Holy crazy terror child

Why Whitney are those...??? Why yes they are! Pants I haven't worn since I was like three months pregnant!!!!!! As my mom says "It takes nine months to mess up the body it takes nine months to get it back again." Well it woldnt have taken nearly as long if I would actually put some effort into it.

We had O'lena's first Open house for her daycare last week. It was fun going and being there for her. We ate cookies and made family hand prints. Here is daddy playing with O'leeny. She was showing us some of her favorite toys.


This is a the picture that they took of us together. They printed it out for us so I scanned it in. It was way better than the ones I had them take with my camera, O'lena was all over the place. I really like this. I think it is one of the best family pics in a long time.I finally got her on video crawling for everyone. She even stood up for us too.



This was the part of the day where she was a happy girl. I'm not sure what happened this weekend, maybe becuase she is sick but she has been a wholly terror, especially today. She is not running a fever anymore and eating well, but she was just a crazy girl today. Nothing would make her happy or keep her quite. She was just crazy. She doesn't want up or down or to sleep or to play. I really am hoping it is a phase. Crazy crazy holy terror child!

It is starting to get annoying...

This is starting to get annoying...I don't want to blame everything on the daycare, but.... we are sick again, bad. We even had to take a sick day off from work and daycare on Friday, and I don't like taking days off. O'lena has the running nose and cough again with the fever, but it is not high enough for us to be worried. She is sleeping a lot, which is a good thing. We took a five hour nap yesterday. I could not believe it. I have a head cold again. It is about the same thing she has but I can take good medicine for it. I was pretty lazy yesterday and I feel a lot better today so I am hoping to get some things done. The gun show is in town so Derick is off playing with his friends. I know he feels bad leaving us, but they had this planned for a while, and we are just boring sick babies.

I realized that I need to get some good video of her crawling and post it. I have not done that yet. I have video of her Army crawling but not good up on knees crawling. What else is she doing that is fun? She is somewhat waving bye-bye. It is cute. Ohhhhh so you know what was cute the first time, but totally not cute anymore? She is starting to get into the “I only want mommy” and the “separation anxiety” stage. I loved it at first because I was the comforter, the one she wanted. Well not she screams every time I put her down or walk away. The funny part is she is now coming and finding me. If I went to the bathroom or into the kitchen she listens to my voice and hunts me down with her crying self wanting to be picked up. She is now doing the baby thing of taking everything off the coffee table and eating it and/or throwing it on the floor. It has been cleared off. She has also dumped several cups of stuff onto the carpet, coke…juice….water…Gatorade…more water…. You think we would learn not to put it on the coffee table. I don’t think it has sunk in for us yet.

Awwww she just fell asleep in the swing…I should go clean a bathroom while she is out and I she doesn’t have to be attached at my hip or in sight of her at all times….hum clean bathroom or blog?......I can clean bathroom, only one not both then come finish blogging…okay BRB

15 minutes and most of a bathroom done before she started screaming. Any little noise will wake her up right now and if someone is not there she gets upset. I think that is why she (we) slept so long yesterday. She was in the swing and I was on the couch and every time she woke she saw I was still there sleeping and back to dreamland she went. She has binky and swinging still but we shall see how long that lasts. Yeah not long…ttyl

O'lena is 9months!

Can you believe it!? I cannot, my baby is nine months already! We went and did her nine month check up this week. She is 19lb 14oz, 2'4.5" long, and her head is 17.52"; all a little bit above normal like the 75th percentile- for those of you who know what I am talking about. Her ear infections are cleared now too. The effects from the antibiotics are not fun though...her poor but was so red at one point she just screamed when I even thought about changing her. Other than that she is a happy little girl. She loves to crawl around and torment the cat. She can pull herself up on almost anything and is walking around holding on to mommy and/or the furniture. She is still very wobbly and needs a lot of help standing so i still think it will be a few months before she is actually walking. Her favorite thing to do right now is play in the cat bowl. She heads towards it every time we put her down. Bath time, or really anything that has to do with water is her other favorite, well i guess the cat bowl is part of that too, she just loves splashing in the water and making a big mess. She is recognizing her name now and will turn when she hears it. Her favorite toy is her stand up music play thing. She still LOVES to chew on paper. Her favorite food is still her bottle, but she likes sweet potatoes too. She still doesn't have any teeth yet, so she has gotten really good at gumming everything. Her favorite thing to watch on TV is her Baby Einstein videos. What else.....oh she is babbling like crazy. Some times it is dada dada dada or mama mama mama or baba baba baba or mmmmmmmmmmm, or wooooooo and when she gets excited she kicks---really hard! She will occupationally whistle still. It is very cute. She is very cute and such a good kid! We love her so much.

Actually at the moment I dont have any new pictures of her. I just posted them all last time. I guess I could take one now, but it is a process to get them all on the computer. I do have a picture of my class at the beach this pass week. We went to Lover's key for our end of our unit trip. It went so well. We had been learning about the beach, the oceans, the animals and everything like that. The kids were great, I was very proud of them. We had a blast! We even saw dolphins!!

Whats going on?????

A little this, a little that.

O'lena has another, but double ear infection. She is on some stronger meds and feeling better. Derick just sliced his finger with an engraving bit today at work. I really hope it heals. It is looking very swollen and hasn't stopped bleeding. It took a bit of convening to get him to have someone look at it, but I think he is glad that he did.

Me? I am taking the kids to the beach tomorrow for clean up and some fun. It is our first field trip so I am expecting it to go just perfect! haha

Other than that? Just getting annoyed on how messy the house is. Oh well.....

Camping over Labor Day

Over the break we packed our bags and headed ourselves for our first camping trip with O'lena. She has been out once while the grandparents were camping, but did not stay. I think we all really enjoyed ourselves. I know I did.

Derick's project was cooking. He has taken up the skill of dutch oven cooking and man is he good at it! I think he kind of likes it.
This is how we do the patotes out there. It is fun. They are quite tasty that way too.
O'lena got so plumb tuckered out that she fell asleep on G-Grandma Cookie. I was amazed! She only passes out on grandpa and daddy. I think G-Cookie has the magic touch too.
I love this picture! We had gotten this little highchair just for this trip, but it seems to come in handy for other times too. She was really cute that morning, just sitting up on the table eating cheerios. It was amazing, the little girl slept until 10 am one morning! Mom says it is just what happens out there. I know I sleep a lot and it doesnt mattter if I'm on the floor or not.
I loved that last pic, but this is my favorite out of the bunch. She just sat there listening to him read for like a half an hour. It was so heart warming.
Here was our set up. We just went out to the Methodist camp on Alva like normal. I have been trying to talk my folks into doing something a bit different, changing it up a bit, but they have preregistered for like the next year.
Derick and I also borrowed a camper from a friend from church with intention to check it out for purchase. Wellllllllllll.... we are purchasing it. I fell in love. It is a small one with stuff to fix up, but it is just the right size for us and we kind of like the work. It is much better then a tent any day! It was heaven with the baby too. It has AC and beds. Two good things on my list. I will have to take some more pictures of it when we get it out again. Over all it was a nice trip. For some reason I am really enjoying camping alot more now than I did as a kid. I'm not sure why...

Just want to let you know....

I really want to be blogging a big long blog about our camping trip over the holiday, but I need to be doing school work instead. So I am going to do that and not here... :( OH an I really don't know what is going on with the blog right now! The picture is gone and that time I don't have to blog about our fun time I shouldn't be dealing with that either..grrrrrrr