It's warm outside!!!

After the frigid temperatures we've been having, today was a nice relief. Belle really likes being outside and has spent quite a bit of the day outside watching daddy fix the fence. While mommy was on the phone talking to apple trying to revive her brand new "dead" laptop.

Here are a few pics from today

GO COLTS!!!!

Whoo Hooo! The Colts are going to the Super Bowl. I unfortunately did not stay up last night to see the end of the game. I had to go to bed because I knew Belle would have me up at some point. And she didn't disappoint. I think she's teething still.

So in two weeks we'll see if I can stay up long enough to watch the Super Bowl.

Met Kelli and Michaela at the mall again

We met Kelli and Michaela at the mall again. I met her on Babycenter.com on the birth club board. We've gotten together about 3 times now. Its amazing how big the girls are getting. Both are so close to crawling.

Here are a few pics of our time at the mall.

My Little Shopper

Belle was a trooper this weekend. We went shopping for my sisters wedding dress in Cincinnati and Belle tagged along. She was the life of the party. At the bridal shop, babies are normally not allowed back in the dressing room, but all Belle had to do was flash her smile and we were in.
People just were constantly stopping and commenting on how cute she was and how good she was being.

I better start saving for Belle's wedding now. The price of things have just gone through the roof since my wedding almost 7 years ago. Sara got the most beautiful wedding dress, but it was pricey for sure. She's also booked Jessica Strickland out of Indy for her wedding. With the dress and that photographer Im sure the pictures will be absolutely gorgeous.

Lets hope Belle didn't get expensive taste like her mother, aunt and mimi.

Fun @ Gymboree!

Today Belle and I had a preview class at Gymboree. She had a lot of fun and seemed to enjoy the songs and the clown Gymbo. Today was slide day so Belle got to play on the slides. She didn't seem too impressed, but she loved bubble time and the parachute.

There were two other babies in this class. Mason and Mckenna, both over 8 mos. She really enjoyed see other babies and interacting with them.

So I think I'm going to sign us up. Its nice for Belle to be around other babies and for me to get to talk to other moms. Its kinda expensive so we'll see how it goes.

All I wanted for Christmas was sleep and Santa didn't deliver.

Belle is almost 7 mos old now and she is still not sleeping consistently. I guess I shouldn't complain, nights like last night are few and far between. Well unless she is starting a new trend.

She went to bed around her usual time which is about 9 or so. I go to bed earlier expecting to get up at some point throughout the night. Well she had me up about 2. I thought I'd just put the paci in and be done, nope. So I then proceeded to try the whole "Cry it out" thing. She was not having it. After about 15 minutes Nic comes upstairs, I had left the monitor on so he heard the whole thing. He went down and made her a bottle. At that point I just wanted to go back to bed, so I gave her a bottle thinking she'd be out like a light and I'd go back to sleep. Nope.

She downed the bottle and when I put her in bed she rolled over and cuddled with her giraffe. I went to sleep on the air mattress upstairs just in case she didn't go to sleep right away. I was right she was up again. I then proceeded to take her and put her on the air mattress with me since that usually does the trick too. Nope. From about 2:30 til about 7:00 Belle floundered around like a fish. She just never got comfortable which meant I never got any sleep.

Some day I'll sleep again, lets just hope its before next Christmas.