Yo Gabba Gabba!

As promised, I have to take a moment and send up a shout to the TV show Yo Gabba Gabba. Fellow parents out there, if you haven't taken a moment to check out this amazing creation that airs on Nick Jr. and Noggin...dude, you're missing out. Especially if you're in my age range! So the basis of this show is that there's this guy:

DJ Lance Rock. (Trust me, it gets even better) He carries around his sweet boom box in which live an imaginary world of these creatures:

Muno, Foofa, Plex, Brobee, and Toodee. (Yes, I realize what Muno looks like, but that's not the point) At the beginning of each show, he brings this little munchkins to life by yelling out, "yo gabba gabba, yo gabba gabba..." (which explains why you hear Kaytin yelling this all the time now) Anyway, the show is basically the Seinfeld of the children's television world. There is absolutely no point to this show, but it is HILARIOUS! There's a bunch of regular segments including "Biz's Beat of the Day" featuring none other than:
Mr. You Got What I Need Clown Prince of Hip-Hop himself, Biz Markie. I kid you not, he teaches kids a beatbox technique of the day and tells them to go home and practice. I just about died laughing the first time I saw this. There's also "Dancey Dance Time" where celebs appear to teach kids a few little dance moves. (during which Kaytin looks at me and says, come on mom! its dancey dance time) The other day it was:
Seriously, I think this show is waaaayyyy too funny. So if you have a pre-preschooler at your house (and even if you don't) go set your DVR's now and start beatboxing and dancey dancing along with me! Yo Gabba Gabba....yo!

I've Been Tagged!!

I'm usually not one for surveys, but a great friend (and apparent blog reader of mine! hi margo!) tagged me, so here it is...

Four Random Things I Like About My Husband:
1) He makes me laugh...even when I don't want to.
2) He is a great husband and loves me even when I irritate the bejesus out of him.
3) He is a wonderful daddy.
4) He works hard so that I can stay home and raise our children.

Four Jobs I've Had:
1) Salesperson at JC Penney
2) Alumni Affairs Assistant in college
3) High School Teacher
4) Mom

Four Movies I've Watched More Than Once:
1) High School Musical
2) High School Musical 2
3) The Little Mermaid
4) Dumbo (these are all of Kaytin's choosing)

Four TV Shows I Watch:
1) Grey's Anatomy
2) One Tree Hill
3) Top Chef (when its on)
4) Yo Gabba Gabba (this one is for Kaytin...and deserves a whole other blog in itself!)

Four Places I've Been:
1) camping on the beach
2) camping in the mountains
3) swimming in the ocean in the winter
4) all here on Kauai!

Four of My Favorite Foods:
1) Pasta
2) Sushi
3) Chocolate
4) Tacos

Four Places I'd Like to Visit:
1) Okinawa
2) Thailand
3) the Alaskan cruise thing
4) New Zealand

Four Things I am Looking Forward to in the Coming Year:
1) Kelli & Eric moving home!
2) Watching Caleb turn one
3) Kaytin preparing for preschool
4) A possible girls trip somewhere?!

Four People I Tag:
1) Holly
2) Elki
3) Kirstin
4) Kelli

Costume Craze

Hard to believe its been nearly a year since I started my life as a blogger. I think the first picture I ever posted was of my family last Halloween. And now, speaking of Halloween, here I sit trying to figure out what I'm going to dress up as this year. Gone are the days of family themes for awhile with a headstrong 3 year old in our midst. She has insisted that she wants to be a butterfly this year. Well, unfortunately, she was a butterfly a couple of years ago, so that's not happening. Since I'm a smarty-pants I have convinced her that this:

is a butterfly. I'm sure I've thoroughly confused her since everyone else will be referring to her as Tinkerbell all night long, but I'm sure she will correct them. Maybe I'll make her a nametag that says, "I'm a butterfly, okay?"

Since there's no way I'd convince Wes to dress up as Peter Pan (just take a moment and picture it) the rest of us are just going as whatever we want. Here's Caleb's costume:

He's going to be a ninja. Awesome. Now there's the question of me and Wes. And at this moment, just weeks away from Halloween, I still have no idea what we're going to be. I wanted us to be the Spartan Cheerleaders from SNL, but that got a no. He wanted to be the GEICO cavemen which I rejected. Who knows? Granted, a couple years back Wes made his costume the night before Halloween and it was pretty much the funniest one of the night.
He is the kissing booth. Check it out. It was pretty hilarious.

Exercise Entry Take Two

Remember my post about starting up an exercise routine again? Well, last night Wes and I pretty much committed ourselves to really trying to get back in shape and feeling healthy again by ordering...

the P90X exercise and nutrition program. Hot bodies, here we come!

If you haven't already heard of P90X, its an exercise routine that was created around the concept of muscle confusion. You pop in a differnt DVD each day and work on certain muscle groups. Apparently specific targeting and switching it up every so often makes a difference. All I know is that we know someone who did the workout and followed the nutrition guide and it worked. We saw the results. I looked it up online and have seen some posts by some nursing mothers and according to them, I'd need to tack on an additional 500 calories per day to account for breastfeeding, and I should be good. I guess we'll see. In 3 months I'm hoping to feel like a whole new me.

Because Its Friday, You Ain't Got No Job....

In honor of the most wonderful day of the week for most, and just another day for me, the woman of leisure (hahahaha!!!), I thought I'd post a few pics of the kiddos.

So the other morning Kaytin says, "take a picture of me and caleb, mom." Good idea, I thought to myself. Lucky I have a daughter who is a camera junkie and asks me to take pictures of her quite often. No forgetting about the pictures of the second child for me, thank you very much.

Anyway, here is attempt number one:

Oh shucks, we both said, Caleb's eyes are closed. Kaytin tells me to try again. (I told you she loved the camera!) And we got this:

Hmm...at least both of them have their eyes open. Caleb looks like he's thinking about pooping or something of that sort. One more time, Kaytin says! (seriously?!) OK, try number three yielded:

So now Kaytin's not even looking at the camera and Caleb is smiling, but with his eyes closed. That could, of course, be due too how chubby his face has become and it takes a bit of effort to actually open his eyes a little wider. At this point Kaytin was getting tired of smiling for the camera, so she tells me, let's do one more, mom, and I'm going to make a funny face. Curious about what this could mean, I agreed and got this:

If that is not Wesley Taba's child, then I don't know what is. I love my babies. They crack me up. I'm going to have the time of my life when Kaytin gets married someday and wants pictures to do a slideshow of some sort for her reception. Love it.

I Just Heard...

So if you know me, you know that I am a child of the 80's. I've read that email that goes around and can admit to knowing and identifying with the entire list. My ipod reflects the generation I am proud to be a part of with the old school music that I make my kids jam to in the car. (and you know you all promised yourselves never to do that when you were a kid and your parents did the same thing to you!) Well, in the recent past I heard that these guys were making a comeback...

What?! NKOTB? The news startled me into thinking that I might actually have to admit that I was once one of those girls who had the posters up on my wall and owned a t-shirt with their faces plastered on it. I wanted to be loving them forever because they had the right stuff. Unfortunately for me, my parents never let me go to one of their concerts. Granted I was only like 13 at the time and they weren't about to go with me and I couldn't go by myself since we were still living in the land of stolen children (aka Southern California). You know I wanted to be part of that silly little audience screaming my silly little head off. But now...a comeback...and 20 years later...heck, I can go by myself now. Secretly I'm wanting them to come to Hawaii so I can actually consider going to a concert. :) Can you imagine what the crowds must look like? A bunch of 30-something women, married, with kids, etc. Hilarious.

Word on the streets is that

Boyz II Men is also staging concerts again!! Their Motownphilly is back again, doing a little East Coast swing! Woot! This one I wouldn't be too ashamed to attend...gotta go check their website for concert dates and venues.