Day 29

The sickies saga continues.

Andy apparently has a crazy sinus infection. I've got a little something as well, but I'm not as near bad off. Just kind of feeling not 100%

The kiddos seem fine.

So funny toddler story time:

Today, at some point Andy and I were distracted and not in the living room for a couple minutes.

I go out there and see a Wilson with the pink sorter shape bucket and a boatload of ornaments he had picked off.

It was pretty dang funny to go in and see half my tree bare from the bottom up. I think he would've gotten more but his bucket was filled up.

Oh silly toddlers.

Callie has been crawling a lot more on her hands and knees instead of baby at crawling! She can pull herself up on almost all the furniture now as well. Not quite cruising around the furniture but getting close!

She's also battling a yucky rash which I'm pretty sure is a yeast infection.

I maybe have to stick her in some disposables to get it to clear up. Poor baby girl!

Day 28

Last night we had a long, rough night with the littlest.

I can't figure out why she hasn't been wanting to sleep in her crib. But man, does it wreck you. It's even worse if you are battling the sickies.

Alas, Andy and I both have sore throats. He, of course, feels worse. I do okay during the day, but at night and morning, it has been. Well, I guess uncomfortable.

I wonder if Callie has the sickies too. But she hasn't shown any signs. Eating and drinking like normal. Actually pretty happy during the day. Napping fine.

Hopefully by tomorrow we feel better.

I crafted again tonight as well!

I made tutu wands for favors for Callie's birthday!

The only problem is, I think there will be more boys than girls. So I don't know if they will want a wand...

Oh well. I only had 8 anyways. I thought my dowel rod came in a pack of 12 but to my dismay, it is 10, and I already used 2.

I think I may try to add a bow. If I can figure out how to tie a cute one.

Day 27

Just a few more days and NaBloMo will be over.

While I wasn't able to fulfill my goal of posting everyday. I feel good about posting about things. I've found my blog to be my online diary of sorts, with bad grammar and lack of punctuation in every sentence I type.

Yet, it's still a great therapeutic tool as well. I can write down different things, how I'm feeling, what the kids did, my hopes and fears, and someday look back on that post and remember those memories.

I'm super excited for this upcoming month. There are so many wonderful things to come!

My daughter's first birthday!

The birth of our friend's son! (Although it sounds like he may be coming way earlier than we thought!)

Getting dressed up for my husband's squadron Holiday Party

Tran Siberian Orchestra

Christmas!

New Years!

Getting ready for our long vacation back home to Indiana!

SQUEEE!

I can hardly contain my excitement!

So hopefully I find time to blog about all these awesome things!

Day 22-26

So I super fail at posting every day like I wanted to this month.

I hope next month will be easier. I'm going to attempt a photo a day thing that I found on Pinterest.


So lets talk about stuff.

Like thanksgiving. We had to do it on Friday instead of Thursday. It wasn't a huge difference for me because well... The swing shift sucks as a whole.

I made a ton of green bean casserole, but apparently I was in a non green bean casserole party. Oops!

The squash casserole I attempted was meh at best.

Corn casserole was good, but there was so many sides it didnt get eaten as much either.

I also attempted a sweet potato casserole. It actually turned out okay for my first.

I've been busy decorating and crafting.

I made my own decorations for the house using fishing line, ornaments, a self hanging curtain rod, and some garland.

They add a fun touch to our windows!

Then I'm making calm down bottles or time out bottles. This was my experimental one. It turned out pretty good.

I used glitter glue, fine glitter, Elmer's clear glue and hot water.

I also spray painted the cap and super glued it on.

I'm making one for my niece and maybe another one but I don't know what colors to do.

Then I made my niece a handmade wand and crown.

Okay they aren't the best looking, but they were made handmade, so I guess that counteracts the shoddiness of my handiwork.

I've got another project to do but I'm waiting for one of my craft items in the mail.

I've got wands to make for Callie's birthday party. So hopefully ill blog about those soon!

Day 20-21

So blogging every day hasn't been going well...

Can I make up for it by posting cute pictures of my kids???


We went to the park before lunch today. It's a beautiful warm day outside. In the 70s. I should've worn shorts.

Anyways, someone left their cute little bike helmet at the park. Wilson immediately wanted to wear it. He kept saying "Bike, bike, bike!"

I thought it was so cute. I inspected it to make sure nothing crazy was going on with it.

Just a cute bike helmet some little girl forgot.

So I put it on him. And he is sitting there trying to figure out how to snap it on. It was the funniest thing. I helped snap it on and he was probably the happiest kid at the park.

Oh wait, he was the only kid at the park.

Callie on the other hand was totally meh about it all. She was ready for a nap and well it's not too much fun when you can't walk yet.

Also I'm totally loving how cute animal print is on little girls! It's like the cutest and I need to buy her more. And maybe some boots with the fur too.

In a little over a week I will be throwing a small birthday party for my little girl! I'm so sad this year has gone by so fast.

I'm so not ready for it. Waaaah!

Day 16-19

Wow. Major big blog posting fail.

I'll be honest. It has been hard to think of things to blog about. Mostly I have been either preoccupied or lacking the will.

It's okay though. Hopefully I can get back in the saddle and ride this out for the rest of the month.

So lets talk about last night.
Last night, we thought Callie was tired and needed to go to bed earlier than usual. So we put her down around 615 pm. She normally goes down around 7 pm.

I wait, thinking she won't fall asleep. But sure enough not a peep comes out and she is fast asleep!

I stay up pretty late, think like 1130 pm.
Go to bed.

Then around 340 am. I hear it.

A whine. Then a cry. Then followed by just cries.

I'm in denial. I run downstairs and get a little bottle of milk. Thinking maybe she is hungry.

No, she does not want it. She reaches for me. She wants mommy.

I pick her up and one whiff, I realize she has pooped.

So I run downstairs with her and change her diaper. She's not crying and actually pretty happy, but sadly wide awake.

Oh no. So I lay with her a bit on the guest bed. She gets really upset when I try to lay her in her crib. So I take her and let her drink that little bottle of milk. It's now like 430 am.

She's trying to crawl over me like I'm a jungle gym.

I can't sleep. And.im.so.tired.

It's now like 5am. I decide since she won't go to sleep in our bed. It's time for her to go back in her crib.

She is SO mad. I wait 5 minutes. It grows quiet.

I could almost cry tears of happiness.

Climb back in my bed. We sleep in until 8 am. That is a treat in the Kirk house!

But man. I am totally feeling the lack of sleep now. I hope we don't have another repeat!

Day 15

Yesterday I had a much needed and very fun outing with ladies from our spouses group.

I maaaaay have gotten a really strong margarita. And being a lightweight, all i needed was one.

They had a live musician play. And he was good but it was SO loud. It was a little hard to have a conversation.

My throat is sore from yelling so loud. All in all a fun night! Now back to your regular mundane blog posts.