Rolln' Over

Callings

Jeremy and I both got new callings yesterday. He's now one of the gospel principles teachers, and I am on the enrichment committee.

Maeli Vs. Roo--Round One

A Post From Maeli

I've been so busy lately that I thought it would be better if I just blogged myself instead of waiting for mom to do it. She started three times this week and never got it done, so here is a blog from me, Maeli.
I've been learning a lot of new things. I figured out that my hands work for more than just chew toys. If you put them together, you can hang on to stuff! I love to chew on Pooh while I'm in my car seat, and now I can reach him!
I also wore big girl pants the other day--with a real zipper and a real button. They didn't even unbutton by my legs like most of my pants do. I tried to show everyone, but I got in trouble for showing my belly button. Dad says I have to be more modest.
We all went for a walk the other day and I wore my hat from Old Navy, and my hoodie. I thought I was styling and Mom and Dad thought it looked so cute.

After hours and hours of practice, I finally figured out what you're supposed to do with a binky. I'm not as good as Olivia yet, but I'm working on it.
I haven't pooped on Dad's church clothes in three weeks! But I have slept on them a lot.
I've been practicing sitting up. If I get positioned just right, I can hold myself up for almost 10 seconds! I think that's pretty good.
I'm getting so big! Look at my huge feet!
I love my fingers the most. I growl when I forget where I put them.
I'll be walking before you know it! (Dad is holding me up from behind)

Painting--Check

To Do:
Scrub the floor
Paint Window Trim
Put Up Window Trim
Put Up Curtains

We also moved stuff around in the office/Maeli's room and ended up getting rid of half of the big desk. Now there's a lot more room in there, although you can't really tell when its not clean, but trust me.

LABOR day

Dan and Connie came to visit for labor day and we put them right to work. Jeremy and Dan did all kinds of projects, and Connie watched Maeli so that I could start painting the kitchen. We're not quite done, and we still have to do the walls, but I got a lot done on the cabinets. It lightened things up quite a bit.


Before

Half Way Done

I had only seen it done on Trading Spaces, but I tried Spray Painting my ugly dishwasher and it looks awesome! I used appliance paint and three coats later I had a brand new beautiful dishwasher.



Maeli had chores for labor day too.

Noisy Girl

She's been babbling a lot lately, and we've been able to get her to giggle a few more times. I was in the kitchen the other day and thought Maeli was asleep. I went back to check on her and she was talking away to Pooh and Eeyore. She's so funny.

Why Don't They Just Make Clothes the Color of Poop?

First Week of School

We made it through the first week. Jeremy is taking 4 classes : Multi-variable calculus, Evolutionary Computation, Computer Graphics, Gene Genealogies and Coalescent Theory (I can't even spell most of those classes). All his classes are in the afternoon, so he and Maeli work on homework in the mornings together while I'm at work. We're counting down the weeks to graduation, but its a little early in the semester to know how things are going to go. So far, so good.

Maeli's Day Out

Since schoold starts on Monday, we had a few errands to do today. We had to go to Moscow to get Jeremy's books, and we decided to go to the Farmer's Market.
We found this guy who does Chinese Calligraphy and we got him to do "Maeli" for us. He actually did several copies because "it is 'beautiful' I must write it beautiful." The one we were going to just buy had an ugly frame, so he said we could switch frames, but them the mat had faded a little bit in the sun, so he redid the whole thing for us. I feel bad that Jeremy haggled him down to $15 when he worked so hard on it. But Jeremy had a fun time speaking to him.
This isn't what we brought home, but the Chinese symbol looks something like this. This says "beauty" which is the "Mae" part of Maeli.