Photos!

Last week I watched an episode of Oprah that made me really sad. It was a mom of 2 who accidentally left her baby in the car while she went to work for 8 hours in 100 degree weather and her daughter died in the car. The message this mom was trying to send to all other moms, was to forget about being perfect, keeping the house clean, looking pretty all the time, and just make time to play and have fun. Don't get all wrapped up in your life.

Needless to say my house is a mess, the laundry is piled halfway up the wall, but Amelie and I sure had fun today. She was laughing, smiling and rolling over all day long. I planned to go for a walk but it never worked out. She fell asleep both times I tried to do it.

She has been eating like crazy lately. She must be hitting a growth spurt. During one of the many times I nursed her today I had to snap a few cute photos of her chubby legs, her passed out grabbing onto my shirt, and her cute little milk mustache. The stash is a little hard to see, but it's there.





So a while back I said I wanted to scan all of my photo booth photos that I had taken with Tyler. I dragged our printer upstairs into the living room (where we keep the laptop) and got busy scanning. Here are the photos I was referring to. Some are at the Como Zoo, some are from the State Fair and one is from my sister Abby's wedding last April.

This is the best one, where he is clearly proposing to me. He did it on Christmas Eve Day, that explains the hat... I'd also like to give a shout out to my very good friend Cassie, who got engaged today and is out celebrating her engagement tonight! Whoot whoot!

I'm glad I got those photos uploaded. I have soooooo many things to do in the next 2 weeks! Yesterday I organized and priced a bunch of stuff for our upcoming garage sale this weekend. Tyler's mom (Grandma D) stopped by for a while too. Cooked us up a delicious dinner which was much appreciated.

It also looks like we are going to be going to closing on our new home next Wed. The second we officially own that home, I will post some "before photos". I spent a good part of my evening putting together an idea notebook with paint ideas, organization ideas, and decorating ideas. I'm so excited!

I'm going to have to start packing up our house ASAP to sort through all the junk we can sell next weekend so we don't end up dragging a bunch of crap we don't need around with us when we move. It's going to be a big job. Might have to strap Amelie into the Baby Bjorn to complete some of those tasks. It worked out for me today when I had to run to my neighbors to pick up our eggs, cheese and milk (we belong to an organic co-op). I also hard boiled some eggs while she was enjoying the view.

She has really been happy lately. She smiles and laughs all the time. We play "super girl" and hold up in the air and she just giggles and smiles like crazy. My mom got some good pictures of that happening at the cabin. Will post when she gets home. She's really gripping her toys and shoving everything into her mouth right now, especially her feet. She's "talking" alot too. I'm so excited for when she can actually talk, I can't even imagine what she will say...but I bet it will be awesome.