The Gardens

We had a lovely lovely morning today. We headed out to a garden in the next town over.  It's a beautiful park with pretty pathways and a nice play area.  There's a children's museum right next door. We recently bought a family membership to both the garden and museum.  I have a feeling we'll be spending a lot of time there this summer.  The museum has a really cute Bob the Builder exhibit now and Icie loved it. I got some great pictures along the path in the garden, including one where Icie again caught some air.  I hope everyone has a great and safe holiday weekend.  

Black and White Wednesday ~ Slobber Guts

Break out the bibs because the slobber is flowing.

Lately (In other words a photo dump)

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Just some random pictures from this week.  It's been great to get outside. It just makes everything feel better.

They made a mother out of me.

My beauties on  Mother's Day 2012.  

Happy Mother's Day.

Happy Mother's Day!  I hope all the fabulous moms out there have a great day, especially my mom.  

Two Months Down

Two months down and I'm just starting to feel like I'm doing this thing.  That may not make sense but I'm feeling more present and less auto pilot lately. Little Miss Antonia is rocking and rolling.  I'm having a hard time remembering life before her arrival.  Annie just rounds us out nicely. 

I'm getting one good stretch of sleep out of her at night, almost five hours some nights. Then I get two more shorter stretches.  Dave typically takes over at four in the morning so I can get three solid hours of sleep.  Dave and Annie head out to the the living room and I have peace and quiet until about seven when Icie gets up and we all get rolling with our day. 

Icie loves her baby sister, but there's clearly still a bit of anxiety that she's been dealing with considering the changes that the last two months have brought.  I'm just glad that there doesn't seem to be any anger or frustration directed towards Annie during the transition.  Annie is always "beautiful" and "such a good girl" according to Icie.  Annie has started some full on drooling though and that did prompt Icie to call her "skaaaaaa- sting!"  (that's disgusting in the Icie to English dictionary folks) this morning.  A string of drool dripped dangerously close to Miss Icie, heaven forbid.  

We had Annie's two month well check up this week and she's doing great. She's in the 23rd percentile for length and 77th percentile for weight.  She's solid and strong and has lots of delicious baby rolls.  We did have a rough twenty-four hours after her vaccines, but it was nothing a little Tylenol wouldn't fix.  

A post wouldn't be complete without a picture of my little assistant.  Icie has become a great helper.  She runs things to the laundry room and garbage, and retrieves things like the phone and diapers when I need them. Icie also has taken a liking to being the Spray and Wash queen.  She loves prepping Annie's stained clothes for the wash, whatever floats your boat kid.  

Black and White Wednesday ~ Oldest/Youngest

Annie and I did our first solo trip to Pittsburgh this weekend.  Icie and Dave had a fun daddy/daughter weekend while I attended a baby shower for one of my oldest friends.  Annie came along so she could meet my sister, brother, and her cousins. My oldest niece, Lela was such a great helper.  She suddenly went from kid to (gasp) tween.  The oldest grandchild and youngest grandchild became good buds this weekend.  I may have to steal Lela for a few weeks this summer. 

Black and White Wednesday ~ Young Again

Happy Birthday Dave!  

Thank you for being a great husband and father, but mostly thank you for making me feel like a young chick again.  You know because you're so old.  These past two years of us being in the same age bracket rocked my world, now I'm back to being the young lady married to the distinguished older gentleman.  I love you most and no matter how old you get you will always be the cutest boy ever.

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