Has a week really gone by since I last posted?  Geez!  Well, it has been crazy. 

Many Projects 

I have a lot of projects that are commanding my attention right now.  I am stripping wallpaper and have been cursing the previous owner of our house because when I began stripping the first layer of wallpaper, I found another layer of wallpaper. Nice.  One the positive side, this is a project I can work on during the day in small stints.  I simply use a steamer, so as long as the kids are away from that, they can help me tear or they just play around me.  I am still determined to get all my painting projects wrapped up before Christmas.

Quinn Back to Her Old Tricks

Now that swim lessons are over, Quinn is back to her old tricks of staying up until 9am or later.  So that leaves me with little time in the evening and I am usually too tired to do much.  I know this is a phase and once she is walking I feel confident she will settle back into a good routine. 

I mentioned a long time ago that I was going to run with her since her bedtime was later.  She didn’t like that plan very much and would cry while I ran so that was quickly scrapped.  I think the hardest part is that after a long day, I just want to relax and putting her to  bed is a very physical thing.  I am either walking her or if I am trying to nurse her to sleep, I have to stand up and rock her.  I like putting Tyler to bed some nights because I get to lay down!  How nice is that?? 

I just need to get her more activity in the afternoons.  I used to have to do the same thing with Tyler – get him to the pool for an hour or the playground.  I think a good hour outside before dinner will make a huge difference…I hope anyway.  At any rate, the days are slowly but surely getting shorter and I am hoping their bio rythms might follow suit..

Awake at 7am

I commented to Chris that our kids both wake up around 7am.  It took us almost 3 years to get to this place.  Tyler woke up early for years.  Quinn was waking up at 5am, then 6am, then 6:30am for the longest time.  It is nice because I can go to bed at 11 and so long as Quinn has a decent night, I am up at 7am feeling pretty good.

Wrapping Up August

The month that always seems to move the slowest is coming to and end and my little family prepares to ride our September “slip n slide”. 

I call it that because we have Labor Day Weekend, the next Friday Chris heads to Montana for 5 days, then right when he gets back it is ACL Fest for three days, then the next weekend we are headed to the beach for the weekend. 

Then I will wake up and it will be October and I will have to start thinking about Halloween since the last two years we haven’t really done much on this holiday for the kids.  This year I am determined to get costumes for the kids.  

It has been a nice summer…if you call it that.  I would almost say that we haven’t REALLY had a summer this year..not for Texas anyway. 

Well, she is now 13.5 months and it has taken me this long to find the time to write an approrpriate post to celebrate this milestone.  My amazing little girl in one.  This special soul found our family and brought balance to our little unit. Let me share what this determined litte sweetheart is up to these days!

Up! Down! 

In this picture she is playing one our Mommy’s favorite games, “Up!  Down!”  She and I are on opposite sides on the coffee table.  She stand up and I say “up!” and then I bend down underneathe the table and she crouches down to find me and I say “down!”   I love to see her crouching down while holding onto the table and smiling at me. 

Who Needs to Hold On?

Not Quinn.  No she can be in the middle of the floor and will plant her feet and push up to standing.  She can hold it for a few seconds before she plops back down.  A very good sign that soon she will start cruising and then walking.  {this is an old milestone, but I wanted to document it.  She has been doing this for about three or four weeks}

Monkey Girl!!

Tyler was not as into climbing as Quinn is.  She tries to climb everthing, even the wall.  I guess in her head – it is worth a shot and may go somewhere.  She has even climbed up me to get to the top of the rocking chair.  She has no fear and goes for it!

Such a Talker!

So many words, “hot”, “truck”, “bath”, “what’s this?” (learned from Tyler), “paci”, “sin” (sink).  She talks all the time.  And if she isn’t talking then she is pointing to what she is looking at (like a plane), or thrusting her body in the direction of what she wants to grab.  She knows what she wants and goes after it.  She is a very clear communicator using lots of body language which is really helpful with a child who can’t tell you exactly what they want.

Try, Try Again

Quinn doesn’t dwell on her bonks.  If something she tries doesn’t go her way, she will go do it again.  Lately, she has been practicing going down the stairs.  And no, she will NOT go on her belly as mommy tries to demonstrate again and again.  She is going to scooch down in a sitting positiong.  Tonight, she crawled up the stairs and scooched down with my help and then back up to do it again and again.   If the lid on the stool scared her or came down on her hands, she wants back down to investigate.  She is a very determined child and while I talk about how easy she is now, that determination is going to be a challenge at some point very soon.   She is so much like her Daddy – determined, focused and stubborn as hell. 

Wants to play Tyler’s games

She rolls trucks making the sounds for the trucks and will roll trains on the train track.  As Tyler gets so hyper and plays all the hyper games, she is figuring out how to hold her own with him.  As I try to break up some overzealous hugging on his part, she leaves over and lays on him giving him a big hug.  This kid is going to survive with her brother around.   The other day, he grabbed something out of her hand.  She screamed so loud at him that he just gave whatever he took right back to her.   I love how she just holds her own.  In fact, today was the first day she reached back and scratched Tyler in the face in a moment excitement.   All those hair pulls will be coming back around Tyler….  :-p

Loving the Playground and Adventures

This was the age that we started taking Tyler to the playground and Quinn loves it just as much.  She cilmbes the stairs, slides down the slides, stands in the “windows” saying “hi!”.    On our nature adventures, she is now crawling and cruising around the water and rocks.  A little precarious for Mommy as she doesn’t always know she is headed for a deep area, but so nice to see her exploring and splashing along with the toddlers!

She is getting a tooth FINALLY!

13.5 months folks and FINALLY a tooth.  One bottom tooth that has just barely poked through.  The teething this far has gone okay and her nights haven’t been too bad, but considering that she is crashing at 9pm now, I think it is exhaustion that keeps her asleep.

Funny as all get outs!

I can already see that my kids have different humor and personalities.  Tyler amused himself mainly.  He will be doing something that I don’t find particularly funny, but he will be laughing his head off.   Just like his Mommy – I can remember having crazy giggle fits when I was a kid while people just stared at me having no idea what I thought was so funny.   My jokes were only funny to me.

Quinn likes to engage you in her humor and joke WITH you.  And she is really funny.  Thier Daddy is very witty while and we both have fairly demented, off-color senses of humors.  So it will be interesting to see who inherits what.

She WAS the easy sleeping baby!

For 8 months, Quinn konked out at 7pm in about 5 to 10 minutes reliably.  Then a few weeks ago -  she didn’t fall asleep nursing.  She didn’t the next day, nor the next.  Her current MO is to stay up until 9 for two or three nights and then konk out at 7pm due to exhaustion.   I am puzzled.  I am thinking it is developmental – she is about to walk, is getting her first tooth and is having a littel word explosion.  I think her body has all the energy it needs to sustain her walking, but she isn’t using it up right now, so she stays up later.  That is one little theory anyway.   She is sleeping fairly well at night.  Oh, and Chris can get her to sleep which is pretty damn cool.  She was fussy and tired and didn’t want to be walked to sleep, so he sung her down and it worked!   Yeah, the loss of time sucks – I will be honest about that.  But it is what it is and as I learned from Tyler, NOTHING lasts forever.  The good routines go bad and vice versa.  It is just life with a toddler/baby.

Is More Amazing Everyday!

Quinn is so amazing.   It is a weird place I am in.  I have this toddler who pushes my buttons and forces me to deal with my baggage and improve myself while Quinn helps me simply enjoy life and everyday moments.  I guess this is why I feel balanced right now.  Even with her current sleep deprivation, she is still so pleasant and is just enjoying the evening.  She is such a sweetheart and I can’t wait to see what windows open up to parts of her personality this coming year.  Happy First Birthday Quinn!

She is almost one and although I blog a lot, I am sure there are so many tiny details that I have forgotten.  Here are a few things I can think of off the top of my head.  Oh and the bites of apple you see in the pictures are her brothers.  He was done with it, so Daddy gave it to Quinn to see what she would do.  She may have no teeth, but she quite enjoyed drinking up as much juice as she could get!

 - When I have her on my back in the mai tei, I will give her snacks by setting the mosel of food on the shoulder of the mai tei.  This gives her time to do her little consideration routine where she looks, reaches out, reaches back, looks, waves and looks.  After many seconds, a little hand will come forward and pick up the food.

 - She loves to pull herself up to Tyler’s train table and take apart his tracks.

 - She loves balls!  She loves to throw them and chase them and also roll them back and forth.

 - She continues to be a roly-poly on the changing table which makes it a real pain to change her diaper.  No sooner do I have the dirty one off, than she has flipped herself over to check something out.

 - Loves playing in rocks.  If I give her a bucket or container she will grab of handfuls of rocks and throw them in.

 - She likes swinging.

 - She giggles after she passes gas.

 - She likes to zurp me.

 - She is still the master on the one-handed stand.  From the second she could stand up, she was uber comfortable using on hand to steady herself.  She has taken a few assisted steps, but I think we are still a ways away from walking.

 - After 8 weeks of music class, she know understands that the “bum, bums” / “bye-bye”‘s mean its time to put the instruments away.  So when she hears that, she now chunks her instruments as if to say, “I was done with you anyway!”

 - She loves the game chase.  If I start crawling behind her and say “I’m going to get you”, she giggles excitedly, turns around and takes off so I can give chase.  Likewise if we run after Tyler, she laughs hysterically.

 - She loves to pat and play with the water in Chase’s water bowl.  And the second time around, I don’t care.  If she is happy for a few minutes while I make dinner or wash dishes – have at it.  With the second it is amazing how certain things just don’t seem like such a big deal.

 - She still hasn’t any teeth.  Whatever I thought I saw isn’t there anymore.  So who knows.  I am not complaining – I know they will come soon enough.

 - She has many words that she says now – “mama”, “daddy”, “ty/ty or tyler”, “doggie”, and “duck”.  She points and I swear today pointed at a candle and sounded something out that sounded like “cah-duh”.  Maybe my imagination, but the duck was quite clear and she was pointing right at one.

 - Tonight she wasn’t ready to go to sleep just yet.  Whenever I would hold her over my shoulder, she would sit upright and start waving at the door.  I could only assume she was sending some last minute goodbye’s to her Daddy and her brother.  I remember that Tyler would always need a minute to process the goodbye when he was younger too.  So as someone was leaving and driving off, we would be saying and waving goodbye and then once that person was out of sight, that is when Tyler would start to wave and/or say “goodbye”.  Quinn in the same way!

Soon I will have to say goodbye to her first year.   It is bittersweet as I am excited at what this second year will bring, but also am fairly certain that I will not walk this “baby road” again.  At least I ended on a high note and she was such an easy-going, sweet, snugglebunny baby.  

I guess yesterday dinner was just on my mind.  Today reaffirmed that Miss Quinn is coming into her own.  She is 3 weeks shy of 1 year old and is ready to take on the world.  She is mobile and wants to be in all the action.  When we are out and about she wants to do her own exploring.  My attention is for the first time really torn.  She is no longer the cutie on my back, she is heading to toddlerhood with a vengeance.  I just don’t know how the Moms with multiple kids and early walkers do it – I am glad I am only contending with crawling at the moment. 

These days Tyler is quite independent, but he is also in attack mode such that when something happens he will pull a child’s hair or grab a child without hesitation.  He will do this to any child – younger, older, he doesn’t care.  He has something to communicate, but motions are easier than words right now.  His arms work faster than his mouth.

It isn’t impossible, it is just an entirely new challenge for me.   I keep trying to stay focused on what I am supposed to be doing.  It ocurred to me that I am not drinking enough water and with summer upon us, that is bad for Quinn’s milk.  My body can’t make milk if there is no liquid with which to make it.  Why am I not drinking more water?  I forget because I am moving so fast all the time.  I am better about packing it with me, but bad about pausing for a drink.  And there it is.  A pause.  A breath.  I still need to calm. I am still moving too fast.  I am frenetic.   It is an asset that I can think so fast and absorb so much so quickly, but I need to balance that with some pauses, breaks, and calm. 

I am also so restless.  Is it summer?  I get sick and tired of all this talk about self-care for Moms.  Do you know what a Mom needs to take care of herself?  A supportive partner who isn’t scared to share the work of parenting and a supportive family who can help out as well.  I am blessed in spades to have such a man and such a family.  A majority of Moms aren’t so blessed.  And with a partner who isn’t that helpful and no family around…well, one is pretty much screwed. I am glad there is more recognition that Moms need a lot of recharge to do their jobs…the problem how to ensure they have the available support to allow them the space and time to do this.  End rant of the day…

Tyler Tries to Save a Friend!

I have to tell this story from today.  One of the Superfriend’s Mom came down to hang out at the Farmer’s Market.  She then took her grandson to play in the water.  As she is walking away, Tyler runs over and starts talking to her something about “Sorcha” and “put Thomas down”.   He has never met Thomas’ grandma and basically thought some strange woman was walking away with Thomas and was concerned! How cool is that?  He did a similar thing at Blossom on Monday when an 19 month-old was wandering over to the gate at the fence.  He gave her this big hug trying to stop her in her tracks.  I thought that was so sweet!!  He is so crazy sometimes, but has the sweetest heart too.  He loves his friends so much!

Tyler says he needs to pee! (we continue our child-led potty training)

So Tyler and Quinn were playing on the bed with Daddy when Tyler says he needs to go pee in the potty.  I took him and sure enough he did!!  We are moving into daytime pee readiness!  I think it is about his ability to feel that he needs to go, hold it and communicate that need.  I mean the kid would sit in a wet diaper and not complain so I though- oh, he is never going to potty train.  But it isn’t about that at all for him.  I think it is all about  making the connection and having the physical ability to control it.  This kid continues to teach me so much.  There are other ways, mama..I am not like all the other kids.  So true, Tyler..so true….

Tyler is Two and a Half!

Wow, he is here.  These half birthdays always seem bigger than the whole ones to me.  He is quite the little boy.  He has a rich vocabulary and is able to communicate his wants, needs and frustrations quite clearly.  He is very active and has an active mind to match.  He is all at once fun and fascinating and frustrating and irritating.  I ride a daily rollercoaster.  He says such wonderful things and has the most amazing thoughts!  “The sky is moving, Mommy!” 

He is in the middle of learning about stuff – some is his and some is not.  He knows about “taking turns” and “trades”.  Tyler is actually such a sweet, patient boy sometimes waiting holding his hands behind his back to help him control the burning desire inside for the toy or play equipment he covets.  Some days he is not in such a patient mood and is going to use all means nescessary to retrieve the desired object.   He can be quick to tantrum when we are doing something that doesn’t jive with his plans.  It is a drop down to the floor and whine kind of thing – your typical toddler tantrum.

Daddy is so cool right now.  He is so enamored with Daddy and Daddy loves it.  He will follow behind Daddy pushing his little mower while Daddy pushes the big one.  They love to take adventures together and Tyler loves to drive Daddy’s car.  We all wait with great anticipation for Daddy to arrive home.

He loves to be outside – he is a child of nature in so many ways.  He has discovered the wondrous world of bugs, but hasn’t quite learned to quiet the impulse to squash them.  I fear for the bugs we meet sometimes!  :-p   He is the same with flowers wanting to pick every one he sees.  It makes me wonder what it must feel like to be that age and have these strong impulses pushing you to do all these things.  The inability to control it, to resist it.  Sometimes I feel like I could talk until I am blue in the face, but when the approrpiate age comes along, these not so socially-acceptable behaviours will melt away.  I sometimes think we parents give ourselves too much credit for teaching our kids these lessons.  Yes, we need to set boundaries and enforce them and yes, we need to tell them what is appropriate when something opposite is going on.  But after that, they are toddlers. 

He still eats like a horse and likes to “raid the fridge” whenever he can.  He can cut strawberries with a dull steak knife and does really well!  He is still an overzealous stirrer, so not always my favorite tasks to hand him.  He likes to help me in the kitchen, although I don’t always want all that help.  It is good though, I do want him to learn to cook.

He is incredibly curious and you can see him trying to put this world together.  He will ask what things are, what is going on and will let you know when he is confused and needs some clarifying.  He is starting to make little jokes.  We were talking about brothers and sisters and he was saying “Tyler’s brother is…Tyler”  Then he was going on about how that was silly. 

This kid is so much like me and sometimes I feel like I know and understand him so well.  Nevertheless, he is so much like me that I struggle because together we tip the scales in many areas and I have to work hard to be more of a balancing force with him.  I always say that Tyler is my teacher…teaching me how to be a Mom.  He presents me plenty of opportunities to learn and practice.  Don’t know how good of a student I am, but I keep trying.

If this phrase doesn’t already exist, then I want the credit for it.  Definition is the sibling of a toddler who once obtaining slight mobility decides that he/she wants to be a toddler….tomorrow.  Quinn is trying to pull up like crazy.  Chris held her up at the train table while some of Tyler’s friends were over and he said she was standing there for 10 minutes.  She wants in on all the action!

She doesn’t like being left on the floor if we are all “up high” – she wants to see too!  We are already having toy sharing issues.  She wants what Tyler has and Tyler gets upset when she has his toys which is ALL the time.

The hasn’t gotten crawling-crazy yet.  I really wonder if walking is going to come soon. Tyler didn’t walk until 15 months, but Quinn has WAY more motivation to get her walk on!  We will see!

She is an assertive soul who goes after what she wants, she we just have to wait and see.  She is such a charmer too!  Doles out the smiles generously -she melted every Mom is music class today.  All the toddlers were roaming around so we were all just watching her!

Oh and NO teething yet.  I mean none.  No drooling at all.  She does gnaw on stuff, but I think a lot of it is exploration.  I haven’t checked her gums in a long while and I should for good measure.  Maybe she will be one of those kids who is not bothered at all by teeth??  Maybe?  Please?  :-p

Quinn continues to amaze me.  Let me see if I can catch you up to all the things that she is doing now. 

That toungue! She loves to play with her toungue.  We joke that it sometimes resembles Gene Simmons toungue!  She makes tons of cute noises with it and loves to get you to mimick her. 

Peek-a-boo!  She loves to play peek-a-boo.  If you put a playsilk over her head or she finds something that will work, she will lift it up over her face and play with you.  She has the sweetest, cutest smile!!  I love when she engages us in a game.

Talking.  She is starting to wave and said “bye-bye” the other day.  I am starting to discern her saying “Ty-Ty” and “dada”.  She talks all the time.  She has so much to say!

Music.  Quinn is loving music class!  I about died when we gave her some rythm sticks for one of the songs and she was using them properly!  She was mimicking the action we were all doing – 10 months people!!  She also loves the piano and will have a tantrum if I pull her away from it before she is done!  She love it when we sing songs and sometimes I think she is singing too.  She is the biggest fan of the egg shakers – she will shake those things with the biggest smile on her face!  She is beaming! It is very cool.  I am so happy that we decided to sign up for classes again.

Mulching sticks – it runs in the family.  Chase, Tyler and now Quinn.  Everyone enjoys mulching on a good stick.  I suppose I now need a picture of both kids sitting by the dog doing this :-p  She loves being outside and shoving dirt into her mouth among other things. 

Rolling with the punches.  SHe is one to recover from bonks quickly.  She will bonk, cry for a brief moment and then want back down or want to see where she fell to take in what happened.  She is over it so soon!  She bonked her head on concrete today and was over it so fast.  Now I will say, the bonks from Tyler I think upset her a lot more.  Today he fell from a stool and knocked her over as well.  They were both so upset and I had them both on my lap.  Neither of them wanted the other on there – it was quite clear.

Little Hands.  – I love watching her little hands as they consider reaching for an object.  Somtimes as with warm food they are tenative and other times they reach confidently for the object of her desire.  I love to watch her inspect an object and figure out how it works.  I love to watch her fingers move, her hands open and close, her gentle touch, her grasp.  Those two little hands are amazing to me as are Tyler’s.  You can read so much my those tiny, sweet hands. 

In the Middle of the Action.  She gets to mad if we are all up and she is on the floor.  I think she resents being left out of the action sometimes.  I will put her in the sling so she can try and observe over my back. 

Still Loves her Brother.  He is still the apple of her eye.  She watches him constantly.  In the car I can see her head turned in his direction quite often.  Sometimes I think she is trying to engage him in some play with her.  She got so excited the other day as I put her in the toddler swing next to his.  Mealtimes are a favorite since she sits across from him and they are at the same eye level for the most part.

She Knows Her Daddy!  She has such big smiles for her Daddy!  If he wasn’t smitted before, well, he is now!  She gets to excited and loves to play with him.   At night, if he goes to bed before me, I will find her snuggled right up next to her Daddy.  Those hands go waving and the squeals start when he gets home.  It is so cute to watch!

Starting to get attached to other people.  There are definitely still times when only Mommy will do, but she now is getting much more comfortable with other people.  She will go to Daddy easily and even the other night let our friends Wes and erin hold her.  They have an 18 month old daughter.  I think Quinn sensed another Daddy because she even laid her head down on his chest.  At the end of the night they were ready to take her home!  :-p   She is getting really social and loves to elicit a smile.

Tyler’s Toys. Forget baby toys – the only toys she is interested in are Tyler’s.  We can sit her next to a basket of trains and she is happy for 20 minutes.  Now Tyler is starting to realize what is going on here, so there has been more instances of “she is playing with MY x”.   She is in that age where Tyler was – there is really no “perfect” toy.  It is all about exploration at least for the next 8 months or so. 

Still not eating much.  She will gum on bread and apples.  I have to watch apples – she got a piece off the other day and gagged and threw it up.  Still working on cheerios.  She is like her Daddy – she wants to run before she can walk.  You can tell she wants what we are eating – but she has to practice gumming on things and eating them without any teeth!  But no – just give her the steak now please!   She seriously puts her hands on the table and pushes herself up to see what we are eating.  I think she is starting to get mad too if we are eating and I give her nothing.  I always at least try to give her some bread.  Silly girl!

Sleeps Great!  She wakes up earlier in the night now, so me leaving at night is hit or miss.  But overall she still sleeps great.  Of course, teething hasn’t commenced, so I am sure things will change.  She is still easy to put to sleep.  It is really awesome to be well-rested.  I always tell folks that Tyler is my waker and she is my sleeper.

Is so sweet.  She really is an angel.  She melts us.  Her smile is infectous as is her laugh.  She is so good-natured.  Chris proudle claims all these qualities as coming from him.  I would love to rebuke him, but I can’t.  I see so much of myself in Tyler it isn’t funny.  The kid is his mama through and through.  She brings the balance to the two of us. 

As tough as it can be and as challenged as I often feel, I also know that I am blessed beyond my wildest dreams in so many ways.  I am so thankful for this little angel and the sunshine she brings us everyday.

Still No Teeth

She still has no teeth folks.  I can’t decide if that is a blessing or a curse.  At this moment though, ridding her little body of eczema is the first priority.  So far so good, I think.  We are only in day two.  One thing I have learned is that she will more easily swallow fish oil that flavored Benadryl.  Now I just have to work on getting her to take the probiotic. 

Fussy Budget

Missy Girl is asserting herself all over the place.  She is in that “fussy right before I can crawl” stage.  She gets mad when she drops a toy or a toy is out of reach.  She gets mad if she was playing with something and I take her away.  If she was playing the piano with her brother and I carry her with me to check on dinner…well, that is unacceptable – she was having a good time and was not done yet!!  There is also the “don’t you set me down” fussy and the “don’t you both leave me here alone in this room” fussy.  There is the “I want that leaf/grass/chokable object  back” fussy.  And the list goes on.  She is still her jovial self for the most part, but she is quick to show her dissatisfaction with something.

Crawltastic

Almost.  She can spin 360 degrees and can scooch all over the place.  She is a natural at going backwards and is most distressed when she hits a wall.   My favorite is when she is sitting near me and hurls her body on my legs trying to crawl into my lap. That is uber cute!  I have to enjoy it especially because once this kid is mobile, I feel like I might be losing my snugglebunny a little bit.  She is going to want to bo down and doing her thing.  Part of me is looking forward to it and part of me is sad.

Babble and her Musical Inclinations

Okay, I swear I have heard her say “mama”, “dada”, and “ty ty”. She has the cutest babble and talks so much.  These sounds are still my absolute favorite.  I also swear that she sings!!  She adores music and anything she can shake – shaker eggs, bells, etc.  The other day she was tapping one of Tyler’s kitchen pans with a wooden spoon and looking super pleased with herself.

One Nap and Sleep

She seems to be down to one afternoon nap now which is pretty early, but works so well for us.  Ultimately, we have our morning adventure, come home and get her down for a nap, Tyler and I have our one-on-one time and then we do our afternoon errands/adventures when she wakes up.  Whle it doesn’t always work out this way, this seems the usual these days.  Her sleep is still pretty good and I can’t complain.  She wakes more in the early evening, so I am less inclined to go out as much as I did.  I don’t give her anything right now as she usually has one big wake up and then crashed back out.

More To Say, But

I feel like I need to enter more updates about her, but I really have to go to bed.  I am so exhausted and staying up late is a plain stupid thing to do.  My job won’t be any easier tomorrow so the best thing I can do is get me some sleep!!  More updates and pics to come!

These pictures are from a photo shoot in front of the fridge.  I put her in a laundry basket in front of Tyler’s magnet farm.  She was having such a good time and I love almost every photo.  You will probably see more to come!