Some people
Seriously, what the hell is wrong with people these days?!?!?! Nobody cares about anything anymore. That’s sad.
We’ve been staying home a lot lately, due to one of us always being sick. But now finally, everyone seems to be doing better. Thank God! So yesterday I decided to venture out with the kids. I needed to get a few things at Wal Mart and then was planning on taking kids to Toys R Us, since it was really windy outside.
So we get to Wal Mart, I park next to the curb and there is no one parked next to me. It wasn’t even that crouded. And you know, Wal Marts are ALWAYS crowded.
So we get what we came for and drive down to Toys R Us. Parking lot was pretty empty. There were very few people in the store. It was kind of nice to walk around with no crowds. Kids enjoyed all the freedom. They loved looking at all the toys without a bunch of people in the aisles. But, we did not find what we were looking for there either. They were pretty stocked on the toys, except for the one we were looking for. Maybe after Halloween?
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…. That night we all went out and Hubby noticed that there are 3 big dents on the back door behind the passenger. The side where Kapitonas sits. THREE DENTS!!! OMG!! There were little scratches around them, but the dents?! I was sooooo mad. Still am! How can people do something like that?!?!?! It’s not just a little scratch that can be buffed out. It’s not a little ding on the bumper. THREE DENTS on our new car. The car is not even 6 months old.
I know that it’s just a car, things will happen, it’s wear and tear. But it’s my new car! I still can’t get over it and it’s been a week already. I thought I’d just deal with it, but after seeing it every day, I don’t think I can drive it like that. So yeah, we will be taking it in somewhere to get it fix. Hopefully we won’t have to replace the door.
Another thing is that it doesn’t look like the dent came from the shopping cart. It’s kind of in an angle and we tried putting Target shopping cart next to the car and there is no way that it could have dented in tree spots.
So yeah, now I have a new beat up car. 
Hanging in there
I’m still here. Haven’t really been in the mood to write anything lately. This is also our third weekend that we are spending home. Actually that I am spending home, nubby and kids did get out today.
Two weekends ago Kapitonas came down with some cold virus. Was coughing a lot and wasn’t feeling good for almost a week. Then when he was started feeling better, I though wow nobody else is going to get what he had. Well guess what?! I spoke to soon! As we were getting ready to go out for a little last Saturday, Princess started coughing and when I felt her she was warm. Took her temperature and sure enough, she had fever. So we spend a second weekend staying home.
By middle of this week she was doing better, but still had that cough. Actually both kids still have it. Nut I thought no big deal, everybody is coughing everywhere we go. So we were making some plans to go out this weekend.
Wednesday night I felt like I was coming down with something. Went to bed early, thinking that might help. Wrong! Woke up Thursday morning with a soar throat and a stuffy nose. Blah!! So I’ve been pretty much out on Thursday, Friday and today-Saturday. Today actually is the worst. My nose is so stuffy that I have a hard time breathing unless I’m sitting. Which makes it really hard to sleep. But being it Saturday and hinny home, at least I can stay in bed and rest, even if it is half ways sitting up.
Hubby took the kids out today. I think they went to the park, drove around and then McDonalds. They brought some for me too. 
Anyway, just a little update on us.
A Day at IKEA
After checking out NBC studios, we went and had lunch at In-N-Out. After we headed to IKEA. One of my favorite stores in the world! And my hubby’s least favorite store. 
We went for basically two reasons: 1. pick and get a bed for the kids; 2. Look at some futons/couches. We kept some french fries from In-N-Out in the bag, thinking that would occupy the kids for a while. As much as I like walking around and looking at stuff, with two toddlers it’s just impossible! Seriously, even if they behaved good the first half hour (which they didn’t), then they would be all over the place later on.
We put the kids in the shopping cart and give them some juice. Right away Princess starts throwing a fit that she doesn’t want to sit there. The juice didn’t help. Then came the fries and she even pushed those to the side. So we go into elevator, because we want to go straight to the children’s furniture, and taking the elevator was the closets and fastest way of getting there. She calmed down in the elevator. Was even pretty excited to be there.
Once on the second floor, we head straight to the bed that we were thinking about getting them, but just wanted to look at it one more time. And that’s where it really all began. OMG!! That child has lungs!! As soon as we stop by the bed, she starts climbing out of the cart, screaming and not letting us to even touch her. All the people are looking at us. All of them. It was so freaking embarrassing!! I usually don’t get embarrassed or even pay attention to other people if my kid is whining or crying or whatever, but this time it was just different. So I’m trying not to pay any attention to the people, I write down the number of the aisle, where we can pick up the bed.
We start walking down to where the couches are and Princess crying and whining, but not as loud. So we almost get there when an IKEA worker comes up from behind me, taps on my sholder and says:
“Mom, here are a couple free frozen yogurt coupons for your kids”.
I was like oh ok, thank you! And thinking to myself that that was really really nice!
Kapitonas was behaving very well. We’ve already promised him a bookstore after IKEA, so he was just sitting there and waiting for us to be done. Getting a frozen yogurt was a big bonus for him!
Not sure about other IKEA’s, but ours have a food court on the second floor. And then on the first floor right by the exit, they have hot dogs, pretzels, some other things and frozen yogurt. Did you get that? Frozen yogurt is downstairs. by. the. exit. You know what that means, right?!
We have to go almost all around the circle to get to the elevator, then walk pass the area where all the furniture is, then pass the registers (which means we’d have to check out) and only then get to frozen yogurt. Hmmmm, makes me wonder why that guy gave me those coupons. Yes, it was nice, but I think he had another idea behind it. To get that crying kid out of the store!
So we did, we went all the way down, picked up the bed for the kids, checked out and then got the frozen yogurt. Although when we were picking up the bed, Princess was calm, she was just standing in the cart and looking around. So we could’ve went back up and looked at more things, but we were all the way by the exit already. Didn’t really feel like going back up.
No, we didn’t get to look at the couches or futons or anything else.
But we did get the bed which the kids are loving it!
Ellen and George
So as I mentioned it before, last Saturday we drove over to Burbank to see Ellen DeGeneres studios.
If you’re not familiar with Ellen DeGeneres, check out her website. She has a show called “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” that airs every day, Monday-Friday at 4pm on NBC. (you can find out what time her show is on where you live here) I love her show and I love her.
Well recently she started having a “George Watch ‘08″. Where she tries all the ways possible to catch George. Her studio is right next to George’s bungalow, so you’d think it’d be easy, but it’s not! So in a lot of the episodes she does something or send someone by his door in hopes of catching him. But with no luck. She will even make some kind of traps to catch George, but with no such luck. In fact, she gets stuck in her own traps. LOL
If you drive down the street (sorry, can’t remember the name of it) there are many big billboards on the building, advertising the shows, and one of the billboards is of The Ellen Show. One day, in hopes of getting George, Ellen had to put on a big huge poster of “George Watch ‘08″ over her billboard. (ah, and I can’t find a video clip for you to see it , I will though, I promise!)
Now back to my original post. Since we were in the area, we decided to drive down to the studios and see if the poster of “George Watch ‘08″ was really still there, and if it was done only for the show. And my friends, I’m sorry to disappoint you, but that huge poster of George Watch was gone. But!! I was able to get a picture of The Ellen Show billboard. Yeah, I know, I’m a dork.
So cute
Before I forget, I should write this down…
After making pumpkin pancakes this morning I sat down on the couch, the kids were playing very nicely, which in the last few days it’s a blessing. Princess had a little pink car and a little Dora doll. She was sitting on the floor and said:
“What’s up? What’s up?”
and then replied:
“I don’t know, I don’t know.”
And she had this cute little gorl voice going. It was so cute!
Then she put the Dora doll back and picked up Tasha from Backyardigans, and still holding that little pink car she said:
“Where is Dora?”
“I don’t know.”
“Where is Dora?”
“I don’t know.”
I have to say that she has a pretty good imagination, for a two year old anyway. Kapitonas never did that at that age. But then also he didn’t have that good of a vocabulary at age 2.
It’s just so interesting to watch them!
A cloudy and a rainy day
Wow, it was actually cold and wet on Saturday. I think the highest it got was 71F, and that was in Los Angeles.
I woke up on Saturday morning and it was really dark and cloudy. Looked out the window, it was wet. When the weather is like that, I like staying home. But we had plans to go out. As we were getting ready to leave, these darker clouds rolled in and it started drizzling. We let the kids out before we grabbed last minute things from the house, and they were having so much fun. Too bad I didn’t take any pictures. Princess was just hilarious. The faces she was making, the hood from her sweatshirt that she was trying to put on, the way she was standing and telling me that it’s raining, it’s wet, it was just all too funny!
Then on the way to the car she had to step in to every little puddle she passed. And I’m talking about little tiny puddles, like her foot was bigger then a puddle. There was barely any water in there, but she had fun splashing. The reason I was letting her splash, because there was barely any water in there.
We were off to Los Angeles. On the way there we had some really strong rain storms. Not sure if I would call them storms as they were only lasting for about 5-10 minutes. It was more like someone was pouring water out of their bucket.
We made it to LA where they had Lithuanian Fair. You won’t believe this. This year was the first year in 15 year that we didn’t go. 1. the weather was cloudy and didn’t want to be stuck there in case it rained; 2. it’s just not the same going there without my parents. Even though we went there last year and the year before without them, we just weren’t really up for it this year. Maybe next year.
Instead we drove around my old hood, drove by my old apartment, my high school (sniff sniff), the stores where I used to go all the time. It was kind of sad.
Then we decided to stop by the LA Zoo. I know I know, in a cloudy and almost rainy weather. We are crazy. Since we have the passes we thought we’ll just walk around, see some animals and if it starts raining, leave. We saw quiet a few animals, but the best were gorillas. I’ve never seen them be so active and walk all over the place. The baby one was playing, jumping on the branches, eating them. It was really cute to see and the kids loved it.
And there are a few others:
It did start to rain after a while. Kids again had fun walking in the rain, until we had to go up one of the little hills. THey decided that they were too tired and wanted to be carried. Kapitonas loves sitting on Daddy’s sholders, and the Princess just likes to be carried. So yeah, we both were carrying them.
After the zoo we decided to go by Burbank NBC Studios and Ikea. Which I will blog about those later.
October
wow, I can’t believe that it’s already October. Where did the time go? Where did the summer go? It all went by way to quickly!
So “the weather man” or the woman is saying that it’s supposed to be cooling off. Yay! But I will really believe it once I see it. It’s supposed to get down to high 60’s low 70’s by Saturday. So we’ll see, maybe I’ll start pulling the fall decor out.
Even today already feels a little cooler. Usually by 10 o’clock it will be already so hot, but today feels nice!
Anyway, the kids are pulling my arms and my legs, off to play!
