Rain, rain, come and stay!

There was a toss up as to what post I should start with first this week. We did quite a few things over the weekend and I wanted to share them all right away. However, since it's raining today, our new purchase won the vote.

I wasn't expecting to have the truck today since we had a busy weekend and I usually like to hang around home on Mondays as a cool down day. When I heard the rain this morning, I knew it would be a perfect day for coloring, painting, and even making a train photo frame from his birthday party (yes, it was back in December). Alas, hubby forgot that he had a physical therapy appointment for his back this morning so we needed to take him into the train station or else he would have to pay for parking at work.

Little Man and I headed to our local mall which happens to be one of the best outlet malls that I've been to. Especially when you take into consideration the sales that both the Disney and Children's Place stores have on a regular basis. But Little Man's heart was set on visiting the LEGOS Store, aka "Block Store". I purposely parked in front of Children's Place entrance to make sure we stopped there on the way out. I just received an Extra 15% off coupon of your entire purchase and wanted to see if they had any winter coats left to pick one up for next year.

We made our way to the LEGOS Store, stopped at Auntie Anne's pretzels with a Buy One, Get One coupon, the Disney Store (which was having great sales by the way), and then to the Customer Service station to spin the wheel. We signed him up for the mall's kids club and every time we go to the mall, he gets to spin a large wheel for a prize (nothing spectacular this time).

Unfortunately, Children's Place didn't have any winter coats left, but they did have other items on sale for only $1.99! Other items were just marked 50% off the already marked down price. I'm telling you, this place could be your best and worse nightmare shopping for kids' clothes.

So long story short, we finally purchased our first pair of rain boots. I made sure to get a size 9 so he could hopefully fit into them next year as well (as long as his big feet don't grow too fast). Even though Mom lets him splash in some of the smaller puddles, he was so excited to actually go splashing in the BIG puddles.

We get home and he makes his way to the big puddle....




The boots? Shark boots! And yes. Those are fins on the back of the boots. The price? Less than $8 after being on sale and with my extra coupon. Love Children's Place!

Sleeping Angel

To celebrate my 200th entry (Holy crap- already?!), I wanted to post a picture of my sleeping angel.

I am so lucky that at the age of 2, my Little Man A is still taking long naps. I mean, 2 hours - sometimes 2-1/2 hour naps and I need to wake him up at 3pm so he can burn off more energy before he goes to bed at 9pm. I am knocking on wood a thousand times that I did not just jinx myself.

Anyway, when I went into his room the other day to wake him up, he was snuggled with his "Mama Polar bear", "Baby Polar bear", "Jeffrey" his beloved giraffe lovey, and his little blue pillow.



I love watching him sleep.

An (un)eventful day

Like I stated yesterday, it was our first official snow fall here in Woodbridge or the Washington, D.C. metro area. When Little Man woke up yesterday we alerted him to the fact that there was snow on the ground.

"Do you want to make a snowman and snowballs today?"

"Snowman. Yeah. Okay."

Because of our truck problems yesterday as well, I waited until after his afternoon nap to attempt to go outside and "play" in the snow. I asked him again if he wanted to make a snowman outside in the snow and again he was excited about the opportunity. He even tried on new boots that have great treads.

I got him all bundled up, hats and gloves on, and we were ready. He didn't make it more than 5 feet away from the door and he froze. "Mommy! No snow. Mommy!"

I wasn't sure if it was because of the shoes (which he actually chose to wear later, so I don't think that's the case) or if it was because it was starting to rain/sleet when we stepped outside.

I was at least able to capture this wonderful get-me-out-of-the-snow and I-need-a-tissue-because-I-have-a-bugga look before we went back to the warmth.



I? Needed to stay outside and shovel the driveway or else we wouldn't be making it to pick daddy.

Playing doctor

For some reason I didn't think he was old enough or had the imagination to use this doctor set yet. Proved me wrong, huh?

Kids say the darndest things

Although this little girl speaks her imaginative story in french, there are english sub-titles. It's well worth the four minutes.

Enjoy the show!


Once upon a time... from Capucha on Vimeo.

Trick or Treat!

Here are some great photos of Little Man A and Little Sprout (Isdihara's little guy) at our local library's "Parade of Costumes". They got to hear the cutest Halloween books, parade around the library for treats, and all the costumes we too cute!

Had to share

I just got our pictures back from when we went to B&O Railroad. One thing I definitely appreciate about digital is that you can review them right away. No waiting for a week to see if your picture subject is blurry, if everyone is smiling, or that you captured the perfect moment. Although now with all the digital photo enhancing programs out there you can do anything with your pics including blending 3 different photos together just so you can "capture" everyone smiling.

Well, I got lucky with these shots. And even if they weren't any good, we'll be going back this weekend for Kids Fest. So if you live in the Baltimore/ D.C. area, check out B&O Railroad. You won't be disappointed.


How cute is this kid?? I told him to "go stand over there and look at Mommy" and he did!


I bet he's thinking he wants one of these in his house!


All Aboard!

How cool is this kid?

We purchased these sunglasses for Little Man about a month ago, but didn't really like wearing them. Now he wants to walk around with them all afternoon.

He is just too cute for his own good. :)