So today I decided I felt like being crafty.
We had a wonderful dinner of thanksgiving leftovers, which I over-nuked in the microwave. Scott was playing with his Wii (We just got it today).
I tried to clean the huge stockpot that we left soaking in the sink. I gave up after a few tries as I kept dropping it and getting water all over the kitchen. Pregnancy makes you REALLY clumsy: a blessing that I already had, but has become magnified by 10.
I tried to move on to another area of the house that needed cleaning when the two dying arrangements on my table caught my eye. I thought to myself: "I really need to get rid of those; they are starting to die."
We aquired the two small arrangemtns consisting of orange tiger lilies, roses, and green and red berries, from a wedding reception that we attended last Friday. I must say, they were quite striking.
As I began taking them apart, a little lightbulb went off in my head. I quickly grabbed a pad of paper and started making a list of materials. I was going to go to Michales......to get something CRAFTY.
An hour later, after painstakingly picking out a few different kinds of falce foliage, and wrestling with some wire clippers; I came up with this:
Please excuse the cat in the background. I could not make her get out of the picture. Note how she is trying to distroy my creation. Bad kitty. I suppose this is just practice for the baby.
Festive, huh? I was quite proud, concidering I have never been all that into flower arrangements. If you look at the one on the right there is even a little cardinal sitting on a branch. Scott thought it was silly. I thought it was brilliant. :)
Speaking of my wonderful husband, look what I got as an early Christmas gift!
Isn't it lovely? I've been wanting a full length mirror for a while now, but I never expected to get one so fancy! I absolutely love it! Scott is a wonderful man......I think I'll keep him :)
Did you see that swanky looking rocker in the reflection? Also mine! That was my b-day gift from my parents. Right now the mirror has a temporary home in the baby's room until I can re-arrange our room and find it a more permanent home.
Exciting stuff. Tomorrow I'm going to have Scott go into our storage unit to haul all the Christmas decorations out. I have big plans for the wreath on the door. I'm sure that will be tomorrow's post.
We have decided to start her in day care. She loves it there. We have made this decision for the benefit of her and Scott. Scott has been working graveyard shifts for the past year so he can watch her during the day while I work. This has become too much for his platter since Claire is now awake most of the day. Lasting for 17 months like this worked pretty good. The day care also does a preschool program. I receive text message updates throughout the day from the providers to let me know how Claire is doing.
Claire's vocabulary is expanding slowly, but she knows when she is leaving and stands close to the door waving both hands sometimes and almost shouts, "bye bye". She also says, "night night" and a few other things. Her hair is growing, it is long enough to put a hair clip in her hair.
We love Claire so much, we are so proud of her. She seems to be better for other people than for us. We recently took her to the Doctor because she had been crying for about two hours straight (she rarely cries longer than a minute). So of course we get to the office and she stopped crying the entire time at the Doctor's.
