Sunday, July 30, 2006

5 Months!



hanging out in her crib supporting her daddy's band with her outfit (thanks, Kate!) She still loves bathtime


Nora is 5 months old! She's got such a little personality and it is very fun to explore new things. She no longer sits still in your lap during church but is all over the place ALL the time. She is having sleep issues and I think teething, so we are dealing with that right now. We've got sleeping all night down, but now we are trying to tackle naps. I can't wait to see what five months brings us.

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Saturday, July 29, 2006

Here's my soapbox:

I can't stand when people complain about other moms and the decisions they make with their children. Before I would not think much about it, maybe join in sometimes about how horrible it was that so and so let their child cry five minutes before taking them out of church, etc. Now being a mom, I know about the decisions you are bombarded with daily and the pure exhaustion of wondering what to do in every situation with this living breathing thing you are responsible for. It's something you cannot comprehend unless you have been through it. Alot of times people say things about parents with ignorance, they have never experienced how hard it is to raise a child so they feel it necessary to put their two cents in. I think as parents, we should all give someone the benefit of the doubt. We can assume the thought of standing up and walking to the nursery only to be faced with the same face that came and got you out of class on Wednesday night because your child was crying might be difficult for that mom or dad. We don't know everyone's situation. We don't know their mentality at the moment they make a decision we think it poor. Let's assume their choices are with good intention.

Never again will I intentionally say anything or allow it to be said in my presence about how someone is parenting their child. People handle things differently and there are some moms who handle a screaming baby with ease. I can't. I get completely overwhelmed and search for a solution to this problem. Hopefully I'll be able to rise to this challenge I've set before myself and think next time I judge someone else in every situation, not just on parenting...

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Tuesday, July 25, 2006


My friend took this picture with his obviously awesome camera. Look at the drool falling from her chin.

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Monday, July 24, 2006

I royally screwed up my blog. I tried to put that video on there from youtube and it won't let me delete the post so it's putting everything out of order. It shows up fine on my home computer but at work it's all cattywompus. I've never spelled that before. Anyway, basically I'm just trying to do a post and see if it fixes.

We've been so busy lately with trying to finish landscaping our front yard. If Kevin is reading this he's probably laughing that I put "we" because I haven't done jack poop. I'll put a picture as soon as it's complete but we have lots more to do so it may be a while. Owning a house is way more work that I ever imagined. Gone are the days you can't flush the toilet so you pick up the phone and order someone to get over here quick. Now if the toilet won't flush we rig it so many different ways to avoid picking up the phone and calling someone. We're getting pretty good at fixing things ourselves. The garbarge disposal was kaput the other day (I mean, wouldn't even make a sound) and we were all stressed that we'd have to buy a new disposal, how much is that, I just went part time, etc. Kevin pushed the reset button and it worked like a champ. I don't even know how or why Kevin knew there was a reset button?

Work is going very well. I LOVE working part time..it's just enough career time and then just enough mom time. Nora seems to be adjusting well, too. She's so active now. It's amazing how quickly they grow. It's kind of sad. Recently she's started pulling my hair in the most awful death grip you can imagine and then she'll start twisting it. She does this with my neck, too. I went and got my hair cut to try and outsmart her. Now she heads for my earrings. She's too cute.

No pictures this time, sorry. Hopefully my rambling blog fixed what I messed up earlier.

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Wednesday, July 19, 2006

This girl's going to be crawling before we know it


I've been trying to get a picture of Nora's poop face forever. Every baby has a poop face and hers has recently changed from when she was a baby. It was the cutest when she was an infant because she would put her lips together in the cutest way. Here's the best one I could get. She pretty much looks shocked, her eyes get red and she grunts a bit now since she's getting solid food. :) I apologize in advance for when she reads this years later. It's just too cute not to post.

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Sunday, July 16, 2006

Hang Down Your Head Tom Du uuuuley

The most random thing happened Saturday morning. We were on our way to the Farmers Market downtown to meet friends ( at 8:30 am) and stopped for a donut. This man (who I'm guessing is around 80 or 90) was outside a donut shop playing guitar? At 8:30 in the morning?? I think it's the first time he's ever picked up a guitar but bless his heart, he was really rockin out. I took a picture because he had a cigarette stuck in the end of his guitar and would stop mid song to puff on it. Kevin gave him a dollar and said "keep on playin, brother"
We haven't seen our friends in forever because everyone's been traveling so this was the weekend with friends. We hung out at the Lareau's Friday night and then all met at the FM Saturday morning. Here's my one purchase...flowers. We're on an 87 Volvo budget now. Virginia was very interested in playing with Nora. She is the cutest e.v.e.r I'm sure she can't wait until Nora can actually do something with her. They just took turns touching each other. She'd grab Nora's arm then Nora would grab hers. Poor Meredith Lareau was teething so she was asleep. Maybe one of these days we'll get a picture of the three together.
Nora swimming in the kiddy pool with Dad. Fun weekend. Now I have to mentally prepare for work tomorrow. It takes a loonngg time. ughgggggggggghhhhhh

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Thursday, July 13, 2006





We sold our car and got Kevin a beater to drive.
This is what he bought. A 1987 Volvo baby.

Good things: The outside paint still looks great for a 19 year old car, it's a total chick magnet.

Bad things: The floor has a hole in it...kind of like the movie Where the Heart Is when her flip flop falls through the hole while they are driving.

It doesn't have power windows. You should have seen Kevin's face when he had to roll the window down by hand to talk to me.

There's white powdery stuff all over the back seat like someone had a crack party in the back of the volvo.

The back seats are bright blue and don't even remotely match the front seats.

Finally, you can't put a cd in when it's in park. There's no room. You have to put it in drive in order to fit the cd in the player.

It's awesome.

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Wednesday, July 12, 2006



I feel like I should document this week because it's been extremely new. This will be boring for most so I put three cute pictures for you to look at instead of reading. It's just for when I bind this blog one day and give it to Nora when she's twenty. . .

Sleeping: Much better. Now, though, I lay Nora down on her back and sometimes I go check on her and she's turned sideways shoved up against her crib bumper ...sometimes with her face buried into the bumper. Eeesh. She falls asleep much quicker now which is a-w-e-s-o-m-e.
Less we have to ignore the screaming.

Eating: She now eats cereal twice a day and recently started eating a jar of bananas so far (we've only started one jar food). But this morning she downed one jar so I'm assuming she'll want another one tonight. I just found out bananas are a natural laxative which explains why she's pooing everytime I feed her again. It's like she's a newborn all over...I change her diaper and she poops again. Anyway, I started to puree my own food (it's funny I wrote that line and realized I have been cooking carrots for about an hour and forgot about them so I had to dash into the kitchen. Kevin always tells me to set the timer and I never do...I think to prove that I can multi-task...I've lost my mojo.) Anyway, tonight she's getting burned carrots. Kidding.. they were fine. I am with my sister on this one..she said she hates giving them the same thing for a week like they say. She said, who wants to eat the same thing every day. I'm trying her on carrots tonight and giving her colon a break from the bananas.

Rolling over: Yesterday she rolled from her stomach to her back and then to her stomach again. I got out the video camera and she did it again, which is a big deal because she always freezes when the camera comes out.

This and that: We sold one of our cars since I'm going part time and we are in between cars now. I have been picking Kevin up from work and it sucks. He keeps sending me on errands like I'm sitting around eating chocolate all day. He's sick so my errands have been 1. get cough drops and gatorade and bring them to his work 2. fed ex something for him 3. get an energy drink and bring it because he took thera-flu and it made him drowsy. I'm serious.

All the women out there are laughing because they relate when their husbands are sick. In his defense, he has been working non-stop on our flower bed outside coming off of a week long vacation in Texas. We've literally been to Texas three times in one month so we're all tired. But, I still don't have time or energy for errands of my own, much less his. Anyone want to sell us a car??? :)

Also, I'm starting back to work tomorrow again. This time I'm going back part time. I have mixed feelings about this. I'm so happy I'll have more time with Nora, so sad I don't have all day like I've been used to all month, happy to get back to work and out of the house...I miss everyone there and being connected to something, and I'm a bit stressed trying to fit a full time job into part time. I'll need lots of prayers.

I think that about sums it up. I also think that's the longest post I've ever written short of the time I went crazy and wrote about it. I'm doing fine now...hormones have regulated. kevin may disagree, but I think I'm back to normal.

By the way, Gap Kids is having a good sale right now...they seriously have things for $2 there. Also my sister says Albertsons has 48 Huggies diapers size 2 for $5. Gotta help each other out with the sales...we don't even have Albertsons in Tennessee so somebody mail me some diapers. ha!

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Monday, July 10, 2006


This about sums up our week. Started jar food and cereal. She likes it most of the time but it's a fat mess feeding it to her. She ends up wearing most of what's in the jar and she can't keep her hands out of the food. Ughhhhh

We are trying to sleep train because she's been waking up at night and it's obvious she's been playing us like a cheap harmonica. Every time I pick her up she stops screaming. It's still hard knowing that she's fine and just screaming so we'll pick her up...I still wonder "is she hungry? does something hurt, etc". She's way more fussy now...I think she's teething. The doctor doesn't think so but I disagree. She's chewing on my chin when I hold her, she's slobbering something crazy and ffuuussssyy.

Four months is alot harder than 1,2 , and 3. I'm trying to enjoy it. :) She's still the sweetest ever even when she's screaming...

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Friday, July 07, 2006

We spent July 4th in Houston with Kevin's family. Here are some pictures. We got to spend time with a dear friend of Kevin's, Mr. Culpepper who has become a dear friend of mine as well. She also finally met my good friend and college roommate Laurie and her husband, Jeff. I brought my camera in and forgot to take a picture. We were having too much fun! Nora also hung out with her cousins Madelyn, Annabelle and Kyle. Maddie and Annabelle LOVED Nora and were big helpers. They also made her laugh harder than I've ever heard her laugh before. There's a picture of it on the bottom. It was hilarious. We are glad to be home and travel free for a LONG time. Whew.
4th of July....woo hoo. We had to forgoe the fireworks because they were WAY too loud, so she and I stayed inside while everyone else watch them outside...
Mr. Culpepper reading a book to Nora at lunch. He was trying to keep her from crying so I shoved a book in front of her. :)
Annabelle and Nora
Madelyn and Nora
Three beautiful faces

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