Betsy loves baby doll

Funny faces

Betsy chattered away and ate cheerios while I cooked dinner last night (you read that correctly, I COOKED). Citrus chicken and rice with corn on the side. It was ok, a little bland but it was nice to try something new. Here are a few pictures of the sweet girl from last night.









Also, the give-away is still on, if you blogged about it make sure you leave a second comment. Thank you :)

My first blog give-away!

I always get lots of encouragement when I post my sewing items on the blog so I've decided to do a give-away every now and then. I hope this is a success, it would be pretty sad to have a give away no one wants (ha!).

Today's give-away is a personalized cosmetic bag or snack bag. I have red fabric available for a boy snack bag, or pink for the girls. You could use either one for a cosmetic bag. I'll line it, and add either the name or monogram of your choice in the color and style of your choosing.

If you want to enter the give away just leave a comment on here. If you don't have a blog be sure to include an email address. I'll use the random number generator to post a winner this weekend. And if you blog about the giveaway you can enter twice! I'll make the cut-off for 5 pm CST this Friday, January 15th.




Thanks guys for all the positive reinforcement of my crafty pursuits!

Ten reasons this week is great.

1. After working about 55 hours LAST week I've left work on time everyday this week.

2. Betsy's two molars came through so she's back to sleeping through the night.

3. This weekend I got lots of organizing done so I can find anything I need in an instant.

4. I've been getting lunches together at night so our mornings have been running smoothly and on time.

5. Family fun last night. We all played in the playroom for an hour and had a blast.

6. I got to Skype with my mom Monday for the first time in weeks.

7. Bets seems completely adjusted to her new full week schedule at daycare and the new class.

8. Work has calm down significantly so I've caught up most of my paperwork.

9. I'm having a playgroup over to our house on Sunday! Lots of baby friends for Betsy.

10. Ben's team won its soccer game Monday night.

What makes this week great for you?

I tried.

It was recently pointed out to me (by Granny, who frequents the blog in search for her daily Betsy fix) that there's not many recent pictures of Betsy on the blog. I try, I really do. But Betsy is faster than me. She's also not interested in looking at the camera when there are other more interesting things to check out. Take this morning for example.

Daddy's box of workout DVDs, infinitely more exciting than the camera.



I snuck a face shot this morning. It takes 15 bad pictures to get 1 good picture of Betsy. Since I only took 1 picture guess how it turned out?


Getting her morning workout in is high on her priority list. Here Betsy is doing the 30 day shred with her 2 pound weight. You didn't think she came by that awesome figure and muscle tone just by playing with her baby dolls and ball pit, did you?


And finally, if you feel like Mommy doesn't feed you enough breakfast you can always sneak into the secret stash under the sink. I've told Betsy that's DOG food but she forgets.


In conclusion, I'm too busy chasing around the twenty pound terror (not really, she's precious) to worry about getting good pictures. I'll remedy this the old fashioned way and take Betsy back to Portrait Innovations so I can watch someone else jump around like a monkey in an effort to get eye contact and smiles from my sweet baby.

Date night with Granny

Betsy had a full day at daycare yesterday. I picked her up after work, we stopped at my in-laws to pick up Madison then headed home. I immediately signed onto Skype and we talked to my mom for a while. Ben had a soccer game out of town so it was girls night in.

Granny saw Betsy eat her yogurt meal and goldfish. Then we headed in the playroom to have a tea party (Betsy poured the tea, would drink out of her cup and SAID 'Tea!'. We played with the balls in the ball pit. Betsy repeated the colors more but the only one my Mom heard was 'Geen'. We turned on the Laurie Berkner DVD and Betsy did a little dancing. Betsy rode her bike, and did acrobatic tricks standing on her bike, and Granny saw all of it! Granny also got to hear Betsy say "Tank you"! After we hung up with Granny we played with Madison. We call Madison 'Nauzer' as a nickname, and Betsy kept calling her 'NowNow'.

I feel like the kiddo has become super verbal overnight. We try to spend at least an hour each night reading or talking about colors, or naming things with her and she picks it up so quickly. Ben came home late and I guess Betsy woke up and he fed her a bottle. I slept through it all, I didn't hear a peep out of her until it was time to get up at 6:00. It was a great night, I felt so blessed to have that time with Betsy after not having much time with her at all last week. And I caught up on some much needed rest!

Clean Sweep

We did some organizing and rearranging this weekend.

First, we moved the desk from the office to the playroom. We have friend's kids over all the time and it's a nice set up for them to watch movies in close proximity to us if we're hanging out in the living room. Also, Betsy likes to listen to musical DVDs while she is playing alone.


This is a new table and chairs I picked up for the playroom. The Osborn kids came over that night and loved sitting at the little table having a tea party. Betsy loves sitting at it too and if she's not sitting at this table she moves whatever toy she's playing with right next to it. I think she likes having something her size and the box says it's for use for kids up to age 8. She'll grow into it.

I straightened up the playroom a bit.



I spent the majority of Sunday cleaning out the office, the embroidering closet and catching up the filing. It was our messy room, but not any more! Since we removed the desk (that we didn't use) it gave me some space to add additional storage. I hung this old curtain in the office, and added a television since the old one (think older than I am) no longer works. I watched a movie while I worked on the filing. I really enjoy having this room organized and having a television so I can listen to movies while I do crafty stuff and sew.