Things I have learned this week

A few things I have learned or thought about this week.

1. Don't be friends with old people unless they are your family
Part B of this is don't become an old person. There are a few reason why I learned this this week, if you really want to know the details you can ask me, but in short I think being old is really hard. You don't feel well and you get lonely. So if I had to vote I think I would chose to die sooner then later, but hopefully I will be around for a 40ish more years.

2. Some kids cereal looks like dog food. Seriously think about it. Cocoa Puffs, Fruity Pebbles, Reese Pieces they all look like dog food, but they still taste nice and sugary.

3. Nothing is like a good night rest to make the next day better. Lenna has had an extremely hard week and when Lenna is not doing well neither is mom. But thankfully phone calls with my mom, help from dad, and Lenna sleeping through the night two nights in a row has made life much better!

4. I don't know how to sew using a pattern. If I can visualize it mentally I can sew it, but give me a pattern and the project is a mess. I guess that is why I only sew certain things =)

Anyway that is probably more then you all want to know, so to give you even more random facts I am going to to this get to know you thing my friend Ali tagged me in a very long time ago

It is called crazy 8

8 things I am looking forward to:
1. DISNEYLAND!
2. Disneyland...oh wait I said that so Witches!
3. Football season yay for fall I look forward to this every year
4. Moving to a bigger house in a few years with a garage
5. Seeing how big our family gets in the next few years
6. Running as much as I can so I can eat what I want
7. Getting my photo book done
8. My 30 year anniversary when we said we would go see the great wall of China

8 things I did yesterday:
1. Ran on my elliptical
2. Went to Sam's club and got 5 things which filled the cart
3. Had Lenna scream none stop from 3:50pm to 5:00pm
4. Talked to my mom so she could help me try and figure out how to help Lenna
5. Worked on the car seat bag to help protect the car seat when I fly
6. Played world of Goo
7. Ate a big bowl of ice cream since it was emotional to have Lenna scream so long
8. Got 5 swagbucks in one day!

8 things I wish I could do:
1. Go to western Europe, and Easter Island, the pyramids, and the entire world!
2. Sleep in whenever I wanted to
3. Have unlimited funds so I could live in a really awesome house
4. Live closer to family - I miss family events
5. Be a nicer person aka never ever say anything or think anything bad about anyone ever
6. Talk on the phone without any hesitation
7. Go to the temple more often
8. Know the future and where it leads me

8 Shows I watch:
1. LOST
2. Royal Pains
3. Price is Right
4. Burn Notice
5. Jon and Kate Plus 8 but I can't watch this anymore because after watching it one time I had a dream that Jared wanted a divorce so this show has been banned from our house forever!
6. American Idol
7. The News
8. Regis and Kelly while I run on the elliptical

8 favorite fruits:
1. Cantelope
2. Watermelon
3. Honey dew
4. Apples
5. Grapes
6. Strawberries
7. Oranges
8. Actually I don't really like fruit

8 Places I'd Like to Travel
1. Western Europe (England, France, Italy, Spain, Germany etc)
2. Egypt
3. Easter Island
4. Antarctica
5. The Presidents Heads aka Mt. Rushmore
6. China
7. Tahiti
8. Rio

The next part of the crazy 8 is to tag 8 people but I am just way too lazy, so if you want to do this feel free.

Okay on to what most people want pictures! Here are pictures of Lenna before she screamed her head off yesterday. She loves her exersaucer still and is becoming better and controlling her toys. She is also looking more grown up and her hair is starting to not stand straight up.

She is also getting taller so she can bounce and bounce. Check her out bouncing in the video.



After some help from my mom I think we narrowed down what has been going wrong the last few days. It is that Lenna loves green beans, but sadly green beans don't love her. Since she was extremely fussy a few hours after eating the beans for the last few days it has been decided to not do anything but rice cereal for a few days then maybe try squash. Unless someone else has a suggestion on a good/mild vegetable to try Lenna on. Seriously anyone have a suggestion? I don't want to do fruit yet because my pediatrician suggested not to do fruit till after a few vegetables since babies like sweet and won't want vegetables after having fruit unless they are already use to the taste.

Maybe by my next post I will have my car seat bag done to show off, and maybe if I get my act in gear the dress I have been sewing. However those projects aren't done and I am blogging, but I am grateful Lenna is napping right now and today has been 205% better then yesterday.

Green Beans

Lenna and I have been crazy busy the last few days. On Friday after a walk with a friend we headed to Costco to get her a passport photo. Which if you ask me turned out really cute! Costco had a great set up to take the picture they used a child's car seat with a white towel to get her photo. It was super smart! Now all we have to do is go to the court house and submit her paper work, and hopefully in a month or two have a passport for Lenna so we can go to Canada or anywhere our hearts desire.

Then after all that we went on a wild goose chase to find boxes for some people in our ward that needed things packed up. After going to Seattle, and then to Redmond we collected over 40 boxes and a lot of packing paper too. My car was full! After arriving home from the second trip I took Lenna's carseat out and folded down the back seats and basically filled my car full of all this packing material. I would have taken a picture but I forgot.

With my car full Lenna got to go on her first trip in daddy's car. Dad's car is a lot smaller then mom's car so we had to move the passenger seat forward just to fit in her car seat. But she fit and that is the important part!

Today we basically stayed home, but our neighbors had a yard sale so we went and dad picked out some books for Lenna. He is very excited to read them to her. Dad really likes to read to Lenna.

Also today Lenna tried her very first non-white food, and very first vegetable. She tried green beans. Before feeding her she was very happy because she was well rested from her afternoon nap.
But when the green beans came to her mouth she wasn't so thrilled.
Actually she was upset and wondering what in the world we were feeding her.
But dad was determined for her to keep trying.
And trying and trying even if Lenna really was unsure.
But after a few bites I think she decided it wasn't so bad after all and started to help dad try and get the food into her mouth. See her hand around dad's?
She even opened wide and helped dad. This must mean she liked green beans!
Dad took the bowl away and she was reaching for more.
By the end she wasn't even all that messy!
If you want to see the green bean action live check out this video.

After her green bean experience we decided to head outside to get some yard work done. We took Lenna's excersaucer with us and she played in it with no complaints for around 45 minutes. I am SOOOO glad we bought the excersaucer it truly is a great toy! Jared pulled weeds and I cleaned off moss from our siding of our house. Here is before and after. I think it looks much better.Have a great rest of your weekend everyone!

Reverting back to old ways

This week has been pretty all over the place well for me...in all honesty my life is very easy so I really don't have much to complain about. Anyway so this post will be lots my ramblings and maybe some rantings but hey this is my blog you get to chose if you read it or not ;) For pictures of Lenna scroll down to the end.

So Lenna has decided that she wants to go back to the way things were like when she was 2 months old. I have read in books when she was first born that sometimes they revert back to old ways before doing something awesome. Kind of like the 2 steps back 3 steps forward process. I truly hope this is what is going to happen! Maybe she will start rolling over or something I don't know. But she has been getting up either at 2 or 3 or 4 am all over again. I really miss sleeping straight to 6:30am! My goal today is to put her down to bed earlier aka like 6pm instead of 6:30pm to see if this helps. I was going to try that yesterday but sadly enough Lenna and I took a nap from 4:30-5:30pm yesterday so that means she wasn't tired at 6pm...I have high hopes I can try the early bed time approach today!

Another example of reverting back to old ways is Lenna a few weeks ago decide it was okay to put herself to sleep for naps instead of needing to get rocked to sleep. I was uber excited since this meant more spare time for me! However today she has just screamed till I gave up and rocked her to sleep. Sigh. On a plus note she is sleeping right now which means I have time to upload some photos for those who want to see.

Oh another fun talent Lenna has gained recently, but this is not a reverting back to old ways thing, is she has an ear piercing scream! For those who have talked to me on the phone recently have heard it. She has decided this is her favorite way of communication right now. I think I might end up with permanent hearing loss!

But with all of this I still love Lenna. My motto you got to have some bad to enjoy the good! She has a crazy busy personality. I did not luck out with a calm baby, but oh well she is teaching me patience which I definitely need to gain.

On other random news apparently there is a craigslist ad for a house to rent in North Seattle the ad lists our house number as a contact info. It is very irritating since we aren't renting a house and the phone keeps waking up Lenna. I emailed the person to fix their ad, but we are still getting phone calls. I still like craigslist I just wish people were more responsible with their ads.

Okay on to the pictures! Earlier this week we went visiting teaching and the son of the lady we were visiting put his sunglasses on Lenna. She looked so awesome. I was trying to reenact the scene for Jared, so he took a picture. I think Lenna will like sunglasses just as much as her mom does!
Yesterday Lenna had on her denim skirt with her pink baby legs. I thought it was adorable. We had just woken up from our nap that afternoon and her hair was crazy, but I figured it was a good time to get a picture in her cute outfit. Again I was just going to post one picture but her faces are just to funny in all of them. They are in the order I took them.
Happy girl when she is well restedOh the flash went off!Dad came in so she was saying Hi DadOh ya mom is taking picturesI don't like pictures much, so I will look like a dinosaurShe is now wondering how many more pictures I will takeI told her just one more and I got a smile!
Okay there are my ramblings for the morning. I have high hopes that Lenna will sleep through the night tonight and we will make it to Walmart to go shopping since that is the only thing on our to do list today! Yay it is almost the weekend!

Grandma's request for more pictures is granted

So this morning I was gmail chatting with my mom also known as Grandma Princess and she asked me if I was uploading more pictures for her while we were chatting. I promptly said no; because I truthfully wasn't it. I think that Lenna has looked basically the same for the last week or so, and we haven't been having uberly exciting adventures just nice relaxing days at home, so the camera hasn't come out unless pictures are requested. Anyway after this conversation and Lenna woke up from her long (2.5 hour) morning nap I grabbed a few pictures while making her brunch or whatever meal she was on for the time being today. I was just going to post one or two but as I looked at them they kind of told a story about Lenna and her not so much love for the camera, so with that I am posting them all, and telling you the story that I see.

Here is Lenna chillin' not knowing I was taking pictures yet, and amazingly she is staying on her stomach. She normally last like 20 seconds on her stomach before rolling over.
Then she realized I had the camera and while smiling quickly looked away.
But I started singing to her one of her favorite songs (ABCs) and she looked in my direction. However you can see on her face she is not sure if she should be happy I am singing to her or upset I have the camera.
Up close shot of the I am happy but confused and not really sure what to think face. Notice her hair is getting longer but still standing straight up!
Then she started to have the look like really mom you can stop taking pictures.
After laughing with her she made a very brief smile. Notice she is starting to get on her knees. She is no where near crawling, but it is cute to see her progressing in movements.
Then she goes back to the stop looking at me face!
Followed by fine if you aren't going to put the camera away I just won't look at you.
So I put the camera behind my back and she looks back at me with a smile and I get a quick shot.
The end! Okay hopefully you liked the pictures. The story not so interesting. The only awesome part of this whole thing is Lenna stayed on her stomach for like 2 minutes without crying and without incentives of toys.

Speaking of toys. Yesterday Lenna and I went and got these awesome toys from a lady selling them off craigslist. I didn't put the legs on the activity table yet because it is easier to store without the legs, but I think she will like this toy. Plus the choo choo train is awesome! It makes noise and moves and has balls. I played with the train toy yesterday for like 20 minutes! I love getting cool stuff off craigslist. Lastly here is a video. Lenna stays on her stomach if I give her a toy, and then really only stays on her tummy long enough to explore the toy quickly and decide if she wants to take the toy with her when she rolls over or not. Also at the end of the video you can see she is trying so hard to figure out how to roll back to her stomach. She will get it one of these days and then she will be rolling all over the place!


Just a few more weeks till it is Disneyland time! I am getting very excited!!!