dani - almost christmas!

adria finally learned a word that's in english! she can say "uh-oh!" as plain as day. I'm loving it. I guess when I was her age all I ever said was "uh-oh". she's my baby <3

I updated her 18 and 19 month photos. check em out!

my mom and I took adria to see santa at the mall. we stopped by baby gap (after trying 3 other stores) and bought her some matching tights and shoes for her dress. the tights are white with gold sparkles and the shoes are gold slippers. when we were walking through the mall we kept getting compliments on how cute she is. in line she kept pointing at santa and jabbering at him and trying to look at all the little babies. there were two tiny, tiny new babies ahead of us, they were SO adorable. then lol it was our turn! adria was not amused with santa, and she wouldn't even let us sit her anywhere near him. so the nice elves pulled out a little reindeer for her to sit on but she was still all hell no about the whole thing so both pictures are of her throwing a shit fit. she's lucky she's cute.

and for those who don't know, my child is absolutely terrified of everything. e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g. we're on the porch and a car drives by, she runs up to me and clings to my leg. someone walks past us and smiles at her, she cries. someone comes up and talks to me, she flips out and practically pulls my pants down trying to climb up me. I put her down so I can adjust, she acts like I just threw her to the sharks. it's absolutely ridiculous. but I guess it's another flaw I passed on because I as well am a chicken shit. but she has no issue preforming acrobatic acts that are heart attack worthy for anyone who catches her in the act.

I finally sold all my medium diapers. around fifteen for ninety dollars. all in one sale. thank god! I bought four brand new diapers from abby's lane. the new pink gingham floral, peach, and hot pink large fuzzibunz and a blossom bumGenious v.2. I love them, too bad I got them after linda picked adria up. but they're washed and ready to go. I'm thinking of striping my older larges tomorrow/tonight. I think I'm the 4th owner of these so they're kind of funky. I recently read about stripping diapers in a dishwasher, I think I'll try that one out.

fall quarter ended a week ago, and winter doesn't start until the 7th. I love the beginning of new quarters. I'm taking a math, world civilization, and pop culture. I swear I'm never going to finish school, I'll be taking classes forever. at least it gets me out of the house.

work is still going well. I'm only working 2 days a week, but my manager debbie said something about working on getting me more hours. I guess they like me! I had to close the dining room the other night. that sucked. I closed with this other girl, hazel, and usually it's only one person who closes so I can't imagine how much of a pain in the ass that is. I hope I get to stick to closing bakery.

I keep seeing previews for new bring it on movies. why do they still make those? I mean, the first one was fairly amusing. but I'm a fan of kirsten dunst, and the girl that was in buffy. that was a movie that did NOT need a sequel. I saw maybe a few minutes of the second one and no. just no.

uh. I think I'm done talking.

dani - no longer a stay at home mom.

adria's eighteen month photos have been updated!

I started my job at panera. so far I've done busing, dishes, register, and I've closed the bakery. every night I get sent home with bags full of left overs because a part of my job is to try everything so I can suggest products to customers. I think I've brought home all the pastries, most of the bagels, a few sandwiches and soups, a loaf of honey wheat bread and a loaf of tomato basil bread. I am pleased. my sister and I took the girls there for dinner one night and they were happy babies. adria gobbled the yogurt down like it was cheese. and if you've seen my child eat cheese you'd understand what I mean by that.

adria is scheduled to get her tubes in on december 13th, but this is all depending on if caresource decides to drop me or not. I apparently fail at welfare too. but I think my case worker fails just a little bit harder than I do.

my little girl has been an angle lately, and I can appreciate that. although, if I don't find the ipod she lost we're going to be having some issues.

it's too late to think about the rest of this entry, or even hit the spell check button.

dani - time for a real update.

make sure to check out adria's 18 month pictures!

it's so hard to believe my little baby is 18 months old. that's a year and a half. that's almost two years old. I can't believe how fast it's going.

she's been just as sweet as ever, minus toddler attitude and ear issues. jerrod and I took adria to the ENT doctors and they decided to give her tubes. she's scheduled to go in december 13th. she still isn't talking, but she's very good at pointing out body parts when you ask her too. she knows where her diapers are, her wipes, shoes, her chair and so on. if you ask her if she wants food she'll walk to her high chair. adria will say the first sound of words, so bird, baby, belly, boobs, bath and anything else that starts with a B comes out as "baaah". at least she's getting there. I love her jibberish.

the past few weeks I've been on a cleaning kick. instead of doing nothing more than playing with adria in the morning/afternoon, I've been cleaning. I do the dishes, wipe down the counters, sweep up the kitchen. sometimes I vacuum the living room and mop the kitchen. a few days ago I cleaned the bathroom and actually scrubbed the tile floor. it was gross but it needed it. then, I went through adria's closet and boxes and sorted all of her clothes. they're in bags according to size and season. I'm looking to give them away/sell them for like five dollars a bag. I need to get on buying adria large sized diapers. I have a few, but I mostly have medium fuzzibunz and those a getting a tid bit tight. so selling all those bags maybe I can get her a minky diaper, or those raw silk liners I've been wanting to get her.

but about our rooms! her's is completely cleaned and toddler proofed. then I FINALLY finished my room. I had a giant box filled with trash. I cleaned out underneath my bed and got rid of a lot of stuff I just don't need or use anymore. I'm such a pack rat. my room was swept and wiped down. dusted and sanitized. my bed is made and the only messes are on my desk and on my bookshelf. but that's because I don't have enough shelf space to make it look nice. I'm so proud of myself.

in other news, dani is now a working lady! my dad got me a job at panera bread. tomorrow is my orientation, and my first day of paid work. I know some of the people there, and the manager is so nice. I'm getting started at 8.25 an hour, which is a lot more than I was expecting to get started at. maybe I can get enough saved to where I can afford to move out with liz.

adria's dad and I have started talking about his visitation schedule. I don't even know what to think about this. he says I can stay with him if it comes to it but I just don't know. he's wanting to take my last name completely out of her name, and I know he'll get that because that's how the courts work. I'm so hurt that'd he'd do that to me when he knows how much it means to me. if he actually removes my names entirely from hers I don't think I can have anything to do with him at that point. I want to be friends with him but if he's willing to hit me where it really, really hurts then I don't know where to go from that. he's been telling me how he wants things to change, and he presents these in a way that sounds more like demands. like, he doesn't want my mom to babysit anymore. he wants adria in daycare and he said it in a way like "this is what's going to happen because I say so". he said if I move in with liz he wants adria to live with him and not me. and he said that in the same exact way. he said he's not compromising with the last name at all. I wish we wouldn't clash so much.

eighteen months.

11.8.07 - pretty adria.







11.13.07 - hip chic dress.



earlier, before she woke up.







playing







when I was two or three.



when I was one.



11.16.07 - afternoon nap.



waking up



showing off her wall paper.



I think she was pointing to neo.



smiles.



adria laughing at mommy.



blurrrrr.



"oooooooo"



silly faces.



close up.



teef!



fuzzi bunz



getting in her closet.



pretty girl!



riding her toy.



mommy is cheesey.



sitting in her chair talking.



playing.



11.18.07 - after I sorted through all of her stuff and did a deep cleaning.



dresser, crib, toys.



dresser.



curtain.



closet and bookshelf.



toys!



her mat, it has missing pieces.



11.22.07 - thanksgiving dinner. adria was with her dad's family.



















the people didn't interest me nearly as much as the table did =]



11.23.07 - jerrod dropped adria off so she could spend time with her great-grandma (my dad's mom).



sitting on the box of soda.



her hair is out of control.



11.28.07 - sitting on aunt donna's car modeling her relatively new coat.



eating her grilled cheese at panera.



hannah and adria sharing their meal.



nom nom nom.



"what?"



11.29.07 - playing in the morning while mommy caught up on her south park. minus 50 mom points for that.



playing with her inserts.



she loves the faucet.



playing with the water.







smiles for mommy!




"ohhhh"