rest when needed LMAO!!


More mess for me to clean up! I swear all boxes of powder need to be kept locked up - one would think I'd have learned by now but alas I haven't! Here is the latest mess:


Okay I'm not sure if I mentioned on here or not but back around Christmas that Zilla got a cool remote controlled Thomas the Train. Well he for reasons unknown to anyone but him is scared out of his mind by this toy - you'd think it was the Thomas version of Chucky. Well I took it from the cabinet it's been banished to (if I were to even open that cabinet he would run screaming!) and just set it on the floor. Well much to our surprise he adopted it as his new fav toy! He's carried it around and even likes to have it "tucked in" at bedtime. Now I was so happy that he loved it that I (stupidly) thought it was time to turn it on and use the remote - not a good idea. He threw the train down and ran screaming "NOOOOOOOOO" - he wouldn't go near it for several hours! So he likes it just turned off and the remote (alone) will send him crying! So weird. Here he is playing with JUST the train!

The Beach

Since Zilla has such a fascination with the sand aka the beach in our yard I decided to go ahead and get some sand for his sand box. I put it in there and he had a ball!! He was digging and burying every day! He can take the lid off by himself (and he does) and he just goes to town. I showed him how to make a sand castle with one f his castle molds and he just loves that! He will build it (or have me do it) and then he will take his time destroying it! Here are some pictures!

Earth Hour

okay folks tomorrow (Sat March 28th) is the scheduled Earth Hour! Ever year there are homes, businesses, famous landmarks and towns that go dark for one hour to conserve energy and show that it is indeed an important cause that deserves awareness. This year the Las Vegas Strip sign will even be turned off for the first time ever! The Golden Arches in Canada will also be participating as well as the Empire State Building, the Eiffel Tower, the St Louis Arch and a bunch of US and over seas cities.

We in the Zilla household will be going "dark" for the hour, as we did last year, and I certainly hope that you all can as well! So from 8:30pm to 9:30pm (your local time) please just shut everything off and enjoy the quiet, play a game, take a candle lit bath, read a book, watch the stars or whatever you want but it's only 60 minutes you'll figure something out!

My face is numb

I had a dentist appt this morning - YAY I was jumping for joy at sending yet another dentists grand kids to college!! Today was just a couple fillings so that's not too bad or to expensive so I wasn't worried. Well I should have been - turns out that my teeth/face didn't really feel like getting numb today. They numbed up my mouth with their normal dose and let me sit for a while - my earlobe was numb but apparently my teeth said suck it! He started in with his drill and BAM that hurt so he put in some more (Can someone tell me why the heck are those needles SO big? Seriously they can't possible stick them in all that far so why do they need to be like 2 feet long? To scare us?) in that tooth and started on my other tooth - well that tooth decided to hurt out of solidarity with it's tooth brother (sister? probably a girl since it was being wussy LOL) and BAM. That dentist had to give me a CRAP LOAD of numbing stuff! I mean seriously people my earlobe and friggin eye lid were numb for hours! The appt was at 10am and it's now 5pm and my cheek and lip are still numb!!!

I can tell you that you don't ever want your eyelid to go numb - that's a very weird feeling! They were very nice about it and apologized several times for having to use that much - not that i would have had them use one less drop I mean I sure don't want to feel it! Yuck I just hate eating and drinking with a numb face - its just so awkward feeling.

What we've been up to

Here are some pictures of whats been going on around here the last week or so.

Here is my very own Linus - he drug MY blanket from my bedroom outside and was "helping" it down the slide - I mean DUH anyone could tell that the blanket was just dying to have a little fun! LOL

He loves him some coffee - your not the only one Adam! - he tells me "mommy coffee good, it's yummy" - he sneaks off with cups and has now gotten to where he will just ask me for a sip when I'm drinking mine! Thank goodness DZ is tall so that the coffee won't hurt him to badly in the height department!


Those are Zilla helping out DZ with his bike. DZ got some forward controls (I think that means it makes the foot controls in a position that's easier for his longer legs) for his Harley and Zilla wanted to 'help' him. Zilla was picking up wrenches and other tools and actually trying to help! It was soo darn cute!

Zilla in his pool. Does that look 7' long to you? It says it should be over 7' long on the box but I'm thinking that they must be measuring with a broken yardstick or something. It also has slowly deflated both times we used it - that thing takes FOREVER to blow back up! The first time I blew it up myself with no pump - i won't be doing that again and boy was I pissed(and dizzy) when it deflated! He had a blast though and likes to go "wimmin" in the pool!


This is a grape we got in the last bag we bought - looks kinda like a pumpkin to me! LOL It was just weird and I thought I'd share - since I'm nice like that!

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Happy Birthday

Happy Freaking Birthday to me!

Thought I'd add a few pics of me I found while looking around in my pictures.

They day I came home!

My 1st B-day party! Look at all that non-hair! Gosh it took me forever to get hair - My mom actually had to put a cotton ball in that barrette (and make me cry) in order to get it to stay!

I was probably around 18 months or so in this since I do have a little hair. Already starting my chatting - I've always been a talker LOL!!!

Good Amazon Deal!

I don't normally yak about deals or anything on here (mainly cause I usually miss out on them but thats neither here nor there) but I just saw this on Amazon. Those are some great deals on DVD's including: Thomas, Barney, Fraggle Rock, Bob the Builder and Pingu!! Zilla loves him some Thomas and if we hadn't cleaned up on a similar deal before Christmas we would be stocking up now - some of them even come with one or two trains!! With the Free super saving shipping it can't be beat! Happy shopping!

Picture Extravaganza

Sorry I've been MIA ~ I know that I've been neglecting the blog (and hence you all) and I'm sorry. This past week has just been rough and then after DZ came home he got sick with some tummy bug and here we are. Anyway I will do my best to come and grace the internet with my presence more often! LOL

Here are some pictures and whatnot from our trip to Orlando:
Here are some pics of Zilla at the Wing Fest we went to, him feeding the ducks at Grandpas house and him running around in my Mawmaws yard

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Here we have Zilla playing hide and seek with Nanna in the front yard - they ran around my SUV for a long time trying to catch each other!, he found a beach right in the middle of Orlando to LOL, and his lovely dirt facial hair!

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Here are some other pics as well:
Zilla fell in love with this creepy thing! Nanna has always enjoyed collecting what I would call odd things and this creepy french maid that held a serving tray was certainly one of them. Well Zilla saw her in the yard sale pile (YAY!!) and kept kissing her!
At the wing fest thing there were all kinds of booths set up with companies giving away stuff - well Gieco was giving away fans and Zilla just fell in love with his gecko fan!
We won't be attempting to use the pack n play any longer on trips because as you can see Zilla can get out of it! He decided to climb out and instead of getting yelled at for coming into the living room he drug the pillow into the hallway and just went to sleep right there! He was soooo cute laying there!

Those were pretty much all the pics from our trip. Hope you enjoyed them!

Who knew McDonalds could be so fun?

Tonight I decided to go to McDonald's with a friend and her teenagers for dinner. Our podunk McD's doesn't have a play area and Zilla was kinda wound up so I figured he'd be a turd. Boy was I wrong! He found himself a friend (a little boy almost his age) to run around with! They run up and down the little site we were on playing tag and hide & go seek! The little boy was also bumping tummies with Zilla - they were playing so darn cute with each other! Zilla kept saying "1,2,3 Ready Set Go!!" and then they would run LOL!

The only dark spot on the experience was that I learned that the little boy (who is a few months younger than Zilla) is doing "pretty" good on the potty training. Grrr why can't Zilla even be interested? He hasn't even attempted it once let alone enough to call it "good" Blah. I'm not rushing him (which is good cause he could care less) but it would be super great if he'd get with it already! I'm considering talking to DZ about maybe putting him in a preschool thing on post for a couple half days a week. I will have to look at the cost but I think he would really enjoy the interaction and maybe seeing the other kids going potty will help peer pressure him into at least trying it LOL!!

We are HOME!!!!

Yeah I'm so glad to be home! Don't get me wrong I totally enjoy seeing my family and Zilla super enjoys time with his grandparents and other relatives but traveling is such a PITA. We now have a 6 1/2 hour drive whereas before it was about 4 - amazing what that extra 2 1/2 hours does to a trip! Zilla was pretty good going down and coming back up so that was helpful even though I did have to change his DVD about 5 times coming back cause he kept wanting to watch different things! It's not exactly easy to pick out a new dvd, change it and make it play all while driving but he didn't seem to factor that into his desires! The trip felt much shorter coming back because I listened to a book on tape that my Aunt gave me - I TOTALLY recommend listening to a book for a long drive it made the time fly by! It also helped coming back because I took a different route that only took me on a couple roads through bigger towns as opposed to going down there it took me on about 12 different roads and through about a million teeny tiny towns! Still stumps me though how I got better cell reception on the way down then the way back..hmm.

I went down to see family because I haven't seen them since well before Christmas but I also went to help my mom out. She is sorta a pack rat (this is a known fact Nanna so don't get mad) and I wanted to help her sort through some things while I was there. I did manage to rearrange her closet, went through an enormous amount of books, tapes and DVDs, and load my car down with WAY TO MUCH STUFF for me to take home! I swear every time we leave Orlando my SUV is packed with all kinds of cool stuff that Nanna has picked up for Zilla, myself and DZ! I called an end to that she is now on a buying strike for the boy - he has just too much stuff! So now that I'm home I have to go through our current stuff and get rid of things to accommodate our new stuff! I'm so anti-collector it's not even funny I don't like to have kick knacks and things just sitting around. Not that you could tell that right this minute by what my living room looks like - lucky for me you all can't see it LOL!!

We had an excellent time hanging around with everyone for the week. Zilla totally dug running around in my Mawmaw's back yard and I got to see my cousins little boy - he is such a chunk of cuteness it's not even funny! Zilla also had fun trying to destroy all of Nanna's breakables - she likes to collect breakable non kid friendly stuff so we always have to watch Zilla closely! We also went to a "Wing Fest" sponsored by a radio station and had tons of fun there! They had a band, booths giving stuff out and a bounce house/fun area for the kids as well as a train that would take the kids for rides. Zilla loved the train ride (totally not free and not long enough for the price) and was not to happy when we had to get off! I will post some pictures later on today after I've uploaded them. Overall we had an excellent time!!