The problem

The problem with having someone clean your house is...Now when I walk around the messes, I think "I wonder when someone is going to clean this place up?" Cleaning girl comes today and we are ready!

her own space

Sweet Pea refuses to sit in the highchair, she needs her own space. We got a small table and chairs from my sister and put it in the kitchen. Right now, she loves it. Big girl with her own chair and everything. Look how grown up she is. Not sure how long it will last...but we are enjoying a fight free evening meal.

I sneaked up on her to take this one. The lighting is not good, but you can see that she is using her silverware and everything. She doesn't throw food at her table or eat like a monkey.

new room

Toy area

Wanted you to see the paint with the shelves


New carpet


And a bonus for you today...a smile from Sweet Pea!

uneventful events

Our holiday weekend...uneventful. Just stayed home to avoid travel and upsetting schedules. The whole point was to rest and relax and I am not sure that happened, but we gave it a try. I have been doping her with motrin, tylenol and ora-gel for the teeth and we try to get a whole nights sleep. She is not eating much if anything, I am attributing that to the teeth and her independent attitude. (doesn't want to sit in the highchair, doesn't want Mom to feed her, doesn't want this, doesn't want that.)

2 dry diapers yesterday and she even ran into the bathroom on her own AND used the potty. I was so proud. But today whole different story(woke up wet and refused to even sit on the potty) So we continue our no pressure potty training approach.

Sweet Pea is gabbering tons and Honey Bun trys to figure out what she is trying to say. I just keep a running conversation with her. She follows directions well and when we were trying to get out of the house this morning I was shreaking "Mom needs shoes" and running around wildly...guess who brought me shoes. Yes, it was Sweet Pea! and they matched and they were perfect for my outfit. Maybe she has a future in fashion?

is it possible???

Is it possible to get too much sleep? Sweet Pea was up about an hour sometime after 3am to sometime after 4am. Just to play. I went in her room to stop the crying and she just wanted up. So I tried everything I could think of to get her back to sleep and finally just got in the bed and she wandered around the room playing and talking for while. After some time, she crawled up on the stool and patted my arm, I hauled her up into the bed and she settled to sleep again.

I figured I would have trouble getting her up at 7:15 and to the babysitter's, but when I woke her up at regular time and she was a happy baby, not cranky and tired. Not real sure how I should be handling this new wrinkle in her sleep schedule...just trying to go with it and survive the day.

cake

I made another pound cake. This time I made it exactly like the recipe, and it was wonderful. It calls for 1 cup coconut that I omitted when I made the duck. I took this one to work and got many compliments. It takes a long time to make a pound cake, but I think I might be getting good at this recipe!

Pain, Pain go away

TEETH strike again. We are battling the next level of teeth. Those big molars in the back. Bottom left is almost broken through and the other 3 are knocking on the door. Sweet Pea is on antibiotics for the ear infection that the teeth caused (just like when we got the big front teeth)

The sad thing is she is waking from nighttime sleep and naptime sleep crying with pain and chewing on the binky wildly. So I try to get some meds down her and we rock back to sleep.
We still have the baby monitor going(Honey Bun protests still using it) but I stagger into the bedroom to the crying baby. This week I have been tired and truly have been staggering into her room. TGIF