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Monday, March 9, 2009

I hate that it's dark out in the morning again.

The weekend was great! Friday we stayed home (lily and I). Adam had his sales conference so he was out late. So I couldn't sleep. It's funny too cause I LOVE to sprawl out in the middle of the bed. But without him there hogging the bed I just couldn't sleep. Then Saturday we went out for breakfast and got some cleaning done! It was great. My Sister in law came over and watched Lily so we could go out with some friends. A good time was had by all. After that Adam went out to the bar with some of his friends and I went to bed. About midnight I hear this awful noise but didn't think much of it. A minute or two later I realize I need to get up and find out what it is and turn it off. Turns out it was coming from Lily's room. Sarah must have bumped the alarm button on the white noise machine when she turned it on. SO I had to try and figure out how to turn that off. Which was no simple task since I had never used that feature before. And of course Lily woke up, looked at me and proceeded to scream. I debated picking her up but figured I'd leave her a while and see if she'd go back to sleep on her own. Which I left and Adam was home and came upstairs and she fell asleep relatively quickly which was nice. Sunday morning Adam got up with her and took her downstairs (thank you honey!) While I stayed in bed for a while cause I haven't been sleeping great lately. When I did get up I had to run to Sam's Club to get Diapers and formula and since I was out and about I did some shopping, nice long strolls around the stores. It was nice and when I got home Lily was napping.

Last night I slept GREAT! Thanks to some Tylenol PM. I don't think Lily made a single peep ALL night!

Adam started his new schedule today. M-F 9:30-6. Fun Fun. I'm not too thrilled with the idea of not eating dinner together so we may start eating later. Not sure yet. We'll have to see how the days play out. But they were both still sleeping when I left this morning. Lucky Ducks.

Tonight I hope I can get a workout in. If the weather is decent I think I will try and get Lily and myself out for a nice walk. We can bundle up and get some fresh air. We could BOTH use it!

Friday, March 6, 2009

It's the weekend BABY!

Well Adam has his work sales conference tonight. So Lily and I are on our own. What to do oh what to do? We could clean? But she isn't much help in that area. She is always pulling toys OUT as I try to put them away. We could watch sappy girly movies. Though they don't really hold her attention, not to mention she doesn't need to start thinking all men are evil at such a young age. I'm considering painting her toenails Bright red. I think she would be ok with this idea as she LOVES red and it would give her something to look at when I'm all done, but OH the wiggling of it all. Paint one toe, blow it to dry, paint another, blow it to dry. You see where I'm going with that? My goodness. You would think I could come up with a hundred things to do alone with my baby but for some reason I'm just drawing a blank. I have no motivation do anything fun. I suppose we could go out for a walk, the weather is nice enough I suppose. Sun is even shining today! Gah, only time will tell what we decide to do.

Tomorrow Adam's sister is coming over to watch the monster for us as we are going out with some friends. Should be fun. But this also means I need to clean a bit so that I don't have to be ashamed of how messy my house is. So maybe tonight or tomorrow I'll get my buns in gear and get some cleaning done.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Inspired by others...

So I follow a few blogs. One of them Here inspired me this morning on the topic of names. Why is it we all think so long and hard over names of our babies and then HARDLY ever call them their name. Now I also admit that I rarely call Lily by her name unless we are working on "No". So here is my list.

Lily-monster, Lily-mon, Mons, or L-mon (also call us mommy-mons and daddy-mons)

Bunk, Bunkenroo, Bunkenrooster, Lily-bunk

Punkin

Grace (her middle name), GracieLou, Gracie, Gracie-butt.

Princess, princess lily, Princess Lillian (these are not common ones as I try to avoid the princess thing but sometimes they just come out)

Sunshine

I THINK that's most of them, I'm sure there are more and there are always variations of those above too. The most common one I call her is Bunkenroo. And I completely agree with Lynn (see above link) that I find it odd that no one bats an eye at the fact that her nickname makes NO sense. And no one ever questions it or thinks twice about it.

I suppose we ALL have crazy nicknames for our kids though huh?

What is creativity anyway?

So the following are just a couple of the attempts made by me to be creative. I am happy with how they turned out and it was nice to edit something other than faces. (though photos of Lily ARE pretty fun to edit)



This is actually my staircase at work, it's kinda creepy, old an dirty but it made for a cool photo.

And my Emergency exit sign. No it's not normally green. It's red, But I added night vision as one of the edits and just loved the way it looked.


Wednesday, March 4, 2009

FOLLOW ME!

So it's new! BUT I know I have readers that do not have google accounts, or blogger accounts. Now you can follow me too! Just click on the follow me link over there on the right and you can sign in with your yahoo accounts or AIM or whatever you use!

I love seeing who reads my blog and I love getting feedback on what people think!

Thanks everyone!

Why No posts lately?

Hmm. I just don't have anything exciting to share I guess. Unless you wanna hear how my cats keep peeing on my carpet and we just spent $200 taking older cat to the vet and have her on meds now and all these training aids... Yeah, I didn't think so. Heck if I didn't have to know about all that I would be so much happier. Truth is, I'm at my wits end with them. I mean I LOVE my cats but I can't take the pee that much longer. This is her last chance or we are going to have to find her a new home. *gulp*

In other news. Well there really ISN'T any other news. It's pretty uneventful around our house. So I'll leave you with the image of my cats peeing on the carpet for now.

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Drumroll Please!

Lillian fell asleep down in the basement while daddy played video games and mommy painted the bedroom. She rarely falls asleep on her own and slept like this for several hours!
LILY'S NINE MONTH PHOTOS

This photo is an homage to Adam's job. He'll be using it as his background on his computer!

I really like the black backdrop, unfortunately I couldn't get her to co-operate and it's kinda small, so I'm on the lookout for a larger piece of black fabric!











You can see her teethers here clear as day!





Big girl happy Smiles!