Spring makes me giddy! Having the windows open, being out on our balcony, going for walks, not having to bundle up to the nth degree! Flowers, grass, breeze… the sound of lawns being mown, except for when it’s right outside your window – WOW that is really loud. But thankfully we do not have to do it ourselves. Shoutout to renters! :-) (I’ve decided that certain things should be all one word, even though Word doesn’t usually agree with me.)
The past week was obnoxiously busy. But thankfully we accomplished a lot! David did an amazing amount of work on Saturday – loads of laundry, cleaning up the living room, kitchen, our room, and Maeve’s room, though the latter still has a long way to go. She doesn’t really seem to care, and since she’s still rooming with mommy and daddy, it really doesn’t matter. (except for when we have to walk by that room and see it) She is fast outgrowing the bassinet, however.
Our daughter begs the question: how do two punks like us get such a beautiful, sweet, happy child? Ask anyone who knows her, they will agree. The poor thing had to cry for a bit on Friday night. I took her along garage saling with Karla and me and she was sleeping so I left her in the car right in front of the house while we looked at stuff. I went to check on her then and she was crying. She probably would have been all right except that she was hungry. There she was, all alone in the car, and I had to wait for Karla to get me the keys to get to her! Awww, I felt so bad. But thankfully God blessed babies with a short memory, cause she’s smiled and talked plenty since. I just didn’t want her to feel alone, you know? Karla said it had to happen sometime for the first time, but I’m not so sure… now if we can just manage not to ever leave her somewhere later in life. I’m pretty sure either I or one of my brothers was left at one point. Maybe Jeffrey at church or something?
Anyway, I had thought I would write more, but it’s time for Maeve to eat again and this keeps not getting posted. Would you believe the procrastination factor was brought on by a video this time? We took it over a week ago, but haven’t had a chance to cut out the good parts. Oh well, here are some pictures which I did NOT procrastinate over. (there are some on the next page in the gallery as well)
Would you believe that the biggest thing that makes me procrastinate with posting is when we have pictures to add? Dumb, particularly since there are only two. We really need to do some more videoing also. In any case, this is going to be random whatever comes out of my head:
Our anniversary was pretty fun, if somewhat less spontaneous than previously. We watched some more Mormon movies – which is almost like an inside joke with us, maybe you have to BE us to appreciate them :-) we also watched School for Scoundrels, which had David laughing his butt off in some places. It was pretty good, I think we’d watch it again. That’s one of the good things about comedies – being able to watch them again. You just can’t do that with suspense movies, or at least I don’t see how you can unless you’re really good at forgetting what happens. I do like a good thriller, though. But no horror. Eeeeeew.
It’s finally getting almost light when we’re driving to work in the morning! SO AWESOME!!!
Do you think it’s possible for cows to get clogged milk ducts? I sometimes feel like a cow.
A long time ago we had an ice storm around here. I think I forgot to ever post anything about it. Our electricity was out for a very short time, but long enough for us to go across the street and huddle with some other unfortunates and Bryan and David actually made pancakes on the grill. I had a bite of one and they were probably like the best pancakes I ever ate. Sad that I only got one bite. David even videoed it. I’ll have to get him to put that up eventually. We also had the first real summer grillout a while back. Then it got cold again. But now the nice is back. And no, I did not miss a word in that last sentence.
So this is the part where I tell you that Maeve is still the cutest, most precious baby ever. We measured her yesterday and she is 21”. When she was weighed a week ago she was 9.2lbs, so she’s growing. She’s working on a nice double chin. Today we once again failed to bring our diaper bag – I guess that was my fault, but I seriously didn’t see it at all. I was probably just not really awake. In any case, we have a set of some stuff here at my mom’s but there are a few things that we really still need. So one of her blankets is doubling as a burp rag today. (I’ll bring a real one and leave it here tomorrow) and of course she had to pick today to have her first explosive diaper.
There are a few of you that we haven’t gotten announcements to yet… some of you we apparently had the wrong address for because they came back to us. We were doing really great at getting stuff checked off of our list the first two weeks, but after going back to work, we kind of lost momentum. So I apologize! Hmm, that makes me think, I’ll just put up the announcements in our gallery and if you haven’t gotten one yet then just tell us in the comments which one you want. Brilliant. Ok, so here are the pics.
This morning when we left for work David said “ooh, look, there’s the moon!” which would be ok, except that he said it in a sing-song-y voice, which would also be ok, except he wasn’t talking to Maeve… I guess we’re officially parents or something. Or at least David is officially a dad. Maybe I am officially a mom because the other night when David came back to bed from going to the bathroom I shoved him and told him he was going to lay on Maeve! And he got freaked out and was feeling around asking where she was and couldn’t find her and then I put my hand in the bassinet and realized she was in there. I have woken up a number of times thinking that I’m still feeding her… aaaarrrrgh! Right now Aunt Kimberley is visiting and she is having a long and very involved conversation with her great niece… it’s pretty funny. We’ve been back “at work” this week and that, combined with Maeve being around more people more of the time, has wreaked a bit of havoc in her schedule/routines… I guess that is just part of it all. Still, rather nerve wracking trying to figure out the best way to handle it.
I really did think of something I wanted to post on a different topic but I forgot it. Let’s see. Our third anniversary is on Tuesday. David has Wednesday off because we’re planning to go to a hotel on Tuesday night. Being married is so incredible. Well, there’s being married and there’s being ONE – lots of people are just married. If you’re just married and not one then I think it rather sucks from what I’ve seen. It’s kinda like missing the whole point and much of the blessing. There are many jaded and disillusioned people that I wish could understand it… I’m so thankful for the best husband and daddy of my daughter there ever could be! Hmm, could this be voted the most serious paragraph in the history of this blog? Ok, more like three sentences I guess…
I remembered something – I sometimes think I’m losing it, and I’m not sure whether it’s just me or sometimes David, too… most of the time when we eat supper (really eat supper) we watch something like Andy Griffith or the Beverley Hillbillies or sometimes a movie or whatever. We usually get everything set up and then pray. Frequently David goes to the bathroom before we pray – I don’t know why, it just seems to often work out that way. Anyway, there have been just a few too many times that I have COMPLETELY forgotten that we already prayed. I mean seriously. It’s very unnerving. Sometimes if David said something different in his prayer and recounts it to me it will jog my memory, but the other night I really think HE was the confused one. How can I completely block something like that out?! Maybe I was zoned out looking at Maeve. But I didn’t even remember holding his hand. I’ve heard stories of people trying to make other people think they’re going insane by putting their stuff in really weird places and convincing them that they did it and whatnot… but I don’t think that’s the problem in this case. Maybe David’s food prayers are too short and all the same and they blend together in my mind? It’s just that I don’t have a leg to stand on because there HAVE been a few times that I really did forget and was able to realize it… but that other night… hmmm.
