World According to Shia

So as you all know from my previous post , I bought this CD player for Marissa (my 5 year old niece) for Christmas!  Well today on my lunch break I went and bought batteries for it!  I just remember when I was little and I had a little boom box I carried everywhere...I'm pretty sure the neighbors called the cops once but the cop just sat there watching me and my stepsister do our "dance routine" to Tiffany's "I Think We're Alone Now" (kinda pedo now that I think about it...lol).   So instead of going out and buying a 5 year old a bunch of CDs that will inevitable get lost or scratched,  I downloaded her some tunes and burned her a CD...which I can make over and over again. So here's her mix.... "Calling All the Monsters" ~ China Anne McClain "Love You Like a Love Song" ~ Selena Gomez "Lovesick" ~ Emily Osment "Your Love is My Drug" ~ Ke$ha "Raise Your Glass" ~ Pink "If I Die Young" ~ The...

I can't believe that I am talking about Christmas shopping in the BEGINNING of November.  I am normally that person that waits until the last minute but I guess all you lovely bloggers have inspired me to get my booty in gear.  So yesterday I started with my niece Marissa who is 5 yrs old.  She really loves Hello Kitty and jamming out to the radio so I thought...get her a Hello Kitty Radio!!  So I bought this from Toys R Us... {$29.99} {12.99} Also last year I wanted to get her some girly bath stuff since she really likes Victoria Secret Body Spray but I thought this is more age appropriate...lol {Free Gift w/ $30 + Purchase} The best part...ordered and paid online and the store emailed me when it was ready to be picked up!!  Which is awesome for folks like me with no kids....I can't say that Toys R Us or Babies R Us are my favorite stores to shop in so it's awesome to just be able to run in and out. So one niece down, two more to shop for....any ideas on...

So Marissa (my niece) has started kindergarten.  Last weekend I sat down with her to practice writing.  I pulled out this pen for her to use out of my purse and she was memorized by it.  She just thought it was the coolest thing ever! Shia & Rissa love post-its...we are the same!  If you are unaware of my post-it obsession click here .  I just love when I find more and more things that we have in common! Do you have children/or nieces/nephews that have similarities to you?  Don't you just love it? So at work, I am getting a new office.  While packing some stuff up, I found this pen that a co-worker had given me from their vacation because he figured if anyone would appreciate a pen...it would be me.  So I'm going to give it to Marissa...I am sure she will absolutely love it. When you write with it...it lights up! What do you think...do you think a 5 yr old would like this?

Here are some new pics that I have hung up at work. I still have more to come from Leah's 1 yr pics and Marissa's recital! I think I am going to need a bigger board! 

So remember this box..... It is what my laptop skin came in. So I finally found a use for it. When Marissa spent the weekend with me we bought some stuff for her to have at Auntie Circle's house to play with.  I just remembered that I also bought glow in the dark sidewalk chalk...we didn't get a chance to use it but seriously I am excited to see this stuff in action...we didn't have anything this cool when I was young.  Also, the twistable crayons in the box...genius Crayola...genius!  Okay so maybe I did some coloring too!  LOL I added her name to the box....I know she'll like this when she sees it. And she got her own little space in my closet. Okay so remember when I talked about recycling stuff from your bathroom like shampoo bottles, etc and how I was guilty of not recycling theses items as well.  Well I took this cute bag I got from a trip to Ann Taylor Loft and turned it into my recycle bin. Okay...

Grande Iced Green Tea Please!