I think I need to start all my blogs with "it's been awhile". I just can't seem to keep up on this thing! I don't have any pictures to add at the moment, but I thought I'd give an update on Elizabeth. She is starting to eat "grown up" food. The daycare is really helping us move this along. Today she had pancakes for breakfast and grilled cheese for lunch (she's also getting her veggies and fruit). At dinner, we still give her baby food and then she feeds herself peas and corn. She LOVES peas! It seems like anyday she's going to walk, of course, I think I've been saying that for months! However, we did have a major break through this past Sunday. She walked about 4-5 steps from the coffee table to me. Usually, we see about a step or 2 and then she realizes what she's doing and sits down real quick so she can spiderman crawl. She has learned how to crawl up and down stairs thanks to daddy. I'm not sure that I really like it, but we do have stairs in our house and the sooner she figures them out the better. She's not so good going down as she is going up. I can tell it scares her a little bit b/c every now and then, she does this little laugh. Can you believe she's almost a year old. She'll be 11 months this weekend. I just can't beleive how time has flown by. She is still such a good natured baby, but I think she's going to have a temper on her. If she tries to squeeze by something and gets sort of stuck or if she's pushing a chair and it can't go any further, she'll yell in frustration. I'm trying to work on that. Brian swears that she said the word diaper over the weekend. I'm like great, she can say da da and diaper but not ma ma. I am really low on the totem pole! :) Actually, I know in my heart that when she says da da, she's really saying ma ma! :)
Our friends Barrett and Karen just had their 2nd child last Tuesday. Abigail Jean (I think I spelled that right). She is such a cutie. I'll admit, even though Elizabeth isn't a year old yet, I totally forgot what the diaper of a new born consisted of! I helped Barrett change her diaper @ the hospital and it was like I had never changed a diaper before. There is such a huge difference in handling your own new born vs. someone else's. And of course she peed while I was changing her and we had to get her a new shirt. Yeah, that was the only diaper I changed that night!
The one thing I look forward most to every year (scrapbooking wise) happened this past weekend. The Creating Keepsakes Scrapbook Convention of Kansas City, Missouri. Even though it's local, Monica and I got a hotel room for 2 nights and had a weekend away. We helped Embellish It set up their booth on Thursday and got paid for it (of course, we went right back there the next day and spent all our money there). They are an online store that carries all of the Basic Grey & Bazzil Line. I think they were the only ones at the convetion who had that. I love that line. I took a class hosted by them, too. We made a Christmas Chipboard album from the Figgy Pudding line. It was great! I also took a Canvas class by Quick Quotes. I can't tell too much about that since it will be a Christmas present. I also took another class by them and made a 2 page layout "All about Girls". I loved all my classes this year. We didn't have any "celebrity sightings" this year. Last year, we met Lisa Bearnson - founding editor of Creating Keepsakes. She is on QVC a couple of times a year. Anyway, we had a great time, but honestly, didn't get much scrapbooking done at all. I think I got 3 pages done the whole time. Unfortunately, I'm a slow scrapper. I will work on a layout for 2 hours just b/c I want to make sure everything is positioned just right. But then, I can turn around & get one done in 10 minutes. I printed out a bunch of pictures from our FABULOUS vacation in case I felt inspired to work on that and give Elizabeth's album a break, but that didn't happen. I did find a Basic Grey paper pack that will work with India pretty well. I got it 1/2 off too, which makes it all the better. I did really good at keeping to my budget. I didn't use my credit card a single time - which for me is a big deal!! We had a blast and Oct. 2008 won't get here quick enough!
I think Brian got a taste of what it was like for me when he was gone for 3 weeks and it was just Elizabeth and me. He was ready for me to get home, but that was partly b/c he's working on our fire place. We are tiling it - it was covered in this yellowish rock. Once I get time, I'll add some pictures to go along with the blog.
That about sums up everything going on lately. It's getting past my bedtime and I need to get some sleep! I'm trying to catch up from my lack of sleep this weekend!
Hope everyone is doing well and sorry it takes so long for me to post. I'm sure most have quit checking this considering it takes almost 2 months to get something new on here. I need to get some new pictures of Elizabeth too. I've really slacked on that.
