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August 21, 2008
Command Center
Things are absolutely crazy around here! I'm back to work full steam and I'm finding it hard to juggle work and baby. When I'm working I want to be with Meli and when I'm goofing off with Meli I'm worried about all my work. I'm sure lots of you moms know my dilemma.
We bought Meli a new toy the other day - an exersaucer thingie. She even test drove a bunch in the store and this one seemed to be her favorite. While I was trying to do some work today, I moved the toy into the office. But she was so funny I videotaped her instead of working. Oh well!
Meli's New Toy from January One on Vimeo.
I'm moving right along on a knitting project that I'm really enjoying. I want so bad to tell you about it, but I can't seem to find the time to take pictures of it and really get down to blogging the project. In the meantime, I knit on it when I can and write blog posts in my head.
We're heading into Fall and I couldn't be more delighted, although with two family weddings and lots of jobs lined up I'm very overwhelmed. Weekends are booked straight through to November. I wish I was kidding.
See you all soon I hope! Thanks for reading!
L, C
Posted by Cara at 05:18 PM | Comments (22)
August 13, 2008
Compare and Contrast
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My daughter just gets bigger and more delicious every day - sometimes by the hour! The deliciousness gets to be so much that sometimes I don't know how I can stand it.
I suffer gladly.
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August 08, 2008
Eye Candy Baby! v.2
We're kind of having a cranky day here at J-One - both baby and mama. So I thought I'd brighten my mood with some new pics - taken yesterday:
I bought a new lens the other day and had to try it out. Like I need an excuse to take photographs of my daughter. As always, thank you for indulging me!
There's lots going on this weekend. I'm working first thing tomorrow morning and then Vicki and her girls arrive for the night. Then it's a mother/daughter extravaganza with Vicki and Terry on Sunday, followed up by Vicki and me and our girls heading out to Ann's for some serious fun. I can't wait.
Have a great weekend everyone!
Posted by Cara at 08:51 PM | Comments (42)
August 06, 2008
Poopity Poop Poop
I've discovered the secret of successful blogging: If you talk about poop - people come out of the woodwork. Seriously.
Thank you all for sharing your remedies and experiences. I had a good laugh. We did get poop. And then we watched for poop again. And then we got poop. I'm thinking this is how things go with a five month old. (Almost! Next week! Can you STAND it?)
Meli was very accommodating, as always, and didn't poop at the doctor's office. She didn't leave the poop for her aunt either. She pooped very unassumingly at home, with her mama by her side, in the afternoon before her daddy and mommy left on their first date since she's been born.
I heard the poop coming and went to change her diaper. When I opened it, I was surprised at how little poop there was, considering how long I had been waiting. Ha ha ha. Kids love to play tricks! It only SEEMED like a little bit of poop because the poop princess wasn't done. Nope. As I was cleaning her up she started pooping again. And again. And again. Just when I thought she might be done she just kept on pooping. It got so I was switching out diapers under her so she could fill them up again! It was all actually quite efficient and no outfits were ruined.
We've since switched to the next size diaper. I'm expecting more poop at any time now.
Our date was WONDERFUL! We left the baby with my sister-in-law and things were good - no tears - that includes the baby and ME. Although I did make the rookie mistake of calling home once we got to the stadium. Yup. Meli was screaming in the background. But Aunt Katina is a seasoned pro so she was soon texting me that Meli had a bit of a bottle and had fallen asleep.
The concert was INCREDIBLE. (Scroll down to July 31.) Possibly the best we've ever seen and it certainly made up for the crap concert we saw last November. The joy lasted over 3 hours and I think I may have taken a cat nap somewhere in the middle. Because of a bad accident on the turnpike right at the exit for the stadium, the concert started over an hour late and didn't end until close to 1AM. I can't thank my sister-in-law enough for sticking it out. We needed that night out and MAN did we get our money's worth!
Of course the baby was up really early the next morning and no matter how much we nursed, she wouldn't go back to sleep. Which is totally unlike her. Until she started to poop AGAIN. I can't tell you how fast I jumped out of bed to change her. I was so freaking exhausted too. Thankfully as soon as she was done we climbed back into bed and slept for another couple hours. I'm still recovering.
Tonight we're trying the babysitting thing again. My sister's coming over so we can go out to dinner to one of our favorite restaurants. We haven't been there since before I got pregnant so it's been awhile. I can't wait. I'm going to have a glass of wine and good steak and stare at my sexy husband across the table. Did I mention? It's our anniversary today. Seven years. Although that number feels so bogus because we've been living together for SEVENTEEN years. And that first August 6, the original, the best in many respects, well, that was EIGHTEEN years ago. I can't believe it. He's still my best friend. Still the love of my life. Add to that the father of my daughter and I'm just the luckiest girl alive.
May 2008
The courthouse in VT where we got married.
Only this time we took the baby with us.
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