Thankful Thursday

1. Snow days! Not being in the teaching profession, I am not blessed with many of these. It was so nice this week to have a little extra time at home with Nick and Bailey!

2. Not losing power. We had a few friends who lost power due to the ice, luckily we did not. The only problem we've had is our cable going in and out, which is nothing compared to sitting in a dark, cold house! However, our furnace did quit working at the office, so they ended up sending me home early again today. The hour I spent there was FREEZING! It was 58 degrees!

3. My husband. Yeah, I'm always thankful for him, but today he has been great. We have a steep driveway and it's a pain in the winter! He spent quite a bit of time outside today trying to clear it off. Thanks honey!!

"Picking" up bad habits

Yes, I'm afraid Bailey has learned to pick her nose. I'm not exactly sure when this happened, but one day I looked over at her, and there she sat with her finger up her nose! No, this isn't a pleasant topic, but one every parent deals with at one time or another (or at least that's what I'm telling myself!). This grosses me out big time, but I try not to make a big deal out of it, because I know the worse I make it seem, the more intrigued she will become with the whole thing! So, I try to just tell her "No touch", when I see her digging for gold. Most of the time it works. However, my daughter has somewhat of a brazen streak in her. One day at lunch I had already gotten on to her for this, and the next thing I know she is staring me down while slowing putting her finger up her nostril, almost as if she was thinking "What are you going to do now, mom?" I had to turn my head to laugh before I told her "No" again. And this isn't the only time she has tried to test me. Lately it seems like she is seeing exactly what she can get away with. She'll do something that she KNOWS is not allowed, and just watch me the entire time!!! I can only imagine what the teenage years are going to be like!!

Thankful Thursday

1. My new chair! I have been hoarding my birthday and Christmas money until I could figure out something I really wanted. A couple of weeks ago I finally decided to buy a new chair for our living room. I love it! Now I have just a few more things I want to do to finish the room.

2. Baby Monitors. Of course I'm thankful for them for the obvious reasons, but one of my new favorite things is being able to listen to Bailey just lay in bed and talk to herself. It is so sweet! Lately when we lay her down at night she's been talking to herself...or Mr. Froggy, for at least 20 or 30 minutes before she finally falls asleep. And this morning she woke up at 6:00, which is way too early for her, so I decided to wait and see if she would fall back asleep. She jibber-jabbered and laughed for almost an hour before she fell back asleep. I just love listening to her!

3. Our newly converted play room. We have officially moved ALL of Bailey's toys to our front bedroom. It is so nice to have the living room as a grown-up room again. It seems crazy, but the room feels more peaceful now that there's not toys in front of the fireplace anymore. We will bring toys in there while she is awake if she gets tired of being in the play room, but they all go right back in there when she goes to bed.

Babysitter

Last night was a first for me and Nick. We were going to my friend Brittany's house for her birthday party and we actually hired a babysitter for the evening! Before, we've always had family or friends watch her when we've gone out. Well, our friends were going to be at the party, and I don't like to ask my parents to watch her on the weekends since my mom keeps her during the week while we're working. So we decided to ask one of Nick's students to babysit for us. She's a really sweet girl and she babysits on a regular visit. I was nervous about it though! And I wasn't the only one...my mom had some reservations about it...when I had told Brooke she said "I'm just not so sure about this..." and when Justin asked who was keeping her and we told him he said, "I don't like this. My mom's home and we can take her over there." Now, to clarify, these people are friends of ours! It's so great that Bailey has so many people that love and care for her! One of the people at the party made the comment that it seemed like Bailey had 5 sets of parents :) Well, everything went great! I had Nick call at 8:15 to make sure she had gone to bed ok. That was really my main concern, that she wouldn't want to go to sleep with someone new laying her down for bed. When we got home I asked Georgia how it went and she said she actually had to keep Bailey awake until 8! Apparently at about 6:30 she wanted to sit with Georgia on the couch, then they laid down together on the couch and Bailey fell asleep on her! Seriously, my daughter NEVER does this anymore! So, being the good babysitter she is, Georgia knew to keep her awake until her bedtime, or otherwise it would have been a very early morning for mommy and daddy :) We will definitely call on her services again...however, family is free :)

Story Time!

This morning I got to take Bailey to story time at the library! Actually, me and Nick took her since there was no school today. This is something I've been wanting to do for a long time, but as a working mom, there's usually no opportunity to do things like this. Well, at work we've started having weekly meetings on Fridays and when they start is 30 minutes before I usually come to work, so Katy agreed to let me kill those 30 minutes during story time! This couldn't have worked out any better! There were only 2 other little girls there this morning. Bailey loved the books (of course!) and the dancing! She is usually so shy around new people, but she really surprised us both by going over and sitting on another mommy's lap during one of the books! Then during one of the songs she went to Mrs. Mary Lou (the leader) and she picked Bailey up and they danced. I couldn't believe that was my daughter! I'm very much looking forward to this being a normal weekly thing!! Here are some pics.

Videos!!

So, I've been behind on getting videos uploaded on here...just a little laziness on my part! But here are two videos I've been meaning to get on here for a while. This first one is the first time Bailey actually fed herself with her spoon. For a while now we could put food on her spoon and sit it in her bowl and she would pick it up and feed herself that way...but this was the first time she did it all by herself!

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This next video is of Bailey playing with her mini basketball...her new favorite thing!

Goals for 2009

All right Terri, you want to know my 2009 goals...here goes! 1. Get more organized. I actually started this one a little before New Years, but it's definitely my biggest goal this year. I am such a piler. For some reason I have a problem throwing things away, so if I don't know what to do with something I'll pile it, until I get tired of seeing it, and THEN I throw it away! So I'm trying to streamline everything. I had already posted pics of my bedroom, and that was the first room I organized. Nick actually rearranged our front bedroom, that is now basically Bailey's play room :) but I have a few more things I want to do in there to get it how I want it. 2. Lose weight. I say this one every year, but hopefully I will actually stick to it this year. I do actually weigh less now than I did before I got pregnant, but everything seemed to shift, so my body is still completely different than it was before! My main goal is really to tone up. 3. Soak up every minute of Bailey I can! There are nights when I come home from work and am so tired and end up on the couch watching Bailey play, only to feel guilty about it later. I know she's only going to be little for so long, and I want to enjoy every second of it I can, tired or not! One thing I'm really excited about, is on Friday's I'm going to start taking her to Story Time at the library! I've worked it out with Katy that I'll come in early that day so I can leave to do this with her. I'm so glad to have a boss that understands what it means to be able to do things like this. I know there are a lot of working mom's that do not have that luxury. 4. Have more date nights. Me and Nick do not have enough of these...as I'm sure most parents would say! I want to really make time for us too! 5. Take off with my real estate career. I'm learning to give my business card to people everywhere and to try and meet someone new everyday. I think I've had a pretty good start and I've got a couple of clients I'm working with right now that will be buying this Spring, but I hope I can really start to make a name for myself this year!