Can't believe it's New Year's Eve already! We are just hanging out at home. We did get sushi takeout for dinner as a treat. Earlier Joe's friend Roger stopped by and I took Cammie to see Pop and Nana Robin. Cammie cried and fussed but I think she was tired because she fell asleep for a power nap and when she woke up she was much friendlier. It is really cold again and very windy. The guy with the giant inflatable snowman took it down today, or else it blew away and is wandering the neighborhood. Scary!!! Trying to arrange to get Cammie's car seat changed so I don't have to lug around the carrier. It is also a pain getting it in and out of the car. I can barely do it anymore. Sorry I don't have any fancy NYE plans to wow you all with. Our big resolution is to lose some weight and get in shape. I'm a little disappointed when I see the stars in the magazines who have had babies and are in better shape than before. Although if I had a trainer and a chef and staff to tell me what to do I'd look awesome too. I'd settle for a massage therapist to come in once in a while!! Anyway, Happy New Year, be safe if you are out partying!

Had an ok day yesterday, Cammie really likes playing with her new toys and things that she got for Christmas. We had to run some errands yesterday and everyone kept saying how cute she was, of course she was in full on social mode, smiling and flirting. When she is in the car she likes to toss her binky across the seat so you can't reach it to give it back. That's always fun. Hopefully we will have a good day today!!

Today we had a quiet day at home. We think Cammie might be catching a cold or just not feeling well. Not much going on, Joe gave the stinky dogs a bath and then took them for a walk to dry off. They all seemed to enjoy their bath so they must have felt they needed it. With all this weather changing they are shedding like crazy. Hope everyone had a good weekend and is recovering nicely from Christmas and getting ready for New Years!!

Cammie slept really good last night, she didn't even wake up for an evening snack! Of course I didn't sleep more than an hour or so. It figures!!! Joe got off work this morning and we went to Hampstead to Dave Angelo's brunch. It was nice, although the only other person that I knew there besides Dave was Mike Faith. Cammie was very flirty and smiley the whole time. She got a tiny bit fussy when she got hungry and then right before we left because she was tired. We had a good time even though it was a loooong drive out there. Cammie and I both fell asleep on the way home. Joe and I tried out the Wii tonight, I think it's going to take a bit for the dogs to get used to. Plus it will be better when we can set it up in the basement where there is more room. Max and Clyde were freaked out by it and Pudge kept wanting to jump around. Bailey wasn't sure what the heck was going on. Hopefully they will get used to it. Cammie fell asleep already tonight so hopefully we will have a good night, she seems to be getting on a schedule now as far as eating and sleeping.

Hope everyone had a great Christmas!! We sure did. Cammie had a good night's sleep on Christmas eve and woke up her usual cheery self. My Mom and Dad came over Christmas morning and got to watch and help Cammie open all her presents. She liked tearing the wrapping paper off and trying to stick it in her mouth. Her eyes would get even bigger and her jaw would drop. Too cute!!! We had breakfast and Poppop got to cuddle Cammie while she took a little nap. At lunchtime we headed out to Donna and Bill's, that was a packed house as usual, with Donna, Bill, Andrew, Paul, Daniel, Joe, Melissa, Alice, Mike, Emily, Matthew, Meaghan, Rick, Michael, Donna and Erin. Cammie did pretty well, she had a couple of crying bouts but got over them pretty quickly. She looked so pretty in her dress that Alice got for her, the little dressy shoes didn't last long! She pulled them off and tried to stick them in her mouth. We all had a great day and by the time we got home all of us crashed! Melissa the petsitter had come to let the dogs out and Max misbehaved by not coming in the house when she was ready to leave so he was out in the yard when we got home. He wasn't any worse for the wear so I'm not sure what his deal was. Cammie had a good night last night and her and I have been hanging out today playing with her toys. Cassidy and her friend came over to bring some things I left at Chris and Julie's the other night when we had to make our escape and Cammie was all smiley and giggling with them. Joe went to work overtime today at Station 9, hopefully he won't have a terrible night tonight! I'm going to try to post pics from yesterday tonight.

Merry Christmas Eve! We went visiting today to see Uncle Gary and then a quick visit to Mommom and Poppop. Cammie looked so cute in her sassy Santa outfit. When we got home Kristin stopped by to tell us that Chris and Julie were having some people over tonight and that we should come. We tried to but Cammie had other ideas. She was fine until Julie took her sweatshirt off! Then she started crying (Cammie not Julie) and wouldn't stop so we had to leave. They didn't ask us to or anything but we felt bad for Cammie. :o) I guess the girls will never babysit for us again! Cammie was tired so I think that was the main problem.

Lynn gave us the cutest cake and a bag to open tomorrow! Cammie got some cute outfits from Uncle Gary and there is a ton of presents to open in the morning after Santa comes!!! Mommom and Poppop are coming over to have Christmas morning with us so it should be fun! Now if Cammie would just go to sleep!!! She seems to have gotten a second wind. I'll definitely have pictures to post after tomorrow, I have a bunch already! She is dressed in little elf PJ's and is so cute if I do say so myself! Hope everyone has a great holiday! xoxoxoxox

It was so windy last night that our power went out for over four hours. It was fricking cold!! Cammie had woken up around midnight and drank a bottle and then stayed up until after 2. I had just gotten her to go back to sleep and laid down in bed and everything went off. I definitely can't fall asleep when it is soooo quiet so I was screwed. After about an hour it started to get chilly. We had the wood stove going but the blower is electric, so while it was warm and cozy downstairs, upstairs not so much. We managed to make it through and the house is warming up nicely. (We still haven't turned out heat on yet) I did go up to the Outlets to see if I could find a cute outfit for Cammie to wear on Christmas eve and that place was packed and it was freezing outside. I found something for her in Gymboree, Carters already had their Valentines, St Patty's day and summer clothes out. I'll have pics of that after Christmas.

Brisk day out there today. We stayed home and did some stuff around the house and hung out with Cammie. She had a good night last night. She woke up a few times just looking for her Binky but went back to sleep on her own. She has also taken a few naps today, although she is still awake now and doesn't seem to want to go back to bed. Of course I am sleepy now and will have missed my window to fall asleep by the time she gets tired again. UGH!!! The Travel Channel had a bunch of Disney shows on today so we watched them and found out some stuff we didn't know and stuff to look for next time we go. Max ran out of the yard today but he came right back, causing me to only have a mild heart attack. There were a bunch of people outside because the volunteer "firefighters" brought Santa around and I guess Max thought he should be a reindeer or something. Hope everyone is having a good weekend!! :o)

Last night it was hard to get Cammie to get to and stay asleep. I don't know where she gets all her energy. She also wakes up all smiley and cute. That is so NOT from me. Last night she managed a neat trick after her bottle, I turned her towards me to burp her and she managed to spit up down my sweatshirt. It completely missed the front of me and went down my shirt. Then she laughed. Hmmmm She may be in cahoots with the dogs. Joe got some quality cuddle time with her today. It was a very gross and rainy day so we just hung out and watched TV. Not much else going on. I can't believe Christmas is next week.

It's been a rough couple of days!! Aside from my back killing me, Cammie has been on an anti sleep campaign. Tuesday night she woke up around midnight and didn't go back to sleep until about 3. Wednesday she hardly napped at all and it took her until about 10 to fall asleep, then around midnight she woke up screaming and crying. So loud it woke up Joe! We put her in bed with us and she fell back to sleep but I kept making sure she was ok. Today we went shopping for a little bit with Meaghan and she cat napped here and there but was basically awake the whole time. She is in the living room now squealing and chatting to herself. She is so cute, even when she won't sleep! I'm trying to keep her awake now so hopefully she will sleep tonight. We are trying to learn sign language from the Baby Einstein dvd and from another dvd and book I got so that has been interesting. Of course I have to learn it first, but it hasn't been so bad so far. We know a few people who have done that with their kids and it helped them a lot.

Another rainy day!!! The day started out good, Lynn and I took Cammie to breakfast at Cracker Barrel. YUM! Of course everyone stopped to say how cute Cammie was. Well not everyone but a couple of people did. I finally found out what the dogs were plotting to do to me, I think they are trying to take me out! and not in a good way. I was going out to get a piece of wood to put on the fire and I had Clyde's Frisbee in my hand to get it out of the house because it was wet and he thought I was going to play and ran right into my legs and knocked me on my butt. It happened so quick I didn't know what to think. Of course he is so sensitive when you yell at him he gets scared. Pudge tried to make it all better by licking my face while I was trying to get up but then when I was in Cammie's room laying her in the crib for a nap I stepped back and Pudge was laying right there and I tripped over him and hit my head on her dresser. Hopefully Cammie's first words won't be $h!t, F***, or d@@@ or any combination thereof. So.... my back is killing me more so than usual and my head hurts and my hip does too. It's a good thing I love my dogs! If not Clyde would be on a bus to Uncle Gary's house!

Yesterday we went to Donna's to help make sugar cookies with Donna, Alice, Meaghan, Emily and Melissa. Meaghan and I rode out together with Cammie and Joe brought the dogs out in his truck. Cammie liked watching everything and then licking the lids to the sprinkles. The dogs had a great time playing with their lab cousins Maggie, Mabel and Lucy and Melissa and Joe's puppy Bella who was very cute. (She is a boxer). For some reason Clyde was terrified of Bella. As Uncle Gary says, Clyde is special. The dogs are still worn out today (yay).

Cammie, in true diva form, has gone through more wardrobe changes today than Mariah Carey. We've also had an explosion of bodily functions. Gross! She ruined her pj's this morning with a code brown and she has spit up several times. Not a lot just enough to bypass the bib. Except at lunch, that was pretty nasty. But that also bypassed the bib and went on the pants and high chair. So that's been my day, try not to envy me too much.

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I read something the other day that said that babies need up to 18 hours of sleep and I had to laugh (so I wouldn't cry). I tried explaining this to Cammie at 2 this morning but she was not interested. She isn't fussy, just awake. She doesn't want to nap for very long either. I on the other hand finally start to get tired just as she wakes up. Bleahhhhh.... Her tooth is coming in and hasn't really seemed to bother her much after the initial discomfort. Not much else has been happening, just hanging out.

My poor little bunny!! Last night she got so upset she cried from about 6 til she passed out at like 830-9ish. I tried oragel on her tooth, tylenol, the little cold toys to chew on, rubbing her gums, you name it I tried it. After about 45 minutes I was crying with her. It was terrible. Once she fell asleep she seemed to do pretty well during the night and this morning I put some oragel on her gum to try to ward off that pain. She seems to be in a better mood. (Thank goodness!) Of course Joe was at a meeting last night so he missed the hysterics (Cammie's and mine).

This whole email thing has been a giant pain. But anyway, Cammie is getting her first tooth!! She's taking it well so far, she just doesn't want to go to sleep but I got her some oragel today so maybe that will help. I don't know if the sleep thing and the tooth thing are related, she slept well last night but as far as naps she wasn't interested and she did fight going to sleep at bedtime. She doesn't want to miss anything, I wish she would realize that when it gets dark out, there is nothing going on to miss. There's hardly anything going on during the day! :o) We did go visit Nana Robin and Pop today. Ms. Robin was really glad to see Cammie who fussed at her (I think because of her tooth!). It was a nice visit otherwise. Not much else going on.....

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I think it's safe to assume that winter is officially here. WOW it's cold outside! Joe worked a 24 hour shift yesterday and last night I think I had to refill the fireplace at least three times. It's doing a good job of heating the upstairs too, we still haven't had to turn on our heat yet. Cammie and I had a girls day yesterday, we read and played and did our nails etc. Well I filed her nails, she keeps scratching her face no matter how often I file them! She had her best night's sleep ever last night while I managed to get maybe an hour in. Ugh!! She even took a nap from about 10 to 1 this morning. I managed to get maybe 30-45 minutes of that. This is so frustrating. Oh, the other night her baby monitor was picking up another baby crying and that was weird, I heard crying so naturally I got up to check on her and she was sound asleep but the crying continued. Kind of freaky. She did get some quality time with Daddy today so that was nice for both of them. Of course she fell asleep before the Ravens game came on so they didn't get to watch that together but I think they caught a game on earlier.

Joe had off today so we finished Christmas shopping with a trip to Toys R Us. Yikes! What's wrong with the economy? That place was packed.

Just FYI to anyone who emails me, my yahoo account was hacked into and my login info was changed so I can't access it anymore. To make a long story short, my email address stacygouldin@yahoo.com is no good anymore and I will be changing it. As soon as I get a new one I'll post it on here so hopefully people can email me their email address because all that is gone as well. Or you can leave your email address in the comments section here and I'll add it. What a pain in the @$$!!

Hope everyone has a great weekend and stay warm! Big kisses from Cammie!!!

Not much going on today. Emily and Meaghan came by to pick up a couple of things Emily left in the attic and to bring Cammie her Christmas dress from Aunt Alice. It is so pretty! No pics until Christmas!!! So don't ask! :o) We did try it on her to make sure it would fit and it does and she can even gain a couple holiday lbs and still wear it. Cammie and I are having an ok day, we spent some time outside with the pups this morning playing with them. Everyone seemed to enjoy that. Last night it was so funny, Joe was exhausted so he wanted to go to bed and I was ready to lie down but Cammie was ready to party. (Of course it was only like 8pm). But anyway, Cammie was lying next to me and wiggling around so I whispered "sshhh Daddy's sleeping" and she started her belly laugh and then squealed and she did it every time I said it. It was so cute and funny. Hope everyone is having a great day!!

Well I guess the dogs didn't forgive me for being crated yesterday. They were outside on their own for a little while and when I looked out to check on them they were sitting in a circle under the tree in the back. That made me suspicious, and to be honest a little nervous. I know they talk about me when I can't hear them. :o) Anyway, after I got out of the shower I found Clyde with one of Cammie's stuffed dragonflies from her bouncy seat in his mouth and Max was devouring a tiny stuffed Koala from her other chair. I still can't find the other dragonfly so I'm sure Clyde ingested it. Then when I was feeding Cammie her dinner, 1 jar of sweet potatoes and 1 jar of pears YIKES, I heard some jingling which I thought was one of the dogs walking by the tree but then Max walked in with her toy zebra in his mouth. Luckily it was only wet with doggie spit and I can clean that off. The zebra was in her diaper bag so he had to root around in there for it. They have been really good with her toys until today. Guess a trip to Petsmart is indicated for some new doggie toys (nothing stuffed of course). I have a pic to post of Cammie in her Christmas onesie, I put it on her after her bath because even though it is a 6-9 month it may not make it until her first diaper change. I had to wrestle her into it. Hopefully tomorrow I'll get the pics on, provided there are no episodes with the dogs. :o)

Even though I usually need a day or so to recover from going to the grocery store, I decided to get my Target shopping done today. Lynn went with me and we had a good time. Cammie was very good and very interested in the toys and clothes. The only thing she didn't like was when we were in the bathroom changing her and someone turned on the dryer, she started crying after that. I think it was just loud and something she hadn't heard. I'm exhausted though and will definitely need some time to recover. The dogs were a little miffed that they had to go in the crate again today but I think they forgave me. Christmas shopping is a little overwhelming, there is so much stuff to look at that I don't have the slightest idea where to even start. I did find a few things at Target and I think we are going to go to Toys R Us on Friday when Joe is off. Looking at all the cool toys and gadgets they have out now, I wonder what we played with when we were little. Especially all the educational toys that start early, it's a wonder we can even read or count. :o)

Another not so exciting day. It was much nicer outside though. I was supposed to have a doctors appointment so Lynn said she would watch Cammie for me so I could go to that and then go to the grocery store. My appointment got cancelled so I just went to the store, I got all the way there and realized I forgot my wallet. UGH. Luckily I realized it in the parking lot before I went in. Cammie helped me finish decorate the Christmas tree tonight and we put out some decorations. Trying to make the house look a little festive! The dogs are funny, they look at the tree like what the heck is that? and then they lay under it. I feel so disorganized these days, everyone says you get mommy brain and I think that is true. Cammie sends lots of smooches to everyone!