A milestone!

She is hitting so many of them so fast these days! It's a messy process, but she is getting most of the food in her mouth.

Miss Photogenic!

I entered Katelyn in a just-for-fun photo contest (don't worry-I am not going to turn into one of those "Pageant Moms") on another blog that I visit. She was a finalist. She lost to a puppy, but I am sure it was a close call. The kids were the judges and Katelyn got a sweet Valentine gift for being a finalist.
Check her out...
Friday Night Fish Fry
You may have to scroll down to the Valentine Post.
Competition was stiff!

Fun times with Katelyn

You think she is teething???

Getting Tubes

Katelyn has had 5 or 6 ear infections since Thanksgiving. The top two are pictures from the doctor's office with yet ANOTHER ear infection. Our doctor decided to send her for tubes. We went this past Thursday and we are getting tubes on Friday-the day after tomorrow. The bottom picture is of her in her crib after she finally fell asleep one late night. We tried EVERYTHING - even stripping her clothes, as you can see. She finally pooped out. I then had to go in and put her jammies back on. She was fine at that point though. I am looking forward to the relief for her. I have heard that it is wonderful! I am not looking forward to the time when she is put under. But I have also heard that it is very short. So we'll see. If you are a prayer warrior, please include us on Friday.

Gatlinburg

We went for a long weekend with Brent's family. We had so much fun! It was nice to relax and enjoy family. Katelyn loved playing with Issa and Mae. Mommy gained a few more lbs this weekend, to make her total of 8 gained over the last two weeks!!!! The diet started back today!
Katelyn can with her little car walker. She was pushing Issa in the pictute above. She has also added some words to her vocabulary. She now says mama, dada, byebye, night night, pop pop, drink, more (maybe) and as of this morning, uh oh! She said it when she dropped a toy off the changing table. She didn't really say it again until we were in target. I was shopping and she said uh oh. I, not paying close attention, began copying her. So we said it back and forth a couple of times when a man came up to me and said I had dropped this teether back around the corner! I had to stop and call Brent right then and tell him! Too bad she doesn't understand much now, because when else in your life is EVERY LITTLE THING YOU DO a HUGE deal to so many other people???

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!