My First Day Off in Four Years

Today my MIL and SIL took the Kid to Great Adventure. It was the first day that I have been with out him all day! It was kinda weird. My MIL has family visiting from Ireland this week, so it was about 10 of them that went. And one is a 5 yr old little girl. I was told he was loving playing with her all day.

I got his crazy amount of toys organized, why yes, there is a floor under there! Went out to lunch by myself. Got the new car washed (since there was bird poop all over it.) And came back and finished up the toys. Hubby was upstairs working all day.

It's 8pm and the Kid is still not home. They were stopping for ice cream just outside the park...if he makes it. I heard he had a hard day of playing, so he is going to be exhausted.

I said to the Hubby that it's going to be weird not seeing him since 11 this morning and him coming home asleep and I won't get any hugs and kisses until tomorrow. He felt the need to remind me that he does that all the time. When he leaves for work we are always sleeping and sometimes when he comes home we are both sleeping. Poor Daddy. Now I know how he feels.


Yesterday we had SO much fun. A friend of mine is a member at a pool and we went to visit her (the Kid's girlfriend- the same family we were at the boards with, and no I haven't heard anything more about that baby.) The pool was AMAZING! I was moving my legs ways that I just can't do on land anymore. My back was SO much better (until I started cleaning up the damn toys today.) We have a pool party at my Dad's cousin's house on Sunday. You better believe I'll be in there relaxing! We are skipping the hospital tour for the pool party! I figure you've seen one birthing room, you've seen them all. Right? Actually, we already saw the floor during the Kid's big brother class last Saturday when they showed the kids the nursery, so we are passing on going again until we have to!

I can't believe there is only one more week of summer and then Labor Day weekend! I am going to try to get to Sesame Place in PA on Monday. I should be feeling good after being in the pool all day on Sunday. And it's not a huge park and I won't be hot since there is mostly water there anyway.
And I plan on going to the beach at LEAST twice next week! :)

Hot Weekend

Yesterday we had our first of 5 birthday parties for the month of June. It was so fun. There was even a little bounce house. So the Kid was thrilled. Of course he was having a little too much fun when he was sucking down whole juice boxes at a time and then going bouncing. He threw up all over the bounce house slide. Thank goodness he wasn't really sick and that the bounce house is washable. The dad of the birthday girl just hosed it off for us.


And what a beautiful day today!! We were outside all day. While the rest of our area suffered in sufficating heat, we were sitting near the shore about 5-10 degrees cooler and in a little blow up pool! It was awesome. Sorry you guys that were sweating.

Waiting for daddy to fill up the pool with the air compressor.

We blew up the pool this morning and invited my friend and her son over and the boys played in the pool most of the afternoon. Then after they left The Kid and I sat in the cooooold water together. Without all the splashing. It was COLD. I stepped in it and didn't think I would even sit down, but I did. :)

The boys having a blast.

Having SO much fun dumping water on his head!

Darn it, I forgot about the water getting in my eyes.

We were mostly comfortable all day. I was actually shocked. I thought it would be much worse. But they are calling for even hotter temps tomorrow. We just turned the a/c on when we got home from my in-laws around 8:30pm. They live a town away, inland a little, and we could feel the difference when we got there. It was crazy.

Hope you all enjoyed your day! I'll be back in the pool tomorrow.

Boardwalk Rides

Today was the most beautiful day here in Jersey. Finally!

I met a couple friends at the boardwalk and the kids all went on rides. I wish I could post more, but they all have my friend's kids in them, and I don't know if I should post them for all to see, even though they are all adorable. There is even one of my Kid holding both girl's hands! My little swinger.

Here is the Kid on the Nemo fish:

Here he is on the swings:

And here he is swimming in the sand:

Notice he had a hat on most of the day. I am so afraid his poor little scalp is going to get burned now that he has no hair!

It better not get cold again, because I have summer fever now and I am dying to go back to the beach.

Where are you Spring?

Spring finally gave us a little tease today. The parks were packed, downtown was bustling and the ocean was full of surfers. Although, the surfers around here are hard core, they surf in the winter anyway, but I am never there to see them.

We went to the consignment shop today first. I went in not really expecting to buy anything. I ended up getting a Lands End spring coat that doesn't even look like it was ever worn, a Billabong polo shirt, a Quicksilver Hawaii looking button down and a rescue hero for the Kid, and 3 maternity shirts (Motherhood) for me for only $45. Score! I can't wait to know what this baby is going to be. They had SO many great things there and in great shape.

I am seriously dying for summer. After shopping I brought the kid down to the beach. We kicked off our shoes and dug in the sand. Of course, I left my camera in the car. I won't make that mistake again.
It was a beautiful day. Hope you all enjoyed it too! What did you do today?

All the while Hubby was at Home Depot and got our new tub for our bathroom upstairs. He spent much more then me. ;) It has jets to make it jacuzzi-like, can't wait!!

Fun House Mirrors

Well, I did it. I took the bull by the horns. I sucked it up. I jumped into the deep end on a cold day. I bit the bullet.


I went bathing suit shopping. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

It's never fun for any woman. Why do they have to have such awful lighting? If it was better and make you look tan many more bathing suits would look better. And what is up with those mirrors? Don't they know if they are free standing and leaning up against the wall everyone looks skinnier? Haven't they ever been in a fun house?

It's even less fun for a pastey white pregnant woman who is over 200 pounds.


Not fun, my friends.


I looked online first, like I could EVER buy a bathing suit online. I was just looking at the styles at Motherhood and Target, b/c I know I could actually go there and try them on.

I picked Target. They had only 3 bathing suits styles on the rack and there were only about 5 of each style. Oh boy! I better pick one now or I am going to be stuck with the ugliest one left! Or *gasp* buying one online!

Now I know you are all thinking how brave I am to even own a maternity bathingsuit, nevertheless wear it in public. Well, I live a mile from the ocean and I have a 3 1/2 year old child that LOVES the beach. So it will be our second home this summer.


I found a cute one:

No, you will probably not ever see me in it. Like you will probably never see any belly shots. But it was a nice large bottom and had some great coverage on the boobage....although, I did switch the bottoms... shhhhhhh. I slid one size top with a different size bottom past the checkout girl. (Larger on the bottom, of course.) Don't tell Target. Half the suits I brought in the dressing room were all missmatched anyway, so I don't think I am the first one.