Day in the Life of – Work Day (Baby girl style)

6am – So mornings start early at our house sometimes. We needed a bottle, then we went back to sleep for around an hour.

7am – We got up, got dressed and then it was time to head for work just before 8.

8am – We had to stop on our way to work and get a drink and breakfast. Yum!

9am – Just after we got to work and settled in it poured. They said the chance of rain was 20% and it poured.

10am – While we eat cheerios and whatever else all morning long (usually not enough, we’re getting really good at throwing them on the floor), we needed to take a break for a bottle.

12pm – We had Cheddars for lunch. Again, YUM! – No pictures sadly!

1-2pm – We wheeled around work, shopping, playing with the dogs, and wearing the tires off the walker.

3pm – Then it was finally time for a nap.

5pm – After work we went to the church and ate Mexican food at Pa’s Kitchen. Then it was off to Sam’s to do some “light” shopping.

6pm – Grandma loves straws so we thought it would be fun to send her this picture and let her believe we bought them for her. The last ones we bought her was 400/pkg.

7pm – Shopping is hard work. It called for a nap while daddy and mommy were checking out.

8pm – One of the things we were on the hunt for was a life jacket for me for the lake. We lucked out.

9pm – We finally got home and it was time for the 4B’s. Bath, bottle, burp, bed.

Thanks for joining me on my workday. Come back again and check out my “off” day.

Baby girl

I’m not a mommy blogger… although someone called me that once. And after today’s post you might try to term me that again, but this is a way/place for me to remember. I don’t want to forget.  And truthfully the stuff in here really should have video’s because I’m not sure words will do this justice, but again, I want to remember this time in baby girl’s life. As life goes on I’m afraid I’ll forget.

++Every morning we wake up and she smiles at me. Sure there are a few days she wakes up crying for whatever reason, but for the most part, she wakes up, looks at me and just grins.

 ++She absolutely loves to sit on my lap. If I’m sitting on the bed, I have to sit Indian style (you know, criss cross apple sauce, I’ve heard it both ways) and she plops her bottom down in the hole and her legs go up and over my calves/ankles. That is her favorite way to sit on my lap.

++Driving down the road in hubby’s truck she’s constantly yelling. I’m not sure if the acoustics are different or what…

++In my car she chatters. In fact today she was chattering away with the song on the radio and I swear she was just singing with the radio.

++If I sit on the floor with her, some days she’ll play with herself/toys and other days she HAS to sit on my lap. And again I sit Indian style and for her to sit down on my lap (without me helping her) she has to completely climb up on my legs, turn around and then she seats herself.

++We got her this stacking star thing. You place a big star, smaller and smaller until they’re all stacked up and then you top it with a lion head. As you add the rings it makes noise and when the lion head is placed on top it plays a song. She’s constantly taking the rings off and as she gets one off I put one back on. She gets annoyed with me I think and I just laugh. We play this game for hours upon end… until she hides the stars from me.

++She is fascinated by my books.

++She is fearless. She thinks she can walk without help. She can’t… but initially she’ll wrap both hands around both of your index fingers. You start walking and she lets go with one hand and you have to grab her other hand because she tries to let go with it too. Now normally maybe I should… but she usually does it when she’s on concrete. I don’t want her falling, hitting her head and scaring her.

That is all I can think of at this point in time, but again, I don’t want to forget these little moments. They won’t always be like this.

Wordless Wednesday

So what do you do when the baby refuses to take a nap? You nap with her. btw, one of the guys came into the store today, saw my feet up there (from below) and asked if they really belonged to a person or if Grady was trying to play a joke on people. Now excuse me while I nap with the baby. Hey it works, even if after 2 hours I could barely walk (no blood in my feet….)

April 6th on the Dot

I almost got to title it April 7th on the Dot which I did back in 2013, but nope, he didn’t hang on for that….

What am I talking about?

We had our last baby of the spring born yesterday!! Woot Woot! I woke up to a text from my dad of the newest baby.

This baby is a full brother to the baby born in 2013 that was born April 7th. That is also the baby who put a T-post through his chest and we finally sold a few weeks ago. We were done with his crazy butt! Hubby was a bit sad because it was our first baby but I was actually jumping for joy because he was CRAZY and I didn’t want him hurting any of us!

Baby girl didn’t get to be in the stall with this one once they were moved in the barn because Sis is a little more protective of her baby. We have 3 mares who had babies this year and they all 3 have different temperaments. Blondie is laid back and easy going, Freckles was right there but allowed us to go in with her. Sis is extremely protective. In fact I didn’t even get in the stall with her. I did snap some quick pics through the stall though even though she wasn’t real sure she was okay with that. Then I had to run off to school.

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Happy Easter!

The Easter Bunny visited our house!! Instead of a basket, she got a sand bucket and shovel. How did the bunny know? Plus a Football playing bunny and a train set. She was absolutely excited. Wow, how much fun could this have been at Christmas, the excitedness! She opened the basket and played with the boys while mommy and daddy got ready, then she got ready and off to church we headed.

After church we went to my parents house where of course my parents were (duh!), my aunt and uncle came, my grandma came and so did my mother in law. Hubby and I were responsible for the corn casserole since we have the corn casserole bowl. AC & UB were responsible for dessert. Grandma was responsible for rolls. Memaw brought flowers and candy :). Mom made hubby deviled eggs, Mom made my potato casserole, the rolls were for dad (strawberry jam was for hubby), the corn was for hubby and UB, the carrots were for mom and AC. This was totally our Easter 🙂 The ham was a Christmas present from UJ & Reneè

While we were putting food out on the table, Abug was playing with new Easter presents and entertaining us all. After food, it was time for dessert! AC got this dessert from a bakery place in Ada, Oklahoma. She said that the Carrot cake was even better the next day.

And after dessert, it’s nap time!

Hope you all had a wonderful and Happy Easter! Remember the real reason for the season… The tomb was empty, Jesus has Risen!