From food slave to food salvation

It's the Lenten season, which means a period of self-denial for us Catholics and other believers out there. While many celebrated Mardis Gras - or Fat Tuesday - last week, it seems I have been celebrating Fat Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and all the other days of the week, several times a day since Cruz was born. There was no denying my indulgence of sweets at every meal or snack - after all I was still eating for two, right? Twenty pounds and 3 months later, here we are.

Maybe I was in denial about my weight before but now I'm back on track, thanks to the resurrection of Jesus. The power of Christ compelled me to give up sweets, desserts, candy as well as red meat on Fridays.

Enter in obligatory Catholic loophole: apparently, according to one of my sources, we get one day to be bad again, and that's on Sundays. I guess God knew it was hard work to be penitent, so he decided to let us rest on the seventh day.

Long story short,as soon as I could say "Thank You, Jesus!" my mouth was full of my mom's sticky rice pudding. YUMMO!

Snow day!

While Lizzie Bennet Cruzada wouldn't go potty in the snow, nothing could keep that crazy dog from her frisbee.

"Oh my God, Becky."

Look at these cheeks. They are so big.

Tw-eye-light

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Originally uploaded by myflickrLC

Tonight, my family ventured into the magical world of vampires and bad acting when we watched the best thing that ever happened to Pam101 - aka the "greatest movie of all time" - aka Twilight. My parents, Dax and my brother's girlfriend and her daughter sat around the T.V. making quips and quotes over the awesomeness that surrounds this teenage phenomenon...highlights can of course be found on Pam101's blog here, because you know Pam101 captures everything Twilight.

My favorite highlight was during a Team Edward vs. Team Jacob debate. I'm going to call it my favorite "Tw-eye-light" moment. And I quote:

Sophie (age 9): "I'm Team Edward but I'm sorta leaning toward Team Jacob."

Dad (new Twifan - aka Pam's new BFF - age 60): "Yeah, I think I'm Team Edward."

Me (potential Cougar): "I love Jacob. Edward is boring and he's not even cute."

Lisa (Sophie's mom and my brother's girlfriend, beloved by us all): "I couldn't be Team Jacob. How could you? He's got those squinty little eyes."

At that point, the whole room got silent as Dax slowly turned to face Lisa, ala the Exorcist, and we all heard a cricket or two. As his own squinty little eyes glared over, she quickly stumbled over her next words, ala Bella (K-Stew) in any movie she ever appeared in. At that point, Dax had to take his shirt off to prove there was more to him as a Jacob look-a-like than the eye could see, ala rain scene in New Moon.

God made dirt, and dirt don't hurt.

And you better believe that Cruz takes his dirt seriously...

Like I said, I should be on HGTV!

Doppleganger week on FB

My parents think Cruz looks like Avatar star Sam Worthington. If so, my son is gonna be a hottie!!!!

"And no 'and then'!"

I think that's what Cruzito was trying to say here...

Cruz talking to Grandma from laura cruzada on Vimeo.

Astrololology Shmolology

When we were thinking of starting our cult, ahem, I mean family, Dax joked about how ideal it would be to have a Sagittarius, like him, whether it was a boy or a girl. So when we found out I was expecting at the end of November, I kept telling people that if it came early, you know he was a Scorpio like his mother. :) Alas, my little alien arrived on the cusp of the two astrological signs, Nov. 25. While still technically a Sag, he has the fiestiness of his Scorpian mother, who has what Dax likes to call, "hot asian blood." (In all fairness, I did throw a shoe at him once. Or twice. My bad.)

According to the tippy top authority on Astrology, the Aquarian Age Astrological Research Foundation... (lol)... "Scorpio is intense and sometimes violent." Since the little alien is only 10 weeks old, we can't yet say if he's inherited this characteristic. Although, this MIGHT be true when it comes to his BM.

Meanwhile, Sagittarius is "likely to be very social, energetic, of higher consciousness and may subscribe to the theory of ONENESS in the Universe." Of COURSE his sign had something to do with the Universe!! It might as well have said "may the force be with you."

Maybe this is why Dax insisted we register for the eighty-freaking-dollar Outer Space Activity Mat. I had originally intended to post a video of Cruz playing on it, but I took the video with my bberry and it turned out really sucky. So I'll have to renact it myself.

Cruz to play mat: "I am your father."

play mat: "NOOOOOOOOOOOO!"