Tired

Midnight bedtime + 5 AM wake up + more than 10 hours in the car = very tired Elsha

Also, when I woke up this morning I was fine and now I have no voice. Apparently I won't be contributing much to the Thanksgiving conversations.

Where did that go?

I used to be pretty good at keeping track of stuff. I rarely lost anything, and when I did I usually at least had an idea where it might be. What I'm finding out now that I'm married and have a child is that I'm pretty good at keeping track of MY stuff. Helping Brian find things he's misplaced is hit or miss. Either I can tell him where it is (or probably is) or I have no idea. This isn't so bad, since Brian is an adult after all, and can look for his own stuff. The problem is with Kalena's stuff. I have lost a couple things of hers and I don't even know where to start looking. What gets me though is that I can clearly remember the last time I had them--and now they're just gone. It's like they just disappeared into thin air.

My mom tells me that the best way to find something you've lost is to start cleaning. (She's right, I've found plenty of stuff this way.) Unfortunately, I'm a little bit (okay, more than a little bit) of a procrastinator so I'm always looking for stuff right when I need it. I guess I just need to procrastinate less and clean more. That doesn't sound like a whole lot of fun though. Maybe I'll just make BRIAN clean more. That should work right?

I missed it!

Kalena started crawling (for real crawling) today at church. BRIAN got to see it because he was playing with her in the foyer, but I was in primary learning Christmas songs with the kids. So I missed it. We've been expecting it-- she's been making progress towards crawling for awhile-- but it still seems crazy. I guess this means we ought to start baby-proofing.

I tried to get it on video later but she wasn't cooperating; she would only do it when the camera was off. In fact, Kalena didn't want anything to do with the camera today. We bought a couple of adorable dresses for her and she wore one to church today. I wanted to take some pictures of her in it, but that didn't work out so well. Here are some of the results.


This is more what I was going for. Without Brian's hands of course. Too bad I can't edit those out.

Illustrated

Here's how I feel about the internet:


About having a baby:


About my blog:


And about Google maps:

Friday night is date night...

for some people. Tonight we babysat for those people. The movie Twilight opened tonight which means pretty much every single teenage girl in Midland was at the movies. So who did that leave to watch kids for anyone else who wanted to go see Twilight? Us. Because we're not seeing the movie until next week when we're visiting family for Thanksgiving. Which is fine by me because it means we will avoid most of the long lines and huge crowds of teenage girls. I don't mind the babysitting either and we got fed delicious brownie sundaes after everyone got home so it was a pretty good deal all around. But then of course we got to chatting and now it's WAY past my bedtime so I'm going to go to sleep. (At least I remembered to blog right?)

In comparison

Just for fun, here's a growth comparison between me (staying tiny baby) and Kalena (sprouting like a weed baby) for the first six months. I have my mom and her diligent baby-book-keeping to thank for this information. Thanks mom!

Here we go:

Birth
me: 7 lbs 5 oz, 21 inches long
Kalena: 7 lbs 4 oz, 20 inches long

2 months
me: 8 lbs 15 1/2 oz, 22 1/2 inches long
Kalena: 11 lbs 12 oz, 24 1/4 inches long

4 months
me: 10 lbs 1 1/2 oz, 23 3/4 inches long
Kalena: 15 lbs 5 oz, 26 3/4 inches long

6 months
me: 11 lbs 4 oz, 25 inches long
Kalena: 17 lbs 6 oz, 28 inches long

In summary, Kalena's 2 month measurements almost match my 6 month measurements. I just don't know what to think about that.

6 month checkup

Fortunately, Kalena isn't old enough yet to know that the doctor's office means shots, so she's still happy while we wait. That doesn't stop her from wailing while she actually GETS the shots, but what can you do?

She's still big: 17 lbs 6 ounces and 28 inches long. That puts her in the 97th percent for height and 80th percent for weight. Where is she getting this height?! Brian and I are both right at average height so it's throwing me off a little. Maybe all this growing will slow down? I was teeny-tiny at 6 months and I turned out normal. Alright, maybe "normal" isn't accurate, but average anyway. So I guess we'll see.

Anyway, I know all you really want is a picture so here it is. Looking lovely in purple for her 6 month birthday. It's a good thing I took this picture first thing in the morning too because by noon she had on a different onesie. One without poop up the backside.

What is it with me and the rambling?

I asked Brian what I should blog about. Not sure what I was thinking there, since he's posted on here a whooping two times. He just argued with me about that by the way-- he was sure he'd only posted on here once. When I assured him that there are, in fact, two posts on here written by him, he informed me that they must be the best two posts on here. Apparently, not only does he not write on this blog, he doesn't read it either, otherwise he'd KNOW my posts are better.

Anyway, he had no good ideas for me (SHOCKING, I know) so y'all just get LAME blog post about nothing today. As usual, there are other posts half written, although I feel like I say that so often that you guys are going to stop believing me.

Totally unrelated (although, really, what was going on in this post anyway?) watching The Office is not particularly conducive to blogging. It does make me wish my office was more like their office though. It is also making me want grape soda. Listen, I'm going to stop all this rambling before it gets too out of hand, so why don't y'all just stop by again tomorrow for something a little more coherent.

6 months

Tomorrow Kalena is 6 months old. Crazy.

In the hospital


About 4 weeks old


1 month old


2 months


3 months (and getting an attitude)


4 months


And 5 months.


No 6 month picture yet since she isn't actually 6 months until tomorrow. I'll probably post one after she has her 6 month appointment on Wednesday.

6 months. It's just indescribable.

The dogs

I love our dogs. For those of you who don't know, we have two greyhounds, both retired racing dogs. They are great pets, but they are not typical dogs. Although our dogs aren't particularly well trained, they are generally well behaved. They don't beg, bark, lick, or jump on people. On the other hand, they don't sit or fetch either.

One thing about greyhounds is that they're spectacularly lazy, so they spend most of their time sleeping. Ours are always looking for a good place to nap. And when they can't find the perfect spot they just have to make their own.


This is Brenna on the dog bed out in our back yard. Onyx dragged one of the beds outside. Through the DOG DOOR. (We know it was Onyx who took it out there because Brenna never moves the beds. Onyx drags them to wherever she wants to sleep.) She does this every so often when it's nice out. I have no idea how she actually does it; neither of us has ever seen her take it out. We'll just look outside at some point and see a bed where there wasn't one before.

Also, apparently Onyx liked being a working dog, because she's always trying to start her modeling career. Here she is, posing for the camera.