Funny Gracie

I keep a Word document of funny things that Gracie has said. Usually I post to Facebook and then cut and paste. I have high hopes of scrapbooking some of these stories but who knows when (if) that will ever happen. If I need a laugh I can always get it from reading one of these:

Put in the corner by Daddy at church. “I don’t like the corner. It’s gross and grubby and makes me need a bath. And it’s humungous like a dinosaur!” (all said in one breath) 12/19/10

  

Shari told Gracie she was going to see Santa tomorrow. Gracie, "Can he bring me Uncle Bunny?" 12/6/10

Gracie pointing at the Fairy Godmother in her coloring book, "Grandmama in me book!" 5/18/10

Gracie to the cashier at KFC, "And don't forget the honey or daddys in trouble." 3/15/11

 Me, "Gracie don't jump on the couch." Gracie, "but it has elasticity!" 2/14/11

Gracie getting out of the tub and laying down on Daddy soaking wet, "I'm leaking on you Daddy!" 4/6/11

Two of my favorite pictures of Gracie (old school). 

August 2008

July 2008

I love:

-watching my girls play together
-feeding the baby geese
-trashy magazines
-bubble baths
-hanging baskets
-Disney World
-trashy magazines and celebrity gossip
-flippy flops
-little girls in swimsuits (especially kinnis)
-almost anything chocolate
-air conditioning
-harry potter (especially ron, i love you ron)
-glitter
-clean kitchen countertops
-old windows
-antiquing
-flowering tress and bushes
-getting a good picture

Cutie butt even though she keeps trying to eat cat food.

I love this picture. I plan on printing it out for our new house.

Oh Mommy, sister is so funny!

Look, I can be funny too!

Planting

I am visiting my sister this week. We looked at five houses yesterday, and she put down an offer on one. It has a porch. Not that my sister cares about that. She does not like flowers. Or bugs. Or being outside. I like porches though. Andrew and I worked on the yard before we left town on Saturday. We planted (mostly Andrew and my brother Joe) two hydrangeas, two peonies, one foxglove, and two raspberry plants (Andrew bought these for a cent each). I also have three hanging baskets that are going to get hung sometime this week. My breakfast nook table came yesterday (I love site to store shipping). I'm not sure if Andrew is going to work on putting it together before he leaves for Marine drill this weekend. I don't even know when I am going home at this point. I have a lot left to do at my new place though. When I finish it it will be about time to start working on my sister's new house.

Oh Ruby

I have slowly been trying to transition Ruby from cosleeping to sleeping in her crib. She slept in her bassinet wrapped in her swaddle blanket until she was seven months old. I tried unswaddling her numerous times, and it always ended with her frantically swinging her arms around until she woke herself up. I started putting her in our bed unswaddled when she was almost eight months old. She still moved her arms a lot, but she was usually able to get herself back to sleep with only a pat on the back. I had Andrew put her crib in our room at the new house. I hoped this would help with the transition. I usually can get her in her crib after she falls asleep, but she only lasts a few hours (four is her max). She doesn't necessarily wake up hungry either-she just wants to see me. She is my little jack in the box. The minute she wakes up she pulls herself to a sitting position and starts screaming. If I get her back to sleep and try to lay her down (and I mean asleep-pacy has fallen out of mouth, deep breathing) she lays down for less than a minute and then pops up again. It's a good thing she is just SO stinking cute. I'm sure at some point she will sleep through the night (it only took Gracie three years) in her own bed. She just wants to cuddle with her Mommy.

Oh my little bitty Ruby D. A little less than two weeks old.

Look at those cheeks! Impressive.

Taken just a few days before I started putting her in bed with us.

See Mommy, you can't be mad at me for not sleeping. I'm just too cute. And you would miss me in your bed, wouldn't you? I thought so.

Landscaping

Andrew bought me a tree for Mother's Day. I originally wanted a Magnolia, but I fell in love with a European Snowball. It is a small tree and will not get very large (ten feet max). On Saturday we will be planting it in our side yard. The blooms are green right now and will gradually change to white. I love flowering trees and bushes. They put in the landscaping for our yard over the weekend. We have a dwarf crab apple (I was so excited-I had actually planned on buying one of these in the future), burning bushes, Korean dwarf lilac bushes, and what my mother believes are two pear trees (one in the front and one in the back). I also bought one hydrangea, two peonies, and few flowers to go in planters today. I hope they will put our sod in soon so that I can plant the bushes.

European Snowball Tree (fully grown)

European Dwarf Lilac Bush (fully grown)

Burning Bush (fully grown)

Waiting

My sister is having her baby today. She is thirty eight weeks and four days. That lucky girl. Ruby D refused to come. My doctor told me for weeks, "She is coming this weekend." Yeah right. I had strong contractions for an entire night. I went to the hospital, got hooked up, had a huge contraction, then nothing. The nurse told me, "We'll see you tomorrow or later this week." Three weeks later (and after I had my membranes stripped twice) I went to the hospital for a scheduled induction. I checked in at 5 centimeters regularly contracting. The nurse asked me, "Did you know you are having contractions." My response, "Yes, I have been for weeks. Could you do something about that?" My doctor could barely break the water to start my induction because of how Ruby's head was wedged. If I ever have another baby (I say yes, Andrew says no) I am not hoping for a repeat scenario. My epidural may have failed with Gracie, I may have had back labor, but she was five days early. My sister will now have had all three of her babies ten days early. I can't wait to meet little Nathan.

Checklist

Done:
Kitchen valance hung
Gracie's bookcase in closet/books unpacked
Gracie's dresser fixed/in her room
Curtain ring hung in breakfast nook
New ball pit purchased
China cabinet unpacked/organized

To Do:
Finish unpacking
Sort through/organize scrapbooking supplies
Organize Ruby's closet (hand me down clothes)
Unpack my bookcase
Hang pictures

Friday afternoon we finished cleaning/painting our old apartment. Goodbye mice. I will not miss you. Ever. I also will not miss the white linoleum floor that was impossible to keep clean, the iron rich well water that stained the bathtub yellow even with a water softener, the lack of overhead lighting, and the windows that froze over with ice in the winter. I love you new house. I do not love the outlet in the laundry room breaking causing me to think my washer was broken. This conveniently happened before the spin cycle. Awesome. Andrew hooked up a power cord in the kitchen. It works for now. We have a warranty on everything-we just have to fill out a report online. It could be worse-the washer could be broken. I am hoping to have most of the unpacking done (not counting the garage) by the end of this week. Here's hoping.