Crazy 8's

8 Things I’m Looking Forward To:
1. Zoombezi Bay
2. Gracyn's first birthday
3. Summer
4. Getting a reply to my interview
5. Buying size 8's
6. Dinner tonight
7. Meeting my goal weight
8. Getting a new job

8 Things I did yesterday:
1. went to the work
2. went to Erin's garage sale
3. picked up the baby
4. gave Gracyn a bath
5. visited with some Nesties
6. packed a lunch
7. watched CSI
8. called parents

8 Things I Wish I could do:
1. save more money
2. have less debt
3. get a new job
4. lose weight
5. craft
6. have a talent
7. give Gracyn a hand
8. feel rested

8 Shows I Watch:
1. CSI
2. CSI: New York
3. Wiggles
4. Deadliest Warrior
5. HBO
6. Rock of Love
7. Big Brother
8. News

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Gracyn's Photo Shoot with Erin!

http://www.erinjohnsonphotography.com/

I highly recommend her!

The greatest show ever!

I am a dork. I love The Deadliest Warrior. I am addicted and I am aware that it is sad. At anyrate, this is the match off recap and the winner is starred.

Week 1 - Apache* v. Gladiator
Week 2 - Samurai* v. Viking
Week 3 - Ninja v. Spartan*
Week 4 - Pirate* v. Knight
Week 5 - Mafia* v. Yakuza
Week 6 - U.S. Military v. Iraqi Insurgent (5/12)

Watch it. You'll stop thinking that I am a dork :)

My baby

likes milk. I know. I am a terrible mother, I am giving her some whole milk already. She likes it and is still getting formula too.

Also, she likes tofu (what she calls 'foo') and cheese crumbles. Loves flavored water and Yo Baby yogurt.

She is a crawling fool. Is pulling herself up on the coffee table.

She weighed 15 lbs 12 oz Monday at the pediatrician. She was 28" long.

She has two bottom teeth.

I painted her toe nails, yet another reason I am a bad mother.

I love the crap outta that kid!

It is amazing...

I am sitting here watching Gracyn playing on the floor. She is playing with her books, her babies, her blocks, and a DVD cover. She'll play a little and stop and take a drink of her grape water from her sippy. I am amazed by her. She is without a doubt the most amazing thing ever. I am so thankful for her. She gets bigger, stronger, more independent, anything/everything everyday.

She just crawled across the floor to get a picture of herself that we laminated. She is so freaking fantastic I cannot stand it!

I love being her Mommy :)

Houston, we have a crawler!

She is mobile. It is official. It is so freaking cute too, let me tell ya! Maybe I can catch her on video one time and post it for all to see.

Good Read

I read things that are not classics because I drudge through that all day long, mostly. I love Jodi Picoult. Love her. Most of her books rock; there have been a few strange ones that I have had to stop reading: The Songs of The Humpback Whale and Second Glance. I just couldn't get into them.

I recently finished Nineteen Minutes and My Sister's Keeper. Loved them. I am now onto Handle With Care. This is a hard book for me to read because of the subject matter.

Here is the synopsis: When Charlotte and Sean O’Keefe’s daughter, Willow, is born with severe osteogenesis imperfecta, they are devastated – she will suffer hundreds of broken bones as she grows, a lifetime of pain. As the family struggles to make ends meet to cover Willow’s medical expenses, Charlotte thinks she has found an answer. If she files a wrongful birth lawsuit against her ob/gyn for not telling her in advance that her child would be born severely disabled, the monetary payouts might ensure a lifetime of care for Willow. But it means that Charlotte has to get up in a court of law and say in public that she would have terminated the pregnancy if she’d known about the disability in advance – words that her husband can’t abide, that Willow will hear, and that Charlotte cannot reconcile. And the ob/gyn she’s suing isn’t just her physician – it’s her best friend.

There is a scene in which they discover, in utereo, that something is wrong with their unborn daughter. I almost cried while reading it.

Here are the rest of her books and I suggest you read the ones I have read (marked):
Handle With Care - currently reading
Change of Heart
Nineteen Minutes - suggest
The Tenth Circle
Vanishing Acts
My Sisters Keeper - suggest
Second Glance - not great
Perfect Match
Salem Falls - suggest
Plain Truth - suggest
Keeping Faith
The Pact
Mercy - suggest
Picture Pefect
Harvesting the Heart - suggest
Songs of the Humpback Whale - not great

My Top Ten Fav's

I am notorious for things making me happy. Here are the top ten things unrelated to family, etc.

1. When my kids say funny things that no teacher should laugh at and then I have to laugh because I can't hold it in
2. The movie "Juno"
3. Lime Beer
4. Stickers
5. The Cute Overload blog
6. Ridiculously over priced pet wear
7. Pictures from high school
8. Stupid forwards you get via Facebook or email
9. The "F" word
10. Cool sheets on a summer night after a hot shower

She's a wavin' fool

She has mastered waving. Both sides too. I will admit, it is damn cute when she waves with her baby arm. With her right hand, she actually uses her hand, but the baby hand is flailing arm waving.

And, she knows what bye-bye means because she waved bye-bye to Grammy today when she left.

I love her. She is effin' fabulous!

Houston, we have a rocker.

Miss Gracyn Paige is rocking now. Hands and knees rocking. I am so excited! Now if she could only figure out how to move her knees to crawl!