"She's leaving on a jet plane, don't know when she'll be back again"

Sad sad day we had (although from the pictures it doesn't look like it). We did good though, didn't cry in public, (I know I saved that for home) we did tear up. The Trujillos have left the building folks! B's best friend and my best friend are heading to California for a better opportunity and earthquakes...just saying. As an earthquake survivor myself (early 90's) they are scary and hopefully willbring them back home to Colorado ;-) (only half joking). At least I got to see Robbie Roo walk! We will be skyping quite often and Mike and I will see them when we go to Napa in April. Before they left we went out to breakfast and then let the kids play at Monkey Business. Now I need to find someone new to hang with wed-fri. Most other people work or live too far away. It was really nice to be able to vent my fraustrations to another new mom, bounce our lack of parenting knowledge off each other and share in the excitment of our kids accomplishing new milestones.I enjoyed our trips out and loved watching our kids interact with eachother. I will truly miss hanging out with them. ok moving on before I start crying again.

B is really testing my patience lately. He is really really good at throwing a fit (he must have got that from me). The other day at the zoo was pretty embarassing. I had to literally wrestle him back into the stroller (yes- he is getting very strong) all while people looked at us. He screamed and cried for a good 15 min. Iremember when we finally approached the picnic area where we were going to eat, this other mom, having a peaceful lunch with her 2 yr old, looked over at me with this look that said "come on, we are trying to eat here." I just wanted to say to her "like your kid is perfect!" He did finally calme down and ate some lunch with that lady still there so she could see that maybe he was just hungry OK. After that my friend was like "I think I am going to head out now." I don't blame her. This is the 4th public tantrum in the 8 days I've been with him. God, I hope this is a phase.

$0.01 Pony Rides At The Store= Negative

Every time, and I mean every time, we go to the grocery store B whines at something. It used to be the balloons (sometimes it still is) and sometimes its a free cookie (thanks to his dad for introducing that to him) , but lately its the Pony. You know, the $ 0.01 pony rides that kids just love. As soon as we enter the store the words "neigh neigh" come out of his cute little mouth and do not stop until we go over and LOOK at the pony. God forbid you try and put him on the thing, no he is just fine looking at it. I've tried to put him on without out it moving, after he watches another little kid ride it, and with me on it too. He just gripes on to you like a cat about to get in the bathtub. I don't get it?! He is so mesmerized by it but wants nothing to do with it, kind of like with babies. He loves my friend's baby, always pointing at it and staring at it. But, don't you dare bring that baby too close to him. He does this with the babies at the indoor playgrounds too. It's kind of funny, really.

On a side note, Mike and I are planning to go to Napa Valley for vacation here soon, if we ever get around to actually booking it. We always do this, talk talk talk about it and then book last minute. Not really cool when your trying to book a babysitter. I told him to just do it already and he said "We got plenty of time, its not for another five weeks". Typical Mike- procrastinator.
I also decided to get an Ipad. My computer (the old Apple Mike gave me because it was too slow and sucked) finally went dead. I hope we can shock it back one more time to retrieve all the pictures off of it and put it on my Ipad. I am excited to get it. Hopefully more blogging and I want to turn this blog into a book so maybe that will finally happen.