Look what I can do...

She can finally do it! She can stand up on her on now, and boy is she excited about it. I can't believe how big she looks when she does that. Lizzie's growing up way too fast. I don't think I'm ready for her to start walking around yet. Can't she just stay a little baby?

Please, not me next...

Everyone is getting sick. I guess that's what happens when Spring finally decides to show it's face. I don't understand, you'd think everyone would be all re-energized and feeling great when the sun is finally consistently out. But, no. I have two sickies in my house and we are definitely not going to the park or playing outside anytime soon.

Lizzie has only been sick once before this. It was pretty bad. Sneezing, coughing, slight fever, constantly runny nose, but not bad enough to warrant a trip to the doctor's office however. She doesn't seem as bad as last time, but it's still enough to have my world turned upside down. I hate it when she's sick. I feel so helpless. I can't do anything to make it feel better, or go away. We just have to wait it out. Which is by far the worst thing for me to do. I'd be okay with it, but being sick totally messes up everything normal in our house. Her nap schedule is non existent, even though she is so tired, she'll wake up multiple times in the middle of the night screaming, because she can't breathe well, and she doesn't eat very well either. All day long I feel like I'm fighting a losing battle trying to keep Lizzie from turning into Little Miss Cranky. I have to confess it's not working to well at all.

It doesn't help that daddy's sick too. He's the one who brought home the dreaded sickies and passed then on to Lizzie. Ben's awful when he's sick, and I'm afraid that Lizzie's going to be the same way. When I get sick all I want to do is sleep and to be left alone. There's just something about solitude that makes me feel better, but for Ben, well let's just say he really likes to be taken care off.

So much for my nice weekend with everyone home, going out and doing something fun. Instead I get to be "mommy" to two sickies! I just hope I don't get sick as well, otherwise we're all in trouble. I better go take some more airborne.

Wow, it's been a long time...

I can't believe almost 2 weeks have past already. It doesn't even feel like three days. I really have no concept of time anymore now that all of my days seem to be the same. Let's see what has happened in the last couple of days... Ben and I had our 7 year anniversary this last Monday. We haven't been able to go out and celebrate yet, (Ben's been busy with work, a side graphics project, and finals for school). Hopefully we'll be able to at least go out to dinner or something this weekend. I can't believe it's been 7 years already. Lizzie's been keeping me busy. Man, can that baby get around! I need to get the pictures off my camera, from when we went to Tilden park last weekend, so you guys can see some updated shots. Sorry this is starting to become really random... I think it time to go to bed. Good night.

Now with video!

Yeah! We found away to have all of you watch video of baby Lizzie without having to email it and upload it. All you need is the newest version of Macromedia Flash Player. Hope you enjoy!

P.S. To get flash player all you have to do is go to www.macromedia.com and hit the download the free flash player button and follow the directions.

How does anything ever get done?

Now that Lizzie is almost 11 months old I feel like, now more than ever, I can not get anything done. I have become the full time entertainment director for an extremely energetic, dangerously curious little baby. I can't even enjoy a simple cup of coffee in the morning without plucking her from some bookshelf or fishing her out of some corner she got herself stuck in. She has become totally and completely all consuming. Don't get me wrong, I'm not here to complain. It's fun to watch her personality blossom with her new found independence, and I love how she's in constant awe over everything she finds, even if it's the same toy 20 times later (I wish I could have some of that)! I just wish I could have a day to catch up. Just one day, that's all I ask. I don't get it. Back when I was working I could do a million things at the same time and now I feel like I can't even accomplish two. It's so frustrating! You know it's a little out of control when your husband has no clean underwear for the whole weekend and we're drinking out of the baby's plastic cups because all of the glass ones are dirty. You think I would be able to get things done when Ben's home, but most of the time that's even worse. I feel like I end up sometimes having two babies to take care of then, or I just wanting to relax and hang out, not spending my time doing chores. I'm hoping the longer and longer I do this the easier it becomes to find a balance between the two. I hope otherwise I'm in BIG trouble! I enjoy playing with Lizzie too much during the day to just leave her in the crib to go do the dishes. As for right now balance is a word that has been omitted from my vocabulary.

Happy Easter!

Oh, the rain... will it ever stop? Oh, well today was still a really great day despite the weather. We spent the majority of the afternoon over at Ken and Betty's house, with about 20 other people. It was a lot of fun to just chat and hang out with some old friends over a really nice lunch. No Easter egg hunt though because of the rain. Lizzie did amazingly well. She's such a good baby! She ate when we ate, took a long nap in her travel crib, and thoroughly enjoyed all of the extra attention. She's such a ham. She loved to show off what a fast crawler she is. Lizzie was hilarious this afternoon with her Easter basket, too. We got her some little people animals for her Noah's Ark set, which she loves, but she has the shortest attention span I have ever seen! So the basket was fun for about 5 seconds, and then onto something else. Happy Easter everybody!