End of August Update

My little doodlebug is 9 months now. We went for her check up and she weighed in at 20 lbs, 7ozs and is 28 1/2 inches tall. 80-85% for both so. So, still a happy and healthy baby. She is finally crawling forward this week. So, we will be putting up the gates on the stairs this week. I have nightmares about her falling down the stairs. I've decided having a 2-story house with babies isn't a good mix. If we do move at some point while she or any of our future kids are little, we will definitely go 1 story.

She loves to pull up on everything. I put her on the floor and she immediately turns around, crawls over, and wants to pull up to standing. Course, she can't stand by herself and it's really moving around while standing, so it's a constant up and down. It's fun to see her developing though.

We are getting her 9 month pics either tomorrow or Monday, so I'll post some once we get them.

Hope everyone has a happy labor day weekend. Mine will be good, except I'm the closing speaker at church this Sunday. Speaking on "May the soul delighteth in the things of the lord". It's such a hodge podge talk that I'm having trouble organizing myself. I do better with one specific topic like tithing, holy ghost, etc. I guess I'll need all the hodge podge since I'm the closer. So, my talk could be 10 or it could be 25 min. Let's hope for 10.

Danny is just working and happily getting geared up for his fantasy football leagues he is in. I think he is up to 3 now- 1 free, two betting ones. He even made his cell's ring tone the Monday night football intro.

that's it for now.

Itchy

For the last two days, small red bites have been popping up on my fingers and toes. A couple of them have swollen up into little blisters where they are getting irritated. Danny nor Ashlyn have this. They look like ant bites. I'm going crazy trying to figure out what it is. We don't have pets, so no fleas. And, I just saw a story on bed bugs, so now I'm thinking it might be that- YUCK!!!! I've inspected our bed-don't see anything but I'm still washing the sheets to put nice, clean sheets on.

So, does anyone out there have any clue what these could be. They don't really bother me except for the fact that I can't figure out what is causing them. I hate not knowing.

Sorry for such a gross post. Had to reach out (webmd gave me nothing).

AMAZING!!!!!- 1/100th of a Second

I haven't watched a whole lot of the Olympics live since most of it starts after my bedtime. But, I did watch the 100M Butterfly race last night and all I can say is- WOW!!!! That was an awesome race. I can't believe Michael Phelps won again. I thought he had second as well (even his mom had two fingers up indicating second place).

Sometimes in things like this, a little bit of lucky or destiny has to play a part. I swam a couple years on teams when I was younger, so I always love watching swimming.

Now, onto the medley relay race. It should be very exciting.

Once swimming and gymnastics is over, I usually don't really keep track after that. Track and Field events don't interest me as much. But, it's been a fun week.

The opening ceremonies are great and swimming and gymnastics definitely hasn't been boring.

Tooth

Houston, We have a tooth. You can't really see it from the pics below, but Ashlyn does have her bottom left (her left) tooth in. It broke through two weeks ago, but its being really slow to really pop up. But, it is there-look close.




Sorry- I haven't been blogging much. Working way to much. Hopefully it will get better. Only seeing Ashlyn for maybe an hour if at all at night during the week, just isn't enough. Can you blame me, look at that face (taken right as I was writing this).

Reality

I am a reality junkie. Not the stuff on the main channels, but on cable. so, here are shows that i watch:

The Girl Next Door
Jon and Kate Plus 8
Little People Big World
Tori and Dean
Kathy Griffin-My Life on the D-List
Kimora, Life in the Fab Lane
Project Runway
Keeping Up with the Kardashians
The Realty Pros
and more....

I'm flipping between Kimora and Kathy right now.

I am fascinated with others lives-especially ones that are nothing like mine.