Exersaucer Time

Jack is now standing so much more so I decided to see how he'd do in the exersaucer. At first he just kind of looked around and didn't really grab or stand. But after a few trips in and out during the day, he is grabing things a lot more and figuring how how to hold his balance in the roomy seat.

He's not quite jumping yet but he'll get more practice in the doorway bouncey chair he'll have soon.

Mother or Momma or Mommy?!

We have some cute little neices who live in Raleigh who always call their mom "Momma." It's so cute and so southern and their mother, Jen, has no idea where it came from, it's just what they started calling her.

My Mom on the other hand, called her Mom, "Mother" all growing up and to this day! Of course, it's a different generation where husbands and wives still called each other Mr. and Mrs. even at home!

Either way, Jack, will call me whatever he can manage to say first! I'll just be super excited when he begins talking so he can tell me what is going through his mind all the time. I know that boy is always thinking,... just like his Daddy!

Nana & Pop Visit

Nana and Pop came to visit Jack to see how big he has grown since they last saw him. There was good food, lots of baby cues, lots of gasps, lots of "Al, do you see him?!!!", and "Al, look at him!" through all the giggles from the grandparents!

Here are some moments captured of Jack, 3.5 months old, the 4th grandchild, and the only one to carry on the Bachmann name!

A Blue Bumbo

Not sure about you other Mommas out there but I'm all about second hand baby items! There are so many baby items that never even get used and if they are used it's a short time because babies grow up so fast! So looking on craigslist for a BLUE bumbo was surprisingly hard! There was purple, pink, green, yellow, but never blue!

Finally, I found one after months of searching. So Jack now gets to look like a handsome boy in his blue seat! My sister actually said you can put this in the bathtub too! We have a tray too for when the time comes. He's still getting used to sitting down so maybe more time in it will come. But for now, here are some shots of Daddy and his boy in his blue seat!

Latest Sewing Project

For all of my baby showers I had recieved for Jack, I got lots of ribbon. It was wrapped around gifts, hanging onesies on the wall, or holding together diaper cakes! I also came across some light blue fleece I had in my fabric stash and thought of my sister-in-law who used to make those tabbed baby blankets! So that's what I did in 45 minutes today! I put Jack's initials and cut up all the ribbon into strips, sewed on a white backing and done! Now we have a second fun playmat for Jack with colors and different textures of ribbon for him to grab!

Super easy to make!!! I'm still working on getting better at sewing the letters so they don't look crooked. A stiff backing would do it, just was too lazy to bother this time around!

Hello Beautiful!

After almost 6 years... I finally got a new computer of my very own!!! Now that I'm a stay at home mommy, I didn't have my work laptop any more and the desktop in the basement is 6 years old now and not as easy for me to be mobile with in the kitchen for recipes, music, or playing a DVD in the car for Jack (down the road). So I did all the research and kept my budget under $500 and voila! I got an HP ProBook 4530s! It's the best ever! It's built for their business elite and has bluetooth, finger print and face recognition for security (not why I bought it but a cool perk!), it has an HDMI connection which was important for AJ and I to plug into any TV and stream movies, pictures, TV from the internet. It has a webcam for skyping with all our family as often as possible, and it has a SD slot for my camera memory card so I just just pop it out of my camera and into the compy and my pictures are uploaded! Woohoo! It has great memory ram, space, processor speed and is a 64-bit machine to boot! Oh, and it has windows 7 operating system which I've been dying to play with! It's only 5lbs and is almost as wide as my foot! This makes it super mobile for me!

So say hello to the newest addition to the Bachmann household! This little lady and I are going places and making money in our future!

Skin Cancer

Well, I have inheirited my Dad's fair skin and also the genertic trait to be more suseptable to skin cancer. At the ripe old age of 28, I had my first pre-cancerous leasion. It was about 1cm in diameter above my right eyebrow. So to have it removed and have any scar I guess having it by your eyebrow is the least conspicious place to have it.

AJ went with me and Jack to surgery last Wednesday and we were the ONLY people under the age of 60 there... no joke. The Doctor and all the staff kept saying how young I am to be a patient! Sigh... I had a procedure done called Moh's Surgery and it was very quick. However, for a 1cm leasion they made a 3inch long cut above and below my eyebrow. I was told it was so the skin for heal and look as cosmetically pleasing as possible. If he just stretch the skin closed from a circle cut, I would of had a pulled up eyebrow and a permanently "surprised" look on my face! Hehe. So I guess it's good... I just look like Frankinstien in the mean time.

It's supposed to heal quickly and the stiches are already dissolving but the skin is a little lumpy which I get to start silicone treatments for scaring and massage treatments around the area to reduce the lumpy skin. Fun... anyway... I guess this is the begining of a long life of looking out for these leasions. No more tanning casually... AJ said he would make me wear a turtle neck and a ski mask when we go to the pool each summer from now on... what a great guy! ;o)

It's very swollan here, also my nose never looks this big in pictures... hmmm.... it looks much better now, a week later. Either way, I'd appreciate your prayers for quick healing for me and all of the many other patients who undergo this surgery each and every day!