Life with the Morris': January 2010

Friday, January 15, 2010

New Year!

So it is officially 2010 and there are resolutions to be made and possibly completed.

1)have a kick ass 30th birthday party with friends, family and Karaoke- Check

2)realize that my son is a rockstar at restaurants- Check

3) Grow out my natural hair and see what happens- after watching Oprah (yes I know I still watch it sometimes and I love it so sue me!) when Chris Rock was touting his "Good Hair" movie I realized I have had my hair chemically relaxed for 18 years! I have been making an effort to keep all the unneeded chemicals out of my life for a while but I never wanted to mess with what i knew about my hair. But since I was looking for yet another new hairstyle I said "hey why don't I find out what my hair is like without any relaxer". I was stressing about the decision for a couple days and then my husband with all his wisdom said "if you don't like it you can always get it relaxed again" ahhh so simple and true. So 4 months in I have a bunch of nappy curlies coming out of my head and ton of new hair products (I really like to shop for anything!) I will post pics when it gets interesting!

4) complete a Triathlon - whoa!!! Say what!, Yes I will be training for my first tri this year. Totally intimidated but I think I can do it:-)

July 31st is the All Womens Tri at Bluelake Park this summer and I have chosen this to be the place that I might die! 1/2 Mile swim, 12 mile Bike ride, 3.2 mile run. and before you ask, yes I am doing this for fun. I know CRAZY!! The good thing is that I actually have quite a few friends that do these on a regular basis and they don't die afterward so I am using that as inspiration.

It does feel good to start the year with some goals though, hopefully this will keep me in the gym and working out because I kinda like what is going on. who knew working out on a regular basis could help your jeans fit better. I should right a book or something about that.

Little man is growing up soooo fast! He is walking almost running around the house everyday getting into things and terrorizing Nala. He tries to pick her up and hug her sometimes but it does not really work since he can barely keep himself upright. He is turning into quite the communicator though. He has his "eat" and "more" signs down and his favorite words are "hot", "up" and "DAHHH!!". Hot and up are used for almost everything but daahhh is reserved for the knocking over of blocks in a very Godzilla trashes Tokyo fashion. I don't know where he got this from but it is hilarious. it sends me into fits of laughter very time he does it then it fuels the fire

Family Events

Since I am bad at updating I am doing a string! Here are some fun things that have happened over the past months!

Look who Turned 30!

Oh yeah, so did I! this was pre-shenanigans

Christmas Tree Hunting!!! Sooo cold

okay so there is this game called Quelf (yes quelf you sickos) and this is the kind of stuff that happens when you play. enough said, super fun!

I really have no explanation for this. Lets just say mama had the night off, J was at grandma's and I was in the Christmas spirit, literally.

1st Hair Cut

So the day after Jackson's 1st birthday I decided that it might be time for his first hair cut. His little curly Mohawk was getting a little crazy so we took him to a kids hair salon a few minutes from our house. Here is the progression

This place is awesome, i get to sit in a car and watch Mickey mouse with a cape on. this totally rocks. Who is that lady with the spray bottle coming at me??

well i don't really appreciate some stranger touching my head. She could have asked permission or something. a hello, candy, something. Now what are those shinny sharp things that she has in her hand, can I play with them?

Seriously! what kind of torture chamber did you people bring me too??!! if those damned sharp shiny things weren't enough (which I did not get to play with thank you very much) then you have to bring out the buzzer crazy head chopper!! I have never experienced such horrible service, again no candy no nothing! And mom and dad you guys are not helping the situation just standing around taking pictures and smiling. You obviously have not realized the severity of the situation! I have a grievance!!!!

Well, I would have to say that I handled that like a champ and look at how stylish I am new hair and all. I did finaly get a snack but I did have to create quite the raucous.