Big Girl Seat!

My Bugg has graduated into a booster seat here at home finally. She has been sitting in one for AGES over at mom and dad vh's but we finally broke down and got her one for home. She loves being able to sit at the table with us! She has a hard time controlling her fruit jars at the table vs in the high chair but only because theres not a ledge to keep them from toppling over.

I do believe the mimic stage has begun! Luckily I was G-rated at the time!! I was packing a box yesterday and looked at it and said "GEEZ, we have A LOT of games!", she went around for the next hour stomping and saying GEEZ GEEZ GEEZ!!! She's also going through the "what's this" stage, nothing escapes her notice. She'll try to repeat after us what it is, sometimes it works....other times its all we can do to not laugh at her.

Its time to start potty training again...this time should work as she is learning to tell us wet and poopy. Plus I went in to get her from a nap the other day and she was in the process of taking off her poopy diaper herself....oh the mess that could have made...*shudder* As soon as we get into the new house potty training is at the top of my priority list!

Speaking of new house, closing is FRIDAY!!! The poor sellers did not realize that Closing means "turn in your keys, the house is no longer yours" and thought they had until the 30th to get out. I called Bellsouth yesterday as I was changing over all our stuff to the new house and they said they had to call the current owners to make sure it was ok to move it over on this date and they said....um, no we don't move til the end of the month! Well, everyone called their realtor and for ONCE we're in the right on this and they HAVE to be out by Thursday and have the place in move in condition for the walk thru inspection. It even says it in plain english on the front page of our contract in the FIRST PLACE THEY HAVE TO SIGN!!! HELLO?!?! Geez...I'm sorry its happening this way for them but unless they have an extra $2k to bring to closing for us there's nothing we can do to help, our house is in the process of being rented out so we don't have to pay the last month of our lease and we've already booked our movers, truck, etc.

Time to get a move on and pack some more boxes! I still have the kitchen and two of the three bedrooms left to do....but David did say he saw progress when he came home from work yesterday, so I guess that means I'm making a dent in our stuff! He's taking Thursday-Tuesday off so he can be around to help some. Saturday we're moving boxes in cars to the new house, Sunday we'll use the Uhaul and help for the big stuff...Monday is the house cleaning, Tuesday is the carpet cleaning and I turn in the keys....PRAY we get most/all of our deposit back and they can get this place rented for June 1st or shortly after!!!

HI HO HI HO, its off to pack I go!

Easter and "us" news

We had a busy Easter this year considering that we had three total. Mom and Ed came over earlier in the week and brought Freyja, David and I a basket of candy and sidewalk chalk. Then Easter morning the bunny visited our home and presented Freyja with a puzzle, bubble machine, some braclets, a watch and some Little People. That afternoon after she got all dolled up in her new dress from her Granma Stella and Papa we went over to mom and dad vh's and had steaks on the grill. She got another Easter basket over there filled with candies, bunny ears and a little watering can and shovel. So for her first "real" Easter I think its fair to say she made out like a little bandit!

Our household is finally getting over the last bout of sickness...I hope! Davids ears popped today and no one has had as snotty a nose as we've had for the last week. When it rains it pours...but at least maybe we have all the spring "bugs" out of our system and we can enjoy ourselves now for a while! There's nothing sadder than listening to my lil bugg cough and there's nothing I can really do to help since its just sinuses!

News "outside the bugg"! We have found a house and are in the process of making an offer!! Its a 4/2 with a huge back yard, not far from where we are now, light blue wood exterior located in a cul de sac buried in our subdivision! Hopefully in the next few weeks I'll be posting an album on Picasa entitled "Our New Home". Anyone wanna come down the end of June and help us move?!? We'll feed you and entertain you!!

Speaking of Picasa...I'm going to have to hold off til May 1st posting anymore photos. I have reached my full capacity and have to wait til I get my "monthly allowance" to purchase a years worth of extra space for $20. I can't bring myself to delete any of the pix online, heaven forbid something ever happen to my harddrive and I lose my hard copies at least I would have Picasa to fall back on. So...though I might not be posting anything new for the next few days, rest assured the camera is still in action and patiently waiting to deliver pix to you in May! PS, incase you missed it...there's a new Easter album filled with 100+ new photo's. I went a little camera crazy over the weekend...but who can blame me when you have a subject as cute as Freyja to shoot!

More news "outside the bugg", David bought me a fascinating new telephone/palm pilot that allows me to play on the internet and all that fun jazz! If you have MSN Messenger, you can find me online a good portion of the time. Dragnmyst79@yahoo.com Also, dad vh got a new laptop the other day so lucky me inherited his old one!!! So I now have my own computer again!! YAY :)

I think thats about all on the homefront for now! May all our April showers bring everyone pretty May flowers!!

Sick bugg no more

I am a very blessed mother indeed to say my daughter went nearly 21months without ever being sick more than a sniffle! Wednesday after naptime we were playing in the yard as usual when she came back onto the porch to see me, she laid her head in my lap and cried a second then sat up and puked everywhere. This continues for several heart wrenching hours....we head to bed and she's finally "settled" for the night. 2am rolls around and she lets out a death curdling cry, she had blown out her pjs and bed sheets... we settle back in about 3am to our bed then its my turn :( David decides at that point he'll stay home Thursday to help me out because I doubted I would be much use and then he starts that morning! So all Thursday was miserable with the tree of us taking turns being the sickest. By Friday afternoon Freyja was all smiles and giggles again, David is still complaining of throwing out his back and neck with the whiplash of praying to the porceline goddess, and I'm still a little under the weather today. Today daddy and bugg are out running in the yard playing! Its soooo nice to hear the sound of baby laughs around the house again instead of those sad little whimpers! The worst (besides them taking blood from her) was yesterday she went to put her footstool in place so she could brush her teeth and the poor babe didn't have the energy to do it. She moved the stool then laid down next to it and cried because she was so weak. THAT liked to have killed this mother!!

On another note, like everyone else we've had some wicked wild weather around here the last few days. Sadly David and I missed most of it because we were too sick to care...heck! We didn't even know we had warnings til we watched our shows on the DV-R the next day! We even got hail last night but for a rare change the house did not leak ANYWHERE!!! If April showers bring May flowers, where does all this March nastiness fall into place?!?

Rain, chalk and playdates!

Sorry its been a few days since I last blogged, its been a little hectic around here with spring fever and all. This past week has been a blast! Freyja got to REALLY play out in the rain for the first time the other day and LOVED every minute of it! After two days of rain she woke up from her nap and the look gave me the ultimatum of outside or DIE MOTHER! After about 30-45min of playing in the not so warm...yet not frigid rain I coaxed her inside with the promise of a bubble bath. Happy times!!

Wednesday I introduced her to sidewalk chalk. She likes that a lot better than just crayons...though now thinking about it I might have done a bad thing. We'll see the next time we break out the crayons...if she aims for the floor, oh boy! I drew her a star at one point and she took the blue chalk and started to draw over it, now it looks a bit like a shooting star! My baby's an artist!!!

Yesterday we had the kids over for a playdate, her kissing boyfriend Christian was there, Keaton her long time boyfriend, and Julian (he's new to the group, he's 13months but a giant!). They played in the pool for a while then played on the porch after we dried them off. Keaton decided it would be great fun to go skinny dipping and zoomed out of the porch before Christina could get clothes on him.

As always there's pictures on the website in the 20month album if you haven't checked them out already. This morning she woke up and
looked under the covers and said PUPPY! then looked at the door and said DADDY, then snuggled into my arms and said MOMMY! It's a rare but awesome thing when my child actually calls me by title!! Time to go get the lil one out of her bed, it seems naptime is ending a little early today I can hear her grumbling back there. Happy weekend to you all!

Beautiful park weather today!

First off, happy 20month b'day Miss Freyja Rose and happy 19month b'day Mister Keaton Alexander! Christina and I took the b'day kids to Perdido Kids Park today and they had a blast chasing each other around and doing their normal "thing" together. I love getting to see Keaton! He treats me like a 2nd mom and if I'm not busy with Freyja he's got me by the hand leading me off to come play with him. Of course Freyja thinks of Christina the same way since these kids have been together since 4 and 5 months old. Such cuties! We're hoping our 2nd children will turn up about the same time too so they all can be playmates together.

Bugg went on an adventure last night...we think... About 3am we heard a thump and wail, David turned on the bedside lamp and Freyja was face down on the floor. We're still not sure how she got there, she might have climbed over David and fell off or she might have missed a step getting on/off the bed (we have a set of 3 steps on the end of the bed for Star and Freyja to be able to climb up on) or aliens might have levitated her and dropped her off the side of the bed when they found out they couldn't suck her through the ceiling or wall....But no bruises or dents of any kind, just heart attacks for the parents and bruised ego for the youngen.

Yesterday I went digging through some of her baby clothes to find something and she found a pair of her baby shoes from this time last year and demanded to put them on. Needless to say you can't fit a size 7 foot in a size 3 shoe...but she gave it her best! If you need a good laugh, there's pix in the 20month album of the attempt. She walked around for a minute in them kinda like high heels then gave up and found some comfy ones that fit!

Stay tuned...I'm sure as spring and summer progress she'll be into plenty more mischeif and fun!

Christmas in February!

Gotta love consignment sales! Friday night was the opening of one of my favorite kids consignment sales, mom vh and I went over to stock up on goodies. In the pic you can see all of her new toys that she got: Lil People Castle and Farm, Cleaning Trolley (behind her) and a brand new Barbie ATV! Plus I found her a few cute new outfits for the upcoming warmer months, just need to pick her up some shorts as the need progresses.

She's tried to ride the ATV a couple of times but is not really sure about it yet. I have put it up in the garage for the time being and when it starts to get warmer we'll try it out again. I was wanting to get her a car for her birthday but this works just as well and WAY less expensive!

Saturday I took her to buy new shoes. We got a regular pair and a "squeaker" pair. If you check out the 19month album you can see the new squeakers! Sunday she got a new doll from her Papa and Gramma Stella, it coo's and turns it head and waves. She loves to carry it around and call it bb so I think we may name her BeeBee so she has an easy time saying its name. I'll post pix of her and the doll soon!

We have a couple of new words in our vocabulary this week! Gran= Graaa, Papa= Papa (imagine that...), Boo Boo, Horse, Bubbles= bubbulls or bubbies and pop corn= caw corn. She takes out the photo albums I have in our bedroom and will point at pictures of my mom and dad and can finally tell me Graaa and Papa! She got mad at David Saturday night for trying to feed her Grapes when she was telling him she wanted her Gran. Then yesterday right before nap time we were playing with bubbles and when I told her they needed a nap too I swear she screamed BUT MY BUBBLES!!! as I was picking her up to take her back to her room.

OI!! I can tell the "terrific" two's are just around the corner! She refused to eat dinner til almost 930pm last night but I couldn't let her go to bed hungry so I had to give in on that one. But if it happens again, we'll be curbing that behavior quickly!

It's too cold to play outdoors today so we've been holed up in the living room playing with all of our Little People. Now that she has the Castle and Farm we have a whole little community! I can't wait til she can really start make believe play and we can have "field trips" from her city to the farm and that kind of thing!

Time to get ready for the repair guy to come fix my ceiling fan AGAIN! Gotta wake up the tot a little early but at least she's gotten in most of her nap. Here's hoping for a warmer rest of the week!

Playdate

Today we had a playdate our house. Just a few kids close to Freyja's age that I know she gets along well enough with to have fun. The kids had an absolute blast digging for treasure in the brick flower bed, playing kitchen and snacking all sorts of goodies. Oddly enough none of these moms had met eachother yet but everyone meshed PERFECTLY!! My child is dead zonked in her bed already, she lasted 5minutes after they left. We kept it to the porch and back yard so my house is still "clean". After a quick pick up on the porch and yard everything looks normal again. I think I may have to have these more often!


Left to Right- Logan and Kat (Deidra's kids), Freyja, Keaton (Christina's son and Freyja's good friend), and Owen (Kristy's son and the one Freyja tackled a few months ago with a hug and kiss)

There's more pix online of course. Time to go relax for a bit while my babe is down and the dog is at the office with David! Ahh...quiet :)