First attempt at making Addi's clothes

Today I made a dress for Addi out of a long sleeve T-shirt I got for $3.
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after

Teething woes and a new tooth brush

My baby must be teething. Addi is usually a pretty good baby. For the most part she only cries if she is hungry, poopy or sleepy. I can handle all of those things pretty easily, but with these random spats of out right crying I don't know what to. The other night she just woke up screaming and it took me a half hour to calm her down. She will start crying randomly during the day and she wake up several times a night (she usually only wakes up once at 5 or 6 am). Jared says she has to tooth buds but no teeth have peeked through yet.
Jared being the soon to be pediatric dentist that he is wants to take nightly pictures of her mouth to observe the changes as they take place. Addi doesn't like this idea so much, but she loves the new tooth brush daddy brought home for her tonight.
We gave her the tooth brush and she knew exactly what to do with it (it helps that she puts everything in her mouth). Jared tried to take the tooth brush to brush her gums and she did not like that and started crying.
I thought that maybe it hurt her to have her sore gums brushed, but she stopped crying as soon as Jared handed the tooth brush back to her.
She just wanted to do it herself. She takes after her mother. Some of my first words were "me do".

I wish I had my camera

It is days like today that I wish I had a nice compact camera to carry around in the diaper bag so that I had it whenever I needed it. Today Dede, Addi, Tito and I went to the dog park. Addi was in the stroller and although this was not her first trip to the dog park it was the first time that she was sitting in the stroller looking out and not in the carseat on the stroller. She loved the all the dogs. She was sitting up trying to grab at the dogs. One particular chubby boxer puppy apparently loved her too. This puppy jumped up to the stroller and gave Addi a big slobbery kiss. It was hilarious and I wish I could have taken a picture. Addi didn't mind and wanted to kiss the puppy back. Dede thought it was hilarious and couldn't stop laughing. We had to block the puppy from trying to jump back up on the stroller. Dede was blocking the puppy and the puppy got slobber on her pants. Dede started to freak out. I thought she might throw up. Dede did not like the dog slobber. It was funny when Addi was the one getting slobbered on by not so funny when it was her. Well at least not funny to her, but from my point of very it was pretty funny. Dede was freaking out flaring her arms and running around. The other dogs thought she was playing and started to chase her and since she was afraid of there slobber this caused her to freak out more. Who knew Dede was such a girly girl when it came to dog slobber on her pants. To avoid any more slobber issues we went over to the small dog area at the park. There was only one other dog over there, a puppy that did not want to play with Tito. So Tito had the whole area to run free. For such a little dog Tito can get running pretty fast. As he was running across the fields all of a sudden Tito flipped in the air a couple of times landing on his feet and kept running. It was the coolest thing I had ever seen my dog do and I don't even think Tito realized what happened. I think he was going too fast and hit a hole in the grass stopping his front feet but his back feet kept going right over his head. Not that I could have been expecting something like that in enough time to get a picture but it would have been a cool one. So sorry no pictures of our hilarious trip to the dog park but I hope I painted the same picture in your head that I have in mine.

Tito's new hair cut

Tito came in this morning from playing in the backyard and this is what he looked like.
He had found some burrs and managed to get them stuck all over in his hair. Since it had been a couple of years since Tito had been to a real groomer (I usally give him his haircuts) I called the groomer at our vet and they were booked for 2 weeks, so It was up to us to fix Tito up. Jared pulled out all of the burrs and I gave him a hair cut.
Here is all of Tito's hair. It had been awhile since Tito had a short haircut. It isn't really the best timing for a short hair cut considering it is starting to get cold but it we left it long he would just manage to get into some more burrs. Also when it snows if he has long hair the snow sticks to it and the longer he is out in the snow the more covered he get. Tito will just have to where a sweater which he does in the winter anyways.
Here is Tito's new look. I did a fairly good job if I do say so my self and it was a lot cheaper.

6 months old already

My baby had her first half birthday yesterday. She is 6 months old. For her half birthday she received 2 new pacifiers since she lost her mute button. She can now sit up by herself for the most part. She will be sitting up for awhile but will then get to excited and fall over or will want to get something and will fall over so she can roll to it. She started pushing up on her hands and knees this week but that is as far as she has gotten on the whole crawling thing. She learned to play peek a boo yesterday. I was playing with her while we were shopping. I was putting the blanket over her face and then pulling it away. When I stopped to look at something she started covering her own face and pulling away. Addi is so smart. I made her these cute little leg warmers that she can wear when she starts crawling since we have wood floor. They were so easy and if you want to make them check it out on my mommy creations blog.
I think I will wear my carrots today. They match my outfit don't you think.
If you don't want a kiss I will just have to pin you down.
Tito likes to play with Addi but he usally regrets getting to close to her.
I can pull my socks off.

Tag Im it

I as tagged by Melissa so her it goes
8 TV shows I love to watch: (I don't watch all of these show all the time)
1. Ugly Betty
2. Without a Trace
3. Cold Case
4. Martha Stewart
5. For Your Home (Public Television)
6. Americas Next Top Model
7. Grey's Anatomey
8. Anything on HGTV (but I don't have cable)

8 favorite places I love to eat:
1. Red Robin
2. Panda Express
3. Cafe Rio (Utah)
4. Jimmy Jacks (Iowa City)
5. Training Table (Utah)
6. Jade Sisters (Coralville, IA)
7. Wendy's
8. In n Out

8 things that happened yesterday
1. I went to the dentist (my husband)
2. Took DeDe to a scrap music interactive concert thing
3. Went to stamp club and made cute cards
4. Addi tried to eat a peanut M&M (freaked mommy out but she thought it tasted good)
5. fed Addi pears yum!
6. Tried to take a nap (Addi didn't want to)
7. Ate left overs from the night before
8. Tried to find fabric I like for the cloths I am making Addi (didn't find any)

8 things I look forward too:
1. Losing weight
2. Being done with all my dental appointments (I hate the dentist. Not the dentist personally, I lOVE him, just going to the dentist)
3. Addi's first christmas
4. Finding out where we will be next year
5. The weekend and Jared being home
6. my sunday afternoon nap
7. Making Addi's Christmas presents!
8. All of the holidays coming up

8 things I love about Fall:
1. Good weather (not to humid, not to cold)
2. good time for pictures
3. halloween and thanksgiving
4. get to start making soups and such
5. New episodes of my tv shows
6. New friends (ne school year new people move in)
7. raking leaves (i kind of like doing this)
8. Jared's birthday

8 things on my wish list:
1. Lots of craft supplies
2. new computer
3. more lenses for my camera
4. nice compact camera to always have in the diaper bag
5. new sewing machine that is also an embroidery machine
6. A cruise with my husband
7. less body fat
8. more alone time to work on my crafts

8 people I'm tagging:
1. Jennise
2. Tawnya
3. Deanna
4. Angela
5. Katie
6. Mallory
7. Lisa
8. Staci

This lady inspires me

Wandering Waif Collection GIVEAWAY !!!!!!!
This give away is over with but I wanted to post a link anyways. I love this and I am going to attempt to make something similar. She has so many cute kids clothes and she make her own patterns. My early new years resolution is to be creative enough to make Addi cute clothes. If anyone wants to be creative with me can come over and try this clothes making thing with me. Deanna I maybe calling you as I know you know how to sew baby clothes.