Letter writing campaign

Sitting down for an enchilada dinner the other night, mr. bejos and I almost gagged, literally, from the overwhelming salt level that the enchilada sauce lent to the meal. OMG, it was simply the very worst.

Typically mr. bejos is the king of letter writing campaigns to companies whose products don't live up to his standards. Candy bars, canned beans, you name it. Well, after tossing the entire dish of spinach mushroom enchiladas I promptly drafted an on-line letter myself.

Less than a week later I got this pile of coupons in the mail. Funny, right?

It didn't quite make up for the lost meal, but mr. bejos did...by making me an entire new pan of enchiladas for when I arrived home from my weekend away. Good man, a very good man.

the desert

**forgive the bluriness. I have gotten a little lazy as of late and snapped many of my pics straight from the phone. Who am I kidding...there was no way I was going to carry my Pentax, the little bejos and hold on to Cooper at the same time.

The boys on their own

While I was away the boys kept busy without me.
Being boys they apparently felt the need to show their manly-hood by visiting the local big box hardware store.







And look what they built together.

A weekend away

As I have mentioned, work takes me away from home on occasion. This occasion was the conference that my organization puts on every year. Many months of work and it is over in such a short amount of time. Last year baby bejos joined me in Utah since mr. bejos was on the river. As much as I love my little munchkin I was quite grateful for the solitude of the long drive and the company of professional peers.

Casting Off

I got bit by the knitting bug a few months ago and have been churning out projects left and right. This is not always the case, so I'm glad to be more productive than usual. This sweater and hat combo was for a little guy born just over a week ago. The hat was supposed to be a preemie hat but it was still much too big. Of course it could have something to do with my gauge. I'm a careless knitter.  I never check my gauge. I often end up knitting and re-knitting projects for this very reason.

The color of the hat is distorted, looking more red than the grey it is. I found the hat pattern via Pinterest, it can be found here. I modified it a bit by adding the snaps to pin up the ear flaps because I knew it would be too big. The sweater is the same pattern I wrote about here.

drive-thru

So much for a speedy recovery.
Our weekend ick turned into a weeklong ick, and counting.
An eventual visit to the doctor's office identified an ear and upper respiratory infection.
Luckily this guy is a good patient.

But it isn't all doom and gloom around here. The little bejos  is back to his usual self playing drive-thru?? Where do they get this stuff? I can almost guarentee that this little guy hasn't been thru a drive-thru since he was a mere 2? 3? months old and his desperate new mom desperately needed caffeine but couldn't bear taking him out and putting him back into his car seat while holding the precious cup of hot coffee. Maybe it was straight out of his imagination and a matter of pure convenience that the dump truck stopped off for a bite of mid-morning snack.

 

The fever ick

Our weekend didn't go exactly as planned.
The fever ick set in on little bejos.
A nasty cough,
a fever that wouldn't break
and a particularly sensitive disposition.
One minute his usual spastic self, the next a whining toddler, and then a bundle of tears.

It's days like these that break our typical parenting rules. More Thomas the Train? Sure! Another Elmo episode, no problem! At whit's end we tried anything and everything. This morning we experimented with the computer camera

Here's hoping to a healthy and speedy recover!