what gets you through “the longest hour”?

One of the highlights of my afternoon – the thing that keeps me sane between nap time ending and Dan coming home – is watching Ellen with my three year old. Right when we might otherwise be having the world’s biggest afternoon meltdown (you know the ones, moms) – instead we turn on Ellen. When life has gotten me down this year between the new baby, Dan getting laid off last year, the move to Wisconsin for his new job, etc. etc. Ellen has been there to take my mind off of all that heavy “where did all our savings go?” blahs with shake weights and Hawaiian chairs and Sexy Santa Musical Chairs.

MM might be just as big of a fan as I am – he loves dancing along with Ellen and the audience and gets super excited when they play some of his favorite games like Know Or Go or Sumove It Move It. He knows all the staff members like Jeannie and Andy Short Shorts by name. It’s kind of my dream that someday we’ll be able to go see the show together in person.

The next best thing? Was seeing this the other day:

he's kind of a celebrity now

This makes him basically a celebrity right? It would, admittedly, be better if she’d shown it live on her show and been all like, “MM from Wisconsin is basically my biggest fan and I want him on my show,” but I was pretty thrilled with this, too.

And thanks to the handy screen capture function and my blog, his celebrity status can now be memorialized in the interweb FOREVER. But Ellen, if you are reading this – his birthday is April 7 and I know he’d love to get tickets to your show. And I’d be happy to chaperon his trip.

ww: Déjà vu

I took these pictures of BB last night…

biter biscuits - so messy but soooo good

studiously observing the snack

biting down to business

nom nom nom

And I immediately had that Déjà vu feeling… I’ve been here before, in another time, with another baby… a baby with a stuffed puppy on his head for no reason in particular…

the original messy eater

It didn’t phase him – I don’t think he even knew the dog was there. This kid was very busy.

these cookies must have a lot of stories to tell

These biter biscuits are like a rite of passage – I couldn’t wait for her to try them, fully knowing that they would be messy on a massive proportion. But how cute do these kiddos look mowing down on these “first cookies”? And it keeps them busy for like thirty minutes!

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