5 Months!

Aww, look at my cute little family :0)

I can't believe Avery is 5 months old already! She is getting so big! She went to the doctor today for her well baby check up and here are the current measurements:

weight: 17 lbs 11.5 oz

length: 27 inches

head circ: 43.6 cm

The doc said she is doing great and very healthy. She's so healthy, she's making my back hurt today!

Ok, this last picture isn't the clearest or probably the best choice, in fact, her one eye is lookin' kind of crazy but this internet is so slow I'm not putting any more on here!

I have always been so thankful that Avery slept so well and went down so easy but OH MY GOSH she has gone to the dark side. Her naps have been crazy and she gets up all throughout the night. My child who didn't cry at night? She does now. Well, she fusses I should say. This is what I get for saying all that stuff before haha, the Lord has humbled me once again!

Yesterday evening was HARD. She cried most of the evening. I know it was because she was over tired. She barely had any naps yesterday and when she did go down, she wouldn't stay asleep. But the Lord heard my prayers last night lol and gave the both of us some rest. She went down at 8 and only woke up at 3:45 to eat and then got up again at 7:10. Thank goodness!!

She peed on the floor this morning too.

She's watching Good Morning America and eating her foot now. Such a good little girl. I love her so much!

Tea Party!

Avery's cutie patootie bracelet.

Should have pulled her leggings down :0)

I came across this picture today and was reminded that I was skinny once! I remember having to get this tank top at Wal Mart and feeling self conscious because of how tight the shirt was hahaha!! If I only looked like that now! Good thing I'm going to go join the gym today! I lost a ton of weight after Avery was born but I'm pretty sure it all came back. Oops.

The Pioneer Woman has a photography section on her website and she'll have an assignment and people will send in their pictures and win something. Not long ago, she did a "Sisters" assignment and after looking at it all I can say is I hope Avery has a sister. I hope I have a son or sons but I hope Avery has at least one sister. Those pictures were so beautiful. I want Avery to have everything those pictures conveyed.

Must. Have. Another. Baby. Now.

Ok, maybe I'll wait.

We do make purdy babies :0)

And just a little fyi for the future in the event that my brain won't remember when this picture was taken: This was taken by Marco Rodriguez in July of 2003 at the 4th of July powwow in Pawnee, OK.

hOmEmAkInG

Call me Martha Stewart. Ok, I'm not even close but I'm obsessed with all things related to homemaking. Obsessed. I've mentioned this I don't know how many times but I'll just mention it again: living in the cabin gave me a lot of time to read and think. I learned a lot of things I wish I had learned before I was married and am excited to pass these things along to my daughter. In fact, I'm super excited I had a daughter before a son because I'm excited to put the things I've learned into use haha.

Recently I've been working on a homemaking binder for myself, which I'm super excited about but I can't find my 3 whole punch so I can't get the papers in the binder. Bummer. I could but it wouldn't look very neat.

I love love love menu planning. It makes our meal times so much easier for me. I love to already know what we'll be eating for the next 2 weeks. It makes my grocery shopping easier too. Love it. I don't have to stand in my kitchen wondering what the heck I'm going to make for dinner. I can't stand that. Let me clarify: I HATE IT. I don't have a love of cooking but I have a love of cooking for my family. I love that my husband comes home to a home cooked meal. I'm glad to provide that for him and at one time I wasn't. Not that I didn't want that for him before but I never thought about it really. Prime example of what that time in the cabin has done for me. And there are lots more.

I love learning cleaning tips, organizing tips, cooking tips, decorating tips, family fun ideas...anything. Homemaking has become my passion. I'm not good at it by any means yet but I'm learning and that's what matters. I'm trying to keep my home clean and clutter free. Trying is the key word here...

This all stems from the Proverbs 31 woman and learning about her. She does her husband good all the days of his life and her children praise her. Her life is her home but she works too. There's a lot to learn from her. I believe *gasp* that a woman's place is in the home but if circumstances are so that she needs to work, then her home should be her priority before her work. I have no beef with women working outside the home at all but I believe her heart should be her home and family above all else.

Also, Titus 2 talks about the older women teaching the younger women. I love that. I am now in that position with Avery and I hope to do well. Maybe someday I can help younger women prepare too.

Well, that's my soap box for today! I'm just really thankful that I'm able to stay home with my girl. I don't know that I've ever been so content. I'm trying to soak it all up because when David goes back to school, I'll probably have to work. So I'm relishing in these days of not working :0)

Anywho, got a new video up of Avery. She was supposed to be napping and I could hear her all the way in the living room without the monitor. After I turned the camera off, she heard the beep and she popped her head up but she went to sleep shortly afterwards.

ViDeO

As usual she was noisy and having fun and I tape her she stops and turns away from me! Check it out on youtube!

Been Playing Around

I love to play around with Photoshop.

Avery's feeling alot better. Noisy and squirmy as ever!

So Sad :(

My girl is not feeling well today at all. I don't think her ear infection has cleared up. She was getting better but now she's messing with her ear again, alot today. She's very fussy too. I decided I don't want to take her to the doctor for them to tell me her antibiotic isn't working and give her a different one or something so I made an appointment with a chiropractor. They also have a naturopath in their clinic too!

Part of me wants to take her to the doctor today because she's so sad but I'm just going to comfort her as best I can today and get her in to the chiro tomorrow. I know that'll be better for her than pumping her full of antibiotics. It's also cheaper for me to take her to the chiro than the doctor too...yay!

I sure hope we can get her over this. She was getting better but now she's not and I want my happy baby back.

Just Blabbing

I've got errands to run but Avery's sleeping so I'm waiting patiently for her to wake up.

She had a horrible case of yeast on her butt that I have almost cleared up with coconut oil. I've been using it on myself which has helped the pain I had. Iplan to take it internally also. I seemed to have lost my tea tree oil so I washed all of our laundry and added vinegar to it to kill the yeast. Wiped down her bed with vinegar (made my room smell yuck) and all her toys too. I've been on probiotics (need to take them more regularly though). I had probiotics called in for Avery but haven't picked them up yet. I'm also putting pads down for her to lay on so I don't have to change her bedding all the time. This way I'm reducing the chances for her to be re-infecting herself. Now if I could get the carbs under control maybe we can kick this stupid yeast! It's better though!

If I can't get this cleared up by doing the above mentioned methods we'll move on to grapefruit seed oil.

That's pretty much all that's going on in my neck of the woods.

Such a Good Girl

Crib!

Daddy is just so dang comfy!

Feeling Better

Someone recently found her feet. And as I'm typing this, she figured out she can pull her sock off.

My happy girl is back! Thank goodness!!! I was gonna go crazy :0)

So Comfy...

Here's Avery and her dad watching the movie The Last Airbender. This also documents her going to sleep. Here she's just hanging out.

And here she is sucking her thumb. Getting nice and cozy.

And she finally passes out.

Changing Table

Got Avery's changing table today! I'm really happy with it. Nice and sturdy! The crib is on it's way!!!! So excited!

Money. Yuck.

Ok, I've been thinking about ways to make extra money. Eventually David is going to go to school and as he gets higher up on his courses, he may not be able to work full time. I don't mind working but ideally, I'd work as little as possible or find a way for Avery to stay home with David while I work. Which may be hard if he's having to study. I absolutley DO NOT want to leave Avery in a daycare. So I've been trying to come up with ways I can bring in money from home.

I found something today that is pretty neat. It's getting paid to write articles and then the company licenses the articles to other people to be used on websites or wherever. I had to submit an article for them to review. We'll see if they accept me. I hope so because it'd be easy.

I also think I will sell things on Ebay. Too bad I took so much junk to the DI. Ugh.

I'll just have to pray that God plops something into my lap :)