Birthday coming soon...

Now that there is just ONE MONTH till my baby turns one, we've started really thinking about her birthday party. I'm excited to have something simple at our (new) house and have people we love coming over to eat food and cake.
I'm kinda torn about presents though. I'm sure people want to bring things for her, but I really don't think she needs much. I have outfitted her for the summer (yes, a few times I couldn't control myself) so she has plenty to wear until the fall. Fall clothes really aren't out yet and I doubt anyone really wants to buy fall things in the next size that they wouldn't see her wearing for awhile. As far as toys, I don't want her to have too many so she really needs very little. She's more entertained by an empty box or water bottle anyway!
Of course, baby food or diapers are welcome, plus an additional baby gate or two that I'm looking at buying. But those aren't really things people get you as presents :-)
Is it wrong that I just don't want to spoil my child?
And maybe I'm going overboard. We're not inviting that many people and Christmas was much more low key than we made it out to be. The few toys she got, she really does enjoy and I don't feel like toys are taking over our house (yet).
So maybe I should just let it go...any suggestions from veteran moms?

Waiting...

How many times in life do we feel like we're just waiting? Too many, I think. We can't forget to LIVE!
Currently, I'm waiting for my parents to arrive for a (short) visit. I'm waiting for Nathan to get home from work because I love having my small family all together. A friend is waiting for a home-buying decision to get made.
Waiting...

I love the song While I'm Waiting by John Waller
I'm waiting


I'm waiting on You, Lord

And I am peaceful

I'm waiting on You, Lord

Though it's not easy

But faithfully, I will wait

Yes, I will wait

I will serve You while I'm waiting

I will worship while I'm waiting

I will serve You while I'm waiting

I will worship while I'm waiting

I will serve you while I'm waiting

I will worship while I'm waiting on You, Lord

 
So don't forget to SERVE, WORSHIP and ENJOY life while you wait :-)

Name change and other things...

Yesterday was a very good day. First, I put Sam in the nursery at church and went to the 'Called to be Mom' group. I talked to people (shocking for me, I know) and really enjoyed myself!
Plus I got some tips on my business, got another round of 'Let's get this thing going!' and am now in the process of changing the business name to make it less 'cute' and more upscale boutique-y and getting help with a logo design!
Sam did ok in the nursery. I mean, for her first time, everyone would say it was good, but now I feel guilty for leaving her there. I'm sure the workers did a good job, but....
She did cry for a bit, though she also took a bottle and a nap for them. She was still cranky when we got home.

And then I went to lunch for a friend and her husband and throroughly enjoyed having MORE adult interaction :-) :-)
Sam was pretty loud and got pretty fussy by the end of lunch. But after coming home and getting a nap, she had a pleasant afternoon.

Nathan got home, I made dinner, we ate and put Sam to bed. Then we had a nice conversation about our life and our plans and dreams. Then I lost horribly in Yahtzee! The game was so pathetic to us yahtzee-advocates, that Nathan actually added up the score at the end. 105 to 267. I scored 49 on the lower half - ridiculous! It was actually laughable.

And that is what makes for a GREAT day in my book.

Now today I need to do some dishes and clean up a bit ... oh well!

The Paci Mystery

So Sam's pacifiers (she had around 8) are all different colors. A few have faces, some dark pink, some light, yellow, green, blue. I like this uniqueness. Because we can get home from the park and I see a paci on the floor and think "oh yeah, she rubbed that all over the park swing, maybe I should wash it now that we're home" I like things clean (hahahaha)

Today her morning nap was quite difficult. Now, when she gets mad in her crib, she throws her pacis overboard. Then she gets a little less mad, wants to sleep, but can't find any pacis. And I haven't seen her fall asleep without a paci in a VERY long time.
So at naptime, I left her awhile, but finally thought I'd go up and try again to rock her to sleep. Well I couldn't find any pacis anywhere. I had put 3 in her bed (and I knew exactly which ones) when I left her and didn't find any in her bed. I looked under the crib and finally found the blue one. Worked like a charm. 2 minutes of rocking and a paci and she was asleep. After I laid her in bed, I looked all over for the other 2 pacis (dark pink ones) and never found either.

I forget about all this after her very nice long nap. I go to get her and she has the same blue paci. We come downstairs and she's playing for about half an hour. When she comes into the kitchen with a dark pink one! No seriously. I KNOW it was up in her bed, I KNOW I couldn't find it, I KNOW it was not with her when we came downstairs, yet half an hour later here it is.

We have a paci mystery in our house....

Update: The other dark pink pacifier reappeared in the front hall about an hour after I wrote this. WEIRD!!

Still missing a yellow pacifier the last few days and a second yellow one since we've moved. And a light pink one but I haven't seen it in months.

Maybe they'll come out of the woodwork today....

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....