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so out of sheer coincidence, i just found a giveaway for a double stroller!



http://cradleandall.sears.com/

http://www.mommybrainreports.com/giveaway-sears-cradleandall

Pictures..

ok sorry.. the birthday pictures will be up shortly. It's on my list, but the thank you cards need to be done first! I'll satiate your needs tho with these

Barb - I think I was channeling you yesterday! I was checking out a neighborhood garage sale, and found a side by side double stroller. In good condition. Stickered for $8. We are talking about the cart way before the horse here, but I got it for $5!! Not a stroller for shopping, but for walks? it's so worth $5. :) Now we just have to find somewhere to store it..

hmm...

man.. I need to change the top picture. that was from January! eek!

so no real big news here.. we're running around like chickens minus heads (ok maybe it's just me and my FIL) getting things ready for Lilly's party on saturday. But yesterday my FIL scored big! he stopped in to the local welding supply place to ask about helium. Now at the party store 20 min from here, you can rent a small tank (for 3 days only) for $30 that fills 60-12in balloons, or buy a lil $19 tank at target that does 30-9in ones. what did my my father in law get? a half empty huge huge tank that should still fill 100 balloons.. for $30! and he picked it up yesterday, so that's one less thing we need to do Fri/Sat. Good deal, huh Kelly? :)

I still need to do laundry, make tortellini salad, get feta for said salad, find buttermilk for Lilly's cake, make cookies, charge my camera battery, clean the house, make babyfood, clean IL's house, not mess up Lilly's naptime now that it's a lil earlier... and sustain my (almost) 1yr old's life!

on a different note.. the following may be TMI for some - have i told you lately that I hate my breast pump? hate hate hate pumping! I know i could just stop and give her the milk I have frozen, and just let her nurse when she wants instead of the sippy.. especially since we've started giving her a bit of whole milk in a sippy in the afternoon. but UGH! it feels like if I do that, my supply will drop even more, and she'll ween herself. Last night she barely nursed on my right, and only for a few minutes on my left before she was clearly done and ready for bed. My baby is growing up and not needing me as much already!

toofers

Lilly's now working on her 4th tooth! she got her two bottom middle teeth awhile ago, and a week and a half ago we noticed she had a top tooth. But not one of the standard two front teeth - her 3rd tooth is what will be the 2nd from the middle! just odd. And now her 4th is cutting through, next to the 3rd, but it's a front tooth :)

Lilly's already doing things her own way. I think we'll have our hands full with her!

damn..

holy crap. I've been a huge blog slacker! I'm great at keeping up with others' blogs.. even commenting on them.. but to actually post something on my own? I think I warned you guys, but still! I'll *try* to post random things when they come up, rather than trying to spend the time and write a coherent, eloquent post :)

we're rapidly coming up on Lilly's 1st birthday. a very scary thing to me - it doesn't seem like it's been nearly that long since we brought her home! we've got most of the decorations, plates, and whatnot.. but have i addressed the invites and mailed them? nope! So if anyone is in the area, come on over to my inlaws on sept 19th to celebrate! just let me know you're coming ;)

Our little girl is cruising along the furniture like a pro.. and wants nothing more than for you to walk behind her so she can hold onto your fingers and GO. the end is near! as it is, she flies around the house behind her push toy, plowing up her little toys and getting both dogs worked up. She's so stubborn too.. if she wants to go somewhere, she'll get there one way or another. she'll go crawling down the driveway, bare-legged, to follow her daddy. nevermind the scraped and lightly bleeding knees and toes!

we spent a lot of the super hot and tropically humid weekend (last weekend) in the pool at my IL's and then my aunt's.. Lilly had a grand old time just floating around, and the hubs actually got in a pool for the first time since our honeymoon!!

She's getting more and more hair, tho you still have to be close to see it because it's so light. her baby gut? not so much! that you can see from across the room :)

this weekend i went to check out a garage sale in town, and found a Step 2 play house! they said it cost them $300.. i got it, in really good condition, for $65! :) I'll do my best to upload and post a pic of it in our backyard soon. I actually have a pic taken, but it's in my camera... :) Lilly doesn't seem super interested in the inside yet, but is absolutely fascinated by the doorbell!

The hubby has a dr appointment in sept. with a new urologist. the guy he saw that diagnosed his varicosele just didn't sit well with either of us. the new guy? don't know for sure, but he seems way better and actually specializes in infertility. hopefully we won't have to try for 1+ yr to have #2.

ok.. there's more, obviously, but i still need to shower before the big ball of energy wakes up!


edit: just out of curiosity.. would everyone that reads this post a comment? I'm wondering who actually reads my nonsense!

rain, rain, go away...

Words are a little beyond my reach today, but I wanted to post something, if for no other reason than to say "I'm still here!"

Lilly is pulling up on the dog crates every time she gets near them, and is army-crawling all over the house now... the end is near!!

We are still house hunting... a lil hesitantly because of the lack of OT for my hubby and some of his underlings were let go for a "lack of work." Keep in mind there is a TON of work for them, and there is a particular manager that doesn't do a single thing yet makes in a year what the two other guys make combined. But anyway.. we're still looking for a place that will work and that we can afford... I can't wait to get out of this town.

I finally got into the basement this evening to my rowing machine! the Hubby and I need to talk later and set up a deal, where he gets to hide in the garage with a dog after work, AND I get to go downstairs.. before I make dinner! I'm still at work for goodness sake! I need a break...