Wordless Wednesday

I have no new pictures of Shiloh since I am without a camera again so I've decided to post some old pictures of her. Kind of flashback to the newborn days. I also thought it might be a nice way to lead up to her first birthday....which is two weeks from today!!

Anyway, both pictures are from the day we brought her home from the hospital (2 days old). You can't really see Shiloh in the first picture but it was a nice moment I thought I'd share. The second picture was one of the first pictures taken upon our arrival home. We didn't know what to do with her so we decided to try out the swing!

Daddy with his girls

10-6

At least it wasn't a blow out. But as I told my brother it almost feels worse than the Buckeye loss because the Buckeyes just did what everyone expected them to do. I'm sure most people (including me) thought the Browns didn't stand a chance against Pittsburgh, but they did. They came SOOOOO close. The game was within their reach and then what happens?? More bad play calling and penalties, in my opinion. Stupid penalties, too! Maybe the Browns would not have gotten that touchdown in the 4th quarter but it sure as heck was worth a try. Either way we're down a touchdown.

Going back to the Buckeyes, as much as it truly pains me to say this, maybe it's time to rethink our coaching staff. I can't see us beating any USC, Florida, or LSU team that we've played with Tressel as our coach. And to be honest, I'm not so anxious to see how we do against Wisconsin, Illinois or Penn State this year.

Crawling, what??

It hit me this weekend that Shiloh has not crawled since this past Monday! I think she has officially moved on to walking. She still stumbles a little but everyday she seems to have more and more balance! It truly is amazing to think about all that we accomplish in our first year of life.

While I'm talking about Shiloh, she caught her first bug this weekend. Yesterday Rich thought she was feeling a little warm but she didn't feel any different to me so I blew his comment off....yes, that's right, daddy knew best. Anyway, this morning there was no question about it so we broke out the thermometer. She started out with a temp of 101.2 but a few hours later it had gone up to 102.4. We gave her some medicine at that point and she's been doing well ever since. When I put her to bed her temp had gone down to 100.5 so hopefully tomorrow she'll be all better! I have to say she handled her first fever quite well. She had her fussy moments but for the most part she was still fairly happy and just slept a little more today.

I'm going to end this now so I can give my full attention to the Browns game. Halfway into the first quarter the score is 0-0....that's a good thing! Maybe the Browns will make up for the Buckeyes this weekend?! It's still early though. We'll see. It looks like what is left of Hurricane Ike is over Cleveland. Hopefully Adrienne and Joe are staying somewhat dry at the game!

I Hate Cameras!!

I am without a camera again! Exactly one month ago today I bought a new camera to replace the one that "I" broke. I had spent three agonizing weeks waiting on Rich to declare the camera dead. The whole time not being able to take a single picture of Shiloh. When I finally got the ok from Rich to buy a new one I spent what I think was a considerable amount of time looking over various cosumer report type websites educating myself on cameras in our price range. I then ventured out and bought one such camera that had great to good reviews on all the websites I visited.

Now I want to scream!! Exactly one month to the day the flash has decided to quit working!! I called the Sony Service Center today to see if there was anything I could do. After about 10 minutes of insulting my intelligence they decided I need to send it in for a repair. UGH!! Tomorrow I will be sending it out to Texas where it will hopefully only take 7-10 days to repair it....I won't be holding my breath though.

The last month of Shiloh's first year and I don't have a camera....I'm not going to cry.

Wordless Wednesday: Bathtime Fun

Walker

Even though Shiloh's been officially walking for about a month I just now got a good video of it. Usually anytime I pull out the video camera the only video I get is of her trying to take the camera from me.

Weekend In Review

I haven't really felt like blogging about anything these past few days, I still don't, but I feel like I should. Our weekend went well...aside from the Buckeyes horrific game against Ohio U...moving on...ECU beat (8)W. Virginia! I think I might have to add some purple to my wardrobe?? My sister's SIL, who attended East Carolina, informed Andrea that they have been wanting to move up to the ACC Conference (I believe it's that one) for the past year or so(???)but no one has been listening/taking them seriously. Well, I'd say they are making a pretty good case for themselves this year. GO ECU! Continuing on to Saturday night football...the Hurricanes put up a good fight against Florida until the beginning of the 4th quarter...if I'm remembering correctly. All I know is I turned the game off a little before 11 PM because I couldn't bare to watch what was about to happen. At no point during the game did I think the Hurricanes were going to win but it was nice to see them keep the game so close for a while. Oh, how I hate Florida.

Sunday morning I woke up with a scratchy voice and sore throat so I slept most of the day. I finally ventured out of bed around 3:15 and at that point somehow felt completely fine. I'm not sure what I had but whatever it was there were no signs of it Saturday and, like I said, it didn't even last all day Sunday. Which was good because Sunday evening was Shiloh's Gymboree buddy Kaylen's 1st birthday party!! Kaylen officially turns 1 on Wednesday. We had a great time at the party. All of Kaylen's huge family was so kind and welcoming and I got some great idea's for Shiloh's 1st birthday party! Rich and I also got to try some new food. Kaylen's parents were born in Kenya but are Indian. Aside from a few boxes of pizza everything they had was traditional Indian food. Rich and I sweated through everything there. I think we each went through 2 bottles of water during dinner. The funny thing is Shraya (I don't know how to spell her name so I'm spelling it how it sounds), Kaylen's mom, mentioned the kind of food they would be serving beforehand and told us when they have gatherings like this they tone down the spiciness so it wouldn't be too bad. I can't imagine how it usually tastes. When we left we made a beeline to Burger King for some milkshakes to cool down our mouths.


Disclaimer- Andrea isn't always the most accurate source for info.