I am officially terrible at blogging. It is amazing what happens when life picks up. Every day, I have been feeling guilty about not writing. And now I would suspect that I don't have many readers left. But for those of you out there, here goes.
Dear Oscar and Judah,
You are officially one year old (and some change, due to my procrastination). We celebrated with outrageous style, and honestly I am so sad that you won't remember it. The day started off with a pile of presents! Your Nini and Paca (Carol and Ken) and the rest of your family didn't disappoint. Even before your birthday, our living room looked like a mini Toys R Us and now it is simply out of control. You got a plethora of riding toys, loud, clanging gizmos, books, and other assorted crap that really annoys your dad and me. But you love it. Although admittedly, your favorite toys remain our cell phones and the remote control. And you saw right through our placebo cell phone and remote (neither of which actually worked). You want the real deal. You also both love ripping paper into tiny shreds, so the wrapping paper was almost as fun as anything else!
Your birthday party was simply insanity. We had a few friends and family to King David Dogs. You enjoyed your first hotdogs, which you loved, of course. (You better love them, they are your birthright!). After stripping you down to minimize the mess, Nini brought out two mini cakes, frosted in blue and black icing. Judah, you attacked your cake with absolute gusto, digging both hands in and finishing it in about four minutes flat. Oscar, you weren't sure what to do, and so I stuck my finger in the icing and gave you a taste, and that was the encouragement you needed. You both went to town. Note to other parents out there: black icing is not a good idea.
You have both been cruising around for some time. In the last four weeks or so, Oscar, you have really perfected your crawling technique, going from an army scoot to full blown hands and knees locomotion. You are both pulling up on anything and everything. And now, a favorite activity for both of you is to take laps around the living room, cruising along the walls, couch, chairs always with the ultimate goal of ending up at the giant flat screen TV that is your daddy's prized possession. The TV has this big button lit up in blue, which you both delight in pushing over and over. It was funny at first, but now it really sucks when you turn the TV off and we are watching a close football game, or waiting to see which skank gets naked on Jersey Shore. And you know you are being pests, because after you turn the TV off, you look behind you to gauge our reactions. It is both priceless and irritating!
One other unfortunate side effect of the cruising is what daddy and I call "brown mouth." We bought our house with this amazing, huge built in wall unit that houses the TV and all our other crap. Unfortunately, we discovered that the unit is stained in a dark brown varnish, but not sealed. Considering you are both still putting your mouths on absolutely everything, the result is that it looks like you got into melted chocolate. This would be funny if it didn't make me terrified that you were being poisoned! We are going to seal it very soon, but in the meantime, we do a lot of dragging you both away from the wall.
You have also figured out how to work together, which is just hilarious. We have put up baby gates pretty much everywhere and it feels like your sole goal in life is to find a way to defeat said gates. You have realized that working in concert is going to be the best way to achieve this goal. So you both have been pulling up on the gates and then shaking it like crazy to see if you can bring it down. So far, close but no cigar. I fear that this is just the beginning of you two teaming up on us.
Judah, in the last week, you have reached a couple of major milestones. First of all, you took your first steps! We set you up on your little feet and we were all shocked that you had the balance to stand there by yourself! And then I scooted away and you took five steps to get to me! It was unreal. But then you also figured out that crawling was much more efficient and so ever since, whenever I try to stand you up, your legs turn to spaghetti. So I guess we still have a few days before you become truly dangerous. And speaking of dangerous, you also have figured out how to climb up the stairs! Coming down is another story however.
Neither of you are really talking yet, although the babbling is incessant. And you are mimicking everything still, and so we hear a lot of dadadada and mamam, as well as lalala, gagag, bababa, etc. Last weekend we thought we heard Oscar say WOOF, but we haven't had a repeat performance, so that may have been a fluke. Maybe it was just a cough.
In other news, you will be proud to note that your mommy won fantasy football for the second year running! Granted this year I only won one out of three leagues (last year, I won two). Be sure to tease your daddy about the fact that he hasn't won in YEARS and that he didn't even make the playoffs in all the leagues this year.
We also just had a great weekend with Greg and Iris and their darling daughter Jasmine. She is the most adorable little peanut, and we know someday Oscar and Judah will be fighting over her! We are excited to see Gregg and Laura this weekend. I am sure we will do plenty of gossiping, drinking, eating and shopping. All of my favorite things!
This week ends 2009, which has really been an up and down year. We have had so many fun and happy memories, but overall it has been a tough year. We got to take some amazing trips to Vegas, Mexico, NYC, and Phoenix, but we also had some tough health issues with family members, and dealt with the struggling economy like everyone else. We had some big disappointments with King David Dogs, but now we are exploring some exciting opportunities for future growth, so we have high hopes for 2010. We hope that by the time you read these posts, we will all be laughing about the early years of the brand as we sit on a yacht in the Caribbean paid for by our hundreds of franchisees! In the meantime, we are looking forward to ringing in the New Year with a few friends at our house with a pajama party and breakfast for dinner. You guys will be having your first sleepover at Nini and Paca's house. I think I am most excited about sleeping late!
We have lots of fun pictures and videos to post, so be on the lookout for those soon, I swear!
Happy New Year to everyone!!!
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