Anna likes, correction, LOVES Cheerios.  She will eat them off a table, from a bowl, off the floor, off a chair, and from your hand.  The problem with them is actually the ones that fall and you don’t see them so they don’t get picked up.  This is when a Cheerio is transformed…into a LANDMINE!

If you have kids you understand.  If you don’t, well, stop laughing because you too will find out someday.  You will be walking through a room and CRUNCH.  You have found the landmine.  Hopefully you’re wearing shoes and not just socks or worse yet going barefoot. 

In our household, Damion seems to be the lucky one to find the landmines.  However last night, actually early this morning, he fell victim to one that was not in its proper zone.  He came home from working late, walked through the front door and CRUNCH.  We don’t feed Anna Cheerios by the front door.  She eats them mainly in the kitchen, in the dining room and down in the living room.  How did one get to the front door?  Do Cheerios actually migrate?  Just something for you to ponder on this lovely Friday. 

It has been awhile since I have come across something that has just not sat well within me.  But today I found something on that wonderful thing called the internet that just baffels me.  It is the "essentials pacifier pod".  Basically it is a little holder, size of a cell phone holder, that you can attach to your purse that holds two pacifiers so you always have one with your purse in case you have to leave the house quickly.  And it can be yours for $8 plus shipping!

Really? People are buying this?  Anna has gotten to 6 months and I haven't had a need for this.  We have kept a limited number of pacifiers in the house so we always have an idea where one is located.  Oh, so you need to have a place to keep it?  Really?  I have found a pants pocket works nicely.

Really?  For if you leave the house quickly?  Seriously, there is no quickly leaving the house if you have a kid that needs a pacifier.   Because there is also likely the need for that silly thing called a car seat and a diaper bag at minimun.  So, why not do what we have done and leave a spare in the diaper bag and when you get home put it back!  Seems simple don't you think.  Oh the only time that spare is used is when Anna is at church and the nice nursery people don't use the labeled pacifier (labeled per their request) and when Nana misplaces the one Anna came with (Yeah QaQa for finding it on the key rack!)

Yet again though I feel like I need to ask, Really?  People need this?

On Saturday May 12, 2007, Anna & Laura (my sister) & I drove to Peoria to participate in the 2007 Susan G Komen Race for the Cure.  We met up with my friend Tiffany and her mom Sue.  After a short shuttle ride from a parking area we stepped into a mass of mostly women and some men.  The announcer said approximately 23,000 people were participating at the event.  The five of us successfully completed the 5K Walk.  Of course there are pictures now posted for your viewing pleasure. 

Tonight I went to pick up dinner and returned to find Damion and Anna playing with the race track.  It was too cute not to capture on film….well on digital images.  After Anna went to bed Damion and I played with the track.  Needless to say the track had more curves than the ones in the pictures and somebody….okay, me…had trouble staying on the track.  That is when I said, “Enterprise?  Can you pick me up?  I’m off turn eight.”  That cracked me up and I was pretty much done for the night, of course the fact that it was midnight and I was exhausted could not have been of a factor, right?  Time for bed.