Random stuff...

The toe still HURTS, course wearing my new shoes yesterday didn't help it at all. I had to ice it when we got home from church last night. My new shoes are so out of the box for me, they are a high (more than 2" ) heel w/ a peek a boo toe!!! I got lots of compliments on them, but the shoes would have looked much nicer if I wasn't limping in them and if my big toe that got crushed under the coffee table on JULY 3rd(!!!) wasn't still purple and sticking out the peek a boo part. So attractive! OY!

C's parents will be here this week and they are staying for a week. I hate that I'm borrowing trouble from tomorrow, but I'm already stressing about the visit. I've got a headache and I've noticed that I'm really clenching my jaw in my sleep. (I need to wear my bite thing at night.) I'm basing my anxiety for this this visit on previous visits. So pray saints, pray.

The Sweetness is doing well, she is such a good baby. God really blessed us. She loves to cuddle... which means she doesn't like being put down, so there isn't much happening in the way of scrapping or housework these days. Although, C and I did get to do some purging of paperwork this weekend, so I already feel like the house is cleaner! LOL! The girl is sleeping about 3 hour stretches in the night at a time, but I really can't wait until she can go 5-6 hours. She eats like a champ... we can't let her eat until her hearts content b/c then she 'overflows' and we wind up w/ her formula all over us! But for the most part, she's good if we give her 3 ounces every three hours..... (HOW can this 'odd numbered' kid be mine????) She hardly cries, just when we are slow w/ a bottle or if she decides she needs to eat NOW! even though it hasn't been 3 hours. Last night on the way home from church she decided she needed to eat NOW even though it had been less than 90 minutes since her last meal, since she was screaming and seeing as how C and I are not big fans of the screaming, we pulled into a parking lot and I jumped in the back w/ her and made a bottle.... she drank all of .5 oz and promptly fell asleep. And it wasn't just an issue of "I want something to suck on" b/c I tried giving her pacifier, and she kept spitting it out. Little punk. We've kinda got ourselves into a little routine and it seems to be working.

Well, I've been working on this post all day and I know there was something else I wanted to say but I can't think of it now, so....

~Till next time!

OH!!! We found out who the 'gifter' was! So the mystery has been solved, YAY!

Also, I'm in the market for some new pots and pans... mine are 11 years old and the lids don't even fit anymore b/c the pots are so warped. I'm looking at the Rachel Ray ones, and a friend told me that Kohl's had them on sale... LAST WEEK! So if ya see 'em on sale anywhere, let me know... BEFORE the sale is over! THANKS!!!
(oh, and friend... still love ya, cause ya didn't know I was looking for them!) :muwah!:

Ouch ouch ouch!

I have my first mommy injury. Last night during a feeding of The Sweetness, I was trying to get back into her room after rinsing out a bottle, when IT happened. Duke decided it was boring being in the baby's room, so he tried to leave, I tried to step out of his way and my itty bitty toe on my right foot SLAMMED into the dresser. MAN, does it hurt! Every step is excruciating. I put on a sock and a sneaker this morning to try and give it some support but it still hurts. I think I shall drug myself with about 600mg of motrin and put my feet up!

Sometimes I can be pretty dense.

SO DUH!!!! For almost 5 weeks now, I've had The Sweetness... and it wasn't until I opened a gift mailed to us from The Lizness that I realized the similarity of the names!!!! The Lizness made a blankie and of course sent some foot 'blingage' for The Sweetness. The blankie is super soft and will be nice and toasty for the winter, and the shoes are just way too cute! If my camera wasn't upstairs and I wasn't so lazy, I'd take a picture and share it with you guys, but alas... the laziness takes over. Sorry.
ok, the girl is sleeping and I should use this opportunity to get in the shower....

~Til next time!

Check it out!

Look what we did today!

I mentioned to my Aunt D that I wanted to put this phrase over The Sweetness' crib, and my aunt emailed me a few days later... she found the phrase online ON SALE! SO YAY! I ordered it and today we finally got a chance to put it up. They are just rub ons. So easy to put up. I have another phrase that I want to get for our master bedroom, and I'd love one for the family room, I just haven't figured out what I want it to say yet. The phrase that I *think* I've settled on is from Psalm 4:8 "I will lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety." I'll probably order that sometime next month... and of course I'll share pictures when we get it on the wall.

and I did a mini photo session w/ the girl, but the ones I planned didn't come out right... I need another lesson with my camera... so I'll share this one I took just because she is so stinking CUTE!!! :D



~Til next time!

I did blog...

but I didn't post it. It was a whiny blog post that I wrote up on Sunday after a sleepless night with The Sweetness. It was a long and whiny post and after rereading it I decided that none of you really needed to read it. Sleepless nights are to be expected and with all the help that I get from C, I really shouldn't complain at all. Since The Sweetness is really SO GOOD, I absolutely have no business whining about her. She hardly cries. I read in books that babies spend 1-4 hours a day crying. I think that MAYBE in her 4 weeks of life she has cried for 1 hour total.

This Sunday is her first time at church and I'm excited yet nervous at the same time. See, not only do I have OCD tendencies (as mentioned in the previous post) but I'm very much a germaphobe. And of course the OCD in me has made the germ thing come out in full force since The Sweetness has arrived. I really don't want people touching her hands and face. Where the problem might be, is in the way that I tell them to BACK OFF and not so much in the actual request for them to not touch her hands or face. I'm really hoping to count on the support and protection of my friends on Sunday (HINT HINT... Staci do ya think Mike would stand by as a body guard?)
I've asked C to sit w/ me but I feel badly about doing that b/c in the last 4 weeks both of our attendance at church has been pretty scarce and I know that he misses playing the saxophone.

Ok, I have a real mystery on my hands here folks... this week we received in the mail a gift for The Sweetness, it is a Savings Bond, totally an awesome gift for her and I think its the coolest thing ever. Here's where the mystery comes in... the savings bond arrives in an envelope from the US Dept of Treasury and NOT from who the sender is or where they are from, neither is there a 'gift note' indicating who the gifter is. So we have no idea who this is from. I NEED to send a thank you note to them. I've asked some of the people in my family who I would suspect of doing something like this if it was them, so far they've all denied any involvement. What do I do now???

I know some of you are looking for more pictures of The Sweetness... they are coming soon. I plan on having a bit of a photo shoot w/ her this weekend. So hopefully, depending oh how they come out... I'll share them with you next week!

~Til next time!