The months of November and December will be pretty extreme in our household. On top of keeping the house up, chasing Betsy around, completing a huge pile of sewing orders, here are the events we're looking forward to:
11/6 Bud's 50th birthday!
11/7-11/8 Ben at regional CC meet, Shannon and Betsy Christmas Decorating and marathon pumpkin roll baking weekend
11/11 Veterans Day parade, Shannon is off from work
11/13 Lauren's 20th birthday!
11/14 Ben to state CC meet, Football playoffs begin (may continue every weekend until 12/19 or when eliminated), Tiffany's bridal shower
11/19 Mary's birthday!
11/26 hosting Thanksgiving
11/30-12/18 Registration at work (hectic!)
12/4 Work holiday party (probably at our house)
12/5 ACC championship
12/8 Betsy's 1st birthday!
12/9 Betsy's one year well baby appointment
12/10 GRANNY ARRIVES :) :) :)
12/11 Tiff and JD's rehearsal dinner
12/12 Tiff and JD's wedding
12/13 Betsy's enormous birthday party
12/14 GRANNY departs :( :( :(
12/18 Shan and Ben's last day of work
12/21-12/30 Christmas in FL with the fam!
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Two beautiful pictures
The day we took Betsy to the pumpkin patch, our good friend's the Hamdens were there with their son Ryder. Rydie and Betsy are a week apart and are destined to be best friends forever. A friend of Tiffany (Ryder's mom) was there taking professional pictures of Ryder and Betsy got to take a couple with him. They are pretty sweet :)
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Back to the doctor.
Betsy's been waking up in the middle of the night screaming. It's very unusual for her. She's also still tugging on her ear, so I took her to the doctor for a follow up appointment for her ear infections. She still has an infection in one ear, and we were given a second round of antibiotics. While there we also found her top two teeth have *finally* broken though. Hallelujah! We've been able to see them for months!
The good news at the appointment is that Betsy is gaining weight. She weighed 19 pounds 4 ounces with her diaper and her dress on. A week ago she weighed 18.4 pounds naked, so I'm not sure what the difference is with the clothes but she is in fact gaining (yea!).
Betsy walked around the waiting room waving to all the kids. It was very sweet. And she saw a 7 month old baby she tried to hold hands with. They smiled and jabbered at each other a while.
We'll be back to Dr. Coles' office at the latest, in five weeks for her well baby one year appointment. BIG girl!
The good news at the appointment is that Betsy is gaining weight. She weighed 19 pounds 4 ounces with her diaper and her dress on. A week ago she weighed 18.4 pounds naked, so I'm not sure what the difference is with the clothes but she is in fact gaining (yea!).
Betsy walked around the waiting room waving to all the kids. It was very sweet. And she saw a 7 month old baby she tried to hold hands with. They smiled and jabbered at each other a while.
We'll be back to Dr. Coles' office at the latest, in five weeks for her well baby one year appointment. BIG girl!
Betsy is famous!
A few months ago I nominated Betsy to be included on the cover of the Swoozies catalog. If we had one it would have meant a free trip to Atlanta.
I LOVE the Swoozies store. In fact, I ordered half the Christmas gifts we'll be giving to our families this Christmas from Soozies. They Swoozies corporate office emailed me and asked if they could include our story and pictures on the website, I said that was fine.
Here she is, my little Swoozies baby!
http://www.swoozies.com/content.asp?id=384820
I LOVE the Swoozies store. In fact, I ordered half the Christmas gifts we'll be giving to our families this Christmas from Soozies. They Swoozies corporate office emailed me and asked if they could include our story and pictures on the website, I said that was fine.
Here she is, my little Swoozies baby!
http://www.swoozies.com/content.asp?id=384820
Monday, November 2, 2009
New stuff from this weekend :)
New play mat! We found this at Ross and Betsy has something similar in her class at day care. She loves taking it apart, and I hope sometime soon we can practice making words out of the letters.
Betsy's first time in a booster seat (not to be confused with a high chair). This is the big girl (with a big appetite) that devoured half my pancakes, eggs and biscuits.
Old Navy sale dresses! The long sleeved dress fits now (she wore it to church with pink tights and pink shoes Sunday) and the jumper is for her to grow into next year. Both less than $5 at ON.
Original Christmas dress. I found so many other cute options, for half the price of this full priced dress from Old Navy so I returned it.
This dress screams...wear me to Christmas Eve church!
Carter's green dress. I think I want to put Betsy's monogram on the chest. Bets might wear this to Uncle J and Aunt Tiff's wedding.
Holiday dress...with a super cute matching hat! Aww!
Birthday dress? Super good deal at Ross. I'm trying to decide if I want to embroider her name on it... and if so...where?
I found this on SUPER sale this weekend! $2.44. Bets can wear it for next football season.
Betsy's first time in a booster seat (not to be confused with a high chair). This is the big girl (with a big appetite) that devoured half my pancakes, eggs and biscuits.
Old Navy sale dresses! The long sleeved dress fits now (she wore it to church with pink tights and pink shoes Sunday) and the jumper is for her to grow into next year. Both less than $5 at ON.
Original Christmas dress. I found so many other cute options, for half the price of this full priced dress from Old Navy so I returned it.
This dress screams...wear me to Christmas Eve church!
Carter's green dress. I think I want to put Betsy's monogram on the chest. Bets might wear this to Uncle J and Aunt Tiff's wedding.
Holiday dress...with a super cute matching hat! Aww!
Birthday dress? Super good deal at Ross. I'm trying to decide if I want to embroider her name on it... and if so...where?
I found this on SUPER sale this weekend! $2.44. Bets can wear it for next football season.
No animals were harmed in the making of this post.
That doesn't mean I wasn't harmed! Maddie came out of her first home grooming experience unscathed (though a little more naked than usual). She bit my thumb as I tried to trim her paws (ouch!) and it's right in the crease of my finger. I suppose SHE thinks I deserved it.
THIS....
minus this...
equals this!
THIS....
minus this...
equals this!
Weekend update.
We did a whole lot of stuff this weekend!
Friday night we had Mexican food with my in-laws to celebrate my father-in-law's birthday. Afterwards we went back to their house for cake and to watch Ben's Thursday night football game that they recorded on DVR.
Saturday we woke up early to run around town. Long story short we ran errands at Ross, PetSmart, Toys R Us, Academy, Home Depot, my MIL's school for the Fall Festival, Dick's Sporting Goods, Target. Then Betsy took a nap and got dressed for Trick Or Treating (see pics in the post below).
Sunday we went to church, out to breakfast, Wal-mart (twice), Ben mowed and edged the front and back yards and caulked the trim around the garage and back porch, I cut Maddie's hair, sewed a bunch of Christmas gifts, cleaned house, ran to Bed Bath and Beyond and Old Navy to make returns, and the Dollar Store to get boxes to wrap presents. Then my in-laws came over for dinner and to see Bets in costume.
It doesn't sound like it but it was a really fun weekend because we spent the whole time together. Ben even offered to put up the Christmas tree this weekend, but I think I'll hold off at least one more week :)
Friday night we had Mexican food with my in-laws to celebrate my father-in-law's birthday. Afterwards we went back to their house for cake and to watch Ben's Thursday night football game that they recorded on DVR.
Saturday we woke up early to run around town. Long story short we ran errands at Ross, PetSmart, Toys R Us, Academy, Home Depot, my MIL's school for the Fall Festival, Dick's Sporting Goods, Target. Then Betsy took a nap and got dressed for Trick Or Treating (see pics in the post below).
Sunday we went to church, out to breakfast, Wal-mart (twice), Ben mowed and edged the front and back yards and caulked the trim around the garage and back porch, I cut Maddie's hair, sewed a bunch of Christmas gifts, cleaned house, ran to Bed Bath and Beyond and Old Navy to make returns, and the Dollar Store to get boxes to wrap presents. Then my in-laws came over for dinner and to see Bets in costume.
It doesn't sound like it but it was a really fun weekend because we spent the whole time together. Ben even offered to put up the Christmas tree this weekend, but I think I'll hold off at least one more week :)
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