Photo book

A couple of weeks ago I got an email for a free photo book. I meant to do it b/c how can you pass up free but I got busy and forgot. Oops. Over the weekend I got an email saying that the offer had been extended. I was absolutely determined not to let the coupon expire but didn't feel well and wasn't up for working on it. I started trying to work on the book in earnest last night. It is amazing how difficult and time consuming it is to put one of those books together. A day a couple of hours later I finished...(well, almost...just have to take the cover pic and add it). Yay!

Muno

Before I wrote that I'd started my first amigarumi project...I planned to make a Yoshi for Collin. I worked and worked on this and finally just decided to frog it b/c it was way too much to do for a first project and for something I feel pretty sure Collin would play w/for a few days and forget. I kind of had it in my head that I wanted to make a stuffy so back to the drawing board.

I found a pattern for a Muno toy from Yo Gabba Gabba that didn't look too difficult. Since Collin has a renewed interest I thought I'd try to make that. It was pretty easy and turned out fairly well. I am not super happy with the eye but he loves it so that's what's most important. We have a bday party in a few weeks and I think I am going to make another as a gift b/c the little girl loves YGG.

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/muno-from-yo-gabba-gabba

Mission Sippy Cup

Last Thurs I decided that I was going to work very hard to get Addie to take a sippy cup b/c I am SOOOO over bottles. I can't remember now what happened Thurs but it just didn't work out that I was able to focus on using on trying the sippy cup. Day 1 - wash.

Day 2 - Friday I tried one of her sippy cups. I put her formula into it thinking if she had milk she might be more likely to take it. She absolutely refused to take it out of the cup so I caved and put it into her bottle. I thought maybe it was an issue of her not liking that particular cup. Day 2 - disaster.

Sat we went to Dan Nicholas Park. I packed a sippy cup but she wasn't that interested. To be fair, she wasn't interested in food or bottles so I didn't push it. Day 3 - boo.

Sun was super busy and I never even tried to give her a cup. Oops.

Yesterday I tried a cup that I found that had a spout that looked similar to a bottle nipple. I thought that it would be a good one to try b/c she might think it was a new bottle and would just take to it w/o problem. She actually tried to drink from it but after a few sips she spit it out over and over so I switched her milk to the bottle.

ARGH. Today I have a cup out for her w/juice but she has ZERO interest in this. I just don't know what to do. I've tried milk. I've tried just leaving a cup out for her to play w/ and to just get used to it. I am pretty stubborn but she takes stubborn to a whole new level. I realize she's just 8 mo now but I want her completely weaned from the bottle by 1 yr and I just feel like I'm running out of time.

Guess I just have to keep at it. Mission Sippy Cup continues....

Pics from the Transportation Museum

Transportation Museum

Sat we went to the transportation museum so that Collin could see the trains. Since he's been sick (croup) we really wanted to do something special for him...not to mention the fact that I feel like we really neglect him sometimes b/c Addie's needs are more immediate (logically I know we don't neglect him but....). It was a short drive. It was a little hot but he had a blast. We rode a real train then Collin and daddy rode the turntable at the roundhouse. It was nice to see his face just light up as the train blew the whistle and started moving.

After the museum we stopped back through Lexington to have BBQ. I read an article in Our State magazine about a BBQ restaurant there that had this stuff called Q soup. Apparently a number of years ago it was an ice cream shop and they still have some kind of HUGE banana split. When Collin saw it he, of course, wanted one. We knew we couldn't put a dent into it but we got it anyway. Everyone, including Addie, had a little ice cream.

It was really nice to have a family day when we didn't have to run errands. We'll have to make more of an effort to do that at least 1x/mo.

i somehow ended up crying myself to sleep last night. crazy thing is that nothing happened to upset me. every time i try to go to sleep my mind starts racing. i typically try counting backwards po-russki but sometimes i just can't focus enough on that. last night i started thinking that we needed to discuss and decide if we want to send collin to pre-k this fall. i have mixed feelings about it but it's not something we need to put off until the last minute. at any rate, the more i thought about that the more i started thinking that it is just a little over a year until he starts school. when i think about that i literally feel nauseous. i know it's a wonderful thing to have a healthy, super smart little boy and that he will continue to grow up. i also know that i can't hold onto him forever but i'm just not ready to let go. that's my issue, of course, and i'll just have to figure out a way to deal w/it w/o letting him sense that i have any concerns/negative emotions about it. guess i just need to enjoy him every day...even when he drives me INSANE. :) how did my boy grow up so fast??