So let me start with a few updates. Sadie Marie is now 13 months olds and is running, jumping, and pitching fits all over the place! She can throw a West fit like nobody's business. (West fit is what my daddy call them because his side of the family is famous for them!) She's also been in Alabama for a month with my mom so I could focus on work and she be RURNT. Rurnt is like ruined with a URNT on the end. She is spoiled to all get out and I already warned her sitter in VA that she is going to have her hands full! I missed the little nugget like crazy though and fits and all she cracks me up. I love her so much I doubt I ever let her leave me again regardless of how busy I am at work! Here are some new pictures of the nugget.
If you're think we look fantastic in this photo it's because we do. She totally airbrushed them! I am not that tan!
The nuggster LOVES a balloon and Auntie Juju of course!
I'm kidding. Even if I could I don't think he and I would have much to talk about over lunch and I'm sure my smart ass mouth would offend Michelle's prim self.
We then walked down to China Town, to the Verizon Center, over to the Museum of Natural History, and finally the Archives. BOOM. D.C. in a Day courtesy of April Airhart. Here are some pictures:
We got real dressed up. It was hot don't be judgey!
So after Reagan left it was time to shift to commencement mode for real, the next week I literally worked from the time I woke up, until the time I went to bed every day and I got to do it from the Gaylord National Hotel in National Harbor, MD. It was great but exhausting. The Gaylord is a convention center and its HUGE. I walked more than 5 miles around that place on Thursday and Friday just working!! It literally took me a full blown week to recover from that crap! I have no idea how the pregnant peeps I work with did it!
So after all this excitement the week after commencement was terribly quiet. I missed the nugget so much and I was just antsy to get back to her. In an attempt to keep busy and pass the time, I got my ass in gear and finally finished her year one photo album, her baby book, AND TADA!!!! I finished decorating her room. I know right, I'm so awesome it only took me 9 months and one year to do it! Our theme: OWLS! I didn't really want or have a theme at first but I'm hooked on owls. All the patterns are so cute so I ordered a owl light switch cover, and did some other artsy stuff to make her room complete. Here's my craft of the week......wait for it........
Owl book ends. Here's what you do:
Buy two ceramic owls you can paint yourself for 3 bucks.
Paint the owls.
Realize the owls don't weigh enough to be bookends.
Rack your brain for a solution.
Realize putting sand in them won't work since you have no way to plug their butts.
Decide batteries are heavy and will just fit through the hole on the bottom.
Realize even full of batteries they still aren't heavy enough
Pout for 45 minutes
Try to get the batteries out
EPICALLY FAIL.
Lose about 30 bucks in batteries to owl butts
Decide to try to find some wooden book ends to attach them too
Decide to do it later
Don't finish the project.
Leave the owls in their place on top of the bookshelf and pretend they work
DONE.
That was not so hard was it?
JEEZ. I was so pissed. I spent an entire afternoon painting them, realizing they were not heavy enough, and deciding batteries were the way to go only to be thwarted by all of Sadie Marie's books who are CLEARLY smater than I. Awesomeness. It's OK, I have a solution I just need to get motivated again to finish it! Luckily I was just discouraged enough to quit for a while and resume my project the next weekend but we got a little tipsy for a friends birthday after a full blown tourist day in Old Town Alexandria so I got out of the project for the time being. I will finish when I get home from the beach and I'm fully ready to take this crap back on. I will kick some ceramic owl ass mark my words.
So we've been in Selma since Wednesday and I cannot WAIT to get to the beach. It will be the nuggets first trip, my first trip with a baby, and our first trip as a family since I can't even remember. The entire fam is going and now I'm hoping I can persuade them to leave earlier rather than later since I have been up since 5 AM. I'm thinking a 9 AM departure is a good time to leave. Hopefully the nugg will sleep most of the way as she has become quite annoyed with her carseat.
I'm not supposed to turn her around to face forward until she's two. WTF. Don't they be knowing kids are curious!?! Especially my child, she's nosy as all get out! She about breaks her neck trying to look out the window! I do not love that rule and have contemplated breaking it since she is 30 inches tall but Airhart won't have it. He so protective but it's sweet so I just let it ride. I'm trying to learn to do that more and not be such a stickler for things to go my way (the right way of course) so let's see how the beach trip goes. I will let y'all know if I need a vacation after we get back!
Love y'all!
A
