Project Life - Week 19

Sunday - Bevo got a coupon from the pet store for a free toy since it was his birthday. Handy decided to get him a gigantic tennis ball. He likes it but I get nervous when he wants us to throw it in the house. That bad boy could do some serious damage!

Monday: The girl in one of her many elephant outfits. Every time I see something with an elephant on it I think she has to have it! She will probably grow up to hate elephants, the color gray and peanuts... ha!

Tuesday: This is how we roll... lounging on the couch.

Wednesday: I've started reading to the Girly while she eats. Originally I was using some of her baby books but I would end up reading 10 of them in half an hour so we decided she is going to be an advanced reader and started with chapter books. 

Thursday: It's garage sale time! We had oodles of stuff collected in our basement that needed to go. Not only do we now have a cleaner basement but we made a little money too.

Friday: Last fall we planted a bunch of plants from my mama. We had no idea what we were planting (she told us but they all looked the same) so we were pretty surprised when this really pretty iris bloomed this spring. I can't believe I didn't kill it!

Saturday: Grandma and Grandpa finally made it back from Arizona and came to see the Girly. She was more excited to see them than it looks like in this picture!

Project Life - Week 18

 

Sunday: We got a new Willow to add to our collection. The shelf in the living room is full so we decided to put this one in the Girly's room. 

 Monday: We went to Nanny's to celebrate her birthday and all of the kids (Handy included) decided to catch frogs in the pond. 

Tuesday: The Girly loves her swing. She has been spending a lot of time in there lately. Sometimes she looks at the turtle mobile and sometimes she sleeps. Either way she is quiet! Thank goodness Aunt Sharon told us to register for it.

Wednesday: Handy has been spending a lot of time at work so when he gets home it's his turn to hang out with the peanut. 

Thursday: I hadn't had Cheerios with bananas for a long time until last week. It's been a little to hot for oatmeal in the morning and I had eaten all of the muffins so I had some cereal. It was so tasty!

 

Friday: Birth announcements... take 2. We actually like how these ones turned out better so it ended up not being a terrible thing that we had to order a second set. These ones ended up being cheaper and we were able to get more than the first time. 

Saturday: The Girly is a month old! 

Stats: 8 lbs 6 oz, 21 inches long (25th percentile for weight, 75th percentile for length)... She still wears a newborn diaper and newborn clothes. Everybody loves her hair and she lets us put bows in it. She sleeps 4-5 hours at night and eats like a champ. She's a pretty happy baby except for when she is hungry then she lets everybody in a 2 mile radius know with her squawks.

Project Life - Week 17

Sunday - We took the Girly to her first Davis family function. She got to meet all her cousins, even the one that lives in Seattle.

Monday: This is what we do. The girl sleeps, the pup lays on the floor and I take pictures.

Tuesday: We made an overdue visit to dear old MUC... hadn't been there for a long time! I needed a new t-shirt and my mama wanted to get a graduation gift. Handy was happy that I only bought two things in the bookstore and didn't spend too much.

Wednesday: The Girly got a postcard from the President. Handy went to see what came in the mail and saw something from the White House... of course it wasn't for us but rather the girl. It was a little welcome letter from the Obamas.

Thursday: I started working on getting the Girly's announcements out. Fortunately (or unfortunately) we noticed that these announcements have a typo on them. At least it was found before we gave them to everyone... it would have been even better if it was found before we ordered 50 of them!

 

Friday: Apparently Handy doesn't think there is a difference between a salad bowl and a mixing bowl. He almost ate the whole thing too. Yikes!

 

Saturday: The Girly and I were invited to a bridal shower so I finally had an excuse to put the girl in a dress. She looked so precious I had to take her picture. Too bad she will grow out of this dress soon... good thing we have a lot more cute outfits. 

Project Life - Week 16

Sunday: Aunt Pam came to see the Girly after church. We still haven't taken the Girly to our church yet. Maybe next week. 

 Monday: Not only did Aunt Pam come and visit she also brought us some chicken parmesan. Oh my goodness was it good. I think we will need to put it on our menu more often.

 

Tuesday: We are still spending lots of time throwing Davis across the living room so the pup can fetch him. It's a good thing that the girl is used to sleeping through puppy play time.

Wednesday: I took advantage of having a visitor that knows how to use my camera and had Hope take a family picture of us. I didn't even plan that we would match!

Thursday: The lilac in the front garden is getting ready to bloom. It makes the living room smell so good when we open the window. Now if we could just get those really warm temperatures to come back!

 

Friday: I don't know how this could possibly be comfortable but she ends up like this every time we put her in the car seat. I thought that yellow thing was supposed to support her head ???

 

Saturday: I finally got the Big John sub I had been craving for the last 5 months. Hooray for being able to eat lunch meat again.

Project Life - Week 15

Sunday -
Happy Easter!
love, the Girly

Monday - More visitors! Mallory was super excited to hold the baby. She even volunteered to babysit. We may have to take her up on that offer in a couple of years.

Tuesday - Because of her jaundice the Girly had to use a light blanket for a few days. We said she looked like a glow worm. It was a pain in the neck to haul the unit around but her levels went down and we were able to take her off of it.

Wednesday - One week old. We plan on taking her picture with this sock monkey every month for a year. I'm pretty sure by the time we are done she will be bigger than the monkey.

Thursday - This has become a common sight in our kitchen... and I thought I had a lot of dishes to do before!

Friday - Bevo is very interested in his sister. He sniffs her whenever he gets a chance but has been very calm and gentle with her.

Saturday - Our first wedding invitation of the summer... This will be wedding number 8 for the Handy man and I in the last 5 years.

Project Life - Week 14

Sunday - The bad thing about Sunday supper is all of the dishes. I'm pretty sure dishes are my least favorite chore. We have a dishwasher but there are a ton of "good" things we don't put in there

Monday - I had to find something to do with my time since the girl wasn't interested in coming out and I was done working. These brown sugar cookies were good but we didn't make the frosting which probably would have made them more tasty.

Tuesday - These feet belong to the chicken-y pup who is scared of the mixer but chases the Man around while he mows the lawn. How can you be scared of a kitchen appliance but not of a lawnmower???

Wednesday - We checked into the hospital at 4... this is what they brought me for dinner. I took one look at it and told Handy he better be making a trip to Subway. He tasted the meatloaf and then asked if he should get my usual sub.

Thursday - Ella Grace is finally here!
7 lbs. 10 oz.
19 inches long
11:55 am.

Friday - Let the visiting begin! We had 25 visitors in 2 days. Apparently the girly is pretty popular.

Saturday - Time to do laundry! We hadn't washed many clothes since we didn't know how big the girl was and if she would wear newborn size. Most of her things are 0-3 months so they should last awhile.

Project Life - Week 13

Sunday - I love supper on Sunday night... It's usually the best meal of the week since we are home to cook in the afternoon. This week we had chicken, brussel sprouts (we hope the girl is an adventurous eater), salad and sweet rolls.

Monday - 1 week to go.

Tuesday - Handy and I have been having fun looking at all the apps for our new phones. Our favorites right now are Bubble blast and Fruit ninja... He beats me at all of them.

Wednesday - Spring must be here to stay because the pup is shedding like crazy. I wouldn't recommend wearing black if you come to visit us... unless you want to show off all the dog hair on your clothes.

Thursday - My 3rd year kids made me a card since they knew I wasn't going to be at school much longer. They all want to see the girl when she gets here.

Friday - Happy Friday! love, Bevo...

(If he wasn't so cute I would be more irritated about all the fur on the floor.)

Saturday - We are trying our 4th type of pooch food since January. We know the dog is allergic to something the only problem is we don't know what that something is. This food doesn't have any corn in it, which the vet thinks may be the cause. He's only had a couple of bowls but so far he seems to like it. Hopefully it keeps him from being so itchy.