Sisters and San Luis Obispo

This are my little sisters. I had not seen them in almost 10 years.The blonde is a firefighter, and the red head is a mother of two. They are Pretty awesome.


This is my nephew Devin. He has fangs.


Lita Jo had a good time. The hotel was a dive. I should've taken some photos. Its funny how much my standards have changed since having a baby. It definitely makes me want to spend more money on a better hotel.


We were total posers.

These are the days...

Thumb sucking finally caught on camera! She has not done it since, but it was cute and she was slurping it LOUDLY. I heard it through the carrier and looked inside and she was sucking away.


Notice the arm chub. Its soft and squishy, fat in all the right ways.


Okay, no, she was not screaming. She was yaaaaaawning.


Hand-modeling in her sleep, which her momma does on a regular. Just ask her daddy about it. He will tell you all the stories of his catching me in my sleep modeling my hands. I am glad she got that part of me because it makes for good stories later in life.


Now notice the leg chub, her royal thigh-ness. Perfect.


We went on a walk yesterday with our friends Christine and Owen and Baby Bea, and stroller princess Lita Jo here rode sitting up in her stroller for the first time. She was like, "Yeah, rollin'... then promptly fell asleep.

We are definitely getting more sleep these days. And she is changing so rapidly its mind-blowing. I am trying to catch as much of it as I can on camera just so we will have something to look at if we forget how awesome it is having a baby around. Believe me, sometimes I am so tired and frustrated that I forget that these are the days when everything she does is a milestone, simply because she was such a blobby blob when she came here. Now she has a personality, and a voice that she uses, and she sees me and smiles, and coos at her daddy and me, and makes really funny faces when she is pooping. Oh, and she weighs over 10 pounds and has grown 2 inches in the last month.

4 weeks old on 7/17/2007!

Award-winning reproduction!




Smelling her gets you totally high...




...its hard to keep your eyes open around it, its that powerful. All you want to do is snuggle and sleep.




ChubbyBubby.




This is dad's famous football hold. She loves it when she has gas.





She is totally awesome.
I actually am having a hard time believing she came out of me only 4 weeks ago. It seems so surreal, especially when I think about the pain of things leading up to birth. It was all worth it. I would not change a thing.
I am adjusting to the no-sleep way of life. Its kinda like walking around on ether. I am just kind of numb. That is, until she chomps my nipple. THAT hurts in a way I cannot describe. then its bruised for a few days.
Not fun.
But hey, I have lost 20 pounds since I gave birth. All because of breastfeeding.
And one other thing... today is our 7 year anniversary.
How about that.
Cheers.

C-Jo in her first hooded track suit and stuff.

Right now she is so cute it doesn't matter that I am not really sleeping. And so far the diaper tally is on daddy's side as I have changed a grand total of maybe 10 and he has changed something like a thousand, I think.

Thumbelina.

??? Yeah, mostly I can't see straight. And thats right, you can see down my shirt. Dad took the photo. Take it up with him.

Finally.

Labor started at 345am on Tuesday June 19th, and ended at 131pm the same day with the birth of our daughter.
It was awesome.
Here are some photos. I will write more later.
We love her so much. She changes every day.
Today she is one week old.

The time has come... and gone.

Well, she was due to show up on the 12th.
Of course, she just stayed put.
According to the tests and the doctor, everything is fine, and she is healthy, and its common for first babies to be overdue.
So we wait.
And she swims.
Her father is more stressed out than I am, but I am more uncomfortable. I am not sure if either one is worse.
I look forward to her arrival as I can no longer put my own pants on or my shoes.

"I went to the doctor and the doctor said..."

...that there was no change in dilation but the baby was definitely lower and on the launching pad.
She is going to 'launch' out of my vagina, I guess. Like a rocket? Scary prospect.
All I know is that I am really looking forward to giving birth. I watch ANYTHING on tv about birth or babies, I get all teary and stuff and my husband makes fun of me. Like when we watched The Happiest Baby on the Block dvd, I got all snively. Just seeing a newborn on screen is enough to set me off.
(I love this dvd, by the way. The newborn reaction is amazing. I can't wait to try it out for myself.)
And at this point, I can't watch violence toward children of any age anymore. Not in movies, not on tv... I can't take it. I literally want to scream. I don't, of course, but the rising up in my gut is definitely there.
I am going to eat some breakfast now. I am happy to announce that I can now eat full portions as I have more room for my stomach. However, I pee every 20 minutes.