Down time

We had a busy day yesterday. We make it a point to do something fun together as a family on Valentines Day. Yesterday was no exception.

We had made pland to take the girls to the Detroit Children's Museum with some passes that we got at the library. Well, it was a good thing I checked before we left. We were literally sittting in the van and I opened the passport book. It said that passports weren't valid on the 2nd Saturday of the month. WTF?? So, we quickly made a plan B and headed to Cranbrook Science Museum. It was a ton of fun and we even got free cake in honor of Charles Darwin's birthday. SCORE!

After that, we stopped in at the movie store, hit The Christmas Tree Store and Buy Buy Baby to scope the places out and waste an hour before dinner. We ended up at Don Pablos for an early Valentines Dinner and home to watch our movies. A great night for sure.

Today we are enjoying some down time. Cecelia is napping. The girls are watching more movies and at 3:00 they are going to hit the bathtub so that by 4:00 we can leave for our VERY belated Christmas pictures. I've cancelled about 3 appts for snotty noses and despite the fact that Cece is still a little snotty and has a beautiful rug burn patch on her eye, we are getting pictures taken if it kills us! I just hope everyone cooperates. :)

I didn't run away

though I feel like I might want to.

Its been a busy few weeks over here. I thought February was supposed to be cool calm and collected, but no such luck over here.

~Cecelia FINALLY cut a third tooth (which explains the many sleepless nights I have had in the last month or two and the overabundance of coffee.) She got the top right one and the left is coming in quickly behind. Yep! 16 months and she has 2 half teeth on the bottom and a slight tooth on the top. Its so weird.

~I finished up and mailed in all of my breastfeeding class work. Its done and I have the certificate to prove it.

~I enrolled in my postpartum doula class and am now a member of DONA international.

~It's COOKIE MONTH! We spent this morning at Steak and Shake selling our yummy cookies. I am just hoping that our booth at Kroger on the 22nd does a better job than the one today. We were there a good long time and didn't sell but 28 boxes. The bad news is that we have at least 100 more to sell. Anyone want cookies??

So aside from teeth, cookies and classes I think thats about it. I am trying hard to start spring cleaning, but thats a whole other post. I want to be clutter free soon. Debt free and clutter free. Is there such a thing? I guess only time will tell.....

Until next time.

Can you please take a minute and pray

I have been following a few quad blogs since a friend of mine told me that a girl we went to highschool with was having quads. I am seriously addicted to reading about the daily life of quad families. Its truly a miracle and absolutely amazing to me. Thru the blog I read I have been linked to another. I don't know this family personally, but my heart breaks for them. I can't even begin to imagine.

I hope that its okay with them that I post this here, but please say a prayer for their babies, especially Preston. http://treverjennaeva.blogspot.com/ Thank you!

Got you (Where I want you)

Man, I haven't heard this song in years. Seriously, its been A LONG TIME! When Jay and I started dating, we HAD to have "a song." I think all 18 year old girls need to have a song. We had a hard time picking one. One day I was looking thru Jay's cd collection and found this cd. I knew a lot about music and had never heard of this band. I still don't know a darn thing about them. I don't know a thing about the song and I don't really know all the words. How horrible is that? But I love the slow beginning of it and I love the words that I do know. Had I not been so in love with Aerosmith and had this song not had such a fast beat in the middle I know this would have been our wedding song.

I think this would be prime example of why everyone needs a song. I listen to this song and the memories are flooding back. Is it funnier than hell that I have these little butterflies right now? I know I am weird, but if there is a song related to an event, I can recall the event like it was yesterday. I love music and I love the memories music creates for me.

Thanks Ellisa!

I am getting better and better at figuring out this Blog stuff. I have always wanted music on my blog. One of my friends has music on her blog so I followed the link and set up my own playlist all.by.myself. I am so excited for me. Hope you enjoy the music. Some of my faves. Hopefully I can figure out how to change things up a bit if need be. I'll leave that for another day.

Money saving to the maxx

I am on a mission this year to cut down our spending and to build a stockpile of commonly used products in our house. (buying stuff we don't need is a waste of money, afterall)

I have found CVS and the nifty extra care bucks (ecbs) that they give you for buying products in their store. The beauty is when you have a coupon and they give you free money to spen in their store. Last week after spending $7.40 out of pocket (oop) I got 3 packs of Kotex feminine products, 2 packs of soy joy bars, 4 glade air fresheners, 2 dish soaps and a two pack of toothpaste. (that was like $36 worth of stuff!!) So, needless to say, we are taking advantage of that and I am learning every week how to make the most of my money there.

Today we went to Meijer (Jay has been to Meijer every day this week because we read that they only let you double two identical coupons for ine item) Jay stops every day on the way to and from work because we bought 20 coupons for Chex Mix on ebay. They were for $.50 off and doubled to $1 and it was on sale for $1. Twenty FREE bags of Chex Mix! Can you even imagine?
I can almost gurantee that at least a few will end up in the food basket at church. :)

Anyway, today we went as a family with coupons in hand. I bought only sale items. Even all the meat and produce I bought was on sale (well, excpet the bananas) We spent $98.xx and saved $99.xx. We had over $32 in coupons. I was so very excited! ( I know, its the little things) I guess all the browsing ads and coupons this week really paid off for us!

It's amazing to see how many people- young and old- are shopping for coupons these days. Its so cool to me. And its like free money! LOVE IT!

My big girl

While this might not be the best picture ever taken of Cecelia, its still one of my favorites. She's dirty. She has her teething rash. She has on her Daddy's hat. But dang. Have you ever seen two more beautiful eyes? I used to pay money for contacts that made my eyes that blue. I think they might just be one of her best features.

Cecelia went to her 15 month well baby visit with her Daddy yesterday. She did GREAT! She got one shot (and she never even cried) I had warned Jay that she might cry a little and that he would have to be prepared for lots of hugs and kisses. No tears at all from her, though! Way to go big girl! She weighs 27lbs 5 oz and is 31.75 inches tall. (90% and 95% for her age) She is healthy as can be and was on her best behavior.

Cecelia is signing a few words now. She can do baby, eat, Momma, Daddy, milk and we are working on drink. She is saying a few words, too. Momma, Daddy, Lilly kitty, Whats that, Oh see. She can blow kisses, give high fives, wave hello and goodbye. She calls the birdies to her hand, too. She is walking and almost running, climbing, rolling, laughing and dancing. She can also throw a pretty mean temper tantrum already. I almost forgot how fun this age is!

I am so proud to be Cecelia's Momma. She is such a smart little lady and so sweet and caring, too.