Just for Sassy!

Aunt Sassy, Mattie Rose wanted me to write this note to you since she isn't big enough to do it by herself. We love you too!!!!

Creativity and Accomplishment!!!

I will have to post another time about the 10 reasons tonight has been a disaster but this will make me feel better for now. I spent Monday at my friend Gina's house and she taught me to sew. I'm certainly not a champ yet but I sewed this entire dress for Matney all by myself. I am so proud. I LOVE being home all day with her but setting out to learn something new and accomplishing it was a great feeling. Work used to be that way. I'd meet people and over the next couple months watch their house be transformed as it was built. Now, I change poopy diapers and tickle feet which I wouldn't trade for anything but it was nice to do something for me!
THANKS GINA!!!!

Note...obviously in the day for me I did not get up and get all pretty to go to Gina's. Another reason I love her! Sewing in sweats was awesome!

Matney and Daddy

I wish that I had had the camera upstairs on Sunday morning. These are fuzzy because I took them with my phone but still sweet. I got out of the shower to Jared and Matney on our bed reading Sports Illustrated. She seemed interested.

Weekday mornings I plop Matney with me in the bathroom and she watches herself in the mirror while I get ready. Sunday she was totally focused on watching her daddy! (And yes, I know the Bumbo doesn't go on the counter and no, I never walk away from her while she's up there. I'm an overprotective nutcase about things like that and she's safe. Just wanted to put that out there for those that are wondering!)

You can take the girl out of Warner Robins but you can't take the Warner Robins out of the girl!!!

Just wanted to share my redneck haircut. Kitchen scissors and all. Actually, I like it!

A fun Saturday!

Jared had to work today so Matney got to hang out with mom. This is M playing with a dragon puppet. I tried to get it from all angles so you could see what she's "eating"!

My child only wanted to eat the tongue of the puppet. She goes for anything red!

Matney went with Mom to Erica's shower for baby Blaire. She wore her pretty dress from her friend Margo in CT and everyone thought she was so cute! They did not however think she was so sweet. This precious baby refused to take a nap and was slightly beastly until we put her in the sling and gave her a bottle!

REAL FOOD!!!

Matney had her 4 month dr appointment this week. She got 4 shots and 1 oral vaccine...poor baby! She is 25" tall (72nd percentile) and weighs 14lbs 10oz (68th percentile). Her dr. said that she is doing great. I asked him about her lack of sleep and he said that some babies just don't sleep and that it seems like we got one of those! AGH!!! I wanted a solution. I did talk to him about the Amby bed and he said he'd had patients have great success with them so give it a try. He also said we could start trying real food and see what she thinks. This is our first attempt at rice cereal.




She didn't hate it, didn't love it. She did swallow really well so we'll try again soon!

Hat Play Group

This week was hat week for play group. Here are all the munchkins in their hats. Notice the change, Matney is not screaming in any of the pictures. She was in a great mood the entire afternoon. YEA!!!!

Amby Baby Bed update

If you remember this is where we left Matney last time...hanging from the Amby Baby Jump Jump. Isn't she cute???
And this is where Matney was this afternoon. Yes, you understand it right. Matney IS TAKING NAPS!!! If I put her in the hammock she'll sleep. She sleeps at night, only waking to eat and she takes naps during the day. She'll sleep about 20-30 minutes a couple times a day. We've only had it a couple days so I hesitate to speak too soon but so far it is INCREDIBLE!!!
This is a picture of it in her room. The hammock hangs from a spring. When she moves, it moves, just as if someone was rocking her. Also, when you place her in it the sides come up close to her (they are mesh and away from her face by the foam mattress) and is all cozy.
This is Mantey just waking up from her nap this afternoon.
What a precious baby! Now we just need to work on sleeping through the night without bottles!

Tagged!

My friend Susan tagged me on her blog and I am trying to get the hang of this linking thing so we'll see if this works.

Here are the rules from Susan's blog:
The rules of the game get posted at the beginning. Each player answers the questions about themselves. At the end of the post, the player then tags people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged and asking them to read your blog. Let the person who tagged you know when you’ve posted your answers.

What was I doing 10 years ago?
Yikes, this is painful! I had just graduated from high school. Get ready Warner Robins, our class of '98 reunion is next month! I bet that 10 years ago Kaci Carey and I were hanging out doing something with Whit, Meredith, Andy and Drew. However, I am sure that Kaci and I were home in bed by 10pm and that the rest of the group was out being wild and crazy even though we didn't know about it until college. We always assumed they were calm and well behaved like us! Well, there was the one unfortunate incident with laxatives in the brownies but everyone has to be a little mischievous sometime!

What are 5 things on my to do list today?
Entertain Matney and try to get her to take a nap....which takes most of my time!
Cook dinner
Wash clothes
Go to Babies R Us
Take a shower - harder to do than you'd think some days!

Snacks I enjoy
Ice Cream
Chips - Cheetos especially
Pizza
Nachos from a Mexican restaurant
Skittles


Places I've lived
Warner Robins, GA
Macon, GA
Atlanta, GA
Cumming, GA
Suwanee, GA
Not very exciting, huh???


Jobs I've had
Respite caregiver for families with special needs kids in high school
Trainer at a gym in college
Worked at the Gap
Designer at Ashton Woods and at JJ Nelson
Mom!!!!

People I want to know more about so TAG, you're it!!
Erin
Amber
Liz and Ben
Patrick and Melanie Gillen
Linda

Fox in Socks

These are going to look similar but i snapped them over 5 minutes. Matney was tired toward the end of our play date so she settled down to take a nap with Fox in Socks. For anyone who knows me....do with think this may be Matney's "dog"??? I am thinking so! And I wish that I had gotten 10 of them at Kohl's when I bought this one...it is going to be nasty if she carries it around all the time!