Crafty day #2

Yesterday was a fun and exciting craft day…Lilly and I went on an adventure to Joann Fabric and to Michael’s in Metairie in attempt to get some fabric and some other stuff for ideas that I had. 

The first idea…I am so tired of people calling my child a boy, “Oh how old is he?” asked by a strange passer by at Wal-Mart.  “SHE is almost 4 months old,” says the mom of a baby wearing all PINK! Seriously!! You could just say, “oh how old is your baby,” and that would solve it all.  My idea is headbands! I had some for Lilly but they were so tight they left imprint on hear head.  And I saw some super cute ones on the internet with flowers on them.  So I decided to venture out into the world o’ crafts and try to make some.

The Supplies

Here’s the finished product, they are interchangeable

And here’s my precious model, sorry for the lack of smiles, she was sleepy since she decided to play with her feet in her crib instead of nap.

I spent a total of $23 on these and can make probably anywhere between 20 and 50 more flowers.  These sell on the internet for about $15 a piece and do not have interchangeable flowers! Now some of them are on crocheted headbands that I assume are made by hand but I cannot crochet and would rather just buy stretch lace.

 

And here are some pictures of my 16 week old! Ahhh…I can’t believe it she is almost 4 months old already.

Lilly likes the jumperoo so far, she doesn’t jump yet but there are lots of fun things to look at..oh and she is still a little too short as you can tell by the bottom picture.

She is such a girly girl already, anything that can be turned into jewelry will be turned into jewelry..hence the link bracelet and the teether bracelet.

And last but not least, thanks Amaw for my pretty flower headband, momma and daddy have decided that it is mandatory to take a picture of me in it every day :)

Wow…three years already!

Yesterday was our three year anniversary, I cannot believe we have been married for three years!

Let’s look back…..

When I moved to Pennsylvania in April of 2005 I moved there knowing that marriage was inevitable!  We both knew that we were perfect for each other and that we wanted to spend the rest of our lives with each other.  So when Mike found out he was deploying in July of 2006 we decided to go ring shopping, we picked out rings but did not buy them…hmm I should have known that there was a surprise in store :)  So on July 1st at about 7:30 in the morning Mike started digging in his nightstand drawer and then rolled over with a ring and proposed to my while I was laying in bed.  He said something to the tune of, “I know this is a big step and I should be nervous but I’m not because I know I want to spend the rest of my life with you.”  And of course I said YES!

We took this later that night in Somerset, PA

On July 18, 2006, just 8 short days before Mike deployed we got married at the Justice of Peach in Harrisburg, PA!  We had some of our closest friends from PA attend.  It was short and sweet, but perfect!  Of course Mike had to be different and didn’t say “I will” he said, “I most certainly will.” That right there just further proved to me that I was marrying the most perfect man in the world for me!

 

I love this picture, all because of the look on Mike’s face, he has always been so anti-emotion, but here you can truly tell how happy he is.

And a *KISS* to seal the deal

We even had a “reception”

I never thought my friends would get us a cake! But they did and we got to feed it to each other!

And of course now, he’s frowning because he has realized that he’s stuck with me :)

 

We decided to spend our anniversary hanging out around the house and then go out to eat at Chili’s.  We had a great day and a good dinner! 

Here’s our little family before going out to eat.

Family Heirloom/Custom Photo Bracelet Giveaway

 

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This is what a 3 month old looks like!

Ok so Miss Lilly Pie is 3 months old!!  She now weights 12 lbs 14 oz, almost a whole 13 pounds!  I wanted to share a couple of pictures and a video with everyone of what a 3 month old in our household looks like!  Last week Lilly started to babble, it is the cutest thing in the world…she “talks” to the mobile above her swing and tonight she even yelled at it!  She has also found her “lovey” a cloth diaper…well any cloth diaper really.  Its so funny that she has a cloth diaper as a security blanket because I did too, I slept with it until I was a teenager! It looks like we are going to have another “diaper to hold” baby!  Oh and we also have an official thumb sucker, no need for a pacifier, she’s got thumbs and she know where they are at all times.

 

This is what a 3 month old looks like sleeping in on her birthday

Lilly has started sitting in the glider and watching momma make the bed.

Today we went to the aquarium with the mommy group and Lilly says, “poo poo on the fish I’ve got a diaper-to-hold”

“OK mom, I’ll look at the fish as long as I can have the diaper-to-hold too”

“And this tastes good too!”

“Look how much of my dress fits in my mouth!”

      Lilly won’t giggle or babble for the camera so here’s Lilly giggling at Momma while Daddy (the camera man) sits off to the side trying not to let her see him.

Everything goes in her mouth!  And when she gets excited she throws her feed up in the air..see below :) Oh and Doc dog decided to make her appearance in the video as well! 

The Yuck!

Last week was an interesting week to say the least.  Sunday after the 4th of July, Lilly started acting really whinny and was super sleepy.  Mike and I came to the conclusion that she was either going through a growth spurt or that she was getting sick..so we let her cuddle with us and had a lazy day. 

Monday rolled around and Lilly seemed just fine, she played and giggled as usual so I figured it had to have been a growth spurt, well I was wrong.  Tuesday Lilly woke up after her first nap and was burning up, so I took her temperature and it was 101.5 degrees…I called the doctor immediately and they told me to bring her in and by the the time I made it to the doctors office she was up to 102.5 degrees.  She didn’t have any other symptoms, not vomiting, coughing, diarrhea or anything so they sent us to the hospital to get a full blood and urine work up.  We go to the hospital and they start to get everything together to draw her blood and they say that they can’t do a heal stick they have to get the blood out of a vein and that I needed to hold her down…eek!  I don’t mind blood at all but I don’t want to hold my almost 3 month old baby down…needless to say I did and she screamed the whole time of course.  Then we made our way back to the doctors office to get a shot of antibiotics to get her started feeling better just in case it was a urinary tract infection, they had to give it to her in two doses because it was so strong.  My poor baby had to get stuck by 3 needles in one day and that wasn’t even for her normal immunizations! 

She was so hot we put a cool rag on her head :(

Poor pitiful baby!

That night was rough…she had a fever all night and she wouldn’t sleep! I ended up sleeping on the floor of her room cuddled up with Doc Dog (now I wish I had a picture of that) and waking her up every four hours to give her Tylenol and feed her.  Some time in the early early morning her fever broke and we finally got some good sleep.  We found out the next day that she had a urinary tract infection and the doctor prescribed her some antibiotics, which she slurps down like nobody’s business (probably because it tastes like strawberry and it’s something different than the same ole’ breast milk).

Just when I thought all the “yuck” was done with, Mike and I decided to go and visit some friends in Baton Rouge on Friday since we were headed out there for an appointment anyways.  Well those friends spent the previous night in the hospital with what they thought was food poisoning, so not even thinking they were misdiagnosed we went over there and brought them some popsicles.  Needless to say, Sunday I came down with the super “yuck” stomach flu and ended up in bed all day not even able to take care of my dear baby! Thank goodness mike was off of work and he was able to watch her, I ended up pumping every feeding for him and letting him feed her too.  Oh and it gets better….Mike come down with the yuck Monday night! It was a horrible terrible case of stomach YUCK for both of us! I have emptied a whole can of Lysol and a whole container or Clorox wipe cleaning up everything either one of us touched in those couple of days!  I was doing everything in my power to make sure Lilly didn’t come down with it and now a week later it looks like it worked!

I learned my lesson..never, ever, ever go over to a friends house who says they have food poisoning!

4th of July!!

Happy Independence day!!! Here’s my flag cake that I made for the occasion, it is accurate in stripes but not stars.  It may fall apart when cut but I’m pretty sure it will take yummy!

On a side note…this is what a well rested baby looks like….

Miss Lilly slept for 12 hours last night without waking up! She went to bed at 7:30 as usual and played around with her hands for about half and hour and then at about 7:00 this morning I woke up thinking wow I haven’t heard Lilly cry once, and I didn’t get up to go feed her once!  So I wake up and go into her room and she’s still happily asleep! She slept until 8:00am this morning!!!  I guess she has Mike’s sleeping genes! She has been moving towards this for about a week, she started waking up later and later in the middle of the night she went from 4:00 am until about 6:30 am two days ago.  I’m not sure if this will last but it was nice for it to have happened at least once :)

 

Happy Independence Day!!

Laundry, dogs and Father’s Day

So it seems like Lilly hates doing laundry as much as I do!

 

But I think she likes the dogs as much as I do, I think she is fascinated by Max’s beard :)

So I found a neat idea for father’s day, it was to make a sign saying “Happy Father’s Day” and the date and take a picture with the baby, and put it in a photo album and do it every year.  We did this and I also got Lilly a precious onsie to wear for Daddy. 

Lilly started the picture session off ok, well…you’ll see the progression.

 

And the the final nuclear melt down..