Little Miss is down for the night and I’ve got a few free moments to bust out a blog post. Lots is going on ’round here, Everly is just growing like a weed. It seems she has a new “first” every darn day and we are kind of having a hard time keeping up. Lets see if I can cram all the updates in to this post real quick like:

• After reading all your comments from my last post and after discovering a playmat and comforter in E’s room covered in cat piss we promptly banished one cat to the garage (because he was a dumb ass and ran out there) and one outdoors (because he is always trying to escape the house. By early afternoon the cat we put outside managed to dart back indoors under my feet. The cat in the garage was crying and yowling up a storm, making me feel like the worst pet owner in the world. I was spineless and let them both back inside to a once-again-modified double cat box set up. We put one box in our office downstairs, the other one is upstairs in our bathroom. Probably wont stop the inappropriate pissing but we’ll see.

• Everly pulled up to standing this morning in her crib. N discovered this when he went to get her up. She was stuck standing and was super worked up about it. My little girl is going to be walking in no time. *tear* She’s already pulling up to standing on the couch, on us, on the table and on the entertainment center. She hasn’t started “cruising” just yet though.

• Everly also said “mama” to me while she was pulling my nursing tank down and reaching in for boobie. Hope she doesn’t try that in public any time soon. Must start teaching her to sign or say a word that is code for boobie. Mama was her 3rd word, behind dada & nana.

• Last month during my yearly exam my doctor recommended I start using progesterone cream because of my incredibly painful period symptoms and a few other things. I was surprised at the casual recommendation, I’d always thought hormone therapy was a tricky business and that it’s best to not mess with it. I asked her about the potential risks of permanent disruption, about the safety of it while nursing and about whether or not I’d experience the same side effects of hormonal birth control. She assured me the cream was all natural and not risky unlike oral hormone therapy. I am on the fence about this but went out and got a jar of Bio-Identical progesterone cream. Anyone else have experience with this?

• The worst mother of the year award is in the bag! Everly took her first spill off the changing area, head first on to the tile floor in the bathroom. Not sure who was the most upset from the ordeal, pretty sure it was me. Before you go calling CPS let me inform you that I was right there with her when it happen, I DID NOT leave her unattended. I was trying to get her diaper around her bum while she was sitting upright on the changing area. She rolls and fights when you lay her down. Anyway, she dove right under my arm and only fell about a foot but still. I was all proud I hadn’t dropped her on her head as an infant and all… Now the record is blemished. Luckily she fine and made it out without a bump or bruise. Unlike the time she face-planted in to the Wii balance board trying to pull up on the entertainment center.

• We tested out an organic/ low sugar banana cake recipe yesterday (from here). We are trying to find a good recipe for E’s first birthday that is good for her, not going to send her in to a sugar-induced coma and that is fun to smash and be messy with. E and I tried it out in the afternoon, I’ll admit it tasted like handful of dry flour, not a good recipe in my opinion. E didn’t mind it, she actually enjoyed the new texture experience and ate several hunks of it. N tasted it later that evening… His put it in his mouth, chewed for a second then ran over to the trash to spit it out. Tasted “like ass” as he put it so we are still on the hunt for recipes. Good thing we have about 2 months to find it.

I plan to post a photo essay of the garden next because we almost have stuff to harvest and I am damn proud of all the work N has done making it all amazing. It’s very cool! Gotta run now, time for our midnight dinner time and so recorded shows. Mmm, frito-taco salad!