Better eat those Wheaties

So for the first five months of her life, Chloe did not fight me on going to bed or taking naps or anything. I think it would have been easier if she had. Because somewhere, she developed a will and it's much harder for her to learn now than I think it would have been earlier. So I had put her down for her nap determined that I was going to be more stubborn than she. I could hear her crying and was trying to keep myself busy with washing the dishes because it's much easier if I have a task that I'm working on. Well, things got quiet so I went to peek in to make sure that she was asleep and this is what I saw. If you look closely, you can see that she had been crying. But, she was quite proud of herself at this point. And guess what, she won. I can't leave her in there now because the mattress needs to be lowered so that she won't tumble out. No worries, I have a pack-n- play and at the moment, she's safely placed inside and I'm writing this to the sound of her cry. I'm saved from the infant out smarting me for now. I'm not sure if all of this is early or not but it's way earlier than Emma did all of this. I just knew that Chloe would be late moving around because she's so laid back. She's still pretty laid back but she's got some of that strong spirit that is inevitably in her genes. I have no idea where that comes from ;). She's quieting down. Maybe I should go check and make sure she's not in there doing cartwheels.


And kudos to mommy for winning the first battle of the day



Blessings,
Dana

PS: make sure you scroll down and see the video of her saying Mama.

Chloe says Mama

I know I'm doing a lot of videos but you probably just need to get used to it. This is the point where I want to run a video camera non stop. She is changing daily. Anyway, I'm sure that some point, I'm going to want a hiatus from my professional job title ;). But, for now, it makes my heart melt. You may need to turn my music off to hear this. Scroll to the bottom of the page and push the pause button that is in the upper left corner of my playlist box.

Blessings,
Dana

She's Got It Now

Seven Months!

Nana's Visit

Adam had his class at Lipscomb last week and Nana came and stayed a whole week. We had a wonderful time and I owe her my life because I'm pretty sure that a whole week by myself with a baby and a kid with a broken leg would have done me in. Plus, she helped me catch up on all the house work. We had a wonderful Easter. It was freezing but the girls wore their dresses anyway. Chloe was all in to the Easter basket. And since the last video, she is crawling all over the house. I was trying to figure out a way to post all of the Easter pictures without making you have to scroll for days. I just picked out a few. I have to tell you about the one where Emma has blue lips. We were dying Easter eggs and we had one of those kits that has the little tablets that you dissolve in water and vinegar. Well, Emma thought they were candy. Don't worry, they are non toxic. I checked. I'm also including some other pictures from March since this is the end of the month.

Blessings,
Dana

Emma giving Chloe her first baby food-- carrots


Just a nice sunny day-- hopefully there will be more soon!


Just like their daddy-



Nana and the girls

Easter- You should be able to click and make
them larger.

Chloe Trying to Crawl to Nana

The girls and I went to Columbus to get Lynn today. She is staying the week with us while Adam is gone to his class at Lipscomb. I'm very thankful for that! I was really getting nervous about being here with the girls by myself with Emma having the broken leg. Well, when we got back, I put Chloe down in the floor to show Lynn her new yoga pose "The downward dog". Well, Lynn got her going and she was cracking us up. I don't know if she knew what she was doing but it looked for all the world like she was shaking her head no at us telling us she couldn't do it. I'm going to have to give her the "I am American" speech. That's what I tell Emma when she says, "I can't" Then I say, "you are an American. The last four letters of American are I can". I know it's cheesy but that's what my gymnastics teacher used to say to me and it has always stuck. Hmm, I wonder if he'd still say that to me about doing a back hand spring now? Anyway, the clip is kind of long. We actually cut it as much as we could but there was just too much cuteness to leave any more out.

My Plan is better than Bush's plan

Ok, I have two different things on my mind here and I think that they are related but I'm not actually sure. But for now, I think this going to be pretty long, so I'm going to touch on one and I'll do a part two later. This will probably end up being one of those posts that is just my stream of conscience. I'm not promising great writing here. So those of you that are fiercely loyal friends and family and read everything that I post no matter what because you want to support me, thank you so much! I value your friendship and appreciate your support. But, if this bores you, I won't feel betrayed if you don't read it all. Every now and then, I get something on my mind and I end up laying awake at night trying to form a strategy (like someone in Washington is going to hear it) so I'm hoping that getting it down in writing might help me sleep tonight.

Bush's Plan
This is my general synopsis of the plan. I may be a little off on the details but this is the general idea. The federal government is going to give each working individual a $600 rebate to help stimulate the economy. They are also going to give families $300 for each child. There was also something I heard about working couples getting $1200 so I'm not sure exactly what that means. I don't know if we will get $1200 because Adam's working plus $300 for each kid. Or is we'll just get $600 because I'm not working. Either way, I'll take the money if they're giving it. It will probably end up paying for a cast. They say that this plan will amount to more than $152 billion.

My Plan
I think a better plan would be to offer individuals between 50 and 57 $200 thousand a year for five years to retire early, with the stipulation that they can only save 20% of that money and the rest has to be put back into the economy with spending. This would accomplish Bush's plan of priming the economy but it would also provide more job availability and perhaps help in the future of elderly people because over the course of those five years, they should be able to put $100,000 in savings and pay for everything that they own. Ok, now I'm sure you are curious about the age range. Well, 1) it only needs to be a small segment of the population 2) An individual can start receiving early retirement benefits at 62 so that would give them at least five years until they'd be receiving any other money from the government. I'm sure that an economist could tear this apart. But, they can Bush's plan too and it's going to happen. So there you have it. So all of you important people that I have reading my blog ha! When you rub elbows with Mr. President. Send him to the little stay at home mom's blog. She's got it all figured out for him!

Now off to one of those dirty diapers.

Blessings,
Dana

Announcements Anyone?

I've been saying for a while now that I'd like to take a class on graphic designing. I think it would be neat if I could perfect my photography and combine that with my hobby of editing pictures and such and one day open an "Everything Pictured" business where I made my own invitations and announcements and stuff. Well, I haven't taken a class yet so I'm sure that this could be better but I started looking at my own birth announcements and others that I have received lately and decided I would give it a shot. So, tell me what you think. And, if you want to take a chance, send me some pictures and I'll see what I can come up with for you. I think I could make them for pretty cheap.

Blessings,
Dana

4 New Posts

There are four new posts below. A lot has happened in the past few days. Chloe turned six months old, Emma broke her leg, my mom found out her sprang ankle was actually broken. Guess Emma is like her grandma. So keep on scrolling.

Six Months!

Since Chloe was born on the 30th, we didn't have an actual six month birthday. I guess that made her six months on the 1st. The only picture I got on the first was the one of her with Emma in her cast. These pictures where taken on the 2nd. That'll just have to be close enough.

She's rolling from front to back and back to front. She's getting up on her hands and knees and gets pretty frustrated when the only movement she can make is going backwards. She started babbling dada when Adam got to mom's on the 19th. That was a great way for Adam to be greeted. She has said both momma and emma a couple of times but daddy is definitely her favorite word. I've been trying to catch it on video so I can post it. She's sitting up and playing with toys and is just as busy as can be. The next six months is probably one of my favorite stages. I don't want to rush it but it's fun waiting to see what they're going to do next.

Blessings,
Dana