Ein Boot
Little Lulu Button can always be found with one missing boot (hence Ein vs Das but if you don't get my joke just don't worry about it, but she does have some boats)!
This is Lulu playing in the morning while I pack a lunch.
Toys, Toys, Toys
As usually it's been a really busy week, but whose hasn't right? It's been so busy that I forgot most of the things that went on but lets see if I can remember anything...
Lets start with the above picture. This is the general state of our living room, toys, toys, toys. I didn't realize that all her toys are now in the living room until she was in her room standing at the toy box reaching in to find it... empty.
She is pulling her self up on all surfaces such as: books, boxes, shelves, toys & dog hips. Some of these items don't provide her with much height but I don't think she minds. She sideways scales all the furniture, couch & chairs and moves cushions I use to keep her from the rocky hearth.
She's already figured out our baby gate, crawls right up to them, leans back on her heals and opens it up. Well I guess I was really trying to keep the dogs anyways!
She thinks is funny to pull my hair. She mimics words sometimes when we're talking to her. She laughs when My Handsome Man* and I are talking and start to laugh, you'd think she was in on the conversation. She started cuddling randomly, not just when tired.
Oh, the drool! I don't feel another tooth coming in but she's drenching bibs, so maybe?
Lulu was cruisin' in the walker this week. She was playing with her dog Scout when he fell to the floor (honestly she probably threw him down), in any case she decided she had to have him so she started chasing him with BIG steps as he was effortlessly clinging to the front of the walker from the kitchen to the dining room.
I have been looking for a new doctor, and in the first time in years it's made me miss Boulder, because I know that I can find a medical doctor who practices alternative treatments. And a little part of me misses that winter would be about over by now.
Girl Scout cookies arrived this week, so onto the money collecting part portion... it's never been easy, and I have high hopes for this year going smooth. Maybe we'll even collect money from the parent who didn't pay us last year?! I won't hold my breath. We're set for Sleeping with the Sharks at the Mall of America this April.
As for me, class this week was good... passed tests with A's. Yes, I am tooting my own horn. Not that anything is extremely challenging but the amount of work all at the same time takes quite an effort. I hope that is not insulting to anyone, I am sure the fact that I am now OLD helps me studying wisely (ie, I don't have to study things I know from life, or most Latin root words).
Met with the owner of the place I want to work, and I found out there will be some other complications beyond what I knew initially. I knew I needed a salon manager to work under, I was trying to come up with solutions besides working in an actual salon. During our meeting I learned that he's been meeting with the owner of the school I didn't go to... which means I would be a last resort employee, if one at all! I am trying to come up with other solutions, or trying to think if there is some niche or opportunity I can bring to the situation besides experience, skills and passion.
I've had a little sinus thing going on for about 10 days and I am hoping it is about over. Judging from the hacking fits I have... I think it's going well.
I love, love, love my Laptop! One thing I didn't think I would miss after IBM... wrong. Oh, just heard another 1000 in Rochester, MN were let go so I need to get on the ball talking to the state about a special program since there may be some people applying for help now.
She loves to copy what I do... which I figure there's no better time than now to practice good dental hygiene!
While hanging out in the living room playing yesterday Lulu and I were petting the cat, Sesame. Lulu hasn't learned yet to be gentile with the cat so she'll take a few pulls, grabs from the Little One* but only for a few minutes at a time. Once Sesame escaped she went to lay under the chase lounge, when the Lulu crawled right over and with one had shoved her keyboard out of the way, then she began to crawl under the chase lounge after Sesame. She got a little stuck, but didn't seem upset about it... maybe because I was crackin' up.
Lulu and I were looking for toys she could walk with when we came across this lawnmower, sure it's not very sturdy for learning to walk but the real lawnmower noises sold me... and her too!
Just hangin' out together... yes I have black circles under my eyes. Lack of sleep from all the waking up to crying in the middle of the night... she looks well rested though!
We went out today and picked up these sneakers so that she can learn to walk with less ankle twisting. Size 6, but she was actually a perfect size 5 but that left no wiggle room.
Where has time gone? It was so slow when I was home alone learning to be a mom, but now it seems like everyday she does something new, and something funny.
