Chompers

I have been busy!  And do you know how many things still remain on my to-do list?  No?  Neither do I.  Because even though one of the things I told myself I needed to do today was to make a to-do list, I never got around to it.  Which will spell certain doom, eventually.  But updating this blog with pictures of the cutie-patootie would definitely have been on the list, so I think this is a valid use of my time :).

So I probably can't remember everything that's happened in the last week.  But there were some big things in our little family :)...  Saturday was the get-together for Jeremy's dad's side of the family.  Every October we do this.  We travel to Whidbey Island and enjoy lots of fun and food.  The men in the family make fresh apple cider with the cider press.  The women stand around talking (or chase around kids... which I'm sure I'll be doing some of next year).  This year I visited mostly.  Other women were completely overjoyed to take Lynnaea.  She got passed around a lot.  I don't bother bringing pack and plays or anything like that to these things, because I know she'll never be put down.  Haha...  It was awesome, though.  And because of this event, she rode her first ferry!  And I, of course, took pictures :).

Yeah, Jeremy loves having his picture taken...  And so does Lynnaea.  Haha...  Actually, it was pretty cold and windy.  So she was relatively unimpressed with this excursion.

 Here we are on the deck of the ferry :).

And here's our little family.  In a rough "self-portrait."  But at least it's documented :).

The other new thing is that Lynnaea has her first tooth!  I felt it on Friday, but it erupted all the way on Saturday.  Jeremy had his finger in her mouth and she gave him a good chomp.  Apparently that tooth is sharp. 

After we got off the ferry, we still had a bit of a drive.  And this is how she looks when Daddy is in the back entertaining her!  (We rode with Jeremy's parents).  Sweet girl.  Jeremy was making animal sounds. 

My Aunt Sue is in town for a couple days, so stopped by to visit her.  It was a short visit, because Lynnaea was ready to eat; so we headed home.  But it was a nice visit :).

I tried to get a picture of her tooth today, but it didn't work.  She's pretty secretive about it ;).  I did, however, get this shot:

Sunday was easily the worst poopie-diaper changing experience for me ever.  It'd been 4 days since her last poop, so we knew it was going to be a doozy.  She wiggled around in it and spread it on her dress and all over her belly and blanket and the disposable changing pad (thank you Julie!) that I had the presence of mind to put in the diaper bag -- just in case.  And thank goodness for the plastic smell-good bags someone gave us as a baby gift that are meant to hold a poopie diaper, but instead held her soaking-wet-from-rinsing-previously-pooped-all-over dress, tights, and blanket.  Sigh...  And then I took out the church bathroom trash.  And this is why you always pack double of everything...  I don't know how many wipes I used, but it was a lot.

And today I've been busy.  I made dry beans for the first time (soaked them last night, boiled them this morning).  Put some in a soup that's in the crock pot and froze the rest for future use in place of canned (less sodium and cheaper!).  And made home-made French bread.  Three loaves!  So here's to hoping it's good! 

And with that, I think it's about dinner time :).  So I'm outta here!