Mommin' It Up!

June 8, 2009

It’s Like the Xanax of Cupcakes

This weekend the kids and Bobby and I (along with Emily & her kids and lots of other cool bloggy peeps) had the privilege of attending a birthday party for Amy’s daughter, P. The party was held at Pump It Up, one of those “bouncy places” as Joshua calls them, and let me just say a GREAT time was had by all! After an hour or so of bouncing, we went into a room where the (very awesome) Pump It Up staff served the children chips, juice boxes, and cupcakes. Glorious, glorious cupcakes. Cupcakes that not only looked and tasted delicious, but also seemed to have a mysterious tranquilizing quality. After just one bite, all the crazy kiddos seemed to instantly calm down. Witness:

Shannan’s three-year-old, Brady:

Erin’s little guy:

And finally, my little Sophie, who was completely transformed into a Zen-like state:

Maybe it was the hour of furiously bouncing, climbing, and sliding that that made the kids so docile, but after a taste of that icing, I’m thinking someone slipped a little somethin’-somethin’ into the cupcakes.

And yo, I could really use that recipe!

June 5, 2009June 4, 2009

I Get So Emotional, Baby

You are welcome, enjoy having that song in your head for the rest of the day!

But seriously. I’ve always been a cry baby, which is why I ascribe to putting a daily coat of waterproof mascara on top of my regular mascara. Because sadly, you never know when I am just gonna burst into tears.

As you may imagine, over the past few months with hormones and trying to get medication figured out, my tendency to weep at the drop of the hat has been a *little* exacerbated. Like, the other night, at the Yanni Voices concert, for some odd reason I started thinking about when Joshua and Kate were infants, and a couple of times I babysat Kate soon after Em went back to work. Having two infants that were 8 weeks apart all day was a little nuts but I really LOVED spending that time with both of them. I remembered when Joshua was napping how I’d enjoyed getting to know Baby Kate, laying her on my tummy and cooing at her. And in that moment, in an arena with thousands of people, with some Venezuelan guy in tight, shiny pants singing his heart out, I got a little teary. About spending time with my baby cousin. FIVE YEARS AGO.

Just about anything will make me tear up these days – someone being kind, someone being mean, a book, a song, a prayer and geez I can hardly read all the great blog posts that some people are writing these days for fear of DROWNING myself. And I do not watch television commercials. That’s like walking through an emotional mine field for crying out loud!

So anyways, I’m still an emotional basket case, but in a much less crazy way than I was {pauses to blow nose and wipe away a tear}. But tell me I’m not alone. What sends your tear ducts into a tizzy?

June 3, 2009

Yanni Voices Gone Wild!

Last night, Emily and I got to go see the Yanni Voices concert at the Nutter Center thanks to One2OneNetwork. As an added bonus, we also got to go with lots of other cool bloggers, including Andrea, Amy, Erin, Casey, and Emily (DesignHERMomma, not to be confused with the Emily of this here blog.) Some of the girls were even brave enough to bring their spouses. Here’s our group (don’t Amy’s and Andrea’s hubbies look thrilled?):

I can honestly say that despite seeing a couple of the Yanni Voices dudes at BlissDom, I had no idea what to expect from this show. And truly, I was wowed by the musical talent, of the vocalists as well as the musicians. My favorite part was a duel between a violin and a viola. That’s right, I said a duel, not a duet. It was pretty cool!

There was also a part where Chloe and Leslie, the females of Yanni Voices, were doing some pretty crazy stuff on a piano. Since it didn’t seem to actually involve any musical talent, Emily and I were thinking about trying out for those parts next time Yanni Voices holds auditions.

*ahem* Moving on.

After the show, we got to meet & greet with the “Voices”! But to get to them, we had to take an elevator down one floor. With all those people in the elevator, I was having flashbacks to THE Elevator, especially when two of the #Elevator13 were with me this time as well! Erin decided it would be fun to take a picture of me on the verge of my panic attack:

I was sooo happy to get out of that elevator!!

But anyhoo, the Yanni cast were so friendly. I wanted to get my picture taken with Ender, because we have the same haircut, but darnit, I never got to. So here he is with his #1 fan, Casey.

And here’s Emily and I with the girls of Yanni Voices, Chloe and Leslie. I advised them before we took this photo that they might want to suck their guts in a little bit so they didn’t look fat next to the hawtness that is me & Em:

And here’s Emily, Amy, me, Andrea and Erin with Nathan – such a nice and talented guy!

All in all we had a GREAT night! Such fun people to hang with and such a great show to watch!

Thanks to Erin for all the great pictures, I can’t seem to find the cord to my camera, but if and when I do, I’ll post some of my own!