Artsy Fartsy

I decided to make a sketch of Lizzy based on one of my favorite pictures of her. Once it was on the computer I messed around with it a bit. Here are some pictures.

Terri

The Fuzz

As you may have seen in my earlier posting, my hair is now very short. It is in fact shorter then Patrick's hair. It is shorter then Lizzy's hair. It is the shortest it has ever been. Patrick is working on being a long haired hippy so at the momment his hair is longer then Lizzy's and mine combined. I went out and bought some new earrings today so I look a little less manish. This short hair is making me feel like I have to go the extra mile to exert my feminity. Holding Lizzy and thinking about the fact that she spent nine months inside my body is a very effective reminder of my womanhood.

She has been my little angel lately. She has just started rolling over again. Now though she rolls from her back onto her stomach. We have to be extra carefull where we put her nw since she dosen't just stay put. She is upstairs with Patrick right now and I can hear her crying, so I'm going to end this and go up to her.

Terri

Head Cold

Since early yesterday afternoon I have been experiancing an interesting phenominan. My hed has been cold. On Tuesday night I made a challenge for myself. The deal was if I gave in to my Trichotillomania OCD before Wednesday's councelling appointment I would have to shave my head. So yesterday after lunch I stood facing the mirror with scizors in hand. It was drastic but I actually like it more then I expected. My head is chilly though. Patrick was stunned when he came home and saw me without any hair. I have often said that if a dye job or hair cut went terribly I would shave it all off and start from scratch, so this time I didn't wait for the bad hair.

Terri

BOUNCE Bounce bounce

On Tuesday evening I finally got around to setting up the Jolly Jumper for Lizzy. It was well worth the effort. I think she liked it almost as much as she likes bath time. She spent almost half an hour just bouncing away. For those of you who got the video you can see what I mean. It was terribly difficult to get a picture of her since she kept turning so all I got was the back of her head.

I did get one lovely shot of her smiling face. This one is a treasure that will get a place of honour in her album. I am going to have to start a new album of Lizzy pictures the next time I get any printed since I have completly filled one album already. That was more then 120 pictures that I decided to print not counting all the pictures that are just staying on the computer. Oh, how I love having a digital camera! Just wait till you see the picture I plan on using in my next post. It is positivly shocking.

Terri

Sweet Sixteen

Lizzy is over SIXTEEN pounds now! Though I havent been having her weighed at the clinic lately I think that she hit 16 pounds while she was 16 weeks old. She is now 17 weeks old and pushing 17 pounds. This is a neat transition time for her. She will be more weeks old then pounds from now on since she ha been averaging about half a pound per week. I wonder how old she will be when she starts complaining about me announcing her weight to the world.


I had a blast this afternoon taking pictures of her. Some of the poses are OK, but I goofed with the camera settings so the quality is not great. I was trying to get a few good enough to blow up for Christmas presents. I guess I am no Sears Portrait Studio after all. She was good about all the pictures though. I now officially hold Anne Geddy in awe! Maybe one day I will take a photography class and learn how to do it right. I hope you enjoy my efforts.





Terri

Four Thousand Words

Open Mouth, Insert Everything

Lizzy is at the stage now where everything ends up in her mouth. Her left thumb is her favorite chew toy. And I mean Chew Toy quite literally. She gnaws away at her poor thumb. It is a good thing that she doesnt have teeth yet or it would really hurt. The funniest thing is when I am nursing her and she sticks that thumb in her mouth at the same time. She doesnt get much milk but it sure makes her happy. Thumbs are not the only things she likes to chew/suck on though. Her whole hand ends up in her mouth quite often as well as any protuding parts of her toys. She of course likes to stick her pacifier in her mouth, usually backwards, and oddly enough her blankets mysteriously end up soggy too. Whenever she gets ahold of my hand she opens her mouth wide and drags it on in. It is fun to see what she will come up with next.

Terri

Stumble Bum

I hereby declare that I am clumsey. When I shower it is always an adventure playing spot the new bruises. I am in the mood to talk about this because I just bashed my arm as I was sitting down at the computer. I'll know where that bruise came from, others are pure mystery. My sister Kim calls herself "Walks Into Walls," I am "Thunks into Everything." For me an obstacle course would be target practise. When I am carrying Lizzy I try to be VERY carefull of her. So I bang my elbows on door frames, step on things with sharp corners and hit my head on whatever it can reach.

I am not too clumsy with Lizzy, she takes care of it all on her own. Have you ever seen a baby yank on her own ear and then cry because for some reason her ear hurts? She also likes to grab hold of her toys, or whatever is within reach, and mush them into her face. I was watching her while she was falling asleep earlier today and she must have mushed things into her face at least twenty times before she finally dozed off. Perhaps she does it in an effort to stave off sleep. She will often cry for about a minute and then suddenly crash into a power nap. She is surely going to be one f those kids who get cranky when they are too tired. At least she wakes up happy. This makes her forgiving when she is awake and I am snuggled up next to her begging her for a few more minutes of sleep.

Oh, I just remembered that I meant to have her weighed and measured again today. Well, I might get to it tomorrow. I can already tell you that she is getting big. I think she must be close to 16 pounds now. I could always find out by stepping onto my scale with her. It is not as accurate but close enough perhaps.

Terri

Other People's Blogs

I usually take a few minutes before I write my Blog to look at a few others. I have been following my sister's Blog quite closely lately.
http://www.xanga.com/SheWalksThisWay
It helps keep me interested that she mentions me now cand then. I also like to read random blogs. Some are jewls, some are dirt. Thank you to all of you who take the time to read what I have to say.
I would stay and tell you more but it is bath night. Yay, I love bath night.

Terri

Lizzy and I had a blast just after Patrick got home from work today. I had been holding her up so she could stand and she was happy about that. I decided to try something new though. I was sitting on the floor with my back up against the couch and I lifted her up over my head and put her on my shoulders. She was content there, but when I tried to lift her back over my head she kept getting stuck. Patrick wouldn't help, he was just laughing at us. Lizzy was having the time of her life. In the past she has laughed a little ha ha, but never when Patrick was around to hear it. While she was stuck on my head she was laughing her little head off. Although my arms got tired it was worth it.

I also went out with my friend Shaun to see the movie Stranger Then Fiction. I thought it was great and would recomend it to everyone.

Terri

Remembering

Since today is Remembrance day I have been devoting some time to thinking about the sacrifices people have made in the past to keeping our country free and safe. I am grateful that Lizzy gets to grow up in a place where her rights are respected. I may rile against the military bent of our government and especially against the USA's military policy, but I acknowledge that sometimes diplomacy and posturing is not always enough. Though WWI still baffles me I totally understand the need to stand and fight in WWII. In more recent events I support the decision to step in and take action against the Taliban in Afghanistan. The human rights violations that were being committed in that country and by them to other countries justified outside intervention.
So thank you to the soldiers who in the past, present and future have stepped up to the plate to protect humanity from itself.

Terri

Ho Ho HO!

Lizzy laughed at me today. She was grinning her little head off and making happy noiseswhile I played with her legs and then out came a little ha ha. It was marvelous. We went to the mall today and I carried her in the snuggly since there was too much snow on the sidewalks for the buggy. She seemed to like it. She snuggled in and went to sleep. It was akward having her sticking out in front of me but she was warm and happy. There were lots of admierers for her at the mall. They are offering free flu shots to Patrick and I so that we dont make Lizzy sick. I am not sure yet if I will go for it. I still have a while to decide. I have never had a flu shot, and I have never had the flu, but I want to protect Lizzy. It seems odd to me somehow. I don't want any more things floating in my blood stream then I need. I guess I need to think about it some more.

Terri

All Thumbs

Lizzy is sitting on my lap and sucking her thumb at the momment. For some reason she almost always chooses to suck her left thumb. I wonder if this means that she is left handed. Work went well yesterday. I got there early enough to review the produce codes and read all of the memos from the last four months. All two of them. It was quiet in the store so I also got a chance to catch up with some of my co-workers. My friend Shaun met me after work and we went for pitas. I don't get out much now that I have Lizzy so it was nice to see him. I printed up 110 pictures of Lizzy so some of you may be getting photos in the mail.

On another note, the site counter is now at 633. On October 7 it was 468, so that means there have been 165 hits in the past month. Thanks for stopping by.

Terri

Things are Going Swimmingly

I am so excited! Today Lizzy and I got signed up for swimming lessons. They don't start until January, but I am already giddy with anticipation. I am more excited about swimming with Lizzy then I am about Christmas. And I love Christmas. I get to swim with my little girl! Yay! This is me estatic! Too many exclimation marks you think? Well too bad! Lizzy and I are going swimming! Two and a half months is a long time for me to wait but in the mean time we have our bath time.
I am traditionally the kind of person who waits until the eve of a birthay of holiday to buy gifts or arrange things not because I am lazy but because if I do it too soon I don't wait. It is kind of like Haloween candy, if you buy it early you just eat it. Patrick has recieved many "Happy I Love You" gifts when I couldn't wait for his birthday or Christmas. I don't know how I will wait when the treat is not something I can give out early. It is almost reminiscient of being Pregnant. I have the big day circled on the canander and I just get to cross off days until it gets here. I think Lizzy is going to love swimming in a pool. As I already said, I am so excited!

Terri

Haloween

As I said, we were all feeling under the weather on Haloween. Hard to do too since the weather was about -10 C. These were our costumes. Next year I hope to make them more elaborate. Next year will be too early for this great costume idea but eventually I would like to be about 8 months pregnant on Haloween so I can go as a big fat happy buddha.

For the Birds

It snowed last weekend and the lazy birds flocked to our feeder rather then scratching through the snow for seeds and berries. I am glad that they are lazy since it entertains Galidor and us. The polished off all the bird seed in short order though so now they have moved on to fuller feeders.

Terri

Eating Well

I have been avoiding the basement lately. It is always the coolest part of the house and with this rotten cold I wanted to stay warm. I started to feel beter a few days ago but I still feel exhausted and run down. My eating habits always deterioriate when I get sick and with me using the best of what I do eat to feed Lizzy I am left to get well on crap. So I have been feeling too rotten to follow the walk to lose weight plan, but the pounds are melting off anyway.
Enough about that. Work was insane on Sunday. I kept getting my start time confused so instead of showing up with 20 minutes to review codes and catch up on everything I was 10 minutes late. Not a good way to impress the boss after being off for four months. I did not have time for any review and it was way too busy to use a till for practise. I jumped on cold and found that I remembered most of the codes and everything. I still can't remember broccoli crowns though. In my entire 4 and 1/2 hour shift I never had a moment without a line up. I did have several customers who remembered me and who were happy to see me back already. It was tough to be away from Lizzy, but nice to get out. Even though the decision is made and I am working again I am still debating weather it was the right decision. I do like my work though and Lizzy is with Patrick, not just dumped into daycare. It is not much money, but feeling that I am earning something helps me feel like more of a partner in this family.
Patrick and I finished carving pumpkins on Monday but with both of us sick it was a half hearted effort. Patrick stayed home from work on Monday feeling crummy himself but also helping me out with Lizzy. On Haloween I barely wanted to get out of bed. Eventually I dressed Lizzy up in her costume and painted my face and Patrick's face. We definatly did not go all out and with the cold we just stayed inside. We had somewhere around 40 kids come by trick or treating. They liked the pumpkins. The rest of the week passed in a blur. I will try to post more now that I am feeling a little better.