Happy Wednesday!

TEETHING TEETHING TEETHING

My sweet Ms.O has been a bundle of teething moodiness lately! Luckily for Troy and I, that sweet little girl is such a happy little ham on the regular, the teething really doesn't seem that bad. If anything, we are more concerned with keeping her comfortable! She doesn't respond super well to oragel, and I'm stingy with tylenol so as to build up her tolerance for feeling a little under the weather. My body is super resistant to medicine, where as Troy hardly needs half an aspirin to pull right out of a flu. In my experience, I'm better off to only take medicine when I'm at my wits end, so that the relief can really make a difference. I want to start at an early age building her tolerance for pain, so that she can only take medicine when its necessary. That said, we have tried every home remedy for teething you can imagine! A big thank you to all of my facebook mommies and daddies, who gave such fantastic advice! I love facebook for that instant interaction! Of everything we've tried, Charlotte Olivia seems to react best to frozen pacifiers! Shes never been a paci baby, so we actually only owned three. We now own ten. I fill them with water, freeze, and pop them in that gummy little mouth any time shes fussy! Thanks for the fab idea Aimee! Her other fav is baby Mum Mums! They are these terrific little rice crackers that she just goes to TOWN on! I absolutely recommend these if your cub is hurting! They require more supervision because they do EAT the cracker, and there is always some sort of choking hazard with first foods, but at nearly 7 months, Charlie has never even sort of coughed with them. Now, shes shoved those paws too far in while chewing on the mum, and THEN coughed, but never on the product alone. I compare them to communion wafers. They dissolve almost immediately! Oh! I almost forgot! My silly, picky girl, is SO PICKY. She enjoyed the original Mum Mums for weeks. Then, I noticed they had veggie flavor, and let her try those. Since then, her daddy brought her home some original. She TOTALLY snubbed them, and had a COW when I kept handing them back to her. Of course, upon giving her the veggie flavor, she was back to cloud 9. REAL CUTE CHARLES ;)

Charlotte Olivia Scott 6 months Photo by: Richelle Saldana Photography

Last Saturday we went to Weatherford to celebrate my beautiful niece's 2nd birthday! Kylee Raye [named after her Aunt Samantha Raye!!!] was the only little girl amongst a sea of boys, before Charlotte Olivia was born. Melissa, my sister, has five gorgeous boys and my brother, Ben, has three plus Kylee. Since none of us have much experience with girls, Kylee is a wonder to watch grow. Shes absolutely a glimpse into our future with CO. Shes SUCH a little ranch baby. With her big brothers showing no mercy, that child has learned to hold her own. She will fight her brothers to the bitter end! Pulling hair, punching, yelling, the WORKS! There isn't a dog in the world she wont run up and grab and bugs are some of her favorite friends. I'm hoping Charlie is like that, as well. Kylee is one of the only little girls Ive known to be afraid of nothing! So, you can imagine our surprise when my brother and sister in law told the family that for her birthday, Kylee wanted DOLLS! That's incredibly out of character! At her party, my sweet little Kylee just tore into those gifts, and LOVED her girly little toys! She was feeding her babies, and giving them a paci, and sleeping them, and riding around on her brothers four wheeler with them! As we watched, I just imagined my little Charlie girl playing dolls, and baking in an easy bake oven, and watching the sound of music, and just being a GIRL! I'm so excited to have this adventure with her! 

Kylee opening gifts

Sweet Kylee Raye with her baby that looked SO real!!

Charlotte Olivia wearing her big cousin Mike's hat and playing with her Mama Lissa

Showing her big Mike that hes not too cool for her

Charlotte Olivia playing on Kylee's train

Hi MOM!

Sweet cousin Jon with his hands in his pockets!

  So, lets get down to business...

Dragrace was fantastic this week! The queens played the snatch game again this season, and while no one topped Pandora Boxx's Carol Channing from season 2, there were some standout performances! Raja was on point, as usual, as the larger than life, Tyra Banks! He totally smized for his LIFE! Stacy Layne Mathews, surprisingly, brought it as Monique. That said, she was totally predictable. Before the panel even reached her, I said to Daniel, Patrick, and Amber, "She should totally turn around toward the back and yell PRECIOUS!!!!" and, wouldn't you know it, she did. Haha. With a character like Monique, I think she could have taken it WAY farther, but compared to the rest of the queens, she was actually terrific. Shangela was a hot mess as Tina Turner, and Carmen's Jennifer Lopez was a snooze! Though the judges put Yara Sophia in the bottom for her Amy Winehouse, I died laughing at that HORRIFIC English accent. In the end, Stacey Layne won the challenge, beating out Raja who was also top three. This really got under my skin, because Stacy isn't on par with the other queens, she doesn't have a creative bone in her body, and shes a big ol crybaby! Im ready for her to go home to backswamp North Carolina! SPOILER ALERT!!! Now that you've been warned, it was Mariah who was sent packing after lip syncing [FOR HER LIFFFFE] against Delta Work. Mariah had her golden moments, but I'm totally on board for her departure. She skated on pretty. She did terrible as the QNN anchor last week, and her Joan Crawford this week was ATROCIOUS! She had no "crazy" in her character [DUH?!], and those cheek bones were a MESS. When it came time to lip sync, Ms Thing didn't even know the SONG! Three strikes and you're out boo ;) 

Tina....bring me the axe!

Ms Mariah from Atlanta

 

 So, I suppose that's it for today! A busy weekend lies ahead, as I'm working the WONDER WOMAN Level A Event at MAC Hulen Friday and Saturday! I'm so excited to work with those fab girls and beat some face! Have a superb rest of your week, readers!