The remote control!

Meredith’s latest obsession is the big ol’ Time Warner remote control…. (can you tell she has been staying at home with daddy this summer??) You can lay the remote control out with all of her toys and she zeroes in on that thing in an instant. Her whole face lights up and she reaches and scoots and pushes herself until she gets it. She is on the verge of crawling (still not really wanting to sit up all that much) and she will do whatever it takes to get to that remote control! Still no teeth, but I keep thinking it will be anytime, but I have been thinking that for awhile now!
She has been sleeping quite well lately. Like at least twelve hours a night and she has only woken up a few times at night this week....I know, it's amazing. Then she also takes at least two good naps during the day too. I keep telling her that she is being way too easy on her daddy this summer!! It is going to be quite a shock for all of us when Chris goes back to school since we won’t be able to let her sleep in so late, meaning that we will have to get her to bed a lot earlier…which also translates to less time for mommy to see her after work or school :(
Speaking of school, I only have one more class left in this second summer session on Tuesday!! Then I have a few weeks off before fall semester starts...thank the lord! The class isn't all that hard, but the homework is really time consuming, so I have been having some very late nights and early mornings lately.
Oh yeah, we got a new car this week. Traded in my silver galant for a new 2006 black galant...yes, it's my third one, but since I leased the last two they were willing to give us a good deal with the loyalty stuff, so we went with it. I really like it a lot!

Cutest Baby Ever!

I can't believe this was already a month ago, but thought it was too cute not to share!!

Stupid computer

Well, our computer died Friday night, the hard drive is gone, so I’m writing this at work. It was a nice excuse not to do any homework this weekend, but also a pain in the butt when you realize how much you really use the dumb machine. Hillary was nice enough to loan me her laptop so I can get my homework done tonight...Thanks Hill!! Chris is going to call the IT guy at his school today to see if he can fix it. We have an eMachine, which is probably the cheapest computer on the planet, so I guess it’s probably our own fault, but it’s still annoying. We also lost all of the hard files of Meredith’s pictures. Fortunately, I had uploaded all but a few to Snapfish, but that is exactly why the whole digital thing scares me! Film is so much more concrete, but then again digging through a box to find a negative probably would never happen either!

We had a nice weekend. Just vegged out Friday night and slept in on Saturday until I heard my sweet baby playing in her crib around 10:00! Went over to mom & papa’s house to help with the deck construction on Saturday night and had a yummy dinner. Slept in on Sunday too (it was a rough week!), ran some errands and went over to Hillary & Allison’s pool for a cookout last night. Meredith got to swim again and loved it! I think we are going to have a water bug afterall! We thought that swimming would wear her out and she’d sleep well, but it was the opposite. She was up several times last night and at 2am, she was inconsolable, so we gave her another bottle, which helped and she finally fell back asleep. The only thing I can think is that she burned off a bunch more calories in the pool and was just plain old hungry! There was nothing else different about yesterday other than the pool, so who knows. Overall, nights like that are the exception lately. She still wakes up at least once a night, but is usually easily pacified with a pacifier (such a brilliant name!). She has turned into such a happy little girl :)

The Beach

Here are some fun pictures of Meredith lounging on the beach!

We spent the week of the 4th of July down in Charleston, SC/ Folly Beach with my in-laws. The weather was beautiful for all but one day and we had a babysitter who was more than willing to watch Meredith while we spent time down on the beach. Meredith wasn't too thrilled with the beach overall. She laid under the tent out of the sun, but never stayed outside too long. We took her into the water one time to let the waves splash her feet, which wasn't a success. She was definitely taking in the sites and the sounds of the ocean, but the water on her actual body didn't go over well. At least we gave it a try!
She has now gotten to where she can get herself up on all fours and kindof rock back and forth. She made one attempt at trying to move a knee forward, but she ended up on her face. The funny thing is that she doesn't seem to care much about sitting up on her own, but wants to try to crawl instead! She seems to want to skip that one developmental step, but I'm sure it will come with time.
Her latest obsession is tags. We don't need to buy her toys, just give her a burp cloth and she will find that silky gerber tag and just play with it and suck on it for the longest time. Any of her toys that have tags are the same way. I've heard that other babies are the same way, but it is so funny to me!
I think she will have a tooth fairly soon. I can feel the rough spot on her gum where it is trying to break the skin, she still tries to chew on everything and drools buckets.
Work is keeping me ultra busy. I'm having one of those weeks where I wonder why I took a vacation because I'm paying dearly now. School is requiring a lot more time than I planned. There is a ton of homework for every class and it's killing me. The professor seems fairly slack overall, but you still have to put in the effort and turn in the homework. I guess this is technically the half way mark though.