The Jim Rome Show

I'm not sure if many of you know, but I like to listen to a sports talk radio show called the Jim Rome Show. It's on Monday-Friday from 9-12. When I worked, I'd make sure I wouldn't have to make any phone calls for those 3 hours, would organize all my work so I could have my headphones on at 8:59am and would only get up from my desk to take care of things during a commercial break. It was the best part of my day and, sometimes, the only way I got through it. The show makes me just laugh out loud and I'd always have to explain myself to my co-workers why correcting mutual fund problems was so hilarious. Scott introduced me to the show and our relationship has gone to a new level since I started listening a year and a half ago. I do love sports and that's mainly what the show talks about but there's also this other side that includes ridiculous and off the wall news. Usually he has a funny or sarcastic take on everything and I absolutely love it. Well since I've been home, I haven't had the chance to listen as much and I've really been missing it. Last night Scott and I were up late just talking about all the funny things on the show and started listening to all these clips on youtube and I decided I had to just put this on my blog and share a little piece of Rome with the rest of you. If you listen, make sure you stick out the full 3:46 cause the end is the best. It's one of my many favorite takes on the show. I just want to thank Miss Teen South Carolina, or whoever she is, for being so ridiculous and Jim Rome for making it even more funny than it already was.

Mom's Little Joys

I think it's funny how a person this small that can hardly do anything but eat and sleep can always find a way to spice up my day. This may not be that entertaining to most people but, as his mama, pretty much everything Logan does entertains me. So today I put Logan down for a nap and later checked the monitor to make sure he had fallen asleep and I couldn't find his head. I went in to check on him and this is how I found him; passed out with his taggie pulled over his face. I guess the daylight was just too bright for him.

San Diego

It's a tradition in Scott's family to take a week of vacation in San Diego to escape the smoldering heat of Arizona during the hottest week of the year. Rumor was that it got up to 117 while we were gone. Anyway, there's a huge group that always goes and this year we had a record breaking 68 people there; cousins, 2nd cousins, siblings, parents, grandparents, and friends. I'm kicking myself for not getting a picture of everyone. It was my first time going for the full week so I'm a very new addition to the group. I learned all the rules and traditions of this self proclaimed "beach crew" such as the importance of beach position. A few people go out to stake claim on the prime spots no later than 8am every day and anyone who dares to jeopordize that will face the consequences. A certain woman in a small bikini learned that the hard way. 90 percent of the time was spent relaxing at the beach. There was also a lot of surfing, boogie boarding, digging, and burying. Due to an extremely unfortunate situation, of which I'm still getting over, my camera stopped working so I have very limited pictures and the ones I have are poor quality. Anyway, just imagine a bunch of people passed out on the beach. Logan fit in extremely well.

Grandma Bair and Logan are looking too cool in their shades.

One night Matt engineered an amazing bonfire to roast marshmallows and make s'mores. Yummy! Surprisingly no child fell in. Notice how many people are wrapped up in jackets and blankets. Now that's how it's supposed to be at night...cooler than 100 degrees.

We went to this burger joint called Hodads which is defined as "a nonsurfer who spends time at beaches masquerading as a surfer." We may have had some hodads in our group. Anyways, the place was awesome and I literally had the best burger I've ever eaten in my life. Thank you Chad for introducing me to a little piece of heaven.

I believe Matt had that camera glued to his hand most of the trip.

Grace was being a good big cousin and she can't wait to start bossing the new little cousins around.

There's a key element in this picture I would like to point out. That royal blue fleece fabric is not that of a blanket. No sir. It's much more. That is a snuggie. As most do when referring to the "blanket that has sleeves," all the family joked about bringing the snuggie to the beach. Well Chad really did and it was a hot commodity. People on the boardwalk could not stop staring and though it was a running joke, it actually became quite practical when we got chilly and needed to use our hands. Please see the following video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xF0oUwJe6s&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpobstfamily%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F&feature=player_embedded

In addition to beach bumming it, we had such a good time just sitting around and chatting, eating, playing celebrity challenge, and watching Joel do impressions. It was so nice waking up and falling asleep to the sound and smell of the ocean...not including the sound and smell of Logan. Anyway, we were so sad to come back to the fiery furnace of purgatory aka Phoenix. There's a reason people pay millions for a little place on the beach in So Cal.

Here's some pictures of our little guy that I just thought were cute.

3 months

Logan has really grown in the past month or so. He's now 3 and a half months and weighs 15 lbs. and is 23 and a half in. long. I seriously can't believe how big he's getting and how much he changes...each day it seems. I know I'm jinxing myself but he really is such a good baby. Now that he sleeps all night, takes his reflux medicine, and is finally following the schedule, he's a perfect angel. He's started to get a lot more coordinated and can grab onto things really well. Pretty much everything goes in his mouth. He has figured out how to use both hands to make it a lot easier on himself.

He looks right at people when they're talking whether they're talking to him or not. He loves lights and surprisingly he's not so mesmerized by ceiling fans as he once was. He's also very chatty. If he's not sleeping, he's doing his version of talking. He can't get through a meal without taking a break to talk and laugh about something. He also finds something about the windows very amusing. I haven't figured out if it's the curtains or what but out of nowhere he'll just look in the direction of the windows and start laughing. He is definitely a daddy's boy because the second he hears Scott's voice he just lights up. No one can get him to laugh as hard or smile as big as his dad can. It's like he's the funniest, most interesting person Logan has ever met. Scott just eats it up and Logan knows he has his daddy wrapped around his little finger.

He can also hold his head up sit up pretty well when he's propped up. I got out the bumbo and, though he seems a little small still, he sits in it pretty well.

Since the "Rollin" post, Logan has not rolled at all. When I put him on his belly, he kicks and lifts himself up but just can't figure it out. He gets frustrated and cranky after only a couple minutes and I have to roll him over. Despite his inability to roll, he's found another way to be on the move. Every time I get him from his crib, he has moved to the opposite end of the bed and has turned his boday at least 90 degrees around.

He loves taking baths now and thinks it's hilarious when I splash the water around.

Oh Happy Day

Last night I went to bed at 11pm and didn't wake up until 6am. Do you know what that means? Logan slept all night long! I was so excited I couldn't go back to sleep and all I wanted to do was wake Scott up right then and tell him the good news. I put Logan down at 10:30pm and got him up at 7am. As far as I know, he didn't cry once during that whole time. It was amazing. As many of you know I have been trying to do babywise and it's been a little difficult for us. It was very apparent Logan didn't read the book because he wasn't cooperating well or acting at all like the babies were supposed to act according to the book. He's bad at taking naps when he's supposed to and sleeping as long as he's supposed to. I was rereading parts in the book on Monday to find out what I was doing wrong since Logan was hitting 11 weeks on Wednesday and almost all babies on babywise supposedly sleep through the night between weeks 6 and 12. I found out that I'd been doing things all wrong. I was going by the "eat every three hours" rule but not by the "be on the same schedule every day" rule. So I was convinced I had ruined him and that we would never have a "secure, happy" baby like the book promised. Ironically, I was talking about it with Scott last night and he reminded me of the progress we had made and how completely over dramatic I was being. Needless to say, I was shocked. The day has been amazing ever since. Logan's been following the rules and taking his naps well. This is truly a day to celebrate.

So Crafty

I thought I would post a picture of my new dry erase board. I have been trying to pick up the hobby of being crafty but I don't really have the creativity for it. Luckily, I'm discovering there are lots of blogs and websites to take care of the creative part and then I just have to make it. I stole this idea from Make it and Love it. It was just an old picture frame I wasn't using and I just covered the cardboard with fabric and write on the glass with dry erase markers. I can handle crafts that are that easy. I'm looking for more cheap, cute ideas for decorating so if anyone knows any or knows of some good sites, let me know.

Two Weeks Notice

This morning I told my leader I was not coming back to work. It was really hard to do. Any other time I've quit a job, it's been because I was moving or was completely unhappy there. But I actually really liked the people I worked with and, on most days, also really liked my job. So, as great as not working sounds, it was a little bitter sweet. I've been working since I was 16 and full time since I graduated high school so being a "housewife" might be a bit of an adjustment. However I'm getting pretty used to this staying home thing since I've been on leave since mid April so I might already be past the adjustment phase. I'm really excited to officially start my now one and only full-time job of being a mom. With the exception of one, I've always had jobs I liked but I still felt very unfulfilled. It was like I was never being challenged enough or was never using any real talents. I was spending the majority of my day doing things that didn't really matter to me in the long run. Now I feel like I'm doing the most rewarding thing I can possibly do. I am actually molding someone's life and giving all my time and energy to someone I love. And though I don't have a clue what I'm doing, I'm finding talents I never knew I had. Though I'm cutting down big time on one of my favorite things to do...shopping, we won't be able to go out to eat as much as we used to, and we are getting rid of cable tv and our dvr (ouch!), it'll be so worth it. There's no greater thing you can possibly do in your life than be with your children to love and teach them. Thank you, Scott, for making this all possible.

Rollin

So yesterday I put Logan down for some "tummy time" and two minutes later he rolled onto his back. The look on his face was priceless. He seemed shocked like he had no idea what he'd just done or how he did it. I've been waiting for this moment for a couple weeks because he's been getting so close. I was excited to videotape it and show Scott when he got home but he hasn't done it since. We've been putting him on his tummy, coaxing him and cheering him on but it just doesn't happen. He pushes himself up, kicks, and leans on one side but just can't quite figure it out. He works on it really hard for a few minutes and then gets worn out and angry until we put him on his back. We'll see if there's more rolling to come anytime soon.

D-Backs Game

Scott won free tickets from work to the Diamondbacks game on Friday. We, of course, took Logan since he's such a baseball fan (according to Scott) and because we're too cheap to pay for a babysitter. Here he is all decked out before the game. I was a little worried about how Logan would act since we've never taken him to a sporting event before but he did pretty good. It was actually a pretty exciting game since the d-backs were winning for once and we had really good seats. I've never sat that close at a game before so it was pretty cool. It was a little difficult for Logan to get a nap in with all the cheering but he somehow found a way to sneak a couple short naps in. At times he wasn't a huge fan of all the noise so I took him for a walk around the stadium and he stole the show. I was ready to go back and just sit down because every person we walked by wanted to chat about Logan in his little shirt at his first game. He was a big hit. This will be the first of many games these two will attend together. Notice Scott, the real d-backs fan, is the only one without a team shirt. We're gonna have to do something about that.

The Nursery

Well I finally finished making the curtains and decorating Logan's room. It's nothing really exciting, especially according to these pictures, but here it is anyway.

This has nothing to do with this post but I found this picture that I took a few days ago and decided I needed to post it. They're just so cute together.