Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Quite the day

Pin It Now! I have had quite the day today - yesterday I went on a shopping trip with my girlfriend and her little girl - we had a blast but by the end of the day when we piled out of the car it was a scramble to get everything in the house.

I always lock the car doors - but last night I must have forgotten.

Our car got broken into and our ipod along with a few gift cards and my wallet was stolen - it took me forever to piece it all together...I looked for the ipod when I got in the car this morning but thought maybe Kirk had taken for his drive to work.  I just assumed my wallet was in my bag (which I had brought in the house last night).  When I got to Walmart I decided to get an iced coffee before I shopped - I realized after I ordered my wallet wasn't in my bag --- so I told the cashier and a nice lady behind my paid for my coffee.  She didn't know then the type of day I was having...heck I didn't even know..I just assumed my wallet was in my car - but when I got back to check - nope, not there.  Then I came home and thought maybe it was here somewhere and I just hadn't remembered to put it in my car but nope not here.  Then I started remembering how it was a bit of a scramble getting the kids out of the car yesterday, how we were hot and tired and excited about our shopping so I probably just forgot.  Luckily my diaper bag made it inside and that had our passports in it (which is going to come in handy for replacing everything!)

Moral of the story is...I am disappointed, more annoyed than anything about the stuff I have to replace...but I am so touched by that lady - a total stranger who bought me a coffee...she had no clue what I was going through but it really made a bad situation seem ok, hopeful even - and made me realize that the good outweighs the bad.


Here is most recent Turtle layout - we're using the Authentique line this month and I love it!

Layout 1 - hidden element challenge - I chose hidden journalling:



In other news baby Jonah turned 9 months old on Monday!  Eeeeee!!! How did this happen?

My days are now filled with a TON of movement...chasing more accurately. I think this month has been the biggest in terms of changes.

This month Jonah is:

-Crawling like it's his job - from room to room, he's a quick little crawler!
-Saying "babababa" to basically describe everything.  He'll do it back to you on occasion - it's such a cute little noise!  He alternates between that and almost a clearing of the throat noise - particularly when he wants someone to pay attention to him.  It's cute!
-Getting pickier about food - not as into purees at all but much more interested in self feeding.  There was a ton of food on the list before but now he mostly just seems interested in what we are eating.....which I know is good but a struggle when we're having typical summer food like salads etc.
-Major flirt - LOVES his ladies, yesterday he put on quite the show at Target for the cashiers
-Loves to stand....can't pull himself up quite yet but if I place him somewhere he'll just hang out there until he eventually falls on his bum
-Loves to play with cars and spin the wheels, can find wheels on anything (open dishwasher as an example)
-Loves to crawl over to the door stop and spring it so it makes a boing noise

Just woke up from his nap so got to run!

xoxo


Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Authentique Sharesies

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Just popping in with a little scrapbook share: 

This month at The Scrapping Turtle the Design Team is working with a fantastic new line called Authentique - I am using the Blissful line and I love it!  







We are getting back into the everyday groove over here after a week away with family - there's lots of crawling and babbling going on these days - so cute!