She loves it!

Our daughter was given a crocheted afgan as a baby gift that she has fallen in love with. I decided I wanted to make another one. Much time was spent searching for the pattern. I ended up settling for another baby blanket. While looking at yarn, there it was! The afgan was on one of the baby yarns. It was very easy for a beginner. Well, needless to say, she loves it! The moment I handed it to her, she took it everywhere.

I think I can... I think I can... I think I can...

Goals

1. Make time to work on a monthly budget
2. Make time to create a weekly (not weak) meal menu
3. Make time to exercise
4. Make time to be creative
5. Keep house clean
6. Blog more

Hmmmm... Let's see how I do with these

My baby is growing up!

I can't believe how big she's getting! Well, in developement... she's still a peanut. Here she is on Mother's Day reading her little book on her favorite chair. Hubby and I looked back at pictures from a year ago and it's amazing on how much she's changed (4 months old vs 16 months old).

Back in February we moved her from a home care to daycare. It was a little bit more on the wallet but I'm amazed on how much she has progressed in the passed months. She is doing sign language and singing. She loves to be taught new things. Right now she's trying to figure out how to put her shoes on her feet. It's very cute.

Quilt for the Co-Worker

One of the girls at work has decided to stay home with her children during a difficult time. Her son will be going through a year (at least) long process of surgeries to repair his nose that was removed by a dog bite about a year ago (he was two years old). I am very sad to see her go. She has been a great support to our group of 5. She has great stories and is a good confidant. We have been planning for her departure for over a month and this Friday will be her last day.

I decided to take it upon myself to make her a signature quilt. I sent an email to all of the employees asking for signatures to quilt pieces. Out of about 105 employees, I received 50+ signatures. Only 3 offered to donate $, which I declined and referred them to the website that she posts updates on her son. The company didn't offer to cover costs, which I didn't expect. I am doing this all out of my own pocket. I wanted it to be a good quality quilt so I bought good quality materials totalling almost $100 for a little larger than a lap size quilt (large so she can cuddle underneath with both her boys).

My husband travels from time to time for his job. This is the first quilt project I've done since having the baby and it's really difficult to snag time. My goal was to have it done for today because we were all going out to lunch for a nice meal. Unfortunately, the quilt wasn't done. I am far enough along that I will have it done by Friday.

My whole point to this blog is to scream at how stupid people are. One of the ladies, who is not in our team of 5 but another group like ours, just emailed me. Her email...

Did you give her the quilt??
Where is it? Don’t we get to see it, since it is really from the whole company?

Is it really from the whole company? When the only thing you did was sign your name? You did not do one single stitch, select the material, offer one cent?

I originally thought it to be from the company... until I received her email. I guess it's the way her email comes across "since it is really from the whole company". It also has to do with the person that sent the email. Yeah, I don't know how to explain her but she just has a way of stricking a nerve. It's going to take me a little while to get over this comment. Just very ... not understanding to how much work I put into this?? I don't know... UGH IT. JUST. PISSES. ME. OFF!!!

6 Months

Well, today she is 6 months old. Wow! She is doing so much now.

• This past week she had her first taste of cereal. She loves it.


• She is almost sitting on her own, about a minute. Unless she gets excited and then it's two milliseconds.


• She found her toes.


• She has figured out how to roll around. I think she will soon realize that it will help her accomplish other tasks.


• And of course... she still loves to smile. It just warms your heart every day.

My peanut

It's hard to believe that it was a year ago this past week I found out I was pregnant. Now she's a little over 5 months old!

Friday we took DD to get her next round of vaccinations. It was supposed to be at 6 months but due to the way they schedule things in that office she's not even 5 1/2 months. Fortunately the time span from her last round was within the limits and she was able to get them any way. Daddy got to hold her feet this time. I wish there was a better way to do that. It just hurts me to have to be a part of that torture.

She also had her measurements taken. She was 23 inches (5th percentile), 12 lbs 10.5 oz (15th percentile), and 41 1/2 cm (50th percentile). I don't understand why they used a full term chart and her actual age to figure percentile. Shouldn't there be one for preemies?

The doc was impressed how she well she can sit and stand (assisted of course) and maintain great head control. She is rolling over now, which concerns the doc because of SIDS. I fully understand that but how do I control her from rolling over everytime I put her in the crib. She gets mad at me if I try to move her. At what point do you stop worrying?

The picture...

Sunday DH and I were at Babies 'R' Us doing some shopping. Within that store they have a photography studio so I said to DH that we should get DD's first pictures taken. He did remind me that it was close to feeding time. I thought she was going to be okay...thought. Well, we only were able to get one picture taken. Luckily it was a cute one and because she was less then 3 months old we got 12 birth announcements free! We didn't have to pay anything (except now I get emails from them daily).