I love this idea from the DIY Dish! Cute t-shirt scarves...no sewing! What an awesome idea. For step-by-step instructions, go to their site & check out the video!

I thought I was being quite clever when I planned my little V-Day surprise for the hubby...unfortunately it didn't totally work out as planned...

My husband gets up every morning around 4:45 to leave the house by 5:15 to get to work before 6:30 AM. Me & Jenna usually snooze our way through the morning and don't get up until well after he's gone, around 8 AM.

Clever little me decided it would be sweet to cook my husband a V-Day breakfast of bacon & heart-shaped pancakes. It sounded good in theory... So I set my alarm to get up early.

The alarm went off and I roll out of bed at 4:45 (I am not a morning person, btw) and did I mention I'm completely blind without my glasses? So I head to the fridge without my glasses, open it and see my beautiful flowers from my husband.

As I pull my flowers out of the fridge, I proceed to knock over his mom's flowers all over my kitchen floor - water and leaves are everywhere. Damn! So I try to clean up the mess and realize I'm running out of time to cook breakfast.

So I hurry and start the bacon and pancakes. I used one of the shake and pour pancake mixes for the first time. Little did I know those suckers build up pressure while your shaking. I opened the bottle and mix blew up all over me - face, hair, shirt, everywhere!



So with what little mix that was actually left in the container, I attempted the pancakes. I used a heart cookie cutter, but was having trouble getting the right amount so it wasn't too thick. The first one I tried ended up deformed... looking more like a massacred pancake than a heart pancake. The second one I tried burned... and set off the smoke alarm.

So my pancakes should have looked like this:


They ended up looking more like this:


My husband runs in trying to turn the smoke alarm off...he did but it was too late, I woke Jenna up. So here I am on Valentine's Day with water all over the floor, pancake mix in my hair and eyebrows, burnt, deformed pancakes, and a mad woken up baby.

Needless to say, I finally whipped up edible pancakes for my husband before he left for work :-) What did everyone else do for V-Day?

I did a little Valentine's project with my little sister (from the BBBS program) over at Future Foundations. The project cost me about $1 per box or less!

Supplies -

• Fortune Cookie boxes (I found silver mini boxes at Dollar Tree, 5 for $1)
• Paper tags
• Ribbon
• Double sided tape
• Fortune Cookies

I took this pic with my cell phone, so it's not very good, but you get the idea.


You can download the free printable tags and get more info on this project from the eighteen25 blog. You can download the tags for teachers or the regular tags.

Here' s a photo of the project from the eighteen25 blog:

Jenna is 7 months today!!! It doesn't seem like she's changed that much since her 6 month update. She's got great hand-eye coordination and reaches for and picks up anything she wants. She loves cell phones, laptops, and any other electronics. She's finally got a little bit of hair and it seems to be growing more everyday.

She likes watching the show Little Bill on Nick Jr. She has been shrieking and squealing a lot more. She loves playing Peek-A-Boo. She rolls around when she needs something and no one is right next to her to get it, otherwise, she just cries for me to give her what she wants!

We've had a battle with the solid foods. She LOVES everything, but not everything loves her. She gets constipated very easily, so I've had to do away with rice cereal and switch to oatmeal and I have to limit any bananas, carrots, and other constipating foods. We've been doing more of the peaches, pears, prunes, and peas which has helped. She prefers to taste whatever we're eating instead of baby food.

We've been trying a sippy cup, but she just chews on the spout and doesn't quite get that she can suck and liquid will come out. She will drink from a regular plastic cup, but always ends up getting wet! She's becoming more stubborn about taking a bottle. She shuts her lips closed tight and refuses sometimes. But if she gets hungry enough, she'll drink!

She doesn't nap very good during the day, still. She takes 30 minute cat naps morning, noon, and afternoon, then one in the evening. She's still sleeping in bed with us. She's been nursing a lot more at night and early morning, so it's just easier on everyone if she is in bed with me instead of getting up.

Weight: roughly 17 lbs
Height: I think maybe 26 or 27 inches
Diapers: Still size 2 but ready for 3's
Clothing: She's got such a long torso that she's wearing 9 - 12 months, but her arms and legs are shorter and would fit better in 6 months, so I end up folding her sleeves and pant legs! LOL.
Milestones: She's not crawling yet and doesn't really seem interested in crawling. She just lunges forward, face plants, and then gets mad!