Happy Thanksgiving!

Riley being Josephine

Happy Thanksgiving!

I've started calling Roo Josephine when she is acting especially like Joe - you can see one of her Josephine faces at the top. I can't believe it is already Thanksgiving! Roo decided to get up at 4 in the morning (I don't recommend trying it...) and then fell asleep at 5. Mama, on the other hand, was up until 7. It was fun times.

I trialed dairy and tomatoes this week - all seemed to be going fine and I was harboring a hope that I may end up with a piece of pumpkin pie after all, but this morning she had the worst poop in the world and dairy/tomatoes are out again. Oh well.

I've been so into sewing lately - Joe told me I could get a serger, so I found a Janome 9102D off of one of my crafty sites and that is my Christmas present! I so can't wait to try it out - it will make finishing seams for clothes so much easier/better looking. I've decided that I will be making some of Roo's clothes from now on. The poor kid has the longest torso and the shortest arms, so she is usually squished into a romper with the sleeves rolled back. I figured I can at least make her some clothes that fit better. Beyond that, she would be in 18m clothes torso-wise and she definitely does not have 18m length legs either. I made these diaper sets for Joe's cousin for her newbie due inn January and it would have been much much simpler with a serger. I still think they turned out well though, and the embroidery was fun to do. Actually it all was fun to do!

Riley has been sitting like a champ lately, and is really enjoying her teeth... unfortunately. She helped me make cornmeal rolls for dinner tonight - they are rising right now. We used Sadie's mixer with the dough hook and SO much easier than doing it by hand! Anyhoo, she is getting tired so I'm signing off :-)

Ho hum.

I can't believe it's almost Thanksgiving - the weather here certainly can't decide either! Yesterday it was warm (for Oregon) and sunny; today it is cloudy and cool. It makes it hard to get into the holiday spirit when fall hasn't truly hit yet, although the leaves fell a few weeks ago, so maybe it is just me.

Roo slept until 11 (11!) today but she also went to bed at midnight, so eh. I reeeeeally don't want her to get into the habit of going to bed late - I am a night owl, so I don't mind staying up with her, but Joe and I don't get any quality time (heh, heh) this way because he has to go to bed earlier because he gets up so dang early. It probably doesn't help that it is pitch black dark by 6 pm now.

I've been getting back into sewing and really enjoying it - I made Riley a sleeper but had to change the pattern because the only one I could find was for a romper. Then apparently the pattern was made for babies with necks the size of Goliath's, so I had to rip out the neck and resize it.

I've also started gathering materials up to work on cloth diapers for Roo - we have been cloth diapering since 2 weeks after she was born, but she is now growing out of everything, so I figured I'll just make some more myself.

Sitting Ducks...

Not quite sure what I'm doing here that has gotten you so excited, but ok...

Looking cute!

I figured I'd better update since it's been a while. Also, we hit another milestone this week - Roo started sitting! I wasn't sure if it really "qualified" as sitting at first, but she doesn't fall to the side even if she ends up doing the lean towards her toes the longer she sits. So she sits!

She also has been working on getting her front top teeth in; and today she cut the left side! Tooth number 3 - check! Tooth number 4 - in progress! She was thrashing around this morning, alternating in between nursing and gnawing furiously on the blanket she had clutched in her fist - nurse nurse nurse, gnaw gnaw gnaw and so forth. I finally got up to get the Orajel because I figured that that would help. I came back with a little on my finger and she was dead asleep. Well, there I sit with the Orajel still on my finger, and I wasn't about to eat it myself, so silly me decides to put it on her gums anyway, figuring that she would be doing the thrashing thing again in a second... dumb move. She wakes up and I find out that she has actually cut the tooth!

Her new thing is now grinding her teeth together making this awful sound that just is like nails on a chalkboard to me. Fun times! Her other top tooth is really close to being cut and she will probably cut it tonight or tomorrow.

Roo also does this raptor/pterodactyl sound that is just unearthly - it's pretty funny though!


Uh, Gaston? Can I get an order of your finest booboo milk?

Whachoo lookin' at, foo?