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Halloween Plans

I bought Bailey’s costume but I’m not going to tell you yet what she’s dressing up as! I probably will get too excited at some point and end up telling, but for now it’s a secret. I was looking online for Halloween treats and other stuff like that and it just got me excited about it Also I was looking for card ideas and came across some cute Halloween invitations. I wish she was old enough for Halloween parties! We will have to find something to do so that she can get more than one wear out of her costume. Also, I got her a cute Halloween shirt. It’s orange with a spider on it.

Not having a camera, well it sucks

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I am so used to photographing everything Bailey does. When she makes a new cute face, or does something funny, or gets a new outfit or new toy… last weekend I cut her hair in the back (about an inch off the bottom) and I didn’t have my camera. On Thursday, my parents watched her for the day. They took her to Build a Bear and she made a stuffed bunny. Now I am waiting to take a picture of her with her new bunny, whose name is Floppy. This is the best I can do at the moment.

I feel like I am letting these moments fly by, uncaptured. I want to remember every smile, laugh, hug, every moment. We were at my parents house last night for my mom’s birthday and I took a bunch of pictures with their camera so hopefully they will loan me the card soon so I can dump them on my computer. Here are some pictures from hanging out with my parents a few weeks ago. I didn’t even realize I had these because I saved them into the wrong folder and discovered them last night when I was uploading to Snapfish.

We took Bailey to a local kids museum and she loved it. We will probably get a membership this fall. She had a great time exploring and learning. They also offer toddler and preschool classes so we might sign up for some of those after we get our membership.

In this picture Grammy is showing Bailey how to fish. After the fish are caught (magnets on the end of strings) they can walk them upstream and drop them into a small pool, then watch them go back downstream through glass in the floor, all the way back to the fishing pond. It’s really cool!

All sweaty after playing outside

Eating her favorite food ever- fries!

Straight From the Tub

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Well at some point I will get these pics posted… only been trying to all day but something is wonky with WordPress today. Also, Bailey slammed her head into my mouth while she was throwing a fit, and she busted my lip open. It’s pretty.

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Five Things Meme

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Five Things…

Harmony tagged me

What was I doing 10 yrs ago?
Actually, at almost exactly this time ten years ago I was skipping my baccalaureate to go to a Dave Matthew’s Band concert and then graduating from high school the next day!

5 snacks I enjoy?
1. Totino’s pizzas (so they’re really more of a meal, whatever)
2. ice cream, as long as it involves chocolate
3. chips with cheese or real mexican restaurant salsa
4. M&Ms
5. popcorn

5 things on today’s to-do list?
1. clean the hallway bathroom (didn’t do)
2. strip the cloth diapers (done)
3. have my family over for barbecue (done)
4. put away laundry (done)
5. dust (done)

5 things I would do if I were a billionaire?
1. Buy a huge house for us, and for my parents, and get us nice pools and people to clean the houses and pools…
2. Do a skin whitening treatment to get rid of my stupid freckles on my arms and face
3. Stash away lots of money for stuff like retirement and our kids’ college funds
4. travel, travel, travel
5. Quit working forever, let Jonathon quit working except for maybe some computer stuff that he enjoys doing, and just volunteer for childrens organizations

5 jobs I have had?
1. fundraising and volunteer coordinating at Big Brothers Big Sisters
2. St. Louis Bread Company, a.k.a. Panera outside of St. Louis (high school)
3. working at a summer camp (summers in college)
4. Express clothing store, very boring!
5. sales and marketing for a publishing company

5 bad habits?
1. procrastinating
2. sleeping too late
3. not being able to get anywhere on time now that I have a kid
4. obsessively checking email and Google Reader
5. picking at my cuticles

5 places I have lived?
really just a few different places in Missouri… not too exciting I guess

5 random things about me?
1. I don’t have a huge circle of friends, but I am very loyal and close to the friends that I have
2. I hate constant noises (like a clock ticking) and ceiling fans make me crazy
3. I want to adopt a baby or child at some point in the future
4. I love selling Avon and hope to build it into a real career someday
5. I am a perfectionist and get frustrated when something isn’t perfect!

5 people who also need to be tagged?
1. Chasing Groundhogs
2. And Then There Were Four
3. Ladybugs and Lizards
4. Marriage 101
5. Kimmie

First trip to Grant’s Farm this season!!

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We went to Grant’s Farm on Wednesday afternoon. I was so excited to be there. Jonathon had taken Wednesday off work (he seriously has like 5,000 vacation days left to use between now and July or he loses them) and we took Bailey to GF in the afternoon. First of all, let me warn you that they raised parking pass prices from $30 to $35. But it is SO worth it. Parking is now $10 for one visit (admission is free) so you can go four times and save money. We will probably be there about once a week all season. I love it because everything is so close so the kids can really see the animals. And touch a lot of them.

Here is Bailey at the goat area. They let you go in and feed them with bottles for $1 each but I think the goats are kind of psycho. They seriously stand up on their hind legs to try to get food or bite at whatever you have. They are really aggressive (not mean, just overly eager and persistent) and I think they are scary for even an adult. I can’t imagine being a child and being down on their level. We got there at about 3 pm so they had been eating all day and they were still crazy. I prefer to pet them and look at them through the fence.

They also had an iguana and a possum out that the kids could look at and pet. I didn’t know it until we started to walk away, but Jonathon was really freaking out about her touching the possum. He thought it was going to bite her. It had been bathed and I’m sure given its shots and everything, and the handler was holding onto it and helping the kids to only touch its back. I wasn’t too worried but I guess Jonathon isn’t around kids doing stuff like that as often as I am.

This is the funniest thing. There was this parrot who was completely bald on the front. He looked like a chicken with a parrot hat and cape on. The woman said he is actually really smart but just gets bored and plucks himself.

Then during our visit, Bailey decided she needed to help me blow my nose. Over and over again.

Bailey and Daddy feeding the ducks/geese/flamingoes etc.

Isn’t he hot?

On the tram ride back to the parking lot

Wordless Wednesday- Gamer

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Bailey found the Gamecube control and new exactly how to use it! She must have been watching Daddy Please disregard the snot.

She finally ate cake

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Last week we celebrated my grandpa’s 87th birthday at our house. Yes, I am proud to say that at 87 and 82, he and my grandma are still living in a condo on their own (nearby so we can stop in and do stuff for them from time to time) and doing their own shopping and housework and even driving. Okay, I should not brag about the driving because it’s questionable at best, but anyway… we celebrated his birthday with my aunt and uncle who I talked about in another post. Here are a few pictures of us hanging out earlier in the evening, talking and watching my grandpa open his gifts. We gave him Mesmerize cologne and aftershave.

She wanted to help her Papa open EVERYTHING!

And here she is with the cake… she was a little hesitant at first…

But then she decided it was really good!

Finally she had enough and just wanted to get out. She went straight into the tub!

I am just so glad I got my messy face cake eating pictures. And, hey, she’s still 12 months old! I am so glad that she likes cake and she isn’t some weird kid who won’t eat anything sweet. IF that were the case, she would not fit in with our family at all! Instead of going to drug rehab she would be sent to Eating Normal Kid Foods Rehab.

Here she is in her jams. I was determined to get a picture of her with her great aunt and uncle, but she wasn’t being so cooperative at that point.

Update on Termites

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We decided to go with SEMO and they are a lot cheaper than Terminix. Just in case you ever have termites and need to know that. We are looking at about $700 instead of $1000, and then $75 a year instead of $250 a year. Big difference. They also use Termidor instead of Phentermine or any of the older things. Basically with the Termidor, the termites eat it and then die. They also crawl back down to their colony and infect all of the other termites with it. So it’s not just a barrier blocking access to the wood.

I know all kinds of stupid crap about termites now. For example, when a colony gets too big, they burst out of it in a swarm. The termites that burst out are specifically designed to search for a new colony. They fly, but they die within hours. The ones who make it into an area where they can start a new colony, turn back into regular, non flying termites. One becomes a king, and another becomes a queen. Isn’t that creepy?

Edited to add: SEMO just came out and it is going to be $585 for the initial treatment (apparently the Terminix guy “added” a little bit to his measurements!) and then $75 a year. So I am calling this afternoon to schedule it.

Happy Mother’s Day

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Happy Mother’s day to all the moms and future moms and moms-to-be out there. I have had a great day. Jonathon got me a foot spa thing and a pedicure kit to go with it. When I got up he had it on the kitchen counter with a note about taking a break and pretending I was at a spa… it was really cute. I waited until tonight after B was in bed to use it so that I could convince him to do the sea salt scrub on me and then massage my legs and feet with the lotion. Don’t tell him that I told you that. And I painted my nails and toenails. Oh and also he made breakfast for dinner- we had French toast, sausage, and those little chopped up potato chunks that are kind of like hash browns.

I tried to get some nice Mother’s Day shots, but these were the best I could do. She’s so busy, and most of the pictures end up being of her back as she’s walking away. Not a chance of her sitting down and looking at the camera!

We also watched Survivor in the evening. My husband still wants to get a plasma tv mount. I think it’s fine the way it is.

I guess I am not really in a sappy mood today. I am glad I’m a mommy, and I appreciate my good little girl and my amazing hubby! For a “Hallmark Holiday” today wasn’t too bad

J’aime Haiti Beaucoup Beaucoup Beaucoup

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Now you all (well all of you who know me IRL anyway) know that’s not the truth. But that’s what Bailey’s shirt says! Courtesy of the in-laws, of course. Had to get a picture of her wearing it to send to them

First day as a one year old

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My mom picked up Bailey and took her to the park and to visit my grandparents and out to lunch today. It was awesome. I was able to clean the house and get some stuff ready for her party. They were gone from 8:45 until about 1:00!
Here’s the big one year old, getting ready to go to the park this morning! Poor B, she has the same problem as her mama- her capris are so long they look like highwater regular pants