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  • Finally figuring out my guage difference so I can cast on for the hourglass sweater. Driving up to Portland with Bj and a sleeping Tuesday, so peaceful and nice.Math class flashback

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  • Well, I didn't mean for it to be THAT long between posts. What have we been doing? Tons, but we'll start with the scrapbooking stuff – you heard right – scrapbooking! I have been organizing my scrap stuff after a great weekend scrap day with Sarah last weekend. Of which I took one picture and it's this:
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    But speaking of pictures. I've been going through those as well:
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    Going through the storage albums: old photos to be tossed or cycled into my category drawers (system is from the Big Picture Scrapbooking class I took last year: Library of Memories). I have to make way for a big order from Shutterfly (they are having great deals right now by the way free shipping, free prints, 10 cent print plans, etc). I've also been purging supplies:
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    The amount of scrapbooking stuff I have is almost embarrassing! I'm going to donate this, and hopefully it will make it easier for me to pick through supplies I really enjoy and love. I have filled out a few pages of the baby book:
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    It's really simple.
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    This is true baby book, I'm planning on scraping plenty of Tuesday (and have, when she was less mobile). But since I'm a bit out of practice I worked on other things. Some really old things (pre-blog!!!):
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    That is one half of a layout from 2003 when I went with Laura to Sciarrino's home town. From my film days when I got doubles of my photos and of course couldn't delete right on the camera if I want to. I utilized the square punch and tossed a bunch of photos. It felt great. Then I flipped through my storage albums and found some really fun photos:
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    It was so fun to go through my supplies, sit with Sarah and just create.
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    I know, I know, I took pictures of the layouts. I hate that, but I hate scanning and stitching them more. So that's what I've been doing on the craft front. Coming later what Tuesday and I have been up to together. It's even easier to use the computer now that Bj found this link for me and I was so happy to finally be able to clean my mighty mouse to get it to work perfectly.

    Oh and a note: If you love my Baby Hawk like I do and want one of your own, this is your chance to get one on their yearly sale: 15% off by entering bday09 at check out (until the 8th). I'm not affiliated with them in any way, I just love it, Bj loves it, I love that we can both wear it. Tuesday loves riding in it… hmmm wonder if Bj would care if I ordered another in a summer color?

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  • Hands down I had an awesome weekend. We didn't go anywhere but we did have lots of fun. Starting on Saturday when I went thrifting. That's right, Sciarrino and I were back up to our old tricks. I thawed some of my milk, left Tutu with Bj and headed out early. I didn't have any huge scores, but I did get some fun things, like this Mulder action figure and these games:
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    Most of my weekend haul was from an immigrant's estate sale, and everything had Russian price tags. I even got an atlas in Russian:
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    I got a few knitting books, including this one, and some older pamphlets, this is my favorite sweater from those:
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    I did end up getting a "come home quick" text message, after Tuesday refused the bottle. We had given her one before to see how she would do, but she has never had to miss a feeding (that's right my max time away from her before had been about 1.5 hours). When I got home she smiled crazy at me like she was saying, "hey you came back!" And then she was too distracted to eat. I didn't want to waste the pumped milk so I heated it and had Bj try again. He fed her, and she stared at me the whole time and chugged it down no problem, funny little girl.

    Saturday night Ethan and Sciarrino came over and we did a classic BBQ and game night. Sunday I spent the whole day with Sarah, scrapbooking. It so deserves it's own post, if for no other reason than I got pages done and this post is already going to be picture heavy. It was really fun though, and Bj got in most of our new windows while I was doing that – so a very productive day.

    Sunday my mom and Bill were home from a southwestern vacation so grandma came over to hang out with Tuesday ๐Ÿ™‚ We went for a nice long walk, it was great, I love my neighborhood more and more the warmer it gets out. We went over to my mom's for a BBQ in the evening. I had my little brother hold Tuesday:
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    Which was pretty cute, though not as cute as this:
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    Tuesday's first swim!

    (Let me take this opportunity to say that while yes, I am wearing my maternity swim suit – I am not expecting again! Yes, I did get a congratulations this weekend on expecting again – yikes. The sad thing is I thought I was doing really well eating better. I'm at 139.4, I was 134 when I got back from Hawaii in January last year (damn chocolate covered macadamia nuts), and 124 right before I got pregnant. So, I'm working on it! I also have this bad habit of sticking out my stomach when I hold Tuesday, and I'm sure the bad posture doesn't help)

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    She loved the pool. I knew she would. She kept pushing herself up out of her little seat and kicking her micro sized legs.
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    I think this is going to be a very fun summer.
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    She as totally cracking us up.
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    I should say I'm not really sure when babies are supposed to go in
    pools, but luckily this is my mom's pool and I know it is very clean
    and doesn't have too many chemicals.
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    Awe Tuesday loves grandma! I think I'll wait a while before taking her to a public pool. Tuesday would have stayed in here all night, but she started shivering, so we got her out. I got her back into some knitwear and she chilled in her vintage pram while we ate:
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    Last night was a whole other story. She did not want to sleep – at all. I think maybe it's because she took a nap yesterday while we walked, and another micro one when we got to my mom's. So maybe 1.5 hours of sleep during the day total? She ate so many times I lost count, and by 7:30 I just had Bj bring her to me in bed so I could nurse her lying down, I was so exhausted. Bj was so cute he said, "Tuesday you have to remember to thank you mom for all this milky some day." She's napping again now, hopefully it won't be a vicious cycle, but she looks too peaceful to wake up. She may just be going through a growth spurt, I don't know. But I hope I get some more sleep tonight!

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