Video of the Week

I apologize for the lapse in video posts.  Last weekend was busy with party planning and preparing my house for company this last weekend.  I hope you will forgive me.  I made sure to make up with it with this week's video.

Abbie Eating in her Sleep from Megan Vogt on Vimeo.

No tricks...just one adorable treat!!

This year Abbie got to celebrate her first Halloween.  Trying to keep up with Martha Stewart, the homemaker in me really wanted to make Abbie's costume.  But I never took Home Economics in high school and can hardly sew on a button.  Charlie's mother is a seamstress so I have never had a reason to learn how sew. I don't even own a sewing machine until one was donated to me by my mother in law and delivered two days before Halloween.  I figured a Halloween costume as my first sewing project that needed to be completed in two days was just not going to happen.  So I took the easy route and bought Abbie's costume.





MINNIE MOUSE!!

The costume was 12-18 mos but was on a little bit of the tight side.  It was almost impossible to squeeze her into it and definitely wasn't made for tall girls like my daughter.  Thank goodness she had tights on or her tooshie would have gotten cold hanging out. Her little dress shoes had a slight wedge to them and Abbie stumbled as she walked in them.  And the ears...she hated the ears!!  I'm not exactly sure how I got her to keep them on long enough for this picture.  The minute she felt the headband going over her head, she would rip it off.  I wish I knew how to sew so I could have sewn them onto some ponytail holders and I could have attached them to her pigtails.  Mommy definitely didn't think this one out when she was planning out Abbie's First Halloween costume. 

Abbie got all sorts of candy.  Too bad the poor girl only has 2 1/2 teeth to enjoy it.  I'm afraid that Mommy & Daddy may have to enjoy it for her!!  Her cousins came down to visit for Halloween so she had lots of fun going door to door with them Trick or Treating.  Maybe next year she may know how to actually say Trick or Treat.  I was pretty disappointed with the neighborhoods we went trick or treating to.  Back in the day when I used to go trick or treating, almost everyone had their lights on and you scored big time on candy.  Hardly anyone in our neighborood were passing out candy.  Are people just afraid to open their door to anyone these days, even on Halloween?  Or are they just "Boo Humbugs"??  Next year we are definitely going to hit up the festive neighborhoods.  And I'm going to make sure that Abbie's costume is a lot more comfortable & enjoyable!! 

Vogt Family - Halloween 2010

Got my Hair Did

Bye bye Messy Mom Bun...

Hello shorter, hipper, bob with lots of color!!

So what do you think? Meredith said that my hair is starting to look more like my mom's.

Not a way to start a Tuesday

MONDAY:
9:36 pm:  Climbed into bed.  Excited that I was going to get 8 1/2 hrs of glorious sleep.

11:50 pm:  Woke up wide awake.  Hot.  Uncomfortable.  Arm throbbing.  Need to open window.  Need water.

TUESDAY:
12:30 am: House alarm gives us warning that it's about to go off.  Somehow the door leading out to the garage was not latched and it opened.  Thank goodness we turned it off before the siren went off.

1:00 am:  After tossing and turning, I finally drift off to sleep. 

6:00 am:  Alarm goes off.

6:30 am:  Finally got out of bed.  30 minutes to get ready before I needed to wake up Abbie.  Why didn't I just get out of bed when my alarm went off?

7:00 am:  Frank wanted to go outside but that isn't part of the morning routine.  Dogs go out at 7:15.

7:06 am:  Frank peed on floor near the back door.  Really?  You couldn't wait 9 more minutes?  Note to self: when Frank is whining by the door...LET HIM OUT!! 

7:06 am:  Let both dogs outside.

7:07 am:  Sopped up dog pee off of floor.

7:08 am:  Wishing that I didn't adopt a beagle.  Odie is going to wake the neighbors with his howling this early in the morning. 

7:10 am:  Broke Abbie's highchair tray trying to pull her over to me to feed her.

7:17 am:  Let Frank in.  Called for Odie to come in. No response.

7:20 am:  While getting packing everything up for the day, I noticed that Abbie had puked on her self and is playing with it.

7:24 am:  Changed Abbie into another outfit.

7:27 am:  Called for Odie to come in again.  Still no response.  Slammed the back door and really wish I had a dog that listened.

7:35 am:  Packed makeup to put on at work.  Halloween is still 5 days away and I don't want to scare any of my co-workers.

7:38 am:  Went outside with the doggie treat jar to lure Odie inside.  Success!! 

7:46 am:  Loaded Abbie up in the car and realized that most of my Halloween decorations are strewn throughout the yard.  UGH!!  Dang wind!!

7:48 am:  Walked Abbie up to daycare and heard her grind her teeth.  Stuck my finger in her mouth to make her stop and she BIT ME!! 

8:10 am:  Arrived at work.  One of these days I will learn how to manage my time in the morning and arrive to work on time.

Please tell me that this is the end to my horrible day.  I don't need to break down crying at work.  Although if it's going to happen, please do it before I put on my makeup.

Walk this Way

Ah, Fall has arrived.  One of my two favorite seasons (Spring & Fall).  The weather finally cools down after putting up with months of the dreaded southern heat.  The leaves begin to change.  The cool evenings where you wrap yourself up in a blanket, make yourself a warm mug of cider and sit around the fire pit roasting marshmallows. 

With the weather being so mild lately (mid 70's & 80's), I decided to get back into my walking routine.  I just couldn't do it during the summer b/c a) I couldn't find the time and b) it was so dang hot & humid.  But now that it's cooler out, I have been spending my lunch hours walking 30 minutes with coworkers.  Then when I get home, I load Abbie up in her stroller and we walk the neighborhood for 30 minutes.  It is such a good way to relax after a hard day at work.

Abbie loves going for walks.  There is so much to see and most of the time she is sound asleep by the time we get home.  I got her a new stroller.  The one I had from before was okay for walks but it was so big & bulky.  It took up so much room in the Element and it was such a pain to navigate around the stores in the mall.  So I found this smaller, lightweight umbrella stroller on sale for $100 at Babies R Us.  With my coupon + tax, I spent $86.  And it's wonderful for tall people like me.  No need to hunch over while pushing it.  My favorite features is the cup holder and a basket down below.  And it also comes with a matching tote bag.  I would tell you if you were in the hunt for a good stroller to go buy this one but I just went on Babies R Us' website and I can't find it on their website anymore.  So I'm glad I snatched it up when I did!!  I did find it on Amazon.com but it's double in price from what I paid at BRU.

Here is a then & now shot of our walks that I put together on Picnik.  Can you believe that eight months lapsed between these pictures?  Where did my baby go!?!

Video of the Week

Wow, the weekend came and went and so did Monday!!  I spent my weekend painting the office.  Ever since getting rid of cable, it has become the most habitable room in the house.  And it's the only room left in the house with the original paint when we moved in.  It's the blah, neutral flat paint that showed every little smudge & scrape.  And now the walls are a bold & beautiful blue.  I love it.  I should write a blog and give you a little tour of my house b/c every room is bursting with color!! Charlie says that we have almost every color of the rainbow throughout our house.  I just have to somehow figure out to incorporate indigo.  Any ideas?


My weekend entailed cleaning out the room, painting until 2 am (because that is the time of the day where you can get things done without interruptions) and putting the room back together again.  I wanted to make pumpkin cookies for my bosses to take in as a belated Boss' Day present today but it just didn't happen.  Maybe sometime this week I will get around to baking them.  Oh and I also stopped breastfeeding this weekend.  That whole ordeal is a blog in itself.  So stay tuned. 


Anyway, here is this week's video of the week.  It is a short little interview with Abbie that I took last week.  She is showing off all of her skills that she has learned and I'm trying to teach her new skills that she can show off in the future. 

Interview with Abbie from Megan Vogt on Vimeo.

Video of the Week

Friday evening was so beautiful that I swung by and got some sandwiches after work then loaded up the family (minus the dogs) and headed to the park. We had a little picnic then went over to the playground to take Abbie on the swings. She loves to sit out on the glider on our porch but that is when she is securely seated in her parents lap. As you can see by this video, she isn't too sure of what to think of this big mammoth swing. She isn't freaking out but she doesn't really seem to be digging it either. And I always say how fast my baby girl is growing up but when we put her in this swing, she looked so tiny!!

Swing, Swing from Megan Vogt on Vimeo.