Wednesday, May 9, 2007

O Happy Relief!

Today John met with the magazine boss. He returned his key and contact info in exchange for......a paycheck. A sweet, delightful paycheck. "It's not much...it will only be several hundred dollars," his boss had told him.

But Mr. Magazine Boss.......several hundred dollars can mean night and day for those of us who live, paycheck to paycheck. It might come as a suprise (not really), but when you live paycheck to paycheck, and you do not SEE paychecks...well, regular, predictable paychecks are a very good thing.

And now that we have this check...I can't help but wonder how much they really DO help and if not getting this glorious saving paycheck some of the time will acually bring further doom to us. But I don't think so. I think I might become more proactive about finding a part time job myself.

But anyway. This means so many things. Like being able to send off late bills. And go GROCERY SHOPPING, and...yes....spend $30 on a replacement charger for the camera.

O happy day! I have missed my camera!

Before I post some first-time-ever pictures on my new blog, I thought it would be fun to catch up on what Johnna is doing - mainly for my records!

&hearts Walking. Well, kind of. She takes anywhere for 3-11 steps, then plops down and crawls the rest of the way. Crawling is faster. However, this evening, she walked the length of the area rug by our couch! I was fascinated. I think she was, too.

&hearts Talking. Johnna can say: mama, dada, (although at this point, anyone friendly - including Daddy - is called "Mama." I'm not sure if that's a compliment or not!), tha"T" (big accent on the T), moo, woof, "GaGAW" (all gone), Uh-uh, Oh-Oh...and that might be all, for now! She really does understand a lot more than she can actually say.

&hearts Today, she did something SO CUTE! We were home alone this afternoon/evening/night, so we did our normal routine of watching some TV at 7. We played at the same time. Johnna has a little pink basket of books. She found with a puppy on it, went "Woof, woof, woof!" quietly to herself, and then carried the book a distace. She sat up and looked at me and went "mm! mm! mm!" in a high pitched little squeak.

"Do you want me to read that to you?" I asked. She threw the book at me (oh yes, very good at throwing these days), and crawled up and sat on my lap! Oh...it was so sweet! I think it was a major breakthru for her to pick out a toy and connect it with: "Mama will play/read this with me!"

Ohhh...how can it be 11 already? I swear, writing here, I could go on forever. But I will post a few pictures and quietly exit for now. That's the one good thing about having a blog. It is yours and you can always come back, any time you want to!

Here's a cute picture of Johnna eating the ever-so-messy couscous...I think I'll wait to serve this one again when she can somewhat use a spoon! It wasn't so much Johnna that was the messy thing about it, it was just tiny, sticky couscous matter all over the tray, the seat, and the floor - and yes, in between tiny fingers as well!



The rest of the pictures are from the day Johnna helped me bake oatmeal raison cookies (Monday). She loved banging and playing with the measuring cups and spoons...and also found that raisons taste pretty good, too. I had my back turned for one second, and when I turned around, I saw raisons dumped all over the table and floor! "Johnna!" I laughed. And that's when I had to get the camera and take a few pictures...just in time because the camera went dead soon after!







And now I have a fully charged camera - there's so much catching up to do picture-wise! Hurray!

P.S. I also want to thank Megan and Jenn for your super nice comments! I'm glad you guys found me here. I'd hate to loose friends like you in the shuffle of things!

Melissa at 11:11 PM

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