Busy, busy

In the last two days Stowa has figured out the fine art of crawling and a tooth finally popped through!

The crawling is still a little slow but the cats better watch out.

Photo storage HELP

I need photo storage help. I do not know what to do with all the pictures. My crazy anxiety ridden mind says that we need them on the computer, backed up on an external drive, a back up for the back up, perhaps on a CD, and printed out and neatly put into photo albums. Of course, my anxiety is battling with my laziness and none of that has happened.

Seriously though, what the hell do I do with all the pictures? I don't want to lose them. Our computer is dying and I've had nightmares about losing all of these pictures.

What are you doing with all your pictures?

Hodge Podge

Sorry for the lack of stories. It's due to a perfect storm of events. First being that the computer is in the office. I've been online a lot less these days. Second, Itchy is working these dreadful 4 pm to 3 am shifts. It pretty much sucks. Without him around, it's hard to get "computer time". The third part of this is Stowa. She takes up so much time. And the constant supervision. My god. The best I can do is offer up a pile randomness.

Stowa is now 8 months old. She's really close to getting her first tooth. Really close. She still hates solid food. Well, she does like these puff things, but anything else is blah. Whatever. She'll catch on sooner or later. She is rolling and scooting backwards. Fast. She can get across the room and into trouble in no time. She can also get from laying on her belly into a sitting position. Itchy swears that she's been doing this for over a month. How did I miss this? I just noticed this a couple of days ago. Weird. She also pulled herself up onto two feet for the first time (that we noticed) today. I happened to catch it with the camera too. She looks like such a big kid standing.

Itchy still has no job. We're moving in 3 weeks and we still don't know where. Ok, I take that back. Obviously since Itchy still doesn't have a job, we'll be moving in with FIL. But after that. We don't know where we're going.

Speaking of moving, I still haven't started packing. I'm still not sure what we're taking and what we're trying to sell. I need to start setting some realistic goals and get going.

1st 4th of July

It was Stowa's first 4th of July! We took her to see the fireworks, of course. If she hadn't been so damn tired she would have had a great time. She seemed very interested in them but the poor kid was so hot and so tired that she couldn't make it until the end.

Back Home

Stowa and I made it home. It was a hell of a two weeks. Lots of time spent at the hospital. It's not all that easy to entertain a 7 month old at a hospital.

A few highlights:
1. You know the stereotypical baby that cries during the entire flight? Yep, that's my kid. Good times.

2. To the lady that wouldn't give up her window seat: Karma is a bitch. I don't make the rules. The car seat HAS to go in the window seat. Don't like it? Talk to the FAA. Perhaps the reason you got sick during the turbulence is because you acted like a bitch. Karma dude, karma. Also, that flight was the one flight that my kid wasn't crying. She was sleeping the whole time.

3. Took Stowa to another zoo. The butterfly tent was her absolute favorite. It was everyone's favorite.

4. Cousin time. Stowa loves her cousins and her cousins love her. It was fun to see them together.

5. Staying with FIL wasn't THAT bad. He was pulling out all the stops to make sure I felt guilty about not spending more time with him though. He only offered to babysit Stowa about 10 times each morning before we left the house. Same old, same old. Lots of talk about why Stowa's clothes don't match and her lack of developmental milestones.

6. Lugging a baby and all the things a baby needs through an airport sucks.