Binge and Purge

In our house most projects get relegated to naptime and maybe bedtime if I have enough energy. So I try to get massive amounts of things done in one small amount of time. Like right now I'm trying to paint the downstairs playroom. It has taken over a week so far and I'm not nearly done. Lily goes down for her nap I race to get everything out and paint what I can before I hear her stirring in her crib about 2 hours later. On the days I'm being smart I try to finish a little before she wakes up so I can clean up the brushes and rollers. I feel good about how it will look in the end. I've always disliked the wallpaper that adorned the walls in that room. It's a dark room with one sliding glass door and no windows. I feel like the yellow I chose will make it feel brighter down there. I've got the yellow on two walls and I really like it. Both walls still need a second coat and the one other wall still only has primer. The other wall...well, it's behind the HEAVY couch, bookshelf and desk. I still haven't touched that wall. Like I said, it's taking a while to get things done.
Today we will be working on painting as well as purging our storage areas. We are running out of space and we NEED to get rid of stuff. I'm wondering if I should get rid of my baby stuff that is still in good shape. I want to save it in case I would ever need to use it again, but I don't think I will need it(if you know what I mean). I'm not sure if I should make those kinds of decisions until Lily is a little older, so this leaves me in a quandary about what to do with the baby stuff Lily has outgrown. I hate purging. It's against my sentimental pack rat nature. It's always hard for me. It's especially hard when a certain husband of mine "helps" me. He pulls out boxes of my stuff, holds up one item at a time and says things like, "You don't need this. Do you?" Never mind all the boxes of his stuff we have like cassette tapes from the 80s, yea. Anywho, that's what my day looks like today. Fun stuff.

Sigs

For easier reference I added bithday sigs to the sidebar, but they don't tell how old the kids are. They only tell how any days until their birthdays. The tickers remain on the bottom unless I can figure something else out that works better. I am frustrated with the whole thing especially since blogger crapped out on me while I was working on them last night. I think I'll just let it be for a while.

Woohoo Lily!

Lily stayed in the nursery at church for the whole service yesterday! ::the skies parted and the angels sang, "Hallelujah!"::
Maybe next week I wont even watch the screen the whole time wondering why her number hasn't come up;-)

New Look

I've been working on my new look for the new blogger. I'm not sure how I like it yet. My only experience with HTML was experimenting with the old blogger until I got it to do what I wanted. So this new widget stuff is just something else to figure out. It's supposed to be easier, but I want to tweak stuff that is not in the easy to change tabbed sections. So I have to go into HTML and figure out how to do it. It's taken a while, but I think I like what I have so far. The biggest thing I don't like is that my tickers for the kids don't fit neatly across in the template, so the looked silly taking up so much room on the top. I relegated them to the bottom of the page for now, but I want to figure out a better solution for them.
Oh and I like the new spell check format even though the suggestions still leave quite a bit to be desired.

Lily at 11 months

Lily is getting better at making her will known, though she has always been pretty good at getting her way;-) She is now pointing and shaking her head. She points to things, up at you and puts her hands on your legs when she wants to be picked up and in the direction she wants you to carry her. She also points at things and says "sDat?" which I assume means "What's that?". She can also reliably point to my nose and mouth when I ask her, but she won't do it when anyone else is around; maybe she is too distracted. When she doesn't want to do something she shakes her head "no". It's the kind of shake that would make her hair fly out if she had any. It is so cute I can't help but laugh. This has become a problem because now she thinks it's funny and she does it to make me laugh too. Usually I can tell which one it is. When she is just playing sometimes I'll shake my hair back at her and she thinks it is hilarious. Her little sense of humor is coming along well.
She is not quite as portable in that she wants to be down on the ground doing things. I used to be able to take her to Ryan's gymnastics class and I would just hold her while we watched or carry her around the classroom when I watch the 2-5 year olds for Bible study. Now she protests violently. She wants to be in on the action. It's not as easy as just letting her walk around as she wants to run into the gym or eat the carpet. There is a class at the same time as Ryan's for 1-2 year olds, so we can join that class next session. It starts in April. I have no idea what I'm going to do until then.
She is quite a vertical child. She climbs on everything. All those table toys that are meant to help kids start standing? Yeah, she would rather be on top, thank you. We need to keep them away from all furniture because she will use it as a stool to get on the table or piano bench. You should see the look of satisfaction she has on her face when she stands up on the coffee table. It's like she's saying "I'm the king queen of the mountain, HA!" Of course climbing stairs is one of her very favorite activities. She has gotten pretty good at going down too. She always turns and backs down on her tummy now. She still needs someone to be behind her just in case, but she almost always makes it just fine.
She says "Da" when she sees Jay, but it is also still her generally happy noise. She also says, "Ma ma ma" when she wants me, but it can also just be rambling. She does that..."talks" a lot. She just brought me the Baby Beethoven DVD and said, "dadadada." I guess she likes it. Maybe she wants to watch it while I blog more;-) Really though I have spent enough time blogging. I should go pay attention to the munchkins for a while.

Here Lily is playing peek-a-boo with daddy. It's one of her favorite games.