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Amy's Brain is 47% Female, 53% Male
Amy's brain is a healthy mix of male and female
You are both sensitive and savvy.
Rational and reasonable, you tend to keep level headed.
But you also tend to wear your heart on your sleeve.

What Gender Is Your Brain?





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September 2009
 

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Yay it's Friday!!  Perfect day to show you another Toby-dorky moment.  Last night, I let Toby out the backyard to do his thing before bed.  He goes and takes care of his business but then decided he has an itch and wanted to take a roll around the grass.  I generally don't like it when he does that because if the grass is damp he'll get a little damp too.  So I called him to come in and he got up and ran to the door.  That's when I noticed something strange on his forehead!  "What's on your head Toby??" I asked him.  He looked up at me and said, "What Mommy?!!"  

Upon a close look, it was a tiny little slug!  Ugh!!  I backed away and closed the screen door on him.  Of course, I had to grab my camera to catch the moment that can only happen to Toby!  After a few shots, I flicked the little bug off his forehead.  The little slug landed on the steps and streched out its antenna.  I guess it didn't really like being picked up by Toby accidentally!  I wiped the slim off Toby's forehead before letting him back in.  Such a dork! :-)  Have a wonderful weekend and don't let the slugs slim you!



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Since becoming pregnant, we've been very careful to not go crazy with baby-related purchases.  Even when I was single and just had Toby, I vowed never to become a victim of material goods.  I never bought Toby crazy amounts of dog treats and toys such that material things take over my home. Instead, I believe that Toby would be happy with quality time spent playing in the yard or at the park with me.  We're trying to take the same approach with our baby.  So since finding out about the pregnancy, we've only made one clothing purchase, a little Pooh overall that Mr. BAW had to get because he said that every baby boy needs an overall, which I can't argue with.  

However, when we were in New York, we stumbled upon a huge clearance sale at the Gap.  Tons of baby clothes were on sale, in some cases close to 75% off.  Due to this huge sale, we picked up a couple of organic cotton onesies for newborns.  One of which was this adorable Capricorn onesie.  























Is this adorable or what??  Since it's size 0-3 month, I know that the baby will outgrow this very quickly.  But this is such a cute onesie that I will store it as a keepsake so that when our boy is grown up I'll show him what he wore as a baby.  Hopefully he won't spit up all over it.  But I'm sure he will.  :-)  



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We spent our first wedding anniversary in New York City!  It was my first time at the Big Apple and I had a blast.  Even at 6 months pregnant, I was able to get around this busy city thanks to the efficient subway system.  The weather was also amazing.  It stayed in the low 80's the entire time we were there.  Thankfully, the humidity was pretty low, very similar to LA weather. We did so much in the four days we were there.  We stayed at two hotels, one right in Time Square and the other right by Central Park.  We even had the Chicago cubs and a few of the US Open tennis players staying at our hotel!

We visited the Empire State Building (I took this picture at the observation tower on 86th floor), Times Square, Central Park, Soho, Rockefeller Center, Rose Planetarium and Natural History Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYU, Washington Park, Brooklyn Bridge, and Little Italy.  The only site we didn't get to see that I wanted to see was the Statue of Liberty.  All tickets to the Statue have been sold out until November!  But I really can't complain, we were everywhere!  

Part of our trip also focused on the incredible food around Manhattan.  I got my fill of NY pizza, cheesecake, hotdog, chocolates, and bagels. We went to The River Cafe for our anniversary dinner under the Brooklyn Bridge enjoying the spectacular Manhattan skyline at night.  The meal was also amazing.  I ordered a rock lobster appetizer that was the best lobster I've ever had!!  I heart NY! :-)



The Crysler Building viewed from the Empire State Building.
Me, at the base of the Empire State Building next
to a model of the Empire State Building. :-)


Bird's eye view of Manhattan from atop the Empire
State Building.
My bagel from our favorite bagel place, Murray's.


Rockefeller Center all lit up at night.
The famous golden statue at the Rockefeller Center.


Me at Rockefeller Center.  I loved all the shops there.
Trying to keep cool at the Rock.  It was quite hot
during the day.


Rose Planetarium.  The Stellar Evolution show was fanatastic!!
The amazing sea exhibit at the Natural History
Museum.


Mr. BAW took me on a boat ride in Central Park!  After walking all day, it was nice to just float on the lake.
There were tons of other folks in the lake enjoying a pleasant day at Central Park.


The hall of sculptures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Arc at Washington Park in Soho.


The Natural History Museum had an impressive
dinosaur collection.
Our anniversary dinner at The River Cafe by
the Brooklyn Bridge.


View of the gorgeous Manhattan skyline at night from Brooklyn.
Merchants at Mulberry Street in Little Italy.


Mulberry Street at night.  We had an amazing time in Little Italy.
Time Square, crazy day and night.



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I love fruits.  Since we live very close to a Sprouts Supermarket, I've been getting amazingly fresh Summer fruits each week.  Sprouts has been the best supermarket for reasonably priced fresh produce.  Since the start of Summer, I've gone through my fill of cherries, plums, apples, grapes, oranges, and lately...cantelopes and watermellons.  

I usually will have fruits after dinner and I would also take them work for my mid-morning snack.  So with most fruits, I just bring a few in a zip loc bag and eat them at my desk.  But I can't take a huge melon to my office!  So what I like to do is to make mellon balls using my beloved mellon baller.  The mellon baller is one of my favorite kitchen tools.  I've always wanted one and I've always wanted to make perfect little spheres out of mellons.  Call it a strange quirk, but don't you think that mellons in the shape of a perfectly round ball are just so adorable??  Plus, they're super fun to eat, kinda like eating a giant, juicy lollypop.  

The only problem I have is that my mellon balls are never perfectly round.  They are always flat on one side.  You can't really tell from the picture because I turned all the flat sides over.  The flat side bugs me.  I finally read online that you have to really dig the mellon baller down into the flesh to get a perfect sphere.  So I'm slowly getting the hange of making better balls.  But when you dig deeper in, you do tend to loose more juices and you can make less balls since you tend to waste more fruit flesh.  Happy mellon balling!


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  I came home yesterday from work and discovered these beauties waiting for me!!  Aren't they simply yummylicious?!  Turns out that they are from my friend TNK.  They are another one of her thoughtful gifts to Mr. BAW and I for our 1st wedding anniversary!  

It was such a pleasant surprise, just the thing I needed after a long day's work and an extremely hot day at that!  As you can see, there are two empty slots in the box...that's because we got so excited when we opened the box that Mr. BAW and I each grabbed one and ate it before I realized that I wanted to take a picture of them.  

Thankfully, we got them the day before our trip to New York and we managed to eat the whole box.  They came packed with an ice pack so they were fresh and chilled.

Of course, you know who had his ears all perked up when he heard me yell, "Strawberries!!"  Toby LOVES strawberries.  Unfortunately, these ones were not for him...:-)