CURLERS!

Delia's hair is starting to get longer and there is not much I can do with it! Barretts don't really stay in her hair, but I found some small butterfly ones that work great, the only problem is that she takes them out and puts them in her mouth. I try combing her hair and hairsrapying it, but she still look like a boy, especially when I put her in a blu shirt and jeans! ;) I know she look like GIRL GIRL, but I want to be able to make her hair look cute and I just have to be paitent until she gets more. Anyway, I decided to find some small curlers, these were the smallest I could find and put them in her hair. I put bobby pins on them to hold them in place. Seh has done pretty good at not taking them out. A whole hour so far. I guess we will see how it looks. I want to keep them in as long as I can to get the best curl. But I thought she looked really cute in these and took some pictures.

TAGGED!

Here are the rules:
1. Link to the person who tagged you. (Mindy Gale)
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Write six random things about yourself.
4. Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs.
5. Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website.
6. Let your tagger know when your entry is up.


Okay it has been a while since I was "tagged" and I don't know how many cool things I can say about myself, but here I go...

-I absolutely LOVE Scrapbooking! I have spent so much money on supplies, especially paper and it is totally worth it. The more I do it the better and more creative I get. When I get the itch to do it(usually a creative itch)I spend 2 weeks making 3 pages. I am so bad at making decisions on everything that it takes me a while to finish them. That's the perfectionist in me!

-I love to read. Not like everyone else though. I can't just sit down and read 800 pages from start to finish! that's just not me. There are so many things that I want to do I just can't tie myself to just one task. That's probably why I have so many projects and books I've started and haven't finished yet. It doesn't mean that I don't like to read, I just want to read everything!! I have to limit myself and everything I do...it's horrible!

-I love Soft rock music! I am pretty rounded with music. I like all kinds, but my favorite is Soft Rock(70's and 80's) music my parents listened to. Like James Taylor, The eagles, etc. It drives Christian crazy becuase it is too cheesey for him. He calls it elevator music :D But that is just me!

- I hate it when christian puts the toilet paper on wrong. It has to be on top, he never does it right!

-I have always wanted to be a professional photographer! The longer I go without learning more about it the more I want it. I should have taken at least 1 photo class in college, but it never fit with my schedule. One of these days I'm going to go to the community college out here and take some classes! You never know what might happen.

-I have to have things organized. Now my house is not spotless, cleaning is not my motif. Although I like my house clean, I am not the best at keeping it that way, but.. Everything is oragnized and has it's place. when we were living in apartments before our house, everything was so cluttered and it drove me CRAZY!! There was no where to put anything. Now that we have more room I can have a home that looks neat. It makes me feel better, almostly physically better.

I now tag: Amy, Allison, Shar, Leslie, Mindy R. and Heather M.

No Air Conditioning!! just another problem..

Okay, so yesterday our air conditioning stopped working and the service man came out today to fix it. Thinking everything would be okay and that 1 day without it wouldn't kill us. Well...the compressor broke!!! What the! A brand new unit and it's broken?? And because we live in little old Farmington, they have to order one from Albuquerque and can't install it until late afternoon on Friday!!! Yikes! It's reached 84 degrees so far even with all the windows open. It's funny because it is hotter at night, the house doesn't cool down until early, early morning. then it starts heating up again throughout the day. It doesn't hit 80 until 5:00 pm and stays in the 80's until morning! Ugh! I don't know how all our ancestors did it! Then again they didn't have really good insulation either. another day and a half to go and it is miserable. I don't want to cook anything that requires a stove becuase it just makes it hotter. Plus our back windows don't have any window treatments yet, so the sun just shines right on in! 1It is just one problem after the other. We have had a mold problem in our crawl space and we are still waiting to hear how bad it is and what kind it is. Then we have to get it cleaned up and have it in remission for at least a month to make sure it doesn't come back before we buy the house officially! The list just goes on. I can't wait until it is all over and we can be problem free at leat for a little while! Geesh. I never heard of so many problems with a brand new house.

Happy Birthday Delia..You're 1 !!!!

Delia is now 1. I can't believe how fast it came. These first pictures are of her the day before her party. She opened up her first present from her aunt Hillary. It was a cross stiched carousel horse with her name and birthdate on it. It is so pretty. I decided to take a couple of pictures outside becuase she looked so darn cute. Then the next day was her party. She lots of friends come by to see her. We had cupcakes and ice cream. Delia is so funny when she went to eat her cake she wasn't sure if it was the right thing to do! She also thought it was funny when we all sang "Happy Birthday" to her. She had this look on her face like what is going on? She pieced at her cake just eating crumbs mostly and of course made a huge mess...I was so proud!! Then we opened up presents. She mostly got clothes. For toys she got, a strawberry shortcake doll and she even held it up for daddy to take a picture! Her first "my little pony" a See 'n' Say farm animals, shape blocks with bucket, and a pull along phone. she really likes them. It is so funny to watch her dig into her toy bin looking for the toys she likes and of course just taking out the toys and throwing them everywhere! She looked really cute in her birthday summer dress and I did her hair spikey in the back, I thought it looked so cute! She also loves the word Dad. not dada, yes DAD. it is so funny that she says the "d" sound when she says dad.She also says "IS" when she is really concentrating on something something weird or mysterious happens. It is really funny. In the first pictures above she has her hand up and she is still saying "Is" because she heard a dog barking across the street. She loves dogs! I love this child so much it's not even funny. I can't get enough of her! Although is is quite the little stinker, I wouldn't want it any other way. She is my love, my light, my life and I am so happy. Happy Birthday Delia! Mommy and Daddy love you!

Of Temperatures and Purple Spots!!

Okay, so I usually don't "freak out" about a whole lot of things about my child. I pick and choose when it is most important. Delia of course is teething and her 2 bottom teeth have come in and now her 2 upper teeth are on their way. One of them has already broken through so it has been a tough cople of weeks for us. yesterday Delia woke up with spots on her upper and lower left torso. I thought it was kind of weird becuase she didn't have them before bed, but there they were just the same. They were kind of a light greyish, purplish and were small and perfectly round. I thought they were bruises but they didn't really look like your typical bruises. I told Christian about it and he said they he was playing rough with her tickling her the night before, but he wasn't anymore rough with her than her usually is and heck, even I play rough with her, but she's a tough kid. We both thought this was pretty unusual. So he told me if they didn't clear up in couple of days to call the doctor. Well...all day long she was so grouchy! More than usual. Her nose was running like a faucet. Her nose has never been this runny before. we have been giving her Tylenol becuase it's clear she is uncomfortable with her teething. We took her temperature(which was 97.9) and put her to bed about 9 pm. She went down fine, but at 12:30 am she woke up crying. We didn't think this was unusual becuase she has been waking up off and own of the past several weeks. I went in to find her so hot and her cheeks were bright red! I took her temperature again and it was 99.7!! She has never had a temp over 98.5! So I was a little concerned. I gave her some more Tylenol, fed her another bottle and put her back down. She cried off and on through the night and I jsut counldn't sleep becuase I was so worried. So I got online and started reading about high temps in children and what I could do. It said if they have a fever(which she did)a runny nose accompanied with purplish spots that look like bruises, but aren't they need to seek imidiate help! Oh my gosh! I really started to worry, but somthing told me everything would be alright and to just try and make her as comfortable as possible. Her temp is back to normal and the spots are strating to disappear. Her nose is still running like a faucet however, and is still kind of cranky. She has her first doctors appointment out here next week, so unless somthing happens again, I will just wait until her appointment. If any of you have any suggestions please share. I am probably worrying over nothing, but some experienced motherly input would be so appriciated. Thanks.

More Scrapbook Pages!

This past week and a half I have been working on these 2 pages after a long while of no scrapbooking and they are finished! Yea! It'a been nice to have a little more space to do it all. The table is a mess! I always make such a mess when I do "craft" things. I have so much to do still. I am so far behind and Delia's birthday is coming up! I need to get crackin'. Hope you like these.

Walking and steady!!

Delia is now officially walking all by herself! She just keeps going and going with out our help. We are giving her more freedom, ie. letting her get into everything and she is taking advantage of it. I would post a video of her, but the files are so large no prgram will upload it.

Diaper Houdini

Ok, so the other night, Delia woke up in the middle of the night. She has been waking up off and on for the past week( I think because of her teething) so it didn't surprise me when she woke up again. I went in to find her binki and fet a wet patch on the blanket she was on, but thought maybe it was drool or someting. Gave her a binki and wrapped her up in a soft blanket and rocked her to sleep(I usally don't do this!) As I was rocking her I felt a corner of her clanket was also wet, so I thought that maybe she threw up, smelled it, but it had no odor. Hmm, that's weird! So I put her back to bed. The next morning I went o get her up and there she was stiing in here crib bouncing up and down because she is so excited to see me and sitting righ next to her is...yep, you guessed it..her diaper! She had taken it off in the night and continued to pee all over her blankets and sheet!! So much for our early walk that day! I had to take everything off and wash it. It smelled so bad! I can't believe she has learned to take her diaper off. Then I thought, well she is wearing a new night gown with no pants, shorts, or whatever covering her diaper. It was just a matter of time until I gave her the chance to do it! So now she wears little pantaloons until she learns to take those off too. Wow, it really is just the beginning of many adventures!

Remember When?

Remember when? Here is a fun little game...Leave a comment on my blog of a memory that you and I have had together. It doesn't matter if you've known me for a short time, or a long time, anything you remember! Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you. On your mark...get set...blog your memories!!