Ryan Adams From Jacksonville, NC: Meet Your Youngest Fan of “When The Stars Go Blue” -Video Post
I have the useless ability to pretty much know every word to almost every song ever played on the radio. Friends love to play “name that tune” with me to test my frivolous knowledge and I’ve been nicknamed the iTunes genius. I can bust out lyrics from songs from all eras; before I was born, in my early days, etc., and I have no idea where I store this information as most of the time I can’t remember yesterday. I have labeled my knack for knowing songs from my toddler era as “my car seat songs.” Songs that were popular when I was little that my parents jammed out to while I was indirectly exposed to as a hostage in my car seat. My first and favorite to this day is, “My baby takes the morning train, he works from nine to five and then, he takes another home again”
He Gets It From His Momma And Daddy Doesn’t Like It! (The High Heels, That Is) Video Post
“Brooke, you shouldn’t even post that video. If one of his high school classmates happens to Google his name and find your video of Sayle wearing your high heels, he will be made fun of at school!” My husband is constantly worried that I’m psychologically scarring Sayle by allowing him to wear, watch, or do certain things. When Sayle was a newborn, he hated that I dressed Sayle in “sissie clothes” (aka-smocked outfits); he wanted Sayle dressed in Manchester United gear at all times. He didn’t want Sayle watching Dora since Dora is ONLY for girls. Now, I’m messing Sayle up by letting him wear my high heels. What should I do? Discourage my two year old’s curiosity? Hardly. Isn’t that what two year olds do, explore and learn from the world around them? Sayle is simply mimicking what mommy does and mommy wears heels every day. Sayle also mimics what
Festivals As A Kid, Pre-Parent, And Post-Parent-Video Post
As a kid, I loved going to festivals. I loved the crowd, the vendors with the trinkets that I didn’t need but desperately wanted, the rides, the junk food, and the games my parents dropped tons of money on to win a cheap stuffed animal. The day was just filled with kid-awesomeness that goes along with festivals. When I moved to this area, my girlfriends introduced me to the Carteret County Seafood Festival and once again I was in love, but now I was old enough to drink-making the festival that much more….well, festive. Every year, a huge group of us would get together and head down to the Morehead waterfront and just have a blast. We’d listen to live music, hang out in the beer tent, browsed and bought things from the vendors (this time for our houses), hung out at the bars and ate oysters and other seafood.
New Milestone: The Two Year Old And His First Lie-Video Post
Our Sayle is a Pablo Picasso. Our refrigerator doors are covered with his masterpieces and I bring some of his fine works of art to hang on my walls in my office for that extra bit of Sayle flair. He enjoys coloring with crayons, finger paints, sidewalk chalk, markers-basically anything that colors as he expresses himself. And he doesn’t call them crayons, chalk, or markers, no. He refers to them as “his colors.” His favorite things to draw are of course, spiders-or “PIDERS!” (said in a squeal), the sun, moon, stars, choo-choo trains, jets, and airplanes. I watch in anticipation as he carefully creates his masterpieces with random scribbles and various colors then steps back, points, and declares it an airplane. My friend Amber gave Sayle a Crayola Art Easel, which he loves. The top of the easel has clips to hold paper if he wants to use paper, otherwise
Sand Crabs Are By Far The Best Toys At The Beach-Video Post
Growing up in Virginia Beach, I have fond memories of going to the beach every weekend with my parents and little sister. My parents would load the cooler down with drinks and snacks, slather us up with that colored Zinc stuff so we were covered in hot pink, hot green, hot yellow, and if we were REALLY lucky, hot purple, sun block (hey, we thought we were cool and it worked, let me know if you remember that stuff), and let us play to our heart’s content on that beach! My absolute favorite thing to do at the beach was to dig for sand crabs. My dad would stand at the edge of the surf and toss tons of wet sand towards the shore so we could pick the sand crabs out of the piles. Then we’d stick them in a bucket and carry them around for the rest of
Rascal Flatts, Counting Crows, and Sheryl Crow-You Don’t Exist According To My Two Year Old!-Video Post
While we were stopped at a stoplight on our way to school one morning, I was flipping through channels on XM radio. Being a huge 90’s music fan, I flipped it to either Lithium or 90’s at 9. The old school All Star song by Smash Mouth was on, and I started singing along. Sayle, in the backseat, exclaimed, “SHREK!” Noooooo??! Did my little man just bust out Shrek because he knew this song was on the movie?? Hm, maybe a coincidence? I grabbed my IPOD (while safely driving of course) and put on Accidentally In Love by Counting Crows to test my little music genius’ knowledge and sure enough, again he exclaimed, “SHREK!” I was very impressed for several reasons. One, being that it’s not like he’s watched Shrek that many times and for two, he knew the songs out of context. We were sitting in my car with
