How is January already coming to a close?

I feel like ever since Lacey was born that time has gone by so quickly. Maybe it is from the lack of sleep. Maybe it is because 90% of the time I love doing what I do. Maybe it is because Lacey keeps me busy almost all of the time. Whatever it is, time sure has flown by. I can't believe that our trip to Utah was a month ago. It feels like we are still getting back into the rhythm of being home.

It's weird, some days drag, but then looking back on the week I can't believe that I have already made it to another weekend. As always, I have high hopes for this weekend. Not because we have anything special planned, but just because I love being able to spend time with both Scott and Lacey.

I love having another adult around to have a normal conversation with. I love having another adult around to help out with the ins and outs of Lacey's life. I love being with the guy I get to spend the rest of my life with. I am really liking my life right now, time just seems to keep going by quicker.

I bring out her needy side

I don't know what it is, but Lacey is so much more needy around me then she is around Scott. We are slowly figuring out the whole sleeping through the night thing, but she still usually wakes up at least once. If I go in she wants to be held and rocked and then she wants to play. If Scott goes in, then she will take her binky, lay back down and let him rub her back until she falls back asleep. Thankfully Scott is a great sport and he is more than happy to get up and help in the middle of the night. For the first 13ish months of her life I always nursed her back to sleep when she woke up in the middle of the night, so Scott wasn't every really able to help me late at night. I guess now is his time to shine because it takes him 5 minutes or me 20 minutes to get her to go back to sleep.

I'm not huge on the whole cry-it-out thing. First of all, we share a wall with Lacey so if she is crying it isn't like I can sleep. Secondly, it just scares me. What if she is in pain or needs me? I don't want to just ignore her. That being said, I don't usually go in until she is full on crying, no need to bother her when she is just a little fussy and working on falling back to sleep.

Did I teach her this whole needy thing? Or is it just because I am the person who is home all day with her? I am the one to comfort her, feed her, play with her the majority of the time. Is that why she acts so much more needy around me? I just haven't been able to figure it out.

New Project

I once saw a really cute stop-motion animation and since then I have always wanted to give it a try. I have finally come up with an idea, and now I just need to put the idea into motion. I bet it is going to take me a lot longer to do than I am thinking it will. I am hoping to have it done in a couple of weeks. Once I finish it, I will post it. Now I just need to find as many tips as I can before I start.

This is my life

Lacey entertained herself for almost 30 minutes just doing this over and over again. Suprisingly she didn't even get hurt. (You can also view the video here if it didn't load)

Girl Scout Cookies

So... every year around this time of year my landlord puts in an order for girl scout cookies. He seriously is the nicest guy ever. Last year I looked up a list of girl scout cookies and put in our order. I wanted the lemon cookies, but what I got was not what I was expecting. I learned the hard way that different regions have different cookies available. I was so sad when I opened the box (or two) of the lemon cookies that I had been dreaming of just to find out that they are not the same cookies you can get in Utah.

I even looked into buying some online.... they were $13.00 a box. Seriously? The worst part was I was actually considering buying a box.

I now officially have both my mom and sister on the lookout for girl scouts selling Savannah Smiles. I can't get them here, and it's almost girl scout cookie season. I just have to remind myself that in a couple years we will be back in Utah and I can buy all the lemon cookies I want.

ps... the Somoa cookies (they are called caramel delights here) are also so much better in Utah.

It's the simple things

When we moved out to Wisconsin we didn't have a microwave. We got by pretty well without one for an entire summer. Then at the end of the summer we helped a couple move into their place, which happened to have a microwave and they offered to give us theirs. It was so nice of them to give us the microwave, we had forgotten how much we were missing out on. Fast forward a year, the same couple moved again but into a bigger place. The new place didn't have a microwave, and they asked for the one we were using back.

After a day or two without having a microwave we thought we were going to die and bought our own microwave. We picked the smallest, cheapest one at Target. Well, I guess you get what you pay for, but about a year ago (when the microwave was only about 6 months old) it started to spark when you used it. It only started to spark maybe one out of twenty times that we would use it. So we just kept on using it and would just stop it when it would start to spark. (We'll probably end up with cancer or something from doing this) Well, a week or two ago it really started to spark. It was so bad we thought that we had caught our microwave on fire. That was the last time we used that microwave.

I only had to go a couple days without a microwave, but it was HARD.  I had to heat up our left overs on the stove, or in the oven, it was so slow, and a lot more work. I didn't know if I could survive without a microwave so we went ahead and invested in a nicer one. Okay by nice I mean we chose a very midline model. Let's just hope that this one will last longer than the last one we bought did.

Getting out all her energy

I feel like it is so cold here, so the only time we ever really get out of the house is when we go nanny. I think Lacey is starting to feel a little cooped up from being indoors all day long.

Our friends invited us over for dinner tonight. After dinner we set Lacey down while the grown-ups all talked. She went crazy. Their apartment isn't any bigger than ours, but she was running from the kitchen to the hallway, back to the kitchen over and over again. She was cracking up and screaming and just having a blast while she was running around. She seriously makes our lives so much more fun.

Then as she was running she bumped into something and fell. She bumped her mouth pretty good on Scott's knee  on the way down and there was a little bit of blood and some crying involved. She's a trooper though, after a couple minutes and a quick mouth examination she was ready to do a few more sprints. These are the moments that I wonder what I ever did to deserve such a fun little girl. Can you tell that she has me wrapped around her little finger?