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Tired, excited, depressed

I'm overly tired but feel bad that I haven't posted in my blog in so long, so I'm going to make it quick. I'm excited because I joined a crafters club and have signed up to do a craft show in December (my first ever!) and depressed because the Noles lost tonight in a pathetic game.
This picture is of Lily in one of the new dresses my dad sent her.

This picture is of Lily playing soccer with her soccer ball that Uncle David and Sherah got her for her birthday. She is a very good kicker!

This picture is of her opening her presents that Granny sent her from England. (I've got a great video of this, just haven't uploaded it yet)

This picture is of Lily helping me make my aprons (and if you want to see the apron... it is listed at www.kitschyaprons.com)

This picture I absolutely love because of the bright eyes and huge smile

and this picture was taken two seconds later when I told her that she could not have cookies for dinner. Her newest talent is going from happy to tears in a split second.

I don't wash Zelda and Lily together, Zelds just jumped in so I ran with it and let Lily wash her. Then, of course, I let all the water out, took out the dog and re-washed the baby.

For the past couple of weeks Lily has decided that she likes to sew. She comes to me and says "sew mommy?" and pulls me into the cave to sew. I don't let her sew on her own, but she sits in my lap and tells me "watch fingers mommy" then pulls the pins out once I've finished the seam and puts them on the magnet for me. I've gotten quite a bit of sewing done!

My mom saved all sorts of things from our childhood. I'm assuming that she saved them with the intention of letting her grandchildren play with them. (eBay wasn't around back then... so it couldn't have been that reason)
She saved all the parts and the boxes and everything. How in the heck could someone have four kids and still manage to do that? Anyway, when Daddy moved from Marietta we got rid of a bunch of it simply because no one had the space to store it. I saved some of my favorites. See here, Lily likes Strawberry Shortcake too.

Good work by Jason Wood

I put an ad on Craigslist to find a graphic designer willing to do a logo for me for Betty's Team for the Race for the Cure. I wrote in the ad that we were just a group of people running in the Race trying to raise money for Breast Cancer Research & Awareness and that we wanted a logo but didn't have any money to pay for it.
I got three responses, two of them obviously didn't read the ad all the way through because they sent me pretty hefty estimates and one even wrote an entire paragraph about why he would not begin working without a deposit. (What would 20% of Zero be?... I'll send it right away)
however, there still are good people out there because this very nice guy Jason Wood volunteered. I sent him this picture

And he designed this logo for us!

Yay! Now I just need to go html code it so that I can plaster it everywhere

Lily has been getting so expressive with her words. I'm sure that I understand more than most people, but I can get about 95% of what she is saying without having to ask her to repeat. She still messes up some things. This is how she asks me to carry her "mommy, carry you" or will say "help you clean up? please" when she is asking me to help her pick up her cereal that she spilled.

It is just so amazing to listen to her sometimes. She loves her new babysitter and talks non-stop about everything she does on Thursdays. Yesterday she must have said "go back, mimi house, ok?" a dozen times on the way home yesterday. The "ok?" at the end of things just cracks me up. She says it all the time. "go to the park, ok?", "help Daddy, ok?" I need to get it on video.

My dad was shopping online yet again, so yesterday a package came addressed to Lily. She understands what a present is and started jumping all around asking me to open it. The word open has been one that we are working on. She will say "bo-hen" but if I ask her to say it slow she will say it right. You'll see that in the video. Another cute thing she does lately is also on this video. You can tell the things that we say to her all the time by the very end of the video where she says "there ya go"

Update

I absolutely LOVE this photo. It was taken by my friend Kristine Kristoff who is a photographer but we were just having a get together and she took a couple of shots of Lily. I stole the picture from her facebook page, hope she doesn't mind.

ok, so, BETTY's TEAM update for the Race for the Cure:
We've raised $793.00!!! and have 5 team members now. Nichole, Brandi & Tonya still haven't signed up yet but all three tell me that they have intentions to participate. If so, then all I have to do is talk Sam & one of the girls from my SAHM group to join. That would give us 10 (we can of course have more, but that was my goal)
If those 5 more members join the team than their race entry fees will bump us up to only $72.00 short of our goal.
I'm so proud and excited that we are actually going to be able to reach the goals that I set. I honestly thought I wouldn't be able to do it.