Sunday, September 30, 2012

Our Felicity: 11 months


Wha-sat? Can you tell which polka-dot does not belong? ...

 This month our girl has taken her curious side to a whole new level. She now points at everything wanting to show mommy and daddy. She particularly loves pointing out flying birds, airplanes and the box elder bugs that have overtaken our house...yuk! One of two things accompanies this gesture:

1. hmm (high pitched like a little puppy)

2. Wha-sat?!

Daddy gets all of the credit for what we have determined is Fliss' first word (s): "wha-sat?!" He has been known to take her around the house or outside, point to things and say, "What's that" in a quick, whispered voice. After hearing "wha-sat" several times from this girl as she points, we've officially deemed it her first word(s).
Curiosity has finally met movement. Not in the form of crawling as one might expect but in scooting. Fliss uses her kicking legs to drag her little booty across the floor. She can cover some good territory...enough to give her her first of many battle wounds (the polka-dot mentioned above) from a tumble down the carpeted stairs. Time to put up the baby gate!
Though she's still a little petite thing, Felicity has really started to devour real food. She loves cheese and tortillas, dried cranberries, cantaloupe, scrambled eggs, and greek yogurt. She tore into some watermelon at mommy's thirtieth birthday party, ate apple farm apples like nobody's business and found the dinner rolls in our kitchen cart. I turned around to find her with bread in both fists and her mouth. Funny baby.
One last funny from this month is a new trick she does in the morning. Dan gets her up, changes her, and then brings her to our room. We try to keep her there for as long as possible, and though she refuses to snuggle, she certainly keeps us laughing. She has discovered that she can fling herself backwards and land in the safety of the big fluffy comforter. She laughs, and we each take one of her little hands to lift her up to do it again and again...of course we don't mind if it means a few more minutes under the covers!
It's hard to believe that in one month this five-toothed wonder of ours will be ONE! I just can't comprehend it...





Wednesday, September 19, 2012

You Win

Your chances of winning were 1 in 9. Not too shabby if you ask me :)

Here was my highly sophisticated process...

First, I cut nine pieces of paper equal in size, and put each person's name on one. 

Next, I put them in a bowl. 

Then, I mixed them up while closing my eyes, counting to thirty (my new favorite number of course), and taking a picture. 

And finally...I pulled out a name: 

You win James! I hope that this thirty dollars of coffee goes a long way as you and the wifey welcome baby boy in a month or so. I have a feeling you're going to need it ;) 

 Thanks to everyone who entered. I truly enjoyed reading your thankful things. Here's to looking for the beautiful things in life and being grateful...even though things get messy sometimes!

Monday, September 3, 2012

One-Hundred


Three and a half years ago I began this journey called blogging:

http://datieandkan.blogspot.com/2009/02/beginning-is-hardest-part.html

A few observations as I come to post 100:
  • We now have three in our story instead of two. Love.
  • Having a name makes me happy. We are no longer untitled but Messy, Beautiful, Grateful.
  • I really need to get to finishing my family birthday tributes. Oops!
  • I was totally right when I said I would be the primary contributor...the only contributor. Maybe I can convince Dan to write something by the time we get to post 200 :) 
  • Blogging is great for someone who is scared of scrapbooking but wants to be a keeper of memories. 
  • Though I am quite taken with her, I do hope to blog about something besides my daughter some day...
A few of my favorites: 
And finally in honor of Post 100, I would like to make someone's life in my little virtual blogger world a little more beautiful as well as give them another thing to be grateful for...I'll leave the messy business to you!
Just leave a comment with your name and something you are grateful for at the bottom. This weekend I'll draw one name, and the lucky winner will get a $30 gift card to Starbuck's...because I'm turning 30 this week (ahhh!)...and I thought it would be super fun to do a give away on my little blog :) May the odds be ever in your favor...