10 Months

Ok, so 10 months happened last week, but here are the updates. Samantha loves getting into things! I'm not sure this is new but her abilities are getting better all the time. She crawls to what she wants - and doesn't mind obstacles in her way, she's like a tank - just go over them! She loves it when I lay on the floor and she gets to use mommy as a jungle gym. She particularly likes lifting my shirt and blowing raspberries on my tummy! So funny since we really don't do this to her that often. Her eating schedule is the same, the only difference is that mid-morning and mid-afternoon have turned to bottles, since it seemed that mommy just couldn't keep up. She's still getting that late night bottle in her sleep. I'm thinking that if I just move dinner up a little then maybe I could nurse her and do the bottle both at bedtime and not have to go up again when we go to bed. But why mess with success? She only sleeps till about 6. Some days it can be as early as 5, but if it is that early, she'll often snooze in bed with me till 7 or 7:30. Which means her nap schedule is not consistent time wise. Oh well. This weekend she was up at 6 and then ready for a nap by 8:30 where most days she goes down closer to 10 and once last week she skipped her morning nap all together and went down at 12:30! *shrugs* She seems to be sleeping longer - about an hour or a little more each nap and most of the time she wakes up cheerful, so we'll let it go. We have gotten some 12 month summer clothes, but her 9 month stuff still fits, so we're probably good on clothes. My only 'need' is PJs for her. I can't decide what's best. I did like the cotton footies, which she only has 3 pairs, but now its getting even hot for that, I think. Her feet will stink in the morning after being in footies all night. Plus I can't find many in 12 month size and the 9 month ones are getting a little short. I still want one piece PJs, though Target and Walmart only seem to have 2 piece sets for 12 month. Nathan thinks just a onesie, but I feel like her theighs need a little cover, since she rolls around and doesn't keep a blanket on. I could get some light pants and do that over onesies, but light-weight are hard to find unless I buy the 2-piece PJ set and I don't really want the tops... Anyone have suggestions as to what their kids wore to bed at this age in this heat?

Spoon Feeding Disaster...

Today, like almost every day, we had some finger foods and some food from a spoon. In particular, today was chicken, peas, and carrots that I cooked myself. However today was different in that it ended in a mess!
This end of the spoon mom??


Ooooh, which spoon??




All over her! And this doesn't even display the seat or her hair - yuck!



So after lunch I just took her clothes off and put her in the kitchen sink for a bath.

Yeah, her and her dollly, both nakie for a little while...

Motivation Needed...

So I finally get time where the baby is asleep and I have nothing pressing to do and yet here I sit. Not sewing like a good girl or even cooking myself dinner. Just wasting time surfing facebook.

Does anyone have extra motivation?

And how am I tired? I got a two and a half hour nap yesterday!

What's really funny is that Samantha has slept till about 6:30 the past 2 days (good for her!) yet I have been awake at 5:45, the time she had been waking up...ugh! We need to coordinate our schedules...

In writing I am trying to perpetuate myself off this couch and into the sewing room to see if I can make any progress in what I'm sure is not much of naptime that I have left.

I think tomorrow at the grocery store I'll be buying frozen dinners....

We did it!

Woo hoo! We closed! Money should be in the bank Monday, then I'll KNOW its for real! Whew!

This Week's Projects

This weeks projects are.... and my no means does this mean they will actually get done this week.

First, I am really bad at posting/editting, so these are backwards in the way I wanted them and I can't seem to move them.

My cute helper:Turning this into a blanket: pink and chocolate zebra minky with silky satin chocolate back. So soft and smooth and perfect for cuddling a summer baby. Anyone interested? Personalized just for you! Its a trial in satin/minky pairing, so it'd be a good deal...
Difficulty (for me) hard! Turning these pieces into a curtain for Samantha's room. The top (valence) will be the multi colors, and the panels will be from the bottom purple fabric. Not sure I have enough, so it'll be interesting to see how I can make it work.

Making personalized placemats from the purple for Kelly! Plus a bonus dresser cover for her little girl's dresser :-)

That's it for now. Cross your fingers and say a prayer for this afternoon and I'll let you know if it for sure happens - we're supposed to be closing!

Maybe not..

So its March 15 and this is post 3 for the month...maybe I didn't turn into that better blogger I was hoping for.
But I have lots of excuses I'm sure. Today we finally got internet in the new home. Of course, I did get the neighbor's internet before (which they gave us a password for) but only in the two upstairs bedrooms or the corner of the kitchen. Not exactly convenient.
We also got cable again - we had it at the old house, but hadn't watched too much (it was kinda coming with the cable internet and not being billed...) especially because we didn't have a DVR.
Well, we got cable with a DVR and I was trying to find some things to record this afternoon 'for a rainy day'. Well I just watched one and can I say that TV has turned...really stupid?
Yeah, so we'll stick to our few shows on USA and call it done. The TV is upstairs anyway and really out of the way - especially hard to watch if Sam is awake (key reason for me wanting it there)

I'll have to write about how it feels to be back in the same neighborhood at a later date. I'm not feeling like posting a lot (ie I'm distracted by the tv...)

Grandparents to the Rescue!

We have moved.
Sigh!
Amazingly everything went (in my opinion) very well with only 2 days of heavy moving (1 day previous of heavy packing thanks to my mom and dad). Grammy and Grandpa even babysat most of Sunday so Nathan and I could go to church and clean the old house.
Now we have called in new recruits (Mimi) to help with the unpacking!

Grandparents are WONDERFUL!

Trying to be a better blogger

If I post more often, maybe I can also make them shorter? We'll see..

Packing day (#whatever)
We felt bad this morning (collective we, I really don't think Sam felt too bad) but after getting going, we're doing much better.
I finished the sewing stuff and office stuff (same room) so only the big furniture needs to leave that room. Woo hoo.
I started on the kitchen but got discouraged (distracted) quickly.

Nathan bought a fridge today and took all the boxes I had packed the last 2 days to Katy tonight. Nice thing about moving across town is that boxes don't pile up much at the old house, since there's often a reason to take a trip to the new house.

And because Nathan's a wonderful husband (and wanted to take the new fridge over tonight when I wanted him to be home) he got up nice and early so he could come home early and spend time with us! I'm not sure if Sam just had a really good afternoon or if I was less stressed because I knew Nathan would be home earlier (and I am not worrying about cooking this week as I bought a few frozen meals) but she was so good! We ate dinner together at 5:45 which is exactly when I'd like Sam to be eating (but rarely happens) and then she was very content to watch/help us load the truck. She was not too wiggly during bathtime. In fact, I thought maybe she wasn't tired tonight, but then she fell asleep while nursing and went down perfectly!

Wonder if I could convince Nathan to go to work early maybe twice a week...gotta start slow ;-)