13 Months

Baby Girl is 13 months old! Yes, I realize that I still haven't posted about her first birthday, time on the computer is a rare treat these days.


She is taking steps here and there, she mainly only walks to her momma or daddy, but she can do it!


She has a few new words: nana (banana), nite-nite, and Moo-moo (a nickname for one of our dogs.)


She's doing all sorts of cute things, the points to our noses and goes, "Ahh?" with an occasional attempt at "nose."


She copies everything her big brother does, especially giving zerberts, which is one of his favorite things to do right now.


She's a dancing queen, my parents have started calling her boogie-baby! Anytime any music comes on, from the tv, radio, or a toy, she starts dancing and waving her arms - it's so cute!


She's still not the best sleeper, oh how I can't wait until she regularly sleeps through the night. She's in her crib during the night, although if she's waking up frequently I'll bring her downstairs so she won't wake up Little Man.


She is such a flirt! My mom goes to the same grocery store as I do, and when she goes to the store the employees will say, "your granddaughter was in here earlier, she was just talking and laughing with everyone!"


She's very sweet and gives out lots of hugs and kisses, she likes to hug her baby dolls, too. She's most definitely a girly-girl {complete with attitude ;) }.

Happy 13 months, Sweet Baby Girl!

Today's soapbox...

Why don't people RSVP anymore?

I've been guilty of not rsvp'ing a few times myself, but since reaching adulthood I'm almost always curteous enough to do it. I always, always intend to do it.

I'm throwing a baby shower this weekend, along with a few friends. It's at my house (stress!).

Out of the 31 people invited, only 13 rsvp'd.

My phone number and email address were clearly printed on the invite, along with a request to let us know if you would be attending. We do have to feed you, you know.

I'm making the cake. A cute little cake that will feed about 15.

Do I need to make a whole second cake? A few cupcakes, cookies? Who knows, 13 people could show up, or 31. It's a guess.

Why, people, why??

Just call me already, aaaahhhh!!

One Year :)

Baby Girl had her one year checkup today.

She was deemed just fine and healthy, as I expected.

What a blessing!

She weighs 21 lbs 5 oz

Edit : I wrote this intending to add onto it, but of course forgot. So now I don't really remember what Baby Girl was up to on her first birthday. :( Oh well, I wrote a post about her at 13 months, guess that will have to do! Here is a little bit about her birthday, though...

After a small birthday celebration with just the four of us on Baby Girl's real birthday, we had a small family/close friends party at the house the next day. By now anyone reading this has probably noticed that I don't really post pics of the kids, so a few pics of the decorations will have to do. Everyone had a great time, including Baby Girl, who LOVED her smash cake, which was mostly whipped cream. She dug right in, smashed it around, and said, "ohhhh!" She wore a cute brown little sweater dress with stockings and a bow for the occasion. Very chic. ;)

We all enjoyed celebrating the day Baby Girl came into our lives.

We love you bunches, Sweet Girl!

Ramblings

Not a lot has been happening around here. Except that Baby Girl had her birthday - she's one! The Husband had gone back to his crazy work schedule, which means I'm alone with the kids for about 12 hours a day. We are focusing on surviving with our sanity, and trying to have a little fun while doing so, and that is taking up pretty much all of our time. Now on to the ramblings...

I witnessed my first facebook catfight last night. Oh, it was ugly. It was between two of my "friends," one of whom is actually a good friend. The other participant, who was the instigator, is more of a friend of a friend. Without going into details, the friend of a friend, whom I now call The Bully, jumped down the throat of my good friend for an innocent comment. The Bully was obviously just waiting for someone to make a comment on her status, and my poor friend was the first to take the bait. It was painful to watch it unfold, and just so unnecessary. Some people need to get a little perspective on things. Needless to say, I don't think these two are friends anymore.

I've gotten into couponing. Not just a coupon here, a coupon there like I used to, but REAL couponing! There's a blog I recently stumbled upon, My St. Louis Mommy, and she sums up all the coupon deals, and tells you how to match them up with store sales and store coupons. It's all the benefit without all the work, I love it! She gives a weekly update for Target (with links to coupons), which is where a lot of my money goes, so it's really saved us some cash. However, there is a dark cloud in my bright sky. My grocery store will no longer take internet coupons. This really stinks, because almost all the coupons SLM shares are from the internet. I had all my grocery coupons printed out, my list made, I shopped, checked out, bagged the items, and only then was I told that my coupons were not acceptable at the store. What?! Turns out they just had a rash of people forging coupons and could no longer accept anything but coupons from the paper. They wouldn't even take internet coupons from me, and the grocery store is my family's business. Frustration! Thanks, general public, for breaking the rules for your own gain and ruining it for the rest of us.

On a brighter note, I have booked a maid service to come deep clean my house! Oh joy, oh joy, oh joy!!! I've always wanted to do this, but have always been too cheap to go through with it. However, I'm throwing a fancy baby shower for one of my good friends in a few weeks, and Little Man has a school program the day before, which means I will be at the school half the day and he will come home early. Not good when I'm making/decorating a cake and hosting. I mean, the cleaning is the hardest part of hosting an event at your house. So I found a locally-owned, independent business, which uses all natural, chemical-free products, and who gave me the best price! I'm in heaven, I can't wait for them to come!

Well, I'm out of ramblings for now. :)

Why I'm always cleaning and yet it's always a mess.

First off, let's state the obvious:

1 husband, 2 small children, 2 dogs - enough said.

Now for the rest:

I've just finished scrubbing the kitchen spotless and Little Man wants a snack. He requests yogurt. Ok. Yogurt dispensed. Yogurt spilled on counter. Yogurt mistaken for finger paint.

I wash walls. With the above mentioned beings living in this house, it has to be done on occasion. Here is one reason why: Little Man was caught with his hands in his dirty, just-worked-in-the-yard shoes, "walking" them up the wall.

That's all I have for now, these incidences both happened yesterday, but I'm sure I'll have more very soon.