The Weekend, Another milestone

WE had a very lazy weekend. It started with an awesome scrapbooking evening with awesome food, by Cassie. NOte to self, get the recipes. My mom showed up and cropped for a short time. We laughed SO much. I have such a good time with my group. We didn't stop until like 2 am, which is very typical for us. My mom had to take a nap on Saturday to catch up.

Karady was in fine form all weekend, showing her grandparents bye bye, and so big, and a little pat a cake. She babbles non stop. My mom said she is going to have to find an inside voice, becasue she is so loud. She also commented on how well she picks up her vege/fruit puffs. Today she reached another milestone, which many infants reach with pets. She was practicing her good finger pincher pick up by eating dog food this morning. I was having some wonderful weight watchers desert I made, and i looked over and there she was in the dog dish, a piece in her mouth, and one in her hand, just as proud as can be. She also gets into the magazines downstairs all the time. I call her Scooter II after my nepher Dillon who many time will scoot on his butt instead of crawling. Karady does the exact same thing, but is much slower.

We played Dominoes last night, and had a good time with my parents. It was so great to see them, and Karady is so lucky to have such a great and loving family, and friends. She wasn't even shy towards them, which she does a lot lately. She hasn't seen them since the end of December.

I have my own personal prayer chain in my head, and heart and here it is: Miradna Huber who is 8 and has leukemis, Russ Mertes and his brain cancer, Kyle Heidrich the 7 month old with a horrible genetic disease, and now Berta and her inoperable brain tumor. OH and also the infant that Cassie knows with cancer. The list grows longer, but I still pray every night for them, if you have a minute, please do so also.

WEll my baby has to be fed, and needs a nap, so TTFN.

Under the Bed

So I have been missing some of Karady's bowls that I use for her cereal. SOme of you might not think this is cool, but I do let my dogs lick the leftovers out of her dishes if she doen't eat all of her cereal. They do say a dogs mouth is cleaner than a humans, but I can't see how, considering how they bathe themselves. I asked Nolan, since when he cleans the dishwasher out, things seem to find new homes. He didn't put them any other place. Hum I thought, where could they be. Then I remembered that Pacey will take stuff under the bed when he gets into something he shouldn't have. So I checked and sure enough, there were 3 of them. I told nolan about it, and he asked what else was under there. I told him I didn't know and was afraid to look.

G & G Treiber are coming for a visit this weekend if the weather is good. We haven't seen them yet this year. The last time we were together was for the Finalization Day. We are excited to show off all the new tricks we have learned.

Karady is doing much better at her temporary Daycare's. I think she was also a little constipated, because after she took a healthy dump the other day, of course all the way up her back twice, she seemed much happier.

I want you all to pray for a little boy who is very sick, and won't get better. He is 2 weeks younger than Karady. He has a genetic disease called Krebbe's which manifests itself at about 6 months of age. He is very fussy, and will eventually go blind and deaf, and most die by age 2. Their lives are very painful with losing the ability to eat and they get very stiff. His name is Kyle and he has 4 brothers and sisters. WE pray that he will be made comfortable and that his family will be able to spend as much of time with him as he has remaining. We are so thankful that our baby has remained healthy and so full of life. Anyone interested in viewing his caring brige website can go to www.caringbridge.org and enter in kyleheidrich under the name part. He is a very cute little boy who will be greatly missed by his family.

Well we have ambulance meeting tonight, and we scrapbook tomorrow. Karady will go to her second home the Sannes'. They just got very busy at work again, but luckily are not busy tonight.

TTFN

Back to Reality

Well Happy V-day to all of you----- a day late. So many people say Valen"times" around here. Do they not know how it is spelled??? Maybe they have a hearing problem. Whatever it is, I guess just so the meaning is there.

I was way busy yesterday keeping up with LULU and then getting ready for the wedding. It was very nice, and we had a lot of fun. Our poor church was bursting at the seams. It seems the whole town was invited. Probably the first big Linton wedding I was able to attend. Saw lots of red, and it was a beautiful day for them.

Got a call from the BM. She is at the Hegel's again. I was not sure where she was at, then I saw the name come up on caller ID, and I knew immediately who it was. It seems her mother is back to using, and things are not going well for her. She told me her grandma was moving to Oregon, and she wants to visit her again. SHe is enrolled at Bismarck High now and taking a Child Development class. She has a better grasp on the stages of infant developement now I think. She is saddened she won't be going home to live with her mother. Her mother thinks she chose adoption to "get back" at her. She still does not regret her decision, but she does miss her. I didn't mention the next Dr's appointment in March, but our communication agreement does allow for a minimum of 4 visits a year. Nolan thought maybe we should schedule one. It is such a reality check. I think about our plan and our journey, and after a while you slip into a routine, and then one day you run into a brick wall and reality slaps you in the face again, that we may well have to deal with open adoption for the rest of her life. I know this, but maybe it's more like someone pinches you and says hay the triagle has 3 sides, and the 3rd side fell back into place again. She also spoke of getting out of the system in 2 years, and how hard it is going to be on her own, and she won't live with her mother because they don't get along. The storey was so the opposite a few months ago. The cycle. How do you break it? Her mother has also been spending a lot of time with her father, who I believe is the culprit of the visious cycle. Pray for our BM, that she makes the right choices and gets her life on track. Karady also recieved a very cute card from her. We agreed we hope we get a good social worker at the Village. I have to make pictures to send to her. The Hegel's are very nice, and she has been there before. Small world premise again. When she was with them, she had just chosen us, and had shown our profile to the Foster Mother. She knew immediately who Nolan was, because they own Superior Silk screen, and we do lots of business with them. Good thing it was an open adoption. Kim (the foster mom) was there for us in the hospital on Karady's birthday, and was a good support for us to lean on.

Karady had a sitter, and did very well. She has such stranger anxiety now, it gives me anxiety to leave her with someone new. She was sitting in the kitchen when the sitter walked in , and she let out a wail the minute she saw her. I thought, OH Lord, here we go. Thanks for all the gifts from everyone. She has worn all of her clothes, and played with all the toys, and used the bib.

As you are aware Karady is staying with the Sannes part time while her sitter is on Vacation. Tammi takes her to religion with her. Her goal by the end of the 3 weeks is to make her a convert. She will be able to pray the rosary when she lays awake in her crib at night. Oh well, could be worse.

The picture is really from Friday, but she was all geared up for the day. She had a party at Daycare on Thursday, I am sure she had lots of fun.

Well TTFN, Back to Reality

Rain Rain Go Away

OMG. I am sitting it rain like it is summer outside. That can lead to nothing good. True I wouldn't mind being stranded in the house for a few days, but I do have an alternate source of heat. It does not sound like it supposed to be so nice after the raining, like snow on top of ice.

Made a quick trip to Biz today. Karady seemed to be over her flu, and I forgot to get juice for her, and Tammy was going by herself, and I decided to ride with. LuLu of course had to go with, but she is such a good shopper. She really poured it on today in Walmart. She was waving to everyone, including the crackers, and the pop. WE had to stop so many times, because everyone had to see her and her beautiful eyes.

OK, I dress my kid like she is a girl. She looks like a girl. She had on a brown sweater, a long sleeved onsie with hearts all over it, and pink pants on. Some lady asked, oh how old is he. Or is it a she. HELLO. Pink pants!!

Got a few things for Nolan for Valentines day, and some cards and stuff for LuLU also. OH and I got a winter coat, puffy satiny pink, for $5.00. Hello even for an extra coat. $5.00. I got some fruit also, which on my eating healthier kick, or trying to, I needed to load up. Nolan got her the cutest white dog, with a red nose. My scrapbooking mind is whirling with ways to take pics with this dog.

My daycare lady is supposed to fly out to Hawii tomorrow. Yeah probably not. So LuLU will go between Tammi's and Bernice's. I will have a built in lunch spot with my good friend Tammi. YUMM.

Well everyone stay safe, and sound, and warm. I filled like 4 jugs of water just in case, and bought extra water for Karady's bottles. I also dug out my oil lantern, and know I have a ton of candles. I wonder if I can scrapbook by candlelight.

Well TTFN.

8 months old.

Well yesterday LuLU was 8 months old. And her little brain, I swear said, "I am 8 months old today, so now it's time to move forward with crawling." 3 times last evening, she went from her but to her tummy in reach of a toy. Then when she was on her tummy, she would push herself backwards with her hands. She was moving all over the kitchen. Nothing is safe anymore.

The flu has been going around in Daycare, and I thought we had been lucky. NOpe. Yesterday morning she really filled her pants, to where I could hear it. So I changed her, and she has kind of been spitting up more lately. She went down at 6 and at midnight I changed her into her pj's because she hadn't gotten up. She was wide awake, so I got her up to eat. Well she urped up all over me, her supper repeated itself. Ugh baby puke. So I took her down to nolan and changed. THen she filled her pants again.. Her diaper was so full, I am glad it was on tight, because we could have had major problems. We will see what today brings. Nolan is watching her while I go to Napoleon to Scrapbook. Watch out you may get a call from him for help, my blog followers. Well I must be in the road. I will post her 8 month picture this evening.

TTFN

Lori

Baker's Man

Last night the girl and I spent some time together playing. She was clapping her hands, and every time I would say pat a cake she would clap her hands. They have been working on it at daycare. She also will wave, I think when you tell her too, or maybe she is just absently flapping her little wing.

Then she took her nuke and was putting it in my mouth, and just giggling. I thought she was going to pee in her diaper, she was laughing so hard. She is also getting very cuddly, and squirming like a worm when you try to hold her. She should take off any day with crawling. She does laps on her butt at daycare, and JoAnn says she is not quite sure how she does it. i am unsure too. She is by you one minute, and when you look again, she is across the room.

Well TTFN

OMG

OMG, I am so full. I haven't felt this full since New Year's. And if you don't know, I ended up seeing my lunch again when I tossed my cookies. I think I had some kind of a bug then. We had way too much good food, thanks everyone!! We enjoyed the visit. I really didn't care who won. Not too much for good commercials. I guess everyone is feeling the crunch of the economy. Half time was nothing to brag about also. Bruce is so old, but he is very flexible. I did enjoy Faith and the Dream Girl lady, who just lost her mother, I think last name is Hudson, you know one of the American Idol winners. I guess this is the first performance since her family members were murdered. RIP. Karady seemed to enjoy the game and the company. She didn't go to be until after 9. Too much action. I think she pretty much sat on everyone's lap, and even jumped around in the Jumperoo for a short time. WE had a good day. Played pinocochle( I know that is not how to spell that) for a short time and came out of the whole to win!! WE ARE GREAT!! IN your face Paul!!. It was nice to see Dorothy Sannes again. She wanted to see Karady, so we went over for a few hours. My girl does like her mom. She cried for Paul when Tam and I went to the store.

Well I am so tired, and I have laundry all over the bed to fold, and guess what, no empty baskets. One more thing to put on the Walmart list. I have like 4 of them, but they all have stuff in them like toys, or other clothes to be put away. I really need to empty some out.
Well,

TTFN (for those of you that don't know the Jargin, it stands for TA TA for Now.

Lori