WE LOVE OUR P.A.T!

Ok, so our Parents as Teachers "friend" Dana came over tonight, She's so great, we just love her. So, our visit went so fast but we got a lot out of it. I made Miss T a blanket and actually finished it this past weekend when I thought for some God forsaken reason that I was going to be sleeping. I stayed up till midnight Saturday to finish it with her crawling. Her knees are so torn up and red that I think it helps. Plus it's an amazing blanket and so soft that we needed it done.

Our New Mastercard commercial...

Satin backing, 2 yards, $12
Tupperware buckets set of 6 for $20
6 yards of minky super soft material $30
special ordered metalic polkadot fabric $9
plus $3 shipping

Parents as Teachers rep comes over and tells us good toys and she plays with ziplock bags and babyfood lids in a wipe container for an hour....
priceless!











We saved babyfood lids so we could work on our sensory skills, hearing, touching, putting things in the container and taking them out. Dumping and the sounds made when they bang together. Who knew they were so much fun. Thanks Beechnut!
















daddy drinks more than enough soda, you color noodles with food coloring and WHALA! shakers / rollers. Colors and sounds. Thanks Mountian Dew!









Special book of pictures, extras - not to be left alone with baby.. this is ziplock bags!!! but, see pictures of family and friends, recognize faces and this is really cute, we made one!


Thanks Dana, we love our PAT Nights.. :D

List 5. I Read

HAHAHAHAaa.. where has my life gone? I did read a lot before, and never took advantage of it. I could not read when I was pregnant, it made me fall asleep, a friend at work lent me a book and I swear I read page 6 for 5 nights in a row and never made it past that point.... But now I am back on track and read again

1. I read the news but only at work, I mean that's what I do so I get to read it for free and right now, oh geez, it's well, interesting.
2. I read magazines but not the smutty ones, I read Parents, Parenting, Cookie, Family Fun, and anything at the grocery store checkout that I don't plan on buying. I wish Martha would make a Real Simple Family for every month. Work on that Martha, could ya?
3. I read Any and everything by Elizabeth Berg. I love her work, she's so talented.
4. I read your blogs, Tons and tons of them. I love all my peeps (on the right) I may not always comment, but I am always checking in!
5. I read cookbooks, ok I am totally Lying, I look at the pictures, if I don't like the picture, I won't look at the recipe.
6. I read e-mails, I love getting e-mail from my family, there is an ongoing banter that I miss when everyone would go out and send e-mail back and forth. My brothers are HILARIOUS!
7. I read baby books, lots of pictures and words in big bold letters. Much more interesting than I expected.
8. I read directions... Lied again! I don't, I am one to try to figure it out first, and if not, then read them. I once heard on the radio "Directions are just another guys opinion" it was a comedian but I still believe that to be true.
9. I read people, even if I have no gaydar.. I can read people pretty well, at least enough to know emotions.
10. Yes, I read twilight, and will probably again, Who knows of any good books now?

I LIED--

We didn't cut A tooth this weekend -- We cut TEETH this weekend.. TWO of them - the bottom two are in. Our sitter was so right to say she thought we would be cutting teeth soon....

List 4. I Watch

Ya'll may think this is a list of TV only -- but it's not..

1. I watch the trees in the fall, and the leaves blowing in the wind.
2. I watch birds flying in circles, all in big groups, I could watch that for hours.
3. I watch my baby crawling and moving around, in anticipation of her next move, almost holding my breathe trying to let her do her thing.
4. I watch my husband cut the grass, back and forth, up and down the hills, he loves it, he will never admit it, but he does.
5. I watch my baby grow, her hair is longer now, we are going to start wearing barrettes soon. I ordered a few online and I am going to make some myself. I watch her legs get longer, and her feet growing, she's more limber and coordinated, she can eat her feet, giggle and laugh, sing songs to herself, crawl, pick things up, take pots and pans out of their stacks, put things in her mouth, change hands and do it with the other hand. talent I tell ya
6. I watch the kids on our street, playing, remembering when I was that age... Amazement, I can't get over the memories.
7. I watch my friends kids get older, do more, have more kids, be so cute... (add another thing to wish list, that we were all closer to each other too)
8. I watch Grey's Anatomy, House, Biggest Loser (sometimes, I have not been into it this season) Lost (when it starts), Heroes, Private Practice, Men in Trees... and that's about it. We don't have cable, satellite, or whatever... I know we will get it when Miss T is older and wants it, but until then, we don't need it.. We have enough to do.
9. I watch my mothers hands, I know this is something that she will e-mail me on later, but we have the same hands and I have always watched her hands, they are so much more delicate than mine, almost like she's composing all the time. I watch my own hands add freckles ever year, more and more, now I look at Miss T's hands and wonder if I will see the same thing.
10. I watch me change, I am growing into a new person. I am not the same today as yesterday, constently changing, not a bad thing of course, but surprising that this is who I am. I am glad, I have not always been glad about that, but I am now, and I am blessed.

List 3. I Wish

Lets face it.. we all want something, but this list is for those big crazy things...

1. I wish we had a pool, it's just not going to happen right now, but it may someday.
2. I wish we lived closer to family, the cousins, all the girls are so close in age, it would be great to live closer to them.
3. I wish I didn't have to work, ya a lot of moms say this, I could be fine working part time but thanks GW.
4. I wish I knew if I wanted more kids, I am just so happy with Miss T right now, I am not thinking of anything else. Everything she does makes me happy and she's just the most perfect baby ever... I am in mommy bliss.
5. I wish I were better at buying my husband gifts. He is so hard to shop for...
6. I wish I could open my own store, and sit down and sew all the time but that's not good for anyone, epically my butt!
7. I wish (ok sometimes) I could go back in time and change a few little things from my past, but if you watch Heroes then you know that it all falls into that butterfly effect and bla bla bla..
8. I wish my sister(s) (and sisters in law) lived closer, it would be so great to have someone here that could walk with me, work out together, hang on the weekends, bookstores and all that.
9. I wish we were closer to my mom too, it's so nice when she gets to spend time with Miss T, but it's not as often as I would like. I loved that my Godmother was across the street, and even more so, that she bought a crib when I was born so I could be over there more often...
10. I wish Bob's dad was not such a POS, and that mine was not either. Would have been nice to have some grandfathers. We do love the men in our lives but those two make it hard on us both.

Crazy wishes I know, no trains planes, helicopters, living in Hawaii.. I mean those are all things I would take of COURSE!! but the above is higher on the list.

It's go time!!!

We cut our first Tooth..
More details after we try to get a good nights sleep!

List 2. I Love..

My post went blank!! YIKES! Lets start over...

I love that today is my anniversary, it's been a great time with Bob and I. A long road and a lot of fun.

1. I love the same man that my daughter does...
2. I love the same girls that my husband does - (ya, that includes me too)
3. I love the smell of fall in the air, the crisp sound of the trees and the changing colors of all of the leaves in our back yard.
4. I love to feel inspired and get something done.
5. I love clean sheets, cold pillows and warm toes.
6. I love to get a drink from my bathroom faucet in the middle of the night but only in winter. The water is so cold and refreshing... Odd I know, I loved it as a child too...
7. I love the smell of my daughter, everything about her scent, the sweet of her breath, the smell of her hair after she wakes up..
8. I love walking, for miles and thinking about endless things, but walking outside is the best.
9. I love long showers and sleeping in on Saturdays, great hair cuts and pedicures.
10. I love my husband, my daughter, my family, his family, my neighbors, my friends, my coworker friends that I miss (because we all moved around so much), my Godparents, my real parents, my mothers friends, my sisters friends, my nieces, my aunt, my life long friends that play phone tag with me no matter what, and my long distance friends that don't forget me even when we are super busy and times are tough..

Love you all..
(and yes I cheated, I know this is more than 10)

List 1. I Miss...

Here is list one Welcome to 10.10
These are things I miss...
(in no special order)
1. I miss my baby falling asleep on my chest for no reason during the day
2. I miss my dad.. sometimes, when I am not cleaning up the shit he left behind
3. I miss my Godmother, all the time, every day... I wish she were here to see all our babies
4. I miss Don, I know I talked about him before, I still do miss him. There are times when Miss T does something that I know I would have called him and told him.
5. I miss Melissa's sight, it hurts me to hear whats going on with her now. We are working on baby sign language for Miss T and she won't get it, see it or know what she wants until she can talk.
6. I miss my car, I know it sounds silly but I miss my mess, I miss my own.. I love my family but I miss having something that was just me.
7. I miss my pre-preggo bod.. I am working on getting it back but there is a whole nursing guilt there, I don't want to starve Miss T, I am too tired to work out most nights, and I pump at work so I don't go walk because I feel like I am away from my desk too much. There, I said it...
8. I miss my music, I feel out of touch not listening to new music that I love. I am sick of pop, and whatever radio crap is on... I need new tunes...
9. I miss good books, I loved Twilight, I admit it.. I didn't think I would, I am glad I waited until book 4 was coming out, but I think now that it's getting cold we need to start our book club back up.
10. I miss PIZZA... Not eating it, working with it.. I was in the best shape of my life working at a pizza place. Carrying things around, working hard, lifting, walking.. I HATE MY DESK!

ok, enough about me today, any TEN's out there?

My life as a Country Song...

So, I found this pattern on ETSY to Knit and knot buttons.. Super cute, pattern is $4 the buttons sell for $35 so I talk to my mom and we decide to buy them:
She can't knot, I can't sew, lets get up in our pickupm up truck and gooooooo..........
Also, this morning, a black cat crossed my path, funny thing is, I was thinking how lucky I was that I didn't hit him/her...
Who says luck is all we got, I say that cat's got a lot.......
I need to get some things done in my sewing room and get the house cleaned up, seems like every time I turn around, the laundry I just folded is dirty again... how does that happen?
There's a hole in my bucket dear Liza Dear Liza...
This weekend is Bob and my anniversary, we are not planning anything because we forgot until, gulp, yesterday...
We're living on love, missing some time, whatever is your of course is mine...
It's been a rough couple weeks here, every ones been sick off and on, starting to crawl, needing the grass cut and the yard worked on, bathrooms to clean, dishes to wash, and I can't seem to catch up on me...
Where does the time go, and the dishes pile up, my baby's still dirty and the grass needs some cut, we're trying to clean and get a nap too, but we started to crawl and that's all that we doooooooo........
thank you, thank you, next shows are at 9 and 11... don't forget to tip your server and check out our first 10 list tomorrow!!!

Oh Pea's Bee Nice, Sew I can sleep...

My life sometimes sounds like a blues song...
Dun Nu Nua, Nu Nu... I got up this morning, started driving to work....Dun Nu Nua, Nu Nu... There was a bee in my car... Dun Nu Nua, Nu Nu... Scared me so bad, I had to pull of on the shoooll --derrr.......
Dun Nu Nua, Nu Nu... Got home from work yesterday...Dun Nu Nua, Nu Nu... Started making dinner...Dun Nu Nua, Nu Nu... Got it all ready and droped the peas on the floor...Dun Nu Nua, Nu Nu... Wore them on my jeans and the counter and all...
Dun Nu Nua, Nu Nu... Miss T is now teething...Dun Nu Nua, Nu Nu... She also got a flu shot so we were up of and on all night...Dun Nu Nua, Nu Nu... didn't get much sleep and I got kicked in the ribs all over again...Just like last year this timee.....
Dun Nu Nua, Nu Nu... got to work today...Dun Nu Nua, Nu Nu... Felt a tug on my pants...Dun Nu Nua, Nu Nu... ripped out the hemline...Dun Nu Nua, Nu Nu... and had to tape them up real tight....
Cuz, I'm a wommmmannnn... (ok, I had to throw that part in!!)

SIX

My Baby is 6 months old... SIX.. Can you believe it?? Me Neither!!
1. Six months old
2. Six hours was our former record of sleep per night
3. Six foods that we like are:

• Apple(sauce)
• Peas
  
• Bananas
• Pears
• Peaches
• green beans
  

We are not a big fan of carrots but we've been known to eat them.. But Chicken does not taste like Chicken.. Ewww We SPIT IT OUT!

4. Six girls are in our nursery set and we talk to them all the time.
5. Six steps crawling is my record so far but I am working on beating that!
6. Six times the smiles, wiggles, crawls, jumps, laughs, baths and love that we have going on now that We are one big family!

What other sixes?

• 
• We do have a 6 Flags by us..
• The atomic number of carbon
• The Day that God created Man
• The number of points on a Star of David
• The number of orders of the Mishnah
• The number of symbolic foods placed on the Passover Seder Plate
• The number of strings on a standard guitar
• Six is the name of a character on Blossom
  • 
• Sixth Officer Hantin in The Pendragon Series
• The number of cans of soda or beer in a six-pack
• The highest number on one end of a standard domino
• The number of dots in a Braille cell.
• Six degrees of Kevin Bacon
• 
  

Oh my Frickin HEAD!

So, I have been down for the count with a migraine for the past 2 days. Before that, daddy decided he needed to go camping this weekend before it got to crazy and cold.. HA! Sucka!! It poured Sunday morning like no one's business.
So long story short, Friday night I did not feel like going anywhere after I picked up Miss T. Daddy already left to go camping and it was a long week so I was just glad to be home. I made myself a cheese sandwich and some soup and was going to clean the kitchen and so I just put my cheese on a hogie roll and stuck it in the micro for a few seconds and started cleaning. Took the sandwich out and not paying any attention that it didn't feel so hot and took a bite and BAM! Burnt the H/E out of my lip, so bad that a layer of skin peeled off and I was Oh'ing and Ah'ing all over the kitchen rinsing off my lip while Miss T cracked up in her jeep.
We did our garage sale Saturday morning and I didn't have anything to sell. I should have never agreed to this, I should have never agreed to this!! What was I thinking.. Good thing my cousin is coming over. I am so not ready for this. What was I thinking???
I gather up a bunch of stuff to get rid of and set it all up out in the garage for the sale. Set up one of my tables and then go to bed. Up at 5 the next morning, get breakfast for Miss T then head down stairs. Put her in the pink Jeep in the garage on some cardboard boxes and let her run free. I set up my makeshift table, hang up the clothes and wave to the neighbors across the street that started this shindig... No coffee, no cousin. So I call, "hi, where are you? are you on your way?" then I hear it "um, my (super sweet stayed home this weekend) husband surprised me for our anniversary and had a whole day planned out, I won't be able to make it" oh shit.. now what? So, I tell her to have a good time and I am off and running on my own.
Thank GOD for the neighbors 7 year old that LOVE LOVE LOVES babies.. she was over most of the morning keeping Miss T occupied while we sat there in the humidity and got our minimal sales ( I would not have stopped at my own sale, there was not a lot) but we did end up selling $50 worth of stuff, and bought the neighbors toy box (step 2) and a little toy holder, with the plastic tubs, and a stroller (free) and some music toy that's really cute that plays Mozart and a set of sheets (strawberry shortcake) to make into PJ's for the Peanut.. a.k.a. Nudgy now.. (She's not a peanut anymore!)
Garage sale done and now it's time for a nap! Nope, no good naps all day, but we did a bath and then an early bedtime Saturday night, and then the rain came.. It rained so hard we thought Ike came for a visit himself! It was crazy. But, like always, my kid will sleep like no body's business when it rains, she gets that from me, and I get it from my mom...So, it was nice to sleep, and sleep in we both slept until close to 5 had some breakfast, and went back to sleep till 7. Got up and did some playing around and at 10 took a good 2+ hour nap, I took about an hour myself, needed, it was so nice. Got some things cleaned up and tried to get my swap stuff together to get sent out for this week (didn't happen, going to the post office today!) then I started feeling bad, then worse. I didn't know what was wrong, I had this headache that would not go away. Long story short, thankfully T didn't give me too much grief going to bed early Sunday night so I could do the same BUT... daddy called at 10 to tell me he was on his way, T got up at 11 for a snack, and again at 1, daddy got home at 2 and woke me to tell me he was home, T got up at 4 for breakfast, daddy woke at 5 and woke me to tell me he was getting in the shower. No sleep, big headache, oh there was no way I was going to make it into work, then BAM -- it hit. Was he cooking breakfast? What is that smell? Smells like burning meat.. what is that? oh my head. oh there is a glistening off the lights in here.. Oh crap, it's a Migraine... Yup, so Daddy got Miss T ready and took her to the sitter, came back and dropped off the big car for me and went to work. I died for about 2 days, (that's why I've been MIA) and yesterday about noonish, I started. Yup. Started, full force, this is the first time I've had a real period from last summer when I got pregnant. Crazy! So, I hope it's not a trend that this is going to happen, but that's it.. My head is better, kind of, I still have cluster headaches that I normally get after one so I feel better but still crappy... I hope I can finally finish my book, because I am in the last 100 pages of breaking dawn and it's KILLING Me not to have it done yet..

What's New?

Miss T has started the transition into crawling. Yikes, she's right now in the stage where she's up on all 4's and rocking back and forth, back down on her belly to scoot then back up again. She's also within inches of sitting up. This is all going too fast for me..
We went to Mr. J's baptism this weekend it was a fun time for everyone. Poor Ike was not feeling so hot so we just let him be and took a girls pic with Miss T and Miss M.
I am getting my things together to send out for my swap, I have most of it, I sure hope I am doing this right, I will feel so bad if I mess it up.. Isn't that silly? I guess there's no way to really mess it up..
School is back in and all the kids are settling into their roles, it's nice to see the bus in the morning again, not the traffic but the bus. Tired faces dragging themselves out to start the day just like the rest of us. Melissa said the other day that her kids were hanging out on the corner talking and sitting on the sewer lid, (not like a city one, like a suburb drain) it's funny, we all used to do that too. Catch up on our day, our friends, our classes. I guess there's not much difference in life when your young and old.. Being young you do more of it in person than when your older, but it's good to stay in touch.
What's new with you?

FFF - Secret Agent?

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Zoo so Silly!

How do you sneak out of footie pj's?

jump in your get away car and roll..
outsource to fill a need (in our basement, hope he's taking care of the spiders!)

and catching them red handed... or blue in this case...

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FFF - Girls Rule, Boys Drool...

I am tellin ya.. my kid is going to be a mafia boss one day.. look at this negotiation on this poor kids life.. and bear.. lion, whatever...

This is another meeting of Miss T and Mr J... she smacked him around quite a bit but he's less than a pound less than her, so she knows her time is short..
We learned this on Friday night wrestling.. elbow to the melon!
He's like "hey bebba..."
Another move, I think this one was from one of those old kung-fo films..
Someone throw a flag, she's biting!!
Oh, why wear cute socks unless you want some chick to try to take them from you... someone get this ref some better pants!

FEED ME!!

Ok, we started on rice cereal yesterday and it was a hit!!

We did a video yesterday but it went so well that it's too long to load here so I did a short.

and a few stills :)

and someone wants to do it all on her own already!

My baby's a gangsta...

I have been wanting to make these dolls for a long time. Typically, they are called Black Apple dolls... But, I didn't want to use filling on the first (test run) so, she's our FLAT apple doll...(ignore the toe's, I didn't paint them or crop the photo...) She's got eyes (closed) but no other face parts.. I have to practice that part.. I left the room to go get the phone and....



I came back and she was gone... changed her name and entered the dolly protection program..

Try this it's fun... FLICKR FUN

4 months old -- Tutu cute!

Heres the Tutu that I made, I have actually gotten a few offers to make and SELL them!! Whoo Hoo!!

Batten down the hatches!!! FFF

So, I have not been able to update my blog this week... Daddy is out of town and I seem to have a squeeker stuck to me like glue.. and when I don't I am doing dishes, washing BOTTLES (ugg) and taking out trash.. We need to appreciate daddy more when he comes home!
Sad thing is, this kid is moving in leaps and bounds this week. She is already a rolling fool but look at the new trick (watch where the feet go.. and the head...)




The old people were here and I guess they were all doing their Jane Fonda and that's where the muscle power came in for this trick. Special thanks this week for watching Miss T... Even if it did put the two of you down at 8:30 each night... She runs a tough show around this place and for sure keeps everyone on their toes. I don't know how the sitter does it and or those of you with multiple kids under 20! Ok, under 10 but still, that's a lot!

Remember.....

So, I have a lot of dates that remind me of things and people and this past weekend was kind of a hard one... I didn't mention to anyone but it was the second year anniversary of losing someone close to me. It was so hard remembering this day and weekend. Last year I was just pregnant and it was harder then being so emotional. Remembering the great things about people, Don was one of those people to me. I have always remembered him, I used to sleep on the floor at his house while my mom played cards and growing up he was always there for me... I am choking up just thinking that Miss T won't meet him and know him and his laugh. It's sad, she would like him. Don was always honest and told it as it was, I liked that he never did bullshit (his words) and was really down to earth.
This is one of a few people that I really miss and wish I could still talk to every day. I am sure there are going to be stories in the future about him as I remember things.. but this week, I just remember him.