"butterfly in the sky, i can go twice as high"

May 21, 2009

She is, in that picture above, contemplating whether or not to scream. She likes warm water, but you'd think I was trying to kill her with the way she cries when I pour water on her head to wash her hair -- even if it doesn't go down her face!

This will probably be rather short, as Mommy is sleepy and has to work early in the morning.

Reading one of her new books with Daddy.

So we've learned, recently, that Lil Miss likes books. Granted, I'm not sure she can understand them yet, but she likes the pictures. And her Grandma Lynn sent her a book today that has textures she can feel and stuff -- she REALLY likes that one. And she likes books with pictures of other babies in them. She likes to look at them.

(But she likes to look at herself more. She loves the mirror I got for the car today (one of those that you put on the backseat, so you can see the rear facing car seat in your rear view mirror) because it means she can sit there and watch herself. And there's a mirror on her bouncy chair too. Lil Miss LOVES her reflection!)

She seems to like the TV too -- I think she likes the flashing lights. Momma also sent us some Baby Einsteins, so I'll probably put one of those on when we get home from work tomorrow, see how she likes it.

Daddy kisses -- she loves those.

We worked this afternoon while Daddy worked this morning. Lil Miss was a grumpy butt for some of the afternoon. I think because it was hot -- she doesn't seem to understand why Mommy can't just make the "hot" go away. And if I'm hot and uncomfortable, I know she must be miserable, since she can't regulate her temperature so well and I know she doesn't understand. I feel bad but really, what can I do? Poor munchkin -- I try to keep her out of the stifling heat as much as possible.

She's getting really good at holding her head up and controlling herself in general. She's almost in control enough that I can hold her on my hip. I can, now, but I have to hold her back cause sometimes she'll just pitch herself backwards. But she's really the cutest most bright eyed baby I've ever seen. She just loves to watch everything. I love it.

One of our neighbors has a grandson who's probably about three and he just LOVES her. Whenever he's here, he asks to see the baby and he just loves it when I'm outside walking her. I was outside with her earlier tonight and Natalie (the neighbor) and both her daughters, plus Julian (the grandson) were out there, so we went over and talked to them for awhile. Natalie and her younger daughter (who's probably 20ish) just couldn't stop cooing over her. I know they would babysit -- I know the daughter really wants to -- but I'm just not ready for babysitters yet. I can leave her with Daddy, but I'm not ready to leave her with other people.

She's my little one. It still makes me anxious to be away from her. I don't think that's ever going to go away.

Oh yeah -- and cookies to those who get the reference in the title.

Sitting on Mommy's lap while we type at work -- I'll have to try and get a picture of the actual typing. It's apparently really cute.

a walk through, since only one of you has been here

So, my camera battery is charging. After it's done, I'll do the post for today about Lil Miss.

However, I realized a few days ago that only one of you (Grandma Barbara) has actually seen the new apartment. Well, I guess it's not new since we've been here almost a month, but you know what I mean. So I was cleaning on Thursday, trying to forget I was sick since Lil Miss wouldn't let me sleep, and I decided to take pictures and give y'all a walk through! So be prepared -- picture heavy!

This is, obviously, not actually in the apartment. This is our little car, out front. It's old, but it runs well. I want to get the transmission checked out before we take it on a long road trip, but it's a good little car and perfect for what we need down here.

This is our little front yard. She's too young to play in it right now, but if we stay here longer than we are currently planning, it will be a good place for Lil Miss to run around and be a kid. Also, it's nice to have since she likes to be outside so much and likes to walk -- gives me a different place to walk in circles where I'm not walking by our neighbors smoking on their porches. I don't want her around smoke.

Our little porch and our front door. You can't see it, but we have chairs on the front porch. We're right at the front of our little horseshoe of apartments.

What you see right when you open the door -- our couch (with the awesome slip cover we inherited from Lori), the rug the coffee table -- our living room. The entire apartment is floored in that beige tile you see.

Directly to the left when you walk in -- Jimmy's Miami Heat stuff. He got the Heat light from a bar in Key West that was shutting down. The poster? One of our neighbors went to the Miami Heat game where they retired Alonzo Morning's number and they gave out those posters -- it's signed by Alonzo Morning. Jimmy loves it. I think I'm going to get it framed for his birthday.

Directly to the right of our front door -- Jimmy's hats. These aren't even all of them, these are just the ones he actually wears a decent amount. I figured it was easier to hang them on the wall -- they have a place, they're easy to get to, ect. I like them.

Our living room. Pretty standard. The bean bag chair that both Zeus and Lil Miss love. I think they use it more than they allow Daddy to. They've commandeered it from him. The blue thing in the top right corner? That's Zeus' blanket that I made for him (cause he tried to steal Lil Miss' blanket) that's sitting on top of my computer chair.

Our living room standing on the other side of the room. I think it looks pretty good. It's larger than the living room in our other apartment. And much easier to set up. The other apartment's living room was rather strangely laid out. I love that carpet, btw (another inherited one) -- free -- can't do better than that!

Our kitchen, from the living room. Yes, we have a bar counter. Good place to eat since there isn't much room for a table in the apartment. And yes, that is a Swiss flag on the back door ("I am Switzerland -- I am neutral." Anyone that gets that reference........................is as much of a dork as me.). There were no blinds or anything over the window in the back door, we needed something, Jimmy had that flag. (Why? I dunno. He has some odd things. Then again, so do I). We put it up as a "jury rig" for that moment. And now we just like it.

Our kitchen. Not huge, not much, but it works for us. The fridge is much bigger than the old one we had. I like it lots.

The hallway to the bedrooms. Lil Miss loves that poster of Paris. I think it's the black and white she loves. The frame on the wall is all pictures of Lil Miss. She likes looking at that too.

Our little hallway. Not much to say about it. (c:

The restroom, directly to the left from the picture above. I put this in here for one reason and one reason only -- see the tub? Yes. We have a bathtub. I love it.

The smaller of the two bedrooms, the one on the left. This is Lil Miss' bedroom. I'm still working on her walls. They will have lots of different stuff on them -- it's a mish mash of both Jimmy and me. So Georgia, Florida, Dolphins, Yankees, Disney, fairies, Harry Potter, Heat and...well...all kinds of randomness. And I love it. And yes, her floor is already full of toys.

The other side of her room, with her bassinet (the second one. The one we salvaged) and the dresser she commandeered from Mommy to hold all her clothes. I think she has more clothes than Mommy!! (and that's hard!)

And finally, our bedroom, with her bassinet in the corner, because she still sleeps in our room for the moment (and, which is where she was during this entire photo shoot).

So yeah -- that's our little apartment. Hope you like it! Pictures and update in the morning since, like I said, camera battery is charging cause I let it die (yeah, I know, Bad Mommy! No Sprite for you!)