Day 3

We had a monster of a storm today! It hailed. HAILED! But luckily it only delayed our cookout plans at Mom's. They got a new pool so it was filling up when we got there. It was just the right hight for Kaelin to be able to reach in and play with the water. She wore her new Elmo skirt outfit and was so cute! I put her hair in piggies but realised I only had one Elmo clippie and no blue or red bows. So I got out the glue gun and made her another Elmo so she'd have 2. I have to say, it was pretty darn cute!

It is very stressful being with my family sometimes. Not that they stress me out, I get tired of being a buffer. My family thinks Mike over protects Kaelin and hovers. Mike thinks my parents don't watch her close enough. It freaks me out sometimes because I know they both want to say something to the other and I'm waiting for it to get uncomfortable.

Kaelin decided she only needed a 5 minute nap today so she was ready for bed when we got home. Hopefully she'll sleep good tonight and get up early tomorrow. Maybe then her and Kenneth will nap at the same time tomorrow. I'm going to catch up on some chat boards and blogs and head to bed early myself.

Long weekend, day 2

I love it when we get a long weekend! Mike was off yesterday for his flex Friday and Monday is Memorial day. After him and Kae went to the airport yesterday morning and brought home breakfast, Margret and I did some shopping. Margret got a bunch of stuff and I got Kaelin a new Elmo outfit and a Dora nightgown. She is in desperate need of new pjs that are summer appropriate. We went and got the rest of the things we need for the gardens. So today we'll finish spreading mulch in the front garden then Mike is going to build a garden box in the backyard for our vegetable garden. Kaelin loves digging in the dirt so gardening is perfect for her! Then I need to clean the fridge and hopefully my sewing room. Tonight we've been invited to go see Horton Hears A Who in the park with some friends. That's Kaelin's favorite movie so it should be fun! Tomorrow I intend to clean the house and do some reorganizing. Then we're going to a cookout at Mom's house. Monday Katy and David are coming down for the day, We intend to hang out in the pool and grill some burgers. Which reminds me, I need to go to the store today.

Mike and I watched The Fog after Kaelin went to bed last night. It was pretty good with just the right amount of gore. I'm ashamed to admit my level of tolerance for scarey movies has gone down, gives me nightmares. Anyways, when she woke up she would not go back to sleep. She screamed for about twenty minutes not knowing what she wanted. We finally got her settled down and gave her some tylenol. She came to bed with us and fell asleep watching a baby Einstein video. So today Mike wants to hang her TV in her room so she can watch it in bed. Hopefully that'll help her want to stay in her bed. I really want to discuss her sleeping habits and how to wean her with her pediatrician next month. The kid is sucking the life out of me! Just kidding, but really, I'm done nursing her. She's getting too old and I just don't enjoy it anymore. I don't regret going as long as we have, I'm just ready to have my body back to myself for a bit.

Took a sick day today

Ha! If only it was that easy! Kaelin woke up during the night running a fever. I didn't get up to check it, I figured she needed to sleep more then be poked at anyways. I try to let fevers run their course anyways since they're doing a job. Unless it's high of course. She only ran a small temp today, unfortunately so did I. I was supposed to go to lunch with my mom but I had to cancel. So Kae and I hung around the house in our jammies all day. I did get the laundry done, the kitchen cleaned, the floor vacuumed and the new switch plate for the triple switch in the living room stained and installed (I'm trying to install all new switch plates and outlet plates in the house to match each room). Then we both crashed and took a long nap. We got up when Mike got home and I showered while she took a vapor bath. I like having the shower and the garden seperate in the bathroom! I steamed up the bathroom with my shower and Mike sat and bathed Kae. We both put on clean jammies and all of us have just been hanging out tonight. We ate pizza in the living room while we watched The Jungle Book (again!). Now we're just waiting to see if Grandma Marger is coming over to see us before she leaves town tomorrow.

Mike's off tomorrow and has to drive his mom to the airport at 7:30 in the morning. Hopefully he'll get my shelves hung up in my sewing room at some point. Although I just saw a really cool storage shelf desk thing at Ikea for $50 that looks really cool. I don't know though, the table on it is smaller then the one I have now so I wouldn't be able to have my sewing machine and cutting mat out at the same time. But it sure would make the room look nicer. Ahhh, decisions, desicions! :)

I'm exhausted

We had a bad night last night. A bad one. Kaelin went to bed at a decent time and was easy t put back to bed. Then I brought her int bed with us when we were going to bed. She would not g back to sleep! Every time she'd start to drift off, she'd wake up screaming to nurse again. I was set on making her go as long as possible without it since I'm trying to wean her. After about an hur of her waking up every 5 minutes screaming, and then Daddy having to go sleep n the couch, I gave in and we both finally got a little bit of sleep. She was up before 9 this morning, which is early for her. She ended up taking her nap at 12:45 and slept for about an hour. Nrmally she fights naps as lng as possible and finally crashes at 4 or 5.

Mike had to work really late today so went to my Mom's and stayed for dinner. Kaelin played in the sprinkler for a hour or two before dinner. She's really into water activities these days. But then she doesn't want to take a bath, wierd. Anyways, dinner was great and Kaelin ate a ton of chicken and then a pear. Since she was up early and napped early I had to keep her awake when we got home. That is a pain in the butt, let me tell ya. If I let her go to bed before 9 she would treat it like a nap and be back up in a few hours. She's had a runny nose all day today also. I think it's from teething, that would explain her crabby mood lately too. I'm very excited this will be her last 4 teeth, but at the same time I'm not looking forward to her cutting 4 more molars. The first set were hell. I gave her some cold medicine with tylenol before bed so hopefully I'm covered either way and she'll have a good night tonight.

While I was waiting for Mike to get home I finished up Kaelin's hot pink and zebra ribbon onesie! I just need to make the bow to pin on it. I'm going to make her a matching tutu to wear to dance class and a pair of matching ribbon jeans for her birthday pictures next month. She's going to look so cute in her zebra hair bows, ribbon onesie, ribbon jeans and matching tennis shoes I found for her! I can't wait! Hopefully I don't screw the jeans up. I think I'll do pictures in that outfit and the dress and brown bows she wore for Mother's Day because that was just precious!

Well, we are going to finish the season finale of Desperate Housewives before bed.

Got her dancing shoes!

Kaelin and I are going to take a Mommy and Me dance class next month and again in the fall. I'm so excited! She's gonna be so cute in her little tutus, made by Mommy, of course. This morning I had to run Grammy to the doctor to get the bandage off from her carpal tunnel surgery. While we were out we stopped at a few resale shops and I found some ballet shoes in each one. I bought one that's a 6 1/2 for the summer and a 7 1/2 for fall. Here's pic I took on my cell phone. She's running around in them already!

Stroller Skating with Baby Abbi

Today was our Stroller Skating play date with Jamie and baby Abbi. I was a little nervous that it had been cancelled when we were the first ones there, but people slowly trickled in. Kaelin has been a little leory of all things containing buckles lately, so she wasn't stoked about sitting in her stroller. We took a few laps around the rink after hitting up the moonwalk for a bit. We took a break to hit up the moonwalk again then took a few more laps. We had lunch while we were there and Kaelin thought everything on the table was up for grabs, gotta teach that girl more about personal space! Overall we had alot of fun and hopefully we'll be able to get together more often. Kaelin really needs friends and Mommy needs social interaction! Here's a pic of the girls in their strollers right before we left.
Kaelin crashed out on the way home, thankfully. We have to go get Colleen from school at 5, she had rehearsals for something. I'm the family driver since everyone else is at work.

I went grocery shopping yesterday. I'm proud to say that I got all our groceries for $68 and saved $30 with coupons and sales! Some weeks are really good coupon weeks and others aren't so hot. Lately I've been having more not so hot weeks then hot weeks. Of course if Mike goes with me we go way over budget, but that's no suprise.

I'm going to take advantage of my me time and relax before Kaelin gets up.

A bunch of pics

I was cleaning up the hard drive on my laptop today and realised my pics were in desperate need of sorting. While I was at it I thought I'd take this oppurtunity to upload some pics from the last few weeks. You have been warned that there are alot!

Kaelin and Carissa in the tub when Rissa spent the night.

Kaelin all dressed up for Mother's Day Brunch at church.

Back shot of the piggies

Helping us garden this weekend.

She really wanted to use Daddy's tools

Kaelin and her crush Taylor in matching shoes

Practicing her pitiful and begging faces at the table today:

Tomorrow is Stroller Skate day at the skating rink. Hopefully I'll get sme more good pics to share!