Baby of Dreams Update

For all those who like the statistical aspect of growing babies, we have the newest stats on Baby of Dreams.

She is in the 0.59%tile for her weight (15.88 lbs.), (yes, that is less than 1%)

29%tile for her height (28.25 in.)

86%tile for her head circumference (18.25 in.)

The doctor said she was tall for her weight and she had a big brain. He wasn't worried about her size at all. He feels that with my physique, Baby of Dreams' physique makes sense. He said that she looks healthy. So I am officially not worried anymore about her size. I will now be grateful that she is not growing out of her clothes very quickly and we will be able to get more use out of them.

Dryers are great

This makes three posts this month. That is a record for me so far. I really should be in bed, but I just finished catching up with all of my friends blogs and figured I could just write something real quick.

The father of The Husband came by last night and fixed my dryer. This is so extremely wonderful. We have been without electric drying capabilities for two years. We have only had electric washing capabilities for a bit under a year. I did five small loads of laundry today and they all got dried! When we moved into this house there was no washer and dryer hook-ups. We had a washer and dryer, thanks to my mom, but no where to put them, so they lived in the garage. When we gutted and remodeled the bathroom, The Husband put in the water pipes to the laundry room. So for almost a year, with an extension cord running through the kitchen, we have been able to wash our clothes at our own house. In the summer I hang the clothes outside to dry and in the winter I rigged an indoor clothes line in the laundry room. A few months back we got permanant electicity running into the laundry room, so no more extension cords. We also thought we would be able to use the dryer, but when we plugged it in we realized that it had been been broken in it's multiple moves. For my birthday, The Husband's parents decided to get the replacement parts for the dryer and then to install them. So a month later it is finished. We are now the proud owners of clean and non-crunchy clothing, towels and bedding. Life is better.

Skinny Baby

So we got Baby of Dreams weighed last week and I don't quite know what to think. She is now 11 months old, eats really well and walks (sometimes runs, everywhere). She is happy most of the time, except when she is telling you why she thinks she should be doing something you do not want her to do. Whenever I see her next to other babies her age, I think "baby of dreams really is on the small side" or "wow that is a big baby". She weighs 15 lbs. 10 ounces. She seems normal to me and almost every other baby seems overweight. My mom says I was a skinny baby too and says I shouldn't worry. And I don't too much. But I would like to move her into a big car seat and have her face forward, but know that won't happen for a while yet. Oh well, at least I know she is healthy and happy. We we get her into that car seat eventually.

Not Getting Any Better

I just can't seem to get the hang of keeping this updated. I did want to mention that we successfully found Baby of Dream's lost paperclip. Well, I found it. After two diaper dives, The Husband refused to continue looking. Wimp. He saved me one diaper for when I got home from work and luckily I found it about two days after it disappeared. Baby of Dreams has had multiple bruises and two cut lips since then. We have a wild woman on our hands.

Baby of Dreams is officially walking, as of about two weeks ago. Last week she walked and crawled and this week she prefers to walk. I think she will be running next week. She is so stinken cute because she is so small.

On the not so fun side, my mom called today to tell me that one of my cousins had passed away last night. This was a cousin that I grew up with and was closer to then others. I am really going to miss her. It is odd for me to realize that I will never see her again in this life. The only other thing I can think of to say is how grateful I am for the gospel. My cousin wasn't active in the church when she passed away and now she can learn everything. And she is lucky because she gets to see our grandfather now. I will miss her greatly, but I will see her again.
I found an article about her death, online. Very surreal.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/07/suspicious_house_fire_kills_wo.html