I decided that I wanted to get some pictures taken of Lauren in her Christmas outfit. The requirements were: they need to be back before Christmas and they need to be cheap. Here are some pre-pictures taken before we left the house.
The dress is Gymbo (natch) Holiday Friends. She has a matching hat too, but I didn't want to mess up her hair before the pics.
MMMMMMM, Milk more milk on to the water
Now that's a thirsty bean!
Laundry Room:
Family Room:
The coffee table is in the utility room due to Wii play-age! LOL! I also haven't hung anything up yet because I feel so bad pounding holes in our brand new sheetrock.
Spare Bedroom:
I'm half-heartedly looking for something for the wall above the bed. I'm thinking we'll end up getting a new bedroom set for the master and what is currently there will head downstairs. However, that won't be for awhile, so I'm still kind of on the lookout.
Here's another view of the spare so you can see where the wall & closets were added from nothing.
Office (which is now a playroom/office)
I decided not to take a pic of the actual playroom because it's not done yet (organized or curtained!) Instead, this is what my office has become (A CLOSET!) But at least it's a pretty red closet (I mean office!) It has a bunch of my books, files, important papers, a desk, a shredder, and my printer in it. I guess I can't ask for much more.
I finally got the new 20 x 30 photo for our entryway. I'm putting it up on the blog so I don't have to search for the photo of it later when I'm asked about it (I have some friends who wanted to see it.) Vista has a new photo organizing system which makes my photos hard to find once they're filed. I don't like it, but I'm learning to deal with it.
We haven't hung it up yet because we don't have a ladder tall enough to do it. We'll have to borrow one from our handy neighbor Phil. He has one of everything so whenever Kev finds himself needing something, it's usually the first place we'll go.
I also got my 'wall words' for the Laundry room (and the room is now complete with the addition of an ironing board holder.)
Black EYE! Sadness. :(
The teeth look ok today, but the eye is black and the side of her face is swollen. I could just cry when I look at her. She woke up this morning with a little dried blood on her face and a few spots on her sheets. I'm sure she will continue to be oblivious to her surroundings and kind of klutzy, but I'm still hoping she will be more careful in the future.
On the bright side, she got her first visit to the dentist out of the way and we had added her to our family coverage when she was born, so there's no work involved.
Oh, and isn't her hair getting long? People have asked me if we'll be cutting it and the answer is HECK NO! As long as she's ok about keeping the clips in her hair (so I can keep it out of her eyes) I think we'll leave it. I'd like it to stay curly. As many of you know, when my mom cut my curly tendrils for the very first time (right before Kindergarten) it WENT STRAIGHT...(for like a decade!) So, we're keeping it curly and in her face for now. When she's old enough to protest, then we'll talk. For the time being, we use lots of detangler and only comb it out once per day (sounds just like my hair.)
Ok, I need to head to bed. I'm quite sick and miserable right now. I've been this way since Thursday and I need to be better by tomorrow night because I hate planning for a sub in my night classes (plus, it's the last night of class so I should really be there with something fantastic planned!)
I've been meaning to write this entry for a couple of days now. The awesome pictures from JM Photography are here. If you looked at our preview on her blog you may see some repeats because they were favorites. Here are just a few of the over 100 gorgeous pics. Enjoy...
Misty here...today was going to be a super day. I had an early morning dentist appointment and then we were going to be off to playtime. It didn't work out so well.
While I was at the dentist this morning I was talking with my hygenist about when to bring Lauren in for her first appointment. She repeated the same old stuff I already knew (what the AAP suggests) but then said that they typically like to see kids in around the age of 2. Sweet, 'we still have time,' was my thought.
Nope, no more time.
After I got home from an excellent check-up, I showered and Lauren was in an excellent mood (she slept until almost 8:30!!) While I was getting dressed, (I'll leave out the gory details of my various stages of dress) I heard a thud and a terror scream from Lauren (who was only a foot away from me.) She tripped and had fallen mouth first into the footboard of our bed. The metal footboard of our bed. As I rushed the one step to pick her up and console her the blood started gushing. I turned and sprinted with her the 3 feet to the bathroom, grabbed the first towel I saw (white wedding towels be damned) got it wet and tried to put it in her mouth to clean it up/see the damage/soothe the pain. Long story short, we ended up running back to my dentist as her pedi was unable to get her in (or any one of them for that matter) until the PM and that just wasn't acceptable to me.
So Lauren had her first trip to the dentist TODAY!
She was actually the calm on too (sadly!) I was a wreck but she was ok as could be once I got her a sippy cup of water. She was downright happy once she got her paci.
So after a breakdown in the dentist's office (they were all so nice to me the crazy mama) all is well. It looks like her two front teeth may have pushed up a bit back into her jawline but he wasn't concerned and said that with baby teeth they just leave them and they'll typically come back down on their own. It was red and I could tell it hurt but she was a trooper. The dentist said that they mouth heals quite fast and she should be just fine. AAAAHHHH!! This was not the way I wanted to spend the day, but it worked out in the end. Lauren even got to have some pudding and ice cream at lunch to soothe her mouth.
Here are some pics I took (with my cell phone because I ran out of the house very quickly I didn't pack up the bag with the camera like I usually do.)
No pictures of Mommy with her in the dentist's chair though. I was a bit disheveled with wet hair and the first thing I could throw on. Luckily Lauren was still in her PJ's when it happened so none of her clothes were harmed (I can joke about it now, I know it wouldn't have mattered to me at the time.) I guess it's a good thing I try not to let her run around the house with random objects in her hands or who knows what could have happened.
