My latest obsessions

1. Glee

2. Fritos

3. Creating the best and most awesome train track configuration for Piglet

4. 10/29

5. shoe stretching products

6. Lucy yoga pants

7. Trying not to think about selling my beloved car.

8. Holiday Globe seedless grapes

9. Honeycrisp apples (no, not the cereal and if you are only seeing small ones you are shopping at the wrong place. Locals, try Zupan's.)

10. convincing Piglet to wear hats and bibs

11. my friend Carrie who is going to deliver triplet boys ANY DAY NOW

12. Mad Men

13. our Christmas card

14. Piglet in fleecy footie PJs in the morning...love my little bear.

15. Laughing Cow Cheese...La Vache qui rit c'est mon amie!  

My "never" and "always" list.

1. Never wear socks and sandals. Really. This also goes for hosiery with sandals. Just. Don't. 

*Post edit: My friend Summer pointed out that peep toes with opaque tights a la Anthropologie are really charming.  I agree.  Which is why this goes for sandals and not peep toes. :)*

2. Always wash your feet before you go to bed, particularly if you've been traipsing around in flip flops all day.  The grime of the world is on the soles of your feet and you don't want that between your sheets.  Trust me on this.  

3. Never wear navy blue and black together.  This is especially unpleasant when it's solid navy paired with solid black.  This is why God invented charcoal grey, chocolate brown and cordovan.  So you never have an excuse to wear navy blue and black together.

3. Never cut in line.  There's no excuse for it and it puts everyone behind you in line in a foul mood.  

4. Always splurge and buy Halloween, Valentine's Day and Easter candy. Awesome colors and adorable shapes and sizes. Resistance is futile.

5. Never put your feet on the back of the seat in front of you at the movies if there's someone sitting there.  There's no worse feeling than knowing the nasty soles of someones shoes, or worse, their stinky feet, are right by your ears.  GROSS.  

6. Never give up hope.  It truly springs eternal if you embrace it. Sometimes this means digging really deep, deeper than you thought possible, but the glimmer of light hope emits is always there.

8. Always carry a camera with you. Whether it's just a simple point and shoot or a more advanced camera or even the measly camera on your phone, technology has given us the gift of being able to capture life's most precious moments in a most convenient way.  Take full advantage!

9. Never use someone else's toothbrush.  The reasons are obvious, but if they aren't obvious to you, I'm not sure where to go from here.

10.  Always have dessert.  Especially if you're at a fancy restaurant with your Sweetie. Unless you don't really feel like it, or feel like if you eat one more bite of anything you are going to hurl, in which case, skip it.  But if you want it, for the love of Jude, HAVE IT!  And then take a bite of your Sweetie's too.  :) 

Ten things.

There have been a lot of tags floating around on Facebook and the Blogosphere that are "25 random things about me" or "type your name into the following list of things on Google."  I'm straying from my normal Piglet-focused entries and making this one about moi.  I thought I'd create my own hybrid post - two lists of ten because who has time for TWENTY FIVE? I don't have time to compile them and you don't have time to read them! 

One lists ten things random things about me and one that lists ten things I cannot live without (Piglet and Dh excluded of course).  

Ten random thing about Miss MVK

1. I only eat bananas that are perfectly yellow or even slightly green but one brown spot and it's on its way to the banana bread pile. 
2. I have seen every single episode ever filmed of Felicity and Gilmore Girls.  I loved Noel and Logan not Ben and Dean.
3. I knew what I was going to name Piglet long before he was even conceived.
4. I need to stick one leg out of the covers when I sleep at night.  Piglet does the same thing. ;)
5. I used to be skittish around dogs until I got a dog myself.
6. I only buy Doritos when we're having a party otherwise I will make a meal of them.
7. I love the smell of liquid dishwasher detergent - Cascade is my favorite.  
8. If it were that easy, I would have a lot of kids.  Maybe five.  If it were only that easy.
9. Of all the skills I've learned in my adult life, knitting is my favorite.  
10. I met Pope John Paul II twice before I was 18.  Twice.  Yes, I was really that lucky.
11. I'm adding one IMPORTANT fact that those of you who know me well already know.  I hate mayonnaise.  I will not touch it or eat it and have a hard time even being in the same room with mayo.  I do NOT keep a jar of it in my house.  Macaroni salad is basically my worst nightmare.  Seriously.  HATE.  I'm using the word HATE about a condiment.  That's how strongly I feel about it.

Ten things Miss MVK cannot live without.

1. Jeans.  Now that I'm a SAHM, I literally live in them.  I wear them every single day.  Sevens fit me best after I have about four inches taken off the bottom!
2. Odwalla orange juice.  'Nough said.  If you've never had it, you have never truly had orange juice.
3. TiVo.  I am fortunate that I married a nerd who introduced me to TiVo long before it was common to have a DVR in your home.  That's given me about five extra years to build a relationship with my TiVo.  And I'll tell you this - we are in LUHVE.
4. My debit card.  Cash?  What's that?
5. Slipper socks.  See #1 for explanation.
6. My Apple products - iPhone and MacBook.  I'm a total convert.
7. My Canon G10 camera.  Santa brought it this year and it's fantastic.
8. Milk and cereal.  Many days this is breakfast, lunch and dinner.
9. California Baby Calming Shampoo and Bodywash.  I've used it on Piglet since he was just weeks old and it's now become "his" smell.  It's natural and gentle and smells dreamy.
10. Our $25 Ikea highchair.  Stokke is overrated for messy eaters with no table manners yet!

Months Six and Seven Updates...a little late :)

Month Six

Stats: 27 inches - 50% for height, 18.5lbs - 60% for weight, 50% for head circumference.  

Piglet LOVES

• rolling all around the nursery
• taking baths
• being outside 
• touching any and all interesting (or uninteresting) surfaces and fabrics
• being held
• playing with blocks
• cuddling
• Sandra Boynton books 
• pureed apples
• his highchair
• the jumperoo
• the mirror
• you making funny faces at him
• making smacking noises with his mouth, especially when he sees you eating something
• bubbles

Piglet is OVER

• the changing table
• lying still for a diaper change
• taking off / putting on clothes that go over his head
• the booger bulb 
• the bouncy seat
• the BOB
• anyone who is not mommy after 5:00 p.m.
• being low to the ground e.g. the Bumbo

Month Seven

Stats: 19.2lbs and we assume the rest are roughly the same!

Piglet LOVES

• long morning naps 
• sleeping in your arms 
• when you sing "Itsy Bitsy Spider"
• snoring
• being tickled on his belly
• laughing with other people
• watching the dog run around
• avocados
• Gymboree class (as long there's that long morning nap beforehand)
• other babies
• putting his head on your shoulder when someone new says hello
• smiling back at you
• when you click your tongue
• stacking cups
• smacking away at keyboards
• a sip of anything you're drinking
• giving kisses
• throwing things on the floor
• YouTube

Piglet is OVER

• restaurants - mom and dad are learning to eat very quickly or order take out!
• having lotion put on his face
• putting on pajamas at night 
• you leaving the room without him
• bottles (yes, still...)
• sounds made by the blender, vacuum, and Cuisinart
• sweet potatoes
• large stuffed animals that sound like mommy pretending to be Yogi bear
• mommy using her laptop without his "help"
• teething
• the binky