Roy

"No kid's going to put a tooth under a pillow for a man named Roy!"

Name that movie!

Addie got her first tooth at the beginning of November...Wednesday, Nov. 2, to be exact! It wasn't an awful experience, and she didn't fuss much about it. But, her eyes were sad...which made us sad for her!

Excuse the blurriness - I was practicing my new photography skills, which apparently are not amazing...yet! In my defense, you can see her tooth, which is no small feat...considering how much she moves and how she refuses to open her mouth wide enough to show off her pearly white.

Mammarazzi

I got a new book called Mammarazzi about a week ago. It's a mom's guide to photographing your kids. I LOVE it! I'm about half way through and have had fun practicing the last couple nights.

If only this first one wasn't blurry...that's why I'm practicing, though, right? To figure out how to not make it blurry!

I want to wipe those bangs out of her face! I think it's time for her first hair cut to get her bangs trimmed...but I'm super scared about it so I'm pretending like I don't notice and hoping they'll grow out quickly so I won't have to worry about them anymore!

Not sure why this one will only post sideways...but I love this face, and it doesn't matter which way it's pointing.

I love, Love, LOVE those blue eyes!

See Spot

Remember the time Addie puked all over the dog? No?

It was last week. I was sitting on a stool, holding Addie. Poor Elvis was sleeping curled up in his too small bed, when all of a sudden, Addie leaned over and barfed (I believe the proper term is spit up, but this was A LOT of spit up!) all over the dog.

He helped out by cleaning what he could off of the floor. Unfortunately, he couldn't reach this exact spot on his back, so I helped him...after I took a picture of course!

Random

A few random musings about our life right now...

• We got Wil's car back today...it's definitely been broken for more than two months! I'm not sure we even remember how to have two cars. I can grocery shop during the middle of the day?? WHAT? Here's to hoping it's really fixed this time so we can sell it!
• Addie is an expert at scooting herself around the house. So far she's unscrewed the doorstop in our living room twice, gotten stuck under and figured out how to unstick herself from under the coffee table, knocked over the dog's water bowl in the kitchen and learned how to help me keep the house cleaner by finding and showing me EVERY piece of dirt I could have possibly missed.
• I went to Walmart Wednesday to get some groceries. I grabbed a loaf of bread off the sale rack. It was marked $1.04. I told the cashier it was on the 50 percent off rack. She had to get out her CALCULATOR to figure out how much half of $1.04 is...seriously...and it still took her way longer than it should have!!!
• Only one person signed up for my cake decorating classes at JoAnn's this month, so they were canceled. Bummer!
• Addie helps me turn off the light in her room every time we leave. I stand by the switch and she holds out her finger to turn it off - SO CUTE!
• I'm doing freelance PR work for an old boss - it's great. I am determined me quitting my job will be the best thing that has ever happened to us!
• I accidentally left my coupon binder in the cart at Walmart. I wanted to cry! It never got turned in...so I started a new coupon binder this week. Thinking about it too much still makes me want to cry!
• One of our favorite shows is called the Big Bang Theory. It's about these super nerdy, genius physicist guys trying to relate to the rest of the world. This week the episode was about the weirdest, nerdiest character of them all being scared of birds. For the record, it makes me feel SUPER LAME that they sat in a room trying to decide what was the most unlikely, strangest thing the crazy guy could be scared of and decided it had to be birds! Birds ARE FREAKY! You don't have to be crazy to think that! (I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested!)

Happy Halloween

From our family to yours,

Happy Halloween!

Love,

Fred, Wilma, Pebbles and Dino Flinstone

I'm NOT Sleepy

But Mom....I'm NOT sleepy!

My Profits

I didn't make much off of my custom cookie order, but I did make a little bit. My profits went into this do-it-yourself project for our hallway.

It's a height chart, and I LOVE it!

When I was a little girl, my grandpa used to have a wall where we would measure ourselves. You would stand next to the wall and he would use a pen to mark how tall you were, and write your initials and the date next to it. I always thought it was SO cool!

I told Wil a month or two ago about how I wanted a growth wall in our house to mark our children's growth, but it had to be something removable so we could take it with us when we moved.

I was on Pinterest the night I sold my first custom cookie order and saw the idea for this oversized, wooden growth chart. I fell in love and instantly knew how I wanted to spend my profits. I can't wait to start marking Adelyn's height on it!