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Monday, February 8, 2010

Unless You Are a Type A Personality,

don't volunteer to be a room mom in your kids preschool class. I am not organized. I am not a leader. As a matter of fact, I am much more of a follower. Give me something to do, and I will do it, but I am not good at delegating, and I certainly don't have a "take charge" sort of personality. That being said, I don't think I have done a horrible job of being room mom, but it stresses me out for sure. I feel like I am always asking people to volunteer for this or that and frankly, I don't like doing it. I cringe every time I see a class party on the calendar because I know I am going to have to ask people to do things that they don't really want to do. I will be so happy when this year is over and I don't have to ask people to volunteer to bring in store bought cupcakes and juice. I will be happy when I don't have to ask people to donate $5 each to buy lunch for the Teachers Appreciation Luncheon. But I will be really happy that I don't have to pretend like I have a Type A Personality.

Onward and Upward...we have been busy little bees around here. As I mentioned in my last post, I made some pants for the boys last week, but I also made a cute little outfit for my princess as well. What do you think?

Other than the ruffles looking more like cuffs, I think it turned out alright. I definitely need more practice, but I am starting to feel a little more comfortable with the sewing situation. On that note, check out the outfit Carolena is wearing below...it was a gift from her (really super talented) grammy.


And we had a little time on our hands yesterday so we played dress up...

and some more dress up...


and then cuddle time with Joe Finney....



My girl sure loves her brothers. They take such good care of her. I feel sorry for any boyfriends she has when she grows up. They won't stand a chance around here!














Thursday, February 4, 2010

Laziness

That's what it comes down to. I have lots of things to post about, and pictures to post, I am just way too lazy to upload the pictures to the computer. Not like its a hard thing, takes about 1 minute. For some reason I am just not that motivated to do it. I need to work on that.


So, lots of things going on around our house lately. Carolena hit the three month mark last Thursday. I did take a picture of her in her crib (which I will post in a minute) but I was too busy hosting Craft Night to get around to posting on the blog. Craft Night was a huge success and a TON of fun. If I would have known that I could have that much fun crafting (and maybe drinking a little wine :)) I would have gotten a group together much sooner!! A couple of people actually completed projects, but there were some of us (I won't mention any names!) who had just as much fun talking about crafting and hanging out with other creative ladies. Again, so much fun, I can't wait until the next one! I'll have to take pictures next time.
Another big day for us was B5's eye surgery today. It was a long exhausting day and I am glad to be done with it. We had to be there at 6:45 am, which came way too early after being up most of the night with my little princess (who, by the way, has a terrible little cough). The nurses gave B5 some Verset, which they appropriately call " goofy juice" to calm him down before they took him back to surgery. He was definitely "goofy" to say the least. At one point he pulled my hair around my chin and said "mommy, you look like a boy". And then a couple of minutes later, "mommy, take a picture of my butt". Take a look at my boy in his total drunken state...
And since I was feeling so guilty about him having to go through surgery, I let the boys pick out their own outfits to wear to grammys house tonight. Don't they look fancy? They wanted to wear the pajama pants that I just made them a couple of days ago. Go figure.
And on to my little Carolena. She hasn't been feeling that great lately and has had a pretty nasty cough and cold. But I thought I would go ahead and try to get her 3 month crib picture. This is how it went

And then this

So then I tried taking her out of the crib and got this

and I thought that would have to work. So here goes:
My Sweet Little Carolena, I can't believe you are 3 months old already!! You have the most amazing smile that melts my heart every time. You are getting so vocal already and love to talk to your mommy and grammy. You are also a big fan of grandpa and Uncle Bill. I think you are starting to find your hand and have figured out how to kick things to make things move. You are starting to wake up to the world and are napping much less than before. You are so content and only really cry when you are hungry. You still love taking baths and are starting to roll around just a little bit. I have you sleeping in your chair in mommys room because you are sick right now, and need to be sleeping on an incline. Your grammy made you a really fancy Valentines Day outfit, and I made you an outfit to wear this spring. We are really having fun making you stuff! I love you to pieces my little pumpkin pie!
I have found a really great photographer who not only has been taking beautiful pictures of Carolena, but also shares my love for a things crafty. Check out her blog at sarafloydphotography.blogspot.com to see the pictures she took of Lena. Look under "Baby C @home", and "Baby C".
I will leave you with this picture of the boys on thier "Dance Party Train". I think I wanna hop on!