What Meyers Wore Wednesday

Warning: this is a random, babbling post about Meyers and the potty.

I needed to make a hobby lobby run this morning. I help decorate my church for Christmas, so there are a few things that I needed to get there so that we can finish up before Sunday.

Meyers has been on an antibiotic since last Monday. I'm sure y'all know what an antibiotic can do to little tummies, so I'm not going to get graphic and explain it to you. And we've been potty training for a month and a half now. I think I can officially say she is potty trained; she isn't having accidents.......until you throw an antibiotic into the picture. Bless her heart. The first 4 or 5 days were terrible. She couldn't tell us or get to the potty fast enough. I can't tell you how many pairs of panties we've thrown away. That may sound wasteful, but cleaning them is not worth it to me. So, we haven't really left the house in over a week. We did go celebrate thanksgiving, but we were at our parents, so that made cleaning up things a little less stressful. I kind of feel like we are back in the first week of potty training when I didn't feel like I could leave the house because there was sure to be an accident.

Oh, and to add to this delightful time, our downstairs toilet is broken. It's a long story that involves me flushing the tp holder down the toilet. A good portion of each day is spent downstairs, so I've been cleaning the little potty out every time she makes it to the potty. Our handyman is coming this week to put in a new toilet. Thank goodness!

Since Meyers's cold has finally gone away (thanks to the antibiotics that are causing a plethora of new problems)
I sent her to school yesterday with a bag full of extra clothes and panties. You want to know how that turned out? No accidents. In fact, she didn't even go at all until I came to pick her up (she only went to school for 3 hours. I picked her up after lunch. ) Isn't that crazy? Oh and the day before, she went to the bathroom 8 times and made it to the potty every time!!!

Well, today is a different story. She's gone 3 times as of 10:45 this morning and has only made it to the potty one time. I know she can't help it. I mean sometimes even adults can't make it to the bathroom in situations like this, but geez, I am so tired of cleaning up poop. And I know she is equally as tired of pooping all the time. Whoops! I just got graphic!
**correction: I just had to stop typing this because she just went again. So that's 4 times this morning, and she made it to the potty in time!!!!!!! Yay meyers!!! Unfortunately, we are downstairs, so that meant cleaning up the little potty:( but at least I didn't have to throw away another pair of panties!

You know what's funny about this? Before she started this medicine, she has had no poop accidents. I've been telling people how awesome it's been to not have to clean up poop during this whole potty training process and silently praying please don't let her catch a stomach bug until she is further along in the potty training. I totally forgot how antibiotics can wreck your stomach!

So since we are 2 and 2 with accidents and making it to the potty today, we are not leaving the house. I had thought Meyers would stay in her pjs all day.......until she had her accident. So I got her dressed. She is wearing a cozy Walmart turtleneck and her red polka-dotted pants that I made her last year. They are play clothes now because I bought some Just Ducky ones just like them from a friend.

**correction: I just had to stop typing this again because she had to go again, but she made it to the potty!!
That's 5 times now as of 11:00 am. See why I'm not leaving the house today:)

An Old Frame and Some Chicken Wire

When we moved into our first house 8 years ago, we kind of went a little crazy at a local frame store's sale. We had nothing to put on the walls, so we bought a ton of pictures for a really great price. At the time, we were so excited about our "art". It didn't take long to realize that a lot of the pictures weren't really our style. We hadn't really figured out our style at that point.

Anyway, as we would take pictures down, I had John put them in the garage for repurposing. He didn't understand why we needed to keep all of these pictures we didn't like anymore. They even got moved to the garage at this house. He kept trying to throw them out with the garbage.

Well, I finally repurposed one of them. I think I have about 4 0r 5 to go! I knew I wanted to put something in the kitchen where we could put pictures, but not just a wall of frames. I want a gallery wall in my house somewhere, but that is way down on the list. My friend, Tasha, has a frame in her kitchen with wire going across it horizontally, and that is what I thought I was going to do until she showed me something on Pinterest. I am the last person in the world not on Pinterest. I think it's amazing, but I know that I would spend a ridiculous amount of time on there, and I don't have a ridiculous amount of time right now, so I just haven't gotten on there yet. But I'm so glad she showed me this frame with chicken wire in it. Here is what mine turned out like.......


And because I love a before and after, here is what it looked like in it's former life.......


Pretty ugly, right? Don't judge me because this hung in our guest bedroom for a few years.



I am so excited with the way this turned out, AND that is was super cheap. I did have to pay $12 for the chicken wire, but I only used a few feet of it, so if you break that down, it's pretty inexpensive. Apparently they don't just have small rolls of that, but if you know someone with chicken wire, this would be practically free!

I don't "do" tutorials, but this is pretty self-explanatory. The one tip I have is chicken wire only comes in a typical silver, metal color, at least all that I could find. The frame I saw on Pinterest's chicken wire looked like it was a brown/bronzey color, so I (John actually since my pregnant self didn't want to inhale the fumes) spraypainted it a bronzey color. It goes better with our kitchen that way.

Now I just need to print more pictures to put in there. I'm so bad about taking a zillion pictures and letting them sit on our computer:)

Can you believe.......

.......that this is the only picture I took on Thanksgiving?

And can you believe Thanksgiving is over? Time is flying way too fast!

I just didn't feel like bringing my camera on Thanksgiving, so I grabbed this one on my phone. I at least wanted one picture of Meyers with her cute turkey shirt on:)

We had a long, but great day with both of our families. Our families live about 10 minutes away from each other, so as long as we've been married, we've always done all holidays with both families on the same day. It's a long day, but I wouldn't have it any other way. Living near both of our families is one of the many things I'm thankful for!

Now it's time for full-on Christmas celebrating! Can't wait!!! I'm so excited to see Christmas through Meyers's eyes this year, and I'm so excited to teach her about the real reason we celebrate Christmas, as well as the fun stuff, too, AND when Christmas is over, it will be no time before we meet this new baby!!!!!!

30 Weeks

30 Weeks Now

30 Weeks with Meyers
(how huge do I look here????)

How Far Along: 30 weeks

Size of baby: a head of cabbage (in terms of weight), 15.7 inches long, and weighs 3 pounds

Maternity Clothes: All maternity this week.

Gender: We'll find out in January!

Movement: Yes!!! All the time!

Sleep: I am sleeping okay besides getting up to use the restroom several times a night.

What I Miss: I miss having enough room in my lap for Meyers to sit in comfortably. I miss being able to bend over, get up and down out of the floor.....all the things that you do all day with a toddler.

Cravings: I am really not usually an ice cream person. Don't get me wrong, it's good, but other junk food is usually my go-to. I was digging some Edy's Samoa ice cream earlier in my pregnancy, but I love Samoas, so I'm going to like anything with them in it. About 5 or 6 years ago, I had this at a Christmas party with chocolate syrup on it.

And I have never seen it since. Not that I was ever looking really hard because ice cream is not my thing. Well......it's out now for the holiday season, and I most certainly had to have some......with chocolate syrup on it. And it was as good as I remembered it at the Christmas party. I'm seeing a trend here - Edy's ice cream. Maybe I actually am an ice cream person, but didn't know it because I had never discovered Edy's. Hmmmm????

Symptoms: The crazy dreams came back this week. I am feeling very uncomfortable, and that's about all for now. I can't really complain.

Best Moment This Week: I DID pass my glucose test.....barely, but who's counting? Not my doctor, so I'm not either:) I was excited to find that out at the doctor this week. It was also exciting to hear my baby's heartbeat. That never gets old! And we got the nursery mostly set up this week, as well as we got out all of Meyers's gender neutral layette stuff and the gear. Meyers promptly sat down in her old bumbo, and I started crying!!!!! I really can remember the very first time I put her in there, wondering "is she ready for this yet, is she going to like it?" I was visualizing that the whole time and it made me so sad that she is not that tiny anymore.......hormones!

What Meyers Wore Wednesday

I had a doctor's appointment this morning, so John stayed home with Meyers. He took off today, and now we are going to run errands. I've already made my casserole for Thanksgiving tomorrow, so I'm looking forward to coming home and doing nothing.

Meyers is wearing some Shrimp and Grits pants from last year. When I realized they would fit again this year, I found fabric that would match so I could make her a top. I love this elephant fabric, and I love this style top on her!!

Fall School Pictures 2011

I almost laughed outloud when I found out Meyers was getting pictures made at school. This whole preschool thing is new to me, and I didn't realize they would be getting pictures made. I knew we would have to buy at least the smallest package to document this first milestone. I didn't realize that a professional photographer would be taking them, and that they would actually turn out well. There weren't typical packages; you could just order individual pictures in whatever sizes you choose. I really had to reign it in because I wanted several different sizes of each. I knew that would be silly because we were having professional pictures made this fall anyways. So I got a few for us and one for each of the grandparents.


**These were scanned in, so the quality is not like the actual pictures.



I can only imagine what she was thinking when they told her to "pose on the tree".



Her facial expression sums it up here:) "Really..... you want me to stand here and lean against this tree? My mommy doesn't make me lean against trees and she takes my picture everyday of my life!"

Busy Day

***I'm blogging from my phone in my bed because I'm too tired to go in the office. These pictures are in no particular order because I can't figure out how to do that on my new phone!

We are about a week behind decorating for Christmas. We usually do it about two weeks before Thanksgiving. Yes. We are those people. We love our house when it's all decorated for Christmas, so we like to start early so we can enjoy it longer.

So today we decorated the house, and I finished the two things that I wanted to make this Christmas: an advent calendar and our Christmas stockings. Several of my friends made advent calendars a couple of years ago. I knew that Meyers was too young for that then, but this year she is old enough to get into it. I've been stealing advent calendar ideas for each day from blogs for two years now. I still need to come up with a few that are appropriate for a 2 year old to fill up all 25 days. I am so excited about this calendar!!! And I'm so excited that I was able to make it for about $12! That was very exciting!

I knew we would need new stockings this year because we like to go ahead and put one up for the new baby, and we obviously only had three. I was so excited to make new ones in fun, Christmas colors! These were pretty easy to make after I made a few adjustments with the lining.

These were the only crafty things I knew I would want to do this year.......but now I'm kind of itching to sew a new tree skirt that will match our stockings. We'll see if I get around to that or not!

This is the first year that we've let Meyers help us decorate. In the past we've always done it during her nap. She was sooooooo cute helping us decorate the tree. She "loved" every ornament and was pretty careful putting them on the tree. I didn't get any pictures of her actually decorating. I had my camera right there and everything, but I was too "in the moment" watching her enjoy Christmas decorating. I'm so excited to see Christmas through her eyes this year!

29 Weeks

29 Weeks Now
(I really should have taken a shower today and fixed my hair!)

29 Weeks with Meyers

How Far Along: 29 weeks

Size of baby: a butternut squash, 15 inches long, and weighs 2.5 pounds

Maternity Clothes: All maternity this week.

Gender: We'll find out in January!

Movement: Yes!!! All the time!

Sleep: I am sleeping okay besides getting up to use the restroom at least once. Meyers still has a cold, so she has not been sleeping well.....which means we don't sleep well. Bless John's heart. He is the one that has to go to work each morning, but he has been getting up with her through all this. My belly is too big to rock her comfortably, so he is the one that gets her back to sleep. Unless she is totally pitiful and coughing up a storm, and then she gets in bed with me, and John sleeps on the couch.....bless his heart again. We so need a king size bed for nights like these!

What I Miss: I miss having enough room in my lap for Meyers to sit in comfortably. I miss being able to bend over, get up and down out of the floor.....all the things that you do all day with a toddler.

Cravings: I haven't really been craving anything in particular. I made John cupcakes this week for his birthday. I'm pretty sure I have eaten more than him:)

Symptoms: For the first time since I've been pregnant, I can't really remember any crazy dreams that I've had. I am feeling very uncomfortable, and that's about all for now. I can't really complain.

Best Moment This Week: Well.....I hope I'm not jinxing myself. I took my gestational diabetes test last Thursday, and they haven't called me to tell me I failed. They said they would call within a few days if I had. I failed it the first time with Meyers and then had to take the 3 hour test and passed that. I was really hoping to not have to do the 3 hour test this time or to have gestational diabetes.....so unless my doctor's office forgot to call me, then I passed. So that is pretty exciting!

What Meyers Wore Wednesday

I had MOPS today, and we did this JOY block craft so that meant I had to be there early......like an hour early. Meyers has been sick for almost two weeks now, so she couldn't go to the nursery. My sweet husband came to MOPS with me to drop off and carry in 120 wood blocks. He then took Meyers home to watch her because I couldn't miss MOPS since I was leading the craft. It was a busy and hectic morning, and I'm glad to be back home in my comfy clothes and hanging out with my girl.

Meyers wore this Chez Ami outfit that my friend basically gave to me.....I think she charged me $5 for it because it was faded. I'm not used to seeing Meyers in leggings and tunics; I think this makes her look like such a big girl:)

Happy Birthday!!

Happy birthday, John! Your girls love you more than anything, and we hope you have a great day!

Rocking Horse and Birthday Party

This was my rocking horse when I was little. It may have been my brother's, too. Not sure. But I'm the one with the infamous picture of me (when I was probably Meyers's age) riding it when I was naked, straight out of the bathtub one night. My mom even put it in our wedding slideshow video.



My mom has been keeping it up in the attic. She thought it might be something the grandkids could play on, but it's not quite up to today's safety standards and it's kind of broken.


My mom wanted us to come over and get some pictures of Meyers on it before they threw it out.


Meyers was a little unsure of it at first, but then she warmed up to it!



My mom is looking for the picture of me on it, so I can have it to compare. I'll have to post that when she finds it. After we left my parent's house, we went to a Minnie Mouse birthday party on a farm for Meyers's friend, Peyton. Meyers is at the age where she won't stop talking about an event until she gets to go to it. Obviously she can't quite understand the concept of time yet. She had been talking about Peyton's party for three weeks!


Meyers (like her mama) is not a huge animal fan, so I wondered how she would do at the party. She had fun running around for a bit.


Then her and her friend, Cannon, went to look at some of the animals. Cannon is such a funny kid. Meyers just stares at him because he's so funny! I love the way she is looking at him!


They both jumped back pretty quickly when this pony wanted to check them out!


All of the other kids liked petting the bunnies, but Meyers was content to stand back and pat Peyton:)



After the animal part, they got to go inside and jump in the bounce house. Meyers has never been in one. Usually when we go to places with them, there are a lot of bigger kids in there. I thought this would be perfect for her first time since all of the kids there were right around her age. You can tell by her face that she is not a fan!!! I had to put this picture in here to document her first and probably last time (for a while) in a bounce house!


After the bounce house, we went on a hayride. Meyers liked that a lot!


Then it was time for birthday cake. Isn't this cake precious?? I am thinking about a Minnie party for Meyers since she is pretty obsessed with Mickey and Minnie these days.





They had a Minnie Mouse pinata. I've never seen one where you pull the strings. That is probably the best idea ever for little ones. I can only imagine the injuries if it were the old school kind:)


Meyers thought the candy thing was pretty neat.



Her mouth is blue in this picture, but you can't really tell. She was loving the candy......a lot!



Meyers and the precious birthday girl! I love that Meyers is getting to the age where she "gets" birthday parties and looks forward to them. It's so cute. I feel like up until now, she has just been along for the ride, but she had so much fun at the party, and we enjoyed ourselves, too:)