Cody and His Drawers

No, not THOSE drawers!!!  Sheesh, what kind of blog do you think this is?!

Cody's dresser drawers!  He makes a beeline to any kind of dresser, shelving, desk, etc and must open up all the drawers to discover what's inside.  Today he was checking out what was in his very own dresser.  Here are a couple cute pictures and a video from his findings.

(This is what I found after I had left him alone for about 9.2 seconds.)

(What a goon!)

(He never used to ham it up for the camera.)

So, yeah, Cody thinks he is P.R.E.T.T.Y funny!!  At the end he tries to stand up and almost topples me over.  Here's the vid.

Target Deals 3/24

I had some extra energy tonight, (was it the Flintstones vitamins I started taking again, or the McDonalds sugar-free vanilla latte I had at 4:30pm?  Hmmm.  Gee, I have to think about that one!) so I ran to Target after Cody was in bed.  This worked out great!  I didn't have the guilt of leaving my little one after not seeing him all day while I was at work, and got to enjoy the quiet and quite empty store.  I prefer to do my Target/grocery shopping first thing on weekend mornings, i.e. 8AM, although it's very hard for me to get there at that time these days.

Anyway, I got some good deals at Target tonight so thought I would share.  I had a few other things on my list (from reading deal blogs/websites) but my Target (Rogers) didn't carry them.

* 1 Pledge multi-purpose spray $3.74 less $2.00 mftg coupon less $1.00 Target coupon = 74¢

* 2 pkg Cheetos snacks $1.29 less $1.00 Target coupon = 29¢ each

* 2 bags Green Giant russet potatoes $1.99 on sale - $1.00 Target coupon = 99¢ each

* 4 Market Pantry cream of chicken soup 79¢ each - 50¢/2 Target coupon = 54¢ each (these seemed to have gone up in price from the last time I bought them)

* 3 Artisian sandwich bread mini-loafs 99¢ each - $1.00 Target coupon = FREE (these look great for work sandwiches!

* 1 Folgers coffee $6 on sale - $1.00 Target coupon - 25¢ mftg coupon = $4.75 for a large container (I heart coffee.)

* 2 pkgs Laura's lean ground beef (92/8) $2.99/lb on sale - $1 mftg coupon = $1.99/lb

* Diet Dr Pepper - free after coupon -- but they didn't take it off ... GRRRR $1.59 wasted

Those were the highlights (and one lowlight) of my shopping adventures for this evening. 

Are You Out There?

Okay, peoples, there are more than just my mom and a small handful of others that read this blog, so....who are you??  Just this week there was 21 NEW and unique people that visited here!  I don't have the blog set up as searchable under Google, etc., I rarely post the blog address anywhere and I don't have it linked under Blogger's directory.  So....who are you??  Please--I just want to know who's reading this!  Is that so much for a girl to ask?

So, please, if you would, take a second and post a comment to my page.  It's super easy, just click on the "__ Comments" link underneath this post.  It would make me SO-OOO happy!!  I am thinking about setting up only authorized users to be able to view the blog for privacy reasons, so if you want to keep reading, please comment so I know who you are!

Thanks so much!

Happy St Patrick's Day!

We didn't really do anything special to celebrate, but we did put Cody in his favorite green shirt.  Really, he does have other shirts, but we tend to photograph him quite a bit when he's wearing this shirt!

He was having fun earlier today hanging on the railing by the stairs.  Oh, and he is getting to be QUITE the little expert on climbing up the stairs as well as sliding back down on his belly.  Apparently that's ALL he wanted to do at Cari's house today!!  Little stinker!  We have to watch him like a hawk at all times.  Thank Gordon we have the baby gates installed here now.

He had 100% whole milk today at daycare and did great at drinking it ~ wooohoo!!!  Maybe the days of no formula are in our near future after all!  We have been mixing it 1/2 and 1/2 lately as he has been spitting it out.  Soooo frustrating.  But, I'm not complaining.  He eats absolutely everything that we give him!  I know this may change, so I'm enjoying it while we can.  He had cottage cheese at daycare today and could not get enough of it!  Tonight, he had chicken taco meat, soft taco shell, American cheese, squash and J-E-L-L-----O!  Yummers!!

Tonight we had fun doing a "video chat" with Grandma and Grandpa Hart tonight.  They got to see and hear Cody and Gordon on the computer screen LIVE!  Now they just have to get a camera of their own so Cody can see them back!  We'll have to get the other set of grandparents hooked up, too.

Hope you had a fun St Patrick's day and didn't drink too many green beers!  :-)

Not much to say...

Not too much going on in our neck of the woods.  I had the day off today (Monday), so I enjoyed spending some extra quality time with the little one.  I am grateful, but I don't really like having Mondays off from work...it is nice to have the long weekend, but by Monday I'm exhausted from the weekend of all the household chores & 24/7 baby duty, that sometimes it's a nice break to go back to work.  I really don't know how stay-at-home moms do it...but they also don't have to pack a week full of housework and whatnot into two days.  I wonder what it would be like to stay home full time, but I think that I have the best of both worlds right now with working part-time (4 days a week).  I know my company may like me to be full-time, and some days I consider it because we might be able to make some adjustments in other areas of our household, but for now, our setup is working pretty good for us.  

Cody has been taking really awesome naps lately, which is good for my to-do list!  He's been taking a 2 hour nap in both the morning and afternoon.  I know we are really lucky!  He goes to bed around 8:00pm and gets up around 6:00-6:30 am so we can get him to daycare by about 7:30.  I do love naptime so.  I'm a morning person...errrrr....once I get up....so I don't feel too motivated at night after he goes to bed (which makes Monday-Friday tough) but at least I can get emails answered, tv shows on the DVR watched, and blogs read (you know...important stuff).

Gordon and I took Cody for a stroller ride after work today for the second day in a row.  It's been gorgeous here!  I think it hit close to 60 today, which felt h.e.a.v.e.n.l.y   We walked to the park and were going to let Cody swing, but the baby swings were above a huge LAKE of water!!  I wish I would have had my camera to take a picture!  It was quite humorous.  We'll have to try a different park by our house another day.

Well, the DVR is calling my name with "Big Bang Theory"!  Talk to you later, blog!

More good deals

Okay, I think I am going a bit overboard here....wayyy too much time spent on calculating prices and deals, but at least we should be set for awhile in a few areas of our household buying!

Target deals today:

* Pampers diapers - Jumbo Pack $9.00 on sale less $2.00 Target coupon less $1.00 mftg coupon = $6.00

 

* Huggies wipes $5.99 less $1.50 Target coupon less $5.00 mftg coupon = (0.51) profit

* Johnson Buddies soaps $0.97 less $1.00 mftg coupon = (0.03) profit (I bought two and will be buying more as there are loads of coupons out there!  Will save for when Cody is bigger.  Soap doesn't go bad, right?!)

* Johnson's Baby Powder $2.19 less $1.00 mftg coupon = $1.19 (for my hubby LOL)

* Market Pantry soup $0.54 each less $0.50 off 2 Target coupon = $0.29 each

* Beef Chuck steak $2.67 less $2 Target coupon = $0.67 for "glorified hamburger" as my dh said.  Oh well! 

* Motts Applesauce $1.69 less $1 Target coupon less $0.55 mftg coupon = $0.14 each (got two at this price and one at the 0.69 price; still a deal!)

* Raspberries & strawberries $5.00 total

-- Saved $20.37 per receipt; out of pocket spent $15.49

Cub Foods deals:

* Did the Heinz promotion where you spent $20 and got $7 back in coupon to be used next grocery trip (on anything) - got ketchup for $2 each, OreIda fries for $3 each, Bagel Bites for $1.50 each (after mftg coupon), pasta sauce for $2.00 each (after mftg coupon)

* Did the Dove pomotion where you spent $15 and got back $5 in coupon for next time.  Had mftg coupons for all items plus I love Dove products so this was a win-win!

* Found 3 packages of "almost expired" chicken breast (Bake It Easy and seasoned varieties) for $0.99/package.  Woohoo!!  Even had a coupon for $1 off so one was totally free.  Wish they were more.  Straight into the freezer they went (they had sell by date of tomorrow and next day) which they would have anyway.

* Free bakery bread with coupon in recent mailer

* I did buy other normal grocery items too....

I used a $2.50, $5.00 and $10.00 off purchase coupons that I got on a previous shopping trip...along with a $30 gift card I got with a new prescription (that was only $7 after insurance paid).  

Total paid out of pocket = $34.82 less $12 coupons to use next trip = net total $22.82.  Receipt said I saved $36.49 or 37%.

Woohoo!

I think I need to chill out a bit now.  Too much time spent on this stuff and my shelves are getting full!  We should be set for toothpaste, hair care, soup, ketchup etc for the spring and summer!

HOpefully I will get back to posting about Cody ~ the main reason for this blog!  But, I hope you enjoyed my shopping adventures anyway.

Walgreens Trip #2

I made my second trip to Walgreens for more deal seeking today!  I am pretty gosh darn proud of myself, if I do say so!

Here's what I got.  Not a large list, but I had a whole 10 minutes to shop before getting the little guy from daycare.

* 4 bottles Coffeemate Creamer Buy One at $2.49, Get one Free less two $1.50/coupons = 75 cents each

* Colgate Toothpaste $3.49 less $2.50 instant coupon less $1 mftg coupon = $0.01 profit

* Had to buy a chocolate (darn!) for 59 cents to get my total high enough

* Used $2 Register Reward off the total

Grand Total Spent out of pocket = 84 cents

Woohoo :)

Here's the proof!

Btw, Nancy?  You're a total crab-apple!!!