Movie Game
Some of my Live Journal pals are playing this, and seeing as how I'm home sick, the baby's sleeping and I'm bored, I thought I would play. Somebody please play along so I don't look stupid! ;) Keep in mind that the list is not all of my favorite movies...just the ones that popped into my head first.
Movie meme
1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them in your journal (BLOG!) for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING / using IMDb search functions.
1. From Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as guessed by Luke's Mommy
Mysterious thing, time. Powerful, and when meddled with, dangerous.
2. From Clerks as guessed by Becky (it's the part where they're playing hockey on the roof and the rude customer knocks their ball into the storm drain...and yes, the second line was Jay)
-Are there any balls down there?
-About the biggest pair you ever seen, dingleberry!
3. From Love Actually as guessed by Val
American girls would seriously dig me with my cute British accent.
4. From The Goonies as guessed by Tracy
Kids suck.
5. From West Side Story as guessed by Meg
Now look, fellas. Let's be reasonable. If I don't get a little law and order around here, I get busted down to a traffic corner. And your friend don't like traffic corners. So that means you're gonna start making nice with the PRs from now on.
6. From Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers as guessed by Brooke
Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow. How did it come to this?
7. From Hairspray (Musical Version) as guessed by Luke's Mommy
Well, I had a dream that I would own a coin-operated laundromat but I came down from that cloud real quickly!
8. From A Christmas Story as guessed by Luke's Mommy
Over the years I got to be quite a connoisseur of soap. Though my personal preference was for Lux, I found that Palmolive had a nice, piquant after-dinner flavor - heavy, but with a touch of mellow smoothness. Life Buoy, on the other hand... YECCHH!
9. From Grease as guessed by Becky
If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter.
10. From Knocked Up as guessed by Brooke
…and then your Mommy said, "Just do it already!" which was very confusing to Daddy, so I took the most literal translation.
11. From Beauty and the Beast as guessed by Becky and Janelle
Oh, it's no use. She's so beautiful, and I'm... Well, look at me!
12. From A Knight's Tale as guessed by Luke's Mommy
I first met him atop a mountain near Jerusalem, praying to God, asking his forgiveness for the Saracen blood spilt by his sword. Next, he amazed me still further in Italy when he saved a fatherless beauty from the would-be ravishing of her dreadful Turkish uncle.
13. From 40-Year-Old Virgin as guessed by Tim
He's performing a public colonoscopy. Isn't that sweet?
14. From The Sound of Music as guessed by Meg and Tracy
I forgot the other boy. Oh, what's his name. Oh, well, God bless What's-his-name
15. From The Muppet Movie as guessed by Val
-You, you with the banjo, can you help me? I seem to have lost my sense of direction!
-Have you tried Hare Krishna?
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Hear Me As I Cough
Blah...the chest thing I have is getting worse. I'm already sick of coughing. Ed still feels like crap and the baby is still recovering. She has the sniffles and a bit of a cough as well. Sucks to be us. I'm most likely going to call out sick tomorrow because we don't have daycare and I don't want Ed taking care of the baby by himself while he has the flu. In fact, I want him as far away from Abby as possible until he's better. The last thing I need is for her to get what he has. Plus, if I'm getting sick, I just want to rest up tomorrow to keep it from getting too bad. It feels weird to plan to call out...I haven't called out "sick" in a couple of years. I had to call out for two days when I busted my knee open, but that doesn't count. I never even called out when I was pregnant. But, it's for my baby (and me), so I'll just do it. Plus, I haven't had a good night's sleep since Friday night...I'm tired!
Blah...the chest thing I have is getting worse. I'm already sick of coughing. Ed still feels like crap and the baby is still recovering. She has the sniffles and a bit of a cough as well. Sucks to be us. I'm most likely going to call out sick tomorrow because we don't have daycare and I don't want Ed taking care of the baby by himself while he has the flu. In fact, I want him as far away from Abby as possible until he's better. The last thing I need is for her to get what he has. Plus, if I'm getting sick, I just want to rest up tomorrow to keep it from getting too bad. It feels weird to plan to call out...I haven't called out "sick" in a couple of years. I had to call out for two days when I busted my knee open, but that doesn't count. I never even called out when I was pregnant. But, it's for my baby (and me), so I'll just do it. Plus, I haven't had a good night's sleep since Friday night...I'm tired!
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
And the Hits Just Keep on Comin'
Now that the baby seems to be feeling much better, the husband is now sick. And he's about 10x worse than the baby about it too. Good times, I tell ya! As for me, I seem to have some weird congestion in my chest that is causing an occassional cough, but nothing worth whining about. Boo to germs!
Now that the baby seems to be feeling much better, the husband is now sick. And he's about 10x worse than the baby about it too. Good times, I tell ya! As for me, I seem to have some weird congestion in my chest that is causing an occassional cough, but nothing worth whining about. Boo to germs!
Monday, February 25, 2008
Feeling Better
Abby actually slept through the night last night, which is more than I can say for me. Every time she made the tiniest noise, I was wide awake and grabbing the video monitor to make sure she was okay. We had the humidifier going in her room all night, so that helped a lot. When we had to wake her up this morning, her temperature was down to 99.7, so that's not too bad. My MIL said that when Abby got to her house, after sleeping all the way there, she went right down in the pack-n-play and slept for about another 3 1/2 hours or so. But after she woke up, she took a bottle and then played for a long time. She also said that she didn't feel warm at all, so hopefully it's just about run its course.
Abby is supposed to go to daycare tomorrow, but my MIL volunteered to watch her tomorrow too. That way we can make sure she's better without having to worry about her not sleeping at daycare. Thank goodness the timing worked out with Sandi's days off. Abby will be back at daycare on Wednesday though.
Today was an okay day, despite my being exhausted for most of it. We did the Chinese Buffet for lunch (yum!) and a lot of my favorite peeps were working, so that was fun. :) I'm going to try to get a few things done around here before Ed and Abby get home. Go me!
BTW...for anyone who saw the Sarah Silverman video "I'm Fu**ing Matt Damon," Jimmy Kimmel posted a reply..."I'm Fu**ing Ben Affleck." Hysterical...go to youtube now and watch it. And if you've never seen the original, watch that too. It's hilarious.
Abby actually slept through the night last night, which is more than I can say for me. Every time she made the tiniest noise, I was wide awake and grabbing the video monitor to make sure she was okay. We had the humidifier going in her room all night, so that helped a lot. When we had to wake her up this morning, her temperature was down to 99.7, so that's not too bad. My MIL said that when Abby got to her house, after sleeping all the way there, she went right down in the pack-n-play and slept for about another 3 1/2 hours or so. But after she woke up, she took a bottle and then played for a long time. She also said that she didn't feel warm at all, so hopefully it's just about run its course.
Abby is supposed to go to daycare tomorrow, but my MIL volunteered to watch her tomorrow too. That way we can make sure she's better without having to worry about her not sleeping at daycare. Thank goodness the timing worked out with Sandi's days off. Abby will be back at daycare on Wednesday though.
Today was an okay day, despite my being exhausted for most of it. We did the Chinese Buffet for lunch (yum!) and a lot of my favorite peeps were working, so that was fun. :) I'm going to try to get a few things done around here before Ed and Abby get home. Go me!
BTW...for anyone who saw the Sarah Silverman video "I'm Fu**ing Matt Damon," Jimmy Kimmel posted a reply..."I'm Fu**ing Ben Affleck." Hysterical...go to youtube now and watch it. And if you've never seen the original, watch that too. It's hilarious.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Poor Sickie-Poo Baby
I woke up at 3:30 in the morning to the sounds of Abby whining into the monitor. Seeing as how my baby usually sleeps through the night with minimal problems, I went to go check on her to make sure she was okay. She was wide awake and still whining, so I picked her up. She felt really hot to me, so I changed her diaper and took her temperature and saw, to my dismay, that she had a 101.7 degree fever. She wasn't really fussing, and her diaper had been dirty so she wasn't constipated or dehydrated, so I gave her some baby Tylenol and rocked her back to sleep.
She woke up again at 6 wanting to eat. I took her temperature again, and it was down to 99.1. So, I nursed her and she went back down pretty quickly. When she woke up again around 8, the fever was back. And so the story has been for the rest of the day up until now. It's up, it's down. It actually went as high as 102.6, but that didn't last long. I just keep giving her the baby Tylenol every four hours or so. Her nose is really runny too, so it's probably just a cold with a fever. She's not too fussy...just gets annoyed when her nose is really running badly. And she's been eating...maybe not as much in one sitting as she normally would, but she's eating a decent amount of small meals. If there were any other weird or scary symptoms, I'd call the doctor, but right now it's just the nose and the fever. I've even gotten her to play and she was laughing at me a couple times, so it can't be too bad.
I have a feeling that it's going to be a long night. She keeps going down because she's sleepy, but she hasn't been staying down for long. Thank goodness we weren't taking her to daycare tomorrow anyway. She can't go if she has a fever. But since my mom has to watch Claire on Friday (and she can't deal with both babies at once), we had already arranged the schedule so my MIL will watch Abby tomorrow and she'll be in daycare on Friday. Funny how things work out sometimes. If she's still sick on Tuesday, my MIL is still off, so she can take her then too. We'll just play that one by ear though. Hopefully Abby will be feeling better way before then. Poor baby. :(
I woke up at 3:30 in the morning to the sounds of Abby whining into the monitor. Seeing as how my baby usually sleeps through the night with minimal problems, I went to go check on her to make sure she was okay. She was wide awake and still whining, so I picked her up. She felt really hot to me, so I changed her diaper and took her temperature and saw, to my dismay, that she had a 101.7 degree fever. She wasn't really fussing, and her diaper had been dirty so she wasn't constipated or dehydrated, so I gave her some baby Tylenol and rocked her back to sleep.
She woke up again at 6 wanting to eat. I took her temperature again, and it was down to 99.1. So, I nursed her and she went back down pretty quickly. When she woke up again around 8, the fever was back. And so the story has been for the rest of the day up until now. It's up, it's down. It actually went as high as 102.6, but that didn't last long. I just keep giving her the baby Tylenol every four hours or so. Her nose is really runny too, so it's probably just a cold with a fever. She's not too fussy...just gets annoyed when her nose is really running badly. And she's been eating...maybe not as much in one sitting as she normally would, but she's eating a decent amount of small meals. If there were any other weird or scary symptoms, I'd call the doctor, but right now it's just the nose and the fever. I've even gotten her to play and she was laughing at me a couple times, so it can't be too bad.
I have a feeling that it's going to be a long night. She keeps going down because she's sleepy, but she hasn't been staying down for long. Thank goodness we weren't taking her to daycare tomorrow anyway. She can't go if she has a fever. But since my mom has to watch Claire on Friday (and she can't deal with both babies at once), we had already arranged the schedule so my MIL will watch Abby tomorrow and she'll be in daycare on Friday. Funny how things work out sometimes. If she's still sick on Tuesday, my MIL is still off, so she can take her then too. We'll just play that one by ear though. Hopefully Abby will be feeling better way before then. Poor baby. :(
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Look What Abby Found...
Feet!
Hehehe...she totally cracks me up! She actually found them last week, but I just got around to downloading the pictures. So cute! Now they're her new favorite toy. Makes diaper changes fun...although at least now we don't have to worry as much about her putting her foot in a dirty diaper. Yuck!
Monday, February 18, 2008
Back to the Grind
Vacation's over. Blah. It wasn't fun to get up at the crack of dawn this morning...but I gotta do what I gotta do. The baby wasn't too happy either. I'm pretty sure she enjoyed sleeping in just as much as I did. Of course my definition of "sleeping in" has changed a little since Abby was born. It used to mean sleeping until 10. Now it's sleeping until 7 (8 if we're really, really lucky). But, I take what I can get.
Today wasn't too bad at work, despite it being a holiday and everyone else in the world getting to have a day off. A small group of us went to Buffalo Wild Wings for lunch. We all got wings (mine being wussy sweet bbq wings) and potato wedges (very yummy...crisp and well seasoned). It was a very good lunch, although the services was a tad on the slow side. We were just a little late getting back, which was made even worse by the fact that there was no parking left in the lot behind the store, so I had to park across the street. Stupid holiday.
After work I picked the baby up from daycare and then went to see Becky, Scott and Claire. I had something I needed to drop off and they haven't see Abby in awhile. Poor baby was so sleepy by the time we got back in the car to go home that she fell right to sleep and didn't even wake a little when I took her out of the carseat and put her in her crib. She's sleeping away happy as can be now. Just have to make sure she's awake by 7 so I can feed her and get her back in bed by a decent time.
The postponed doctor's appointment is tomorrow. Blah again.
Vacation's over. Blah. It wasn't fun to get up at the crack of dawn this morning...but I gotta do what I gotta do. The baby wasn't too happy either. I'm pretty sure she enjoyed sleeping in just as much as I did. Of course my definition of "sleeping in" has changed a little since Abby was born. It used to mean sleeping until 10. Now it's sleeping until 7 (8 if we're really, really lucky). But, I take what I can get.
Today wasn't too bad at work, despite it being a holiday and everyone else in the world getting to have a day off. A small group of us went to Buffalo Wild Wings for lunch. We all got wings (mine being wussy sweet bbq wings) and potato wedges (very yummy...crisp and well seasoned). It was a very good lunch, although the services was a tad on the slow side. We were just a little late getting back, which was made even worse by the fact that there was no parking left in the lot behind the store, so I had to park across the street. Stupid holiday.
After work I picked the baby up from daycare and then went to see Becky, Scott and Claire. I had something I needed to drop off and they haven't see Abby in awhile. Poor baby was so sleepy by the time we got back in the car to go home that she fell right to sleep and didn't even wake a little when I took her out of the carseat and put her in her crib. She's sleeping away happy as can be now. Just have to make sure she's awake by 7 so I can feed her and get her back in bed by a decent time.
The postponed doctor's appointment is tomorrow. Blah again.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Not Going Well
I just cannot concentrate at all today. I don't know what the heck my problem is. I just took a break and got a shower in, so I feel a little better. I guess I'll try, try again.
BTW...for my fellow Baltimore mommies...Superfresh has Huggies jumbo packs on sale for $6.99 today through Monday. That's a heck of a deal...especially with the recent diaper price hike. There's a limit of 2 though, but I plan on going back by Monday to get two more. We're pretty well stocked on size 2's (which she just moved up to), so I'm starting a size 3 stockpile. Unfortunately, I just used my last coupon. Hopefully I can get my hands on another one (or two) by the time I go back. There weren't any sale signs in the baby aisle, but I grabbed a circular just to make sure and they were definitely on sale. It also came up a little weird on the receipt, there are actually two discounts listed, one for about $3.20 off each and then another at the bottom for $2 off each. But they came up the right price, so that's all I care about. I love getting a bargain. :) Oh, and as an added bonus, I got a $2 off Pampers coupon at checkout. Score!
I just cannot concentrate at all today. I don't know what the heck my problem is. I just took a break and got a shower in, so I feel a little better. I guess I'll try, try again.
BTW...for my fellow Baltimore mommies...Superfresh has Huggies jumbo packs on sale for $6.99 today through Monday. That's a heck of a deal...especially with the recent diaper price hike. There's a limit of 2 though, but I plan on going back by Monday to get two more. We're pretty well stocked on size 2's (which she just moved up to), so I'm starting a size 3 stockpile. Unfortunately, I just used my last coupon. Hopefully I can get my hands on another one (or two) by the time I go back. There weren't any sale signs in the baby aisle, but I grabbed a circular just to make sure and they were definitely on sale. It also came up a little weird on the receipt, there are actually two discounts listed, one for about $3.20 off each and then another at the bottom for $2 off each. But they came up the right price, so that's all I care about. I love getting a bargain. :) Oh, and as an added bonus, I got a $2 off Pampers coupon at checkout. Score!
Alone Again
This week is totally throwing me off. Today is the third day in a week that I've been alone in the house for hours on end. It's so weird to not have the baby home with me. But, we pay for daycare whether we use it or not, so I may as well take advantage of it and get some studying and various house-things done while I'm off. I still miss my baby though. :(
Valentine's Day was fairly dull. My mom came over for lunch (leftover beef stew, which she loved) and gave Abby a funny dancing/singing Valentine's dog. She was a little wary of it at first, but then she decided she liked it and kept talking to it and grabbing it's face. It was very cute. Then Ed got home and we got Carrabba's carryout for dinner. Yum! I got two good meals in a week! Then we watched Lost (awesome!) and went to sleep. Good times. ;)
I suppose I should go study or something. Blah.
This week is totally throwing me off. Today is the third day in a week that I've been alone in the house for hours on end. It's so weird to not have the baby home with me. But, we pay for daycare whether we use it or not, so I may as well take advantage of it and get some studying and various house-things done while I'm off. I still miss my baby though. :(
Valentine's Day was fairly dull. My mom came over for lunch (leftover beef stew, which she loved) and gave Abby a funny dancing/singing Valentine's dog. She was a little wary of it at first, but then she decided she liked it and kept talking to it and grabbing it's face. It was very cute. Then Ed got home and we got Carrabba's carryout for dinner. Yum! I got two good meals in a week! Then we watched Lost (awesome!) and went to sleep. Good times. ;)
I suppose I should go study or something. Blah.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Yummy Dinner/Crappy Roads
I braved the icky, icy roads tonight to go out to dinner with all the managers from work. It was our Christmas present from our store manager. We went to the Original Steakhouse and it was yummy! It felt so weird to go out to dinner...I can barely remember the last time that happened. Carrie and I shared a crab dip and I got a steak. I don't even want to know what the bill was, but our boss told us to get whatever we wanted. He's pretty cool when he wants to be. ;)
I had to leave a little early though to get home to take over baby duties from Ed. He has to get up at 3am for work. :( Hopefully the roads will be a little better by then. At least there shouldn't be much traffic. It took him over an hour and a half to make the 40 minute trip home from the office today. Not fun for him and not fun for me as I was waiting for him. At least I wasn't late for dinner...I was one of the first three there (which just goes to show how late some of the other managers were).
Thursday is Valentine's Day, which is usually special for Ed and me since he proposed to me on Valentine's Day. This year, with the baby and with our budget being a little tighter, we're probably just going to get carryout from someplace decent instead of going out. That's fine with me...just as long as I don't have to cook. ;) I'm so sick of cooking...I even cooked dinner today, despite the fact that I was going out. I did a beef stew in the crockpot for Ed because I hadn't made it for him yet this season, and I felt bad going out for a good dinner without him. He was very grateful for it though and had two huge bowls, so it was worth it. :) I'll probably still make a special dessert for Valentine's Day...but that's just as much for me as it is for Ed. I have a Pampered Chef torte pan that I keep meaning to try out. I'm thinking something along the lines of chocolate cake, chocolate pudding and Cool Whip. Chocolate...yum!
I braved the icky, icy roads tonight to go out to dinner with all the managers from work. It was our Christmas present from our store manager. We went to the Original Steakhouse and it was yummy! It felt so weird to go out to dinner...I can barely remember the last time that happened. Carrie and I shared a crab dip and I got a steak. I don't even want to know what the bill was, but our boss told us to get whatever we wanted. He's pretty cool when he wants to be. ;)
I had to leave a little early though to get home to take over baby duties from Ed. He has to get up at 3am for work. :( Hopefully the roads will be a little better by then. At least there shouldn't be much traffic. It took him over an hour and a half to make the 40 minute trip home from the office today. Not fun for him and not fun for me as I was waiting for him. At least I wasn't late for dinner...I was one of the first three there (which just goes to show how late some of the other managers were).
Thursday is Valentine's Day, which is usually special for Ed and me since he proposed to me on Valentine's Day. This year, with the baby and with our budget being a little tighter, we're probably just going to get carryout from someplace decent instead of going out. That's fine with me...just as long as I don't have to cook. ;) I'm so sick of cooking...I even cooked dinner today, despite the fact that I was going out. I did a beef stew in the crockpot for Ed because I hadn't made it for him yet this season, and I felt bad going out for a good dinner without him. He was very grateful for it though and had two huge bowls, so it was worth it. :) I'll probably still make a special dessert for Valentine's Day...but that's just as much for me as it is for Ed. I have a Pampered Chef torte pan that I keep meaning to try out. I'm thinking something along the lines of chocolate cake, chocolate pudding and Cool Whip. Chocolate...yum!
Needles Are Bad
My poor baby is sleeping off the after-effects of the four shots she had to get at the doctor's today. That was not fun at all. But before the screams of pain, we found out that she is 14lbs, 12oz (75th percentile), 25 1/2 inches (90th percentile) and she still has a small head (25th to 50th percentile). Good times. Everything else looks a-okay and we got the go-ahead for cereal. :)
In other news, today is the anniversary of the day I found out I was pregnant. What an interesting day that was. I had a split-shift at work, so Becky and I took Claire shopping. While we were out, we were talking about how funny it would be if I wound up pregnant since Ed and I had decided to stop trying for awhile. When I got home, I got to thinking that I was pretty sure that my period had been due a day or two before. So, I got out one of my pregnancy tests that Val had given me, not actually thinking it would be positive, and sure enough, that little line showed up clear as day. My heart stopped as I saw it starting to appear....I just couldn't believe it. I actually called Ed and told him over the phone because I HAD to tell someone and since I couldn't tell anyone else until he knew, I had to call him. Then I called Becky and my mom and told them. Then I told Carrie when I got to work.
Of course, I came down a bit from my high when I got home that night and found out that Ed had lost his job. How's that for timing? But, we knew we'd get through it and the news about the pregnancy was happy enough to balance out the bad news. Still not quite daring to believe it was true, I took another test...again, the line was clear as day. Ed called his mom and told her the good news (not the bad news). It was a very strange day. But, all I have ever wanted was to be a mommy and I couldn't have been any happier.
Now, a year later, I have the most beautiful, happy, precious baby girl I could ever have dreamed of. Funny how life works sometimes. :)
My poor baby is sleeping off the after-effects of the four shots she had to get at the doctor's today. That was not fun at all. But before the screams of pain, we found out that she is 14lbs, 12oz (75th percentile), 25 1/2 inches (90th percentile) and she still has a small head (25th to 50th percentile). Good times. Everything else looks a-okay and we got the go-ahead for cereal. :)
In other news, today is the anniversary of the day I found out I was pregnant. What an interesting day that was. I had a split-shift at work, so Becky and I took Claire shopping. While we were out, we were talking about how funny it would be if I wound up pregnant since Ed and I had decided to stop trying for awhile. When I got home, I got to thinking that I was pretty sure that my period had been due a day or two before. So, I got out one of my pregnancy tests that Val had given me, not actually thinking it would be positive, and sure enough, that little line showed up clear as day. My heart stopped as I saw it starting to appear....I just couldn't believe it. I actually called Ed and told him over the phone because I HAD to tell someone and since I couldn't tell anyone else until he knew, I had to call him. Then I called Becky and my mom and told them. Then I told Carrie when I got to work.
Of course, I came down a bit from my high when I got home that night and found out that Ed had lost his job. How's that for timing? But, we knew we'd get through it and the news about the pregnancy was happy enough to balance out the bad news. Still not quite daring to believe it was true, I took another test...again, the line was clear as day. Ed called his mom and told her the good news (not the bad news). It was a very strange day. But, all I have ever wanted was to be a mommy and I couldn't have been any happier.
Now, a year later, I have the most beautiful, happy, precious baby girl I could ever have dreamed of. Funny how life works sometimes. :)
Another Milestone
I woke up a little before the alarm clock this morning to a weird banging sound coming from the baby monitor. I looked at the screen (gotta love the video monitor) and saw Abby's feet waving around in the air. Yup, she rolled herself over from her tummy to her back. She was having a blast playing with her Ocean Wonders Aquarium. Hehe...it was too cute. When I went in to get her I made a big deal about the rolling and she just looked at me like, "What? I'm just playing here." At least we can mention that she rolled both ways when we go to the doctor's in a couple of hours. ;)
I woke up a little before the alarm clock this morning to a weird banging sound coming from the baby monitor. I looked at the screen (gotta love the video monitor) and saw Abby's feet waving around in the air. Yup, she rolled herself over from her tummy to her back. She was having a blast playing with her Ocean Wonders Aquarium. Hehe...it was too cute. When I went in to get her I made a big deal about the rolling and she just looked at me like, "What? I'm just playing here." At least we can mention that she rolled both ways when we go to the doctor's in a couple of hours. ;)
Monday, February 11, 2008
The Coolest Place Ever!
Believe it or not, it's the Rosedale library! They just built this new interactive children's "literacy playground" called Storyville. It is way awesome! They should really charge admission, but it's free as can be. It for infants to kids up to age 6. There are all kinds of different play areas for the kids to explore. There's an "infant garden" that's fenced off so that only non-walkers and their parents can play in there. There's a grocery store, a post office, a puppet stage complete with puppets, an interactive stage that's currently set up for "The Mitten" by Jan Brett, there's a house complete with kitchen, living room and garden. There's a construction zone, dress-up clothes, a "water" area (no actual water, it's just set up for water learning...complete with a rocking boat), a library (of course) and a lot more. I went with Claire and Becky after I dropped Abby off at daycare (Becky called me as I was on my way to daycare to see if I wanted to join them). Claire had the best time ever running around and exploring everything. I can't wait to take Abby there. I would suggest going at opening though if you're interested. That's when we got there and there were only a few other kids there. But by 10ish when we left, it was starting to get a little more crowded.
After that fun, I went to BRU to take advantage of their baby food sale combined with the Gerber coupons I had. They were mostly out of stage 1's, but I got what I could. Then I went to Target to get spoons (BRU was out of the Gerber spoons, which I had a coupon for) and I used my coupon from Gerber.com for $2 off a can of their new DHA cereal...so I got that for about 50 cents. What a deal, what a steal. Now I'm wasting time in an attempt to put off studying for the insurance exam. Good times. ;)
Believe it or not, it's the Rosedale library! They just built this new interactive children's "literacy playground" called Storyville. It is way awesome! They should really charge admission, but it's free as can be. It for infants to kids up to age 6. There are all kinds of different play areas for the kids to explore. There's an "infant garden" that's fenced off so that only non-walkers and their parents can play in there. There's a grocery store, a post office, a puppet stage complete with puppets, an interactive stage that's currently set up for "The Mitten" by Jan Brett, there's a house complete with kitchen, living room and garden. There's a construction zone, dress-up clothes, a "water" area (no actual water, it's just set up for water learning...complete with a rocking boat), a library (of course) and a lot more. I went with Claire and Becky after I dropped Abby off at daycare (Becky called me as I was on my way to daycare to see if I wanted to join them). Claire had the best time ever running around and exploring everything. I can't wait to take Abby there. I would suggest going at opening though if you're interested. That's when we got there and there were only a few other kids there. But by 10ish when we left, it was starting to get a little more crowded.
After that fun, I went to BRU to take advantage of their baby food sale combined with the Gerber coupons I had. They were mostly out of stage 1's, but I got what I could. Then I went to Target to get spoons (BRU was out of the Gerber spoons, which I had a coupon for) and I used my coupon from Gerber.com for $2 off a can of their new DHA cereal...so I got that for about 50 cents. What a deal, what a steal. Now I'm wasting time in an attempt to put off studying for the insurance exam. Good times. ;)
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Lazy Weekend
Except for the fact that I just went grocery shopping. Now I remember how much I hate doing a full grocery shop alone...complete with coupons. Could have been worse though...I could have had the baby with me. Ed stayed home and took care of Abby. It was time for her bottle-feed and it's always better when he does that. But at least we have food in the house now, so yay! :) That's all.
Except for the fact that I just went grocery shopping. Now I remember how much I hate doing a full grocery shop alone...complete with coupons. Could have been worse though...I could have had the baby with me. Ed stayed home and took care of Abby. It was time for her bottle-feed and it's always better when he does that. But at least we have food in the house now, so yay! :) That's all.
Saturday, February 09, 2008
4 Months Old!
Can you believe that my beautiful baby girl is 4 months old today? How crazy is that? "They" were right when they told me how quickly time seems to fly when you have a baby. I can hardly remember how tough the first couple of months were. She's such a good baby and she's my joy. Whenever I'm with her I can't help but to be happy...no matter how bad everything else may seem. I wouldn't trade her for all the world.
Picture to come later today. She's too busy napping at the moment for a photo shoot. Plus, Ed's out and about until later this afternoon and he likes to do the monthly photo with me. :)
And the best news...I'm on vacation. Woohoo! I get four weeks a year now, so I might as well spread them out a bit. Plus all the managers at work have to take a lame 2-hour "sexual harrassment" course at work and my computer is the only one they can use. I figure I'd rather be on vacation and let them take over my computer while I'm out then have to fight for my own computer while I'm working. Since we have to pay for daycare anyway, I'm still going to take Abby on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I'll use that time to finally study for the insurance producer's exam so I can try to get my license and start helping out Ed's office peeps (for fair compensation, of course).
Tuesday the baby and I are both supposed to have doctor's appointments. I may have to postpone mine though. Since I started on the pill again, my periods have been unpredictable. Weird, I know, but it's a different sort of pill (low-dose...same pill everyday...no plecebo...it's the only one I can take and still continue to breastfeed). I have a feeling that I may have my period in full force on Tuesday afternoon. I'll determine on Monday morning what I should do. Not that I want to go, but I just want to get it over with. Blah.
I'm almost looking forward to Abby's appointment though...except for the fact that she has to get four shots again. That's going to suck. But I'm dying to know her exact weight and length. We do the "on the scale alone and then again with the baby and figure out the difference" method, but that's never a very accurate measure. Plus, the girl's so long...I'm curious to know what percentile she's in for length. I'm pretty sure she's going to be tall like her mama. Hopefully she'll be feeling well enough after the doctor's appointment for me to run to BRU afterwards. I won't hold my breath though.
Can you believe that my beautiful baby girl is 4 months old today? How crazy is that? "They" were right when they told me how quickly time seems to fly when you have a baby. I can hardly remember how tough the first couple of months were. She's such a good baby and she's my joy. Whenever I'm with her I can't help but to be happy...no matter how bad everything else may seem. I wouldn't trade her for all the world.
Picture to come later today. She's too busy napping at the moment for a photo shoot. Plus, Ed's out and about until later this afternoon and he likes to do the monthly photo with me. :)
And the best news...I'm on vacation. Woohoo! I get four weeks a year now, so I might as well spread them out a bit. Plus all the managers at work have to take a lame 2-hour "sexual harrassment" course at work and my computer is the only one they can use. I figure I'd rather be on vacation and let them take over my computer while I'm out then have to fight for my own computer while I'm working. Since we have to pay for daycare anyway, I'm still going to take Abby on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I'll use that time to finally study for the insurance producer's exam so I can try to get my license and start helping out Ed's office peeps (for fair compensation, of course).
Tuesday the baby and I are both supposed to have doctor's appointments. I may have to postpone mine though. Since I started on the pill again, my periods have been unpredictable. Weird, I know, but it's a different sort of pill (low-dose...same pill everyday...no plecebo...it's the only one I can take and still continue to breastfeed). I have a feeling that I may have my period in full force on Tuesday afternoon. I'll determine on Monday morning what I should do. Not that I want to go, but I just want to get it over with. Blah.
I'm almost looking forward to Abby's appointment though...except for the fact that she has to get four shots again. That's going to suck. But I'm dying to know her exact weight and length. We do the "on the scale alone and then again with the baby and figure out the difference" method, but that's never a very accurate measure. Plus, the girl's so long...I'm curious to know what percentile she's in for length. I'm pretty sure she's going to be tall like her mama. Hopefully she'll be feeling well enough after the doctor's appointment for me to run to BRU afterwards. I won't hold my breath though.
Thursday, February 07, 2008
Baby Alarm!
We finally got the crap scared out of us by the "baby alarm" at 4:30 this morning. Good times. For those who have no idea what I'm talking about, the "baby alarm" is the AngelCare Monitor that we bought to make ourselves feel better about letting Abby sleep on her tummy. It's basically a sensor pad that goes under the crib mattress that senses baby's every little movement. If it doesn't feel anything for 20 seconds or so, an alarm goes off so you can check on the baby. We've been using it for about a month now and it had never gone off before (except for when we take her out of the crib and forget to turn it off).
Since the monitor is right by my head, I heard it right away, but for a moment I thought it was the alarm clock. I realized what it really was a second later and jumped out of bed and ran for the door. Ed was right there with me when the alarm stopped. We went into the nursery and looked...and had to laugh. The baby had scooted herself all the way to the top of the crib and then managed to turn herself sideways so that her body was parallel to the head of the crib and was therefore totally off of the sensor mat. Gotta love it. Ed picked her up and put her back at the bottom of the crib. It didn't even phase her...she slept through the whole thing. Scared the crap out of us though. It definitely took awhile for either of us to get back to sleep after that.
BTW...if anyone doesn't checkout the Baby Cheapskate website, you really should. There's always some great stuff on there. Today there's a link for a free Family Pack of photos from Walgreen's. I'm using it on a picture of Abby in her christening dress. :)
We finally got the crap scared out of us by the "baby alarm" at 4:30 this morning. Good times. For those who have no idea what I'm talking about, the "baby alarm" is the AngelCare Monitor that we bought to make ourselves feel better about letting Abby sleep on her tummy. It's basically a sensor pad that goes under the crib mattress that senses baby's every little movement. If it doesn't feel anything for 20 seconds or so, an alarm goes off so you can check on the baby. We've been using it for about a month now and it had never gone off before (except for when we take her out of the crib and forget to turn it off).
Since the monitor is right by my head, I heard it right away, but for a moment I thought it was the alarm clock. I realized what it really was a second later and jumped out of bed and ran for the door. Ed was right there with me when the alarm stopped. We went into the nursery and looked...and had to laugh. The baby had scooted herself all the way to the top of the crib and then managed to turn herself sideways so that her body was parallel to the head of the crib and was therefore totally off of the sensor mat. Gotta love it. Ed picked her up and put her back at the bottom of the crib. It didn't even phase her...she slept through the whole thing. Scared the crap out of us though. It definitely took awhile for either of us to get back to sleep after that.
BTW...if anyone doesn't checkout the Baby Cheapskate website, you really should. There's always some great stuff on there. Today there's a link for a free Family Pack of photos from Walgreen's. I'm using it on a picture of Abby in her christening dress. :)
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