Enjoy these videos from today. I was camera happy, or as my friend Pesey calls it, I was papparazzi. I could totally be on TMZ. ;)
Video #1 - Morgan talking, playing, etc. It's long. Sorry. :)
Video #2 - TOUCHDOWN!!
The Schmidt Family Grows: Adam, Liss, Morgan, Hadley, Maddie, & Jessie
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Monday, August 30, 2010
"Dabadabadaba"
This would be Morgan's new favorite thing to say. She almost sounds like someone trying to (and semi-failing) to say "scoobydoobydoo!" It's funny. Of course I had several things to post about and they're gone. My brain officially went mush. And it's only Monday...
Here's one - tonight during bath time, I had Morgan in fits of non-stop giggles by squirting her with her fish bath toy from under the water. After about 50 billion squirts, I told her it was time to be all done and give the fishie kisses bye. She kissed him and then started crying and crying until I filled him back up with water and squirted her again, resulting in more fits of giggles. Sometimes I wish I could giggle b/c a fish toy was squirting my belly button. I suppose laughing at Morgan giggling is the next best thing. :)
Walking update - Morgan's about the same as last week. She is still super eager to get going after standing which usually results in a lunging, almost running/falling baby. We're not pushing it. She'll do it more slowly when she's ready. It sure is fun to practice though. Which leads me to...
Oh, about 2 nights ago I was bored of Morgan's wardrobe (all the cute stuff was in the wash) so I decided why not and open up the next size up bin of clothes. Well, I did it again...waited too long. There were a few things that she's going to be able to wear for the next few weeks while it is still hot out, but even this weekend in WI it's going to be cool enough for jeans and a t-shirt during the day for her, so we'll just wear 3 outfits a day no matter what happens and she'll get some good use out of them. ;-)
Regarding two paragraphs ago...I also may have found a few pairs of SHOES that I got for Morgan thinking she'd be able to get some good use out of them and won't...Pair #1 - size clearly reads 6-9 months, which means Morgan likely was done wearing them around 7-8 months of age. Dang. I squeezed them on her sockless feet and her little toes were all squashed at the front. Pair #1 worn for 45 seconds. Sigh. Pair #2 - Squeakers!!! White, patent leather squeakers!! Size 3. They are SO cute and she thought it was interesting that she squeaked when she walked. The dogs went NUTS and came running upstairs to see what the new "toy" was. Morgan had quite the fuzzy parade after her. Pair #2 - bring to WI this weekend and pray that socks fit in them (will check, no worries) so she can wear them for the next 2 weeks until she grows out of them. Pair #3 - ADORABLE. Dark and light pink suede shoes, size 4. They fit and will be perfect with socks once her squeakers are deemed too small. Adam will not be happy to read this paragraph. I blame rookie mom status. :) At least the 6-9 month ones are gender neutral and can be worn by Baby Schmidt #2 (who is NOT on the way, so don't freak) no matter who s/he is. So that said, Morgan's dresser is now filled with 12-18 month clothes (I know - 18 months. And she FITS into some of them, especially pants/shorts b/c of her big bum diapers) and a few 9 monthers that I A) can't part with b/c they B) still sort of fit her. Yay for new wardrobe! Boo that there is so much long sleeved and long pants items in there, meaning fall (nice!) and winter (boo) is on its way.
Morgan has spent some serious time in her room the past few days now that we've had to be up there while Adam was gone at class. The first day we were up there, she got all sorts of excited and was basically spin/crawling as fast as she could all over the floor space that wasn't covered in clothes, shoes, and bibs she'd outgrown. She was funny with her stuffed animals, but especially with her glow-worm seahorse. She told me it was time for a nap that day b/c she pulled up on her crib, sucked her thumb, and started crying in bunny's general direction. Bed it was! Tonight she was hilarious too and thought it was great fun taking clothes out of the bins. Redirected...to a pile of books.
Speaking of books, Morgan's love for them continues to grow. She still has her favorites and doesn't always sit through the non-favorite ones, but she whines/cries when the book is over unless you have another at the ready (or unless it's a less fav one, at which point it's time to crawl away at warp speed). We've been working on pointing to animals and other such common objects/animals. She finally did it the other day when I asked her where momma duck was in Little Quack loves colors and sure enough - she pointed to momma duck. Woo!
Here's another funny and then I'm done (2 loads of laundry, one being diapers, are calling). Sunday afternoon we took a trip to Menards to get some longer screws for my drawer knobs in the bathroom. While leaving, something happened that resulted in Adam saying, "stupid ass." I sort of chuckled and half jokingly said, "don't cuss in front of the baby." His smart aleck reply was, "ass ass ass." All of a sudden from the back seat we hear, "Ah!!" Moral of the story - no more cussing in front of the baby. ;-P
Here's one - tonight during bath time, I had Morgan in fits of non-stop giggles by squirting her with her fish bath toy from under the water. After about 50 billion squirts, I told her it was time to be all done and give the fishie kisses bye. She kissed him and then started crying and crying until I filled him back up with water and squirted her again, resulting in more fits of giggles. Sometimes I wish I could giggle b/c a fish toy was squirting my belly button. I suppose laughing at Morgan giggling is the next best thing. :)
Walking update - Morgan's about the same as last week. She is still super eager to get going after standing which usually results in a lunging, almost running/falling baby. We're not pushing it. She'll do it more slowly when she's ready. It sure is fun to practice though. Which leads me to...
Oh, about 2 nights ago I was bored of Morgan's wardrobe (all the cute stuff was in the wash) so I decided why not and open up the next size up bin of clothes. Well, I did it again...waited too long. There were a few things that she's going to be able to wear for the next few weeks while it is still hot out, but even this weekend in WI it's going to be cool enough for jeans and a t-shirt during the day for her, so we'll just wear 3 outfits a day no matter what happens and she'll get some good use out of them. ;-)
Regarding two paragraphs ago...I also may have found a few pairs of SHOES that I got for Morgan thinking she'd be able to get some good use out of them and won't...Pair #1 - size clearly reads 6-9 months, which means Morgan likely was done wearing them around 7-8 months of age. Dang. I squeezed them on her sockless feet and her little toes were all squashed at the front. Pair #1 worn for 45 seconds. Sigh. Pair #2 - Squeakers!!! White, patent leather squeakers!! Size 3. They are SO cute and she thought it was interesting that she squeaked when she walked. The dogs went NUTS and came running upstairs to see what the new "toy" was. Morgan had quite the fuzzy parade after her. Pair #2 - bring to WI this weekend and pray that socks fit in them (will check, no worries) so she can wear them for the next 2 weeks until she grows out of them. Pair #3 - ADORABLE. Dark and light pink suede shoes, size 4. They fit and will be perfect with socks once her squeakers are deemed too small. Adam will not be happy to read this paragraph. I blame rookie mom status. :) At least the 6-9 month ones are gender neutral and can be worn by Baby Schmidt #2 (who is NOT on the way, so don't freak) no matter who s/he is. So that said, Morgan's dresser is now filled with 12-18 month clothes (I know - 18 months. And she FITS into some of them, especially pants/shorts b/c of her big bum diapers) and a few 9 monthers that I A) can't part with b/c they B) still sort of fit her. Yay for new wardrobe! Boo that there is so much long sleeved and long pants items in there, meaning fall (nice!) and winter (boo) is on its way.
Morgan has spent some serious time in her room the past few days now that we've had to be up there while Adam was gone at class. The first day we were up there, she got all sorts of excited and was basically spin/crawling as fast as she could all over the floor space that wasn't covered in clothes, shoes, and bibs she'd outgrown. She was funny with her stuffed animals, but especially with her glow-worm seahorse. She told me it was time for a nap that day b/c she pulled up on her crib, sucked her thumb, and started crying in bunny's general direction. Bed it was! Tonight she was hilarious too and thought it was great fun taking clothes out of the bins. Redirected...to a pile of books.
Speaking of books, Morgan's love for them continues to grow. She still has her favorites and doesn't always sit through the non-favorite ones, but she whines/cries when the book is over unless you have another at the ready (or unless it's a less fav one, at which point it's time to crawl away at warp speed). We've been working on pointing to animals and other such common objects/animals. She finally did it the other day when I asked her where momma duck was in Little Quack loves colors and sure enough - she pointed to momma duck. Woo!
Here's another funny and then I'm done (2 loads of laundry, one being diapers, are calling). Sunday afternoon we took a trip to Menards to get some longer screws for my drawer knobs in the bathroom. While leaving, something happened that resulted in Adam saying, "stupid ass." I sort of chuckled and half jokingly said, "don't cuss in front of the baby." His smart aleck reply was, "ass ass ass." All of a sudden from the back seat we hear, "Ah!!" Moral of the story - no more cussing in front of the baby. ;-P
Friday, August 27, 2010
Touchdown!!!
Such fun! During a meeting today (I'll get to that later), a fellow Muscatine High School staff member mentioned that there was a home game tonight. Adam and I have been meaning to go to a game since we first got here...5 years ago....and have yet to go. So I threw it out there to go instead of stay home and do chores and the normal nighttime routine and it was a go. Off we go to Morgan's first football game and our first Muskies game.
Morgan did SO well. The only reason we thought she might not do well is b/c we'd be close to, over, and then way past bedtime. At first she was a little startled by the crowd (huge) and why on earth everyone was clapping (for me? I'm sure that's what she thought) but once she saw the players she sat on my lap, her hands in her lap, and watched almost all of the first quarter that way. VERY interested baby. She lasted until the end of the first half and by that time, she had "touchdown!" (tiny baby arms up in the air!) down pat. It was pretty cute. She clapped a TON. She made new friends. She saw her friend, Deb, at the concession stand. When the marching band came out and started playing, she immediately started dancing and bouncing up and down as hard as I've ever seen her. Since it was really late for her by that time and she had pretty well used up all her "good baby hours," we went home. Big night! Again, we're so proud we have such an easy, flexible baby.
Work meeting. ::can you sense the disdain:: I love my job. I truly, honestly do. I love the people I work with. I greatly dislike, however, having FOUR all-day meetings in 2.5 weeks that about 30% of which pertained to me and is something I might actually use in my practice/therapy in the future. I realize that we all have to do things as part of our jobs that we don't like. Not a huge deal. But when I feel like my and my students' time has been so grossly wasted, I become infuriated by the FOURTH meeting. I sat there this afternoon seething. I'm sure I wasn't hiding it well (I sure tried!) but I'm better for having held it in for an entire day, dealing with it, and moving on. I was more upset than when Jessie barks right after the baby goes to bed (that's bad). It almost makes me think I missed something that pertained to me...but I didn't. This is me moving on. Now. :)
Mary was all excited to show me how well Morgan was walking at daycare now. Mary is convinced that Morgan is going to go right from walking to running. (Is there usually a gap of time b/w the two?) Morgan is doing well. She becomes slightly more coordinated every day and today she left me to independently walk to her activity table (2 steps). Brave girl!
Working full time again and getting up so much earlier really gets me by the end of the week. That said, since I first sat down for the day 15 minutes ago (it's 9:48pm), I deserve to lie on the couch a few minutes before going to bed. Took Morgan running today. That child is going to put some serious time in that jogger before it snows. :)
Morgan did SO well. The only reason we thought she might not do well is b/c we'd be close to, over, and then way past bedtime. At first she was a little startled by the crowd (huge) and why on earth everyone was clapping (for me? I'm sure that's what she thought) but once she saw the players she sat on my lap, her hands in her lap, and watched almost all of the first quarter that way. VERY interested baby. She lasted until the end of the first half and by that time, she had "touchdown!" (tiny baby arms up in the air!) down pat. It was pretty cute. She clapped a TON. She made new friends. She saw her friend, Deb, at the concession stand. When the marching band came out and started playing, she immediately started dancing and bouncing up and down as hard as I've ever seen her. Since it was really late for her by that time and she had pretty well used up all her "good baby hours," we went home. Big night! Again, we're so proud we have such an easy, flexible baby.
Work meeting. ::can you sense the disdain:: I love my job. I truly, honestly do. I love the people I work with. I greatly dislike, however, having FOUR all-day meetings in 2.5 weeks that about 30% of which pertained to me and is something I might actually use in my practice/therapy in the future. I realize that we all have to do things as part of our jobs that we don't like. Not a huge deal. But when I feel like my and my students' time has been so grossly wasted, I become infuriated by the FOURTH meeting. I sat there this afternoon seething. I'm sure I wasn't hiding it well (I sure tried!) but I'm better for having held it in for an entire day, dealing with it, and moving on. I was more upset than when Jessie barks right after the baby goes to bed (that's bad). It almost makes me think I missed something that pertained to me...but I didn't. This is me moving on. Now. :)
Mary was all excited to show me how well Morgan was walking at daycare now. Mary is convinced that Morgan is going to go right from walking to running. (Is there usually a gap of time b/w the two?) Morgan is doing well. She becomes slightly more coordinated every day and today she left me to independently walk to her activity table (2 steps). Brave girl!
Working full time again and getting up so much earlier really gets me by the end of the week. That said, since I first sat down for the day 15 minutes ago (it's 9:48pm), I deserve to lie on the couch a few minutes before going to bed. Took Morgan running today. That child is going to put some serious time in that jogger before it snows. :)
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Our little walker
Enjoy this video of Morgan walking (this was around dinner time tonight 08/25/10 - she was even better before bedtime!!) and making goofy noises with her mouth. She's sort of into this lately and enjoys trying to imitate us doing weird noises. I heart her. :) I also love how stinkin' cute she is in real jammies instead of just a onsie for bed, but in the only picture of her in her new monkey jammies, her eyes are closed.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Bathroom "Redo" update w/ pictures!
Here are the pictures, pre- to about 4/5ths of the way done, of our cosmetic bathroom overhaul for our 1st floor bathroom. As I'm sure you've read before (I'm not going back to check...sorry. Lazy me.) the bathroom was terribly outdated in terms of paint/fixtures/etc. and since it will likely be about 3-4 years until we get to semi-gut and redo the whole thing appropriately, a cosmetic redo was definitely in order since it was so ugly. In case you can't see from the pictures, here are some of the awful highlights of the old bathroom:
Highlights of the NEW bathroom!!
We still have a little ways to go until we're considering this "redo" done. We still have to figure out the drawer knobs - I got some today but the screws are too short for the drawers! Argh. Hopefully Adam has a solution tomorrow night. We also have sink fixtures to install (ok, Adam will be doing it and I will be quietly nearby offering moral support and legs (to get whatever he needs - that stuff sucks). We also have some touch up on the ceiling since some of the paint came off with the blue tape (argh). I would also like to paint the frame part of the medicine cabinet so it matches the fixtures. See? All minor things. :) Oh yeah...and trim. Ok, that's a more major one that Adam HATES to do. Thankfully it's a smaller room, right? I think that makes it more difficult... :-/
Speaking of my wonderful husband who I can't even BEGIN to tell you how proud I am of, tonight marks the first night of his LAST semester of his MBA. It's going to be a helluva ride though, as he's doubled up with his classes (2 instead of his usual 1) and one of them is rather time-intensive and difficult - it's sort of like his thesis but in MBA form. I don't know the details but know it's hard. Of course he's going to ace it, as that's how Adam is when challenged academically. We shared a few classes in early college and he always whomped me on tests. He just "gets" it better than I do. I'm so ridiculously proud of him for doing this. November 15th will result in a party upon his arrival home (don't care that it's a Monday!) and then an adults-only trip to Chicago. Still have to find some willing grandparents for that weekend... ;-) I don't think that will be a problem.
Morgan worked on her walking a little bit tonight again and is pretty good at 2 steps alone. She started to think it was a pretty cool game that she'd stand independently several feet away from me, hold and chew on this orange ball of hers, and when she was ready, she'd come walking towards me. It wasn't perfect every time, but she's working on it! She also discovered the dogs' water dish today and enjoyed splashing in it...until her mean mean mommy told her no no and brought her back to her toys. :) I knew it was bound to happen. Sigh. That should be a fun, never-ending battle, no?
Ok, off to pack the baby's back pack and make sure I have everything I need for tomorrow for before Adam gets home. Time is so short when one works FT. Did I mention I love my family? Because I really really do. Starting back to work just drives that one home more and more as I have less and less time with them. They are my world!
These are the best pictures of Morgan's 10 month photo shoot. :) She's getting wigglier every month which makes this a touch more difficult... ;-)
- Shiny gold or gold AND silver fixtures/towel racks.
- Pale green paint put on in a "washcloth" fashion - read - whomever painted that room took a thin washcloth, balled it up, dipped it in paint, and splotched on the wall. All over. Ick.
- The towel racks were loose and flimsy and cheap.
- I had accented that room with purples. I decorated around the time of my wedding and purple was on my mind. Give a girl a break. :)
- Old gross glass around the lightbulbs. I don't know what those things are called at the moment...
Highlights of the NEW bathroom!!
- Beautiful paint color called Pixley Falls. Best way to describe it? Robin's egg blue with some green thrown in. I don't know how else to describe it. Check it out. :)
- I think it's called brushed brass or aged brass or something for fixtures and other bathroom hardware. It makes the paint color pop.
- We've used black and white accent colors (read - towels and shower curtain). It took us a while to acquire the appropriate towels and shower curtain (5 stores for the shower curtain but it was WELL worth the wait! I love it so much).
- All of our racks and things that are up are TIGHT to the wall. Adam is a master-installer.
- New, opaque swirled glass things around the lightbulbs. Adam and I were both drawn to them and it was an instant, easy decision. We like those. :)
We still have a little ways to go until we're considering this "redo" done. We still have to figure out the drawer knobs - I got some today but the screws are too short for the drawers! Argh. Hopefully Adam has a solution tomorrow night. We also have sink fixtures to install (ok, Adam will be doing it and I will be quietly nearby offering moral support and legs (to get whatever he needs - that stuff sucks). We also have some touch up on the ceiling since some of the paint came off with the blue tape (argh). I would also like to paint the frame part of the medicine cabinet so it matches the fixtures. See? All minor things. :) Oh yeah...and trim. Ok, that's a more major one that Adam HATES to do. Thankfully it's a smaller room, right? I think that makes it more difficult... :-/
Speaking of my wonderful husband who I can't even BEGIN to tell you how proud I am of, tonight marks the first night of his LAST semester of his MBA. It's going to be a helluva ride though, as he's doubled up with his classes (2 instead of his usual 1) and one of them is rather time-intensive and difficult - it's sort of like his thesis but in MBA form. I don't know the details but know it's hard. Of course he's going to ace it, as that's how Adam is when challenged academically. We shared a few classes in early college and he always whomped me on tests. He just "gets" it better than I do. I'm so ridiculously proud of him for doing this. November 15th will result in a party upon his arrival home (don't care that it's a Monday!) and then an adults-only trip to Chicago. Still have to find some willing grandparents for that weekend... ;-) I don't think that will be a problem.
Morgan worked on her walking a little bit tonight again and is pretty good at 2 steps alone. She started to think it was a pretty cool game that she'd stand independently several feet away from me, hold and chew on this orange ball of hers, and when she was ready, she'd come walking towards me. It wasn't perfect every time, but she's working on it! She also discovered the dogs' water dish today and enjoyed splashing in it...until her mean mean mommy told her no no and brought her back to her toys. :) I knew it was bound to happen. Sigh. That should be a fun, never-ending battle, no?
Ok, off to pack the baby's back pack and make sure I have everything I need for tomorrow for before Adam gets home. Time is so short when one works FT. Did I mention I love my family? Because I really really do. Starting back to work just drives that one home more and more as I have less and less time with them. They are my world!
These are the best pictures of Morgan's 10 month photo shoot. :) She's getting wigglier every month which makes this a touch more difficult... ;-)
Sunday, August 22, 2010
10 months and FIRST STEPS!!
The other day I posted about Morgan doing stairs and totally forgot to mention that she was 10 months old. Sigh. Double digits. What a big kid!! Real quick highlights b/c it's getting late and after going to bed at 8:55pm last night (woo, big Saturday night, right?) and getting quite a bit of sleep (thank you Morgan for cooperating overnight, but up at 6am? ugh), it felt really good to be us today. I'd like a repeat for our 2nd of 3 all-staff meetings tomorrow.
Morgan. took. her. first. steps. today!! We knew she was getting close, but today we were at the Coralville Mall (Iowa City, for you WI-ites) and to kill some time while Adam was shopping at Scheels, we went to the kid play area. Morgan was dazzled by the oodles of kids running around so we hung out, watched, and avoided being squashed. Adam came, Morgan got all excited, so I helped her up to walk to him. She only held one of my hands and we mutually let go and she took the last 2 steps to Adam alone! She repeated it one other time while we were there, but I think that might count, ladies and gents! If it doesn't, well, it's really close. :)
Today in Target, Morgan purposefully hid from me (in her stroller) and played peek-a-boo with me. She's always loved to play, but I'm usually the one hiding. For her to take that initiative and realize that she can be the funny one instead of the one laughing was pretty great! Speaking of silly, on the way home today, Morgan (who had all sorts of daddy love this weekend), would say Dada...dada...dada...I'd model mama, and get dada. It's almost like she knew and was being a stinker b/c she could. It's SO fun to watch her grow and learn. Makes weekends all the better now.
Bathroom update (I think I mentioned this in a previous post, right? Cosmetic update for the first floor bathroom?) - Paint - check. Towel/TP rack installation - check. New shower curtain and towels - check. And it's BEAUTIFUL. I wouldn't have thought we would have picked something like that but I love it, and Adam does now too. I'll post pictures soon but again, it's late (later, now!) so you'll have to hold your horses. I'll post 10 month pictures too.
Dear God, thank you for my family. Thank you for all the blessings in my life and thank you for leading me on the path I've traveled. I'm SO truly blessed. Amen.
Bring on the week of meetings and organization! Adam has class M/W night and I've got class TH night. Should be busy!
Morgan. took. her. first. steps. today!! We knew she was getting close, but today we were at the Coralville Mall (Iowa City, for you WI-ites) and to kill some time while Adam was shopping at Scheels, we went to the kid play area. Morgan was dazzled by the oodles of kids running around so we hung out, watched, and avoided being squashed. Adam came, Morgan got all excited, so I helped her up to walk to him. She only held one of my hands and we mutually let go and she took the last 2 steps to Adam alone! She repeated it one other time while we were there, but I think that might count, ladies and gents! If it doesn't, well, it's really close. :)
Today in Target, Morgan purposefully hid from me (in her stroller) and played peek-a-boo with me. She's always loved to play, but I'm usually the one hiding. For her to take that initiative and realize that she can be the funny one instead of the one laughing was pretty great! Speaking of silly, on the way home today, Morgan (who had all sorts of daddy love this weekend), would say Dada...dada...dada...I'd model mama, and get dada. It's almost like she knew and was being a stinker b/c she could. It's SO fun to watch her grow and learn. Makes weekends all the better now.
Bathroom update (I think I mentioned this in a previous post, right? Cosmetic update for the first floor bathroom?) - Paint - check. Towel/TP rack installation - check. New shower curtain and towels - check. And it's BEAUTIFUL. I wouldn't have thought we would have picked something like that but I love it, and Adam does now too. I'll post pictures soon but again, it's late (later, now!) so you'll have to hold your horses. I'll post 10 month pictures too.
Dear God, thank you for my family. Thank you for all the blessings in my life and thank you for leading me on the path I've traveled. I'm SO truly blessed. Amen.
Bring on the week of meetings and organization! Adam has class M/W night and I've got class TH night. Should be busy!
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Stairs!
Funny you should ask why this post is titled "Stairs..."
So yesterday morning we're running around the house doing the morning thing, getting ready, running a little behind (ok, that's just me), making sure all the ducks are in a row for the day. Morgan was playing with her toys in the living room, Adam was brushing his teeth, and I remembered I wanted to send wipes with Morgan to daycare since she hadn't brought any in a while. So I race upstairs to her room to grab some out of the giant Sam's Club sized wipes stash but of course it took me an extra minute to wrestle the new box open so after I got it open, I left her room, turn the corner to come downstairs, and realize there are two big blue eyes staring at me from the second (4th overall) step above the landing!! When I left her, she was on the far side of the living room and suddenly she'd made it up 2 stairs, around a large landing, and up another 2 stairs! We've never even exposed her to stairs...needless to say, we were pretty surprised! I came down the stairs relatively slowly so as not to startle her since I had no idea how she'd react on stairs. I asked Adam if he'd placed her on the landing or something and he had no idea she was even on the stairs. We have a speed racer baby. Who now likes stairs. Tonight I chased her up 1/2 the stairs and then she started crying b/c she realized she was stuck - didn't want to go up anymore but had no idea how to get down. :)
I'm pleased to report that Maddie is significantly better. She actually begged for her dinner tonight and ate almost all of the 2/3 of her regular dinner I gave her. She has lots of energy again and now it's just a matter of continuing her meds and fattening her back up to normal again. Thank you for all the thoughts and prayers - we were really worried about her for a while. It's amazing what the power of prayer can do.
While I was typing the last paragraph, we heard the tiniest little "dada..." from the monitor. Apparently someone was dreaming about her daddy and was telling him stories in her sleep. Aww...
We've started the cosmetic bathroom overhaul in the first floor bathroom. On Saturday and Sunday, I spent some serious time taping, pulling trim off the wall, taking down towel racks, and prepping for paint. We primed the bathroom on Monday, took off Tuesday, painted Wednesday, and put the second coat of paint on tonight. At first we were a little overwhelmed with the color we bought back in April, but now that I see it on, I LOVE it. The best way I can describe it is that it's like a robin's egg blue with some green thrown in. It's quite bright and somewhat out of our box, but I think with the right decorations it's going to be stunning. We chose dark brushed bronze fixtures and things to decorate and plan to put white trim in the bathroom. The doors are going to stay the ugly dark brown that they are since we are going to gut and redo that bathroom when the funds are available. So anyway, painting - check! Yeah! I'll post pictures when we're closer to done or done.
I'm SO excited to be going to bed and likely asleep before 10:30 tonight. That's not been the case for so long I can't even remember the last time I went to sleep before 10:30 so woo hoo! Nighty night!
So yesterday morning we're running around the house doing the morning thing, getting ready, running a little behind (ok, that's just me), making sure all the ducks are in a row for the day. Morgan was playing with her toys in the living room, Adam was brushing his teeth, and I remembered I wanted to send wipes with Morgan to daycare since she hadn't brought any in a while. So I race upstairs to her room to grab some out of the giant Sam's Club sized wipes stash but of course it took me an extra minute to wrestle the new box open so after I got it open, I left her room, turn the corner to come downstairs, and realize there are two big blue eyes staring at me from the second (4th overall) step above the landing!! When I left her, she was on the far side of the living room and suddenly she'd made it up 2 stairs, around a large landing, and up another 2 stairs! We've never even exposed her to stairs...needless to say, we were pretty surprised! I came down the stairs relatively slowly so as not to startle her since I had no idea how she'd react on stairs. I asked Adam if he'd placed her on the landing or something and he had no idea she was even on the stairs. We have a speed racer baby. Who now likes stairs. Tonight I chased her up 1/2 the stairs and then she started crying b/c she realized she was stuck - didn't want to go up anymore but had no idea how to get down. :)
I'm pleased to report that Maddie is significantly better. She actually begged for her dinner tonight and ate almost all of the 2/3 of her regular dinner I gave her. She has lots of energy again and now it's just a matter of continuing her meds and fattening her back up to normal again. Thank you for all the thoughts and prayers - we were really worried about her for a while. It's amazing what the power of prayer can do.
While I was typing the last paragraph, we heard the tiniest little "dada..." from the monitor. Apparently someone was dreaming about her daddy and was telling him stories in her sleep. Aww...
We've started the cosmetic bathroom overhaul in the first floor bathroom. On Saturday and Sunday, I spent some serious time taping, pulling trim off the wall, taking down towel racks, and prepping for paint. We primed the bathroom on Monday, took off Tuesday, painted Wednesday, and put the second coat of paint on tonight. At first we were a little overwhelmed with the color we bought back in April, but now that I see it on, I LOVE it. The best way I can describe it is that it's like a robin's egg blue with some green thrown in. It's quite bright and somewhat out of our box, but I think with the right decorations it's going to be stunning. We chose dark brushed bronze fixtures and things to decorate and plan to put white trim in the bathroom. The doors are going to stay the ugly dark brown that they are since we are going to gut and redo that bathroom when the funds are available. So anyway, painting - check! Yeah! I'll post pictures when we're closer to done or done.
I'm SO excited to be going to bed and likely asleep before 10:30 tonight. That's not been the case for so long I can't even remember the last time I went to sleep before 10:30 so woo hoo! Nighty night!
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Pray for Maddie
Something's seriously wrong with Maddie. We're not sure yet what it is, but she's not herself. She's losing weight, not eating (likely, hence #1), and lying around SO much more than she normally does. She's sad and not herself and the next step after all these antibiotics is bloodwork tomorrow. That said, she just ate her 2nd treat in the last 1/2 hour so perhaps we're turning a corner? She even refused HAM earlier this evening. Straight up, human people person ham. And wouldn't eat it. That's one. sick. dog. Poor fuzzy baby. :-(
Morgan, on the other hand, is doing fine. Fabulous, even. She continues to practice her walking and standing independently but no major moves as of my last post. When I pick her up from Mary's now, I physically pick her up and she instantly starts waving bye to everyone in the room. She's thrilled to do so. It's not like she's had an awful day and wants to leave. She just knows that that's how we roll when we leave places and I will thank everyone involved with her on Ross & Kristen's wedding weekend since she was exposed to "bye" every other hour there with all the people she met.
Morgan is growing and I don't care what the height at the doctor says. I'm thisclose to pulling out 12 month onsies...actually, I will be doing that tomorrow. I had to do some serious yanking/stretching to get the onsie she wore to bed to fit. :)
Morgan and I also had some serious luck at Kohl's on Saturday after SS. We spent around $150 between the three of us and saved $250. I. heart. those. shopping trips. :-D
Alright, off to finish a small seated project. :) Can't say in case someone reads this. Speaking of projects (real quick), we're in the middle of a cosmetic update of our main floor bathroom. We plan to completely gut and redo it someday, but a few things need to happen first - 1. We need a working shower/tub somewhere else in our house per me, and 2. we need to be debt free. Only a few short years to go! (Thank you Dave Ramsey and giving us the groundwork to do our very own Schmidt family version of your amazing program.)
Project. For real this time. Adios amigos.
Morgan, on the other hand, is doing fine. Fabulous, even. She continues to practice her walking and standing independently but no major moves as of my last post. When I pick her up from Mary's now, I physically pick her up and she instantly starts waving bye to everyone in the room. She's thrilled to do so. It's not like she's had an awful day and wants to leave. She just knows that that's how we roll when we leave places and I will thank everyone involved with her on Ross & Kristen's wedding weekend since she was exposed to "bye" every other hour there with all the people she met.
Morgan is growing and I don't care what the height at the doctor says. I'm thisclose to pulling out 12 month onsies...actually, I will be doing that tomorrow. I had to do some serious yanking/stretching to get the onsie she wore to bed to fit. :)
Morgan and I also had some serious luck at Kohl's on Saturday after SS. We spent around $150 between the three of us and saved $250. I. heart. those. shopping trips. :-D
Alright, off to finish a small seated project. :) Can't say in case someone reads this. Speaking of projects (real quick), we're in the middle of a cosmetic update of our main floor bathroom. We plan to completely gut and redo it someday, but a few things need to happen first - 1. We need a working shower/tub somewhere else in our house per me, and 2. we need to be debt free. Only a few short years to go! (Thank you Dave Ramsey and giving us the groundwork to do our very own Schmidt family version of your amazing program.)
Project. For real this time. Adios amigos.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Wanna trade?
As in, wanna trade backs? :) Pretty soon Adam and I are both going to break in half from walking Morgan all over the house, through the grass, and down the road to Mary's house. She LOVES it. I know I've said this a million bajillion times already, but this kid is hilarious with her walking. She had another long time free standing last night before her bath, for 8 seconds. It's so funny too b/c she really isn't paying attention when she does it and all of a sudden she's standing at length.
I hope she isn't getting a cold. She's been sneezing all morning and her nose was a little runny. Hopefully it's just the fact that there are super high pollen levels and it's just bugging her a bit.
This really hot stretch is almost over, thank goodness. It's almost so hot and humid that I'm not so sure I should take her outside, especially for any length of time. Maybe we'll hit the pool later? We'll see how naps go. And I have a project this afternoon that I'd like to get done so we'll see.
Ok, off to shower while she's napping. I have to drop off our bassinet at a friend's house so they can use it for their little one soon and then Morgan's going to Mary's for lunch while Adam and I meet with our financial adviser to take care of a few things. Later gators.
I hope she isn't getting a cold. She's been sneezing all morning and her nose was a little runny. Hopefully it's just the fact that there are super high pollen levels and it's just bugging her a bit.
This really hot stretch is almost over, thank goodness. It's almost so hot and humid that I'm not so sure I should take her outside, especially for any length of time. Maybe we'll hit the pool later? We'll see how naps go. And I have a project this afternoon that I'd like to get done so we'll see.
Ok, off to shower while she's napping. I have to drop off our bassinet at a friend's house so they can use it for their little one soon and then Morgan's going to Mary's for lunch while Adam and I meet with our financial adviser to take care of a few things. Later gators.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Holy babies!!
We now know at least 5 couples that are currently preggo...that's a lot. I hope the water they're drinking doesn't get to me for a while yet. :-) I don't think Morgan's ready to share.
I had a normal work day today of a huge day-long meeting that could have been completed in half the time it took to take place. Sigh. Great job must have some down turns, I suppose. :-/
Morgan had a FABULOUS time at daycare today. I still can't tell you how much it makes my heart be at ease knowing how happy and well cared for she is there.
Morgan is SO excited to walk. I'm not even kidding. Morgan finally rode with Adam on the lawnmower (on the flat parts only) for all the flat parts tonight and loved it. It was really cute to see her turn her head to look where he was going next (she picked up the pattern quickly) and then smile and wave her hands when she saw me watching. Then while Adam was doing the hilly part of the lawn (2/3 of the yard), all she wanted to do was walk in the grass. She went back and forth and back and forth following Adam on the mower. When I picked her up b/c it appeared her legs were about to give out, she screamed and wiggled and tried to get down to walk. So we walked some more. And then more. And so much that her little legs even gave out a time or two but she was RIGHT back up and walking even more. Sometimes when she'd get really excited (when Adam got close to us) and she'd almost RUN and laugh and giggle the whole time. She's so great. :)
One more day of work this week (tomorrow) and then off for 4 days before it's full time. It was really nice to see some of my coworkers that I haven't seen all summer (Denise! Wendy! and more!) so there's always an upside to working. :) More later. It's Adam time now.
I had a normal work day today of a huge day-long meeting that could have been completed in half the time it took to take place. Sigh. Great job must have some down turns, I suppose. :-/
Morgan had a FABULOUS time at daycare today. I still can't tell you how much it makes my heart be at ease knowing how happy and well cared for she is there.
Morgan is SO excited to walk. I'm not even kidding. Morgan finally rode with Adam on the lawnmower (on the flat parts only) for all the flat parts tonight and loved it. It was really cute to see her turn her head to look where he was going next (she picked up the pattern quickly) and then smile and wave her hands when she saw me watching. Then while Adam was doing the hilly part of the lawn (2/3 of the yard), all she wanted to do was walk in the grass. She went back and forth and back and forth following Adam on the mower. When I picked her up b/c it appeared her legs were about to give out, she screamed and wiggled and tried to get down to walk. So we walked some more. And then more. And so much that her little legs even gave out a time or two but she was RIGHT back up and walking even more. Sometimes when she'd get really excited (when Adam got close to us) and she'd almost RUN and laugh and giggle the whole time. She's so great. :)
One more day of work this week (tomorrow) and then off for 4 days before it's full time. It was really nice to see some of my coworkers that I haven't seen all summer (Denise! Wendy! and more!) so there's always an upside to working. :) More later. It's Adam time now.
Monday, August 9, 2010
Huge Update - wedding, new things, and more
Wow it's been a while since my last post. No real reason...just busy, tired, not much to say, out of town, soaking up last days off with Morgan. Sigh. Here goes. Feel free to put your feet up and get out your reading glasses. It's a long one.
Let's start off with Morgan's new things (that I can remember), shall we?
And I'll finish this up tomorrow. Suddenly it's 9:30, I have to work in the morning, and I'm tired b/c of all the things listed above. Hopefully I can stay awake for this day-long meeting...but I get to see Denise after a WHOLE summer away so I'm sure I'll be having a great time "paying attention" to whatever's going on up front. :)
Let's start off with Morgan's new things (that I can remember), shall we?
- Morgan *just* learned how to put things back IN a container instead of taking them out only. Uncle Tommy and his girlfriend Carrie put the finishing touches on teaching Morgan this Sunday morning (Aug. 8th). That's great! Now we can practice "clean up!" ("Clean up" song starts singing in my head...can you tell I work with the 0-3 y/os?)
- Morgan would walk everywhere if she could. Let me back up. Morgan has, to my knowledge, stood on her own for 4 seconds on 2 occasions. Yesterday at the gift opening, I wasn't looking but she was with Adam and stood alone while playing with the car keys for about 10 seconds. Wow! Back to the beginning - at the wedding reception, I walked Morgan around the dance floor after they made it dark but before the dancing really got going and her cousins were running all around her. She LOVED it. When I finally thought my back was going to crack in 2, I picked her up to go find Adam. She SCREAMED and screamed and cried so we went for a few more laps before I finally called in the daddy person to take over. She. Loves. Walking. I have no way to tell how long it will be before she's independent but she sure seems to be on the right track. She also pulls up on everything and creeps quickly along furniture.
- Words - Morgan now has the following words that she uses on a relatively consistent basis: mama, dada, no, bye (bah); she is sort of saying "up" (not always meaningfully but sometimes yes) and "ah dah" while signing all done, usually with her bottle in hand. She's imitating more sounds too which is always exciting. REALLY excited that she has that many words and she's only 9 months old (SLP in me swoons just a bit). :-D
- Morgan. kisses. everyone/thing. She kisses her cow. She kisses her babies. She kissed about a million people over the wedding weekend and was completely willing to do so unless the recipient had a picky (whiskery) face, but she'd do it anyway and then make a funny face. Silly child. The sweetest thing is that sometimes she'll seek me out independently and kind of cup my face in her hands (or pull with all her might) and give me a kiss. Those make my heart melt just a little.
- Morgan is really starting to understand many more things. While we were driving home to WI on Thursday, she learned "clap your feet." She grabs her ankles and starts clapping her feet. She also does hands. If I tried to list what she all understands now, I'll go crazy trying to remember it all and if I do, this post might get even longer than it already is going to be.
- Morgan sleeps through storms. :) Maddie (our older of the two dogs; 3 years, 8 months) does not. Of course, it's been the two weeks of storms and we've been up lots with her. I think today, however, that we pinpointed it to being the lightning that bothers her the most. She was fine this morning after it was lighter outside and there were some pretty hard rumbles of thunder. We'll keep you posted or next summer we might have to put her on meds. :-/
- Morgan is now a front-facing little girl in her carseat. She meets the height and weight requirements, but not the age ones. Since she can't sleep in her current carseat rear-facing, I asked Adam to turn it around while we were in WI and sure enough - the child slept almost 2 hours in a row on the way home and it was lovely. Her head wasn't falling forward and it's fun to be able to see her so well now. Yeah!
- Adam update - he's got one day left of his current MBA class which is a semester-crammed-in-a-week class and then only TWO more that he is taking together this fall. November 15th! Last day! Yeah!!!!! We are celebrating by taking a weekend with just the two of us in Chicago. Perfect.
- I start work tomorrow for 2 days, off for a 4 day weekend, and then I'm a full-time employee once again. I have a love/hate relationship with this right now. I like having another purpose (worker person) but enjoy my time with Morgan so much. Like it or not, here it comes!
- That's all I can think of right now...more if I remember!
And I'll finish this up tomorrow. Suddenly it's 9:30, I have to work in the morning, and I'm tired b/c of all the things listed above. Hopefully I can stay awake for this day-long meeting...but I get to see Denise after a WHOLE summer away so I'm sure I'll be having a great time "paying attention" to whatever's going on up front. :)
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Screaming. Greeaaatt.
Ok, that subject line sounds negative. Well, that's b/c it is. Morgan has now perfected a scream that means it's NOT ok, I DON'T want to listen, I WANT it right now, I'm TIRED, I'm HUNGRY, I don't WANT to wait for my diaper to be put on, and DON'T tell me no. Perfect. Am I shocked? No...just wishing it had been a bit closer to when she was...I don't know...50? :)
Meant to post this before leaving for Ross & Kristen's wedding weekend...here you go.
Meant to post this before leaving for Ross & Kristen's wedding weekend...here you go.
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