I Miss It! June 22, 2009

I have made nearly 0 time to scrap since Colin was born. I did do 1 ultrasound layout in an atempt to “catch up.” And I filled in the January page of the photo a day calendar I downloaded. I ordered a few photos. And I looked at the beautiful albums my friend Kathryn made me, but I didn’t put anything in them yet. Because of course, her work is beautiful the photos and journalling I do have to be perfect.

I was a bit sad about it, but figured I’d get it together soon. When I mentally scheduled scrap time but was then to tired to do it, I just figured I’d do it next time.

Today I looked at some layouts on the Hambly blog and on May flaum’s blog and BOOM – I miss it so much. Wow. I really hope to get back to scrapbooking soon. =(

Charles Cheese June 20, 2009

So Colin had his first visit to Chuck E. Cheese – or Charles as my sister-in-law calls him. He is too young to do anything but look at all the lights and the giant elmo birthday cake, so it wasn’t too bad. He was such a good boy, flirting with the ladies. He met a 4 month old and an 8 month old! He was his usual charming self – trying to hold hands, flashing his dimples. The mamas like him as much as the girls do.

He turns 6 months old on Wednesday! Where did the time go? Now he eats cereal and baby food, he screeches like a pterodactyl (yes, these are the things he is doing right this minute, ha ha.) He sits in ahigh chair, holds toys in either hand and puts them where he wants them – generally his mouth, but sometimes his other hand. He pulls his feet towards his mouth and tries to take off his socks.  He plays peek-a-boo, he rolls over both ways, and grabs tight to the toys on his activity gym. He can use his exersaucer and even played quietly while mommy played Wii Fit (it was sad when his little Mii threw shoes at my head though.) He expresses excitement, joy, sadness, impatience and love. He still loves thebe read to – and now he tries to hold the book and turn the pages. He loves music of all kinds – especially when grandma sings in italian or daddy sings philly soul. He gives hugs and smiles freely. I can’t get over how much he has grown.

     

Oh Yeah June 11, 2009

Tracey reminded me I have a blog. For what it’s worth, I tried to post numerous times from the hospital, but the iPod touch doesn’t allow easy wordpress blogging from what I could tell. It might have been the morphine. Anyway, I am fine. If you want to learn about histoplasmosis, look it up, ha ha. I don’t have time to provide links.

Dear Tracey, please show me how to fix my Twitter settings. Thanks!

Since last I posted, Colin has been growing like a weed. He laughs all day, he rolls over both ways, and he really really prefrs to sit up like a big boy – he just can’t do it himself. And of course he is the cutest baby ever!

I don’t know why the picture doesn’t work – I will try to try again later. In the meantime, if you could see it you would see him holding the sweetest little taggie blanket. It’s called a tag-a-boo, and the wonderful Michelle @ First Born Designs makes them. Every baby needs one – or 2 or 3 of these. It’s my total go-to baby gift, which I stole from Tracey. She gave Colin this one, as well as the softiest Minky blanket Michelle made for him. So, please check out First Born Designs - thanks!

Happy Easter! April 13, 2009

Go Tribe! April 10, 2009

We’d like to take responsibility for Travis Hafner’s homer.

Snippets April 9, 2009

Thanks to Corey and Colin I got my copy of Snippets : Mostly True Tales from the Lighter Side of Scrapbooking by Lain Ehmann today – yay! I haven’t had a chance to read any of it yet, but I think I might relax with it on Saturday. Or maybe I will sneak a peek now – Colin fell asleep while I started my searching on www.thebabywearer.com – and continues to sleep as I gave up on that and decided to a little blog post instead.

I know I need to have patience and practice my wraps, but man I am having trouble getting both Colin and I comfy in the wrap or the sling. I have only managed the sling once on my own. The picture below was when the girl who made me the sling put him in for me. I have gotten him in the wrap a few times, but only if he wants to sleep.

And since we all know how much I love Kal, I had to have a copy of Cargo & Woot Eat Beets for him too, lol. 

When Colin was a newborn I read that you can read anything to them, not just storybooks. Since someone just woke up I will see what he thinks of Lain’s funny essays!

It’s a rough life April 7, 2009

my sweet boy April 7, 2009

i love taking pictures of the little one

It’s Me Again April 2, 2009

I really miss my little blog. I just can’t seem to fit it in anymore. But I think about it. =)

So, here is what is up with me. I am getting used to beiong Colin’s mommy and just love it. He is such a wonderful, sweet little boy. I couldn’t say how many people compliment us on how darn cute he is – and I don’t think they are just saying it!

I have found a little time to read lately:
Your Baby Week By Week
Wife for Hire by Janet Evanovich
Baby Laughs by Jenny McCarthy
Breaking Dawn – I just started this yesterday – I should finish it in a year or so..

I ordered some books from Barnes & Noble the other day, since Corey and Colin gave me a gift card for Valentine’s day. I pre-ordered the new Diane Mott Davidson. I also picked up Snippets by Lain Ehmann (yay, scrapbooking!), and a bunch of Sandra Boynton books for Colin. They are so fun to read.

I’ve been taking lots of pictures and experimenting with our cameras. Of course 99.9% of these are of my son. I haven’t figured out how/where to print any of them, but I keep trying.

Now that the weather is finally warming up I have been getting outside and walking – just a bit but it feels great! Corey and I took Colin to the park for the first time on Saturday. it was a day I have been dreaming about for years and it was every bit as wonderful as I imagined.  We even went back toay after work!

Since I can watch movies without having to put the baby down I haven’t closed my netflix account just yet. I thought I would, but so far I am enjoying a few movies still.
Twilight
Daddy Day Care

I forget the others, ha ha.

I’ve tried a little bit of digital scrapbooking. Ali Edwards has some wonderful things available from Designer Digitals. I bought a bunch when they had a sale last Feb. I have been working on populating a page a day calendar with pictures of Colin. I have aspirations of doing a little paper scrapping – we’ll see if I manage it. I still have to make my little album for Robbie. A few weeks ago I did another one of Colin’s ultrasound pictures – I can’t believe how many there are!

We try to spend as much time with Corey’s parents, his sister, her fiance and their 7 puppies as we can. The puppies are adorable, but there are so many of them! Yikes.

There are babies everywhere! I am so happy for all of my friends and family who are so blessed right now. It seems like every week I am getting more news – and most of these babies are boys, ha ha. Colin will have lots of little friends. Tomorrow her gets to meet Tommy for the first time – we can’t wait. I feel a special connection to that little guy because his momma had to work so hard to get him here. Kim has been such a huge support to me over the last few years – all I can say is thank God for good friends.

I do have wonderful friends – everyone has been so supportive. Thanks to each and everyone of you!

And now the important stuff…

 

blah blah blah February 23, 2009

I think I say this all the time, but Kal Barteski is one of my heroes. Actually, I think she might be a super-hero. She is one of those people that does more in a day than I do in a week. I read her blog and my mind just boggles by how much she gets done and still has time to fully enjoy family and friends. And be totally kick-ass all at once.

 

I have a somewhat unformed notion about trying to live the life I want. And this involves being kinda kick-ass, having time to enjoy my life, and not being embarrassed when family and friends come to visit. This was pretty overwhelming before, but having a baby around sort of compounds things. After all, he is totally awesome and tends to lure family and friends over. Plus, I’d much rather look at him/play with him than just about anything else. And as we have not managed to arrive at a comfort zone with either the baby wrap or the sling, he isn’t always conducive to multi-tasking.

 

So I am reaching the point where letting certain tasks go and not worrying about them because I get to focus on the baby isn’t quite working anymore. So yesterday I decided to just pick one thing and try to accomplish that. Just one teeny-tiny thing a day. Surely that is possible. Today’s thing: stopping by the apartment and grabbing the cleaning solution that I am pretty sure is going to change my life*.  Put pictures in frames and put them on the mantle. I miss my boy too much to not go right home.

 

 

*I know it won’t, but someone said it will help. I’ve got my hopes up.