Day 8 and 9

Ok...so I do realize that I missed yesterday. I went shopping for some clothes for my trip. My MIL (mother in law) gave me a $100 dollar gift certificate for Addition Elle, and I figured I had better use it before I grow, or rather shrink out of their clothes. :) (How's that for positive thinking!!??) And I needed some summer clothes for my trip, because even though I am down to my pre birth weight...being at my pre birth shape is a totally different story. So I didn't get home till after 9, and I had taken Rayanne with me (that was an adventure) so by the time I got home and got Rayanne down, it was late, and I was beat, but happy with my purchases. I got 1 skirt, 2 t-shirts, 2 tank tops, and 3 pair of undies for $118.00. :) I think I did pretty good! Anyway, I did take a picture yesterday. One of my favorite things about Manitoba in the winter, is the horror frost. It isn't a very good picture, because Rayanne was up, so I was taking it from across the street, through my window, but if you ever get the chance, even google horror frost, it really is beautiful!!

For Day 9, I figure that I had gone away from taking pictures of Rayanne, and after her bath, I decided to spike up her hair. :) I did get my hair cut today as well, but I figured I would wait till it looked better to show you a picture. I really should have taken a picture before I went out to shovel the sidewalk. We got about 30 cm of snow today, it was insane! I have not seen the snow this high in a long time, and I am going to take a picture of just how much snow we have for you, I know a friend of mine from Florida was just looking at how much was on my car, and had said she had never seen so much snow in her life.

But anyway, back to my baby!! We tried her with the puffs today, even though it says 1 year and up, but she loved them...she hasn't quite gotten her hands around feeding herself, but if I give them to her, she eats them. :) Yahoo, something snacky for on the plane and in Disney!!

Anyway, here she is after her bath!

Day 7

Well this is going to be a very short post, but I wanted to make sure I posted a picture today. We went to friends of ours place before we left for Florida. We hadn't seen them since before Christmas. They have a daughter that just turned 3. :) She was very shy this time when we were there at the beginning, but closer to the end she was talking more. This picture was taken closer to the beginning of the visit, because I am bad for waiting to long, and then trying to take a picture of Rayanne when she is tired and grumpy, and I didn't want that to happen. They had us over for supper and we watched the Green Hornet. :)

Here is the picture of Rayanne and her friend Mae.

Anyway, hopefully tomorrow I can make a longer post. :)

Day 6

Today was a BEAUTIFUL day. And so because of that, I don't have picture of Rayanne, but rather, I have pictures of just outside. :) I have taken one picture of my car, so some of you that have not seen lots of snow. My car has been parked all winter, and so I have not brushed it off, but will be doing it before we leave for Florida, so I thought that I would take some pictures of it before I did. :) I also wanted you to see a better picture of the park across the street, so I zoomed in on the park, and took a picture of that too. (I didn't go outside and take it because by the time I finished taking pictures of my car, Rayanne was up.)

Speaking of Rayanne...today was an exciting day. For the first time today, she used the pincher grasp!! SSSSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOO exciting. It's funny the things we as mom's get excited about. :) She is just growing so much, and so fast. :)

Well this is a short entry, because it is really late, but here are the pictures that I wanted to show you, as Day 6 of pictures from me. :)

Day 5

Well today, I'm starting with something about me.

I am 1 lb away from what I weighted before I got pregnant with Rayanne. That being said, I still need to lose the 10 lbs I gained with and after my first pregnancy, that I lost, and then still yet, another 40 lbs after that to get closer to a healthy body weight for my size, but I have lost 9 lbs since new years. I stopped eating fast food, and I started eating healthier, and I joined weight watchers. :) I am hoping to get more active, I should be getting my new wii fit board soon, and then I can get back to that, until then, I am going to be doing jumping jacks, and dancing while Rayanne is in her jolly jumper...people are going to think I'm crazy, including my baby girl.

Anyway, back to my baby girl. :) She is just doing amazing, and it surprises me the different things she does...today for the first time, she pointed. Not really at anything in particular, but she pointed that little pointer finger out there, and she has never done that before. :) It was exciting. My picture today is of course...of her...I know, you are all shocked and taken aback!! :) I wanted to show a better picture of her sleeper earrings. :) I had taken two pictures, one is on my FB, and the other I will post here, I couldn't decide which one was cuter. :)

Ok...so I do have one question about this picture, did I sharpen it too much? I did it a little bit more than I normally would have, and I'm just not sure if it looks a bit too fake?!

Anyway, hope you all are doing well, it's bedtime for me. ;)

Day 3 and 4

Ok...so I'm kind of cheating! I didn't get home till let yesterday, so I am posting two posts today...and because I am a day late, instead of 1 picture, you are getting 3 or 4...I haven't decided exactly how many I am going to do yet. :) Nothing like coming to your blog, with no real idea of what you are going to say or do. :) These pictures will be a bit edited, but I am not putting a before and after this time...It is already 10 pm here, but I didn't want to go 3 days without doing a post.

So yesterday, Ray and I went out to Steinbach. My sister lives in Steinbach. For those of you that aren't from the area, that is about an hour outside of Winnipeg where I live. My mom and dad had made an unexpected trip out there to see my sister, and since they live 3 hours away, I am always up for them to get to see Rayanne. She changes so much when I look at her, I can't imagine how she changes for them when they only see her once a month or so. So anyway, that's what my pictures are of today. I have one of her with my dad, and one of her with my mom. I hope that they don't mind being posted on my blog. :) And if they do...oh well, my dad will never know it's here (if it doesn't involve playing cards or looking up things for his mechanics, my dad is really computer illiterate) I think my mom could find it, but I don't think, she will be looking for it. :)

You will notice that Rayanne is wearing a different shirt in each of the pictures. After Dad had her, she was passed off to mom, and she spit up, (on mom and on her shirt) so we had to do a quick wardrobe change. :)

Well today...today was another FREEZING cold day. It was windy and blowy, (although, you can't tell from the picture that I took, I'm not sure how I would show that) but I do think the picture just looks COLD! I choose this picture because it also reminds me that in 12 days, I will be in the warmness of Florida. Well, look for yourself, you tell me...does it look cold??!

I get cold just looking at the picture. :) You can kind of see between the two houses the park that they fixed up last summer, which is where I will take Rayanne this summer to play outside. I can't wait to be able to take her there.

I can't remember if this was supposed to be 365 days of Rayanne, so I figured I would add one more picture. My hubby's mom came over to visit Rayanne this evening, and I was going to take a picture of the two of them, but she insisted that she wasn't picture ready, lol, so I zoomed up on Rayanne while she was sitting in the corner of our couch. I don't know if you can see her earrings, but they have now been changed to sleepers from studs. My sister bought the sleepers for her for Christmas. :)

Day 2

Well, today was very uneventful. It was blistery cold outside, so Rayanne and I just stayed inside...it's the best place to be. :) That's why her picture today is her in her jammies...it was such a cold day, it just made sense for her to stay in them. :)

I think I have her food schedule worked out so that she eats, and drinks.

Morning, 6 oz bottle, 1 tbs of cereal, 1 cube (ice cube) of home made apple sauce.

5 oz bottle before nap time.

Lunch, 2 tbs of cereal, 1 tbs of creamed corn (or vegetable of choice) I am hoping to this weekend changing the cereal to meat of some sort, or stew or something.

6 oz bottle before nap time.

Supper, half a bottle of creamed corn (or vegetable of choice) and fruit of some sort. :)

7 oz bottle before bed. :)

She drinks, she eats, she is happy.

Now if only that other tooth would break through already, we can be all good. We leave for Florida in 14 days today...which is so very exciting. I get to meet two friends from a message board I'm on, which is really exciting. The funny thing is, the one friend that I am meeting is actually from Ontario, and we are meeting in Florida. LOL.

Anyway, on the editing front, I did learn a bit more today. I learned how to remove items. :) Check out the differences in these pictures.





I guess what I really should have done was take out the Christmas tree on the far left...yes it's still up. LOL...one of the jobs for the weekend.

Today is Day 1

Today is January 20th, 2010.

I forgot to mention yesterday that Rayanne got her third tooth. The top left one. She is growing so fast. In the last little while the things she is getting better at are sitting (she can now do it for a good 20 minutes) She can't get there herself, but she can sit...I'm hoping that her watching my niece some will help out with that. We leave for Florida in 15 days...I know that I will be missing 10 days on my 365 days of pictures, but I can promise that when I get home, I will be posting a picture for each of those days...doing something different. :)

Now on to today. Rayanne had an eye dr. appointment today, and so it was kind of a scattered day. Her eyes are fine though, and the dr. said he's pretty sure we have nothing to worry about, but wants to see her again in 6 months. :) I am glad that she is ok. I took a picture of her while she was napping today, she was pretty tired from all that happened today, so it didn't even wake her up.

Sorry...blog interrupted for photoshop lesson. :) It's not very high tech, and it's not going to really help me edit pictures, but I learned how to do animation for words. Check this out!! Ok so I couldn't get the video to work...(boo erns) so I am going to leave it for now, but I looked at another tutorial, but look at what I learned...I can't believe the difference.

Ok...so I don't know if that's actually going to work, I have to wait for it to finish processing, but I did learn it...now I just have to learn how to upload it if it doesn't work...anyway, here is the pictures of Rayanne. I am going to watch more lessons and maybe tomorrow I'll get it to look a little bit better. Can you tell the difference between the pictures?

Day -1

I say day -1 because I'm not ready to post a picture today. :) I'm not sure how good my pictures will be because I don't know how to edit them or anything, but I'm hoping once I learn some things, I will get better and be able to edit some anyway. A friend of mine suggested to me that I watch some tutorials on YouTube, so I plan on doing that. I do have Photoshop, but it just sucks because I have NO idea how to use it. I hope that I can get better at taking pictures, because as my baby girl grows up, I just want to have some really nice pictures of her. :)

Anyway, tomorrow is the first day...and Rayanne has a Dr. appointment at 10 to check her eyes (she has one lazy eye) so I will try to get a picture of her after that.

If anyone has any helpful hints for me as far as editing goes, feel free to share them. :) I'm always open to learn something new. Following this post is just a picture of Rayanne...it was taken a couple of days ago, but since this was a baby blog, I figured you guys should see what she looks like...not that I have many followers. :)