Makeshift shoulder pads!

Heheheheh, Nathan is almost growing out of his infant car seat. The criteria for the infant car seat is that the infant needs to 1) be less than 22 pounds; 2) be less than 29 inches; and 3) be less than a year old. Well, at four months, he's 17 1/2 pounds and 27.75 inches. I'm guessing he's going to reach 29 inches in a month or so. I'm going to have to switch him out into the Toddler car seat soon. Anyhow, so here is a picture of him in his infant car seat. I had to remove the shoulder pads that the car seat came with because Nathan just looked super uncomfortable, but then I didn't want his head flopping everywhere when we are driving, so I decided to get 2 of his socks and I just placed them on top of his shoulders....hahah. Nathan says, "what are you doing, mommy?? I look silly."

Maui in less than 2 weeks!

I'm definitely excited about our trip to Maui on May 10th. What I'm not excited about is not being able to see Nathan for the 9 days that we will be gone. We are planning to bring a laptop, so that we can setup a webcam. Yea!
So, we are staying at the Westin Kaanapali Ocean Resort Villas, and from the pictures, it's look cool. http://www.westinkaanapali.com/rr_images.htm We traded our timeshare week in Vegas for a week at this resort, so it only cost us $150 to stay here. So, we are leaving the afternoon of the 10th, and coming back on Monday morning, the 19th. I think our plane arrives at 5:20am...then I'm off to work. Yup, off to work. I actually don't have any vacation/sick days because they got all used up when I was on maternity leave.
Anyhow, some things that we are planning to do are: biking down Mt. Haleakala, snorkeling at Molikini, and a full-day rainforest hike. I'm looking foward to all three. On the days we don't have anything scheduled, we are just going to lounge around and drive around. There are two places that I want to check out. Blackrock and Kapalua Bay. I hear great things about these two places, and they are only minutes from our resort.

My mind is back!

It's my 3rd day on the job, and it's nice to finally use my brain again.
Throughout my pregnancy, I was....a little air headed (haha, some people may say, "What, you are always air-headed!". Anyhow, I had what I call pregnancy amnesia, and I was...slow...yea, slow...my brain just didn't want to work when I was pregnant.
But now, back to crunching numbers and analyzing financials...and I'm just zipping through them. Whoopppee! It's nice to finally not feel stupid. You know, the feeling you get when everyone knows what's going on except for you? Actually, another thing I mastered while pregnant is the I-don't-know-what-you-are-talking-about-but-I'll-look-as-if-I-do look. HA! =)

Cobra and scorpion drink, anyone?

So, one of my staff members showed me this drink of his. He says it's from Vietnam. It's alcohol + a cobra snake + a scorpion. I told him that I was really grossed out, and that I couldn't even hold the bottle.

Check it out...the scorpion is in the snake's mouth. EW!

Second day back at work...

Well, back at work...After going through 1,000 e-mails, my eye balls are very sore now. So many changes these past 4 months at IMB...I found out that we are going to have to pay $72.50 a month for parking now (as opposed to $25), no more 401(k) matching, no more raises and bonuses...sad...


I must say it's nice to go back to work after a 4 month break, but I sure do miss Nathan. I've been going home for lunch though, so I can spend some time with him.

Here is a recent picture of him...

And I still haven't done anything with my hair yet...