Crazy Bed Hair

On Sunday Lenna decided that life was too awesome to sleep during church. So when we finally got home I put her straight in her crib with her head band on, so that she could nap. Well that produced the most awesome bed hair I have seen Lenna have, as of yet. It was adorable! Simple adorable.
Lenna is trying to learn new things, but hasn't mastered anything special right now. We put her up to the couch. She would stand there and shake her booty, but was not really sure what to make of it.
Then she would start to push off the couch.
And finally do a turn twist/fall onto the ground.
Today Lenna did surprisingly well. I thought day light savings might be an awful experience, but nope Lenna has done great. While she took her afternoon nap I went outside to mow the lawn. I always said I would never mow the lawn. But now I am finding myself enjoying it. I think it is because it gives me some extra exercise while helping me be outside of the house. But I still think that this chore of mowing the lawn can be on Jared's plate most of the time. Anyway while mowing the lawn I came upon this ginormous mushroom. It is very very large.
After Lenna woke up from her nap, we put away Halloween decorations =( it is always super sad to put these decorations away. Then Lenna and I played. She likes to giggle when I tickle her thunder thighs. She is also trying this new thing where she puts one leg back in more crawling position but keeps the other one in normal sitting position. This gives her a little more lunge distance but allows her to stay on her bum. However, when this girl figures out she can crawl I think I will be chasing her around the house.
Here is typical Lenna, one shoe on one shoe off and just hanging out with her toys.
Did I mention I love her onesie because it has ruffles on the bum. Girls are just too fun to dress!
Happy Monday everyone!

Trick or Treat...well just Treats!

Happy Halloween! I can't believe it is basically November. Where did the month go? We had a great end to the month. Lenna was a cow for Halloween. On Friday Lenna and I headed downtown to meet dad for lunch and then go trick or treating at his office. Lenna received her very first piece of candy in her bucket via dad. However we still haven't fed her a candy bar. Dad did give her some of his crunch bar in small pieces to her today though.
While at Dad's office we ran into our friend Leah. Luckily her mommy took a picture of these two. (PS Jen I took this pic off your fb). These girls are only a month apart. I hope they are friends when they get older because they are just so much fun.The night before Halloween I told Jared we needed to carve at least one of the pumpkins. So I grabbed Lenna's. After cleaning the guts out, I placed my safety glasses on and began to drill. Personally I think everything is better when you use power tools! Since I had an eye accident a year or two ago I always wear safety glasses when using power tools. Jared thought it looked so much fun he asked if he could drill some of the pumpkin. I gave in. Here is the finished product all lit up. It is Minnie Mouse if you can't tell.On Halloween Jared was Mickey Mouse and I was a caution cone.
Lenna was pretty happy most of the day even without having as much sleep as she normally gets.In the afternoon we headed over to the eastside for our friend Leah's costume party. We had such a fun time seeing all the other babies all dressed up in really cute costumes.
After all that excitement we headed home, and waited for trick or treaters. I didn't think we would have more than 20, but life surprised me and we had 41! That is a lot for us. Lenna is sound asleep, and we are hoping we aren't getting up at 5am with going back to standard time. We as adults understand time changes but Lenna who is on her own schedule doesn't quite get that yet. Oh well, it will all work out. Hope everyone had a very Happy Halloween!

Toys

I seem to be blogging a lot right now. I think I will blame my boredom and time for blogging on the rain. I feel very confined with it raining. I can't go on as many walks, opening the blinds doesn't bring in light, and my house is much smaller then grandma and grandpa's that we just went to visit. Plus when we go out to do errands I feel it is a major task since now I have to get Lenna in and out of her coat to make sure she doesn't get cold (and rained on), and I take all her gear into the store which includes the cart cover, the diaper bag, and toys to entertain the little one; it all makes me feel like a pack horse (not to mention my child is in the 95% in weight so she is heavy to carry from the car to the store). I should probably try to figure out what I can take out of Lenna's diaper bag to lighten the load. Anyway all this means a lot of time at home. So I have pulled out a lot of new toys for Lenna, and she is loving the toys. I remember when she was a few weeks old and she didn't do anything on her play mat. At that point I wondered how long it would take her to want to play with toys. Well I guess the answer is not long, because now she loves all sorts of toys. However, her favorite is the classics. Seriously. I can give her all types of toys but her favorites are the stack rings, the balls, and the blocks.

Here is a collage of her playing with the stack rings.
Here are the blocks. She likes to take the lid off and pull all the blocks out. That is her form of playing right now.
Here is a video of her playing with the ball. It is really hard to play with her and hold the camera. So sorry for the crazy camera motion.

She also loves to just roll around. She managed to roll so much she had toys on top of her and under her without any of my help!Lastly I had a few people ask to see my hair. This is the picture I took with my phone to send to Jared right after I had colored it. In real life it looks shorter probably because in this photo I am holding the phone at a weird angle to capture the color over the cut. Now it is time to prepare to watch flash forward. Later gators!

What Lenna is up to

Since dinner is prepared and ready to be put in the oven, my house is relatively clean, and Lenna is taking a late afternoon nap; I figured I would take this opportunity to blog since grandma loves to get pictures and blog stalk.

I took a few photos of Lenna when she reached 7 months 2 weeks ago, but with our trip to Utah I forgot to post them. Here is my favorite because she is playing with her favorite ball. Yep, that is right, Lenna loves balls. She will play with any ball for minutes straight. (Minutes is a long time since she is only up for about 2 hours or less at a time). I wonder if she is going to like trucks and cars too. Hopefully she will still like to get dressed up all girly even if she likes toys that are more for boys. Here is another 7 month shot. I had gone in to the laundry room to take stuff out of the dryer. I had left her on the other side of the room and when I walked and saw her completely on the other end of the room in she gave me this look like "Ooo see look I can move everywhere, especially when you aren't looking." Child proofing is slowly happening at our house.
Yesterday I put Lenna in her Witch onesie. She was suppose to wear it to witches but I never got the chance to put it on her since we were going everywhere so fast.
Lenna is really starting to give more and more of her opinion. She gives me attitude picture shots like below, and she wiggles everywhere to get out of things she doesn't want to do. The hardest thing right now is changing her diaper since she is moving all over the place. Unless I distract her with a toy then I have a few seconds to get a clean diaper on her without feeling like I am wrestling a pig.Lenna is also very flexible. She wants to be sitting up on her bum as much as possible. She knows she can't get to this position on her own so once she is there she will bend in half to reach toys just so she can stay in the sitting position. Today I watched her for a good 2 minutes lean back really far and lung forward to grab a toy that was literally just out of reach. After watching this I took pity and moved the toy closer, but then she didn't want to play with it. She is one silly girl.In the last few days she has gotten pretty good and picking up her Gerber Puffs and putting them in her mouth and actually eating them! (PS thanks Meg for giving them to Lenna she really likes them and it keeps her quiet at church!) I think Lenna likes eating even if she is a really loud eater. She still has no teeth, but one day they will come.

In other news we had play group at our house so I moved the furniture in the living room around. It is amazing how placement of furniture can change the whole atmosphere of a room. It will probably go back to the old way, but right now I am enjoying the change. I must be on a change mode because I changed my hair to short and brown a week ago and I am enjoying that change too. I will probably change it back to blond but for the moment I am enjoying the closer to natural look. In addition I really like that I don't just put my hair in a pony tail every day too!

I also discovered that I really enjoy shopping for grocery deals. I am not a coupon fanatic, but I do enjoy finding coupons I know I will use and watching it reduce my price. Today we went shopping for groceries and saved 43% so on my 38 dollar purchase I saved 29 bucks! I also realized that every time I go grocery shopping I buy ice cream. This is probably not so good for my hips. Maybe I need to up my work out for more than 30 minutes, or give up ice cream...the longer work out seems more feasible.

We are also really looking forward to Halloween. Here is the card Lenna sent out to her Great-Grandparents and other family members. She is going to be a cow for Halloween. (PS Thanks Laura for lending us the cute cow costume).We have a few parties, and on Friday we are going to visit dad at his work with Lenna all dressed up. I love Halloween and I am kind of sad to see it be here this weekend since then I will have to take down some of my decorations...luckily the pumpkins stay up till Christmas decorations come out =) Yay!Happy mid-week everyone!