Silly Girls

Granny visits for the day

Today Myles' mom flew up just for the day to see her grand baby. She is the best Grandmother to her, always getting her the prettiest clothes and cutest toys. It must take a lot of work to fly all the way to our town and home again in one day, so we had to make it as fun as possible. She even gave Adelaide a bath and helped dress her. Then she took us to a delicious lunch. It was a very fun day!

Jail suit pajamas

Holding up this heavy head is hard work!

Thumb Sucker

Here is a video I made on Feb 13th of Adeliade sucking her thumb. This was only the second time I had ever seen her suck her thumb...and I haven't seen her do it since! I think she is still learning how to get her thumb to her mouth, and she gets really mad sometimes when she can't figure it out. I think once she gets better at it she will be able to fall asleep better for her naps. I know that might sound bad, but I am teaching her to go to sleep without nursing to sleep, so sometimes it takes a while...

13 Weeks

Adelaide was being so darn cute and happy when I was taking these, I have to post them all. She was giggling and flinging her arms all around. She is such a happy little baby, I can hardly stand it. Too cute!!

3 Month Check up

Today Adelaide had her 3 month check up.
I put up one silly picture and one not so silly. This is Adelaide with Cathryn. She is the midwife who delivered her, and also her pediatrician. She has to be one of the most amazing mothers I have ever met. I love her.

Here is how she has grown:
Weight - 14 and a half pounds!!!!!
Height - 25 inches
Head - 41 cm around

She is healthy as can be (other than her sniffles) and growing perfectly. She is in the 90% for height as well as weight for girls her age, however when you put them both together I guess she is in the 50% which is perfect according to Catheryn. She is already wearing 6 month size clothes...my giant little baby!

Poor little sicky

There is nothing sweeter than waking up in the middle of the night between the man of my dreams, and the sweetest little girl with the cutest lil snores that I have ever heard. She has the sweetest breath and the sweetest face, and she loves to snuggle as much as I do. I don't know how I got to be this lucky. I never mind having to get up in the middle of the night, it just gives me more time to be with my little one. She is SO Precious.

Here are some pictures that Myles took of her today. Once again she is wearing the sweater that I knitted for her...while it still fits!

Mama's Group

On Friday we got together again... it seems like the groups are getting smaller and smaller, although it is cold season so it's best for the sickies to stay home =) This week we decided to have the moms in the picture too, so we set up the camera on the timer. It was such a nice relaxing time. It's so nice to have the support of others that are going through the same things at the same time. Punki wasn't feeling very well, and now I know that it's because she was getting her first cold!! I woke up Friday night to her nose sounding stuffy and I could tell she wasn't breathing well. I hope she didn't get anyone else sick!

Happy Valentines Day!

Happy Valentines Day! Today Adelaide seems to have a stuffy nose, hopefully not her first cold!! We tried the "warming socks" for her first nap, and are going to do it again tonight. It seemed to help. She is pretty grumpy today, so we are staying home where it's warm and quiet. We might get out for breakfast tomorrow or Monday because it's a THREE DAY WEEKEND!!! Myles got me Marry Poppins for Valentines Day, it's one of my favorite movies and I've been wanting to buy it! I love my little family more than anything and feel so lucky that we are all together today!

12 Weeks

The happiest mommy ever and her sleepy little kiddo

My dad is a Grandpa - and a homemade sweater

My dad finally was able to come up and meet his first grand baby. I think it might have been love at first sight =). We made this onion cheese bread together, and also set up the tripod for pictures because Myles was at work. We had such a good time and a nice visit, I hope we can do it again soon! Oh yeah - here is another sweater I knitted for Adelaide. It BARLEY fits her!!! When I finished it, it wouldn't pull over her head, so I had to pull the neck out and re-knit it! I'm hoping she can wear it a few times before it's no longer possible to squeeze her into it!!

Pictures that my dad took. Silly girl!!

Holding hands with herself while she falls asleep

She looks like a little Dutch baby

This is a funny little outfit. Here is Adelaide discovering her hands. She makes the cutest face, so determined to get them to her mouth.

11 Weeks

An email from Callie

My friend Callie sent this to me, and I thought it was rather appropriate now that I have my own baby.

To Those of You Born
1930 - 1979


TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-base paints.


We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had baseball caps not helmets on our heads.



As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes.


Riding in the back of a pick- up truck on a warm day was always a special treat.



We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.



We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and no one actually died from this.


We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar. And, we weren't overweight. WHY?

Because we were always playing..that's why!



We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.


No one was able to reach us all day. And, we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride them down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.


We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet and no chat rooms.
WE HAD FRIENDS or we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.



We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.



We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them.


Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment.

Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever.


The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it a ll.



If YOU are one of them? CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.

While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave and lucky their parents were.



Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it ?