One Little, Two Little, Three Little Indians.....

Okay.... It's only one little Indian...

"How!"

And a cute little Indian, at that!

No more school until after Thanksgiving!

Wordless Wednesday-Memphis Skyline

The Memphis skyline taken by my husband,

from the banks of the Mississippi River, Arkansas side.

It's Tuesday! (And the CSNBaby.com Giveaway Winner is.....)

I'll go ahead and start with a little excitement...

With the help of Random.org, I have a winner!

The CSNBaby.com plush blanket winner is......

Shelley @ Shelley's Swag!

Congratulations, Shelley! I'll be sending you an email with the details.

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Now, let's talk Tuesday link-ups. I'll start with Magical Moments. (Everyone needs a magical moment!) To read more Magical Moments, or to link up your own, go visit Tami at Hearts Make Families.

My Magical Moment this week has been a long time coming. See this?



The End. El Final. La Fin. All Gone Gone!

This week marks the end of a very long relationship with Pedisure Vanilla, with fiber. My little one's pediatrician and cardilogist decided he needed the added calories and nutrition during a hospital stay in late October 2007. Yes, 2007.

For two years, he has ingested (gulped, inhaled, etc.) 3-4 bottles of Pediasure each and every day. We started weaning him about 3 months ago, and this past weekend, we opened the last two bottles (shown above).

He has graduated to regular cow's milk with a little bit of vanilla Carnation Instant Breakfast. But not only that, he is eating more real food! He even ate a few bites from a hamburger this weekend! When he saw them cooking on the griddle, he exclaimed, "Krabby Patties!" and had to have one. You have to know that my little one has never eaten meat of any kind. (Not even McDonalds. *gasp*) He prefers crunchy granola bars and smooth yogurt. And macaroni and cheese!

I think I'll keep those empty bottles....

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It's To-Do Tuesday. Want to add your list? Go visit my friend Lisa at Crazy Adventures in Parenting to link you own to-do list. While you're there, read a few of her entries. She would love to see you. (And you'll get a kick out of her blog!)

Here's my list for this week:

• Write! (Write like the wind...) I have a couple of projects and one that must be finished by Friday.
• Read Twilight-again. Kinda dreading the sleepless nights, but I can't help myself. Gotta get ready for the New Moon phase...
• Still working (or putting off working) on some furniture refinishing. Started sanding-that's a start, right??
• I've decided to move posts from my HomeschoolBlogger blog over to this blog. I hope to start that this week.
• Blogging! Need to work on this blog's layout, write some posts, and write a post for Deep South Moms.

Okay, I think that's enough to list. When you add that to the normal, everyday stuff, it's quite a bit. Don't want to go depressing myself!

Have a great Tuesday, y'all!

A Quick Reminder.....

Don't forget to enter my giveaway for a plush cartoon character toddler blanket by Baby Boom from CSNBaby! The giveaway ends tomorrow night at 7:00 pm (central time).

You could choose this one:

Or you can choose one of the other characters in stock.





Happy Sunday~

Our Doctor Visit-Turned-Trip to the Zoo

Our trip to the doctor's office at LeBonheur this week turned into a trip to the zoo. Don't you just love those spur of the moment field trips? Well, we had time to kill and the Memphis Zoo was right there, practically begging us to come in for a while. The bonus? Free to Tennessee residents on Tuesday afternoons. And yep, it just happened to be Tuesday afternoon....

We stopped off first thing for a quick photo op at the fountain....

We strolled through Cat Country. The weather was perfect! Then we headed over to the monkeys. My little one was really taken with the monkeys. He was watching their every move. Apparently, so was I. (I've always wondered where he picked up that facial expression....)

From there we moved on to the African exhibit and saw the giraffe house and the zebras, before heading on to the elephants. I was so busy listening to the caretaker tell another family about the night the baby giraffe was born that I didn't take any pictures. (Nosy...or is it nosey??)

We strolled on down to see everyone's favorite-the Northwest Passage. This is where the polar bears and the sea lions live. We spent a lot of time there and we got some great pictures! We all enjoyed the sea lion performance, but the little one was truly fascinated!

I shared one photo here of my boys and a polar bear on Wednesday. This is the photo that was taken right after Wednesday's photo...

Do you see that giant polar bear eyeballing my little one? Not a peaceful, easy feeling! And don't you know my little one screamed and ran?

Yep. Wouldn't you?

As we were strolling towards the Northwest Passage, Cade picked up a huge orange leaf from the ground. He was still holding it when we entered the polar bear observation area. This is what happened next....

Ouch! Poor bear! He really wanted that leaf! I wonder what he thought it was....

When we left the polar bears, we turned and saw that the sea lions were under water also. We headed down to the observation area. My little one was amazed! The sea lion appeared equally amazed. I don't know who those folks are in the bad reflection on this photo, but if you look down on the lower right side, you can see my little one nearly eye-to-eye with the sea lion. They both look mesmerized!

We soon learned that the little one had really been paying attention during the sea lion's performance.

Backtracking a bit....While at the doctor's office, I entertained the little one with a blue latex glove blown up like a balloon. He carried it all day, and even though it was losing air and shape, he still clung to it as he stood watching the sea lion. He quickly discovered that the sea lion liked that glove as much as he did.

He began to make hand motions with the glove, similar to those used by the trainers. He had the sea lion turning flips and twisting through the water! It was a delight to watch and drew quite a crowd.

This last picture is by far my favorite from our day at the zoo. After some time turning flips for Eli, this beautiful creature paused again for a picture....

Isn't this the most gorgeous animal? The color of the water created an eery, almost animated feel. It was hard to leave. Literally. We had to carry Eli out of there kicking and screaming. And when I say we, I mean daddy. Heh.... By the way, daddy was the master behind the camera on this day.

I hope you enjoyed seeing and reading about our day at the zoo. We're hoping for another pretty day so we can go back and see more. Like the pandas!

Daily Blog Review~Tasty Thursday!

If you hop around the Internet these days, you'll find all of your favorite food bloggers are talking about one thing. Thanksgiving! It'll be here before you know it. It's time to start making those menu plans and thinking about the guest list.

I was hoping around yesterday, looking at some of my favorite food blogs, when I came across a new one. (New to me, that is.) After just a couple of minutes looking around, I knew I wanted to share this find with you all today.

Today's blog is The Wooden Spoon. Kathy is a fellow mom-blogger who also blogs at Blessed Beyond Imagination.

The Wooden Spoon appears to be a spinoff on her beautiful food entries that originated with this blog.

The first thing that caught my eye is the colorful header. What a great photo! It looks like Kathy is ready to do something wonderful in kitchen!

And then I scrolled down and there was a detailed post (with great photos) showing the world exactly how to prepare a Thanksgiving turkey. Right under that post? These beautiful homemade strawberry pastries. So, I had to dig around a bit.

That's when I found the chocolate....

And the mexican....

And a whole section of additional desserts!

Oh, there's other great things like side dishes and sauces. The categories are clearly marked right there on the left side bar.

Just in time for the holidays!

Wordless Wednesday~Zoo Trip!

Three boys and a polar bear!

This was taken yesterday afternoon at the Memphis Zoo.

We got some really great pictures that I'll be sharing later this week.

Today I'm working on a writing project....

Happy Wordless Wednesday! (Or almost WW....)

**Don't forget to enter my giveaway for a plush cartoon character blanket!