Mommyhood with no blueprint: September 2010

I did some shopping for "A" since she's hit a growth spurt & growing out of her clothes so quick :-( and heres a few things we got:

The Children's Place:
pleated plaid skort $12.50
full-length leggings 2 for $15.00
ruffle tee 2 for $15.00
butterfly graphic raglan tee $5.00 (not shown)
pintucked plaid top $14.50
cupcake knee socks $4.50
pointelle tights 2 for $12.00
rib-knit tights $2.99
button hat $3.59 (not shown)
Those where the prices marked but as i was checking out i noticed it was all 30% off when the cashier told me the price (score) plus i had a 15% coupon via email (double score)the price for it all was suppose to originally be about $85 BUT i only paid $44 and change for a weeks worth of clothes. Gotta love "THE CHILDRENS PLACE" ;)

Once upon a child.. "A" has shown obsession with Hello Kitty, so i decided to look around for some Hello Kitty gear... and too my luck "Once Upon A Child" was the spot. The prices for all 3 came out to under $20 and brand new with Macy's tag on them (score) :))

Lastly i got her Halloween costume early this year so i would'nt wait till it's so close to Halloween that I'm fighting a parent for the LAST costume at the store my kid wants. So this year she chose the Lady bug costume... and it is sooo cute on her LOL she's runs around saying "bugga bugga.. bugga bugga" LOL :o)

September is at its end and here comes October (where did the time go huh)?!?! Well i hope everyone enjoys there fall and has a safe and fun Halloween :o)

Peace and Love <3

Warning, this is an extremely long (and i mean LONG) post. It's probably gonna be one of those "unless you are family, you won't care" lengths LOL. With that said, if you have time.. I'd like to invite you to "a day in mines and A's life". This is one of those "day in the life posts" I've seen on a few blogs and thought it was a really cute idea to do, so i'll be doing these kinda posts maybe 4-5x a year b/c it takes forever just to make the post itself LOL. Anywho, the idea is to take a picture of everything you do from morning to night for the entirety of a day. Well... I obviously didn't take a picture of every little thing we did and had to cut a lot out for the sake of length LOL, anyways it covers most of our random day on Sept 25, 2010 :)

I wake up 9:50am, (i look a hot mess, i know lol)

...then took out the "poopies" for their morning walk...

10:30am made some breakfast: eggs, sausage, fruit & toast for me and yogurt, fruit and toast for "A" since i can NEVER get her to eat eggs or meat!

My morning necessity STARBUCKS COFFEE yummm :)

then around 1045am this is the sight i see when i went to get "A" out of bed! LOL (one eye open and all)..

then diaper duty....

then we brush our teeth....

and here she is eating her yogurt, fruit & toast breakfast "mmm mmm good"..

I decided i wanted to take her out to the children's museum so she can run crazy and enjoy herself and interact with some kids, so while she was finishing up her breakfast it gave me time to get ready, do my hair and put on some clothes... and after oh say, 45 minutes we were all dressed and ready to head out the door for the day....

...and there she goes making a run to the car LOL...

All ready to go.....

Finally made it at the museum.. first thing she wanted to play with the toy farm animals (thanks to me playing FARMVILLE) LOL..

i really tried to get her to leave so we can go on to the next area but that was a total FAIL, we ended up staying in this area for a good 45 minutes before i just picked her up and threw her over my shoulder and we left to the next area LOL....

"A" playing and socializing. This always makes me happy because she isn't in daycare so I do jump at every opportunity for "A" to play with other kids and interact...

...and playing some more in the "exploring water" area....

Watching her boat go.........

YAY.....

YES, they are REAL bees in there... she actually liked them :-/ they were gross to me YUK...

i think this was where the live alligator was... i didnt want to see it so we went on LOL....

LOL, this was so funny to me watching "A" try to drive in a toy car!! Here she is trying to figure out how to move the thing.......

...she does a full 180 and......

BAM!!! Right into another car! With a "OH NOOO" she said LOL...... Yep, drivers ed when shes older is going to be an interesting mission :-/

here she is making music on the xylophone.....

Here she is playing the "mechanic role" with one of the many boys tots that were there LOL...

fixing the tire on the model car.....

on a snake... She was a big hit on this thing b/c everytime people were walking by she would do the "snake" and hiss like one... LOL, the people loved her....

"let me draw mommy a picture"

"nah, i'll just play with blocks instead"

and she loooved running around :)

i took a quick pic of myself while we were walking to the next area :)

"A" exploring the female body exhibit

"A" touching the dinosaur fossel

Heres some of the dinosaur exhibits..

"A" enjoyed those exhibits

Finally to end our day at the museum, i decided to take her in the gift shop so she can pick out two souvenir's. Here she is Checking out her options to buy...

"check out these cool stuffies" "hmmm maybe i want the bee"

"Naw i want the purple dinosaur" and she gave that thing a hug when she picked it out LOL

"purple dinosaur check, maybe i should get this cool snake and hiss at everyone with it" "YEP, i want it"

"A's" purchases, the infamous "purple dinasour" and the snake! This ended our trip to the museum. We got in the car and she fell out not even a minute after driving back home.