What's on your desktop?

Here's what's on my desktop these days. It's my favorite picture of the kids. This was taken on Mother's Day at my mom's house. Many thanks to "Aunts" Sandy, Heather, Stacey and Carley for the soooo cute outfit!

Sleep Depravation

Another blog that I check frequently was discussing sleep deprivation in moms with babies. It was just funny until the other day when I was in the McDonald's drive thru. I had placed my order, given the girl my credit card, which she swiped and handed back, and was waiting for my food when she poked her head out of the window, looked down the building and then looked back at me....I forgot to pull forward.

Maybe another hour of sleep would do me good.

Torturing the Children

One way that we can effectively torture our children is to dress them in things that they never will wear when they are older.

Get me out of this stupid outfit!

Co-sleeping

One of the best sloutions I have found for getting Rachel to sleep is co-sleeping. It's like she's right in bed with me but protected by a bar so no one rolls and it is an add-on to the bed so we don't loose any sleep space either! Plus, I don't have to get my lazy self out of bed to change her diaper in the middle of the night. There are pockets right on the end of the co-sleeper that you can stuff all that stuff in. Now if only she will sleep through the night...

Mother's Day 2007

Happy Mommy's Day to all those who have kiddos! Ethan asked us yesterday why there was a Mother's Day. Of course I chimed in with "a day to honor your favorite person in the whole world....your mom". Ben's answer was a little different but probably more true..."Hallmark".

I thought as a tribute to Mother's Day 2007, I would post pictures of the other moms in Rachel's life....Her Nana (my mom)-top and her Grandma (Ben's mom) - bottom

What is it with grandmas and only having pictures when the baby is asleep. I scoured my photo library for photos of both of them and in all of them, Rach is sleeping!

Rachel turned 6 weeks old on Mother's Day. I can't believe it's been that long already. And, I can't believe how much she's changed in that short time. She's started smiling... and attempts to laugh but you have to work with her. Though at 4 a.m. she's usually wide awake and will smile at just about anything (if you can keep your eyes open).


And, finally she also has transitioned from that "cute baby cry" to the full out screams!

Grocery Shopping Reality

Rachel's first trip to the grocery store with mom...

• 2 trips to the bathroom to change her diaper,
• 1 feeding
• six people stopping us to look at her
• oh yeah, and 2 weeks worth of groceries (which I think is what I came for)

Total time: 2 hours 40 minutes

Third Chin

Yes, I know I am terrible for not posting. I remember this being easier last time :) So, I come bearing several pictures since none of you actually read what I write anyway!

Rachel is doing well; she's an eating machine. In fact, I think she's working on her third chin. I managed to sneak her onto the scale when Ethan was in for a sick visit yesterday, and she's well over 10lbs! She slept four hours yesterday (9pm-1am) which seemed like a full night sleep for me. She's a good baby but seems to have a bit of colic and is fussy from 5pm-9pm but then crashes so I really can't complain too much. She is holding her head up a little bit and tracking us all with her eyes though she goes cross-eyed pretty often which Ethan thinks is hysterical.

So, my mother chastized me for not having any pictures of Rachel's big brother holding her so I have posted a few. The first one shows just how excited he is to have a baby sister. He is a very big help to me (mostly, "go and get" types of errands but he LOVES to hold her too).

I like the look on her face in this one...
She has dimples! Which of course only come out when she "smiles" which she only does in her sleep (I guess we're not funny enough for her yet!)
And, she has her daddy's blue eyes at least for now.