The Draft

This has been a draft for 4 days, waiting for me to find time to finish it! Our life is complete chaos!!! I have so much more I wanted to add- but I'm going to finish up quickly and post so that it doesn't sit in draft mode for another 4 days!

Tonight, as I have had one you-know-what of a day.... I just have to say- motherhood is such a humbling experience. With that being said- I cannot share the details of our horrific week (with the finale being tonight) without completely grossing most of you out. I will tell you that it involved a stomach virus that has been lingering around our family for a week now, a trip to Huddle House that ended abruptly, 4 Halloween hand towels that thank goodness were in my car from our party last weekend, and some Wal-Mart bags. Needless to say, that order ended up being to-go and we finally got to eat our waffles 45 minutes and two baths later. Gotta love it.

Now to the part that was in draft mode...

Whew! Can you say whirlwind?!? I have felt like I have been living in one for the last month. I cannot remember a time that I have ever been this busy!!! With Christmas quickly approaching, I have swamped with orders and I am still getting them in a lot quicker than I am getting them out. I am IN NEED of a large work room that doesn't include a grandfather clock, cherry table, and china cabinet like my current one (i.e. my dining room!)

This is going to be THE longest post ever because I have some major catching up to do.
My poor baby never even got an 18-month post and she is already quickly approaching 20 months!!!

Just to fill you in- she weighed 21 lbs. 15 ounces at her 18 month check up. I can't remember exactly- it was around the 20th percentile. She is 33 inches tall (75% percentile)

She is one WILD woman!!!! There is some serious fire in that girl's eyes. LOOK OUT WORLD! She is headed your way!

She has a stool now and everytime I take a picture she wants to stand on the stool and pose.





She also likes to stand on the stool and sing and dance. Especially the "Elmo song". Michael and I laughed at her for about 30 minutes one night as she serenaded us from the stool.

She tells everything "Hey"... (the moon...the tree...the flowers... just whatever comes her way) Her favorite foods are cheese, pi-pa (pizza), and she really likes french fries, cupcakes, and ham. I know... super healthy choices... we are the parents of the year for good eating habits at our house. Brookeanne... I know you are cringing!!! :) She is really picky and honestly doesn't eat very much. "Fishies" are her favorite snack.

She climbs everything....EVERYTHING. She has awesome balance and I have found her standing on top of things and wondered how in the world she got up there.

She loves to play with "me-mack" (make-up) courtesy of her Aunt Shelley. I had to clean out some old powder cases and give her some brushes to use. Of course, when she can't find hers, she just goes to my drawer and gets my $10 blush brush out to use.

She is obsessed with Dora, much to my dismay. She knows her alphabet letters (by recall- not just by recognition) and knows what sounds a lot of them make. She counts to five.

She is a MESS! She talks A LOT and repeats EVERYTHING and talks in sentences. She is really into possessive forms of words now- like "Mommy's car", "Daddy's drawer", "Finley's food"....

I am running out of time- so to hit the other highlights over the past month:

Mimi turned 50 and we celebrated! :)




I have some more pictures that I want to post later.

Annistyn went to the fair last week! (Again.... pics later!)

In holiday news- Annistyn is going to be a tutu dalmation for Halloween. She LOVES wearing tutus and much to my surprise- she LOVES the ears on this!







We argued about what to wear to Wal-mart tonight because I asked her what she wanted to wear and she told me a tutu. So I was gettting out her orange tutu and she said, "No!" and grabbed the doggie tutu and barked. I didn't think "Mart" as she calls it was ready for a tutu dalmation.

We had an AWSOME Halloween party last weekend and I have some GREAT pictures to share. I will TRY to do that later- maybe this weekend! :)

Well- hopefully this will catch me up until I have time to post the fair and party pictures. :)