3-30-10

Today we ignored housework and played outside instead.

Charlie played in the grass for the first time.

Tami and Lily ran all over the park with Patrick (tami's boyfriend) and Margot (tami's dog).

Charlie wiggled his toes in soft grass.

And squished it around with his hands (and miraculously did not eat it!)

Sidenote: I also groomed three dogs today, and it kinda bothered me that their names all started with S's. Sadie, Susie and Scout. WEIRD.

I dont want to jinx anything, but I got Charlie to "sleep" in his cosleeper again last night. I use the word "sleep" loosely since he spent a lot of the night wiggling and forcing me to sit there with one hand gently on him, or holding his hand, or gently "shhhh"ing or nursing/swaddling/rocking/repeat but still, during the brief spurts where he was actually asleep in his own little space, I got to sleep without a baby attached to me, just all sprawled out of and worry free. Ahhhhh. 20 minutes spurts of real sleep!

3-29-10

Seriously. I have two camera batteries and I never have the spare charged! So silly! So, stinky iPhone pictures today.

Thanks for the new shirt auntie anne! We LOVE it! We'll take a picture of the cute one for little Charlie soon too!

I showed her the shirt and she flipped out "Bird on my shirt, just like my wall!!!" and ran upstairs to her room. You can tell by the blurring how frantic she was.






As we all know, my dad has instilled his children a firm belief that margaritas are primarily medicinal and can fix all things. Especially sore throats. I tried out The Margarita Theory on Sunday night with three extremely strong margaritas at pasquals and it paid off! The first positive outcome was that I relaxed, which I haven't done in a long, long time. Secondly-and this was unexpected- Charlie slept in his bed. I was feeling mostly soberish when I went to bed but then remembered reading something about not cosleeping if you were drunk, or was it if you had been drinking? So I played it safe and stayed up most of the night, soothing Charlie back to sleep in his bed. With the option of cosleeping off the table, he did actually sleep a little bit in his own seperate cosleeper bed. Sitting up at 3am, slightly drunk, doing the "watch each breath and try to decide if he's asleep enough that I should try to sleep", it felt like my dads magic remedy was helping me in the biggest way ever. My little monster baby was almost kind of sleeping on his own. Almost. :)

3-28-10

sunday-pancakes and coffee and juice and watching snow white in pajamas. Later we went to the zoo and met Parry and Veronica for dinner at pasquals, and I had the exact right amount of margaritas. Its been a long and hard 5 months, and it was nice to let some delicious margaritas help me to let go and allow dave to take over the parenting for the evening.

Charlie!

Liliana! (thanks coral, we love our cliposaurus clips!)

3-27-10

boo! im sad this is the only picture i've got of lily in this dress, i'll get a better one next time she's in it. anyway, its a vintage dress that lily has decided is her new daily uniform.

This dress is, according to lily, the best dress ever. Here's why:

-it is Yellow, which is the ONLY good color.

-it is "princessy"

and i was just thinking, what would life be like if that's how we all shopped and dressed ourselves. how fun! not having to worry much about fit, or whether it was appropriate for the place we'd be wearing it. what if the criteria was something like 1) its my favorite color! and 2) it has ruffles!

i seriously want to be 3 years old. luckily i have two kids helping me live that way more and more every day.

time to go snuggle my littles.

3-26-10

Little executive, hard at work.

Way too busy to look at the camera.

Seriously, he did not want to participate. He was working hard filing TPS reports.

3-25-10

I'm already nostalgic about the pictures from charlies first days/weeks/months! He's still a baby, but I can feel him growing up.

I love you my sweet baby.

3-24-10

Easter eggs, jello style.



P.S. These are somehow even more fun to jiggle/bounce/roll than regular jello!