9 months old!!!!

As of last Friday, my little sweet pea is 9 months old!!!! Amazing how quickly these last few months have flown by! This past week was also Shark Week on Discovery Channel...Dave and I were reminiscing about what our thoughts were during Shark Week last year...we were so afraid of the unknown! We were also running around trying to choose our wood floors, paint the nursery....everything that needed to be done before Delanah arrived. My how things have changed! Now we are focused on the fact that our little girl can "motor boat" her lips, clap her hands and is starting to be more consistent with waving "hi" and "bye"! Still no moving around, which I must admit I have been enjoying, but every day I am seeing more and more signs that she is going to be on the move soon!
Dave, Delanah and I went out this weekend looking for a TV stand. Okay, we have been using this $25 wooden shelving unit as a TV stand since we were married...I bought it for college!!! Hey, it's worked! Before Delanah was born I went looking for a "proper" TV stand/entertainment center and could not find one I liked. Well, it doesn't help that I am so darn cheap! Dave has finally convinced me that we need to spend more than what we spent on our current stand and with this in mind I fell in love with one! Dave liked it too and we came home and measured and we think it will be perfect in here. I also found a cute dinette set that would be a better fit in our kitchen, but I can only spend so much at one time, so we'll wait on that one :)
With Delanah looking like she's wanting to move, we're going to need to start baby proofing big time! Anchoring things to the walls, covering the outlets, getting those baby gates put up finally...oh the fun, the fun :) I am sure I am going to have a heart attack when I see the prices on everything, but I will just tighten the belt a bit in other areas. I know it's been bothering Dave lately, me wanting to tighten the belt on things, but I can't help it! It's my nature to want to save! There is a lot of guilt as well...I am no longer contributing to the household income, but as the primary shopper, I tend to spend most of it. I am hitting the coupons like crazy, not running things when we don't have to, looking for deals on everything. I don't know if it's a pride thing with Dave, but my wanting to save money doesn't mean he's not providing for us, we're much better off than many two income families, it's just my way of contributing to the house.
Oh, one more thing...last week I had a "little" meltdown. Dave was gone for the week so I was a single parent, who way over schedules herself. It was a busy day, I hadn't gotten a lot of sleep that week, I had a full day and was completely overwhelmed. Dave broached the subject again about getting a company in here to help with some of the cleaning. I still feel guilty about that, like I should be able to get all of that done, but I just can't. I am playing phone tag with a company at the moment and hope to connect with her tomorrow and I hope I get a better quote than what I did last year this time! It would just be nice to have someone come in once a month to do the deep cleaning for me. I've never been very good at that and with a little one now, I am even worse. I wish I was a super mom and could do everything I needed to do around the house and have time to clean and shop and play with Delanah and have some "me" time, but I'm not and I am learning to be okay with that.