Out of 6000 Babies We Made It To The Top 500!!!

Wow! Out of 6000 babies Padon made it to the Top 500. I wish I knew how many votes he got!

Huge thanks to you all for helping Padon get this far!!!! It was a lot of fun and it's too bad the number of votes over whelmed the Radio's servers. I am so proud of my Baby Bean!

Baby Idol 2008 - Round 1 - Go Vote

Go vote today!

You can vote for babies M-R today until 8:59 AM tomorrow, Friday, every 10 minutes. I wonder how many mom's will punch the button every 10 minutes...

You can get on the site here: Baby Idol Voting Page

Padon's even on the top of the list!

Happy Easter All!

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Easter Sunday was wonderful this year. Even though we don't attend an Easter service it still is a special day for family and friends to get together and have a wonderful meal and spend quality time together. We appropriately dressed up for the occassion and Padon was soooo adorable in his little suit. An amazing hand-me-down from my brother Patrick who is now 21. I wish I had gotten a picture of Padon standing next to his Uncle's 6 foot 5 inch greatness because I don't believe Padon stands as tall as his knee and it is amazing to think that such long legs once fit in these tiny pants.
Padon wasn't waivered by the dress and enjoyed his shoes more than once through out the day.
I thought about getting him something for Easter as I did for Halloween, Christmas, and Valentine's Day but what do you get someone so small that they will really enjoy it? I guess the answer is blue bunny ears, a plush easter frog in costume, and
a most fabulous baby cell phone that lets you record your own personal message and makes all these cool phone noises. Who knew?!
We had a great time, the food was fabulous, the company great, and it was such a pleasure to be able to sleep over and get up late to drive into Bellevue with my Dad the next morning. I think I might have to do that again next time we go over to my parent's house.

Padon looks like Spanky

I always loved the Little Rascals and Our Gang and I there are times when I will catch Padon out of the corner of my eye and he totally looks like Spanky.

He's so cute!

Champions - 2nd SCA Event

Champions was just like it was last year - Rainy. Walter had made a drive over to the Stanwood-Camano Is. Fairgrounds to see how they looked this year and just like last year the grounds were very soggy and had large standing puddles. Gleefully instead of camping at the fair grounds we extended our own backyard to all our SCA friends and their friends and threw a BBQ after the event for our friend Jason's birthday. It was a lot of fun.

Walter got to fight in the tournament and I think felt very satisfied with his 5 wins and 6 losses (?).

Padon looked so cute in his garb.

But between the cold, sounds of the shields clashing, and the guys walking back and forth to report the wins and losses Padon couldn't get comfortable and stay asleep long enough to have a satisfying nap. His face started to look more and more like this

And so Padon and I went home early so he could get in a good nap before people started coming over.

Overall it was a great time and huge thanks for Jane for taking pictures. I would have missed having a picture of Padon in his garb AGAIN! And he looks so cute!

Baby Idol - Go Vote!

Look who I entered in Baby Idol this year!
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Movin! 92.5 is having their second Baby Idol contest. Last year something like 1400 baby pictures were sent in and this little girl won.

So I entered these pictures:

And they chose this one:

I don't know if I think it is the best one out of the bunch though. Now I'm just second guessing myself for having sent so many pictures and did they just pick the first one in the list of attachments?! The things I stress over. I'm totally excited he is in the contest though.

So go vote! The chance to enter your pictures ends tomorrow and then they will start voting.

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Couldn't you see Padon as the next Baby Idol?!

Baby Mohawk - His face says it all

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So we have talked about how cute we thought a baby Mohawk would look on Padon when he had hair, or enough hair to do so but unbeknownst to us his little "baby Jack Jack" hair wouldn't let us down. My friend Erin put a little "hair grease" in his hair and voala, Baby Mohawk! I still think he needs more hair to really pull it off. Especially since we had to hold up a blanket behind him so the flash wouldn't go right through those pixie whisps. He was a little confused at the spectacle his doo was causing.

Baby Jack Jack from the Disney movie "The Incredibles".

Little Commuter

- Yep that's my little commuter!

This is what happens when you pick up your baby from your husband and trade off all extra baggage including your purse (having grabbed your wallet) with the intent in making the trip home on the bus to Everett easier. Only when you get to the bus station you find that not only do you not have your keys in your pocket, like usual, but you don't have your cell to call your husband who is long gone by now.

Padon and I did this yesterday and it was a little perplexing at first what we should do with ourselves but then with the help of the security guard at the station and the nice commuters on the 555 to Northgate we took two buses from Bellevue, to North Seattle, to my brother's house, where Walter was. Thank goodness for Bus Passes and an easy going baby. Padon enjoyed looking around and loudly making his happy baby sounds. It over all made for a fun photo opportunity and I found an easy way to get to Jane and Patrick's place.

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Are we there yet?