I took my “baby” girl to the Dr. yesterday for a well check. Due to the craziness of Jason losing his job just before her birthday last year, we never made her 3 year well check appointment. Since I had been trying to get her into a specific preschool program (which I’m not really going to discuss here), I knew she needed to have a physical.

I’ve suspected she’s on the tall side, but since the kids her age that she plays with here are short for their ages, I wasn’t sure how she compared. Then when I took her to the preschool playdate, I noticed she was one of the tallest kids in the classroom.

Yesterday, I found out where she fits in the curve.

She’s 41 3/4″ tall
She’s 40 lbs.
She turns 4 on August 25.

Dr. M. said she’s in the 90th percentile for height and weight. That means she’s taller than 90% of kids her age. Dr. M.  plays this little guessing game giving you a general idea of how tall your child is going to be. He said from the get-go that she’ll probably be 5′7″ plus a little. Something like 5′7.75 ” I thought this was impossible because for the first few years of her life, she was in something like the 5th percentile. She was small. She was always a year behind on clothing sizes. All of a sudden, she turned 3, wore 3T clothes for a few months before quickly outgrowing them and going into a 4T. The 4T pants are getting too short for her too. So yesterday he looked over her chart and said she was on track to hit that 5′7″ prediction.

My oldest daughter is 14 and she’s 5′4″ (and all leg.) She has another 3/4″ until she’s as tall as me. Won’t be long until she’s looking down at me.

My son, well he’s still short. One of the shortest boys in his class, but he’s not even 13 yet. I have no doubt that he’ll be passing me up in no time at all. I get to be the family shorty. The funny thing is I’m average. I’m not particularly short. Being surrounded by all these tall people is going to b e a serious blow to my ego. I’m sure they’ll make fun of me the way my 6′3″ husband does.

Today over at Shutter Sisters, they’re talking about bubbles.

Jason took this picture of Caitlin back in 2004, and it remains a favorite of mine to this day.

Yesterday morning I came downstairs and sat at the computer like I do every morning. Occasionally I’ll find a group of pictures on the desktop that my oldest transferred from her cell phone. I have no idea what she actually does with these photos. Anyhow, I’ll occasionally find one that is questionable, and yesterday was one of those days. It wasn’t racy. She wasn’t scantily clad or anything. So what was questionable? She was flipping the bird. I made an improvement to the picture and want to share it with all of you.

Have a great day everyone.

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I love the 4th of July. It’s my 3rd favorite holiday, right behind Halloween and Christmas. The funny thing is Jason and I rarely do much for it. Another thing is we just never know what the weather will be like. Some years it’s cold, others blazing hot. This year the weather was darn near perfect. It was in the mid to upper 80’s and had been for a few days. That gave the pool time to warm up, and what better way to celebrate than with a BBQ and a pool party?

Instead of writing all about it, I figured I’d show you snippets of our day. Hope you enjoy the pictures.

Can’t wait to do it again next year!

I was chatting with a group of friends this morning, and we were talking about various hazards for each of our locations. Being in SoCal, we’re under constant threat of “The Big One.” Yes, earthquakes. Many people I talk with say they don’t think they could handle living someplace where the earth shakes beneath their feet. I just say that in my area, we haven’t had a really good shaker since January 1994. We’ve have a few small to moderate shakers since then, but I could probably count on 1 hand the number of memorable earthquakes we’ve had since then.

I say I don’t want to live where there’s a good chance your house will get picked up and moved to another location every year. Or just blown apart by wind and pounding rain. I mean there are people that call tornado alley home. Craziness! They call it that because there’s GOING to be tornados. Where as here, there might be an earthquake, you might feel it too. Then again you might not.

Anyhow, I’ve digressed. I was telling these friends that during the last decent earthquake we had, while my kids were diving under tables and getting in doorways, I stood up from my desk chair and prepared myself to catch any falling shot glasses.

Shot glasses are the only honest to goodness collection I have. So I snapped a picture and though it might be interesting to show you the collection. I’ve numbered each glass and will take you on a tour of where I’ve been.

Here’s what it looks like in all its glory.

And now for the detail:

Top Row

1. Blank square glass from the many buttery nipples I had at my bachelorette party
2. crazy shotglass with recipes from a gf given to me at my bachelorette party
3. Ensenada Mexico
4. Ensenada Mexico
5. Batman (Six Flags Magic Mountain)
6. Wonder Woman (Six Flags Magic Mountain)
7. Superman (Six Flags Magic Mountain) I had a season pass there years ago.
8. US Marine Crorps. This glass is awesome and if you want a slose up, just leave a comment. No I was never in the Marine Corp and technically displaying this glass violates my rules for displaying them. However, my sis-in-law is a former Marine, and my daddy was a Marine. Semper Fi!
9. The Ice House in Pasadena, CA. Got this one when we were celebrating a birthday.
10. Hard Rock Cafe, LA.
11. Dave and Busters 1
12. Dave and Busters 2 – My birthday shot
13. Dave and Busters 3
14. Florida. This one is a little iffy, it borders on violating my rules. I’ve been to Florida, but it was before I started collecting the glasses. A family member went and he brought me a Florida glass. I figured I’ve been there, it’s totally acceptable to go up on the shelf.
15. Seligman, AZ
16. Laughlin, AZ
17. The Grand Canyon,, AZ
18. Tortilla Jo’s, my favorite place to have cocktails with friends.
19. Boston, MA (Jason’s glass. He’s lucky I gave him space on my shelf)
20. Planet Hollywood, San Francisco (Also Jason’s.)

• Bonus 1 The Wicked Queen from Snow White figurine
• Bonus 2 Malificent from Sleeping Beauty figurine.

Bottom Row

21  Plain glass from When I stayed with friends in Vegas rather than a hotel
22   Gameworks, Vegas
23  Monte Carlo Hotel, LV
24  Luxor Hotel, LV
25  The Orleans, LV
26  Rio Hotel, LV
27  Star Trek Experience, LV Hilton, LV
28  Mandalay Bay, LV
29  Tropicana Hotel, LV
30  Vive Cuervo glass from Gameworks, LV
31  Imperial Palace Hotel, LV We stayed here 1 night, but I won a $1000+ Jackpot at this hotel on our first night in Vegas for this trip. It was CRAZY awesome.
32  Mammoth, CA
33  Mammoth, CA
34  Disney’s California Adventure
35  Disneyland 50th Anniversary glass
36  Disneyland,CA
37  Knotts Berry Farm, CA
38  Hollywood, CA Walk Of Fame glass
39  San Diego, CA
40  San Francisco 1
41  San Francisco 2
42  San Francisco 3
43  Ontario, CA (Got this one at the podcast expo a few years ago. I had such a great time and wanted a memento to remember it all)
44  Lake Arrowhead, CA (Went there for the 4th of July a few years back) Ack 44 is actually the bear on the side of the glass so my numbering is messed up a bit.
45/46   Two little Feigling bottles from Oktoberfest a few years back. It’s this goofy fizzy fig shot and it’s not good!

So there you have it. If there are any that you’d like to see in detail, Let me know and I’ll go ahead and smap a picture of it.

I’ll explain the rules. My rule is if I haven’t been there, it doesn’t go on the shelf. I’ve received shot glasses from people, and rather than display those, I put those to work.  None of my shotglasses are used for actual, you know, shots. They’re purely decorative.

What about you? What items do you collect? Do you have any rules that go along with the collection?