A little fresh air

A weekend at home

Alas! We stayed home this weekend! It was soo nice to sleep in our own bed/crib and live out of our closets - not suitcases!

Friday night we kicked off the weekend with a trip to Publix. We decided to ditch our diet for the evening (I've been cheating a lot lately... oops) and cooked a lovely seafood dinner. We popped a bottle of cheap bubbly (that was actually quite delish) and dined on lobster tails, scallops, asparagus & fresh tomatoes. It was quite relaxing & extremely tasty. I was way too tired to stay up and watch a movie. I crashed. When we eventually watched Bride Wars (on Saturday) I was rather disappointed... it was probably the worst movie I've ever seen. I mean it. It wasn't even cute. It was just dumb. This movie brings shame to click flicks everywhere. Don't rent Bride Wars!

Anywho, on Saturday we drove into Destin to run various errands. We finally bought a roman shade to cover the window on/in our front door. This was a huge relief because it seems like the lawn people come almost every day, and I'm sick of the awkward eye contact that occurs quite frequently. It's creepy and I haven't been diggin' it. I must add that Reed and I are very lucky to still be on speaking terms and happily married after the hanging of this said shade. Reed, I am vowing here (with witnesses) to never get involved with one of your around-the-house-projects... ever again.

Even if you ask me to. And I know you will. You always do.

Love you! :)

Saturday afternoon we went over to the beach house to hang out with my sister, Lyle, and her family. It was great to see baby Iain play w/ his little cousin Chappell. I can't wait to get to Pensacola later in the week for more play time. Saturday evening we wasted our brain cells on Bride Wars. I think I mentioned that earlier.

We planned on going to church, but I changed my mind when our alarms went off way too early. We met Reed's parents for a late lunch near Bay Point, and then went back to the beach house to see my sister.

What a busy weekend!

So, today I received a call from Chappell's future pre-school saying they have a spot for her. The kind-of-bad-news is that in order for her to have a spot for her grade, we'll have to reserve it starting this session (end of August). I want her to start going two days a week when she turns one, to meet other babies... not now!

BUT, if I wait to enroll her later, she might not get a spot. There is a waiting list for the "ones" classroom. Basically, this means we have to start paying tuition in August... even though she won't be attending school until December or January. The nice thing is, if I ever have a doctors appointment... or something else to do, I can take her there. It will be paid for!

Chappell's Schedule

Folks, this one is for me.

I want to be able to look back when Williams kid # 2 is here to see what Chappell was doing at 7 months. So please forgive me because I know this is lame for you. This is what I give my mom and my in-laws when they are taking care of Chappell. Except it's printed with more instructions and important phone numbers, like Chappell's pediatrician and poison control.
Can you it tell she's our first?? It's not that obvious...

Chappell’s Schedule

7:45-8:00 am Wake & Feed (6-7 oz.)
*Follow with fruit. Feed until she loses interest or seems full.
9:00-9:15 am Morning Nap
11:00 am Feed (4-6 oz.)
*Follow with veggie, feed until she loses interest or seems full.
12:00(ish) pm Nap
2:00 pm Feed (6-7 oz.)
3:00(ish) pm Nap
5:00 pm Feed (6-7 oz.)
6:30 pm Rice Cereal with apple-prune juice & fruit/veggie
*Feed her as much as she’s willing to eat. She will usually finish the whole bowl of rice cereal and a significant amount of baby food.
7:30-7:45 pm Feed (4-5 oz.), burp her & put her down for the night.
*Make sure sound machine is on.

Another day in da neighborhood...

I love Chappell's hair today. Can you see how it's kind of like a baby-fro on the left? I'm probably the only person who would ever notice.

Last night new friends, Morgan and Sister threw a little girls night so I could get to know some people. We went to La Botana, and it was a lot of fun-- I'm kind of payin' for it today. 6:00 tonight can't get here fast enough. I don't know if either one of you reads this, but thank you SO much!! I had a great time :)

Big plans for tonight: Reed suggested we drink a bottle of Andre (cheap champagne) and watch Bride Wars. I finally managed to get a chick flick on our Netflix list... I'm pumped.

Sounds good to me!

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No more pacis :(

I can't believe I forgot to document this! At least for my own sake...
Chappell stopped taking a pacifier about a week ago. For the last month, she's seemed to enjoy sucking on her fingers more than the paci... but now she tightens her lips and spits her paci out. Weird?
Oh well.
So, I washed all the pacifiers (that I could find) and put them away.
Which leads me to another question, can pacifiers be re-used? For another baby?

This makes me kind of sad... it's going by so fast.

Someone's taking over...

What's happened to my floor?

We somehow avoided our first real tragedy today. I must say it scared the _ _ _ _ out of me. Feel free to insert your own four letter word.

Chappell decided to do a nose dive over my knee, towards the leg of our coffee table. Some sort of mother-ish instinct must've (not a real word or contraction) kicked in because I caught her {maybe} a millisecond before she hit it. I don't know how I caught her. Honestly, I wasn't paying close enough attention. I had pillows surrounding the blanket... and I thought my leg was blocking her from the one danger: the coffee table. I was writing a note.

That was a close one.

We're going to start the baby-proofing very soon!

Blue Angels Weekend

Pensacolians look forward to Blue Angels weekend all year. Sort of like Christmas. To accurately describe this event, you could say it's probably hands-down, the biggest redneck party of all time. And it's in the water! Even better, right?? It should come as absolutely no surprise if you happen to see this floating by...Everyone gets up at 6:00 in the morning and hurries to the Sabine to claim their spot in the water. Beers are cracked at 8 o'clock... that's Blue Angels weekend.

I think Reed suffered from a bit of a culture shock his first time. But now (I think) it's one of his most favorite P-cola events. If you can get past the fact that everyone (yes, everyone) is peeing in the water and you're going to see a few delusional women in thong bathing suits... it's a great time. We went on the McMahon's boat and had an absolute blast! Yum... did we really finish three Chick-fil-A trays? Lordy, Lordy...

Seeing this never gets old:

I'm going to go ahead and bring on the cheese... it makes you feel proud to be an American!

Green is my favorite color :)

I love green.
It's been raining all morning. Since it finally stopped, I decided to go outside and take some pictures of my favorite person... who just happens to be wearing my favorite color.
Oh yeah, I should mention that I don't have a car today...
So after playing countless baby games, this is what I came up with to keep myself from getting too bored. Taking pictures of Chappellina = a good time.

At some point I will get around to posting about our weekend and the Blue Angel show. This seems like more fun for now.

New Trick

Over the weekend, Chappell learned a new lil' trick! If she gets good enough, this new skill will surely help me out...

Chaps learned how to give herself a bottle!

Here is a pic of Chaps willing the bottle towards her mouth and milk mustache...

Ahhhh, contact!

She was totally proud of herself. Heck, I was pretty proud of her, too!

Going back for more.

PS: If these pictures look a little weird, it's probably because I had to use iPhoto's red eye remover. It looks a little weird. As they often do, this milestone caught me a little off guard. Luckily, I saw a camera on my sister's nightstand and managed to catch the moment on film. Well... not film. Digital media?

I didn't exactly know how to use it.