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One of those weeks

First off, I've got to thank all of you for your incredibly supportive comments.  All of your thoughts helped me put things in perspective and see that they "failure to thrive" label may be thrown around more loosely than I had originally thought.  I really try hard to respond to everyone's comments through emails, but this week it just wasn't possible.  I feel bad because the words you gave me were amazing, but it has just been too hectic.  Just know that I sincerely appreciate your support :)

So, this week was just one of those weeks that you look back on it and you wonder what plan the universe has that all of that had to happen in a span of five days.  It started with the car (first the air compressor and the belt went - again, then the front breaks and the break line), then moved on to the wonderful "failure to thrive" episode, the week then hovered over xrays, blood work (I know it is hard to find a baby vein, but if you know you suck at it just let the person who is good at it start off - don't get her after 4 punctures), and stool samples (because babies who usually poop 3 times a day won't poop at all on the day you need the sample).  Meanwhile, Thaya (who, in retrospect, is actually getting a somewhat decent amount of food in her) goes on a full fledged hunger strike and refuses to eat anything short of yogurt, cheerios, and milk.  The week ended with a hungry cranky baby who came down with a summer cold and the unexpected onset of a high fever (who really isn't eating anything now.  I thought the past two weeks were bad... this is like... well... nothing.  I can't believe she is even drinking milk).

So, I'm just waiting to get sick (because that's what happens when your child sneezes in your face 3 times.  Deflect as much as you can - some of those sicklies got in there and it is only a matter of time), brooding over the super high car bill (which had to come right when we dished out all that money for the iPhones), not winning the lottery, trying to focus on some of the positive things that happened this week.  Because even though the universe thinks this is fun to do to a woman who is 34 weeks pregnant, I'm not so easily dismayed...

For example.  Yesterday marked Matt and my 4th wedding anniversary.  He came home from work a little early, and brought me flowers :)  And, to top it off, the flowers were a pot of mums, so now I can stick them in the ground and enjoy them year after year!  And, they are yellow, a color that is seriously lacking in my garden right now.  Good job hunk!

Oh, and you know what else?  I did a lot of knitting this week for therapy, and it sure did help!  6 beanies later, I'm feeling a bit more relaxed!

And... and... Aubrie is a busy little bee.  She is getting really big now.  She has the hiccups all the time, just like Thaya, and whenever she has them it lets me guess at her position.  Most of the time she is head down and low, but she is still repositioning a bit.  I can tell it is getting cramped in there, so maybe only a week or two more of the flip-a-doodles.

Thaya's speech is also becoming super clear.  Words that used to be a consonant with a vowel at the end are becoming much more formed.  The big ones this week were "bah!" turned to "BYE!", "beh-beh" turned to "baby", "nuh" turned to "nooo" and is now said with a head shake (I love how she draws out and drops the end of that word, so cute), and "Bee" for Brie is now "Bwee".

I haven't done much scrapbooking, but I know I'm going to use this picture for her 14 month page...

And, we made it to the Carter's and OshKosh store early enough this year that they hadn't yet sold out on Thaya's size, so we had our pick of Fall clothes for her.  I know, shopping for fall at the end of July?  Well I'm giving birth in 6 weeks or less and the time seemed right.  So thanks thanks thanks to Granna and Grandy for the help with the clothes, you are going to have the cutest dressed grandbabies around!

So, I'm sure munchkin is going to wake up soon - or maybe not, considering she didn't fall asleep until close to 1am last night and then was up every hour.  But until then I'm going to enjoy the quiet in the house, eat some cheerios, and decide if I'm going to knit another one of these or if I'm going to try out this or just keep pumping out these to get rid of the extra balls of DB I have.  Then there is the matter of the 3 or 4 balls of Dream in Color that is looking at me.  Maybe another striped sweater? I'm not sure. Any suggestions?

Beautiful Little Perfect

Today was a long day.  Thaya had her 15 month visit today, and on top of 2 shots and a TB test, she also lost 2 pounds.  I know it doesn't seem like much but when you only weigh 20 lbs to begin with and you realize that 2 pounds is 10% of what you weigh, then I guess it is kinda a big deal.  But I mean really... did they have to label her as "failure to thrive"?!? And write it on every damn referral they gave me?!  I think it would have been more appropriate if they just tattooed "failure as a mother" on my head (backwards, of course, so I could read it in the mirror every morning) to advertise my obvious inability to provide my child with adequate nutrition.  Ok - maybe those last few sentence were the hormones talking and I'm really not that upset.

So Thaya is a super picky eater as I've said before.  I've gotten some great advice - relax, don't stress, give her what she wants to eat, etc.  This is all fine and good, but at the same time, it is what I do.  I really try not to stress... but I am 34 weeks pregnant.  I try to limit my frustration to the blog and the bedroom (and a whole bunch of phone calls home to Granna), and put on a happy face for peanut.  And I do. I sing songs, I make noises, we play games.  Eating is a pretty pleasant time. 

But, I'm kinda on board with the pediatrician on this one in regards to the fact that not gaining weight is one thing, but loosing weight is a whole other story.  We've already done a urine test and had xrays done to measure bone growth - both came back fine.  Now we just have loads of blood work and stool samples to do to rule out any disorders, bacteria, etc.

Let's just hope that it is my daughter's strong personality and not some sort of intestinal issue or something.

So, what is a Mama to do?  We're off to see a dietitian.  After the dietitian sees that I'm clearly giving my child healthy foods and not "empty calories", I'm hoping that (s)he will just give me suggestions on what foods will give me the most bang for my buck.  Or what strategies would work to get her to eat.

I feel like going up to them and saying, "listen, my daughter is clearly smarter than I am and has successfully manipulated me into allowing poor mealtime behavior despite my degree in human development and my strong motherly intuition. In most situations I come out on top - ignore attention getting behavior, praise positive behavior, challenge her, and expect from her what she is capable of.  Unfortunately in this situation she is on top with her stubborn, and dare I say 'bitchy' mealtime attitude.  Seriously, give me the answer, tell me what to do."

But at the same time they don't know her.  No one really knows her like I know her.  No one spends the time with her that I spend with her.  No one seems what I do when I am alone with her, how she acts, how I act.  How freaking happy I am, carefree, making stupid "choo choo" noises until my choo choo has chugged.

Habits form really quickly and they take a long time to break.  She has some bad mealtime habits that we are going to have to work on, and considering how much time I spend with my child and the things I see that no one else does - in the end what I say goes.  For 3 months  this has been going on and getting progressively worse, so clearly what I've been doing isn't working.  I'm going to read and read and read and ask "experts" their opinions and I'm going to weigh all the options, devise a plan, and implement it. And, the plan is going to be based on my child's needs, personality, and disposition.

So, if you made it all the way down here, just let me know what you think of the scrapbook page, ok?

Rendezvous

I realized that I missed 10 months so I threw this one together pretty quickly.

Enjoy!

Here is her 11 Month page. I'm slowing down a little bit, but we've had a busy couple of weeks. Now I'll have to do her 15 month page too - so still 4 more to go!

Credits on my flickr page, just click the picture to see.

Oooh I can post from my iphone! Here is Thaya and the mister celebrating after we got our phones.

Ok, this is going to be a fast and virtually photo-less post.  I have a doctor's appointment that I have to leave for in 10 minutes and then Steph is coming over (with Zucchini Bread, I might add), but I really wanted to share this with you.

First, to keep you from leaving, here is a cute picture of Thaya from a couple of months ago.
After spending time "digging" through the hard drive, I found some great shots that I took and never processed or posted.  In fact, I'm very surprised I didn't post some of my pictures (like this one!), or even stick them up on flickr.  Oh well.

So, this weekend we went to Artsfest in State College.  We had a great time, but I have to admit I've been a little ho-hum because I'm so exhausted and I hope I didn't bring anyone down on the trip.  I tried to keep my mouth shut and a smile, but I may have slipped up a couple of times.

So, on Friday we got up super early and headed over to AT&T to get the new iPhone.  We were so excited, we got there and there were only about 40 people ahead of us in line.  I kept saying that there was no way they'd order less than 50 phones, I was sure that we were golden.

Well, 4 hours later, it turns out that Matt and I were numbers 40 & 41 in line, and they only ordered 40 phones.  Keep in mind, they refused to tell us how many phones they ordered, and if our waiting was worth it.  We were really pissed.  Really. Pissed.

But don't worry.  We got up and left PSU super early on Sunday (we were only the road by 6am!) and drove straight to King of Prussia, right outside of Philly.  We went to the Apple Store in the mall, because Apple has a great little feature up showing the iPhone status at individual stores.  They opened at 11 but Matt was told they unofficially open at 10, so we got there by 9.  Well, they secretly opened at 8 and didn't tell anyone, so we basically walked right in and got our phones! It was fantastic. 

Unfortunatly, the guy totally messed up our plans so we had to go right back to an AT&T store where we spent 3.5 painful hours as the guy tried to fix them.  2 SIM cards and 4 temporary numbers later, we are in business with our new phones and our original numbers!

HURRAY!

And, it was totally worth the wait.  I love the phone.  It has only been a day and I'm totally reliant on the notepad for reminders, the address book, the calendar, and the maps.  I LOVE MY iPHONE!

Oh, I finished this with a minute to spare!

Thaya's 9 month milestone page. I can't believe I'm almost caught up on these. Only 5 months to go! Oh yea, then there are the gazillion and one other events I have to scrap about. Why am I doing this again? Oh yea, it's relaxing.

Speaking of relaxing, I wish I could be in a current state of "relax". I am now 32 weeks. Yes, that's right, 32 weeks. I'm freaking exhausted. If it wasn't for the extra help from my hubby and my folks (thank you thank you thank you granna), I don't think I'd be able to physically get into bed at night, let alone out again in the morning.

I'm so tired.

"How tired are you?"

I'm so tired, that I actually thought it would be a good idea to go to the food store this morning. I thought we'd have "fun". Then, while at the store (in between all the time I spent bitching to Thaya about how tired I am) I came up with the brilliant idea to do self-checkout. Am I possessed? Maybe just dense. It took my 25 minutes to check out. I had like 4 bags of food. I had to key in all the stupid numbers for the fresh food, and then my cute little cotton string bags were being the bane of my existence and throwing off the weight sensors, so every 5 seconds the computer would yell something nasty at me involving unexpected items in the bagging area. I yelled back "BAGS! THERE ARE BAGS IN THE BAGGING AREA!"

The lady who controls the "master computer" was starring at me like there was something seriously wrong with me. I felt like saying, "I'm not an idiot, I'm just pregnant", but she didn't look like the kind of person who could relate.

I was actually some what relieved that I forgot my coupons (surprise surprise) so that I couldn't mess that up. I started to pay, then I remembered that I get my canvas bag discount. I told her that I have 7 bags. She looked at me again with those "you are such an idiot" eyes and said (rather slowly I might add, to ensure that I got every.last.word.) "you have to tell me that before you start to pay. now you have to cancel the payment". Seriously, is it that big of a deal?! So I canceled the payment, I got my $0.50 out of her, and went to pay again.

To make a long story short/even longer my fat swollen fingers decided that they didn't like the way my brain was sending signals to them and kept hitting the wrong button on the keypad so I had to cancel the payment and do that over like 15 times. Ok, maybe like 3 but it was still torture.

And to top it off, Thaya has had the runs all day and now I have to cancel swimming *again*. Last thing I want to do it bring my daughter to a swim class and have her blowout of those stupid swim diapers that don't hold anything anyway so whats the point of using them?!

I'm so freaking tired.

Wow, they sure do grow up fast! Especially when you do a milestone page a day :) She is literally changing right before my very eyes!

Ten Months

I realized that I missed 10 months so I threw this one together pretty quickly.

Enjoy!

Here is her 11 Month page. I'm slowing down a little bit, but we've had a busy couple of weeks. Now I'll have to do her 15 month page too - so still 4 more to go!

Credits on my flickr page, just click the picture to see.

Oooh I can post from my iphone! Here is Thaya and the mister celebrating after we got our phones.

Ok, this is going to be a fast and virtually photo-less post.  I have a doctor's appointment that I have to leave for in 10 minutes and then Steph is coming over (with Zucchini Bread, I might add), but I really wanted to share this with you.

First, to keep you from leaving, here is a cute picture of Thaya from a couple of months ago.
After spending time "digging" through the hard drive, I found some great shots that I took and never processed or posted.  In fact, I'm very surprised I didn't post some of my pictures (like this one!), or even stick them up on flickr.  Oh well.

So, this weekend we went to Artsfest in State College.  We had a great time, but I have to admit I've been a little ho-hum because I'm so exhausted and I hope I didn't bring anyone down on the trip.  I tried to keep my mouth shut and a smile, but I may have slipped up a couple of times.

So, on Friday we got up super early and headed over to AT&T to get the new iPhone.  We were so excited, we got there and there were only about 40 people ahead of us in line.  I kept saying that there was no way they'd order less than 50 phones, I was sure that we were golden.

Well, 4 hours later, it turns out that Matt and I were numbers 40 & 41 in line, and they only ordered 40 phones.  Keep in mind, they refused to tell us how many phones they ordered, and if our waiting was worth it.  We were really pissed.  Really. Pissed.

But don't worry.  We got up and left PSU super early on Sunday (we were only the road by 6am!) and drove straight to King of Prussia, right outside of Philly.  We went to the Apple Store in the mall, because Apple has a great little feature up showing the iPhone status at individual stores.  They opened at 11 but Matt was told they unofficially open at 10, so we got there by 9.  Well, they secretly opened at 8 and didn't tell anyone, so we basically walked right in and got our phones! It was fantastic. 

Unfortunatly, the guy totally messed up our plans so we had to go right back to an AT&T store where we spent 3.5 painful hours as the guy tried to fix them.  2 SIM cards and 4 temporary numbers later, we are in business with our new phones and our original numbers!

HURRAY!

And, it was totally worth the wait.  I love the phone.  It has only been a day and I'm totally reliant on the notepad for reminders, the address book, the calendar, and the maps.  I LOVE MY iPHONE!

Oh, I finished this with a minute to spare!

Thaya's 9 month milestone page. I can't believe I'm almost caught up on these. Only 5 months to go! Oh yea, then there are the gazillion and one other events I have to scrap about. Why am I doing this again? Oh yea, it's relaxing.

Speaking of relaxing, I wish I could be in a current state of "relax". I am now 32 weeks. Yes, that's right, 32 weeks. I'm freaking exhausted. If it wasn't for the extra help from my hubby and my folks (thank you thank you thank you granna), I don't think I'd be able to physically get into bed at night, let alone out again in the morning.

I'm so tired.

"How tired are you?"

I'm so tired, that I actually thought it would be a good idea to go to the food store this morning. I thought we'd have "fun". Then, while at the store (in between all the time I spent bitching to Thaya about how tired I am) I came up with the brilliant idea to do self-checkout. Am I possessed? Maybe just dense. It took my 25 minutes to check out. I had like 4 bags of food. I had to key in all the stupid numbers for the fresh food, and then my cute little cotton string bags were being the bane of my existence and throwing off the weight sensors, so every 5 seconds the computer would yell something nasty at me involving unexpected items in the bagging area. I yelled back "BAGS! THERE ARE BAGS IN THE BAGGING AREA!"

The lady who controls the "master computer" was starring at me like there was something seriously wrong with me. I felt like saying, "I'm not an idiot, I'm just pregnant", but she didn't look like the kind of person who could relate.

I was actually some what relieved that I forgot my coupons (surprise surprise) so that I couldn't mess that up. I started to pay, then I remembered that I get my canvas bag discount. I told her that I have 7 bags. She looked at me again with those "you are such an idiot" eyes and said (rather slowly I might add, to ensure that I got every.last.word.) "you have to tell me that before you start to pay. now you have to cancel the payment". Seriously, is it that big of a deal?! So I canceled the payment, I got my $0.50 out of her, and went to pay again.

To make a long story short/even longer my fat swollen fingers decided that they didn't like the way my brain was sending signals to them and kept hitting the wrong button on the keypad so I had to cancel the payment and do that over like 15 times. Ok, maybe like 3 but it was still torture.

And to top it off, Thaya has had the runs all day and now I have to cancel swimming *again*. Last thing I want to do it bring my daughter to a swim class and have her blowout of those stupid swim diapers that don't hold anything anyway so whats the point of using them?!

I'm so freaking tired.

Wow, they sure do grow up fast! Especially when you do a milestone page a day :) She is literally changing right before my very eyes!

11 Months

Here is her 11 Month page. I'm slowing down a little bit, but we've had a busy couple of weeks. Now I'll have to do her 15 month page too - so still 4 more to go!

Credits on my flickr page, just click the picture to see.

Oooh I can post from my iphone! Here is Thaya and the mister celebrating after we got our phones.

Ok, this is going to be a fast and virtually photo-less post.  I have a doctor's appointment that I have to leave for in 10 minutes and then Steph is coming over (with Zucchini Bread, I might add), but I really wanted to share this with you.

First, to keep you from leaving, here is a cute picture of Thaya from a couple of months ago.
After spending time "digging" through the hard drive, I found some great shots that I took and never processed or posted.  In fact, I'm very surprised I didn't post some of my pictures (like this one!), or even stick them up on flickr.  Oh well.

So, this weekend we went to Artsfest in State College.  We had a great time, but I have to admit I've been a little ho-hum because I'm so exhausted and I hope I didn't bring anyone down on the trip.  I tried to keep my mouth shut and a smile, but I may have slipped up a couple of times.

So, on Friday we got up super early and headed over to AT&T to get the new iPhone.  We were so excited, we got there and there were only about 40 people ahead of us in line.  I kept saying that there was no way they'd order less than 50 phones, I was sure that we were golden.

Well, 4 hours later, it turns out that Matt and I were numbers 40 & 41 in line, and they only ordered 40 phones.  Keep in mind, they refused to tell us how many phones they ordered, and if our waiting was worth it.  We were really pissed.  Really. Pissed.

But don't worry.  We got up and left PSU super early on Sunday (we were only the road by 6am!) and drove straight to King of Prussia, right outside of Philly.  We went to the Apple Store in the mall, because Apple has a great little feature up showing the iPhone status at individual stores.  They opened at 11 but Matt was told they unofficially open at 10, so we got there by 9.  Well, they secretly opened at 8 and didn't tell anyone, so we basically walked right in and got our phones! It was fantastic. 

Unfortunatly, the guy totally messed up our plans so we had to go right back to an AT&T store where we spent 3.5 painful hours as the guy tried to fix them.  2 SIM cards and 4 temporary numbers later, we are in business with our new phones and our original numbers!

HURRAY!

And, it was totally worth the wait.  I love the phone.  It has only been a day and I'm totally reliant on the notepad for reminders, the address book, the calendar, and the maps.  I LOVE MY iPHONE!

Oh, I finished this with a minute to spare!

Thaya's 9 month milestone page. I can't believe I'm almost caught up on these. Only 5 months to go! Oh yea, then there are the gazillion and one other events I have to scrap about. Why am I doing this again? Oh yea, it's relaxing.

Speaking of relaxing, I wish I could be in a current state of "relax". I am now 32 weeks. Yes, that's right, 32 weeks. I'm freaking exhausted. If it wasn't for the extra help from my hubby and my folks (thank you thank you thank you granna), I don't think I'd be able to physically get into bed at night, let alone out again in the morning.

I'm so tired.

"How tired are you?"

I'm so tired, that I actually thought it would be a good idea to go to the food store this morning. I thought we'd have "fun". Then, while at the store (in between all the time I spent bitching to Thaya about how tired I am) I came up with the brilliant idea to do self-checkout. Am I possessed? Maybe just dense. It took my 25 minutes to check out. I had like 4 bags of food. I had to key in all the stupid numbers for the fresh food, and then my cute little cotton string bags were being the bane of my existence and throwing off the weight sensors, so every 5 seconds the computer would yell something nasty at me involving unexpected items in the bagging area. I yelled back "BAGS! THERE ARE BAGS IN THE BAGGING AREA!"

The lady who controls the "master computer" was starring at me like there was something seriously wrong with me. I felt like saying, "I'm not an idiot, I'm just pregnant", but she didn't look like the kind of person who could relate.

I was actually some what relieved that I forgot my coupons (surprise surprise) so that I couldn't mess that up. I started to pay, then I remembered that I get my canvas bag discount. I told her that I have 7 bags. She looked at me again with those "you are such an idiot" eyes and said (rather slowly I might add, to ensure that I got every.last.word.) "you have to tell me that before you start to pay. now you have to cancel the payment". Seriously, is it that big of a deal?! So I canceled the payment, I got my $0.50 out of her, and went to pay again.

To make a long story short/even longer my fat swollen fingers decided that they didn't like the way my brain was sending signals to them and kept hitting the wrong button on the keypad so I had to cancel the payment and do that over like 15 times. Ok, maybe like 3 but it was still torture.

And to top it off, Thaya has had the runs all day and now I have to cancel swimming *again*. Last thing I want to do it bring my daughter to a swim class and have her blowout of those stupid swim diapers that don't hold anything anyway so whats the point of using them?!

I'm so freaking tired.

Wow, they sure do grow up fast! Especially when you do a milestone page a day :) She is literally changing right before my very eyes!

Testing 1...2...3...

Oooh I can post from my iphone! Here is Thaya and the mister celebrating after we got our phones.

Quick quick!

Ok, this is going to be a fast and virtually photo-less post.  I have a doctor's appointment that I have to leave for in 10 minutes and then Steph is coming over (with Zucchini Bread, I might add), but I really wanted to share this with you.

First, to keep you from leaving, here is a cute picture of Thaya from a couple of months ago.
After spending time "digging" through the hard drive, I found some great shots that I took and never processed or posted.  In fact, I'm very surprised I didn't post some of my pictures (like this one!), or even stick them up on flickr.  Oh well.

So, this weekend we went to Artsfest in State College.  We had a great time, but I have to admit I've been a little ho-hum because I'm so exhausted and I hope I didn't bring anyone down on the trip.  I tried to keep my mouth shut and a smile, but I may have slipped up a couple of times.

So, on Friday we got up super early and headed over to AT&T to get the new iPhone.  We were so excited, we got there and there were only about 40 people ahead of us in line.  I kept saying that there was no way they'd order less than 50 phones, I was sure that we were golden.

Well, 4 hours later, it turns out that Matt and I were numbers 40 & 41 in line, and they only ordered 40 phones.  Keep in mind, they refused to tell us how many phones they ordered, and if our waiting was worth it.  We were really pissed.  Really. Pissed.

But don't worry.  We got up and left PSU super early on Sunday (we were only the road by 6am!) and drove straight to King of Prussia, right outside of Philly.  We went to the Apple Store in the mall, because Apple has a great little feature up showing the iPhone status at individual stores.  They opened at 11 but Matt was told they unofficially open at 10, so we got there by 9.  Well, they secretly opened at 8 and didn't tell anyone, so we basically walked right in and got our phones! It was fantastic. 

Unfortunatly, the guy totally messed up our plans so we had to go right back to an AT&T store where we spent 3.5 painful hours as the guy tried to fix them.  2 SIM cards and 4 temporary numbers later, we are in business with our new phones and our original numbers!

HURRAY!

And, it was totally worth the wait.  I love the phone.  It has only been a day and I'm totally reliant on the notepad for reminders, the address book, the calendar, and the maps.  I LOVE MY iPHONE!

Oh, I finished this with a minute to spare!

Nine Months

Thaya's 9 month milestone page. I can't believe I'm almost caught up on these. Only 5 months to go! Oh yea, then there are the gazillion and one other events I have to scrap about. Why am I doing this again? Oh yea, it's relaxing.

Speaking of relaxing, I wish I could be in a current state of "relax". I am now 32 weeks. Yes, that's right, 32 weeks. I'm freaking exhausted. If it wasn't for the extra help from my hubby and my folks (thank you thank you thank you granna), I don't think I'd be able to physically get into bed at night, let alone out again in the morning.

I'm so tired.

"How tired are you?"

I'm so tired, that I actually thought it would be a good idea to go to the food store this morning. I thought we'd have "fun". Then, while at the store (in between all the time I spent bitching to Thaya about how tired I am) I came up with the brilliant idea to do self-checkout. Am I possessed? Maybe just dense. It took my 25 minutes to check out. I had like 4 bags of food. I had to key in all the stupid numbers for the fresh food, and then my cute little cotton string bags were being the bane of my existence and throwing off the weight sensors, so every 5 seconds the computer would yell something nasty at me involving unexpected items in the bagging area. I yelled back "BAGS! THERE ARE BAGS IN THE BAGGING AREA!"

The lady who controls the "master computer" was starring at me like there was something seriously wrong with me. I felt like saying, "I'm not an idiot, I'm just pregnant", but she didn't look like the kind of person who could relate.

I was actually some what relieved that I forgot my coupons (surprise surprise) so that I couldn't mess that up. I started to pay, then I remembered that I get my canvas bag discount. I told her that I have 7 bags. She looked at me again with those "you are such an idiot" eyes and said (rather slowly I might add, to ensure that I got every.last.word.) "you have to tell me that before you start to pay. now you have to cancel the payment". Seriously, is it that big of a deal?! So I canceled the payment, I got my $0.50 out of her, and went to pay again.

To make a long story short/even longer my fat swollen fingers decided that they didn't like the way my brain was sending signals to them and kept hitting the wrong button on the keypad so I had to cancel the payment and do that over like 15 times. Ok, maybe like 3 but it was still torture.

And to top it off, Thaya has had the runs all day and now I have to cancel swimming *again*. Last thing I want to do it bring my daughter to a swim class and have her blowout of those stupid swim diapers that don't hold anything anyway so whats the point of using them?!

I'm so freaking tired.

Wow, they sure do grow up fast! Especially when you do a milestone page a day :) She is literally changing right before my very eyes!

Eight Months

Wow, they sure do grow up fast! Especially when you do a milestone page a day :) She is literally changing right before my very eyes!

Seven Months