Maddy has her first cold :(

It started last night, she was coughing in the middle of the night, about every hour or so I had to get up and put her sucky back in her mouth. I had also noticed she seemed a little sniffly yesterday (I call it snuffly like snufflupugus off Sesame Street, anywho, LOL!) she got the runny nose today and is having a hard time actually settling into a good sleep tonight. She's a bit on the fitful side of sleep right now. :( My poor little sweetie. Course being the scrapper that I am I told DH that I should take a picture of her first runny nose...he thought that was a little over the top ROFL!!! (I didn't do it btw.)

 

Anyway, just wanted to say we are still here, still busy and now sick. I have class tomorrow night so I am hoping that Maddy feels better. Oh and they are predicting 20 degrees celcius (68 F) for Halloween!!! WOWOWOWOWOW!!! It's always freezing here for Halloween! We've trick or treated in -25 and snow more years than I care to count so this will be nice. Maddy will be staying home though, couldn't find a costume for her at only 4 months and this gal can't sew a rectangle piece of fabric so I guess that means I won't be making her anything LOL! Kelsey is probably going to go around without us this year so I guess it will just be us manning the door and trying to keep the dogs form going completely psychotic every time there's someone at the door, oh and keeping everything quiet enough for Maddy to sleep LOL!

 

Well off to clean up a bit, nighttime is the only time for me to get things done so I better be going!

Wow time flies!

Seriously why is there not double the time in each day?! I THOUGHT I would have ample time to get things done while at home on maternity leave............ROFLMBO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Apparently I completely underestimated this little new addition and just how much time she would need to be held and entertained heehee. Our little one is now 4 months old and wow has she changed!

She had her 4 months shots last week, oops actually 2 weeks ago and we are still having exploding diaper issues from that, it is always a side effect for her for about 2 to 3 weeks or so it seems. But otherwise she's doing well. ;)

She is definitely into teething again now, everything goes into her mouth and she's having a blast using some of the funky new teething toys that are out there that vibrate when you bite down on them or play music or sounds when you bite them. Seriously wayyy better than what I had for dd#1 10 years ago!

She has this new cry, and trust me if you could hear it you would laugh like I have to! It's a full-on DIVA cry and it's hilarious. She does this when she's mad so it's not like I laugh when she's hungry...this is just something she uses to express her ummm distaste for things shall we say LOL!

Well there are many things to get done here so I will sign off again. I need to do some new pics and edit some video, I really should stay up late tonight and do that...but it's already 11...so little time much to do.

Oh I almost forgot, Kels flooded the bathroom and basement the other night so yeah...towels to wash and floors drying out and bathroom vanities swelling :( sooo not fun!

Sooooo busy!

My poor old neglected blog it seems I go in spurts! What can I say, Maddy keeps me extremely busy! She's doing really good, she will be 4 months old on Monday and is growing like a weed. She's just such a precious joy to us! She's finally been better in the evenings, it seems like from about 2 months to about 3 1/2 she would scream for a few hours a night no matter what you did short of jumping around the house with her...sooo that's what we did! Well it seems that stage has finally ended and we are breathing a sigh of relief. Although she's not without her challenging stages. Don't think I'm lying around eating bon bons here ROFL! She is in a stage where she wants to be held and be with Mommy all the time. Good yes, but bad when you need to have a shower or go to the bathroom or fold laundry etc heehee. We have some routines worked out though so I do get little bits of stuff done here and there but not as much as I'd like for sure!

Just wanted to pop in and say I'm here and still alive. Oh and in case you're wondering the weather here is turning :( it will be -35 before you know it! I don't know why that surprises me or bums me out but it does! Sigh.

Hopefully when I get my dvd disk filled up I will get the chance to burn some more of Maddy's videos. (If I just burn each little video segment I forfeit the rest of that disk so I try and use up a whole disk before formatting it and editing the video just fyi. ;)

I'll leave you with a cute word for the day (at least I think so lol, but then again I hang with a 4 month old all day ROFL!)...We call Madison: Maddy, Mads, Mad etc so when she was giving me attitude this morning we dubbed it "Madittude" I think if fits perfectly! ;)

Happy Thanksgiving weekend to all the Canadians out there!

Just had to share my newest layout!

So I just finished this layout minutes ago but I just love how it turned out so I have to share it before I head off to bed. ;) One of Maddy's first nicknames is Maddy-Moo-Who...I don't know where it came from, but it rhymed and well that's what counts ROFL! Soooooo I wanted this page to have a Dr Seuss feel in honor of her "Who" last name (as in the Whos from Whoville and the Grinched movie etc heehee). And I am LOVING how the cluster of pictures turned out! What a cutie!

Journaling reads:

Maddy-moo-who was your very first nickname from mommy. It started off in the hospital as just Maddy-moo and the next thing I knew I was calling you Maddy-moo-who just like the Dr. Seuss characters in the movie Grinched. I have no idea why, maybe it was your cute little button nose but it stuck and for the first few months of life you were my little Maddy moo who.

 

In other news we started Mommy and Me Bellydancing classes today, yeah I know, go ahead and laugh LOL! But it'll be fun and may help me shed some pounds heehee so I'm game!

 

Maddy is still being quite the handful :( she's in a stage where all she wants is for mommy to hold her and no one else which makes it quite challenging to eat, do laundry, go to the bathroom, cook, clean, pick your nose (just kidding) ROFL, well you get the picture! ;)  Oh well at least she loves me. ;) (None of this changes the fact that we are so blessed to have her in our lives, I am sooo head over heels in love with this little screamer heehee!)

 

Daddy had a meeting in Calgary so he went to Toys R Us and brought home a Bumbo seat I have been dying to try! Maddy has been so strong ever since she was born and is always doing little baby situps if you lay her on her back so this awesome little seat will help her actually sit up! I can't wait, I hope she likes it! I am hoping this will make picture taking easier too, or at least more versatile than the laying down photos that my hard drive is full of LOL!

 

Ok well it's almost midnight so I should feed cutie pie and get to bed. I need my beauty sleep after all. Wow it must be late cuz I'm really getting corny now LOL!

Guess who laughed today?!?!

Our wonderful 3 month and one day old little princess Maddy!!! It was so cute! She did it once yesterday but left us with a..."was that really a laugh or a fluke" feeling LOL! Well today her sister was just chatting with her and out it came! We did get it on video but I have to upload and edit it, since it's a dvd video camera it takes more work to get it in an online format but it will be worth the wait!

 

Life has been hectic lately still. Maddy is still being a handful and not wanting to sleep very m,uch during the day. I think she's fussy half the time because she's bored. I can't blame her, being 3 months old is hard work and there's not much playing you can do at that age yet heehee. Hopefully she will outgrow this fussy stage. But we still love her, you can't be mad at a girl as cute and sweet as her heehee. I am going to get her one of those bumbo seats cuz she tries so hard to sit up on her own already and maybe that will give her the chance to actually "sit" and play with stuff, we'll see.

 

We are still going to Baby and Me classes at our local Health unit, it's actually a highlight in our week (LOL) to chat with the other moms. And now we started Post Natal Yoga too. I really enjoyed Pre Natal yoga so I couldn't wait for this one to start and wow is it a workout! Guess they took it easy on us preggos before (and I bet this one is still easy I've just never been in shape LOL)!

 

Hopefully I will have Maddy and her giggles ready for viewing soon!

Toes ;)

I have a new layout I am so in love with! I extracted my little baby's tiny feet from an awful background and the result, well I LOVE LOVE LOVE it! Definitely a keeper lol!

In other news Maddy has been very cranky lately. :(  

She is getting teeth that are starting to hurt her but I think there's more going on too. It's making getting anything done very hard lol. But it's all about making her feel better, whatever it takes and hopefully she'll grow out of it. She's about to start another growth spurt (3 months... can you believe it?) so that may be it too. So if you don't see or hear much from me you'll know why lol. Have a great night!

Yay my first CT!

So I am so excited to say that I am now a CT member for Scrap Orchard! Woo Hoo! If you haven't been there you need to, it's got so many great designers and it's just plain fun! So I have finally started making layouts again and it's so nice! Here are a few:

 

 

This one is using Kami of Ziggle Designs newest Kit Love Bug and it is sooo adorable!

 

And these are using Scrap Orchard's gorgeous September Mystery Mega Kit!

 

Well I better get to bed. It's the first day of school tomorrow, no I don't have to take Kelsey (she's too grown up now *cough cough*) and will be riding the bus, but she's not getting out if this house without pictures heehee! Feels sooo good to catch up a bit on the old blogaroo! Later gators!