Can't Turn My Back for Even 5 Minutes...

While I was getting dressed and doing some laundry, I stuck Jake in his crib. (Knowing that he would be safest there, well, the house would be safest if he was put there, anyway!)

I notice that he's not crying when I walk by his bedroom door. Hmmmm....curious.

When I get back, I notice he's QUITE content. Sitting in his bed EATING M&Ms!!

When he was only a few weeks old, the Relief Society Presidency brought over a few gifts. A blanket with his name on it and a little bundle of socks, filled with M&Ms. I've had to use special socks for this boy, the kind that stay up around his pudgy ankles, so I've just left the socks alone. Today, they were used for the first time...to fill a whiny 10-month-old's tummy.

I asked him what he was doing, and he looked up at me with his HUGE grin, boogers everywhere, and drooling M&Ms and chocolate ALL OVER his fresh clothes!!

*sigh*

He's cute, but SUCH a little terrorist!! ;)

So as I'm on the computer, I notice he's yanked his socks OFF his feet. *sigh* He's definitely one who LOVES to be nude....

Hunt for the Perfect Easter Candy

The other day I realized that Easter was just around the corner and it dawned on me that the Easter Bunny nearly forgot the holiday. Usually when it comes to Easter I go way overboard, so I planned to get a few bags and that’s it. I discussed what candies I wanted with my husband and he agreed. And while my son was at speech therapy I went to Walmart to stock up. I can normally find ANYTHING that I want when I go there, so I expected to find the candies on my list easily. That was not the case. We had decided to get one bag each of our own personal favorites from the store: for him it’s those Reeses Pieces Eggs, and for me it’s the Dove milk chocolate eggs. I found the jelly beans and cream eggs easily enough, but Walmart’s shelves were clearing out pretty fast and those candies were NOT there. I was a bit frustrated because Cam’s therapy time was up and I had to take him with me any other place I went searching at and bamboozling a 5-year-old is hard to do.
I convinced Cam that I was at the stores we went to in order to find some yeast. (Which was partially the truth.) On the way back from therapy we stopped at Albertsons. I looked at their selection and realized that their variety was worse than Walmart’s! I wasn’t going to give up though. There are more stores than those in town, I just had to remember where I had seen them before. (In fact, I had bought some of those candies earlier, like at the end of February!) I went to Winco and looked, no luck. Then I tried going to our local Saving’s Center. I ended up finding the yeast I’ve been looking for, but their candy selection was worse than ANY other store I had been to. I had to quit my search because I had to go and practice singing with a couple of other women from my ward for a musical number we have planned for the end of the month. The song was harder than we had anticipated and so I ended up staying there for over an hour trying to figure out the song. When it was over I had called my hubby and told him that I remembered where we had found the candy, it was at Smiths, and that I wanted to get it before I forgot about it. So after my day-long search we now have the perfect candy...just to make us sick and break our "diets." But the search will be worth it!
What is your perfect candy that you will search all over for?