She did it!

Yep.. this morning she crawled! Not very fast and not very far. But she legitimately was up on all floors and went about three feet. Heck, she probably practiced all day at school and is by now an expert.

I saw her get 'in the position' and so I put her ball and my bracelet (which she is obsessed with) about 10 feet in front of her. Then I sat there and patted the floor and said "Cmon! come to Mommy!" Yes folks. I treated my daughter like a dog. But it worked! She was on a mission for that bracelet and she got it. I promptly took it away and repeated the whole process, just to make sure it wasn't a fluke. nope, she did it again. We are definitely getting those gates TONIGHT!

As you can see, we finally got some batteries for the camera so I could take pictures. We joined the current century and got rechargeables. At the little battery display, they had it nicely broken out for behind the times consumers like myself:

infrequent picture takers (10-20 pics a month) = normal old school black and gold batteries

moderate picture takers (20-80 pics a month)= old school batteries that have been spruced up and are now silver and blue and evidently have more power

frequent picture takers (80+ pictures a month)= the rechargeable kind - which have come down a ton in price.

What I want to know is where is the obsessive mommy section? I take pictures of everything the child does. (she's going to hate me when she develops a sense of modesty!).

Anyway.. it's almost Friday. It's been a wild week. Looking forward to not too many commitments this weekend! one thing I MUST do is to make Dadddy a cake. He'll be 34 on Sunday!!! He's been diligently doing WW with me, but we'll let ourselves splurge for his big day.

I'm heading out now to go get the troops (Thursdays are the day I don the head wrap and yellow cab. I get Josh, then Eileen, then the dog and then finally we're home.) I hear it's raining in parts of town, I pray it is at our house. Twice this week it has POURED at my office- which is all of 3 miles or so from our house- and at our house it has stayed bone dry. So annoying.

See you later!

Bad Mommy

I did not take a single picture this weekend! I feel like a terrible mommy! and then,last night when I realized we'd taken no pictures, the camera had dead batteries and we had no new ones!

So, since I haven't blogged in a week, I decided I'd check in and update our goings on.. and for fun I dug up some old pics. Always amazes me to see how different she's looked over the past ten mos. Yup. She'll be 10mos old on Saturday.

We have actually had a pretty quiet week/weekend. Mommy and Daddy actually had a date on Saturday night! Aunt Sissy and Uncle David came over. Josh and I headed out to see Harry Potter - I completely loved it. This one and the first movie are my favorites. The new book comes out Saturday - can't wait! Eileen was very good for her Aunt and Uncle until it was time for bed. According to Aunt Sissy, Eileen became the devil child ! She screamed and kicked and just majorly protested the fact that Mommy was not there to put her to bed. Eventually Sissy just put her in teh crib and let her cry it out. We need to get out more often so she can be OK with babysistters putting her down!

We hit Babies R Us on Saturday. It's the hot spot in town! We ran into three people we knew. We were there getting some babyproofing stuff. Yep, it's that time! She's still not full-on crawling, but the girl can scoot at the speed of light. And she knows how to open cabinets and drawers! So we picked up some of the little latches and the plug covers for our outlets. And we picked out the baby gates we'll have at the top and bottom of the stairs. We'll get those this week as we have a nice coupon that starts today! One of the folks we ran into was Owen's dad. Owen is Eileen's buddy at school. Owen is crawling- and standing- like a maniac! His dad was there buying another gate for their house so they can pen him in! It makes me see that there truly is a difference between boy energy levels and girl energy levels- Eileen is active, but not at all compared to Owen! Whew.

Not too much else to tell. It was a pretty quiet weekend.. we just hung out and ran errands and cleaned house.

We'll try to have some excitement in our lives so we have more to write about. I'll at the very least get myself some batteries so I can take pictures!