More pictures

I know, I KNOW! This is NaBloPoMo, not post pictures of Kalena every day in November. I have several posts half written, but I'm not in the right mood to finish any of them. I'm not sure how today went by so fast; it feels like I was busy all day, but somehow I didn't manage to get anything done. Oh well, my to-do list will still be there tomorrow.

Kalena got to wear two adorable new outfits this weekend, both were unexpected gifts we got in the mail last week. This one is from one of Brian's aunt & uncle and family. How cute are the pockets on those pants?!

(The headband was one we had, and we took it off her after these pictures-- it just looks too much like a sweatband.)


The dress and shoes are from my parents. This is Brian with Kalena after church today. Although, considering the amount of drool on the front of the dress, maybe we should have taken the pictures before church.


Tomorrow I promise I'll write a real post. I won't promise no pictures, because sometimes I just can't resist, but it will include real actual content and not just picture captions. FOR REAL.

High five!

Maybe she's a genius?



Or maybe she's just very interested in putting her hand out to touch anything you put in front of her. I'll let you decide.

Pictures

I'm feeling a little lazy this fine Friday evening, so today's post is just some pictures of Kalena. Here she is working hard on trying to crawl.



I love her expression here.



Not only does she look like Brian, she zones out like him too. (He's teaching her to be a football fan here.)


Just showing off her fashion sense.


More rambling tomorrow.

This is a little late...

About a million years ago when Brian was redoing our ceilings I promised pictures. And then I had a baby and never posted them. (I know, excuses excuses.) Better late than never right? Here's some pictures of the kitchen and dining room all covered in plastic:


For anyone who's thinking about doing this, here's photographic evidence of the gigantic mess it makes:

(And that's just the mess from taking down the popcorn, not from putting on new texture.)

Here's Brian after putting on the texture:


And here's a picture of one room that's done and one room that isn't so you can see the difference. Arrow A is the beautiful redone ceiling, arrow B is the ugly popcorn ceiling. You can't really tell from the picture but the walls in the two rooms are different colors as well.


Brian worked really hard with the scraping and texturing and drywall repair and painting. I worked really hard not to breath in any paint fumes. Ok, I didn't work all that hard.

If you want to do this at your house you can ask Brian to help you. He'll tell you no, but you can still ask.

More of my amazing sewing skills

You may have noticed that in this post I mentioned that Kalena's Halloween costume is the SECOND thing I've sewn in years. Since I'm sure you were all losing sleep at night wondering what the FIRST thing was, I'll tell you. About 3 days before I made the Halloween costume I made Kalena a tag blanket. First, here's a picture of my lovely sewing machine. I bought it right before Kalena was born but hadn't managed to get it out and actually use it until recently.


Here is the blanket. I looked at a couple patterns online but in the end I just made it up as I went along. If I ever make another one, I'll do some things differently.


And hopefully if I ever make another one, I won't end up with another corner like this one:



(That's just evidence of my non-existent skills.)


I made her the blanket because she always goes right for the tags on toys. She likes the way they feel ...


...and the way they taste.


Mmmmm. Yummy blanket.

Bonus!

As if one post a day isn't enough, today you get two! Aren't you lucky? (Don't answer that.) I'm posting this today because I think these both apply no matter who wins the election.

You can check out more hilarious demotivators at despair.com. Good stuff.

Election Coverage

I don't get it. Alright, that's not entirely true. I understand the desire to check in and see what's going on. What I don't understand is feeling compelled to watch non-stop election coverage. Because really? You watching? Not going to change ANYTHING. Also? Not exciting.

In the 2004 election my roommates insisted we watch election coverage and NOTHING else. As if changing the channel for half an hour to watch a sitcom might change the outcome. Or maybe they thought all the votes from the last several states would magically come in and be counted in the next half hour even though the polls WERE STILL OPEN. I finally gave up trying to convince them otherwise and left. Then I laughed to myself when I turned on the TV the next morning and the election was STILL undecided. Good thing they watched all that coverage.

Anyway, it's election day so if you haven't already, GO VOTE. Watch election coverage or not. Sooner or later we'll find out who the next president will be.

Kalenasaurus

I think babies in costume are adorable. But since I wasn't even sure we would be doing anything on Halloween, I didn't really want to buy a costume for Kalena. I thought about it (because they're just SO cute) and in the end I decided just to make her one. It's not great because a) I'm not a great seamstress, b) this is only the second thing I've sewn in YEARS, and c) combine a with b and you get VERY amateur stuff. Also, since Kalena doesn't have very many sleepers that fit her, I didn't want to permanently turn one of them into a costume, so everything is just pinned to the sleeper. Ghetto, I know. I used pink and purple material from old t-shirts for the hat, spikes, and tail. (Hence the not-quite-matched shades of pink.)

She managed to look cute and stay awake for the whole time we were at trunk-or-treat (an hour and a half past her normal bedtime) and then made it two whole blocks in the car before she fell asleep. Maybe next year she'll get a costume AND some candy. Maybe we'll eat all her candy for her again. You just never know.

100!

This is my 100th post since I started blogging. I know it says 102 on the side, that's because Brian wrote 2 posts. (Apparently I have a lot more to say then he does.) Anyway, I wanted to do a post of 100 things about me for my 100th post, but that's not going to happen. I am sick AGAIN, so I am too out of it to come up with even a short interesting post, let alone 100 things. Where is my immune system these days? It actually seems like the same thing I had last week, maybe I just never fully recovered? Whatever it is, it means my 100 things will have to wait. I'll (maybe) get around to it later this month.

For now I'll just do the tag from Mardi. Here is the sixth picture from my sixth folder:

This is me with my mom standing in front of the Christmas tree last year. I know you can't see my belly, but I was 20 weeks pregnant with Kalena in this picture.

Ummm, I guess that's all for now.

Let's get started

Yesterday morning Kalena learned that it's important to vote! Ok, maybe she didn't learn anything, but she did come with us to early voting. Here we are outside. I wanted a picture inside, but you have to turn off cell phones and that's how we took the picture. If you didn't vote yet, remember to vote on the 4th!