Catching up

Wow, it's been a while. Bad me!!! Let's catch up.

Natalie started preschool. She loved it at first, but then hated it. She screamed and cried twice when I left her. This morning she stated how much she didn't like school and didn't want to go all morning, but when we got there, she seemed resigned to it and didn't cry at all when I left. Thank GOD!!! I had a really hard time leaving her there when she was so hysterical.

Milo is doing really well. He has finally made my dreams come true. He loves a stuffed animal! I have always loved stuffed animals, and I really wanted Natalie to have a "lovey" but she was always so indifferent to her dolls and stuffed animals. Milo was too, so I was just resigned to having strange kids. Well, Milo has finally decided that he loves his bear. He carries it everywhere, and when he doesn't have him, he calls out, "Bay!" It just warms my heart!! Now we need to go buy another one, so we don't have a crisis if this guy gets lost. :)

Third kid - well, the big news with the third kid is that there's going to be a third kid!!! We found out we're pregnant, which is unbelievable because we were actively preventing getting pregnant. Guess not even a condom can stop this kid! We had our first appointment on Friday the 12th and saw a heartbeat and everything. Due date is 04/24/09. Exciting!!

So far so good!

So far so good with the challenge. Of course, I didn't REALLY need those crackers from Target...but hey, they are food so they don't count, right?

Here are some new pics of the kids. Doesn't Natalie look beautiful with the new haircut?

Ahhh!!! Tempted already!!

I was checking out a seller whose banner I designed and saw she had wooden soap dishes. I've been looking for one, and hers are gorgeous. I added it to my cart with the thoughts of getting some new soap to go with it. When I added it, I saw this super cute hippo that I had added a few days ago. Of course, seeing that reminded me that I'm not allowed to buy anything for myself. AAARRRGGGHHH!!! Now I can't get the hippo or the soap dish! Man, I don't know if I am going to be able to last with this challenge. Sigh...

Natalie's hair cut

We took Natalie to get her hair cut yesterday. She hadn't had one since September of last year. It was getting very long, but also scraggly. She has such thin hair, and it was so wispy at the ends. She was constantly getting it in her mouth and in her face. She did so good at the salon! We went to one that had cute car and boat chairs and toys for them to play with. It was different than the one we went to last time, and I didn't like it as well. The lady that cut her hair did an okay job, but her fingernails were like 3 inches long. It was ridiculous watching her trying to handle the scissors. Natalie's bangs are shorter than I would have liked, but they'll grow fast enough. She looks like such a big girl now!! I was getting teary afterwards...just seeing how much she's growing up!!

Here's my scraggly little girl


And here she is at the salon. The lighting wasn't the best in there, so I had to keep it BW. I'll get some better pics up soon. Doesn't she look so grown up????

Personal challenge

I've decided to challenge myself. After reading a post on my message board about it, I thought it would be a good thing for me to try. The challenge is to not buy anything for myself other than the necessities for 1 month. I buy little things here and there all the time, and I'd say 99% of them are completely unnecessary. Plus, if we are going to be starting Natalie in preschool soon, we need to start cutting spending. I tried to bring it up to Arnel, but of course he wanted nothing to do with it. Well, I'll just have to keep trying to convince him.

So today is day 1. Of course today is going to be the easiest day of it. LoL Actually, I already signed up to buy something, but I don't think it counts, since it was an Alchemy request on Etsy that I put up a week ago. I can't go back on that now or make them wait for 30 days. Ah well, hopefully the rest of this will go smoother than today. :o)

New logo packages!

I finished up two logo packages, which I am very excited about. I loved the butterfly one the best, until I finished the mama and baby bird one. I hope these do really well!!

Goofing around

Natalie was goofing around with some plastic toy glasses at Lola's house last weekend. I had fun goofing around with the picture. Here's the results:



I used Fee's Yummy Color Actions on it. Turned out pretty cool, I think!

Not much else going on over here. Working on a few banner orders and customizing the Little Brown Bird logo.