3 Things I Would Change About Myself

I heard this on the radio this morning and thought it would be a great blog entry. It's going to be hard to narrow it down to three but I'm going to try.

1. Running Late. Ever since high school, I have been horrible about being anywhere on time. If I'm early to something, there is definitely a problem. I am pretty lucky to have a job that is pretty flexible. I always make sure if I come into work 10 minutes late that I work 10 minutes later. It annoys the hell out of Charlie. He was late to work last year and it had been the first time he was late in 10 years. It's sickening. We are so opposite. He has learned to sit around until he hears me walking out the door. I can tell him that we will head out to Wal-Mart in 10 minutes and finally 20 minutes later, I'm ready to go.
2. Non Confrontational. I avoid confrontation at all costs. If someone puts onions on my burger when I specifically said no onions, I will pick them off before I confront the waitress. I'm a happy person and don't like to argue. There has been many times where I wish I could speak my mind but I coward down and run down in my rabbit hole.
3. My body. Don't we all wish we could change our bodies? And a lot of it you can change. If you have a muffin top, you can diet and exercise and hopefully lose it. But there isn't much you can do with long legs/long arms/long fingers/long feet/etc. I mean Bobby Brady hug from the swingset to get taller. There should be something to do that makes you shorter. There are times that I wish I could wear average size clothes. I am a size 12 but it's a 12 LONG. Well almost a size 12, still have these last 10 lbs of baby weight that are a killer to lose. I bought a pair of jeans with a 34 inch inseam at Old Navy that were long and ended up shrinking on me. Now I need to start buying extra long jeans. And the only place that I find who carries 35 inch inseam is Vanity and Old Navy Online. And there isn't a big selection in the extra long jeans. I need to start my own tall girl store. I mean they have Big & Tall for men. Why not women? And then there is the skis I wear for shoes. I wear a size 11 and that is almost pushing it. It's not like they make a size 11 1/2. I refuse to wear a size 12. It's hard enough to find shoes in a size 11. Here is how I go shopping for shoes. Instead of looking at the shoes on display, I go through the boxes below and find a box in a size 11. Then I open it and decide if it is something I would wear. And why are shoes in size 6 a whole lot cuter than the same shoe in a size 11. Oh yea, that's because it's half the size!! And I feel so guilty when I look at my daughter. She may look like her father but she has her momma's long fingers, long toes and at her 2 month pediatrician appt, she was in the 97th percentile for her length. Hopefully she is athletic unlike her mother b/c there is nothing like being tall and having this question from people, "I bet you were great at basketball back in high school!!" Nope, because along with being non confrontational, I am not aggressive either.

So those are the 3 things I would like to change about myself. I could probably list a dozen more but why would I bore you any further? So what is something you would change about yourself?

We had a rollover today...

Don't worry...it wasn't my car. It was my DAUGHTER!! She is getting to be such a big girl!!

And please ignore the loud TV, barking dog and annoying voice of her mother.

Another reason I'm ready for Spring

So last night Charlie & I are watching our Monday night shows on CBS that we had DVR'ed while I'm trying to get my daughter to sleep.

Megan: "Do you hear that?"
Charlie: "What is that?"
Megan: "It sounds like it's coming from the humidifier."
Charlie: "I'll look at it before I go to bed."

Well I went to bed before Charlie. I had been laying there for about 20 minutes and realized that Charlie had turned the TV off. So I walk out into the living room to see that Charlie had pulled our big humidifier out from the wall and was standing behind it sopping water out of the carpet with about every old towel we had. I guess our humidifier had been leaking. We don't know exactly how long it had been leaking but long enough to soak the floor underneath it. Charlie used five large bath towels to soak it up and it was still wet this morning. And this isn't the first time we have had this problem. About a month ago, the smaller humidifier that was in Abbie's room leaked all over the glass door bookshelf it was sitting on causing major water damage and also soaked the carpet around it. I think it took us all weekend to get it dry. I still worry that there is mold growing under the carpet and will make my child sick.

It was time to buy a new humidifier. We bought this humidifier used 10 years ago when we lived in Norfolk. I hope we can find another full size humidifier on clearance. I'm so ready for this dry weather to end so I don't have to deal with leaky humidifiers!!

My Babbler

Finally got video of Abbie making her new noise. I have tried to immitate it (as you will see in the video) and have no luck.

Bathtime with Abbie Part 2

Abbie taking a bath almost 2 weeks after the last bath time video. Tell me if you notice anything different.

This week's rambling

It's been a week since my last blog update. Well I've really got no exciting stories to tell these days. Abbie is continuing to grow everyday. She is slobbering like crazy and loves to put her hands in her mouth. She is doing a lot more babbling. I'm still trying to catch it on film. She is also becoming a fan of bath time finally!! It only took three months of blood curdling screams but we are past that now. She will cry a bit when her skin first touches the water but then she gets used to it. We haven't gotten to the point where she LOVES taking a bath by giggling and splashing water. But I don't have to wear earmuffs anymore so that in itself is an improvement. I'm looking forward to the day that she can sit up in the tub and I can put toys in there for her to play and make mohawks with her soaped up hair.

Update on losing my pregnancy weight. Don't hate but I am now 8 lbs away from getting to my pre-pregnancy weight. I really wish the weather would start warming up. I'm so tired of winter as I'm sure the rest of the United States is feeling. I want warmer temperatures so I can break out the stroller and take Abbie for walks. The two walks we have had this year only have lasted 15 minutes because the wind proved to be too chilly. Spring is only four weeks away, I can make it right?

I am also still trying to kick this cold I acquired from Abbie 2 WEEKS AGO!! Seriously?!? I'm feeling a lot better than I was but I still have a sniffle and cough. Have you ever seen the Mucinex commercial with all of the green mucus hanging out in some one's chest. Well I feel like I'm that chest. Maybe I should stock up on some Mucinex so I can kick them out. Right now I'm not taking any meds because I have been warned that decongestants can make a woman's breastmilk dry up. But Mucinex isn't a decongestant so I should be fine.

Charlie & I did some shopping at Home Depot last week. We got a postcard in the mail saying that if we made a $299 or more purchase on our Home Depot card that we would get 12 mos no interest no payments. Well we spent a little more than the $299 that was required. We bought 2 ceiling fans for Abbie's room & our office b/c the one in the office was loud and I wanted a pretty white one for Abbie's room. We moved the one from Abbie's room into the guest room since it only had a light fixture. One of our frequent guests (my Mom) said that there wasn't enough air circulation in that room. And we would like to make sure our guests stay happy so they continue to visit. We also bought lumber so Charlie could build Abbie a dresser. It is something I have been requesting since we had the nursery completed back when I was 25 weeks pregnant. Well now almost 40 weeks later, the materials have been purchased. We also found a design we like on Nebraska Furniture Mart's website. And after looking at the price of this finished dresser, it's about the same price as the materials we bought. But Abbie will know that his dresser was build for her by her daddy. Who can put a price tag on that? I asked him if he could have it done in 4 weeks when my mom comes to visit. But I think that is pushing it so I will be happy if he has a good start on it and you can actually tell it's a dresser. Anyway, here is the design of the dresser we like.

This weekend I am going to go to the Just Between Friends sale that they hold twice a year in Tulsa. It's a big consignment sale of baby & maternity clothes. I went last summer and got a lot of cute winter outfits for Abbie for a decent price. Well now with summer hopefully arriving in a few months, it's time to buy her some summer outfits. I can't wait to play dress up.

I wish I had a new picture of Abbie to upload for this blog but I don't. I did upload her latest monthly growth pic over to the right of this blog that was taken last Tuesday on her 3 month birthday. She is getting so big and is developing such a personality.

I almost died last night...

So I had a pretty scary night last night. Charlie was working on his car and it was pretty cold out so he came in and was freezing. Well I suggested that we turn on the fireplace. We have one of those gas log fireplaces that is operated by a remote. The remote works like a thermostat where you set the temp you want and it will run until it reaches that temp and then it will shut off until the temps drops again to which it will turn back on. We watched American Idol while wrapped up in blankets in our toasty living room. So around 10 pm, I put Abbie down while Charlie turns off the fireplace and closes the flue (is that how you spell that?). So we head to bed and just as I am dozing off to sleep I am awakened by the smell of gas. Charlie gets up to go check on it and 5 min later comes back to tell me that the fireplace came back on. Mind you, he has already closed the flue & doors to the fireplace so the gas has no where to go except to fill the house. I immediately go and check on Abbie and bring her back to bed with me while Charlie begins to open windows (it was probably in the lower 30's outside when we went to bed). Thankfully we had an attic fan that allowed fresh air from outdoors to circulate throughout the house. About 10 minutes of doing that, the smell was almost gone and now our house was cold. Charlie told me I could put Abbie back in her room (she was sound asleep through all of this) but I was still paranoid over the gas smell and told him I would feel better if she slept with us so I could hear her breathing.

It was such a scary experience. What would have happened if we fell asleep and didn't smell the gas? And Charlie said when he went to go check on the smell that there was a slight haze in the living room. Would our house have started on fire? Would we have died of carbon monoxide poisoning? Although we do have a carbon monoxide detector in the living room. Too many "What Ifs" if you ask me. I'm just happy that I was able to detect it before falling asleep b/c Charlie can't smell a thing right now with his stuffed up nose.

Oh, and that smoke detector that was in the kitchen, but since painting the kitchen 1 1/2 yrs ago, has been sitting on the hope chest? Well it's going back up tonight. And I don't think I will be running the fireplace anymore. Charlie swears that he turned it off with the remote. I was pretty worried going to sleep last night. I felt so relieved when I & the rest of the family woke up alive this morning.