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i’m here!! i like the way the new layout looks. what do you think? i found a way in photoshop to change the color without it totally ruining the image.
as i mentioned in the other blog post, i’m having difficulties with a few things. jerry is the real web tech in the […]

found this at amanda fernandeses!

follow the link and choose the words you think describe me. NOTE: religious is a choice, but i didn’t choose it because i don’t think of myself as ‘religious’. if however, you think that i am strong in my faith (Christianity) then you can feel free to choose religious as a choice, and i’ll assume that’s what you mean. heh!

click here.

jerry helped me with figuring out animation in photoshop…look! i made my first nice blinkie! :D

if you’d like to use it to link to BMC, feel free! i plan to make other sizes too. :D wahoo! it wasn’t as hard as i’d thought either, once i got it down.

yesterday the boys had a well-baby checkup. well, (lol) josiah has an ear infection! he had been pulling on it off and on, even before the original checkups that we found out jeremiah had strep, so his ears had been checked and cleared ok. SIGH! so now, as jeremiah is ending his run with antibiotics, josiah is beginning them.
josiah lost some weight in a week! while before he’d been 18lbs 6oz, yesterday, he was 17lbs 13oz. he was exactly 27″ long. and we had her check jeremiah’s info - he was 26 3/4″ long! so not as different as we’d thought! (and i just looked at MY stats info, and it says 6mos 1day he was 27″ and 18lbs!!! so i believe they are in a dead-lock! lol)
jeremiah checked out fine. he weighed 27lbs 6oz and was 36″ tall (i may be wrong on this and have to update it).

jerry had the day off, so after the checkups we went to get jeremiah’s hair cut (it was amazingly unruly. add his runny/snotty nose, and he looked like an unkempt homeless child!) then we went to menards to pick up some flooring for the kitchen. we also got a new dishwasher that we’d been sorely needing (the old one was leaking all the time). can you tell someone got their tax check in? cha-ching! too bad it’s nearly all spent! we paid my mom back for the loan she’d given us a few months ago. it does feel great not to owe her anything! that extra 100 a month will be very nice in savings! we still need to get a new mirror for the downstairs bathroom, see about fixing up jerry’s car, and put a partial payment on my new camera. yep, i am getting one. i am so excited. not sure which one yet. i’m still looking at deals and comparing quality. you all know one of my dreams is to be a photographer don’t you? i’d love to go to people’s houses and take pics of their kids. sigh…

ok back to reality. gotta get going! have a great day and God bless!

eta: joe’s in his crib being grumpy, making whiny noises. in the midst of the babble, i hear “ahhhhhhhhhmaaaamaaaaaaaaaaaa”. AAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

dear josiah,
happy half birthday to my precious adorable little man!!!
you have such a unique personality. you are definitely your own person! you love watching your big brother, but you also love playing by yourself. you have such highs and lows in your behaviour! you can be happy and smiling from ear to ear one minute, and the next you can be screaming bloody murder! you are very active and don’t like to be in one place for too long. i have a feeling we will have our hands full with you very soon! you seem to be into things much more than your bubby ever was at your age!! you and jeremiah are getting closer, although he is still jealous of you sometimes. you just LOVE kc-dog and try to pet him anytime he lets you! you love to grab people’s faces and hair and you do NOT like letting go! it’s funny that now i think you think our glasses are permanent parts of our faces, so you really don’t try to take those much anymore. lol.
your smile never grows old. it gets brighter and bigger every day. your laughs and giggles make us burst into laughter, because they are so deep and special!! you bring so much joy to us, sweet boy!!
i love you, precious josiah! you are still my little prince and you are so precious to everyone who knows you!!
love,
mama
i am still working on that long update. lol.
josiah has his bottom right tooth in, and his bottom left tooth is almost through as well.
he will probably be crawling soon. he can roll over and over and can scoot around to get what he wants. he started rocking on all fours the other day. time-wise, he’s ahead of jeremiah in many things. i just find this amazing, because he WAS almost two weeks early, and he WAS so tiny to start with! (in comparison with jeremiah i mean.)
two fridays ago he weighed 18lbs 6oz. he and jeremiah both go in tomorrow for well baby checkups so we’ll see details then.
they are both feeling a lot better but are both still sickies. still runny/snotty noses and coughs. thankfully no significant fevers though.

hopefully i’ll be able to post more later.
sorry i have been such a stranger! love you all!!