9 months

you know when I first found out I was pregnant I thought i would be able to do all of this awsome stuff. like write a letter every month to my little appleseed until she was born. And then write a letter everymonth with updates to her till her first birthday....obviously that didn't happen.

SO i made a new goal. I will write her a letter every year on her birthday.

but because I am a proud momma...I will post her 9 month stats

weight 15.9 pounds (yes she is a peanut)

Height 22 inches (and she's short lol)

Hair strawberry blonde

eyes blue

She crawls says momma and dada and bables. She pulls up and cruises the furniture.

I love my daughter so much :)

Momma saves money...and the little tike giveaway adventure

Well...I assume my readers know I have entered a giveaway for an awsome toy for penny for christmas...if not go here and check it out

http://mommyvsmoney.blogspot.com/2010/10/little-tikes-neighborhood-market-review.html

Anyhoodle....my stratagy is hard core this time. any and all ways of uping my chances I do.

blogs stustus updates on the facebook...and twitter.

Which i never really wanted to do in the first place.....but oh...I totally opend and account for the giveaway! lol

Do I think I will win?

it depends on when you ask me.

Sometimes I am so sure I will win that i am all "YES! We will win and christmas this year will be EPIC!!!"

and then sometimes I'm all" meh...if we win that's awsome and if we don't it's ok too"

and then sometimes I am all
"I know we won't win and that sucks! but damnit i will do everything in my power to try!!!"

Le sigh!

*crosses fingers* gawd I hope we win!

What did you do today?

We went for a walk and watched the koi fish swim. We feed the duckies. We put our feet in the pool and splashed in the water.



We ate spagetti and listend to The Beatles in honor of John's birthday.



We played in bed and made cookies.



so what did you all do today :)

Myspace Facebook twitter...ohhh my

I started out on myspace...It took about a year but once I got the hang of it...i loooved it.

I loved blogging, I love decorating my profile page. I loved uploading pictures...

and then facebook came along and myspace became...welll...kinda like the slums.

Empty with the exception of struggaling artist and shady characters.

but I do still love me some myspace.

Then came face book which was cool since i have a lOOOT of family on there.

and now to twitter. I can't write as much as I would like but I do like usiing it to be able to Tweet about giveaways.

Sigh

the whole social networking age has officially taken over...

what in the world di we do before cell phones and voicemail and caller ID and social networks.

Sometimes I miss the days when you could just write a letter (ok fine email) or call someone and if they werent home or avalible...they would just have to call back.

And the second one

http://mommyvsmoney.blogspot.com/2010/10/little-tikes-neighborhood-market-review

I love this lady!

Here reviews are awsome and spot on.

and her giveaways are to die for...as a matter of fact...

I have in fact won the cutest pair of shoes ever for penny when she was a wee one.

and now here i am again...

crossing my fingers and hoping for the luck of the irish!

Mommy saves money blog giveaway!

http://mommyvsmoney.blogspot.com/2010/10/little-tikes-neighborhood-market-review.html


HOLY CRAP!!!

Like seriously how stinkin cute is this??

SO let me tell you why I so badley want to win this.

As you guys know D just got a job.

but being out of work and taking a paycut...

We are broke financially.

which means christmas this year...just aint gonna happen.

Do you know how much it sucks to not be able to get your 1 year old (ok 11 month old) a christmas gift when everyone else will be?

No she wont notice..but we would.

Soooo If I win this...the box goes into the top of the closet so on christmas eve night mommy and daddy can put it together...and put it up next to the tree.

keep those fingers crossed folks!

Oh what i want to be...

Does anyone remember that song?

Oh what I want to be...
What I want to be...
When I grow up to be big me!

OK yeah...I'm a dork (it's from an old kidsongs video btw)

But it got me thinking

What do I want to be.

I want to be creative.

I love taking pictures...especially of my family.

My facebook page has literally HUNDREDS of pics of us (OK of penny mostly)

today penny was using her walker as a jungle gym. I snapped about 5 pics and uploaded them to her 8 month album (yes I have them all separated by age with the first 6 months condensed. I will do the same when she turns a year. and I swear not to post more than 1 time a month after she turns one!)

The thing is I have family who I never ever get to see on facebook and I looove that my grandparents (who i see MAYBE 1 time a year) get to see her "growing up".

But could I be a good photographer? probably not.

i can't draw or paint. I play the piano OK and my singing voice...well lets say I am average. I am not great but i wouldn't send Simon to psycho ward either.

I am slightly crafty but nothing special. I can make a badd azz tutu...but everyone I know can make those and if you type baby tutu into google a bazzilion sites come up selling the things.

I want to be a teacher.

That's what I want. That's why I got my degree.

But that is still about 4 years away. I knew I wanted to stay home when the baby was born.

and If we have another before she starts school (or after) I will want to stay home then as well.

So what do i want to be.
What makes me special?

I don't know.

But penny does.
And so does my husband.

And to me...that's all that matters.