Rainforest Cafe

Tonight for dinner we took Taylor to the Rainforest Cafe. I figured Taylor would love it and I think she did. There were only a few times that she was scared - mostly when the animals would all start moving and making noise. She really liked the butterfly and the leopard. She loved the elephants from a distance.

Yes, Taylor is sporting a monkey backpack with a tail/leash. She loves it and so do we. She loves to hold the tail/leash with us. She is going through an independent phase and this way, she has some space and we still have control of her. It works great. I always hated seeing those kids on the leashes (usually the handcuff type) when I was younger - I though the parents were so mean to do that to their kids. Now I understand. Taylor likes it, so I don't mind using it. We only use it every once in a while. Taylor likes to carry the monkey around the house and then drag him by the leash. Too cute.

My Farewell to Starbucks .........sort of

Almost every morning that I go into the office (twice a week), I stop at Starbucks and get a Grande Skinny Vanilla Latte. The last few times I have stopped to get my coffee (at 2 different locations), they have messed up my order. I'll just tell you about the last 2 times: The first time I got a tall instead of a grande - which isn't too big of a deal, but how much you have to pay for coffee, you should get what you paid for, so I sent it back to get my bigger coffee. The lady was super nice about it, etc.. Well, this morning I stopped and got my usual coffee at a drive through and didn't drink it till I got to the office. All I know is that it isn't a vanilla latte. Whatever it is, it taste like dirt. The sad part is, I paid $5.00 for this coffee, so I am going to drink it. Plus my office is freezing cold and I need something to warm me up.

I have been trying to break my habit of going to Starbucks every morning I go into the office, so I think it is time to stop going. There are several reasons I want to stop going - mainly because it eats away at my allowance. Yes, that's right, I have an allowance. Which I actually love having because Nathan doesn't question anything I buy with my allowance because I can do whatever I want with it. Okay, sorry, getting off topic here. Anyways, it is getting warmer outside too, so I won't need my hot coffee anymore - except to stay warm in the office, but I can heat up some green tea for that I guess.

Anyways, I think this is as good a time as any to break my habit of Starbucks. And I'm not saying I'll never go there again, I'm just saying I won't be going twice a week for my breakfast coffee. We'll see how long I can hold out!

Screaming, crying, and a little snake

Yep, that's right, I said snake! I was working in my office this morning when I stood up to go into the living when I saw a baby garden snake slithering near my office window. I kind of freaked and grabbed Taylor up immediately. I called Nathan all frantic and insisted he come home and save us from this little snake. The snake was itty bitty (about 8 inches long and super skinny), but a snake is a snake! I put a bowl over the snake to keep him in place till Nathan got home.

Nathan came home immediately and took him outside. While Nathan was trying to get him outside in the bowl, he peaked his little head out and I started screaming and freaking out. Well, me freaking out upset Taylor and she started crying and screaming. What a mess we are! Nathan just laughed at us.

Attack of the crawfish

After we went to the hospital last night to meet Baby Remington, we had dinner with some other friends at Nate's which is a seafood restaurant. Our waiter brought us a bowl of boiled crawfish (yum!) to try since it was our first time there. Everyone had one and when I took one, Taylor seemed interested in it, so I showed it to her. At first she seemed okay, but the closer I put the crawfish to her, the more she freaked out. It was so sad. Nathan and I even both kissed the crawfish (the things you do for your child) to show her that it wouldn't hurt her, but she was having no part of it. She almost completely climbed out of her high chair at one point. We finally had to put the crawfish under a bowl so she couldn't see him anymore.

Baby Remington Jade Stone

We went to go see our friends sweet, sweet, precious little brand new baby girl last night. Oh yall, she is beautiful! Rhett and Lacey are the proud parents of little baby Remington. Rhett and Lacey didn't find out the sex of the baby, so we were delighted to hear it was a girl thursday when she arrived! We were rooting for a girl. She was so little and adorable and I got to hold her for the longest time. I got to rock her to sleep and I just didn't want to give her back. Taylor wasn't to keen on me holding the baby and not holding her. She did okay though.

not much to say lately

I feel like I haven't really blogged in a while, but there hasn't been much going on lately to blog about. The other day I was going to blog and just sat there starring at the screen trying to think of something to write about. Nothing good came to mind, so I nixed that blogging session and did some online shopping. Just to let you know, my on-line shopping consists of me putting everything I want in my little cyber "shopping bag" and then never actually checking out. Some times it is just a good stress reliever. I can "buy" whatever I want and never have to pay for it (but I also never actually get anything either).

We did have some friends over last night for dinner and had a blast. It was so nice to have a relaxing meal with friends while the kids played. Chloe and Taylor did great playing in the playroom while we all finished dinner in the dining room. Chloe is 9 months older than Taylor, but it seems like they are years apart. Taylor seems so young compared to Chloe right now, but they will actually be in the same grade when they start 1st grade. I love watching Chloe and thinking, that is what Taylor will be doing in 9 months.

Tonight we are going to go see precious little Remington Jade Stone who was born Thursday morning at 1:30am. Poor Lacey (the mom) was a week and a half over her due date and Remington still didn't want to come out. She was apparently fond of her nice warm home inside Lacey. I can't wait to go see her tonight and welcome her to the world! Don't you just love babies!! Every time I see a baby lately, it gives me baby fever, but not Nathan. He wants to wait to have number 2 till Taylor is at least 3 years old. I can live with that, but is sure is hard to see all these precious little babies lately. It's not like I want to have another baby because I enjoyed being pregnant or anything. No sir, I really didn't like being pregnant most of the time. I was in pain, the size of a house and an emotional basket case! Who would think that was fun? It was all worth it though for the awesome little Taylor we know and love. I would do it all again in a heart beat. I really can't understand how some ladies have 15 babies. You would be pregnant for like 2 decades straight. No thank you!

Alright, I have rambled on enough so I guess I will get back to work.

All better!!

I'm guessing that yall are tired of reading about how sick we are and how hard it is to take care of sick people, blah, blah, blah. Well, I was getting tired of being sick. As of today, we are all better and super happy to be well. Taylor gets to go to school tomorrow and that makes both of us happy!

Valentines Day 2009

Well, this wasn't your typical Valentines Day for the Theaux household. Usually Nathan brings home flowers on Valentine's Day, we go out for a romantic dinner, etc..; but this year, we laid around on the couch all day watching movies and eating wheat thins. Nathan is feeling better, but Taylor is still a little sick and I didn't feel good, so we didn't do anything all weekend. Nathan did bring home a Stargazer Lily plant (my favorite) friday for me and a stuffed animal for Taylor for Valentines Day. It was very sweet. Luckily I had bought him a box of chocolates earlier in the week before I had gotten sick or he would of gotten nothing. We had said no presents because we had wanted to go out for Valentines Day. Anyways, it was a relaxing weekend, but even being sick I was getting stir crazy from laying around all weekend. Nathan was itching to get out of the house yesterday and I know Taylor would of loved to get out of the house too. Since Nathan is off today, he is at home with Taylor and said they were going to go to the park this afternoon so she could run around.

Taylor opening her Valentines from her KDO class.

My plant and Taylor's little bear.

I just knew it was going to happen

Yep, I knew it! I woke up with the flu yesterday. I had a hard time sleeping because my whole body was aching the night before and then when I got up to get Taylor, it hit me like a ton of bricks. Luckily I had already gotten the flu medicine as a preventative, so I think that helped a little bit, because I was able to actually get out of bed. Nathan had been in bed all week until yesterday afternoon. He finally started feeling well enough to come out of our room. Taylor broke her fever during her nap and seems to be doing much better as well. Me on the other hand, am hurting pretty bad. My whole body aches, I have a splitting head ache and I my throat is killing me from this horrible cough I have.

Got to love it - Nathan felt well enough to go to work today, so I am at home sick and taking care of Taylor since she can't go to the babysitter today. It's a good thing Taylor is low maintenance.

The Flu Type A Virus

Nathan has been in bed for two days straight and went to the doctor this morning to see what was wrong with him. He called from the doctor to tell me he has the flu and that we need to get Taylor checked out. I took Taylor to the doctor this morning and had her checked and sure enough, she has the same flu Nathan has. Luckily we caught it early, so they are both now on medication and should be okay in about 3-5 days. Our doctor put me on a preventative, to make sure I don't get it. I can't imagine all three of us with the flu at the same time. That would be a disaster.

Well, there go all of our Valentines activities. Taylor can't go to KDO tomorrow for the Valentines party, we can't go to our sunday school social friday night and we can't go out saturday on Valentines Day. So sad.

The writing is on the wall.......

When I pulled out Taylor's crayons today and let her color with them, I forgot one important rule to tell her - don't write on anything but paper. I left Taylor in her playroom coloring while I went to go check on Nathan (he was home sick today). After I checked on Nathan, I sat on the couch in the living room to check my work email. Taylor came walking in the living room holding a crayon in her hand and stopped and started coloring on the wall infront of me. I almost jumped out of my skin! At first I couldn't believe that she would do that right in front of me, but then I remembered that I had never told her that she can't color on the walls. To her, the walls are just a giant canvas to color on. Thank goodness for Majic Erasers! I stopped Taylor and then started to clean off the wall. When I took her back in to the play room to tell her to only color on paper, I noticed that she had colored on the closet door and the wall in the hallway. Luckily the majic eraser got all the crayon off the walls and door.

My little artist!

This is one of the areas where she colored on the wall. It is hard to see, but it is right in the middle of the picture.

Girls Weekend 2009

For the last few years, Dacia Lacey and I have gone to my parents condo on Lake Travis for a girls weekend. There are no husbands or babies allowed. We go down friday night, shop at the awesome outlets in Round Rock all day saturday and then drive home Sunday. And, the first year I was pregnant, last year Dacia was pregnant and this year Lacey is pregnant. Lacey actually didn't get to go with us this year because she is due tuesday - that is cutting it a little too close for comfort!


Since Lacey couldn't go, Dacia invited her neighbor Kim and I invited April. We decided to go down Thursday night and have an extra day for Girls weekend. It was a genius idea!! We left Thursday night, stopped in Waco for dinner at Georges and introduced Kim and April to the El Nino potato! To let all of you who don't know the El Nino potato - it is two baked potatoes pushed together, with a giant chicken fried steak, topped with gravy and grated cheese! It is heavenly! After our yummy goodness, we headed to the condo.


Friday, we shopped and shopped and shopped! We were exhausted from shopping, so we stopped for dinner and then headed to the condo for bed. Saturday we were in uncharted waters - we had never had a second day to play, so we didn't know what to do with ourselves. It was wonderful. We did some more shopping at regular stores, went to go see a movie - He's not that in to you (which isn't that great - it was okay), thought about getting massages and pedicures (but didn't do it) and ate at a Japanese Hibachi place. Once again we had worn ourselves out shopping and relaxing. Sunday morning we got up and headed home. We got back to Dallas around 1:30 and it was nice getting to see Nathan and Taylor.

I always get so excited to show Nathan what all I got on girls weekend, and to say the least, he isn't so excited. He looks and nods, but could care less. And that right there is why we do not take husbands with us. Nathan was trying to get me to take Taylor with us - he kept saying, "but she is a girl and it's a girls weekend right?". I just told him that you have to be at least 20 years old to go with us (I'm sure that will change in a few years when Taylor begs to go with us).

Another successful girls weekend has come and gone. I think next year we will schedule the massages and such before hand to make sure we can all get in at the same time. It was a wonderfully relaxing weekend and I can't wait till next year!

Killers concert

Last night, Nathan and I went to dinner and the Killers concert with Brandon and Kami. Taylor stayed home with a babysitter, maybe next year she can start going to concerts with us. Just kidding. I was surprised at how many children were there with their parents. Anyways, the concert was awesome! We had a blast! We decided that we are going to see them everytime they come to town now. That had to be one of the best concerts I've ever been to!

Nathan and me before the concert. Are you loving the giant turtle around my neck? It was my great Aunts and where else can I wear it besides a Killers concert!

Kami and Brandon

None of my pics came out very good - all you need to know is that it was awesome!

Vet visit

Beaux had to go to the vet yesterday to get some shots. Since our appointment was scheduled before Nathan was off work, I had to take Beaux and Taylor. We usually take Tait too, if both Nathan and I go, but there was no way I could do all three. Taylor did really good until they took Beaux out of the room to give him his shots - she started yelling, "Beaux Beaux" over and over again. I kept telling her that he was going to be right back. She didn't believe me until he came back into the room minutes later. Taylor loved trying to get Beaux to walk on the leash in the room, but he wasn't budging. Beaux hates going to the vet and hides behind me the whole time he is there. Poor little guy. Taylor had a great time playing under the examination table.

Super Bowl

For the Super Bowl game Sunday night, Brandon and Kami and Baylor (Bulldog) came over to watch the game with us. Taylor loves Brandon and Kami and of course Baylor. We were all routing for the Cardinals which made it fun that we were all going for the same team. We had our favorite foot food - queso with quacamole and hamburger meat and wings. Nathan had wanted to get a Chick-fil-a nugget platter, but we remembered that they aren't open on Sundays - bummer!

Reading a pregame story

Baylor playing with one of Taylor's blocks

Dinner during the game

Jump Zone birthday party

Saturday night we went to our sweet friend Karlie's 2nd birthday party at the Jump Zone in Southlake. Taylor loved all the big inflatable slides and mazes and playing with her friends. Nathan and I enjoyed the slides and seeing our friends as well. I was afraid Taylor was going to be too little to do anything, but man, she did everything and loved it!

All the kids enjoying pizza after playing

Happy 2nd Birthday Karlie!!