5

Friday, August 12th, was our 5th anniversary! I can't believe we have been together for 5 wonderful years. To celebrate we treated ourselves with a lovely dinner at a fancy restaurant Foothills Milling Company. It was delish.

Then we drove to my parents where they kept Eliza overnight so we could get a mini-break. We had all the grand ideas about picnics and historical site tours... but instead we went shopping, ate junk, watched cable without having to chase around a one year old. It was nice. And for the record, Kase said he missed Eliza before I did. Also for the record, we ended up buying a bunch of random stuff for Eliza and not for us. How does that happen? Anyways. We had a wonderful time relaxing together. Eliza had a wonderful time hanging out with Memaw and Papaw.

On another note, Kase has started his very own blog. It is not as cool as mine but he tries. ha. Just kidding. If you want a lookie head on over and check it out:

http://www.30filmsby30years.blogspot.com/

Bluegrass and a Birthday

Don't you love when you show up on a Monday morning to work smelling like baby vomit? I know I do.

Mondays come too quickly but we had a great weekend.

Friday we met up with The Gang at a park where a blue grass festival was going on. Eliza enjoyed dancing and walking around in the grass. Unfortunately, thanks to the mosquitos and an over-tired baby who is fighting off a cold, the night didn't last long.

All of my pictures recently happen to be cell phone pictures.

Saturday was spent celebrating my sweet husband's birthday. His parents kindly watched Eliza so that we could go to not one but TWO movies. (Kase does love the movies.) We saw Cowboys and Aliens and Captain America. I liked Captain America. It was pretty good. For lunch we shared a delicous gormet combo meal from the movie theater concessions. (We didn't have time to venture out to get something and after packing everything for Eliza I forgot to pack us food.) But that is OK because we were saving room for dinner at one of Kase's favorites, SilverSpoon. We met my best and oldest (as in years I've known her not in age) friend and her boyfriend who were driving through town for dinner. That was fun until Eliza decided to act like a crazy toddler because she wanted to run around the restrant and I ran out of things to bribe her with. People were staring at me as my child cried and whined. It was awesome. I think she has officially crossed over into toddlerdom. AND our waitress decided to put all 4 of the meals on our card instead of split on the two different cards the two different couples gave her. Grumble grumble. BUT Kase enjoyed his dinner, and I enjoyed seeing my dear friend.

Sunday I woke up with the WORST headache and a terrible crick (however you spell that) in my neck. It was not pleasant. In fact, I still haven't gotten rid of it. But it still ended up being a good day. We celebrated Kase's birthday with tacos for dinner and a red velvet cake I made decorated to look like a movie ticket. It was not my best cake (hence no pictures) but I tried. That is what counts you know.

I hope my husband had a wonderful birthday. He is the sweetest funniest guy I know. He takes such good care of Eliza and me. We love him.

Overall it was a good weekend. We are ready for another one. Only a few more days. :)

The Gang

'K', 'PS', Eliza and 'PE'


In Eliza's daycare class there are 4 kiddos. They are all June 2010 babies. The three girls live two houses down from each other and the 1 boy lives about 5 minutes away. None of us even knew that we lived next to each other for the first few weeks of daycare time.

We try to get together so they kids can play and so us parents can hang out. Friday we all met at Big Ed's Pizza in Oak Ridge for dinner. It was yummy and the kids entertained each other. I love when Eliza recognizes her friends and waves at them. She even kissed one of them on the mouth. She is a loving little girl.

We had a fun time. I hope Eliza is able to keep in touch with these friends as they all grow up.

On Friday, Eliza also got to spend some time with her Aunt Holly. Eliza is very lucky to have so many people who love her.


Best thing about Saturday: Eliza was ready to go to bed so I leaned her down to Kase so she could give him kisses and she spit up all over his face. It was awesome. I love that kid. ha ha.

My Mom's Birthday Surprise

This weekend was fun.

Eliza and I surprised my mom for her birthday by coming home for the weekend. My mom was at work and Eliza and I walked in unexpectedly. She was so surprised. It was awesome.

We had a wonderful weekend eating, shopping, playing. Eliza gave lots of kisses and loved chasing the dogs around the house. She was a little spoiled.

I hope my mom had a great birthday. She is so kind and generous and takes care of us. She sacrifices so much for her family and for taking care of my Memaw who has alzheimer's. She is a wonderful example to me of being selfless and patient.

A few cell phone pictures of the weekend:

Eliza stealing food off of my mom's plate. (She needs to learn she is supposed to 'give' on birthdays not 'take')

While shopping Eliza found her twin and was really excited. This is her excited face. All that shopping wore her out.

We had a great trip. We missed Kase though. When we got back home Eliza and her daddy played and played until they were both ready for night night.

Happy Birthday Momma. We love you!

The Night Eliza Tried to Turn herself into a Smurf

WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS GROSSNESS. READER BEWARE.

So this morning I went in Eliza's room and found her sleeping in a huge puddle of blueberry vomit. The poor girl loves blueberries and ate quite a few of them yesterday. Her bed was covered in blue. It was nasty. I felt soooo bad she slept in it. She didn't cry at all or make any weird noises.

I grabbed her up (after calling to Kase for help) and got her in the bath for a scrubbing.

The sad part is that last night before I went to bed I felt like I should go check on her. I just missed her and I wanted to see her. I even walked to her room and opened the door, but it was really dark and I didn't want to wake her up. I should've stuck with my feeling and checked on her.

She is staying home with her daddy today. She seems OK so maybe she just had too much to eat before bedtime. I was worried she might have whatever I had this past weekend. Poor little girl.





Best thing about Tuesday (I am still working on today):

- I am no longer pumping any more!!!! It is soooo nice. Eliza has been taking regular milk for a few weeks now and so I slowly started cutting out my regularly scheduled pumping sessions at work. This week has been the first week where I am not pumping at all. Let me tell you, it is great. I don't have to watch the clock all day (except for counting down to lunch and going home time.) I don't have to work around meetings interupting my schedule, cleaning pump parts, or lugging an extra bag back and forth from home. It is wonderful. I am still nursing Eliza in the morning and at night before bed, but we both enjoy that bonding time a lot so it is like the best of both worlds.

Now I just need to get her to eat more veggies and less blueberries.

Monday Monday

So I've decided to post every other day for a while.

We will see how long that lasts.

You might get bored reading my posts of the usual everyday stuff.

But life is made up of every days of just the usual, and I would like to remember my everydays of the usual.

So if you think it's boring, then sorry!

This past weekend was fun. We had dinner/movie with some good friends who we don't see often enough. They are having a baby scoe (scarlett or zoe) in the next few weeks and we are excited for them.

Then Saturday Eliza and I had a play date at the splash park with our friends. Eliza was not so sure about the water, but loved the blueberries we brought to snack on.

Then Saturday night I got really sick. It was bad. I don't even want to talk about it. It stuck around until Monday when I finally started to feel better. I am so so so grateful for good health.

When I get home everyday, Kase asks me what the best thing about my day is. It's his sneaky way of trying to get me to be more positive I think. But it is a good thing do to. Kase and Eliza are always the best things about my day, but I am suppose to list something else.

So..... the best things about today:
- being able to hold down a meal.
- finding out what my husband has planned for us on our 5th anniversary in a month.
- Eliza saying "This..This...This..." and pointing to her toes so that I would do "This little piggy" for her.

It is the sweet and simple things.

The Post has been brought to you by the letter 'B' and the number '4'

This week has been a good week. Why do you ask?

Well, Eliza is officially off the bottle!!!! YAY!

For those of you who have seen/used Dr. Brown's bottles, you will observe they have lots of tiny pieces that are annoying to wash. So we are excited that we no longer have to wash them. YAY!!!

She has started taking sippy cups with her milk. She was the last of the 4 babies in her daycare class to switch, but that is OK because I think they are all trying to grow up too fast anyways.

Eliza has started saying a lot of words: Burd (bird), Baaa (Ball), Beh-lee (Belly), Bye bye, Baby, and Baah (Bath). (Do you see a theme here? She likes the letter 'B'.) She also says Hi, Da Da, Ma ma (but only occasionally), tank eew (Thank you), and Oh-ma (home).

So basically I am absolutely in love with her and she is so much fun I could just eat her up.

This week I also went to book club. Did I tell you I joined book club? I have really enjoyed it. I love to read, but school kind of ruined it for me. Book Club has gotten me back into it. I even have a library card! Plus it is fun to visit with friends once a month. So far I have read: Jane Eyre, The Secret Life of Bees, and Unbroken. I REALLY liked Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. It is a true story about a man who fought WWII. I dont' want to ruin it for you so all I will say is if you like to learn while you read, and like historical stuff (Erin C.) you will probably like this book. I learned stuff about WWII that I had no idea about. It was good. It is particularly nice to read with the July 4th coming up because it is nice to remember all of the sacrifices the members of our military have made for us.

Speaking of July 4th, I am excited for this weekend! I plan on cooking some yummy peach/blueberry turkey burgers (I will let you know if they are good/bad), throwing a baby shower, attending a first birthday party, and celebrating the fourth of July with friends. I specifically remember this time last year, sitting on my couch with a screaming baby and wishing I could watch the fire works. So I am excited to be able to celebrate this year.

Happy Independence Day to everyone!