i should start this by proclaiming: we are not sick! yippee-yea!
i'm just trying to remember what we've been up to the past few days... hhmm, we some some fondue with the crawfords on friday & it was very yummy. cheese; i love it...the fondue was a champagne, emmantaler (sp?) swiss, & baby brie. oh yum. with steak (grilled). it was so good, i am even blogging about it 3 days later!
adeline is basically potty training herself. but not really 'potty' training, more 'non potty' training or 'how to make puddles around the house all day'. geez oh man. it's frustrating & cute at the same time. she doesn't like wearing a diaper most of the time now, which is super. so we put the training undies on & she will take them off often to sit on the potty...then she'll get off the potty & squat in another room several minutes later (it's never the same amount of time, hard to predict) & leave a puddle. THANKFULLY, she has not taken a crap that way (yet). i just don't get it. we're even bribing her with m&m's...nothing. i'm almost to the point where a puddle of pee on the floor doesn't even bother me; i just think, 'hhhm, better clean that up sometime soon.' gross! what have i become?
amelia has started rolling over, only for wes, of course...from back to front, i believe. odd duckie. i just hear this loud "DEAR COME QUICK" & then she's totally uninterested in showing off for me. oh well, i saw addy's first roll over, i guess wes gets millie's. she is smiling & laughing so much now & is sitting in the exersaucer & we even had her in this jumper thing (i just found it at a garage sale last spring, sorry addy). just growing up so fast *sniff, sniff*...alas, she's also taken to not sleeping well at night again. but she's not sick. we're wondering if she's getting some teeth moving through the gums? hhmm. but she's just adorable & her hair is starting to lay down a bit more b/c it's getting longer, but not darker. so we may have a brown-red head on our hands. on tuesday,she has her 4 month shots & check up...egads, here we go on the screaming. i hope not, we will be giving her tylenol prior to the appointment this time. (if you don't remember, she cried relentlessly for nearly a day after her 2 month shots).
as for wes & i...we are both really tired lately. we're both getting up with millie 2, sometimes 3 times a night. i can't even comprehend what i'd be like if i was breastfeeding her still. well, i can: a zombie! she sleeps at night about as well as addy did, but then i didn't have a 2 year old running around during the day, so i could deal with it more. i think god was just blessing me early by making breastfeeding nearly impossible this time around!
& we have decided not to finish the basement yet. we are cheap, what can we say? we have a spare bedroom that's actually quite large, so we are turning that into the playroom. a few gallons of paint are much cheaper than a $2200 basement redo! (plus we want to save up for a kitchen redo...hopefully before our cabinets fall apart). anyway, we will be putting up walls around the basement stairs & that's it for now...the mini flood also helped us make this decision :o). so, off come the mattress from the bed frame; we are making it a fun room, one where addy & others can bounce from toy to toy (& our living room won't look like toys r us!). which means we need to find a home for the guest room bedroom set...hhmm. (note: no worries, future guests, we still have mattresses & box springs for you to sleep on! just at a lower level; but you'll be a much cuter room now).
& i will end here. i have cookies baking for my painter upstairs (wes is great. he is determined to get a total first coat on today, so i am thanking him with chocolate chip cookies, his favorite). as for the color of the room, we will leave that a surprise for now. when done, we'll post pictures. when we saw the paint on the wall for the first time, even we were a bit shocked...but it's all good! you'll love it.
i'm just trying to remember what we've been up to the past few days... hhmm, we some some fondue with the crawfords on friday & it was very yummy. cheese; i love it...the fondue was a champagne, emmantaler (sp?) swiss, & baby brie. oh yum. with steak (grilled). it was so good, i am even blogging about it 3 days later!
adeline is basically potty training herself. but not really 'potty' training, more 'non potty' training or 'how to make puddles around the house all day'. geez oh man. it's frustrating & cute at the same time. she doesn't like wearing a diaper most of the time now, which is super. so we put the training undies on & she will take them off often to sit on the potty...then she'll get off the potty & squat in another room several minutes later (it's never the same amount of time, hard to predict) & leave a puddle. THANKFULLY, she has not taken a crap that way (yet). i just don't get it. we're even bribing her with m&m's...nothing. i'm almost to the point where a puddle of pee on the floor doesn't even bother me; i just think, 'hhhm, better clean that up sometime soon.' gross! what have i become?
amelia has started rolling over, only for wes, of course...from back to front, i believe. odd duckie. i just hear this loud "DEAR COME QUICK" & then she's totally uninterested in showing off for me. oh well, i saw addy's first roll over, i guess wes gets millie's. she is smiling & laughing so much now & is sitting in the exersaucer & we even had her in this jumper thing (i just found it at a garage sale last spring, sorry addy). just growing up so fast *sniff, sniff*...alas, she's also taken to not sleeping well at night again. but she's not sick. we're wondering if she's getting some teeth moving through the gums? hhmm. but she's just adorable & her hair is starting to lay down a bit more b/c it's getting longer, but not darker. so we may have a brown-red head on our hands. on tuesday,she has her 4 month shots & check up...egads, here we go on the screaming. i hope not, we will be giving her tylenol prior to the appointment this time. (if you don't remember, she cried relentlessly for nearly a day after her 2 month shots).
as for wes & i...we are both really tired lately. we're both getting up with millie 2, sometimes 3 times a night. i can't even comprehend what i'd be like if i was breastfeeding her still. well, i can: a zombie! she sleeps at night about as well as addy did, but then i didn't have a 2 year old running around during the day, so i could deal with it more. i think god was just blessing me early by making breastfeeding nearly impossible this time around!
& we have decided not to finish the basement yet. we are cheap, what can we say? we have a spare bedroom that's actually quite large, so we are turning that into the playroom. a few gallons of paint are much cheaper than a $2200 basement redo! (plus we want to save up for a kitchen redo...hopefully before our cabinets fall apart). anyway, we will be putting up walls around the basement stairs & that's it for now...the mini flood also helped us make this decision :o). so, off come the mattress from the bed frame; we are making it a fun room, one where addy & others can bounce from toy to toy (& our living room won't look like toys r us!). which means we need to find a home for the guest room bedroom set...hhmm. (note: no worries, future guests, we still have mattresses & box springs for you to sleep on! just at a lower level; but you'll be a much cuter room now).
& i will end here. i have cookies baking for my painter upstairs (wes is great. he is determined to get a total first coat on today, so i am thanking him with chocolate chip cookies, his favorite). as for the color of the room, we will leave that a surprise for now. when done, we'll post pictures. when we saw the paint on the wall for the first time, even we were a bit shocked...but it's all good! you'll love it.
Can't wait to see the color...you guys are always so Color Brave when it comes to paint, so I'm intrigued that you were a bit shocked...hmm, what could it be?
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