happy update

i felt really bad about leaving such a mopey message last night so here are some pictures to make it better...

thalia's favorite thing to do is play with the dishwasher. i will have to keep this picture until she is older so i can prove that she has always liked doing dishes! the fastest i have seen thalia crawl is when she is in the family room and she sees me open the dishwasher door. it is ridiculous!

thalia and i went for a walk the other day before this cold cloudy nonsense rolled in. i love those sunglasses. and they actually almost fit her now!

also happy update...thalia only woke up twice last night!!!!!!! YAY!!! which meant mom got to sleep for 4 hours at a time! i know that doesn't seem like much but over the weekend when we were in michigan she was waking up every two hours. now, i am not claiming victory yet...but it is a start.

have a great day! miss you all!

much love and SLEEP!!!

c, c, and t

tired

good evening :o) what an evening it has been. i had to go grocery shopping after i picked thalia up and the kroger here is set up in the dumbest way ever so it took me forever to get a couple things. thalia fell asleep on our way home but then woke up when i tried to get her into pajamas. and i have spent the past hour trying to get her to go back to sleep. i finally had to break down and feed her. hopefully that will buy me some time tonight but i am not counting on it. the apartment is a mess but i was up way too late last night and am tired after sitting at my desk all day today. usually i am up walking around, talking with people but no one was at work today! it was quiet and weird...wore me out. not to mention that flying to and from detroit two weekends in a row is just draining. i keep telling myself it is temporary. what can i say? thalia and i are just very popular and loved :o) it was great being home, just not as restful as i had hoped. and now that we are back, its hard getting everything done when i don't get home until 7 or 8 and am worn out. maybe tomorrow will be better. i am going to at least go to bed two hours earlier than last night. and hopefully thalia will start sleeping better soon.
sorry to be such a debbie downer...it's been a long couple days.
on the bright side, i got more of thalia's artwork from school today. they have these roller paints that the infants can use and miss alice drew an outline of a pumpkin and helped the babies color it in. "thalia" didn't do too bad. :o) i really want the "scary feet" they did for halloween. miss alice took black construction paper (why is it called construction paper by the way?) and dipped the babies' feet in white paint and did upside down footprints that look like ghosts. it is too cute! i'll take a picture when i get to take it home. thalia did really well going back to school after a week off. she smiled at her teacher, who was very happy to see us. chris and my in-laws kept her on her schedule for the most part so it shouldn't be too bad of an adjustment.
stayed tuned for halloween pictures...thalia's first halloween is friday and she, as a true diva, has a number of wardrobe changes planned for the occassion. we'll see how she likes it. thanks for all your love, support, and prayers. things are going better than i had expected and hoped...the commuting is just starting to take its toll. but like i said, it is temporary. and next time i go home, aunt nikki and uncle toby will be coming into town so we can all go visit grandma diane and grandpa mark. man...we need to think of new names for everyone. thalia is blessed with MANY sets of grandparents :o)
good night! wish me luck...
much love and slightly more sleep,
c, c, and t

pictures galore!

the latest

hello all,
i must apologize for my recent sporadic updates. work has been busy and thalia and i have been travelling a lot lately. not to mention, it is hard having two computers...i have a desktop at my apartment and my laptop at work. and i am trying not to save pictures on both computers. but then i get into a situation where i don't have pictures that i want to post and therefore postpone giving you all an update. then of course a few days go by and i think, shoot! i still haven't posted an update! so tonight i am updating and tomorrow when i get to work i will post the most amazing pictures!!
so travelling - thalia and i went home to michigan this past weekend just to hang out. aunt steph and uncle barrett and liberty came and spent the entire weekend at our house which was awesome! i was so glad to have them there. saturday we went to ihop for breakfast and we were giving thalia little bits of pancake. we thought she was doing so well eating...then we went to leave and realized that probably half of the pieces were in the highchair!! it was too funny. then we decided to take thalia to the apple orchard and look at some pumpkins. it was a ton of fun! aunt steph took a bunch of wonderfully adorable pictures. thalia had a blast touching the pumpkins and the hay. it was a little chilly but we had her bundled in a cute fall colored hat that yiayia made for her. it matched the pumpkins perfectly! after that grandma and grandpa came over with aunt jen and uncle wj for a fantastic family dinner. i really appreciated that! it was a yummy meal, and it was great getting to spend time with everyone. sunday we went to church for the first time since i had moved. that was quite an adventure of hugs and squeals of delight as all of our friends saw thalia for the first time in over a month. and thalia hammed it up the entire time. it was really wonderful getting to visit with everyone.
now for the big surprise...thalia stayed in michigan! i have to fly back to michigan first thing friday morning for a wedding and with chris' family's help, we decided it was better for thalia to just stay up there and spend time with her dad and gamma and gampa instead of getting on so many flights in such a short amount of time. so i flew back to NC by myself and have been getting used to not having thalia here. the first day is okay because i caught up on some sleep and got some things done around the apartment that i had been putting off. but now it is getting weird. it's too quiet and i keep thinking that i am forgetting about her. just very strange. AND I AM FILING A FORMAL COMPLAINT BECAUSE I HAVE NOT GOTTEN ONE PICTURE OF THALIA FROM CHRIS IN TWO AND A HALF DAYS AND I WAS SENDING HIM PICTURES ALMOST EVERY DAY!!!!!!! so sad!
other than that, work is going better than i had hoped and just keeps getting better. we had our big meeting today that i had been helping plan and it went really well. now i just have a few things to tie up and the project is done! not to worry, i have a lot of things on my plate but i am handling the work well and love the people i am working with. it has been a lot of fun which has made adjusting to being down here by myself a little easier.
only two more days of work and then i get to come home again. i am hoping this weekend will be a little less crazy since we were just home but i am sure it will be nuts again. chris and i didn't even get to spend any quality time together last weekend. i am hoping we can go on a date this weekend. keep your fingers crossed for me.
i promise to post the fall pics tomorrow. they are awesome!! have a wonderful night. thanks as always for all your prayers and thoughts. we couldn't do it without you.

much love and a little more sleep,
c, c, and t

for comparison

i can't remember if this is her one month or two month picture with the hippo but look at the difference!! i can't believe she is getting so big...and is going to be 8 months old next week!!

much love and little sleep,

c, c, and t

twice is nice

i know i already did a post today but i just thought this was too cool. this is a picture of thalia watching the red wings' stanley cup banner raising ceremony tonight. how great is that?!

as promised

here is a video of thalia standing at the couch today. she has been standing up a lot more and a lot quicker these days which means she is getting into EVERYTHING!! i have to move the tv and the table it is on this weekend because she was trying to pull the cords out of the socket. she is such a little stinker!


she slept a lot better last night...only got up twice. i know that sounds like a lot but that is the best she has done in over two weeks. she has only slept through the night once since we got here. it was nice to get so much sleep!!

more updates to come. thanks for all your prayers!
much love and a little more sleep,
c, c, and t

:oP

just wanted to let you know that it is 7:15 pm and it is 80 degrees here :o) sorry 'boutcha!!

anyway, thought i might put some new pics up here. things have been up and down this past week. thalia is either having night terrors or her teething is waking her up in the middle of the night. at first i thought it was her teeth but the more i think about it, i think it is night terrors. she has been getting up every couple hours and sitting up in her crib. Sometimes she will go right back down if i give her her pacifier. other times she just screams for a while. it is really frustrating and exhausting. i haven't slept well in a number of nights. oh well. hopefully this will pass soon.

thalia got to see her daddy this weekend. it was really nice having chris here. we just hung out and played with thalia. we did do a little shopping which was nice; it's tough having to try to manuever the jeep stroller into fitting rooms when i am by myself! let me tell you though...it is much easier when i leave detroit!! poor chris has it hard both ways. at least when i leave detroit i am on a mission...i have to go through security and catch my flight and hold thalia. last night when chris left, he just walked out and i was left in my apartment. :o( i think the next couple weeks are going to be hard. this will be the longest we have gone without seeing each other in a long time. it's a bummer but we are dealing with it and trusting that things will work out in one way or another.

ok, enough mopey stuff...here are the pics.

look how proud this little hot dog is!!


this is thalia's first taste at a teething biscuit. that is the biscuit in her mouth (and all over for that matter) NOT HER TONGUE!!!

thalia's first kitchen sink bath. is it me, or is there always something in her mouth?

oh yeah...why waste time with that kneeling nonsense?! i'll just stand up! this girl is standing up all over the place. i tried to get a video today but it didn't come out. i will try again tomorrow.

hope you enjoyed! more to come soon! thanks for all your love and support and prayers. chris and i really do appreciate it.

much love and no sleep,
c, c, and t