Halloween Was

full of cute clothes, sweet treats, parties galore and walking --tons and tons of  baby girl walking!

Halloween was great!

Wordless Wednesday: The Right Chord

Vacuuming Time

Vada's first black eye (yes, there have been more than one) came from the vacuum cleaner. Well, it came from me not noticing her quickly crawling up behind me while I was vacuuming and you would think that the memory of this event would have scared her off from vacuums in general but that hasn't been the case. In fact, Vada loves her some vacuuming time...

The No Facebook Experiment

I have been on again/off again reading a book "7", by Jen Hatmaker. Its a good book, don't get me wrong, I just haven't made much time for reading since Vada's birth and this book hasn't been the exception.  Hence, the on again/off again. Anyway, Ive mentioned this particular book, (i'm ashamed to admit), back in September. I said then, that I was planning on following Jen's direction of eliminating areas or things in my everyday life and in an attempt to get a "taste" of what this would mean, I said good bye to Facebook for the whole month of November! 

I cant help but compare this withdraw to the symptoms of quitting smoking. Seriously, I used to smoke and I actually quit several times before finally kicking the habit and this is comparable! I don't know why I do things like this to myself. I start diets I cant (or don't) finish, exercise programs that leave me feeling like less of a person, I over commit myself and then I go and do something pointless like the no Facebook experiment. Why do I torture myself? 

It's day five and truthfully, I think that there is some importance behind giving up Facebook even if I haven't fully discovered it. I have spent so much of my time logging in and out of that site that it now says that I have visited "too many times to count" (no, not really but it should). 

In the last five days I have had so much free time that I have begun crafting again, sleeping more and my house is cleaner. Plus, and this is a big plus, I have time to exercise, so now I can become less of a person in the areas that I want to (like y butt)! I've spent more time face to face with friends as well --verses logging on to "talk" through a message. Its been nice to catch up on things around the house and the sleep has been great but I have to admit all of those other four hundred "friends" who I cyberly learn from, talk to and share life experiences with, I miss. Its weird not staying up to date on their lives, which is kind of funny because I don't really know them to begin with. 

I don't know what the next twenty-five days will bring and i'm not even for sure if I am looking forward to finding out but whatever it may be, it''ll be nice to say that I finished something that I set out to do!

Sleeping on Her Own: An Update

It took only two nights of moaning and groaning before Vada understood what bedtime means. 

On the first night she cried and yelled for me, "MaMa! MaMa!", she even knocked on her bedroom door (which is too close to her crib for her not to knock on it). I watched in on her on the the t.v. as she cried helplessly for me to come cuddle with her and it felt as if my heart was being squeezed  tightly but through it all, it also felt like this was the right time to be weaning her from the semi-co-sleeping situation we had put ourselves into.

Night two was much like night one only she found the light/fan switches and realized the cause and affect of her actions. That was fun to secretly watch. The crying lasted only about a third as the first night and while she had gotten up from where I had aid her, she also laid herself back down and covered herself up once she was bored of playing around.

On the third night I followed the same routine as the two nights prior, we read two books and then I laid her down, covered her up and gave her glow worm a squeeze, I said good night, kissed her nose and walked out. That was it. She stayed where I put her, kissed her glow worm and fell fast asleep only to wake up at six in the morning the next day. It was a beautiful night for me! I slept soundly and my heart was at ease. My littlest of littles had finally earned how to go to seep on her own, she is growing up!

Ever now and again i'll look on the t.v. monitor and find her fast asleep in the oddest of positions.., but the crying has stopped and the full nights of sleep have begun!