Costco Is Lovely (and TBT)

Can we please, please talk about how awesome Costco is? I mean, the magnificence cannot be denied and should not be over-looked. Just think about it with me for a minute. You flash a card and get nodded into this exclusive club where right away there are a ton of snazzy looking electronics and 60 foot televisions and whatnot. Kaching! And then you get to wander around till your hearts content, and if it's the right time of day people will just give you food at random intervals because you look hungry and they are angels.

And the things you can buy in bulk! Of course the necessities like cold cereal and bread and Costco brand apple strudel muffins (which I tragically over-looked somehow on our trip yesterday and have been craving ever since), but then there are things like Cheez-Its (45 individual pouched for a little over eleven bucks!!!) and Cliff Bars. So you buy them and then you try to find someplace to store them all but you discover that the junk food drawer you set aside can't possibly contain the Cliff Bars and the Cheez-Its, so you pull out the almost empty candle drawer, remove the candles and try to fit all the Cheez-Its in there... only to fail because did you know 45 delicious pouches take up a lot of space? So then you throw your hands in the air and say, "I don't care who knows we love Cheez-Its," and put the whole giant box of them on top of the fridge for all to see and admire.

Andplusalso, they have grain free dog food at this heavenly store for super cheap (compared to other grain free dog foods), which is awesome because since we switched Llama Dog to a non-grain free food last week, he's had the runs. Gross.

Oh and guys, I don't know if you remembered, but today is Throwback Thursday! Yay! So because this is hopefully the last TBT for which I will be pregnant (get out of my uterus, baby!), I'm going to give you the progression of an almost Mama Llama.

 ^^^The day we found out I was knocked up. It was magical. And my hair was doing this funky too red thing because I box-dyed it. I do not recommend.

 ^^^Six weeks with child. See how flat my belly was? Those were the days. All the excitement, zero symptoms.

 ^^^20 Weeks. Halfway through the pregnancy. I was still nauseated, but otherwise feeling okay. And I was starting to look pregnant instead of just fat! Good times.

^^^This is a throwback to this past Sunday. 40 weeks knocked up. Can you see the craziness behind my eyes?

What is your favorite thing to buy at Costco? Cheez-Its are a food group, right? Can you think of another clever question to put here? 

Andplusalso! (TBT)

I know it's pretty late for a new post, but I'm feeling super sentimental at the moment, so you guys get to look at the following pictures. If you've seen them before on my old blog, I apologize. But really, that just makes it even more Throwback Thursdayish, because it's a double throwback! Winning!

Now without further ado, I introduce (or reintroduce) brand new baby Llama! (Me Llama, not the new Baby Llama).

Do you have pictures of yourself as a newborn? Do you think newborns are cute or odd looking? Based on the above pictures, would you say I had a cone head as a baby? 

Ramble, Ramble, TBT!

Sometimes I like to wear Mr. Llama's clothes while he is away. Can I help it that they are super comfortable and big on me and that he leaves them lying conveniently on the dresser, all unfolded and ready to be put on? You're right, I can't. All a(n uncomfortably pregnant) girl can do at that point is slip on the drawstring basketball shorts and oversized Captain America t-shirt before eating a big bowl of knock-off lucky charms (which are not as good as the real lucky charms) and logging onto the internet for the morning. Agreed? Agreed.

Did you know my due date is in eleven days? That's less than two weeks. But more than a week. And I'm not in single digits yet, and honestly my mom says I was 3 weeks late, so this child will probably just hang out until July 1st, at which point I will be so big no one will believe I'm fat instead of pregnant anymore. And then I can give birth to the largest ever recorded baby in the world, and I can get into the Guinness record book or something. And then that can be my interesting fact at functions where you're supposed to introduce yourself and say something memorable. "Hi, I'm Lidia and I gave birth to a 22 pound baby who was a month over-due and was born teething." Too much of a visual?

On the other hand, Mr. Llama was 3 weeks early, so perhaps Baby Llama will be juuuuust right--much like Goldilocks--and show up exactly on the tenth of June. Or any time between now and then would be cool. Did you hear that kid? Did you?

Oh and guys guess what! Today is throwback Thursday! I've never actually participated in this before, but right now I'm sitting in our dining room/office across from a photo wall thing we've got going on, and I can see two pictures which I would love to share with you, because I kind of think they are super adorable and that you'll like them, or at least pretend to because you're good at humoring me.

^^^Yeah, this is totally me. I have no idea how old I was, but I was darned adorable. Just look at the little pony-tail fountain! And the dress! And the monkey! And those bangs! Zeetus Lapeetus the cute!

^^^ This one is also me, only with slightly more magnificent bangs than before, and longer hair. And what seems to me like an air of nobility. I have to imagine that I was pretending to be a princess or something, so straight was I standing and so much lace did I sport. Not that I'm complaining. I dig the lace, and if I can find tights like that for Baby Llama, she will wear them all the time. Also, is that a bud light box in the corner?

^^^ Okay, on the real folks, I was going to post a picture of Mr. Llama at some high school dance with a girl who was not me because we hadn't yet met and made a baby, but then I thought about it and realized he would probably not appreciate pictures of his high school self being used here without getting permission... and he didn't answer his phone at work to give me permission. So Instead you get to look at this uber adorable but less interesting picture of Mr. Llama as a baby. On the plus side, if you morph this picture and the one of me with the fountain hair, you kinda get an idea of what Baby Llama might look like. Because I'm hoping she comes out looking a little cuter than the following.

Do you have a blog? Will you post throwback thursday pictures of yourself there so I can go look? What is the most embarrassing photo you or your parents have of your childhood self?