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December 30, 2008
Happy Happy!
Posted by Cara at 10:39 PM | Comments (34)
December 27, 2008
The Giggly Girl
Meli's feeling all better!
Laughing Just to Laugh! from January One on Vimeo.
Today was really the day she was totally back to herself. I'm feeling a whole lot better too and Georgie's on the mend. Christmas was nice; Meli got to meet some family that she'd never met before - that was her best gift. It was pretty mellow otherwise. Next week is shaping up to be pretty crazy with lots of visits from my mom and dad and sister and the kids. And, then, well...Thursday. I was born on a Thursday.
But back to my girl. She's really started doing so so much! She pulls up on everything now. Her teeth have busted on through. She loves eating her finger foods and it's crazy fun to watch her. And that laugh! She's never been a real laugher until, well, today! Today she just couldn't stop. I hope it keeps up.
Hope your holidays were lots of fun! Thanks!
L, C
Posted by Cara at 11:45 PM | Comments (14)
December 23, 2008
The Finish Line
I'm done. Not in the that's it, throw your hands up, I've had enough variety (although I came very, very close) but in the WHEW! We made it! kind of done. Thank god. I might've actually lost it but I was too tired, am too tired, to know.
While I had so much work to do, Meli and I got into the habit of having her nap in my lap while I was doing computer work. It was much better than having to run to her every five minutes and I was desperate for large chunks of time to get stuff done. So she slept on the boppy in my lap and whenever she stirred I'd stick a boob in her mouth and she'd happily suck herself back to sleep.
Now, after weeks staring at the screen, I'm tired of being on the computer. But Meli likes lap naps. Really likes nap laps. Right now she's in my lap and I think she's been sleeping for close to two hours.
I have to pee.
And I want to get other stuff done. Stuff that involves my using the parts of my body that make up my lap.
Really, though, how can you ever wake a sleeping baby? I don't care how badly I have to pee.
Posted by Cara at 03:03 PM | Comments (16)
December 22, 2008
Milestones
It was bound to happen sooner or later: we have our first ear infection. My poor baby girl. The three of us are miserable.
Happy Hanukkah!!
Posted by Cara at 11:04 AM | Comments (10)
December 21, 2008
Oops! I ELFED Myself!
Actually, I elfed the whole family. We're all sick now and miserable and tired and it figures because I've only got a few packages left to go out and then I'm DONE.
Anyway, I thought this would be fun and distract myself from the misery:
I'm in a sharing mood, so I've also posted some new Meli pictures after the jump. They're outtakes from our unsuccessful holiday card shoot. I took a million pictures and wasn't truly happy with any of them. These aren't bad though - just not card worthy. Thanks for looking.
Hope you're having a great weekend and feeling fantastic!
L, C
Posted by Cara at 12:23 AM | Comments (14)
December 20, 2008
The Russians Are Coming
It's 5:16AM and I've been up since about 4. I thought that instead of lying in bed listening to my husband and daughter breathe/snore, I'd get up and do some work. But the printer is LOUD when the house is so quiet and I should really just go back to sleep.
Last night I was up at this time with the baby - she had her first real fever. Not fun. But thank god for Tylenol and she was fever free all day yesterday. Oh and she has two teeth. I have the bite marks to prove it. You can't see them yet but man are those little suckers sharp!
Is anyone else being inundated with Russian Comment Spam? It seems no matter when I post these days, I get more comments in Russian than anything else. I'm sure it's because I haven't updated my Movable Type in like forever but it's so annoying. They don't get caught by my spam filter so I have to go in and manually move them to junk. I can't be the only one? Right?
Posted by Cara at 05:16 AM | Comments (11)
December 18, 2008
Still alive, but just barely
I can't believe it's been almost a month since I last posted. That's ridiculous. Life has been kicking my ass, but we're hanging in there. I've been at my sister's for the past two long weekends, and when I've been home, I've been literally pulling all-nighters in order to get the work done. I have some packages to get out and one more card to do and then I'm done for the year! I'm grateful for the work, don't get me wrong, but it sucks that most of it gets condensed into a six week period.
Meli turned nine months old while we were away and she's doing all sorts of fun stuff. She talks nonstop, pulls up on everything (especially her mama) and is FINALLY cutting two teeth. Of course, she also has a cold at the moment so we're talking copious amounts of snot, drool and tears. Poor baby girl! She's absolutely miserable, which is so unlike her.
Here she is at a happier time!
At my sister's, we celebrated Hanukkah early as they're away for the real Hanukkah and Meli had lots of fun with her cousins!
Of course, when it came to opening presents, she was way more interested in eating them than opening them!
Her cousins gave her a new doll that she liked very much!
I know I'm biased, but she's too cute!
I've had lots of fantasies about what I'm going to do with my self when I'm back to being unemployed (things get VERY slow in the winter.) Besides clean, organize and babyproof my house (ah, what delightful fantasies!) I've been dreaming of knitting again (REALLY!!!) and blogging again. I probably shouldn't say this, but I've been seriously considering trying to blog every week day for the month of January. I really miss having something to say and someplace to say it and just thinking about things. My mind feels so blank. Probably because I'm exhausted, but I think blogging may just jump start my brain again. We'll see how I feel in the next week or two. I have a birthday coming up as well (DUH) let's just say Good Ol' Jack Benny and I will finally have something in common. Well, if he wasn't dead, of course.
I hope you're all doing really, really well and I hope to see you very soon!
PS - All photos courtesy of my sister. I tried to take pictures of Meli for our holiday card yesterday and they all came out crap. I guess I've used my good camera mojo for the year. Wasted it all on clients. ;-)
Posted by Cara at 06:13 PM | Comments (16)