9 months

Our sweet baby is 9 months now...and every bit a 9 month old!  She is into everything, loves being active and laughs all the time.  well, 'all the time' might be an exaggeration...she's continuing to get more teeth, already has 4!  Jason calls them hippo teeth, and honestly, i can't disagree! hahaha, the cutest hippo teeth on the planet!  She pulls up on anything possible...her toys, pant legs, coffee table, etc.  She is getting super brave by letting go and trying to balance for as long as possible.  And let me tell you, she is VERY pleased with herself when she stand there for a while.  hahahaha, i could cry at how much this makes the 3 of us laugh!  {note to self: must try to video}

We took some pictures during dinner on the day she hit 9 months, and sure enough, she hammed it up for us!

oh, and if you can't tell, the curls are coming in pretty good

 pure l.o.v.e.

"See all four of my teeth?!"

Already?

Really?  Is it already time for the Bean to be in a big girl car seat?  Well, technically she could have been in one about 5 lbs ago...but her parents were kind-of first timers and had no idea.  (rookies...)

So we took a little family trip down to Babies R Us and picked up this bad boy.

In theory, this thing should get her a long way (70 lbs), but we'll see.  Her poor little shoulders were literally crammed into her old car seat, so we just knew it had to be time.  So she is noticeably happier, and in return we are too.  Just in time for a little 3 hour road trip...

F.Y.I.

I'm going to go ahead and say, I'm not even sure if this is worth blogging about.  BUT if anybody has a secret love for trying to find amazing, but frozen Chinese food, join me!  For some reason the Chinese restaurants in our town kind of sketch me out.  But I think I would still try to find good frozen Chinese food either way.  Yesterday, I had to go to Wal-mart, and in the midst of my super-market-sweep style shopping I snagged up a little Chinese box I've been dying to try.

Verdict:

Save your $2.50

a.k.a. not good.  The 'Asian Style Sauce' tasted like some sad attempt at left over gravy (gravy does not = Asian) and there might have been 3 pieces of beef.

Be Ware!

Don't worry though, I haven't lost all faith.  I already have my eye on another brand I want to try.

Follwer

This isn't really a post about anything to do with Georgia, Jason, me, we, or us.  But I just wanted to let everybody know I'm still pursuing Bird & Branch Redesign!

I've actually opened up my own Etsy shop, too!  I've got 3 more things ready to put on the blog and few things to add to my Etsy shop!  So would you, pretty pretty please, head on over to

Bird & Branch Redesign

and click the "FOLLOW" button to the left of the page!

Also, if you have an Etsy account you can tag Bird & Branch as one of your 'Favorites'.

But you can always visit by clicking on My Adventure at the top of this page.

Have a great friday!

Big 'Ol Pile

...of SNOW!

Seriously, we had so much snow!  I loved it, it was great! We probably got 6-7 inches, which for anywhere in the south is AMAZING!  But our sweet little town doesn't usually get snow, so this was definitely a treat!

That's all...I was just excited about snow!

The "New" Paper Towels

A little over a month ago I decided to try something new.  I decided our family was done using paper towels.  Seriously.

Let me just insert a little babble right here.  I am not an eco friendly, tree love'n, "save the planet" kind of girl, but I do think it's important that we all try to do a little bit to help out.  That being said, if you ever hear me talk about "Going Green" on this blog, to me that means SAVING GREEN!  So yes, this ended up being just another way for us to save money (and trash).

Ok, back to not using paper towels...

I honestly can't remember exactly how the idea dawned on me.  But, Jason and I were at the dreaded Wal-mart one weekend stocking up on everything we were low on and when we got to the paper towel isle he about flipped when he saw the price of those things.  I don't know about yall, but my husband is not a one-paper towel kind of guy.  Not only that, but if it's a really messy job, go ahead and count on using half a roll if it's not a good brand!  Also, we grill...a LOT.  And for anybody that does also, you know that ONE napkin or ONE paper towel usually doesn't do it (especially when eating ribs).

So here's what we did.  We scrapped the paper towels and bought ONE pack of 18 wash clothes for $4.00.  $4.00!  That is about half the price of a 6 pack of paper towels, and guess what with 18 wash clothes you don't run out!  The minute one gets filthy we just throw it in the washing machine to be washed with the next load.  We got ours at Wal-mart (mainstays).

Actually, the package looked like this, but the top picture is just prettier.

We also use these super cheap dish towels from Ikea when we have people over for a bbq.  The event-planner-wanna-be in me likes to have a few things that do match.  But these babies were only 49 CENTS each!

Tekla Dish Towel

I waited for about a month to put it on here, because I really wanted it to work before I suggested it to anyone.  But this has seriously been a great way for us to cut out some spending.  Yes, we've been made fun of a few times, but we haven't had any complaints!  Jason and I do laugh at times, but we've still got one roll of paper towels left in the pantry that has been sitting there since mid-November.  So, Yay for us!



Chicken?

The other night we were feeding Georgie some combination of chicken and vegetable that was WAY to soupy for her liking.  Needless to say she was "all done" with it.  We've tried to teach her that holding her hands up to the side and turning them means, "All done."  I think she's got that down pat.  The funny thing was when I asked her if she wanted to try a few more bites of "Chicken" she cracked up!  ...who knew...

p.s. sorry it's sideways, but you get the idea

OH and tooth #4 sprouted out yesterday. YAY!

What's Up!

I've noticed I haven't done very many updates on how our little Bean is doing these days, but she's great!

She turned 8 months old on Christmas day!

She now has 3 teeth and the 4th is starting it's journey out too!

She's now 26 3/4 inches tall (we measure every Christmas at my parent's house, a tradition that my Grandpa did with my brother and me growing up.)

She l.o.v.e.s sitting and playing almost more than her Jenny Jump Up...can you tell?

She has learned to clap her hands very well.

She loves dancing and it's the cutest thing I've ever seen (isn't that what every mom thinks?)

I'm pretty sure she's going to be one of those kids that crawls for a week before she walks.  When we do 'tummy time' lately, she get's so frustrated that she can't move forward that she either screams and moves backwards across the room or just lays her head down and does nothing.  But I did find her almost under the ottoman the other day.  I thought it was safe to go to the bathroom really quick!  But she pulls up and stands for 3 to 5 minutes at a time!

And she's starting to get brave and I and I can see her let go with one hand, get her balance, and then let go with the other hand and stand on her own for about 5 seconds!!!

She is also loving solid foods and APPLE JUICE!  She adores cheese...imagine that.  I can definitely see her starting to make the tranistion to not wanting baby food that much anymore.

That's all I can think of for now, but she still just as sweet as ever!

oh and we're 98% sure the poor thing has her moma's curley hair!