by the way....

i'm a big fat liar and i know it.

sorry i havent been posting. i suck.


oh and wanted to put in here, zoey has some words recently, here is the updated list

momma
daddy/dadda
dougy
cat
gaba (grandma)
i got it
nanana/ bayaya (banana)
baby


she also has a few other funny things going on
if i ask if she is angry she clenches her fist and jaws and growls

she tries to open the fridge when hungry

she groups similar things together into piles, including when she is eating

all she wants to do is play mommy with anything. she changes diapers, puts babies on the potty, feeds them, gives them pretend water from cups, snuggles and bounces them and kisses them.

the only body part she will point out on herself is her bellybutton. she has no interest in any other part of her anatomy, it all stops at bellybutton.

oh, and i upgraded my camera (stole my husbands, he is going to get a new one) to the canon eos 40d
i LOVE it.


Love
danielle, zoey and bean (really really big bean) maybe i'll post belly pictures later. maybe.

face bashing, phones crashing

i feel like my life is total chaos most of the time.
like, i'm just making it up as i go along, why are there no guide books to this shit? i would really love a training manual about now on how to keep my life in order and running smoothly.

i want to start making soap, i want to sew more, i want to parent better, i want to be a better wife, which includes keeping the house cleaner, which eats into my sewing and soaping and parenting time.
how do you do it? you mythical clean house having crafting awesome parent? how?

cuz right now my sweet baby has a huge scrape all the way down her face from planting right into the corner of the fireplace, my invites for the baby shower are half finished, my house is a total wreck and all i feel like i do is complain and moan as soon as my husband walks in the door every night.

oh yeah, and my phone gave up on me too.

at least the weather is nice..... oh wait.

my computer hates me...

I have the WORST luck with technology. Sometimes all I have to do is walk by a computer to get it to crash. My hard drive for my laptop mysteriously gave out last night as i was getting ready to post here and I had to wait until this morning for Craig to look at it.
All he had to do to get it to work was turn it back on. Seriously, I spent almost 2 hours last night trying to get the thing to restart and just kept getting an error message. He comes over, touches the power button and like magic my computer works again. Yeah. I think my computer has something against me.

Yesterday was a nice quiet day recouping from a UTI I had the fortunate luck of getting. I am almost completely done with it now, which is really good because we were afraid of it getting worse and causing a kidney infection or preterm labor. That would be bad, just to clarify.

Zoey and I are going to head out to the book store, then the park. Hopefully there will be a nap in there somewhere. "They" are doing construction on our alley again, so car nap it is.  I want to move SO bad.

House Tornado

How is it that a 14 month old can do so much damage to my living space within the span of 15 minutes? How is it even possible that this little 20lb, 26" baby could have enough strength and motivation to completely and i mean COMPLETELY take everything out of every cupboard and drawer within her tiny reach?
And how is it that less than 15 minutes of work for her turns into 3-4 hours of work for me to get it all back so she can do it again tomorrow?

I guess it makes her happy at least, so, i'll quit wondering and go start cleaning it all up again for tomorrow.

oh yeah, she's climbing on EVERYTHING now too...

fun... real fun.

promised mini post

she looks so chub in this picture! i love it!

Zoey has TEETH! Finally after a long road of thinking she was teething since she was 3 months old, she delivered!
Her two bottom teeth broke through last week after several sleepless nights and a low grade fever. I'm happy we dont have to cut them out with razorblades or anything! (we were getting desperate!)
She also has started asking for bananas whenever she is hungry, even if she doesnt want one. She eats so many of them that i think she just thinks that all food is refered to as bananas and all things fuzzy or loveable are refered to as "dougy".

Teeth!

Due to a very cranky toddler and a husband that has had a very nice amount of time off lately, i have been neglecting this blog.

i will be posting a year in review this week, i am going to work hard to make it happen.

i will also be starting to write even just a tiny post every day on what our family is up to, even if you dont care at all.

lots of love!

danielle, zoey and bean!

losing days

i've been having a hard time keeping up with life lately. i hear thats normal when pregnant while taking care of a 1 year old.

i'm starting to get those panicky nesting urges but its still too far out to do anything i really want to do. like wash all the baby clothes and teeny tiny diapers. i'll just have to wash them all again if i do it now. maybe i'll sort everything and that will help the itch.

please give me easy recipies i can make and freeze before the new baby comes, i'm freaking a little about food ideas.

i am once again going to re do part of the house. i hate our living room right now. it's our office right now and i want it to be more cozy and living room like. we are going to take the desks out and get a hide away desk for me to put in my corner and maybe a collapsable drafting table for craig incase he wants to take a painting home. also, super exciting we have decided on a couch! revolutionary!

so now i need to find a way to get lots and lots of money so i can make all these dreams come true. anyone want to make a donation?

lots of projects i want to start but i just stall out, i have no energy for anything other than survival right now, super dissapointing to me right now. i have two soakers for the new baby that need to be finished that just sit at my desk staring angry at me and all i can do is try to avoid them all day, every day. not to mention the sewing binder and knitting binder that havent been opened in months. months! i hate it!

ugh... someday.