Andrew is at the stage where he wants to be Mr. Independent and feed himself. As you can see the results aren’t always the neatest.

A couple of days ago when Jen took the boys to the bookstore and while they were going in Alex was walking like a lizard when he tripped and fell to the floor. He landed smack on the right side of his face and ended up giving himself quite an injury. He didn’t cry but when he got up he said “Ah, my face hurts,” and it looked pretty nasty. He had scraped his face and it was pretty bruised and the next day when he woke up he had a minor shiner.

Of course like the worry wort parents we are we took him to the doctor to have him checked out since I was all worried that he might have done something serious like crack a bone. After a quick checkup and a an anatomy lesson on the skull and its protective mechanisms, complete with model skull model demonstration, it turns out he’s fine.

Everyplace we’ve been for the last couple of days people always stop and “Oh, my, what happened to you?”, “Oh you poor thing what happened to your face?” For someone who doesn’t speak to strange people this new found attention is just a little overwhelming. So the other day Alex and I were out running errands and I stopped in to get my hair cut. He was sitting in the waiting area while I was getting my hair cut and the hairdresser was trying to get Alex to tell him what happened.

He wasn’t giving up any details so I stepped in and said “Well, he was walking in the bookstore the other day and tripped and landed on his face.”

“Oh, Jesus Christ!” the hairdresser blurted out.

Ummm, yes, it was kind of bad, holy cow, did she really just say that? She dropped the J.C. bomb right in the middle of my haircut.

Is anyone else out there watching Project Runway? It’s Heidi Klum’s entry into the reality tv world where 15 designers complete for the chance to show their collection during New York’s fashion week. Each week the aspiring designers are given a challenge where they need to design and create some piece of women’s clothing. The show culminates with models showing off each of the designers creates and Heidi with a panel of judges critique the works.

I’m sure your asking yourself right about now, “What in the world are you doing watching Project Runway?” I blame Jen, it’s her show.

Just before the designers show their clothes Heidi introduces the judges for the days show. Typically they have a different guest judge each week in addition to the regular panel of Heidi, Michael Kors (apparently a designer), and my nemesis judge “Nina Garcia, fashion editor of Elle Magazine.” Now I have absolutely nothing against Nina Garcia herself but when Heidi introduces her it never sounds like she says her name correctly. It always sounds like “Nina Gacia“, like she’s leaving out the “r” in Garcia. Listen for yourself, I swear I’m not out of my mind.

I’ll have to be honest at first it really bothered me every time Heidi said it but now it’s the highlight of the show for me. Here’s some time wasting “Nina Gacia audio fun,” enjoy

I’m still here I just haven’t had any time to sit down and update the website in the last couple of days. Last week was a disaster at work and three of the days I ended up getting paged at night and working issues during the day. I ended up on a conference call for four hours one day.

Things have calmed down this week but I still haven’t found any time to put anything on the site. We did take some pictures of the boys at the pool this weekend so maybe by the weekend I’ll try and get those posted.

Yes, were home but there is something wrong with our phone line. When you try and call in or whenever you pickup the phone your just assaulted with a loud buzzing noise. After 10 minutes of talking with the phone company automated computer I finally got through to a real person who ran some kind of test that showed a problem with the line.

They “guarantee” that by Friday at 11:00 they will have the problem fixed. There you have it, three days without a phone. The internet connection is working (thank god) so we can answer email so lets hope when they fix the phone they don’t break that when they fix the phone.