Adventures in La La Land

1. After a very mild August, we had some hot, summer weather this week. We don't have AC, so I made most of our meals in the crock pot. I finally tried the slow cooker breakfast casserole I pinned forever ago. It was muy delicioso! (That's "very delicious" for all you non-Spanish speakers. ;-) ) Photo Credit 2. Of course it was unbearably hot and humid this week, because we had scheduled our garage sale for Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. My sister does a sale every summer. We're really poor so we don't buy stuff, which means we don't accumulate stuff, which means we don't have much to sell. But we managed to find a few things this year. My goal was $10. Haha. I made $25! So I sat out in the 90 degree heat for 3 days to make $25. Ha! It was worth it to spend time with my sister. And Lucy loved  playing with the day care kids every day. 3. Look what I made this week: Look how I made it: Hahaha. I get free baby food from WIC, so it's...

We only did one craft for the letter V. I pulled the ads out of Sunday's paper and told Lucy to circle all the vegetables. Then we cut them out and pasted them on the V. Pretty e xciting, eh? ;-) She also tried her hand and writing a few v's. 

The 23rd snuck up on me this month! How is my baby 7 months old already?? Here's what she's been up to lately. Routine She wakes up every morning between 6:45 and 7:00 like clockwork. She's still eating every 3 hours, and takes 3 naps a day - morning, afternoon, and evening. Then she's back to bed around 8. Eating I have been so lackadaisical about giving her solids. She definitely prefers feeding herself to being spoon fed, but I'm nervous about giving her chunks of food. I give her something in the mesh feeder when I think about it, but I think we're just going to take it slow. Sleep Oh sleep. I've come to the conclusion that I just don't have babies who sleep through the night at 6 weeks like all the rest of my friends and facebook acquaintances. Lucy didn't sleep through the night 'til 8 months - after 2 grueling weeks of CIO. Lena seems to be following suit. I tried CIO last weekend. She screamed  for two hours and was hoarse for...

1. We crossed another item off our summer bucket list this week: Go to the Beach. I've been waiting for a good hot day, but we've had such a mild summer, that we haven't had many options! We finally just decided to go yesterday. Our friends Paul, Missy, Bob, Kris and their kids were "camping" at the Christian Reformed Conference Grounds near Grand Haven, so we called them up and asked if they wanted to go with us. The Conference Grounds has its own beach access, so we ended up heading there. It was so  nice. I totally want to "camp" there someday. (Camp is in quotation marks because they stay in a super nice "cabin" - that is actually a nice, clean, modern house. My kind of camping. Haha.) We didn't actually stay at the beach that long because Lucy had to go potty, but we had a good time while we were there! 2. I made a new recipe this week: Tortellini Salad . I thought it was delicious, but I don't think Justin was a big fan. Hah...

Lucy has a strange obsession with potty training. Her favorite episode of Daniel Tiger is "The Potty One!" She loves her Elmo Potty movie and potty books and all things potty related. So I knew she'd love doing an underwear craft for the letter "u." Word to the wise: make sure your "safe search" is on when you look for images of underwear on google. Lol. I couldn't find anything, so ended up drawing my own: I did the red one. :-) And I realize some of my u's look like v's. It's hard to paint curved lines! Haha. We painted them, and decorated them with Dora stickers and letter "u" stickers. So much fun! :-)

1. Lena had her 6 month check-up on Monday. She weighed 14 lbs, 8 oz. and measured 26". That puts her in the 14th percentile for weight and the 39th for height. Still a little shrimp! She got 4 shots, screamed when they poked her, but stopped crying as soon as I picked her up. She was feverish and cranky for the next couple of days, but nothing terrible. 2. She has been getting up so much at night. It is ridiculous. We've been doing some cry it out, but it's not going very well. Especially because she's still sleeping in our room. And Lucy's room is right next to ours. She woke up one night this week saying, "Mommy! Lena is being too loud!" We all agree, Lucy. 3. I got pink eye again  this week. I really need to do some research on recurring conjunctivitis or something. Fortunately, I still have some of the antibiotic eye drops from last time. And I came across this little gem  online. That seemed to help too! 4. In this week's edition of ...

Lucy is the quintessential girly-girl, so when we got to the letter T in our quest through the alphabet, I knew we'd have to have a good old fashioned T ea Party! I found the perfect craft on Pinterest, and kind of made it my own. We used styrofoam bowls because they're easier to puncture than paper. I thought it was so brilliant to thread a headband through pipe cleaners so the kids didn't have to try to balance a bowl on their heads. I bought a couple flower vines at the dollar store and snipped off the buds (leaving an inch or so of stem to push through the bowl). Then I made a bunch of little tissue paper roses by twisting a square of tissue paper around my finger and tying it off with a pipe cleaner. I bought 5 teacups/saucers for 50 cents a pair from a thrift store, grabbed some stickers and a tablecloth from the dollar store, and found this awesome tea canister on a shelf in my parents' kitchen to complete the tablescape. I decided to set out some...