Random 5 Friday!! 02-07-2014

I have seen everyone posting all week about snow and winter weather! As well as myself. Yesterdays  about favorite things happened to be about snow. I should change it up a bit and be different so no snow post today! I like the idea of Random 5 Friday because I can post whatever random 5 things I want so I will just go with whatever I am thinking of at the moment. This sometimes could be dangerous so read with caution :-)

1. Shopping!! Yes I got some of my tax return so its time for shopping. Of course after paying the dreaded bills. I did a little shopping last night. I can not get over how high some things are! Two under Armour shirts for my old man was $100!! This is just crazy. But he insists he needs them for work. 

2. Valentines is coming up and my most favorite thing about this holiday is?? Can you guess??
Oh its the chocolate! I love love LOVE chocolate so in the midst of my shopping trip last night this is something else I got. My old man likes to say he got it for me but when I am the one who says I want it, I pick it out, I got it myself! Anyone in agreeance?

Oh yes I have 3 boxes!!

3. This year I have told myself it will be the year of organization! I am tired of clutter and unnecessary crap laying around the house. Last night I took my first step in the organization process. I purchased a bin for Logans room to organize all his toys instead of having then all stuffed in a lug!

I am excited about getting started!!

4. How in the world did I get sucked into these dang soap operas? We even got dish this week and I am still stuck on these local channels to watch the soaps! Curse you Young and the Restless, Bold and the Beautiful and General Hospital!! Curse you some more. They are so ridiculous but I can not help but keep watching!! I need help!! I need to know if Adam is alive after the car crash which in the end seemed to have blown up but at the end of this episode it showed a bloody hand in the snow?? Ugh what is going to happen now? Then you got The Bold and Beautiful and I have grown to really hate Wyatt and his stupid tactics to get to Hope! No one does those things. Lets shower a girl constantly with Jewelry and surprise road trips? Come on! Real people have lives, bills and jobs to where they can not do that. General Hospital is about to wear on my last nerve with the whole Carly saga. How long can she be held hostage? It is just getting annoying but yet I can not stop watching these stupid shows!

5. I will be so happy when my "old man" as I have been referring to him as, gets home! I miss him every second he is gone. I love his smile, his eyes and his crazy goofy laugh! Most of all I love the way he treats my son. A son that is not his but treats him like he is every bit of his.  After he gets here we just might continue our shopping saga! More steps to organization to be completed?? Oh I hope so!! 

The man of my dreams with my beautiful son

Wordless Wednesday (kinda)

It is time for the Wordless Wednesday submission. I captured something just hilarious (to me) today while shopping at wal-mart. Not great quality, it is from my phone.

Oh yeah that is right! Not a joke. 

Linking up with

Making A Cranky Baby Happy With Babozoo

Just admit it, all of us mommies have been there. We are trying to shop, run errands or have a dinner and our child or children decide it is a good time to get cranky and scream at the top of their lungs to try to get anything but give you peace. Sometimes it can be embarrassing. I especially hate it when we are in a restaurant. Many times have we played the whole, you hold the baby while I eat then I will hold the baby while you eat. So much for enjoying our dinner together. Sorry folks it happens when you have kids. Kiss your peaceful meals goodbye! Kiss the quiet shopping time goodbye and kiss an enjoyable trip to the grocery store gone too. Oh who am I kidding. I never liked doing most of those things anyway. 

With my second child we had to totally avoid the toy aisle in Wal-Mart. If she seen a barbie of any sort she wanted it and she let us know that she wanted it and if she did not get it she let us and everyone in the dang store know. (thanks to her grandma) My first was 14 and a half years ago and I can not remember much except using the whole "Do you want to go to the bathroom?" For you parents out their that have never heard that phrase, it means. I will tear your butt up in that bathroom if you do not listen! Do not make me have to take you to the bathroom! One of the many phrases I swore I would never repeat to my kids that my parents repeated to me. 

Okay anyways back to what I want to get at. Okay let me set the scene for you. Parents waiting for their much anticipated, delicious steak dinners when all the sudden your year and a half year old gets mad. Really mad just simply because he or she is bored! You give him or her crackers, in the floor it goes. You try bread, in the floor that goes. You even try to give them the silverware and you got it..to the floor it goes. Mom goes into panic mode and dad is looking around to see who all is staring. This is when we bring out our trusty smartphone. Which in reality it was probably already on the table beside you. We always went to the Bubble Guppies show that was put on the phone by my husband just for this reason. 

Guess what? I found something just as good. I hope! I have not tried it in public yet but I have done it here at home. I found an app. for Logan. The name of it is Babozoo. It is for ages six months and up. Its simple but yet when I handed my phone to my son with this on he started laughing immediately and forgot what he was mad about to begin with. Its a free download on the android market. I am not sure about Iphone but I am sure it is available. It has little animal faces pop up with their sounds. Its a learning opportunity for your little nugget! Its simple but the only thing that is missing is a lock. My son can push the home key and get out of the application and get very upset again and then we have to repeat the process. My screen could stand to be a bit bigger for this but my son loves it and that is what matters. Watch the video and see for yourself. 

So the next time you are out with your little nugget and they decide to let everyone know that they are unhappy try this app and see if it works for your kiddo! Hope it works for you as it has me so far.....Until he gets bored and I have to find something else. If you are interested in checking it out go HERE