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I’m not sure how some thing so small.  So sweet.  So innocent.  So cute.  Can make such a horrible mess! This girl has one diaper explosion a day!  I’m not lying!  One a day!!

They are so bad!  And they always happen around the same time every day!  I’m thinking I could probably potty train her real quick! 

Today I set her in the Bumbo seat on my desk while I am working.  I look over at her and she has that look on her face… my other fellow moms know that look… that look of… this is going to be a big one!

I instantly grabbed her and started my way upstairs.  By the time I got upstairs into her room and laid her on her changing table.  It had run down her pant leg – got on both her socks – and all over MY shirt!

And not even 30 minutes earlier I changed her and made sure I put the diaper on good so there would not be any leakage!!

The girl has tons of clothes – so that isn’t too much of a problem.  But all her clothes are for summer… and well it is not summer here!  Okay it is summer, but it is a cold summer.  The other morning I went to the grocery store and she had her bare feet sticking out from under the blanket and this Grandma came up behind me and said… oh its too cold – cover those feet up, and she pulled her blanket over her feet.  (And actually it was warmer that day.)

Today I had her in last warm outfit that fit her good and was actually clean.  Long sleeved white onesie and a pair of pink comfy pants with socks.  Now she is wearing this outfit (in the pictures) that is a bit big for her.

Basically what I am getting at is… anyone know what I am doing wrong?  Why does she explode out her diaper every day!?  I have tried Pampers and they were horrible!  So I am back with Huggies Supreme.  I mean she has exploded every where – onto my carpet!  In her carseat!  On my lap!   In Walmart!  Ruins an outfit every day!  Shout-out is my new best friend!

2 Month Shots

Yesterday we had Mally’s two month check up and shots.  She weighs in at 12 pounds and is 23 inches long.  50th percentile in all the categories. 

I love her Dr.  She always comes in and asks how baby Mallory is, and we say good.  The Dr. looks at us and says… you can say she is perfect!!  ; )

Then it came time for those dreaded shots.  First they gave her some oral medicine stuff and she ate that up.  Then we have two nurses in there and they each take a leg.  I hold little Mally’s hands and Jesse is trying to distract her with a toy.  They give her three shots and boy-oh-boy she screamed and cried!  I scooped her up and tried to calm her down, but I was crying!  So I rocked and bounced her while Jesse talked to her and she actually calmed down pretty quickly.

They told me she could be a little fussy from the shots, but you wouldn’t know anything happened.  She’s a tough girl!!  She’ll be ready for her pink dirt bike in no time! 

They put Mally on vitamins.  I guess since I nurse her she doesn’t get enough Vitamin D.  I tried to give it to her this morning and she was giggly and smiley and I think it all ran out onto her jammies.  But she didn’t act like it was gross – she kept smiling.  We’ll try again tomorrow when she is a bit more hungry.

I took some pictures the other morning while she was having her quick power nap.  It takes her forever to wake up. 

 

Stretch.  Grunt.  Stretch.  Grunt.

Finally awake.

 

She is also grabbing onto blankets and her clothes.  I can’t get her to hold onto a toy yet, but she hold onto blankets.  So I’ve been giving her this fun ‘tag blanket’ that my Aunt made her.  There are little ribbon tags all around the edges.  Super cute!

Now that she has a little better control over her hands – everything goes in her mouth.  She does a lot of chewing and sucking on her thumb… who does she get that from?  Uncle Adam and Auntie Shannon?  ; )

Oh and she drools like crazy.  She is constantly soaked.  I’m not a fan of bibs, but I’ve been having to use them so she isn’t wet all the time.

She blows tons and tons of bubbles that I think her nickname should be bubbles!  She’ll blow so many that she’ll have a beard of bubbles.

You can even see it dripping of her little mouth! 

I hear lots of grunting… I think someone is trying to wake up.

Sparkling

Where does that door lead me…

To my new bathroom!!!!

Even the sink and mirror are installed!

Yes I moved in – except Jesse beat me to it and he moved in first.  The shower is awesome!  And guess what – there is hot water in this shower!  Our other shower runs out of hot water in a matter of minutes.  Why this new one has more hot water and is on the same hot water heater?  I have no idea.  Jesse told me why, but I can’t remember… I just know that I love this new hot shower!  I feel sparkly and clean again!

Sorry these pictures are not better, but I had a little someone who was not so happy.  So I snapped a few quick ones.

Tile Is In!

Before I headed out on Friday I took a picture of the bathroom.  He had started tiling around the tub and I was very excited about it and wanted to show Jesse.

When we got home on Sunday afternoon it looked like this…

He finished it!!!  (He still needs to grout it, but all the tile work is done.) 

I think this project is almost done!  : )  All that is left is to build a closet (for the water softener); install the sink; put the tub faucet on; install another countertop; install the door; and MOVE IN!!  : )

I think I am moving in as soon as the sink is installed and the door is put on.

HemmerFest 2009

Logo for the Ladies shirts – I designed it.  My cousin Shawna bedazzled it too!!  Yes, she has a bedazzler and I am a bit jealous!

HemmerFest was a big success this year.  I think last year we had 3 campers and a couple tents… this year 15 campers!!!  We even had a camper!  Jesse’s Dad let us borrow their camper for the weekend.  It was awesome!  I think my tent days are over.

Mallory (2 months) & Ava (4 months)

Logo for the kids shirts – I designed it.

Jett and Mallory.

We had hay wagon rides.

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We stopped at Grandma & Grandpa’s old farm house.  They moved when I was pretty little, but I still have a few memories of it.  My sister and I would beg Mom & Dad to take us to Grandma’s house for a bath.  We only had a stand up tiny shower in our house and we wanted a bath not a shower.  I remember the bucket of crayons that melted in the front porch.  I remember having to take a nap on Grandma’s bed when everyone else got to play out side and I could hear them playing.  I remember swinging on the swing and it broke… and everyone fell on me.   Okay, I’ll stop with my memories of the farm.  : )

Here we are running to check everything out.

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Here is our HemmerFest Queens, Princesses, and Prince.  : )

Michelle (My brother’s girlfriend), Shawna (my cousin), Grandma, and David (my cousin)

Look what those mean cousins did to Grandma!  I love her face in this pictures.  And Shawna’s guilty face too.  Love it!

Then we took Mrs. HemmerFest and parade her around the block.  I’m kidding!!

We were actually headed back to the farm to get pictures of the cousins in front of the house. 

I think us cousins need to get together more often.  We were giggling so hard and having way too much fun.

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The Frey family came too.  They felt like they needed a visitor pass to come to HemmerFest… so my Mom made them duct tape passes. 

Jerry (Mr. Visitors Son); Steph (Mrs. Visitors Daughter-in-Law); Mallory; Mary (Mrs. Visitor); David (Mr. Visitor); Jesse (Married to… I can’t remember what his pass said); Grandpa Frey (Mr. Visitor’s Dad); Grandpa Hemmer; Me (The reason for Mr. Visitor’s Invite)

Logo for the guys shirts – Jesse designed it.

They even hired a live band to come out and play.  They were really good and played a lot of old fun songs.  Here is Mom trying to dance with Garrett.  Little Garrett was cutting 4 top teeth and he was not happy.

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Maggie stood guard of Mallory and her stroller and made sure no one woke her up. 

Of course at 6am the little ones are awake and ready to play!

But Jesse and Maggie say it is too early to play.

Two Months!

Here is Mallory’s two month video.  I took it the day she was actually two months, but it has taken me awhile to actually get it uploaded and on the blog.

Here is what two months brings us:

~ Cooing, cooing, and more cooing.  She loves to coo at her Daddy.  They coo back and forth at each – which I love to watch.  Sometimes she will even initiate the chatter, by looking at him and cooing.

~ She giggled!  It was a real giggle too.  I have heard her giggle a few times, but it was in her sleep.  I was actually playing with her and she full on giggled!  I haven’t heard it since… but it was way fun the time she did it.

~ Loves to sit up.  She sits in my lap and holds on to my fingers and pulls her head up until I help her sit up all the way.  Then when she is sitting she gets a big smile on her face.  If I don’t help her sit up she will get mad and cry.

~ Not a fan of belly time.  I’m horrible at giving her belly time – I know, you can hold your lectures.  I get them from my sister.  But when I put her on her belly she throws up.  No matter when I fed her – it could have been a couple hours since her last feeding and I think it will be safe for belly time… nope – she spits.

~ Sleeping!  She no longer gets up for a middle of the night feeding!  She still wakes up and grunts at me for about 30 seconds then quickly goes right back to sleep.

~ Favorites:  Her play mat.  The bouncer.  Mr. Grasshopper who hangs above her changing her table and jingles.  Snuggly blankets – she doesn’t have a favorite one yet, she just needs to snuggle with them when she is tired.  And of course her pacifier.

Grumpy Eyebrows

Someone forgot to tell Miss Mallory that she doesn’t have to sleep with her grumpy eyebrows on.

One week down!  We officially made it threw a week of working until 7pm.  I’m not going to lie… it wasn’t fun!  I tried to keep the grumpy eyebrows packed away, but I am sure they made an appearance once or twice.  : )

Now we are off to relax at HemmerFest this weekend.  I’m thinking a nice-cold-relaxing-yummy-something-with-an-umbrella drink should be waiting for me when I get there.  ; ) 

New Toys

Last night my Mom came over to help us out.  I have to work until 7 the next two weeks and Jesse works until 6.  Granted we are both here working at home… it was still wonderful to have her here for a couple of hours to keep Miss Mallory entertained so we could focus without interruptions. 

While she was holding Mallory… Mallory kept picking her head up because she wanted to sit up.  The girl loves to sit up.  My Mom thought she was ready for a jumper.  I told her we got one as a gift and it is in her closet.  Off they went to put it together.  I told her she is too little for it – she won’t like it.  Hah.  I was wrong! 

She fits!  And she likes it!  Her arms are not long enough to reach any of the toys – but she can see them!

   Okay so I have to prop her up in there with a blanket.

And her feet do not touch the ground – but she is having a blast in there!

I better go make a hot chocolate coffee – I’m tired and it is only Wednesday!  I have a lot more days of this working late stuff ahead of me.  Hmm… maybe I should go get a fefelala coffee drink from the coffee shop (I keep seeing a drink called ‘the cookie jar’ advertised on their window)… hmm… sounds even better… gotta go so I can be back in time for work!

Too Cute.

Here she is after another bath.  She likes the bath, but that drying off stuff she could do without.  Here she is after I got her all calmed down…

Look at the progress on the bathroom floor!!!!!  I love it.  Little rustic – yet cozy.

I don’t think you even understand how giddy this makes us.  We might even get to use it next week!!  **scream!!**