Crazy Deo

For those of you who haven't been here

Here are some pics of my place. My mom wanted to see where I live so instead of just emailing them I posted them so you all could see. It is mainly just the living/dining room and Deo's room. I will put my room but Ilich is sleeping in there right now. I have to put those pillows back on the couch 100 times a day after Deo gets a hold of them.
Notice all of our beautiful art, courtesy of Tita (Ilich's mother) that she has been collecting for years and come from all over the world. We have 2 more pieces to put up so the walls will be re-arranged in a couple of days. (Gracias por todo Tita!)
My prize finds are the crazy dining room table and the acrylic coffee table. I love them.
Deo has his trundle bed and train table in his room now. Those were also good finds on my part.
My mannequin is currently living in the kitchen.

Sorry its been a while!

I can't believe its been so long since I last posted. I have been taking classes online and a bunch of other excuses you don't want to hear. I guess we can start with his birthday....Deo turned 2 on November 20th! Yay! So a belated blog happy birthday to him. We had a cupcake here at home in the morning before he went to school and decorated the house so when he woke up he went into the living room and saw them all. He is obsessed with the happy birthday banner because we used it for my birthday too. He got mad when we finally took it down. That weekend we went to Grams in port st. lucie and had a huge Thomas the train cake and more presents. He loved it.
He is doing well in school and loves going there every morning. He had a long break over christmas and we went to MA for a week. Santa came to grandpas. Tita came here and Deo remembered her very well and we were all excited to see her. Then we went to ma because I missed everyone (I had not planned to go, I bought a ticket 2 days before)so unfortunatley we didn't get to spend a lot of time with her. We will go to Mexico soon and make up for it, hopefully in March again.
Here are some pictures during the past 2 months....

There are pics of birthday with gram, christmas at Grandpas, Deo modeling his scarf and hat (yes he LIKES to model...he gives me the camera and says take picture and starts posing as you can see) showing Rupa his stuffed dog, with our christmas tree at home, our trip to yankee candle and him feeding a dolly (that was Ginas christmas present before we wrapped it)

Bad Video... put your glasses on

Better yet get out your magnifying glass. I hope the good one comes soon!

School Pics

Deo is doing great in school, he loves it and it seems his vocabulary is expanding and he is learning other things as well. He was just debuted in the halloween performance at his school and he is a star! He was the only kid sing and dancing and doing the hand movements on center stage. He even clapped for himself. He loved the crowd, as opposed to me that would have ran away crying. I ordered the video from the school because amongst all the excitement I forgot to zoom on my camera and ruined the whole thing. (you can't zoom once you hit record on my camera) I will never live that one down, Ilich will be sure of that!
I will post the terrible video that I took anyway so you can try to put your face up to the computer to see him. He is in a blue shirt and devil's horns. He wouldn't put on his halloween costume for me but the teacher got him to wear those for the stage.

artwork

Still Busy!

I have been crazy this week. AGAIN. Yes it never ends. Sometimes its frustrating to work from home because you never leave it. I know some people don't really ever leave there job anyway but I have to do it while at home. So home has no refuge. And I do things that never really get done. There is always something else that is waiting to be listed on Ebay, always. So I have to give myself a little chunk at a time and say okay I finished the chunk.
I went to a thrift store the other day where everything was $.94 in the store. Yay! I bought 107 things. I would be happy just to make $5 a piece, but of course I hope they will bring in more. Some are good, some are crap. But I have learned it pays to add some $.99 listings to your store just to pull people in and you really don't make anything but $2 or $3 dollars on those items. Think of it as a marketing expense.
Deo is getting very big and HEAVY. It kills me to carry him around! He absolutely loves school and runs to the door when I drop him off in th morning. He loves his brother Alexander and runs around whining Brover (brother) looking for him. His vocabulary is expanding and we do underpants time at home every evening. He sits on the potty but hasn't gone yet. He pees on his feet in his underwear and doesn't like it but he doesn't quite get to go in the potty yet. And I think he thinks you have to be totally nked without a shirt to sit on the potty which is going to start problem when they start potty at school. He is going to want to take his shirt off too. He doesn't wear clothes in the house alot that is why he sits on the potty with his shirt off, because he didn't have one on in the first place.
Kai came over the other night, they love eachother. Thats them in the bath, eating yogurt on the kitchen floor and hugging.
I bought that fake aquarium for Deo the other day. He likes it, it is hanging on his wall now.
Thats Deo and his "Gicks" (stickers). We walk around the house with them stuck to our faces.
The first picture is what he does with those packages of peanut butter and cookie sticks or cheese and crackers. He doesn't eat them.

Coming up for air....

I just finished a paper for school that had to be at least 10 pages. Mine was 16. I have been totally crazy trying to juggle Deo, school, ebay (honestly haven't done much of that-thats what has been slacking) Ilich and eating sleeping and breathing. I am so stressed! School is hard and I just can't seem to find the time to do it!
Deo has been going to school everyday and he loves it! He is such a little man and sooo smart!NO MORE BOBO!!!! Can't you believe it? I never thought I would get rid of that thing. And let me tell you I wished I had it some of these days. My once well behaved child has become a spawn of satan. I think it is a mixture of not having the BOBO to calm him and the onset of the terrible 2's. Wow that expression really isn't a joke. I was in tears 3 times this week because of his behavior. But his personality has also grown, he is so funny too. I just have to keep him busy as best as I can.

Orientation in the morning!

Tomorrow is Deo's first day going to orientation for school. It will be for an hour tomorrow. I will tell you how it went then.
Here is the picture I am bringing for his cubby.