Dryers Are Still Great, but Not Mine

About a week ago I started pulling my clothes out of the dryer and realized they were still damp, so I set the dial for a bit longer. I came back and they were still damp and realized that they were still cold as well. Our dryer sounds like it is drying and looks like it is drying, but it is really not drying. I am sad. We had about a good month with the thing working properly, but I guess it was too good to last. We think we can get parts to fix it, which will be cheaper than getting a new dryer, but now I have to bug The Husband to figure it all out. For some reason it does not concern him as much as it concerns me. This is probably because he has only done the laundry twice in the last four years and obviously does not care about having crunchy towels again. I HATE CRUNCHY TOWELS!!!!!

The 1st Birthday of Baby of Dreams

Okay, so Baby of Dreams' birthday was on August 10th, but I figured I should get something up here sooner or later. As typical of most one-year-olds, Baby of Dreams was not too excited about her party. We had quite a few people over including all of The Husband's immediate family and The Wife's mother and aunt. We stripped Baby of Dreams down to her diaper, spread out a sheet on the lawn and let her at her small, three layer, sugar-free, carrot, birthday cake. She would not touch it.

The husband smashed her hand into the cake and tried to put some in her mouth. She would not have any of it. She preferred to wander around the backyard picking up green plums, off our tree, and stuffing as many as she could in her mouth. She put up quite a fight when I made her spit them all out. She did seem to slightly enjoy taking tissue paper out of her gift bags, but wasn't extremely interested in her toys. It probably did not help that most of her toys immediately found temporary homes with the children at the party. Oh well, we learned some things about one-year-old parties that we will try to implement in the future. And lest you feel that Baby of Dreams has every right to ignore my sugar free cake, she ate lots of it in the following days, as long as I cut it into nice small cubes. I was taking videos of Baby of Dreams and the cake so I did not get any actual pictures of her. But, I got pictures of her the next day with her toys.

All in all it was a good day and my little, tiny baby is now one year old. Just this morning Baby of Dreams was running around the kitchen making high pitched squealing nosies and being content with life, it was extremely entertaining, I asked The Husband what we had done before Baby of Dreams entered our family and we both agreed that we must have been bored to tears.

Baby of Dreams Update

For all those who like the statistical aspect of growing babies, we have the newest stats on Baby of Dreams.

She is in the 0.59%tile for her weight (15.88 lbs.), (yes, that is less than 1%)

29%tile for her height (28.25 in.)

86%tile for her head circumference (18.25 in.)

The doctor said she was tall for her weight and she had a big brain. He wasn't worried about her size at all. He feels that with my physique, Baby of Dreams' physique makes sense. He said that she looks healthy. So I am officially not worried anymore about her size. I will now be grateful that she is not growing out of her clothes very quickly and we will be able to get more use out of them.

Dryers are great

This makes three posts this month. That is a record for me so far. I really should be in bed, but I just finished catching up with all of my friends blogs and figured I could just write something real quick.

The father of The Husband came by last night and fixed my dryer. This is so extremely wonderful. We have been without electric drying capabilities for two years. We have only had electric washing capabilities for a bit under a year. I did five small loads of laundry today and they all got dried! When we moved into this house there was no washer and dryer hook-ups. We had a washer and dryer, thanks to my mom, but no where to put them, so they lived in the garage. When we gutted and remodeled the bathroom, The Husband put in the water pipes to the laundry room. So for almost a year, with an extension cord running through the kitchen, we have been able to wash our clothes at our own house. In the summer I hang the clothes outside to dry and in the winter I rigged an indoor clothes line in the laundry room. A few months back we got permanant electicity running into the laundry room, so no more extension cords. We also thought we would be able to use the dryer, but when we plugged it in we realized that it had been been broken in it's multiple moves. For my birthday, The Husband's parents decided to get the replacement parts for the dryer and then to install them. So a month later it is finished. We are now the proud owners of clean and non-crunchy clothing, towels and bedding. Life is better.

Skinny Baby

So we got Baby of Dreams weighed last week and I don't quite know what to think. She is now 11 months old, eats really well and walks (sometimes runs, everywhere). She is happy most of the time, except when she is telling you why she thinks she should be doing something you do not want her to do. Whenever I see her next to other babies her age, I think "baby of dreams really is on the small side" or "wow that is a big baby". She weighs 15 lbs. 10 ounces. She seems normal to me and almost every other baby seems overweight. My mom says I was a skinny baby too and says I shouldn't worry. And I don't too much. But I would like to move her into a big car seat and have her face forward, but know that won't happen for a while yet. Oh well, at least I know she is healthy and happy. We we get her into that car seat eventually.

Not Getting Any Better

I just can't seem to get the hang of keeping this updated. I did want to mention that we successfully found Baby of Dream's lost paperclip. Well, I found it. After two diaper dives, The Husband refused to continue looking. Wimp. He saved me one diaper for when I got home from work and luckily I found it about two days after it disappeared. Baby of Dreams has had multiple bruises and two cut lips since then. We have a wild woman on our hands.

Baby of Dreams is officially walking, as of about two weeks ago. Last week she walked and crawled and this week she prefers to walk. I think she will be running next week. She is so stinken cute because she is so small.

On the not so fun side, my mom called today to tell me that one of my cousins had passed away last night. This was a cousin that I grew up with and was closer to then others. I am really going to miss her. It is odd for me to realize that I will never see her again in this life. The only other thing I can think of to say is how grateful I am for the gospel. My cousin wasn't active in the church when she passed away and now she can learn everything. And she is lucky because she gets to see our grandfather now. I will miss her greatly, but I will see her again.
I found an article about her death, online. Very surreal.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/07/suspicious_house_fire_kills_wo.html

Office Supplies

Well, I really thought that I would be on here more often. I have found that it is hard to do anything on the computer when Baby of Dreams is awake and when she is sleeping I am either doing household tasks or sleeping myself.

Tonight Baby of Dreams swallowed her first office product (that I know of). A small plastic covered, blue paperclip. This was her first swallowing of a foreign object so I panicked a bit. I rushed her upstairs to where the Husband was sleeping, to see if he could see it hiding in her mouth, he couldn't. He wasn't extremely worried, but I went downstairs and called the on-call doctor anyway. He wasn't too worried either, so then I calmed down. Now we begin the fun task of watching for the devious, blue paperclip to make it's appearance again. Baby of Dreams seems to be handling it all very well.