Lately

It was brought to my attention recently that my blog has been neglected for longer than ever before.  I'm pretty sad about it!  But we have been so. busy.  Work the past three weeks has literally been insane.  On top of it, Dan's been traveling for work, so I've had Lilly by myself quite a bit (with a lot of help from Carney who has so graciously worked overtime so that I could get everything done!).  To say I've been feeling stretched pretty thin would be the understatement of the century.  I feel like I blinked and skipped from 8 months old to 9 months old in about 2 minutes.  My little baby girl is getting SO BIG (make it slow down!), and I have loved watching her become a little tiny person with tons of personality.  There will (hopefully) be an update post coming tomorrow, but for now, here's a little bit of what we've been up to since my last post:

Matt and Elizabeth got married.  It was a fancy black tie affair, so Mommy and Daddy got to play dress-up.  We had a great time with Aunt Meagan, Uncle Bo, Mary-Peyton and Daniel.  Congratulations to the bride and groom!

Dan and I have been training for a 5k.  I thought it would be something nice that we could do together that would also help me get into better shape, since my 3x/week sessions with the trainer are most of the time nonexistent as of late (no time!).  Anyway, I knew I hated running.  Check out the left foot below.

I tried to get into several different doctors all last week, but since I'm not established anywhere, no one would see me.  I finally gave up and went to urgent care yesterday.  I got some x-rays, and luckily there are no bone fragments or breaks.  The verdict was that it's tendonitis.  They wrapped my foot, prescribed a steroid and told me to stay off my feet.  I thought to myself that the good doctor clearly does not have a VERY MOBILE 9-month-old to chase around.  Note to self: if this isn't a sign that I'm not supposed to run, ever, I don't know what is.  I really did mean it when I said I'd rather drive off a cliff than run anywhere.  :-)

Lilly somehow contracted an illness.  She was running a low-grade fever, didn't have an appetite, was waking up at night hungry (due to aforementioned lack of appetite and therefore nonexistent eating), and generally just wanted to be held...which is very unlike her.  She normally will not sit still and is ALL over the place, so when she wanted to cuddle (which let's be honest was absolutely fine by me), I knew something was wrong (well that and when she wasn't interested in food, because again let's be honest, homegirl can eat).  There was also a lot of drool, so naturally we assumed it was teething.  We were right, but what we didn't know is that it was also roseola.  Never heard of it?  Me neither, until our sweet one broke out in this pitiful rash:

We attended a birthday party and a baptism while L was sick since we thought it was teething.  I felt pretty horrible about it, but called all the mothers of possibly infected children and haven't heard of any other child contracting it (knock on wood).  As a result of the combination of roseola and teething, there was a lot of cuddling going on in the Baum house hold last week.  I hated that Lilly wasn't feeling well, but I tried to savor every second because as I said before, if she is awake she is MOVING...normally there is NO time for snuggles with Mommy!

I was finally able to get some pictures of the teeth we've been working so hard to cut!

Cute little guys, aren't they?  Those two finally broke through last week, and I'm thinking we'll probably have one on the top sooner than later.

Did I mention that we are pulling up on EVERYTHING?  

L had an accidental tumble out of the stroller last week with Carney.  The doctor had us bring her in to make sure there was no concussion and that she didn't need x-rays.  Luckily everything is fine and she is A-OK, but she has her first set of battle wounds:

We went to the pumpkin patch with our besties at the end of last week, and we had a blast!  The girls are SO CUTE together and a good time was had by all.

Image courtesy Stephanie Aldridge Photography

Image courtesy Stephanie Aldridge Photography

Image courtesy Stephanie Aldridge Photography.  Thanks to Aunt Niecey for the Halloween bib!

Image courtesy Stephanie Aldridge Photography

Side note: do yourself a favor and check out my bestie's photography business.  I'm so proud of her for finally launching it.  She does a fantastic job, and you should book her stat.  :-)

We went to Charlotte this past weekend just for a night because Dan and Frankie went to the Panther's game.  L got some quality time in with Aunt Debbie and Cousin Matthew:

L has Stymie vision!

Last but not least, L has been spoiled by her grandparents!  Grandmommy and Pawpaw brought her some super cute giraffe PJs home from Key West.  We didn't care that they were a little too big!

She also got some cute Halloween PJs from Grandma and Papa.  These are glow in the dark and SUPER nifty, but Lilly wasn't feeling too cooperative for a picture this evening.  I'll try to get a better one in the morning!

That's all for tonight!  This Momma's one tired puppy.  We'll hopefully report back tomorrow for Lilly's 9-month update!

Sarah

We have a tooth! And other randoms.

Howdy, friends!  Long time, no write, I know.  We are full speed ahead these days with a VERY mobile child, and that combined with life in general rarely leaves me time to even blink, much less blog!  As I haven't blogged in a week or more, I thought I'd do a quick weekend update before bed tonight.

Lilly Bean has been a busy bee developmentally this week.  I guess I should start with nap time on Wednesday (I had an all-day work event on Monday, so Carney agreed to work Monday morning and I gave her Wednesday morning off instead.).  I heard a noise on the monitor and turned it on to discover the following:

This child had JUST learned how to push herself up into a sitting position from laying down like the week before.  She is seriously all. over. the place.  I swear, we are in trouble!  I sent the above photos to Dan, and we decided that it was probably time to lower the crib.  Lilly was really only halfway pulling up on the crib but not really getting all the way up, and she did the same thing at bed time that night so I wasn't really worried on Friday when I realized we had forgotten to lower the crib...until I put her down for a nap, heard a noise and  looked in the monitor to see this:

Seriously?  She is all but hanging over the edge.  I had to go upstairs FOUR TIMES during this particular nap before the child stopped trying to escape her crib and finally went to sleep.  She's lucky she's cute (she's so proud of herself!):

Luckily, Lilly has no problem playing in her crib by herself before winding down to go to sleep.  She'll go through several rounds of rolling around, sitting up, standing up, sitting down, rolling around some more and repeating, all the while squealing, squawking, talking to herself and cackling.  Eventually she'll wear herself out, wind down and finally fall asleep.  Anyway, needless to say the crib was lowered on Friday as soon as Dan got home from work.

Uncle Frankie came to town for a rare visit, so after work on Friday Lilly and I packed it up and headed downtown to meet he and Dan for a drink (I LOVE these pictures...they are so typical):

Dan mentioned earlier in the week that date night on Friday might be fun, so we dropped L off at home with a sitter and then headed back downtown (we're lucky we live so close!) for First Friday.  Sadly, I didn't get any photos, but it was a fun night out for the two of us.

Saturday was one big whirlwind.  We ran a TON of errands and did some general cleaning and organizing around the house (why is it that cleaning and organizing always seem to pile up?!).  Uncle Billy Ocean came over for a while around dinner time to play before heading out with Daddy to watch the NCSU/FSU game:

One thing I forgot to mention was that on Saturday afternoon, we discovered that L has FINALLY sprouted a tooth!  The poor child has been teething for months, so I'm glad she finally has something to show for her hard work.  I don't have a picture because you can't really see it yet - but you can definitely feel it (I started to suspect said tooth because she bit me, and then later in the day when she finally let me close to her mouth I was able to confirm my suspicions).  Plus, have you ever tried to get an 8-month-old to cooperate for a picture of their mouth?  Not easy.

Today was supposed to be a very relaxing day.  We went to church this morning, then came home to feed Lilly and get her ready to go down for a nap.  Dan took over the feeding, so I took that opportunity to go to the grocery store, which turned out to be a terrible decision as my wallet was stolen right out of my purse while I was there.  Which made most of the afternoon a complete nightmare.  Sigh.  In between calling to cancel debit and credit cards at 4 different banks, there was a lot of frozen blueberry gnawing (I suspect that we may be trying to sprout more than one tooth at a time):

We are in the middle of a cold front and the weather suddenly got really cold overnight, so Dan bundled L up for an after-dinnner walk:

I am still not sure how he got that outfit to zip as it is size 3-6 months.  He was just SO excited that he found something warm for Lilly to wear that I didn't want to break his heart and make him take it off.  Luckily, she was a good sport:

I cooked a big pot of white chicken chili for dinner (one of our favorites - will post the recipe soon!), and we've been busy making five batches of baby food and doing quite a few loads of laundry ever since.  It never ends, I tell you!

Hope your weekend was wonderful as well!

Sarah