You are a knitting queen, young and free, only 17!

So I bit the bullet and signed up for a Novice Knitting class yesterday afternoon. The class meets for an hour and a half for the next three Thursdays. I was with Sullivan when I went to sign up, and they immediately started talking about me knitting him sweaters. LOL. We'll see if I have the skill and the time to get to that point! I'll keep you all posted.

Sullivan and I are heading to Cleveland this weekend to spend time with Mom, Freddie, Sherri, Madeline, and Avery! I know Daniel is going to enjoy his weekend alone! Although, I'm sure he'll miss at least one of us! I'm hoping these sunny, cooler days continue, so we can spend some time on the porch and deck!

So far, so good!

Week 1 of the Wonderbar as gone smoothly! Had some slight redness, very slight dryness around mouth, and very slight itchiness the first day or two, but nothing since. I've worn Covergirl Clean liquid foundation for sensitive skin 3 times with no adverse affects. I use CeraVe lotion on occasion after my Wonderbar treatment. I definitely think my skin has a much more even tone, pores are smaller, skin is softer. Here's hoping the benefits continue! I never thought I'd be comfortable going to work without foundation or powder during pms week, but here I am!

In other news, Sullivan finally said Dada yesterday! Daniel was giving him a bottle and when he finished, he looked up at Daniel with a milky, slobbery grin and said, "Da..da". After that first time, he said it several other times throughout the day. Needless to say, Daniel is extremely excited! I've been working with Sullivan on several words, sounds, motions, so I'm glad some of it is sticking!

Saturday we all drove to New Albany for my grandfather's 89th birthday! We had a great lunch at Vanissi's and then grabbed some cupcakes to go from next door at Sugarees! Yummy yummy! It was great to spend some time with Gigi and DaddyTim! Sullivan had a great time at the restaurant and at their house playing with old toys! Wood blocks and toy phones never go out of style; even if the phone is a rotary phone as opposed to the toy cell phone we have at our house!


I don't know why, but I'm suddenly feeling rather industrious. Soooo...I'm got several things I'm going to try and accomplish over the coming months. 1. finish Sullivan's Christmas stocking! 2. start playing my violin again 3. take knitting lessons at the new knitting store in Oxford. As with my violin, I'm a super beginner and would love to improve! I have no idea how I plan to accomplish these things other than replacing most of my reading time at night for a while. We'll see!

wonderbar, wonderbar, we're on our way...

So I started using the Wonderbar yesterday. Before you click the link to learn about it, let me start by saying, 1. I'm out of my regular cleanser/lotions, so was looking for something new 2. i'm gonna be mad if this tiny, expensive bar doesn't do something positive. Ok, you can go look up the wonderbar now. Back? Yeah it's stupid expensive for a tiny little bar. But if it truely does replace cleanser, toner, moisturizer, yada, yada, yada, then it's not that bad. The biggest headache so far as been that you can't use mineral foundation with this bar. I LOVE my bare minerals, so this was sad news for me. Fortunately, I had recently watched an episode of Dr. Oz where he talked about the fact that mineral makeups work so well because the particles are so tiny (the reason it interferes with wonderbar) that you can breathe them in and they can like stay in your lungs. Icky. Other drawbacks to the wonderbar, the mysterious 'healing crisis' where your skin gets rid of all the toxins and can cause dryness and breakouts temporarily. Also, they discourage the use of any makeup until after the healing crisis, so today, for the first time in a LONG time, I am without foundation/concealer/powder what have you while at work. I did wear eye makeup and lipstick to hopefully take the focus off the rest of my face. I need to remember to take a photo of this sort of before phase and then document how my skin reacts to it. I can already feel a sort of tightness to my skin and maybe some slight itchyness? I could just be totally paranoid. So, for anyone else interested in the wonderbar, I'll be posting my personal experiences with it here. My fingers are crossed that it will do at least some of what it promises! We'll see!

And now, some videos of Sullivan interacting with Bailey (dog) and Sophie (cat). The video with Bailey is not really the highlight of their playtime, but is better than nothing!





P.S. the title of this blog comes from the cartoon the wonderpets. all i watch these days are kids shows, and that one just fit and got stuck in my head.

9 months!

I'm way behind on my blogging, and just realized I never did an 8 months post. Oh well. What is Sullivan up to these days? * Well, crawling obviously. He is pulling up on anything he can get his hands on and trys to cruise from different pieces of furniture. * The sounds he most frequently makes are Mama, Baba, FaFa and then just general babbling. He really trys to say Bottle, so I'll have to try and get that on camera. He'll get the ba- part, and then strains to try and get out the rest. * Last weekend he started sticking his tongue out like crazy! He hasn't done it much this week, but he wanted to stick it out constantly last weekend. * He can clap his hands, 'give 5s', wave bye bye on occasion. *He loves his musical instruments set and moves from the piano to the drums to the marracas to the tamborine. Loves them all. He loves to hear us sing 'Loving You' to him. The Lalalalala part gets his attention every time! * He's really started to get a kick out of animals- live or stuffed. He'll laugh and get so excited when he sees a dog or a stuffed animal. *He loves books! We often pick him up from daycare and he'll be off by himself flipping through a board book. He absolutely wants to help turn the pages, so I typically give him his own small book to hold while reading to him, so he can be steady turning pages. * Speaking of daycare, he still loves the ladies there. There have been some changes lately at the daycare. They moved his nursery to a larger room, so he has lots more room to crawl around. His 'girlfriend' Harper, an older woman, got moved to the 1 year old room this week for about 3 days and then decided she missed her old pals and came back to Sullivan's room. It is usually Harper, Sullivan, and Hunter (the 3 oldest kids in the nursery) hanging out together. * He's drinking out of a sippy cup on occasion, but preferst to drink out a regular cup or glass. He'll eat just about anything, but if he doesn't like something, he'll make himself gag and spit it right back up. * He weighs just over 22lbs and is 28 inches long. * He still gets up once a night most nights. We have discovered he will sleep through the night if given Ibuprofen, so I don't know if that means his teething pain is waking him up or what. Either way, we don't give him any unless it seems like his gums are bothering him. * Still no teeth popping through yet. * He has decided he doesn't want to be on his back to be changed or have his clothes changed. I have feeling he associates having to lay on his back with getting yucky medicine or having the nasal aspirator used on him, both of which he hates. If he's in a good mood or you distract him with something he'll lay there happy as can be, but most times he crys and kicks at you. Getting a bit of an attitude, although, I haven't a clue where he gets that! ;) * He's still just so happy 99% of the time! We are so blessed and fall more in love with him every day. This age is definitely fun since we get to watch him learn so many new things every day!

Crawling!

I finally got a video of my child crawling and with clothes on too! He is loving his new mobility. Starting to follow us into the kitchen if we leave him on the floor in living room or his bedroom. I've got to remember to run the roomba each evening when I get home from work! The dog hair is out of control!

I'm very tired today and not at all inspired, so this is all you get. I'll try and do better later. :)