Life In Color

Car Happy

She did it! I feel like I'm driving in a wind tunnel with the fan up so high, but it works. We've had a handful of really great rides so far. I still am a little hesitant to go very far alone, but progress!

Easy Announcements

I just wanted to share a super simple announcement idea that I am attempting to get out the door here soon for Tuesday Lee:

The cards are from paper zone, a natural cream with rounded corners. I also picked up the photo corners there. I had the photos printed at Shutterfly (so that I could have the back stamped with her birthday and name at no extra charge).

And the back I had my mom print off for me. I have room for thank you notes for all the wonderful things we've gotten since she's been born. Now I just need a few more of these to get it done:

There's a baby under there. Nap time on the stairs - safety first at our house :)

Buddies

So basically what I got was: hopefully she'll grow out of it? :) Good thing I have some friends nearby whose babies are not so anti-car. My crew girl friend Tracy (as opposed to my neighbor friend Tracy) who had the same due date as me brought over her little boy Lachlan (cool name, right?). I've been meaning to take pictures of them together (he was born two days before her):

They are about the same height I think. Those tights from Sarah are still big, but I couldn't wait any longer for her to wear them, they are so cute!
Ah ha ha ha that one totally cracks me up. They don't even acknowledge each other at all!

I'm so glad my mom was there (always helping me out love you mom!) so Tracy and I got one of us with our little ones. Do they look like us? I think they look more like our husbands, but I do see bits of their mamas in there too. Oh man they are just so cute together! I can't wait to look back in a few years, I'm sure we'll have lots of them together over the years.

And hopefully of this little guy as well:

My friend Donna's baby was due the same time as us, but she had him just before Christmas. After this picture was taken he started fussing a little so I said, "no problem I'll pick him up" (she was holding Tuesday). OH. MY. GOD. I hope Tuesday stays small (and light) forever! William weighs almost 15 pounds to Tuesday's 9 pounds 6 ounces. I feel like she is getting so big then we get around these boys! I'm hoping she'll be able to get rough and tumble with them by the time they're crawling around.

Ahhh total cute baby overload. :) And my neighbor across the street is due soon... another boy! But we'll get some girls soon; Carmen with one in May, and Karen with TWO in May.

We can't take you anywhere!

Oh man Tuesday is going for day three of awesome sleep! Seriously, I don't want to jinx myself but it's 9:23 and she's been in bed for an hour already. Oh and what was that? Did she nap? Yes she did... twice!

let's look at that little chub-a-lub up close:

I can't help it we're so new to the nap thing I needed proof. Don't tell me we're going to be up at like 4am, I plenty scared about that already.

So since you had some great advice on that, let's tackle this:

Miss Sparkle Pants' name could also be Miss Hates to Travel By Car, seriously. We went two places this weekend and both got us on the freeway and up to speeds that used to appease the little princess. But 65 just isn't cutting it anymore. We had to take out the nice soft bundleme padding because she was working herself up into a sweat! We've tried music, rolling down the windows, making it hot, making it cold, holding onto her arms and holding her tight, pacifiers (oh she hates these, spits out every kind we can find), rubbing her belly, and crying with her. She just can't handle it. We took down the mirror she was looking at thinking that maybe she was getting car sick (Bj gets really car sick and it is genetic). I don't know what else to do, so ideas? I can't go anywhere around town because I never get going fast enough to even have a chance. Good thing there are lots of places we can walk to!