I promise I don't beat my child...

I promise that I don't beat my child even though it may look like it today! Wes is starting to walk more and more everyday. His head and face areas seem to be taking the greatest beatings on his journey into toddler world. If you haven't noticed his head is quite large--the doctor had to measure it TWO times last visit to make sure that the measurement was correct! Yes, that head passed through my, well, you know... Anyway, his huge melon makes him a little top heavy at times. Good things kids heal quickly and have lots of baby fat for padding!
Here his latest injury...

Dad was babysitting...enough said.

Little man!

Westy got his first haircut on Saturday. Here is his before...

Love that picture! I think I am going to miss the old man scraggly 'do!
Here is the after...

Notice the tear...that was one of many shed that day. Mr. Baby didn't like the buzzer or the scissors! Bless that poor lady's heart that cut his hair. It is a miracle that no ears or noses were injured in the process. He was mad for a few hours, but cheered up after a nap and a bike ride.

You learn something new everyday...

I have often wondered why people put the toilet paper roll on backwards...you know where the TP comes out from the bottom of the roll rather than the top. When I use the restroom at other people's houses or other places out in the world, I have had to physically restrain myself from fixing the roll to the right way. You know...when you are doing your thing in the bathroom, it is just so nice and easy to run your hand across the top of the roll and the TP flows right off the roll! Ahh! But when the roll is on the wrong way, you have to pull on the TP to get the flow going and when you are poor and can't afford to buy the thick ply stuff, the TP breaks very easily. It is just way harder to unroll, basically it is a pain the bootie! But today, I finally learned the reason why people put the roll on backwards...

THIS GUY!!!!!

Like I said before, the "right" way makes the TP flow easier and the "wrong" way makes it harder to unroll! So I guess the "wrong" way might just be the new "right" way in the Zelem house.

Oh yeah, one more lesson learned...shut the lid!
Babies...you gotta love 'em!

Back from Cali!

Ahhhh...my trip was awesome! I went to visit my very "bestest" friend Christine in California. She was needing some comforts from home and I was needing to get away from home! We really didn't do a whole lot. Saw the ocean--AWESOME! I was just the right temperature, lots of beautiful crashing waves and a couple of sea lions looking for a bite to eat. It was very cool to see them not at the zoo, but in the wild! My friend only lives like 5 blocks or something from Holly wood Blvd so we also walked down there and saw the stars on the sidewalk. Here is my favorite!

Pee-Wee's playhouse was my sister and I's favorite Sat. morning show back in the day. So I was very excited when we came upon this star. We also bought a star map for $10. It actually had the stars addresses and everything in it. We drove around the Hollywood Hills and looked for famous people's houses. We saw Ozzy Osbourne's house from when they were on MTV. Here are a few more that we stalkarazzi-ed: Drew Barrymore, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, George Michael and Madonna'a former homes, Lindsay Lohan, Cher, Elton John, Gwen Stefani. I was hoping that maybe as we drove by we would see Tom and Katie playing with Suri in their front yard or that Madonna might be out washing her car, but no luck! Even if they were we wouldn't of been able to see then through their driveway gates and 10 foot tall shrub fences! It was still fun! The only famous person I saw and recognized was this guy:

He is Stellan Skarsgard aka Bootstrap Bill Turner from Pirates of the Caribbean. He was also the mean teacher guy in "Good Will Hunting". We saw him at Target just buying some stuff for his house probably. It was pretty cool!
We also spent one entire afternoon and night having cocktails, playing Monopoly (I was the victor!) and watching some cult classics: Tommy Boy, Revenge of the Nerds, Weird Science and Sixteen Candles to name a few! We had tons of fun, reminisced about the past before jobs, college, boyfriends, husband and kids! I guess we did do a lot of stuff now that I look back. I can't wait to go back!

Loose Tooth--Chapter Two!

Yeah! It finally happened. We were wondering if it ever would. That was the most stubborn tooth that ever lived. Five months, five months--but it finally came out! Here it is in all of its shining glory!

Analise was very excited! Dad told her that he would take her to Dairy Queen if she let him pull it out. She reluctantly agreed. He said that he would count one, two, three and pull it on three. She agreed again. So one, two--YANK! Dad pulled a fast one on her and gave a yank before she had a chance to pull away on three, which she had been doing every other time either of us tried to pull it. Leave it to dad to outsmart her! Check out the gaping hole that it left behind.

She was so anxious to go to bed so the tooth fairy would come! She put the tooth in her tooth catcher thingee and begged us to put her to bed.

The tooth fairy came really early in the morning! She almost forgot to wake up early--I mean fly to our house and reward Analise for her 1st tooth she got and and her first tooth that fell out! Here is what the going rate is for a tooth these days...

Wow! I need to loose some teeth! The loose tooth chronicles continue. Loose tooth #2 has been identified! Stay tuned to see if tooth #2 comes out before Thanksgiving! Let's hope...

Oh yeah, by the way, Analise is not a gangsta. "I am a COWGIRL!"--she wanted me to say! She didn't like it when I asked her to throw some gang signs in the picture! LOL! Peace out homies! West side till we die!