How much is your blog worth?

I have never done this, so I was curious. It isn't too bad. Guess that means someone reads it huh? LOL.

My blog is worth $1,693.62.
How much is your blog worth?

Vocabulary

Chayleigh has gotten so much better at speaking. For ever she pronounced her name "Laylee". This weekend it clicked that she can say it correctly. Now she goes around telling everyone, "I'm Chayleigh and I am a little girl". It cracked up the lady at Sam's Club tonight. I just grin and tell her that she is doing a good job. Guess we will talk about strangers at a later date. LOL.

My little girl is growing up

Chayleigh is getting so big. At the end of the month we measure her height and this month we weighed her as well since we have the new scale that is accurate.

She is now:

36.5 inches tall
32.1 lbs

Swim Lesson #5

Went well. She loves swimming. She talks about it all of the time. I am not sure what we are going to do when they are over. I tried to enroll for the next two sessions and they are all full. Ugh. Hopefully something will come up so that we can go swimming because she MUST have her bi-weekly dose of "Ring a round the rosey" and "Humpty Dumpty" which are played there.

Swim Lesson #4

Went AWESOME. Chayleigh floated on her back. It was great. For some reason, only three parents and tots were there, so the class was much more laid back. Pissy Lady was one who was absent, it was great. I forced Chayleigh to float on her back at first, but once she discovered she could splash more on her back than on her front, she enjoyed it. Hopefully she does as well the next time too. Woohoo.

Swim Lesson #3

Went pretty good. She loves getting in and out of the pool. She even kicked off the wall last night. It was great. She still freaks out when trying to back float, so we tried it, then went back to front floating and kicking. As long as she has her ducky, she is a happy girl. At least there was very little crying this time.

Family Life

I was just told that my step-dad has prostate cancer. Good news is the biopsy didn't show lots of cancer, so they don't think it has spred. Bad news, it is cancer. Not sure what they are doing now. They were given a book to read about options and go back to the doctor in a few weeks to decide what they want to do. This is a total shock to me as I had no idea. Guess they had been wondering about it for a while, but just decided to do something now. So if you have any extra prayers, if you could send them this way, it would be appreciated.

Meeting New Friends

I met Monique and her dd Marissa this weekend. She is wonderful. Exactly like I thought she would be. She is so warm and caring. I was so happy to have met her.





I took a video of her dd (Marissa) and Chayleigh playing with balloons. I guess I forgot to turn on the sound, but it is cute anyway.

Swimming Lesson #2

Was a bust. Chayleigh was NOT happy last night. She screamed pretty much the entire time unless she was getting out of the pool and jumping back in. The only good thing that happened was that she will actually jump into the pool now with no care if I hold onto her, so at least she is getting braver. And to Ms. Pissy with the water baby, "You Suck". Not all kids like the water, which is what I "thought" swim lessons were for. I think that next week, Chayleigh will not be back swimming. She can practice bubbles or something else.

Meeting New (old) Friends

I get to meet Monique this weekend. She is driving up for a baby shower in a neighboring town, so I get to go and meet her and the family. As well as her best friend and their family. It will be great fun to see how Marissa and Chayleigh interact. Since Marissa is almost potty trained, I am hoping that Chayleigh will want to do it too. LOL.

Happy Valentine's Day!!

Swim Lessons

We started swim lessons today. I was worried that since it is from 6-36 months, she would be the oldest there, but she wasn't. There are four of us that have kids the same age, so it was nice. She got to float on her back, blow bubbles in the water, jump off the edge of the pool, climb out of the pool, and dunk under the water. All in all it was pretty good. She absolutely hates floating on her back, but loved the rest of it. 30 minutes sure flies by. She is already asking to go back, so Thurs can't come soon enough. If it goes well, I might have DH sign up for a morning class and take her in a month or so. That way he can have fun with her too. LOL.

Update

I have been on this diet since January 14, and the first 9 lbs was easy. The last 1.7 lbs has been horrible. It seems like no matter what I do, I can't ever break the 10 lb mark. Well I did it! I have now lost 10.7 lbs (since I bought my WW scale, 13+ total from the beginning of the year). I am so happy about it, especially since I was not the best dieter this weekend.

I took Chayleigh to Starbucks on Saturday and she loved her hot chocolate. I wasn't so impressed with my coffee. I got the Cinnamon Dolche Latte sugar free of course. I guess I didn't realize it would taste so much like Cinnamon. LOL. I don't really like cinnamon. If you like it, then you will love that drink. Especially since you can't even tell it is sugar free. At least I can try it. Oh and I owe the experience to Sharyn, who sent me a Starbucks GC as part of my Christmas present. It was so nice to get that in the mail! Thanks Sharyn!

Buckle

Is installed. It was so easy. It took me all of two minutes from start to finish. Weird thing is, Babies R Us said that only one side is supposed to click. With this buckle, both do. It snaps together a whole lot easier. Guess tomorrow I will try it out when Chayleigh and I head to Starbucks!

Britax Update

So I FINALLY got the buckle today. DH said that they rang the doorbell at 9am. Chayleigh had just woken up, so I guess at least it was good timing. Now I just need to figure out how to switch it out. They say that it is easy and I won't even have to remove the seat. Guess they don't realize who they are talking to. LOL. As soon as Chayleigh goes down for nap, I will check it out.

Oh yeah, I am home with Chayleigh this afternoon cause she is sick. Why is it kids aren't sick during the week, just the weekend?

Bad Day

My BIL is with the 321st stationed in Iraq right now. Three guys in his troop died yesterday. They were all only 22 years old. Seems like such a waste. Two others were injured as well. What sucks is that the names were released to the media before the families were notified, so they found out by opening the paper this am. Lucky for us, BIL is okay. Still hits home when you hear it. If you have any extra prayers please send them to the families of these fallen soldiers. I am sure that they can use them.

529 Account

So we belong to Upromise for Chayleigh. It is a great program. The only issue I had with it was that we already have a 529 so I didn't want to set up a new one. So I called them a few weeks ago and asked if I would ever get the money out or if it just sat there. They told me I could request a check in writing and that in 12 weeks they would send me a check. Nice deal considering it is totally free money. I opened the mailbox today and there was my check for $188.05. It was less than a month ago I requested it, so that is pretty neat. Now I just need to cash it and transfer it to the real account. LOL. If you don't already have an account set up for that, I really recommend it because it is so easy to use. Especially for those of us who live to buy online. Oh I have the Mastercard and I run pretty much all of the bills we have a month on it, so that helps to build up the savings too.

Happy 1st birthday to my blog

A year ago today I started blogging. Hard to believe it has already been a year. I haven't been as exciting lately as I was a yaer ago, but I hope to change that. Thanks for sticking with me for the past year!

Picture of Chayleigh

I absolutely love this picture of Chayleigh. Well except for the gook.


Thanks Leslie for fixing this picture for me.


After she fixed it, she did some bonus picts for me. I love them all! What one is your favorite?

Black & White:


Soft: (My favorite)


Warm:

Through the years

H-Gal got me all nostalgic with her Around the Calendar we go post, so of course I had to copy.

Feb 2005:


Feb 2006:


Feb 2007

No Go

Well after tossing it around all weekend, we decided not to switch. We will call her and tell her that the uncertainty is just too much right now, but if she decides to stick with it to give us a call and we will sign on. We just don't want to have her get used to a new daycare and then a month or two later have to do it all over again. I am disappointed cause I think that the new daycare would have been a great experience, but it just isn't worth the worry.

New Daycare

I am pretty sure that we are going to switch her to the new daycare. We really liked the new lady. She is a certified preschool teacher and her house is pretty neat. It is totally set up for a daycare. The only concern we have is that she isn't sure that she is going to be able to make it work. She only has Chayleigh and her two grandkids. If she doesn't get more by the end of May, then she will have to shut down. Therefore, we will be needing new daycare again if it happens. Hopefully she gets a few more kids and is able to make things work cause Chayleigh and DH really liked her. I thought she was great as well, but DH is a lot harder to please than I am. LOL. Anyway, we are taking her there on Friday for a test run. If it works, we will give our current dcp notice and start at the new place.

The Name Game - A Meme

Although Leslie didn't tag me, I am playing anyway.

1. YOUR REAL NAME: Shawnie Leigh

2. YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (first three letters of your name, plus izzle): Shaizzle. Hmm, works for me.

3. YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three of your last): Schr. Yeah.

4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (fav color and fav animal): Purple Cat. Not sure how that would keep me employed.

5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, Street you live on): Leigh Spice. I am thinking that sounds more like a stripper.

6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name, first 3 letters of mom’s maiden name): Chrshnel. Do I fight for good or evil?

7. SUPERHERO NAME: (favorite color, favorite drink): Purple Mocha. My secret super power is waking you up with purple chocolately goodness. LOL.

8. YOUR IRAQI NAME: (2nd letter of your first name, 3rd letter of your last name, any letter of your middle name, 2nd letter of your moms maiden name, 3rd letter of your dad’s middle name, 1st letter of a sibling’s first name, last letter of your moms middle name): Hrielah. Yeah, not even gonna try that one.

9. YOUR STRIPPER NAME: (the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/body spray): Vanilla Lace. Works for me.

10. YOUR WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother & father’s middle name): Elizabeth Dale. Yep, should be able to disappear with that one.

I'm tagging Barb, Danielle, and Sharyn. I would tag Kristie, but she doesn't have a blog.

Congratulations to my SIL

She got a promotion at work today. I am so happy for her. She has not gotten a raise in almost 5 years. Well today that ended. She was promoted to management and ended up with pay about 35% more than she was making before. She is pretty excited and I hope that it is the beginning of good things to happen for her.

TGIF

This has been a horrible week. I am so glad that it is over.

The weekend shapes up to be a busy time. We are doing my mom and stepdad's birthday party tomorrow night. Chayleigh has earned another book, so we need to go to the bookstore. Toys R Us has their extra 50% off clearance clothing starting Sunday, so gotta do that. If the weather is nice on Sunday, I would like to also go to the zoo. We keep saying we are going to do it, but then never do. Supposedly it will be in the 50's which is nice zoo weather.

Oh and also tomorrow we have an interview with a new sitter. Not holding out hope that both DH and I will agree on her. Here's to hoping!