Did You Miss Me? :P

Posted on | February 15, 2010 | 10 Comments

How was your weekend and/or Valentine’s day? Great I hope!!

It’s been five days since I posted something! Wow, I think this is the longest I’ve been away! There’s just been a lot going on this week and by the time I’ve got everything done my eyes told me it’s sleepy time. I could have posted about some randomness but I dunno, it just doesn’t seem right if I don’t share a project, tutorial, or at least a photo. Even that I’ve been slacking! I am still on track with my project 365 but to me many of the pictures havn’t been really meaningful. But tonight I did get a scrapbook page done and have a picture of M to share.

Just FYI, as of yesterday Jovie’s not toothless. She’s growing one bottom tooth. It’s not very visible but my finger could feel it. Exciting!!!

The tree trunk and bird is by Wplus9. Do you know the store is now open? YES!! Check it out, it is NICE!!! This set is on sale and it is super versatile!!

For this page I used Bazzil cardstock, Making Memories flower paper, Prima flower stem, Basic Grey felt stickers and chipboard, and K&Co stickers. Oh, I also recycled the cardboard from one of Prima’s packaging.

For Valentine’s instead of the hubby and I doing something special for each other we decided to make it special for M. She’s been sick since Thursday. We finally took her to the walk-in ER Saturday (our military base is small so on weekends/evenings we have to go through the town’s ER to see a doctor) and they told us she has strep. I’ll be off with her again Monday and hopefully Tuesday she’ll be able to go to school again. Doc said 48hrs after the antibiotics she can go back to school. So here’s M – she hasn’t eaten much in two days and this morning she almost finished her scrambled eggs. Oh, the kid love the au lait — or tea with milk — like her mama. I got into it when I went to France ages ago and ever since I cannot drink tea without milk — except for Asian tea. M also received a happy mail from a little friend far far away. I’ll share that tomorrow. I don’t want it to be buried in this post.

Happy Birthday Miss M!

Posted on | February 5, 2010 | 21 Comments

Has it been six years? It has it has!!! My little girl is now 6-yrs-old. We’re not doing anything crazy to celebrate. M wanted a party at her school and so we have cupcakes and goodies bags ready. Then this weekend we have plans on going to Kansas City to do some celebrating at her choice of places. I do have a surprise, or two, stops. Hopefully the weather will be nicer. It’s snowing right now.

Last night, despite my tiredness, I made her a sweet little card. She’s gotten simple and sweet on me and I thought this card would be perfect for her. I used Wplus9’s stamps again (check here for store opening info), mostly Funky Foliage. I used the tree top portion to make a flower! The colors I used are Rasberry Fizz, Artichoke, and Chocolate Chip.

Like I said it’s sweet and simple and very M.

Here’s a photo of my girls this morning. One just turned 8-mo-old yesterday and the other is a big 6-yr-old. I remember when she was just born! That sweet little face. So glad I have them in my life!!!

Flabby Butt and Signing

Posted on | January 27, 2010 | 12 Comments

My M said this evening:

M: Mommy, when are you going to start working out again?
Me: Why?
M: You have a flabby butt.
Me: (deep inside: AAAAAAURGGHHHHHH!!!!)Thanks, M.

So I was doing the P90x but that was short lived. I blame it on M. She puked all over my workout rug. Don’t ask me what happened. I think all the rolling around and crazy moves that I did made her sick. After she threw up she went to bed and was all better the next morning. I ended up watching the video while cleaning up M’s mess. I had to air out the room too and it was probably 0 degrees outside.

BUT, it will continue! I have the kids on a schedule this week and so far so good. If this continues I should be able to workout at around 9:30 p.m.! Of course we’ll see. My hobby might just distract me, ha!

The signing deal… my baby is growing up!! Jovie can sign “milk” and “change“. I use change instead of “diapers” because it’s harder to see the sign for diapers. She’s also understanding “bath” and “all done“. The milk sign started a few weeks ago but I wasn’t sure until a week or two ago. We have this parents as teachers program here and her mentor was here when Jovie signed milk. We’re so proud of our little peanut!! M signed when she was 6-months-old and she got “dog” at 7-months. The rest came tumbling through quickly (we watched the My Baby Can Talk video and Signing Time) and at 14-months M knew about 33 some words. M started talking at 14-months. She skipped babbling and went to talking but a few words were sometimes unclear and so M would speak and sign until she was 18-months-old. By then she was speaking in 4-5 word sentences.

We’re hoping Jovie can do at least the basics. We’ve noticed that she’s a lot slower than M in terms of development timeline. M had a few teeth at Jovie’s age while Jovie’s still toothless. M was already pulling herself up too while Jovie is still not crawling although she loves to sit up by herself and jump on her jumparoo. It’s so interesting to see how different each are. Fun fun!!

I did make a card and this one is based on the current Embellish magazine challenge: stripes and the colors kraft, purple, and brown. So ok, it’s not a traditional stripe but I’ve got some lines in there, right? I wanted to use more of the PTI stamps I got!!

Before I go I want to share this photo. I love how solemn Jovie looked. Have a nice one and more later!!!

M’s B-Day, Part 1

Posted on | January 9, 2010 | 6 Comments

M’s bday isn’t until Feb. 5th but because of our awesome moving schedule we decided to have a month of celebrating M’s bday. Today it was family day and she chose Dim Sum at Bo Ling’s in Kansas City… or actually Overland Park, a suburb of KC on the Kansas side. As always it was delicious. Then we grabbed a few things from Whole Foods and then ice skating. BUT, ice skating didn’t happen because it was an outside rink and our little princess did not want to be out in the 9 degrees Fahrenheit (-12-ish Celcius) weather (we don’t blame her). So instead we dropped the hubby off at Mercy Seat and us girls went to another known KC location, 39th st (close to the also known West Port), for some coffee/hot cocoa (Javanaut — we like local shops than chain if possible. The Starbucks is at the next block), and 2nd hand bookstore shopping. M got herself five chapter books. She loves to read like her parents.

No crafty goodness today but I want to post some photos to help me remember what we did this weekend.

For once my M dressed up like a normal girl. She still got layers of clothes but at least they were coordinated… although her rainbow color outfit sometimes makes her more adorable. Oh, check out them boots from Santa (they’re by Primigi if anybody wants to know), I want some!

Our two girls.

Our little shrimp. She’s only 13lbs some ounces at 7 months old. She’s in the 10th percentile in height and 5th in weight. Her head is normal tho, ha! My poor baby, 90-95% of babies her age are bigger than her!

And what hubby got after I picked up from Mercy Seat (suppose to be one of the best place to go in KC, Exile is another great one). This is one big reason why our marriage is still going well. We let each other do whatever and support each others’ wants. I’m not a tattoo person. I’d like one but I’m too chicken to. But, I let him ink up as long as they’re nice looking. This is his fourth.

Ha Bwah + Candy Winner

Posted on | December 21, 2009 | 13 Comments

That wasn’t a foreign language. That’s Jovie’s language. The girl can talk! I thought M was pretty bad… although yesterday morning I could have duck taped M’s mouth he he he…

Let me get to M first… I have these flute glass that I rarely use and Saturday I felt like using them for breakfast. Saturday night we did dishes and M’s in charge of putting dishes away. So in the middle of putting dishes away:

M: Mommy, would you like a fancy drink?
Me: No.
M: Mommy, can I make you a fancy drink?
Me: No, I’m ok.
M: Mommy, I can make a fancy drink for you.
Me: Fine, fine. You’re never going to quit asking until I say yes. So sure, go make me a fancy drink.
M: Ok, mommy, it’ll be very fancy.
…..
M: Mommy, come over it’s ready (dining table).
Me: (Reluctantly getting up) Wow, that looks very fancy!
M: Thank you mommy. Go drink it.
Me: (Drinking my fancy water in the fancy glass with a fancy straw) Yuuuum, M, this is delicious!
M: Thank you!

I just got up. All I wanted to do was just sit on the couch and be left alone. I can be a grumpy morning person {::SMILE}.

Jovie… she’s been babbling non-stop and we all think she can already say mama. She only uses mama when she’s not with me and in serious need of her mom. She’s been doing this the last couple of days but we all think that she might be a bit young to say her first word. Jovvie does know the word “milk.” Oh does she get excited and I think she’s starting to sign it too. I can see her little hand moving. A little more! I taught M sign language and M signed milk at about Jovie’s age. She signed right on my face. She obviously wanted her milk!

I did make a card today. Just some last minute extras. Quite easy and I used KaiserCraft PennyRoyale stamps + Waltzingmouse’s sentiment for it. The KC stamps are cute and stamps better after a few gentle rub with the eraser unlike the Waltzingmouse ones which are good from the start.

Here are my crazy kids. The first set are M… I was trying to get a nice Christmas photo but then gave up. The second set are from Jovie and I yesterday when we were home alone. She’s 6.5 months now! Laters!

Emma