Baby in the sky -- with diamonds

This post sponsored by Sony

Sony gave me a new camera since I am an "influential mommyblogger" who will blog about it. It is a Cybershot and it has smile detection. A cool idea, but I haven't tested it out completely, so I can't say if it works as promised. It did capture the smile in the above picture.

We took pictures for Scarlett's birthday party and our mini-vacation in Tahoe with the new camera and now I will share them.
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We're baaaack

After 4.5 months in a rental, we are back home. Sure there are still boxes in the office (totally my responsibility) and the trim is not entirely painted (because I freaked out about the color and told them to stop painting), but it's nice to be here. Really, it's more than nice. It's delightful. I love our neighborhood and I especially love parking in my own driveway. I love that Julian can play in his room while Scarlett is napping in her own room. I love that we have tons of light, a closet large enough for our clothes, a toilet for each person who uses toilets around here, and a dishwasher and garbage disposal. I'd say we did fine without all these things, but it is incredibly relaxing to have them all.

In order to take nice pictures of the new space, I would have to put away all my clothes and things, and since that's never going to happen, I will leave you with a taste of the paint colors.

I love them so much that I can't think of a title for this post

Summertime

The one where Julian was a frat boy

Today, in celebration of the launch of my book, the Parent Bloggers Network is hosting a blog blast. This means that anyone who wants to should blog on the chosen topic and then send them the link. They post all the links so that everyone can enjoy each other's post on the topic. And today the topic is... activities for a mom's rookie year.

Keeping this short, the story is that Heather and I put both of our sons in her car and tried to go to a kid-centric cafe in a neighborhood a little outside our familiarity. We do such things just because we like a good challenge. If you don't get the challenge here, you probably haven't tried to install a rear-facing car seat in someone else's car while your baby climbs on you. It turned out the cafe was closed, so we decided what we needed was a beer.

Knowing that any place that serves food with their beer probably has high chairs, we went to a family restaurant/sports bar and plopped the babes in two high chairs and ordered two beers.

Then Julian puked. But only on his own shirt.

I grabbed him out of the high chair and ran out the door of the pub. I held him over the gutter where he puked again. Classy.

Then he was fine. He seemed unbothered by having just emptied his stomach. So, I cleaned him up, put him back in his high chair, and finished my beer. I think this is known amongst the fraternity set as "boot and rally", but I went to a women's college on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, so I am not totally sure.

And that, my friends, is just one of many adventures on which I took Julian during his early days. To read more from other parents reflecting on their rookie year, check out the blog blast write up on the Parent Bloggers Network. If you have a blog, share your best, bizarrest, coolest, whatever rookie mom year outing and win some prizes (all weekend long).

Fairyland

This morning, Julian woke up in a terrible mood. He whined and tantrumed and I wanted to make him go away.

Instead, I took him to Fairyland.



We met H & H there, and it was the first time in a very long time that just the rookie babies were brought on a double date.



I think we all loved it. (No offense to the younger sibs.)



There's really no end or punchline to this story. Just a really nice Sunday.

Jimmy Crackcorn

If you don't find this hilarious, you must not be three years old.


Untitled from whitneymoss on Vimeo.

We've heard this song at least 642 times this weekend.

Spring in San Luis Obispo

Every year we get together with Stephanie and Hope, my two best friends from Junior High. That's what we called it before Middle Schoool came to LA. Now we have husbands and hecka kids.

Here we are.



And here are the seven reasons our Sunday mornings together start at 6.30 AM.



More pictures from March are here >

The fashion police live here

Yesterday Ryan came home from downtown San Francisco with about five new items of clothing for each of his kids. Dresses, sunglasses, headbands. You get the idea.

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This morning, Julian pulled a pink and white-striped shirt out of Scarlett's drawer and said, "Mommy, when Scarlett comes to pick me up from school today, I want her to wear this."

I wonder where he gets it.

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I'm off to preschool pick-up now, and Scarlett is dressed as ordered.