Oops...

These are the Ecco sandals my mom bought Amelia when she was down here in February.
They are great sandals! Well, they were until someone left them on top of the van when we were leaving the hospital Saturday night. (Or was it sunday night? we were there a lot this weekend.)
Goodbye little sandals....
Amelia and I will be going to the Stride Rite store to get a replacement pair, just cause Gree-ma pays $60 for toddler footwear, doesn't mean I'm going to!

It's beginning

I think I'm starting to nest. Isn't it a bit early? I guess I am 20 weeks or so. (Is it bad that I don't know exactly how far along I am??) I'll have to check my tickers. LOL

Anyway, Amelia just feel asleep and now I'm off to start reorganizing her closet so there is room for little boy stuff.

I don't remember when I started getting stuff ready for Amelia, then I had an extra bedroom though so it was different. Anthony will be going in Amelia's room with her so I don't want to take over her play space too early...

Fun meme
1. YOUR REAL NAME:
Stephanie

2. YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (first 4 letters of real name plus izzle.)

Stepizzle
3. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (fav color and fav animal):

Red dog

4. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (your middle name and street you live on)

Renee Almond


5. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name.)

Whist


6. YOUR SUPERHERO NAME: (Your 2nd favorite color, and favorite drink)

Pink Daiquiri

7. YOUR ARABIC NAME: (2nd letter of your first name, 3rd letter of your last name, 1st letter of your middle name, 2nd letter of your moms maiden name, 3rd letter of you dads middle name, 1st letter of a siblings first name, and last letter of your moms middle name.)

Tirecsn

8. YOUR GOTH NAME: (black, and the name of one of your pets):

Black Clarissa

More Bows..

I am finally listing stuff on Ebay.

Click here to see some of my listings...

I am starting my first few ebay auctions today. Wish me luck! I spent hours yesterday figuring out the formatting and stuff of the first one, but then the rest of them should be pretty easy.

Here's a picture of my latest creations. Aren't they cute? I'll post pictures later today when my auctions actually go up.

My new bed is here. It's wonderful. Amelia got in bed with us last night, and she can actually sleep across the bed, and Jeff and I are able to not fall out of bed.

Now the question is, why did we wait 3.5 years to get a bigger bed? LOL

Baby Elias Auctions

There is a mom in one of my online groups who just had a baby, and he has some health problems. So a bunch of ladies got together to help with some of their extra costs. Some of us just sent some cash, others made some things to sell on ebay to help the family out. Here's a link to the auctions, please, go check them out and bid if you can.

Thanks

Baby Elias Auctions

Oh and one more thing, I updated my tickers. Kaisers Ultrasound Tech has a different due date in mine. Since they get to pick when I have my surgery, I figured I'll go with their date.

At least since it will be scheduled, I shouldn't have to go past 39 weeks if all is going well. If I start having problems like with Amelia, it will probably be a little earlier. I was 38 weeks when I had Amelia, and that was entirely too long for me. I don't know how people go 40+ weeks without going crazy.

Oh and I forgot, I've got a bunch more bows made, I'll upload some pictures later.

Sad...

the only time I have time to read blogs anymore, or even post in my blog, is in the middle of the night. It's a little after 4, and I have been up since 230. My back is killing me, and I just can't sleep anymore. I just LOVE being pregnant. (Can you all see me rolling my eyes??)

On the plus side we went shopping last night for a new bed. The one we have now is just a little sad, and old, and tired. And this pregnant lady has had enough. Actually it was Jeff's idea. He's probably sick of hearing me complain. :-) It's also much bigger than our current bed, so when little people want to come snuggle with Mommy and Daddy, no one will get beat up. Especially not Mommy, who often ends up on the couch if Amelia comes to visit during the night. Thank goodness she doesn't do it often. Our new bed is being delivered this weekend.

One cool thing about living where we live, we are actually getting to know our neighbors a little. The salesman at the mattress store was a nice older guy, not at all pushy, and full of information. He and Jeff were filling out the paperwork for the delivery and Jeff said our street name. The saleman said he lived on the same street, by a certain cross street. Jeff said, that's where we live! It turns out the guy and his wife live in the house next door to our condo complex. We walk by his house all the time, talk to his cats, and I admire their cute front porch and plants. When we were leaving he said stop by anytime we're out walking and say hello.

It's 10 AM...

And so far today I've
Made my bed,
made Amelias bed
Picked up Amelia's room
Done 3 loads of laundry
Cleaned cat food off the kitchen floor (twice! Thanks Amelia)
Showered
Bathed , dressed, and fed the kid.
Cleaned both bathrooms
Paid bills
Watched 2 episodes of Jack's big music show
Colored pictures with Amelia
Cleaned out the car from our trip (almost done)

I'm tired. Is it nap time yet? Anyone who says stay at home moms don't do anything is nuts.

Now we're off to have a playdate.

Animals

Amelia loves animals. Especially monkeys and elephants. Someone shared this link with me, and Amelia and I have been watching the monkeys and even some elephants all morning.

The Africam

Amelia and more bow pictures...

I made these this weekend. Click on the picture if you want to see them better. :-)

I wish I could take better pictures but I'm having issues, it's not my camera, it's the fact that this computer has no photo editing software. Stupid little laptop. I need to hook up the other computer, but I'm not sure it has software either. I guess I could actually buy some.

Oh and here are some pictures of Amelia wearing a couple of bows. She doesn't like for me to do her hair anymore , so it's always a bit of a battle to get them in and looking decent. Oh well, I knew she would get to this point and I'd have to give up a lot of things. You know, like having her in matching clothes. Or having her hair done beyond one little barrette. LOL

It's a.....

Boy!! At least that's what the consensus is now.

The tech and I both saw boy parts from the bottom, I actually saw it and was like, um is that boy parts? and she said yes I think so! LOL

I have two pictures of that. But she couldn't get a side shot to confirm it. So she said if I want I can come back next week and she will do it again just to make sure for me, (and she won't charge me again.) How cool is that?

So she the bottom shot was definitely a boy shot, but she won't say 100 percent unless she can get a side shot too.

The bows are so quick to make. The Korkers ( the curly ones) have to have the ribbons curled first so they are more time consuming. The other ones take 10 or 15 minutes maybe.

Hey Darth Yaya, I have something I want to email you with more pictures and info, my email is

ameliasmommy at gmail dot com

I promise to get some pictures of Amelia up with her bows in her hair. So far they are holding up pretty well!

Bow pictures

Here are my first few attempts at bow making. It's actually pretty fun! And Amelia loves them. :-)

Paypal

Someone sent me this link. Very interesting stuff. A little scary too...

Paypal Sucks

I was supposed to post pictures of my bows last night but my batteries died in the camera. I promise I will get some up today. :-)

My kid is so funny. I started watching my friends little boy today, he is almost 9 months old. He is crawling around, following Amelia all over the house. If he doesn't go fast enough, she stops and tells him "Come on baby. Let's go." She wanted him to sit in her doll stroller so she said, " Come on baby, hop in!" Silly girl. :-)

It's 98 degrees at my house today. Too hot. AC has been running since we got home from the park at noon. I feel bad about that. I don't like running the AC since it uses a lot of power. But otherwise I think I might die. It's just finally starting to feel bearable in here. I have all the fans running too. The AC should kick off soon, it's set to get the house down to 76 or so.

I had no idea how hot it was supposed to be today or I would not have scheduled a play date at a park with no shade. Poor Amelia was coated head to toe in sun screen. She was bright red by the time we left the park, she's just like her Mama, gets warm and turns red. LOL She went back to her normal color once we were home in the AC for a while.

So I think I may have come up with something to do as a little side business. It's not much right now, but it's fun! I bought a kit that has instructions to make hair bows. All sorts of bows, and ribbons and barrettes. If nothing else, they are fun little projects I can make for Amelia. I'm having fun making them. And it's way cheaper to pay $1 for materials, than to pay $8 a piece for little bows for her hair. Anyway, if I still enjoy it in a few weeks, I may see about starting to sell them.