More Peapod Designs

Labels

I stick these to Katelyn's bottle when we go

to church.

Calling Cards

We gave this one to the ladies in the church nursery-

attached to a treat.

Note Cards

Up late...AGAIN

I have been staying up so late this week working on designs. The more I do, the more ideas I get. I begin around 6:30 or 7, after Katelyn goes down, and I am up working until 11:30 or 12. That has been EVERY night this week. I have been a coffee fiend!!! Luckily I had a ton of money onthe Starbucks card from my students and some from Brent. I have stopped EVERY day this week. I got coffee, though, nothing fancy.
Katelyn is SASSY!!!! I have to admit, I am really enjoying it. I know there will come a time when I want to pull my hair out (or hers). But right now, I have to turn away and laugh! She has and AT-TI-TUDE! She wants to roll over when I change her and when I roll her back over, she gives a big AHHHH! She does not give up either. I can pretty much count on fighting with her throughout the ENTIRE diaper changing experience. The funny thing is that I leave the ordeal, frazzled and worn out. She leaves it and crawls away to her next adventure!
Speaking of adventure...I was sitting at my computer and she was in her bathroom playing next to the tub with her duckies. She was sitting there quietly playing and I was glancing at her every few minutes. I glanced up one time and all I saw was her head. She was in the exact same position, except she was in the tub! HOW DID MY 9 MONTH OLD CRAWL INTO THE TUB WITHOUT BANGING HER HEAD???? The side of the tub comes up to her neck! Needless to say, mommy is more careful about supervision (do other mothers do these stupid things?). But, I would have LOVED to see her scale that tub! I keep trying to picture it in my head, but every time it ends up with her falling in!
I must go to bed now! Brent has graciously agreed to wake up with Katelyn tomorrow morning so I can sleep in. No doubt I will wake up when she does and not be able to go back to sleep. But one can hope.

My New Venture (or adventure)

I am an entrepreneur now. I have started creating and printing personalized stationery. The name of my company is Peapod Designs. Brent voted for SuggaMama Designs. I even have a website, which Brent is working tirelessly on as I blog. (I am supposed to be working.) I am working though. I am getting my name out there...to the seven people that read my blog. Advertising is everything! Or is it? Guess I need to pick up a copy of Entrepreneurialism for Dummies. So far, I have sold nothing and given everything away. I see it as advertising though. Every free calling card or note card has my name and website address on the back. So i give a few freebies away in the beginning and hopefully it pays of in word of mouth advertising. Can I get a tax break? Hmmm. I'll have to talk to my accountant (my father-in-law).

So back to the business...

Visit my website-linked under my blog list. or listed below.

www.peapoddesigns.net

For anyone who has changed one of Katelyn's poopie diapers, you get your products at cost.

Here are some samples...

Note Cards

Calling Cards

What's up

Katelyn went to the doctor on Saturday. She had yet another set of ear infections in both ears. We have an appointment with an ENT on the 14th. It looks like we are headed for tubes. Yuck! Though I have heard that they are great once they're in. I just have to get through the putting her to sleep part. I'm tearing up just thinking about it. Why? Why do I get so emotional over everything? We are about to read Daniel's Story in school. It's a story about the Holocaust. I got a little teary-eyed last year, but I am really afraid I am going to lose it this year! It's like I relate everything to Katelyn. This story is HORRIBLE-which is fitting, but it is so hard to read!
ANYWAY, back to Katelyn. She will probably get tubes and hopefully things will get better.
She has been so clingy lately. Yesterday I was trying to do the dishes and she was not wanting me to be on a different room. So she set up shop between my feet and the dishwasher with her wooden spoons and a lid to a pot. She just sat there and banged happily while I did the dishes. I feel like it is a rite of passage or something-playing with the pots and pans in the floor. Who didn't do that as a kid?
Funny things Katelyn has done lately:
She climbed on top of the clothes basket and just sat there. Funny to me anyway.
She screams at me when I am not getting her food fast enough. Probably won't be funny for long.
She does a naked dance. FUNNY!!!!
She bites my finger when I brush her teeth. Not funny when it's me, funny when it's Brent.
When I pick her up, she kicks her legs.
Okay, I'm getting into the only funny to mommy stuff.
Pretty much everything she does cracks me up!

Not the Biggest Loser!

I recently participated in a home grown version of The Biggest Loser (I want to give props to my husband, because without his computer skills and education [thanks Joe and Debbie and Auburn] this would not have been as easy or as fun. It really makes things like the house hunting event so worth it! ;) Love you, baby!) So anyway, I did this competition for ten weeks and lost 10 pounds. I was feeling good at the final weigh in. THEN I entered my weight and saw that I lost by .04%! Not 4% or .4%; .04%!!!! I mean, I'm not a sore loser or anything, but COME ON! A fraction of a percent?!? I would rather have been in the NEGATIVE PERCENTAGES than lose by that small of a margin! But really, I am NOT one of those sore losers that blames everyone else for my failures. It's just that this time, I really think that I would have one if it hadn't of been for Ruth. You know who I mean...Baby Ruth. I think she conspired with the chick from Atlanta who won. Because really, it's the last day before the final weigh in and I have a Baby Ruth staring me in the face. Coincidence? I think not! I asked the vending machine guy too, and he said they do get a lot of their shipments from Atlanta. Hmm. Interesting....
But anyway, I mean whatever, I lost okay. BIG DEEEALLL.
So anyway, today I had one of my students fail a test, and I asked him if he studied and he just started blaming his mom for working late and his sister for being too loud and his dogs for pooping in the house and the cat for having fur. And I was like, Hey, you can't blame everyone else for your mistakes! Man, I can't stand it when people just start blaming everyone else for their failures!

Katelyn's teeth

Katelyn has seven teeth-three up top and four on the bottom. I was trying to get a picture of them. She was trying really hard to cooperate, but she just wasn't quite understanding what I meant. There is still a long way to go before the communication gap is completely bridged. Although, she does now point to her water and grunt when she wants a drink at dinner. Progress.

Doing Laundry

Katelyn is mommy's little helper. She was busy calling the dogs (da), when she saw the basket of laundry that I dropped onto the floor. She selflessly gave up her play time to help me do chores. She was very serious about this job, as you can see. I didn't have the heart to tell her that simply taking the clothes out of the basket accomplishes very little. So, I simply told her that she did the best job of putting clothes on the floor that I had ever seen! And if I ever need any more clothes thrown on the floor, she's my girl!

Emma Kate's Birthday

Katelyn's cousin, Emma Kate, had her 3rd birthday party today at the park. The weather was great. It was not as cold as Katelyn makes it look, but she is getting over some bad ear infections and I really didn't want the wind in her ears. She had such a great time! (Except when she was fussing, which was about 75% of the time. Mostly when she saw me and realized that I was not holding her. She really kind of acted like a baby! But I let her since she hasn't been feeling great, and well, she is a baby.)

Okay, for now

We went to the doctor. Katelyn still has fluid in her ears. Doc says he is not surprised since the infections were so bad to begin with. We will go back in a few weeks for her 9 month checkup and he will look at them again. I asked about tubes and he said that if she still has fluid in them next time, or if she gets another ear infection, he will probably send her to an ENT. So we'll see. She is sleeping peacefully right now.

My Big Girl

My big girl just plays and plays! I love to watch her when she's not aware. She is so curious and interested in everything around her. She loves the dogs! She crawls over to the door and beats on it and calls them, "DA, DA!" They come over and look at her then usually get bored with her-which really fires her up! "DAAA!" she yells. And beats even harder. She frustrates easily, which she gets from her dad. Mommy is, of course, the picture of patience. Speaking of mommy- I lost another pound! I am getting excited because I can see the old me peeking through the fat suit. I still have a way to go though, so pictures will have to wait. Maybe another five pounds and I'll be ready to model-not quite yet though!
Back to the star of my life... who now tells me when she is ready to go night night. She says "na na," which, depending on who you are talking to, means either night night or Nana. She is going back to the doctor today for a recheck on her ears. I really am afraid that the antibiotic did not work and she still has infections. This is her third ear infection. The last two were double ear infections and were BAD. She doesn't complain though. She is a trooper. The only clue we had this last time was that she was throwing up during the day and coughing at night. Never fussed about it-except at nap time. Well, now I am a little afraid that she will have to have tubes. I don't know how that decision is made, so maybe-hopefully-I am overreacting. We'll see.
Also-any doctor recommendations? We live on Vallydale Road closer to the 280 side. I may be changing. I don't know. I love my doctor, just not thrilled with the practice that he is with. And he is in Hoover, so I don't feel the need to drive farther if I am not completely thrilled.