There is another one

I am just gonna put it out there...Taj is a little fairer than we expected. But that's ok, we love him and the little man he is becoming. Just recently though, I found another white Taj. Taj Burrow. Professional Australian surfer Taj Burrow. I kid you not! There is another white Taj!

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!

This is our 3rd season playing broomball. (my second because I was pregnant last year...but I attended all the games to cheer on our team) Anyways, during last night's game R. scored the our one and only goal. The first goal of the season! In the end we tied with the best team in the league. So that means 3 ties so far and thankfully no injuries.

Smart little suckers

I am a little embarassed to say this but, My name is Sarah and I have a mouse problem. I know that a lot of people that live in the city do, but I feel like we have a huge one and I am tired of finding little turds everywhere. To me, they are like little reminders every morning that I am getting out smarted by something 1/1000th my size. I have been living in the city for about 6 years now. I pride myself on knowing how to set a mouse trap without losing a finger. And in the past I have caught mice...a lot of mice.


But these mice, they are beyond any I've ever seen. My kitchen is freaken boobie trapped. Currently there are 6 traps in a few feet of each other, and they rotate nightly. And every night the little suckers eat off the bate and lick the trap clean. I've used peanut butter. I've used dog food. I've used chedder cheese like the plastic "chedder cheese" on the trap. I've even broke down and bought the bate that is supposidly more effective than peanut butter. My butt it is! So now I am at a loss. I wake up every morning and feel defeated. I don't know what to do.


-We could use poison but we might end up with a dead dog one morning. Also the smell of death that was in Taj's room a few months ago was not fun!

-I can continue rebating and rotating...but that isn't working


-I can get the sticky traps, but those freak me out. I want death instantly.

Any ideas?

Almost 30, but not quite

For my 29th birthday, a few of us went out for dinner at Clementine. My parents were nice enough to come down and babysit Taj so that R. and I could go out and have an adult dinner with friends.

Taj stayed home and got ready for playoffs.

Sibling picture with both Sean and Bethany

Anne, Dana and Pen also came out to celebrate 29 years

Aquarium

I am a little behind on blogging, but sometime in the last few weeks Beth and I took Taj to the aquarium for the first time. It's hard to say if he enjoyed it. I know I did.

Inside a sharks mouth

The closest I'll get to a snake is behind a sheet of plastic

Baby Seahorse

Happy Birthday to the King!

Conversation tonight while putting Taj to bed


R: Can you believe it's gonna snow again tomorrow?


Me: Can you believe Taj is going to be 8 months old tomorrow?


R: Can you believe it's Elvis's birthday tomorrow?


Me: You mean Melissa's Elvis? (R's cousin, different story)


R: No, Elvis, Elvis. It's his birthday tomorrow. Look it up.


So I did. How in the world did my husband know it's Elvis's birthday? Better yet, why did he know it's Elvis's birthday?

Side Note: When I was little my dad got my sister to believe he was Elvis. He even signed birthday cards "Elvis". Sadly she was young and easily gulible.

You know you're old when

First off, Happy New Years! Last night unfortunately we didn't have wild and crazy plans. Instead R. had to work late (he's been doing that a lot lately and we are on our 14th out of 20th day in a row- woohoo!) so my evening was cooking dinner and jamming out to old school Mariah Carey with Taj. I am not sure he was as into it as I was.
I was bed by 10pm. I knew that it was midnight because I heard the fireworks in the harbor, rolled over and said "Happy New Year" to R. then went back to sleep because 7 month olds don't sleep in. I've tried to train him too but he's just not picking up on it. Looks like I have to wait for the teenage years till he finally catches on and I can sleep in as well.