oh fun times

last night, amelia slept for 5 straight hours!! i woke up at hour 4 panicked that she was for sure no longer alive. i stayed in bed, half asleep, my ears tuned acutely to the monitor...i should have gone back to sleep; ah well. this does not compare to my friend, heather's baby, who is 2 days younger than millie & slept 6 1/2 hours last night...i really want to know how she does it! i was totally jealous with her last baby (who is 4 months younger than addy & slept thru the night before addy! WHHAA-AAT??!) & now i am even more jealous & mystified...

addy slept beautifully & awoke this morning full of her usual joy & sorrow (joy being the fact that it's morning & sorrow being 'the picking out of the cereal'...we never seem to pick the one she wants. darn that low vocabulary of her's! some things will be so much easier once she talks more). below is a picture of addy this morning, in her shoe-socks. if you look closely, you can see that they are made to look like she has shoes on. they were cracking wes & i up this morning. it's like a tuxedo shirt for her feet. so cute. and she's eating breakfast #2, which is what she must do when i eat my breakfast, usually a few minutes after she's just finished breakfast #1. no one can say we starve our children... (the no pants on means she had a poopy blowout this morning).

i somehow made it to target by 10 a.m. due to a desperate need for breast pads (i am leaky like a dripping faucet). i think i have gone through about 100 of them in only 2 1/2 weeks. i find that impressive; that's nearly as many diapers as amelia has gone through! anyway; i finally got everything & everyone into the car, drove to target, got everyone out of the car (in the rain...important to note it is very very rainy here today). i had amelia in her car seat, in my left arm & the diaper bag messenger-style around my shoulders, then addy holding my right hand. addy was stopping to check out every little pebble in the parking lot & somehow managed to fall down--right in the middle of a puddle! instead of trying to stand up, she proceeded to LAY DOWN on her back in the puddle, in the middle of the parking lot, in front of target...with several other moms & people walking by, observing all of this. oh, to only be able to read minds...addy was soaked on her back, totally soaked. but she didn't seem to mind, so off we went into target. she happily ate her snack in the front of the cart & i quickly went through target before my luck ran out & addy realized that she was soaking wet!

addy & i had a photo session before she took a nap (yes, these are the same clothes that were soaked...she still didn't seem to mind!). i asked her what she wanted to do before nap time while amelia was sleeping & gave her the options...read, play with certain toys, draw, bounce the ball, etc etc & then i happened to say 'take pictures' & she lit up like a light bulb & hopped over to the camera. so we took pictures.

here are two of them: on top is of addy jumping! notice the air she's getting! ;o) on the bottom is addy's grumpy face...we were going through emotions (you know, 'give me a happy face, give me a sad face...). so that is her grumpy face, but you may notice that she is trying hard not to smile at this point. we had a fun few moments. i'm trying to get as much of those times in as possible when amelia is sleeping. i miss my play time with addy! (although, amelia is just as wonderful & fun!).

a milestone achieved: MILLIE'S FIRST BLOWOUT!
i am not beyond blogging about poo, it's what i deal with dozens of times during the day...why not blog about it? so this is amelia's first of many, i'm sure. this is also her 3rd change of clothes for the day; she is a liquid-y sort of kid. (pretty normal, though, in general for babies!). what you don't see is how mad she is as i was taking this picture. she really doesn't like diaper changes...really truly.