11 MONTHS!!

Calleigh made 11 months Saturday! She's such a big girl! She also decided to take 8 steps Saturday morning. Since then she's taken a few steps here and there. I love this stage she's at. She's fun and she's learning new stuff every day. Like yesterday she pushed her diaper box up to the front door, stood on the box, and reached for the door knob. Then she got down all by herself and pushed her diaper box around the house. Me and my husband sat on the couch laughing at her for hours yesterday while she played with her toys and that danged box. She even took her own diaper off yesterday! I came out the kitchen to see her naked butt crawling down the hall! I couldn't believe she learned how to do it.
I made her tutu yesterday! It is darling! I don't think I want to post a picture just yet. I want the picture I post to be the professional photo from her one year old photo shoot. I think I'm going Wednesday to do it. Either at Sears or JCPenney. I would love to do it with an actual photographer but the girls out here that I've talked to are super expensive. Today is too late to make an appointment and tomorrow I'm having a root canal. I work Thursday and I don't want to wait until Friday to do it. So hopefully Weds will work out. I'm getting really excited about her party!  

First Birthday Preparations

K so I told ya that I'm doing a ladybug theme right? So I'm going to share some stuff I've been ooogling over.

I plan on making a tutu. I'm just hoping that by the day comes around she can walk so she'll be able to wear it. I'm definitely making it because I will use it for her first year photo. This photo will be on her invite too. So her first year photo will be a few weeks before she's actually one, but that's fine with me. Of course, the tutu will be red and black. Not yellow!
And this darling party hat! I lurve it. I believe it'll be easy to make too. I'll just cover a normal party hat with red cloth, add black dots, some frufru stuff on bottom and top and call it a day! Easy peasy. Hopefully these are simple projects I can start working on now. I just need to get supplies.

I want to do something similar to this cake. Not an exact replica but something similar. I'm actually going to meet with a local baker today to talk about this.








  Or maybe even something like this. Obviously they look similar but the dots are different on the cakes. Yes that's a difference! Ohhh I love cake and I can't wait to see what we come up with.







Okay ignore all of the picture but the pom-pom things hanging! I will make some of these. I will..I will..I will...Okay well maybe I might enlist the help of a crafty friend but how hard can this be?

Yeah I suck at this!

Keeping up with two blogs is kinda hard! It's been about 2 weeks since I posted here last so I'll give y'all an update!
Calleigh has taken a few steps! My child is growing up! ahhh!!!
She can high five!
She can clap!
She can give you the sweetest kisses eva!

She'll be 11 months old Saturday and I believe I shall cry! She can't be turning a year old next month, can she? How can this little baby

Turn into this?

I've started planning her birthday party and I'm going with..................LADYBUGS! Yeah I know it's a bit overdone but omg I love it! And for the next 10 to 12 years she'll be requesting cartoons and stuff. So I can do what I want this year!

How many straws does it take to break the donkeys back?

The past few days have been really hard emotionally on me. Like stress wise I'm on a level 14. I can't even explain without making this a 1000 word entry. It's just so many little things that have been adding up and I have no body to really talk to them about. Last night I broke down and called my BFF at 10:30 before I went to a bar in my pj's to drown my sorrows. Thankfully, she stopped me. I don't think anyone wanted to see a crazy lady in her pj's. I talked to her for about an hour or so and I admit I felt relieved to talk about it but not anywhere close to feeling better. She thinks that stopping my hormone pills before I was supposed to has something to do with it but if it does it's a very small part. I have so much stuff on my plate and nobody understands. I don't even want to bore y'all with the details.

I just wish me and my baby could get away for a few days. She always makes me feel better. It's like her smile and giggles have magical healing powers. Her sweet kisses and hugs can wash all my stress away for the time being. I'm so glad I'm off tonight. I'm in desperate need of some play time with Calleigh. Hopefully this weekend rejuvenates me because honestly I don't know how much more I can take :(

OMG How could I have forgot to post this?!?!

Last Friday Calleigh had her 9 month well baby check up. Even though she is already 10 months old. I guess her pedi's office is SO busy. Anyway. On to her stats.
Length: 30 inches (WHAAAAAAAAT???)
Weight: 20 lbs 13 ounces
Head: 18 inches

FIRST OF ALL....WHO OKAYED HER TO GROW TO 30 INCHES?!?!??!?! Certainly not me. When she was born, she was 21 3/4" and 7lbs 13oz. So in just 10 months she's grown 9 1/4" and 13lbs?
Did you hear that?....The sound of my jaw hitting my desk?

We have a stander!

Standing up!

Calleigh has been standing by herself for a week or two now. Every time I pull my camera out she'll sit down and refuse to stand up again. I finally got some shots last night and I'll share the 2 best here. I've posted the rest on my facebook so if you're my friend on there, you've seen them.

So about the new blog look....my background deleted itself last week so I started playing around with a new one and I couldn't find one I liked. So I started playing around with Blogger's new stuff and kinda tweaked this into something I can work with for a while. I like it. We'll see how long I like it for though. ;)