More craziness.

Liz woke up in a great mood yesterday from her nap, so we decided to go to the Trick or Treating event downtown. Lizzy looked so cute in her little tutu - my little ballerina danced all over the house while we were getting ready. Liz was the only ballerina at the party, it took her all of two tables to realize that if she said "Trick or Treat" she would get candy... the hardest part after that was getting her to slow down enough to say thank you to everyone! We played a few games along the way, but before long she had a bucket full of candy so we headed over to the story room (kid version) where there were some sweet ladies reading a story about pumpkins to the kids. They got gummy snacks here (thank God, finally something she could eat!) and a sucker.

After the ToT'ing we went straight to my mom's to drop Liz off and then straight over to small group. I just have to say I really love our group. We have some amazing people in it, and Jay and I really feel blessed to have found such a great place to call "home". We're just finishing our series on Proverbs and will be starting a parenting study soon. It's so great, I just feel like we have so much in common with these people. We're all parents, with a variety of ages between our kids. But we all have the desire to bring up respectful, Godly kids and I learn so much from being around these other more experienced mom's. Each week I feel like a lightbulb get's turned on for me in the parenting department. LOL I'm so new to all this still, sure I think I can handle a baby... but a toddler? Oooooh hooo this is all different. A child who's discovering the world of rebellion and authority? I don't have a clue. And every time I feel that I've finally gotten something right with Lizzy... she grows, changes a little, and I have to start from scratch. It's amazing and frustrating all in one. She challenges everything right now. Pushes every boundry, plays her dad and I against each other when she doesn't get what she wants... so I've realized, I need all the help I can get - and watching other mom's who've walked this road before me is really helping my mindset with everything. So anyways, I'm grateful that we found this group.

Today was a long, and yet short day. We all slept in and had a lazy morning. About 11:30 we decided to go to the Coastal Carolina Fair. $16 later to get in, we decided this would be our "bad" day for the week and we were going to enjoy it! Off to get a corndog for Lizzy and Jay, I got an Italian Sausage with peppers and onions. YUM. Topped it off with a Jumbo lemonade that the 3 of us split and at Jay's promting we tried the fried cheese on a stick. NASTY. Liz was the only one who liked fried cheddar. *barf* Then we walked around for a bit, Jay had to get a Turkey Leg - knowing that he wouldn't finish it but it reminded him so much of Disney World that he just had to get one... we all took a little nibble and then fed it to the birds (nice huh?) After that we headed over to the animals where I fell in love with a horse. They had a couple out for petting and the rest were behind an 8 foot chain link fence... well one old fellow who happened to be behind the fence just looked SO lonely... I stuck a few fingers through the fence and started to scratch him behind the ears (after he'd had a good sniff of my hand of course... I'm not completely stupid) LOL and wouldn't you know he started leaning so hard on the fence he almost knocked it over! He wanted some attention so badly it almost broke my heart. I stayed as long as I could and petted and talked to him while Jay took Liz around to play with the cows. I never felt bad for the animals at the fair until I met this guy... but perhaps he's like that with everyone so he can get an extra pat or two. Anyway, we made our way over to the pumpkin area for a couple of pictures and then decided to head home. We'd only been there about 3 hours but it was getting close to Lizzy's nap time and I've learned my lesson on keeping her out too long. Oh, but on the way out we got a funnel cake with powdered sugar. Good Lord. I think I gained half my pregnancy weight today in fair food. $30 in food later, and $16 in tickets... that was one heck of an expensive lunch. But it was fun, and Liz had a ball so I considered it a sucessful day. We all napped when we got home and then went to Arby's for dinner where I had a salad... and a couple of Jay's poppers. SO not a good idea. One heck of a stomach ache later, it got so bad it hurt to breathe for awhile there! When will I learn... NO SPICY FOOD. I swear, I'm thick sometimes. But that's not news to anyone. LOL

Tomorrow's church, and then hopefully a laid back afternoon. We've been too crazy lately!

Fun Times!

Man I love this time of year. Having Lizzy has only made it 100x's more fun and more eventful. The weather has been beautiful (usually hot but some really great cool days as well) and it's not even halloween yet and we've already had the chance to do some really fun things this year!

I have a new (substitute) dropshots page right now. Someone changed my password and blocked me from my current dropshots, but I have an email into their staff so hopefully it'll work out soon.

Anyway, the new site is www.dropshots.com/ElizabethJoy That's were ALL the fun pictures are of the last week or so - but I'll post some highlights.

Lizzy had a great time with the Charleston Mommies group last Saturday. We all went pumpkin picking, ball bouncing, hay mazing and more. It was a really fun day and all the kids had a great time.

Then Tuesday we were right back at the Wescot Cornfield picking MORE pumpkins and this time painting them, and having a blast with Lizzy's preschool! Liz and her best buddy Riley were pretty much joined at the hip the whole time, they had a great time playing around. (It's so hard to get Liz to smile for pictures these days, she's such a busybody she wants to be looking around all the time so as not to miss a single thing going on around her! Stop for pictures? No way mom!)

After all that excitment, Lizzy's Nanny got back from Hawaii this week. She brought Lizzy the CUTEST little hula outfit. Lizzy LOVED it. She's put it on at least 50x's in the last 3 days. She loves dancin around the house and clankin those coconuts. Check out the dropshotspage for a video of her dancin. So funny.

And if THAT Wasn't enough excitement (and crazy pictures) we got to go to the Disney Princess's on Ice last night! OMG That was so cute. Just walking in the Coliseum felt like we were walking around Downtown Disney... Princess Music Playing everywhere, fun statues of Mickey and Minnie all over the place - everyone was selling stuffed animals, snowcones in Mickey or Princess cups, wands and tiara's galore! It was so fun! Lizzy and I were both ear to ear grins walking around and looking at all the other little girls dressed up! Riley and her mama were already seated when we got there, Riley was all dressed up and had a Princess Hat - she looked so cute! I had gone to Walmart before we went to the show and picked up some fun things to keep the girls busy, so here's a picture of their new wands (Disney was selling wands for $25... I found these at Walmart for $1 each. Gotta love that!)

The girls looked SO cute all dressed up together! I took a ton of pics but none of them turned out all that great... here's one of Lizzy all ready to go (an hour before it was time to leave) ;)

And here's one last picture of the girls as the show was ending... they did so great for over 2 hours!!! When the show finally let out at a 9:45 they were both tired but still troopin. They'd had a great time! I brought along some princess coloring books, skittles, popcorn and gummie bears and it's a good thing I did... that kept Liz busy whenever she'd start getting squirmy. As much as she loved the princesses it was kinda hard to sit for almost 3 hours. (The show started at 7:30 but we got there at 7)

Okay. So by the time we got home, my kiddo knocked out until 9:30 this morning! I'm having SO much fun with this girl! She's finally at the age where she can really enjoy it all. Today we're meeting the Charleston Mommies for lunch at Wild Wing (we were going to have a park morning but the weather's rainy here so we bailed on that and settled on lunch) and we *might* take Lizzy trick or treating this afternoon at Hampton Park downtown, they're having a big party for kids from 4-6 but we have small group at 6:30 about 30 minutes north so I'm not sure as we'll be cutting it close. I'll have to see how Liz does with her nap this afternoon, if she's up by 3 or so we'll probably go do it. Although I'm kinda pooped with all the craziness of late... I might just be happy hanging out at the house this afternoon. We'll see.

Now I need to go get ready for lunch. :)

Updates.

Okay, so it's been 4 days since I posted. I've been working like crazy on my site... which now has a new name and new address... and I *love* it, the name that is. The site I'm not thrilled with, but it's the best I could do for now. Once I'm making more money I'll pay for a big site but this will get me by. I'm not going to share the new site name until I get all my inventory updated.

Anyway... aside from business. I got a car yesterday! YAY! It's a vovlo V70. LOL And I'm in love with it. Here's a pic so you can see my soccer mom car. LOL

Mine's all black though with darker tint in the windows.

So anyway... that's my fun new car. :) I love Volvo's. That's the Charleston part of me coming out... but Volvo's are so classic. LOL

Okay, so anyways. Yesterday morning we went to the Pumpkin patch with Lizzy's class. FUN. Liz and her best friend Riley held hands the whole time. It was so cute. Her teacher always tells me that they're glued at the hip but I'd not seen it for myself until yesterday. Then right before we left Riley's mom came over with 2 tickets to Disney Princess's on Ice for this Thursday night. So Liz and Riley are going to dress up and us mom's will take our cuties to the show tomorrow night! So fun. We were going to wait until Nemo came to town b/c Iw asn't sure how Liz would do with face characters (if she'd get bored or whatnot) but I think she'll do fine. And who can say no to free tickets with friends? All in all yesterday was a VERY busy but fun day. We didn't get home until after 11 so Liz slept in until 10 this morning... Love that! Then Tomorrow we have preschool, then the Princess show tomorrow night. Friday is a meet up with the Charleston Mommies, then Trick or Treating at Hampton Park friday afternoon... This is going to be a crazy week.

So there's my update. Once I get these next few pieces added to my site I'll be sure to let everyone know the new name and web address. :)

Stuffy Reflections

Liz and I are both fighting allergies right now. Neither of us have been sleeping well and last night at 3 am we had a little party in her room. She woke up crying for me, sobbing for mommy in that sleepy voice of hers that I love so much. I went in and sat beside her bed trying to figure out which ailment was bothering her... from the obvious dripping nose I figured it was that. So I grabbed a few tissues, some more meds and a story and we cuddled and talked for awhile until I saw her getting sleepy again. For almost an hour it was just her and I... it felt like we were the only one's awake in the whole world. Just listening to her tell me about her minnie's, and blankies... watching her eyes light up as she found her favorite one's in the semi dark room. I realized that this time is passing so quickly. Before I know it I'll have someone else needing my attention at 3 am... someone else stealing my heart in those quiet moments of the night. But it also made me smile. In my wildest dreams I can't imagine possibly loving anyone as much as I do my Lizzy, but after I went back to bed around 4, Maddy woke up and was moving all around as if letting me know that she's going to want some late night fun too before long. And once again I felt my heart stretching.

In a few minutes we're leaving to go pumpkin picking. I love these fall moments (with my kid in shorts and sandals) :P It doesn't *feel* like fall outside, but spending time with Jay and Lizzy doing fun activities like hay rides, petting zoo's and pumpkin picking is enough fall for me. :)

My husband has been spoiling me lately. My back has been really sore for about a week now, our pillow top mattress was once much loved... and now it just drives me crazy b/c it's SO bad for my back. So he stopped in at Babies R Us the other day and picked up a Mother's Snuggly Pillow for me. I've had 2 great nights of sleep, where I've actually been able to go more than an hour or two without tossing and turning/peeing/waking up for some other reason. The night before last I slept for 5 hours straight! And last night even with Lizzy and I's little escapade I still knocked out from 4-9 this morning! :D Anyway, that's just one of the sweet things he's done for me lately. Just had to throw that out there... I'm blessed. :)

Anyway, we're leaving in 20 minutes and I need to finish getting ready. Just thought I'd share my little stuffy reflection. ;)

Woot Woot!

Okay, I'm super excited, I'm working on my website for Tailored Tots and for the next 10 days while we're working on it we have a new temp address.



(once we finish it it'll be shortened to either tailoredtots.com or something similar) but for now, y'all can see what I've been up to over there. I put the whole thing together myself so it's probably got a million spelling errors, but I'm working out the kinks. I'm slowly updating the product list so bear with me... but please please please let me know if you have the time to peek around... if you see anything that needs changed or updated definately say something! Y'all know me and grammer don't mix well. :P Let alone spelling. But I've had several people asking me to make bows for their girls in the last few days, so I'm trying to get this all together so I can do it right (aka legally) so it's a legit business. Anyway, y'all are my closest buddies... be honest please!

Love you all, thanks for all the encouragement and support. You guys are fantastic. :)

Christmas List

(For those who read my blog, this is entirely boring and unrelated to daily life.)

Okay, I needed a place to keep my Christmas list where Jay wouldn't happen across it, and this was the first thing that popped in my mind as he never reads my blog.

So here we are. It's that time of year again and I need to start making out lists for Liz, Jay, Madeline (yes I'll do some shopping for her too since she'll be here so soon after the holidays), my family, Jay's family, and then a few friends. Whew. That's a long list. Usually by this time of year I'm almost finished... or at least have a good start. Uh, yeah, not this year. I have about 3 things for Lizzy and that's it, haven't even started on anyone else yet.

(I'll probably update this and change it 30 million times but I like having it in front of me where at least I can get a start)

The stuff that has a (*) are things I've already purchased.
Here goes:

Elizabeth:
*Red and Black scottie dog outfit
*Jumbo sidewalk chalk (for stocking)
*Look and Find Nemo book
FP Little People - Time to learn Preschool http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2299121
Small Table and Chairs for her playroom http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2309217
FP Little People - Learning zoo. http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=3985040
Meet the Robinsons DVD
The Jungle Book DVD
And probably a few more clothes things including some panties as I'm deterimined to have this child potty trained before Maddy arrives.
I'm going to do a Little People stocking for Liz this year, they have lots of little sets so I'll add some of those into her stocking, bubble bath, character washcloth, etc.

Jay:
Clothes. My husband needs clothes and this is something he loves getting for Christmas so there you have it. Mostly clothes for him.
Harbor Freight gift card for his stocking.
A new Watch.
Armani Mania
A new movie (though I have no idea what)
and maybe a board game, idk, he loves board games but we have a bunch of them... i need to figure out something fun though. I hate to make it an all clothes/accessories christmas... even though he likes it, it's not all that fun, and he's a fun guy... I'll think on this one.

Madeline:
*Blankets
Her name in wooden letters to go above her crib.
Something special but simple... not sure what yet but it'll hit me.

And I just realized, pretty much everyone else on my list has access to my myspace which has a link to this, so I guess I'll save my extended family and friend's list on the computer. Off to work on it...

(What a pitiful list this turned out to be... I've got to get thinking of what I can do for Jay and Maddy! AHHHHH) For those of you who were bored enough to read this... any suggestions for something Fun for Jay and something special for the baby?

Loooong Night.

I realized last night, about 1:30 in the morning... I'm not as ready as I thought I was for Madeline. Seriously. Lizzy has a cold/allergies and was up every hour on the hour from 7 until 1:30 this morning... we used the snot sucker thingy, but she was absolutely dripping from the nose - the poor kid soaked through her blankie, her pillow and sheet within 3 hours... (and I'm not talking about pee) between the drool b/c she couldn't breathe out her nose and the drippings from her nose she was miserable. My poor baby would cry and cry and I felt so awful. I didn't want to give her any Benedryl since we weren't positive it was allergies and I didn't want to cover up any other symptoms... but in those 5 1/2 hours I realized... I am not ready for Madeline yet. I went to bed around 8 and then the two of us were up until close to 2 am by the time I got her back to sleep that last time... And my body felt almost numb, I was sooooo tired. I cannot even begin to imagine Maddy getting up several times a night and then Lizzy getting up if she's sick too? Lord in heavens shoot me now. Fortunately this is rare... a call into the nurse at midnight said it was okay to give her one dose of Benedryl the next time she woke up - so when she went down at 2, she was able to sleep until 9 this morning. However, Jay got up at 6 for work so I was up with him for awhile. I went back to bed a little after 7, and then woke up at 8:30 and couldn't get back to sleep. Liz had soaked her diaper (sheets, blankets, etc) when she got up this morning, but she was in good spirits. Dried snot all over her face, neck, hair and PJ's... but all smiles all the same. LOL

So on top of the full load of laundry I have just from the last 12 hours of my daughters life, I also realized that I'm not quite as ready for this baby as I thought. What if they both get sick? What if all 4 of us get sick?! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH. That is a scary thought.

Anyway, they *promised* my car would be ready tonight (though I have to drop it off again this weekend to get the AC fixed) but at least this way I'll have something to drive... but until then, Liz and I are having a house day. Which works for me. The last few days have been crazy. I'm ready for a break. So that's the most recent update. I hope Liz takes a long nap today... it's only 10 am and I could use one. *yawn*