Time goes too fast

Mia and Stitchy-5 months!

I suck at updating.

I don't know how it happens, but somehow time just slips away, and pretty soon its a week later than I thought it was and I didn't get anything done that I meant to. My blog updates seem to be at the bottom of my list, when it should probably be higher up. Oh well, I can try again this week, right?

We are doing well here in Washington. It is fall now and the weather has been beautiful. People always tell you that it rains all the time in Seattle, but honestly I don't think there is much difference between the rain here, and the rain in Vermont. The weather has been a little chilly, but sunny, which is great. The colors here have been beautiful as well. I need to fix my camera and get some better pictures. I really want to get a new camera, and have my sights on some, but they are so expensive! My phone works ok, but it doesn't get the pictures how I want them sometimes.

Mia is doing great. She had her 4 month check up a couple weeks ago and is doing just fine. She is currently 14 lbs 10oz (65th percentile) and 26 inches long (95th percentile!). She is my tall and skinny girl! We aren't really sure where the tallness comes from, seeing as though neither of us has anyone really tall in our families. I think my mom's dad was over 6 feet tall, so its probably from him.

She has been such a good baby, I really can't complain about anything. She sleeps (mostly) through the night, only getting up a couple times to eat. She can get fussy sometimes, but there is usually a quick fix and she is better again. She loves to laugh, roll over, and has recently discovered her toes, which end up in her mouth most of the time. She tries so hard to crawl, but can't quite figure it out yet. It will be soon though. She has also gotten very grabby. She LOVES to grab my glasses off my face and will reach out if you put a toy in front of her. We just lover he so much!

Doug and I are doing well. Still trying to figure out our work situation. Our schedules are working right now with him being home with her during the day while I work, and Doug working nights, however it is getting a little tiring. We will come up with a solution, we always do!

We had a great Halloween! Mia was Princess Lei. It was the first time I have ever had trick-or-treaters, so it was a very fun night. Mia slept through most of it, but we took turns answering the door and I watched a bunch of old horror movies, "The Incredible shrinking man" was my favorite of the night.


I bought so much candy! We didn't have nearly as many trick-or-treaters as I thought we would have, so I ended up sending two bags of candy with Doug to work.

We are trying to do some work around the house right now. I have a list of projects that I want to get done, but right now we are working on our bedroom. I was tired of the white walls and feeling like I was still in an apartment, so we got some paint. We are doing it two colors, like we did with Mia's room. We are also doing a chair rail like we did with her room. The builder of our house left a bunch of baseboards in our garage, so we cleaned them off, touched up some paint and are using them for the chair rail. Might as well not waste, right? I love the way it is turning out.

I have also been trying to coupon lately. I really want to be more self reliant, and build a food storage for us. Just in case something happens, we know that we will have plenty to eat, and have all the cleaning supplies needed, etc. I am learning slowly, but have already gotten some great deals. Last night I got a bunch of razors. Retail was $42.96, I paid $13.48. We are set on razors! I have also found some great deals on cleaning supplies and am building a great stockpile for our home.

We are very excited for the holidays this year! It will be the first year in our own home, which our new little family. I am excited to cook for Thanksgiving and watch the Macy's parade and movies at home! I have just started shopping for Christmas, but this year I am trying to not spend a lot of money, and get more creative with gifts. I feel bad that I wont be spending so much this year, but Its not about the presents anyways though is it? I am trying to make a lot of things for Mia, such as blankets and toys, so we will see how it turns out!


We will not be spending the holidays with family this year, which is sad, but we are still so excited! In January we are taking Mia on her first trip and going to Florida to see my parents. I am SO EXCITED to go. It will be nice to go someplace warm and see my mom and dad, and hopefully my brother will make it down. We will be celebrating our own little Christmas there in January which will be fun. I am also excited to bring Mia to the beach for the first time! We probably won't go into the water, but it will be nice to get some pictures of her there. It will be nice to see where my parents are living and spend some family time together. It is hard being so far away from them, especially now that I have Mia. But I know that between going there, and them coming here, we will be able to make it work and see each other often. I am so glad that plane tickets are SO affordable between Seattle and where they are in Florida. We paid less than $300 per ticket to get there!

That is all that is going on with us. We are so blessed to have everything we have. We live in a beautiful state and have so many fun things around us to do. I look forward to being able to go out and explore more as Mia gets older!

Hopefully it won't be so long between updates again!

-Meg