This is How She Rides

I've been working on this page for way too long. I didn't have the right letters for my title but on Thursday I went to Viera to Michaels craft store and found some I liked.

I found that I haven't been scrapbooking because I was trying too hard to mimic the style I kept seeing on peoples blogs and in the magazines. I love the way all the layering looks but really I'm not that good at it. On Wednesdays Ali Edwards has a giveaway on her blog and she always asks you a question or your advice and you comment your answer for an entry in her giveaway. This week she wanted you to share your best advice for a new scrapbooker. After I submitted my advice I was reading through what some other people shared and came across some great advice for anyone. Someone said to not feel like you need to compete with the pages in the magazines or with others. Is this what I was doing? Well not anymore. I will still admire other peoples work but make my pages my own and remember why I enjoyed scrapbooking in the first place.

standing up

So on Wednesday night Charlotte, Richie, and I were sitting on the floor with me folding laundry. Charlotte was sitting in Richie's lap and I had the laundry basket right in front of her. She grabbed on to the edge of the basket so I held it down so she wouldn't smack herself in the face. To our surprise she stood right up and held on looking around. Crazyness.

diaper cake

A couple of weeks ago my friend and I threw a baby shower for our other friend. I made her a diaper cake for the center piece and it turned out really cute. I thought it would be more difficult than it was but really it wasn't that bad as long as you have someone else to help you assemble the tiers.

Update

We are still waiting to hear if we got the house. I hate short sales.
Charlotte is doing the army man crawl. She is getting better and better at it. She also went through a growth spurt and cut two teeth. I can't believe how fast she is changing. She loves to blow raspberries and squeal. About a week ago she took a dive off the bed. She is o.k. but it was very scary. I was standing right there and just missed catching her. I felt so bad. Luckily the bed doesn't have a box spring and is on a low frame.
She hates pears. The faces she made the 3 times I gave it to her were so funny. I wish I had gotten a picture with my camera. The first time I got it on video but haven't figured out how to get it to my blog. Close to the end of the 1st feeding before I would even get the spoon to her mouth she would make a sour face. I was laughing so hard. I guess we won't be trying pears again for awhile. She loves bananas and eats those everyday but I was wanting to add something new. The sweet potatoes make her throw up and I'm not sure what to give her next. I'm having a hard time finding organic produce to make my own. The only thing I've been able to find so far is the organic bananas.
She loves her exersaucer and to jump in her rainforest jumperoo. She also has started to take 1 to 2 hour naps at least once a day but usually twice. It's been really nice. I have been able to eat, shower, and have a clean house...yay.

busy, busy, busy

I'm slacking on taking pictures. I know I'm going to regret it later. At least I got some good video of Charlotte though.

Richie's Mom is coming to visit this weekend which will be nice. I've almost got the house ready. So far today Charlotte has barely let me clean. I guess I will have to finish tonight after she goes to bed. I really didn't want to do that though because I'm getting an hour massage at 4pm and was planning on relaxing for the rest of the day. I still have to clean the bathroom, straighten the porch up, do some finishing touches on my craft room, a couple of loads of laundry, and quickly wipe down the floors with a swiffer. I will get Richie to do the porch, floors, and help with laundry. I then have to get the Mother's day gifts together and wrapped (this year without cards since I didn't have time to make them) . I work tomorrow so I can have off for Mother's Day and this all has to be done by tonight. Wow tonight is going to suck...I guess there will be no relaxing.