First Baseball game and First Easter

Friday night we took Lily to the Marlin's home opener. She was so wonderful. She played around hitting the tires of the jeep while we tailgated and blew kisses to the ladies who sat behind us during the game. She even clapped when the Marlins scored! She clapped when the Phillies scored too so we have to work on that. Ned got us some really great seats right off of home plate where we watched the first half of the game, but then Lily got antsy and since we were also given seats to the Bub beach we moved down there for the 2nd half. The Bud beach is awesome because you are literally on the field, but the view of the game was better in the box seats. In the Bud section there are hot tubs and free appetizers so I put my feet in the hot tub and let the jets give me a foot massage while I pigged out on chicken fingers while Christina played with Lily. That is the life right?

We stayed for the whole game so when Lily fell asleep in the car on the way home at eleven we put her straight in the bed and she slept in her Marlins jersey.

On Easter we played in the yard with Easter eggs, I don't know if I would call it an Easter egg hunt, but she wore her bonnet at least!! We didn't go to church even though I had planned too because she slept all morning. oh well, maybe next year.

Happy Easter

Lily has spent her entire Easter so far sleeping. She must be in a growth spurt or something because last night she fell asleep on the babysitter's shoulder before even having her last bottle of the day and then this morning was only awake for an hour and a half and then now is 3 hours into her morning nap! I am going to go wake her up after I post this because it is starting to scare me. Last night Ross and I went to his boss's wedding and we had so much fun! We rarely get a chance to go out toghether and last night was perfect. A limo drove us down to Miami and back and the food was delicious. There were so many folks there and we knew just about everyone so we did lots of socializing and even a little dancing....yes Ross danced!

Las Vegas

Last week Ross and I took advantage of the free babysitting and went to spend a few days in Vegas. We had a great time and even made sure to work in some relaxation time too. We stayed at Circus Circus and discovered why it was such a great deal. It is an old and yucky hotel, but the location is great. We only had to get a cab when we went to the Palms. We won a little at the Palms but then ended up losing it later. Overall it was a pretty cheap vacation which was exactly what we needed considering that we don't know how long it might take for Ross to get a new job. Aunt Charlotte and Mickey were in Vegas the same week so we met up and AC treated us to lunch and a Gondola ride too.

Ross and I at the Venetian

We walked from Circus Circus to the MGM Grand (that is just about the ENTIRE strip) and we did it not using any escalators or elevators. Add wandering around casinos and hotels. We walked for about 12 hours straight and I spent the rest of the trip limping because my dumb-ass did it in flip-flops! We had to take a break in the grass at the MGM Grand.

Self Portrait before going out to the Palms. I was planning on getting a new tatoo at Heart & Huntington but I chickened out.

Stratosphere

I don't know why, but Lily has this thing where she has to always kick up her right leg. She goes in the stroller like that all the time and now she has even started doing it in her highchair.

And, even though her front teeth are coming in, she is still giving the vampire face.

Fun fun fun

Lily and Marje will play and play and play.

And Lily is so fast with her crawling these days that we just can't keep her in one room anymore. We are very lucky to have a house built in the 60's so we can section off different areas. We can close off just about any area of the house depending on where we need her to stay. She will follow you from room to room too! The problem is that she doesn't respond to us when we call her. She knows her name and we can get her attention, but all she does is look at you and either wave, clap or give you the dragon/vampire face then carries on about her business. As you can see from this video...

Many Faces of Lily

My dad sent this hat for Lily for Easter, isn't she sweet in it? But then.....
For Christmas Ross had a fake poo in his stocking. It was probably one of the best gifts he has ever gotten. He won't let me put it away. It has become a regular decoration in our living room. So, being that everything Lily sees she MUST taste....
We have childproofed the best we know how, but Lily is determined to see what is in this cabinet. Having bartenders for parents, what is your guess?
Since Tony and Marje have been here we have really put them to work. So, we thought it best that Lily start doing her fair share too, so she has to help Granny pick weeds.
Lily's teeth are like a vampire. She grew them all out of order. She started out well when she grew the bottom two. But then instead of growing the top two front teeth (which would be the normal order of things) she grew the second set of top teeth. They are not the canine teeth, but when they are the only ones on the top they sure look like it!
The funniest part of it is that she makes a dragon face and even hisses too! I don't know if it was something that we accidentally taught her or not, but we have definitely made it worse because we laugh so much when she does it. At first I tried to get it on camera, now it is difficult to take her picture without her making that evil face.

First hard food

We started giving Lily lady fingers and she absolutely loves feeding herself. We scrape the sugar off the top though. Zelda has been very bad though. Zelda just about knocks her over when she has food. Zelda is so good not to try and eat our food, so we are going to have to teach her that Lily's food is off limits too.

First parade

Last Sunday we went to the St. Patrick's day parade downtown. This was Lily's first parade and she had a really nice time. She danced to the drummers and took a nap on Grandpa's shouder. She LOVED the beads that they threw out but we had to protect her from getting hit when they were tossed. We had a very nice time.

stuff

I fell behind schedule and didn't finish all the St.Patrick's day outfits in time to sell them, so I'll be boxing up 4 tops and 3 dresses to hopefully sell next year! Bummer.
I finally ordered my business cards today, unfortunately they will take over a week to come in so I won't have them to pass out in Vegas or on St. Patrick's day. Bummer.
Couple of good things....
Ross put in his notice at Shenanigans. Kinda scary because he doesn't have a plan for what it next though. I know it sounds crazy because Shenanigan's is our bread and butter right now, but we were both just so tired of the late nights. He comes home at 6 and most days I am getting up at that time. Having a kid really makes you crave stability and I know that quitting your job isn't the stable thing to do, but in the long run it will be. So, if you are reading this and have a job idea for Ross...let us know!!
Next good thing.
Tony fixed the bathroom leak saving us from having to replace all the fixtures, saving us hundreds!
Next good thing.
Tony is pretty sure that he can fix the car too!
And last but not least.....less than a week until VEGAS BABY!!!!!

Another one bites the dust

and another one down, another one bites the dust! (Don't worry, we are all ok, just out a car)

Family Beach Day

Wednesdays are the only days that neither Ross or I work, so we went to the beach!
It is still too cold for Lily to swim, but she had to rock her suit anyway. Marje is a massage therapist so Ross "booked a massage" for his day off and Lily wanted to help. Because it was my day off too, I decided to have a beer, no one would drink with me so I only had two.

Crawling all over

Tony & Marje

It is so nice having Tony and Marje here. I have been so spoiled the past few days. Tony has taken his "job" of fixing things for us very seriously. He has done all sorts of maintenance to the Jeep, fitted our new Zim lamp with an American plug, hung our mailbox, and fiddled with the stupid door. Marje has already been straightening out the yard and pulling up weeds. They took Lily to the beach on Friday while I was at work so Ross got to have a day off. Last night I got to have a night out with friends and this morning Marje had Lily fed and dressed already by the time I woke up. Today Lily sat out in the yard pulling weeds with Marge and I got to take a nap and get a bunch of sewing done.
I really could get used to this life, now I just have to find a way to convince them to stay longer.

First real puke

Tonight Lily threw up for the first time. It was so gross! She spits up all the time, or well, at least she used to, now she only does it about once every couple of days. Tonight she woke up screaming after being asleep for about an hour. I was walking around trying to get her back to sleep when all of the sudden I heard this big splat. I looked over my shoulder to see what it was and before I could even look Lily had puked all over me. I was drenched in vomit. It started on my chin and all down the front of my top, inside my top, in my hair and on my feet. By that time I figured out what the splat was the moment before. Then, one more good vomit but this time on herself. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know how to even begin to clean this up and Lily was still screaming. I ran into my room and laid her down on my bed (dumb move, now I am having to strip the duvet cover) and took off her pajamas. She stopped screaming for a second and then I realized that I was dripping vomit all over the place and couldn't figure out how to get my shirt off without getting even more puke on my face. By the time I got my shirt off Lily was screaming again so I just had to twist my hair up into a bun, puke and all. I was hoping that she would quiet down and go back to sleep now that everything had come up, but no luck. After 2 1/2 hours of her screaming while I walked around the house trying to soothe her she finally gave up and passed out. I have been processing shipments for about half an hour and she is crying in her sleep every few minutes so I don't think I am going to get any sleep tonight. :(
I hope that I don't have to take her to the hospital tonight because Ross took the jeep and I don't have a car seat so I would have to walk there! errrrrrr

Anna Nichole Smith

I am so disgusted by the media these days. I would completely expect to hear about Anna Nichole Smith's rotting body or her daughters paternity questions if I were watching E! or Entertainment tonight or those such shows, but when I turn on the regular nightly news, MSNBC, Fox News, it doesn't matter the source, all they are reporting these days is Anna Nichole and Brittany's new haircut!
Last night Ross and I were tuned in trying to find out about the police officers that were arrested here for racketeering by a two year long FBI investigation and after fifteen minutes of Anna Nichole drama they spend less than 30 seconds on the story about the cops. Our local nightly news! One of the officers is one of Ross's golf partners so he was really concerned and interested in the story, but nothing. Our local station had live streaming coverage of the courtroom while they decided the fate of Anna Nichole's body while real news and important events were pushed to the back-burner.
I am so happy that I have a DVR so I can only watch the shows that I taped and fast-forward through the commercials and soundbite updates of this circus. And I LOVE that NPR broadcasts their shows in podcasts so I can listen at the gym.

Addicted to Rockabilly Originals

I seem to go through phases with my sewing. Right now I am in a sew constantly phase. I can't get enough. I go to sleep coming up with new designs and ideas in my head. Lily is definately tired of it. She fusses as soon as we walk into the studio. I even moved her big play-pen in there in hopes of making a couple of extra minutes to sew. I think about other times when I will go weeks without sewing anything. This past week I completed 5 items up for sale on my website and will finish another 2 tonight and have 4 more in various stages of completion. Also, I finally put myself up on my website. but only because the two most recent dresses are size 12 and all of the girls who help model for me are way smaller than that. If you wanna check out my work click here

on the move

I can officially say that Lily can crawl!

I don't know exactly what constitutes the first crawl, but what she did today was indesputable. She has been able to pull herself where she needs to go and she has been able to get up on all fours but now she can get on all fours and actually go! Well, only a little bit, but enough to get what she wants usually. Her motor skills are improving exponentially. She can steady herself when she gets wobbly and can go from sitting to laying and then back up to a sit again all on her own! She also tonight tried to pull herself up onto the fouton. She didn't get very far with that one, but was able to catch herself from falling over, so I am still impressed. We have been trying to kid proof the house and we are failing miserably at it. Ross bought all these child locks for the cabinets and they turned out to either not do a thing or made it impossible even for an adult to open the thing. I don't know if it was the locks themselves or our not-so-handy handywork, I'm guessing the later. I also have been vacuuming twice as often as I did before but still need to vacuum even more often. We cut a hole in the door to the studio for Zelda because we figured the only way to child-proof that room is to keep the door closed. The only problem with that is the room isn't airconditioned. Right now it is fine, but I don't see myself getting much work done in the summer. Hopefully maybe I can find someone to install a window unit for me. That is probably an unrealistic dream considering our home improvement history. But I am still hopeful!

I have downloaded a few videos. I got a video the other day of Lily going from laying down to sitting (I was trying to catch her attempt at crawling) but now I can't find it on my hard drive. Hopefully it is on the other computer! Anyway, this video is of Lily eating meat. I took it because it is so funny to me. She hates meat and I think that she looks like folks do when they are taking a shot of something really strong at the bar. She even shakes it off!

This next video is of last weeks attempt at crawling. It is so cute because she is working so hard that she is worn out.

Sick

Lily got so sick on Friday :(
I was out with a friend and came home to Lily and Ross sleeping on the floor together. He had set up a pallate on the floor so that he could sleep with her because she was waking about every 5 minutes. She had a fever because her ear infection had worsened. She has had a snotty nose for a month and had the ear infection for about 2 weeks. We took her to the doctor again and they gave her a stronger antiobiotic than she had the first time and this time gave her a script for the cold too. Yesterday she slept the entire day and night. I had to wake her from time to time to make sure that she got fed! She woke up today with a clear nose and so happy. It is amazing what a good nights sleep can do (for me too!)
I have included pictures here from Valentines day. Ross left gifts for the whole family on the counter so that we would find them when we woke up. We cooked a nice meal and got dressed up and ate dinner on the back portch pretending that we were at a nice restaurant. Now that we are parents we have to improvise for awhile. I dressed Lily in her pretty red dress that Olivia gave her. At the gym and the grocery store everyone loved her.

10:30....Why is she still awake???

All day Lily has been cranky. She took her usual naps and everything went as normal all day, except for the crankiness. She has been so easy to care for lately that I have been really spoiled. Today was tough. In the afternoon she usually gets cranky right at 3 when we feed her then put her down for a nap. Well, today she started getting cranky at about 1:30. I didn't want to feed her early because we have done so good getting on a routine that I don't want to mess it up, so I dealt with the whiny child. grrrrrr. After her nap she was still cranky! She usually always gets cranky right before bathtime so that was normal. Then, at bedtime I figured she would go right to sleep because she has got to be tired, I know I am. Well, usually she is asleep by 8:15 or 8:30 and it is 10:41 and I have a wide awake yet cranky baby in my lap. We got up at 6:02 this morning.....I want to go to sleep!!!!

Bruise on her head

Lily has a HUGE bruise on her big ole noggin. Last night she was playing on the floor with her new favorite toy (the lid to the formula container) and fell over trying to go from sitting to crawling. Well, she still doesn't officially "crawl" per se, but she can get herself wherever she needs to go by scooting. I know I have to not worry to much because she is going to get alot more bumps and bruises along the way, but I feel so guilty every time I look at her. I just know that everyone who looks at her is going to take one look at me and think I am a bad mom!

Great day gone bad

Today was the nicest day! Last night I was exhausted and Ross was going out to celebrate Jaime's birthday so I got in bed at 8:30 when Lily went to sleep. She woke up twice in the night screaming but went right back to sleep both times. This morning I woke up on my own at 8:30AM and freaked out because Lily NEVER sleeps that late. I ran and checked on her and she was breathing so I went and took a shower. I NEVER get to take a shower first thing in the morning! By the time I got out Lily was awake and talking to herself, doing her normal morning thing. It is amazing how nice it is to have gotten so much sleep!
Then, as I was feeding Lily I checked my emails and got great news! Well, half good news anyway. Marje is coming to visit on the first and staying for a month. It is still questionable wether or not Tony gets to come, but we are keeping our fingers crossed. So, this means that Ross and I get to take a vacation!
After we packed up some clothes to be sent out and did some sewing, Lily went BACK TO SLEEP!! She napped from about 10:30 until Noon.
After her nap we went to the gym. This is the first time I took Lily and she was an Angel. She took to the girl there right off the bat and when I came back to get her she was playing on the floor with a toy and hadn't even noticed I was gone. It felt so nice to work out again. My arms are going to be sore tomorrow and my abs already are, but I love that feeling so I am so happy.
After the gym we went shopping and then came home for another nap.
Everything today was great all the way until Lily went to sleep and I checked my messages.
I don't know what to do about this situation but I am really very very concerned about the idiot that Brandi is dating. She is completely "in love" an is completely blind to the fact that there is a neon sign hanging over him screaming "ABUSIVE". She is showing signs of being in an abusive relationship and has been making excuses for him for months now. Tonight her roomate called me telling me that she is moving out because she is afraid of Brandi's man and that Brandi keeps letting him come over even after she begged her not to. Now, doesn't that say something? Someone is so afraid of your boyfriend that they will move out of the house! Brandi's phone has been off for weeks and I have no way of getting in touch with her either. I don't want to go over to her house because honestly I am afraid of this guy too and I don't want Lily anywhere near him. ohhhh and that brings up another thing! A couple of weeks ago Brandi babysat for me so I could go to the Live concert. I had her drop me and my girlfriend off at the venue because we knew we were going to do some drinking and then we took a cab home. Brandi tells me the next morning that her boyfriend had gotten released from jail that night and so she put Lily in the car and drove to the jail to pick him up! I cannot express how angry that makes me. I have very strong convictions about criminals and would have NEVER taken Lily to the jail to pick up anyone. Not even if it were Ross in jail! And the thing is, Brandi doesn't even see the problem. She thinks that it was a perfectly normal thing to do. He went to jail for killing someone!! We aren't talking a minor offense! Can you understand my fear? I am also in a bind because she is my only source for a babysitter and now I can't trust her to watch Lily, not even in my own house!
Am I a completely horrible person for posting this up on the internet? I grappled with wether or not to post this, but I figured I would in hope that someone might be able to help.

Joined a Gym

Tuesday I finally joined a gym. I went yesterday and met with the the trainer. They make you do a fitness test because it is run by the hospital and I guess they do that to prevent getting sued. Well, according to them I am in good cardio-vascular health but higher than normal on the weight scale. Well, I wasn't supprised about the weight thing, but I was shocked to find out that I am in good health otherwise. I certainly don't feel that way. The dude told me that I should only do cardio for right now but I am going to jump right into the weights! I can't wait to be sore again. Also, the baby care part is so nice. It is so clean and there are mostly all older kids so the lady that worked there said she was excited to have a baby there. That makes me happy because I know that means that she is going to be extra good to her.
Now I just have to start eating right again and I'll be back on track.

AHHHHHHH

Another new thing that Lily does is this AHHHHHHH thing. The video captures a moment of it but she does it almost constantly. I am very happy because it is so much more pleasant than the banshee scream that it replaced. Today we went for a mile long walk and she was alternating between AHHHHHH and DA DA DA DA the entire time. This started about when she got her teeth. I don't know if it related or not. Also in this video you can hear her chewing on her toy and doing her funny tongue thing. The box is actually a set of mats that can be made into a box that was a Christmas present from my Grandma and is wonderful! She can't get enough of it. The tongue thing is funny because she can turn her tongue completely upside down like kids used to do to gross one another out at the lunch table in elementary school. I think she is just moving it around in order to feel her new teeth, but it is a cool trick regardless. She is also obsessed with teeth right now. She is constantly wanting to feel our teeth. I would love to think that it is because she knows that she has some now and that she is making comparisons, or that maybe she wants to become a dentist, but I am sure it is all coincidence.

That box/mat thingy... totally saved me the other day when I was sick. As you may be able to see in the pictures that there is a pallat made on the floor. That isn't for Lily, it was for me. I made myself a bed on the floor and moaned and groaned while Lily happily chewed on her mat/box.

Lily and her best friend Zelda

We always knew that they would become the best of friends, but I am very suprised at how early Lily and Zelda started playing together. Zelda has been great with Lily right from the start although she does get jealous sometimes. For awhile now I have been able to entertain them both at the same time by holding Lily on my lap and throwing the ball to Zelda. Lily loves to watch Zelda, altough Zelda is a little quick for her to keep up with sometimes. Recently, ever since Lily has gotten so good at sitting on her own Zelda has begun to bring her ball to her. Usually Zelda brings us her ball and wants to play tug of war for a little bit and then we throw it for her to fetch. Well, it has been really sweet to watch Zelda bring Lily the ball. For the longest I have been just taking it away from her because I don't want it in her mouth, but the other day I just let it go to see what would happen. Lily picked up the ball and held it over her head looking like she was going to throw it. I cracked up. She never did throw the ball but it made Zelda believe that she was going to and that was enough to entertain Lily and I. I should teach Zelda to fetch the sippy cup because that is the only thing that Lily seems to throw.
In the mornings when I do my web work and sewing Lily hangs out with me in her bouncy chair. Zelda gets up on the chair with her sometimes to play. She is so gentle with her that I don't even worry about it.

Catching up

I really don't know how working moms do it. I mean, I AM a working mom, but usually, aside from this past month, I only work outside of the home 2 days a week. For the last three weeks I have worked full time and had Lily in daycare. I come home exhaused and feeling guilty for leaving Lily in the same room all day with all those other snot nosed babies. My work isn't physically difficult, but when you get up at 6AM play with Lily and get her ready for school, get to work by 10 and once five o'clock rolls around I have to take a deep breath because I know as soon as I walk in the door I will have an extra 18 pounds on me for the next few hours. I guess it is because Lily is really attached to me, but she doesn't let me put her down in the evenings. It wears me out. Then once she is in bed I have to do all the work for my website. I try to think about all those super-moms who work full time and have more than one kid and I don't know how they do it. I feel like a wimp or a whiner complaining about being tired. But I AM!
Now that the super bowl is over I go back to only working twice a week but decided to leave Lily in daycare another week so I can get caught up and have some sanity time. Lucky I did that because I got food poisioning! Sunday was Ross's birthday and I made him a beef stew and being the horrible wife that I am, poisioned us both. Sunday night I did not sleep because of all my trips to the bathroom and Monday morning I had to just leave Lily in her swing with her bottle to feed herself while I was in the bathroom. I woke poor Ross up after he had only been in bed an hour and begged him to take Lily to school because I just couldn't do it. Finally, now that it is Tuesday afternoon I am feeling better. The sickness hit Ross last night while he was at work (poor thing!) and he is still not feeling good AND he has to work again tonight. As horrible as food poisioning is, I was really lucky to have the relief of daycare and then Lily was kind enough to go to sleep last night at 7:15 so I was right behind her at 7:45!
She has gotten so easy to take care of because she is getting so strong. She still gets frustrated that she can't crawl yet but she can drag herself to get what she wants. She is also starting to show her independance. She lets you know when she doesn't like something and will slap away food that she doesn't like. And the really rewarding part... the REAL laugh! She loves Zelda and the two of them play together now. I got one time on video but I haven'ty uploaded it yet. This video is of her great laugh.

Second Tooth

Tooth #2 came in today!!!!

Poop

How does Lily get her poop to travel up her back? Ever since we started feeding Lily fruits and veggies her poop has become ridiculous. I now have skills that I never would have imagined learning. I can get Lily's clothes off her when the diaper leeks while holding her arms and legs with one hand. I can run a bath and hold a poop covered baby at the same time. Just having the ability to hold a poop covered baby should be considered a skill!
Today she was sitting in her playpen and in less than 10 minutes had pooped enough for it to travel up her back and out of her diaper. She wasn't even laying down, she was sitting. How does poop travel like that?
She never seems to be bothered by it either. She is just happy to be covered in poop. Maybe because she likes the bath and if she poops everywhere she gets to take an extra bath that day.
Also tonight she was sitting in her highchair eating dinner just pooping and farting away. Didn't make her miss a beat with her dinner either. She was still sitting there opening her mouth ready for the next bite acting like those horrible noises weren't really coming out of her little body.
Today we gave her meat for the first time, I wonder what that is going to produce?

Kisses for the baby in the mirror

Lately, I guess it is because of the teething, Lily does this thing of eating my face. She opens her mouth real big and just jams into my cheeck or my chin. It cracks me up but that one tooth hurts. Well, the other day when we were playing with "the baby in the mirror" she tried to do the same thing to her reflection. I guess I incouraged her by laughing because now she does it every time she is close to the mirror.

Sweet

6 months later

Half a year ago my little munchkin was one week old. I was healing from surgery and trying my damndest to get my stupid boobs to function properly so I could breastfeed. Looking back over the last six months I realize how much we all have grown. Lily has obviously put on some pounds and learned loads of new things. She was so skinny when we brought her home, now she has so much fat she has dimples on her knees and elbows.

Ross has grown in lots of ways too. He has learned that he has to be flexible sometimes with his rigid daily schedule, and how to deal with it when Lily screams. As a couple we have learned to make time to give the other one a break to keep each other sane. and Me, oh I have learned so much! I feel like Lily has been with us for ages, but six months is really such a short time. I have turned into a schedule person and I now have routines around the house. I never did that before and always laughed at Ross for it. I am far from being rigid, but the dishes are always done before bed now-a-days. I like mornings now even!
Six months ago I was vowing that I would fit into my pre-pregnancy clothes by Halloween. Well, Halloween came and went without me being remotely close to fitting into my old clothes. I was very optomistic about making time to go to the gym and running with Lily's jogging stroller. Well, jogging strollers are difficult on bumpy sidewalks and the broadwalk on the beach is under construction so I don't jog near as much as I had planned. And as far as the gym goes, I haven't joined one yet. I have lost some weight and am continuing to SLOWLY lose more, just not as quickly as I would have hoped. I finally got the nerve to try on what used to be my fat pants tonight. I am wearing them now and they are cutting into my stomach, but the are actually zipped up all the way!

Pre-prego 130, just before baby 167, 1 week after baby 155, now 139. Nine pounds doesn't sound like too much, but it looks like way more than that. Pre-prego I lifted weights 3x a week and now it has been a year since I steped foot into a gym, so I need to gain about 10 pounds of muscle and lose 19 pounds of fat to get back to normal. I'll post another picture of me and my "fat pants" in six more months and hopefully if all goes as planned they really will be fat pants again. This picure was taken about 3 months before pregnancy, I am using it as my goal for Lily's first birthday.

First Tooth

Lily's first tooth came through yesterday!!
I knew it was close so I kept feeling for it and although you can't really see it very well yet, you can definately feel it.
She also just finished her first week of daycare. She did fine and seemed to adjust well. She actually takes naps there. I was worried that she wouldn't sleep and she would drive the ladies crazy with her crankyness. But she hasn't. I don't know how they manage to get her to sleep because Ross and I are still having a hard time getting her to go to sleep. Once she is asleep she is fine, but the process of getting her to drift off is so complex. If all factors aren't exactly perfect she won't sleep.
When she is here with me she takes a longer nap than she does at daycare. At school she only sleeps for about half an hour and when she is here she will sleep for an hour or more. So, this week she has gotten really tired and really cranky at night. But getting her to sleep has been easier because of it.
We had a little bbq last night and I stayed up WAY too late so I am going to go to bed right now and it is only 8:30PM!!

Eyes

Lily had an injury. It was totally an accident but I am having Mommy guilt about not being able to prevent it. She was playing and stuck her finger in her eye. She screamed and screamed and it breaks my heart every time I look at her.

The other pic was taken two days before the eye injury. I don't know how long we have to wait to know for sure, but I think Lily got my eyes.

Catching up

I still feel behind from the holiday. I have so many thing I want to get done and just never seem to get caught up. Especially because now I have this weighing pressure to figure out about day care! I obviously have never had to find a day care before and didn't really plan to do so this soon, but I need to find somewhere for Lily to go staring on the 15th. It is only going to be for a month so I don't even know if daycares allow that or not. I really watch too much dateline because I am so scared of where to leave her. All I keep hearing in my head are those horror stories about child abusers and sexual predators. And I only have one week to find a suitable (also affordable) place that is willing to take a 6 month old for only one month! Please, if you have any advice please email me!
Anyway, I finally downloaded my videos and there are several cute ones. I have posted one of Lily showing off how well she sits, another of how she has been saying "da da da da da" all day long (you should see the pride on Ross's face!) and another of how Lily moves around even though she can't crawl yet. I always start her in the middle of the blanket and she scoots to the side because she likes to feel the carpet. Thank god we replaced that nasty carpet that was here when we moved in!
Sherah got Lily a blow-up bathtub for Christmas and it was just the perfect time! She had gotten to the point where she had really outgrown the little tub on the washing machine, but I didn't know what I was going to do next. She squirms and turns way too much for the big tub, so this was the perfect solution! Lily LOVES it. I have a hard time washing her face though because she wants to look at the water the entire time. I can get the soap on, but rinsing it off is a problem. I'm sure we will figure it out soon enough.

New Year

Each year I reflect back on the year past and make resolutions for the year to come. 2006 was a big year for me. I became a homeowner, business owner and most important, a mom. I put myself much further in debt, gained a bunch of weight, lost a little weight, had my first major surgery, and went to my first trade show. I learned that I enjoy mornings and fell in love with coffee.
In the coming year I plan to recover the money Bryan owes me, put in a pool, and get health insurance.

Lily learned how to smile, laugh, reach, hold up her own head, roll over, eat from a spoon, and sit up. In the coming year she plans to grow teeth, grow hair and gain a buch of weight. She also plans to learn how to stand, crawl, talk and walk.

I just love to watch her. She is so deliberate in her actions now. She watches thing with such intense curiosity. She actually does things on purpose now. For Christmas, she got a little piano thing that hooks on the side of her crib and somehow she squirms herself into position to push the buttons with her feet each morning. I have tried to catch her to see how she does it, but I wake up to the thing saying "hello baby" which is what it does when you first push on it. I sneak into the room to see if she is doing it on accident or on purpose and I have determined that it really is on purpose. She looks at it while it sings and when it stops she puts her foot up there and hits it again. So smart!!

David got her a soccer ball for Christmas and she loves it. It is kinda annoying to me though because she sits on the floor (yes, sits...she is so advanced!) and hits it so it rolls away from her. She cracks up laughing and then fusses until I roll it back to her. I have been trying to show her how to kick it, but I think that is a long time away.

Last day of the year

This picture is from my phone so excuse the poor quality. The weather was ok and we decided that Lily was finally big enough to get her feet in the water. She has been to the beach lots, but we have never gotten her in the water. She was a little scared and didn't like it, but doesn't it make for such a sweet picture?