Call me Crazy, because I am

I have a lot of haphazard and unconnected happenings and thoughts going in my life these days and I thought I would share them with you! Yes, I'm sleep deprived with a bad case of baby brain!

-I consider chocolate covered strawberries to be health food
-Major accomplishment this week in laundry: I folded a fitted bed sheet into an actual rectangle instead of a garbled heap
-I wish I invented the wubbanub: www.wubbanub.com or some other silly baby product and got rich off the desperation of moms with newborns
-The wubbanub has allowed me some freedom from my sweet little thing who would nurse all.day.long if I let her...I love her but it's hard to move around with a child hanging off you
-In a battle of wills, I lose to Luke and the baby 100% of the time. Like when Adrienne spits out said wubbanub in quest for the goods. Or like when Luke asks for, well, pretty much anything.
-Everyone tells me that Adrienne's hair could fall out and come in blonde like her brother (and therefore look like her dad). Is there something wrong with the way I look? Why can't they say, oh, love her hair, she looks like her mama?
-I've contemplated cutting Adrienne's hair but I don't want her to end up with a mullet - what kind of mother would I be then? Her crazy spike is part of her newborness and I'm just not willing to part with that yet!
-I admit that I have 2 small battle wounds (also known as stretch marks) from being pregnant with Adrienne and I love them. It's sort of like a tatoo that reminds me of her :) I kinda wish I had one from Luke
-I'm secretly happy to see that I've passed my OCD gene onto Luke. He throws fits when we won't let him clean. There is no doubt this gene came from me and not Matt.

Well thanks for reading my random thoughts. Soon I'm going to start posting all of the entertaining conversations I have with Luke for your reading enjoyment.

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

1 month

Ok, so I'm late at posting this but better late than never. The little princess or as we affectionately refer to her as la princesa (we've been watching too much Dora) is 1 month old already * sad sigh*. She's plumping up nicely, she's quite the eater and not quite the sleeper. At her last weigh in, she'd gained 2.5 times the amount of weight the average baby gains at 1 month.

In the last month, I've learned a few things:
-how different two children of the same parents can be
-how difficult it is to walk by the children's section at Target without buying any baby girl clothes
-why sleep deprivation is used as a form of torture (must be I forgot about this part)
-that pre-schoolers are really interested in breast feeding gadgets, products and process

Certainly I've learned other things but my brain isn't functioning today so I can't think of anymore!

We are headed to NY tomorrow for the Adrienne revealing. Just kidding, we're really going to NY for a whole lot of reasons but the little miss will be meeting lots of admirers. Maybe I'll try to tame her tresses for the occasion!

Happy One Month Birthday, Adrienne!

Fast!

Ok, I'm going to try to type really FAST because I have a feeling a certain someone is going to be waking up in the next ten minutes to eat!

So speaking of fast...Matt and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary yesterday...those 5 years went by FAST, OMG! I guess it's a good sign that it doesn't seem like it's gone by slowly, huh? That wouldn't be good. Anyway, it was also Matt's 29th birthday! I like it when it's Matt's birthday because that means for the next 6 months or so, our birthdays look only one year apart instead of 2 :) Yesterday we went out to lunch at a famous Mexican restaurant in the city where we've been trying to use a gift card that we've held onto for 5 years (literally, it was a wedding gift). We've called at least once a year since we've been in Chicago to get a reservation at this place but we've never been able to get one when we wanted to. So alas, yesterday we walked in for lunch, didn't have to wait and got an awesome table. The stars must have been aligned. This particular restaurant as gotten even harder to get into since theowner and executive chef, Rick Bayliss is Obama's favorite. Too bad I had to watch Matt down 2 margaritas while sipping my fruit cooler.

Later in the evening, we dove into Matt's birthday present which was a bouquet of chocolate covered strawberries from edible arrangements - YUM. I'm embarassed to say that we ate the whole thing in one sitting. Birthdays and anniversaries are great excuses for over-indulging!

So an update on the products of the last 5 years:

Luke is the most ridiculously cute kid ever - his antics make us laugh all day long. He's been parallel parking his cozy coupe car all over the condo. He actually lines up furniture so that the parking spot is tight and backs in his little car. It's amazing how much he picks up from us when we don't even know he's paying attention. This is clearly a blessing and a curse depending on what he picks up. He's been really into the baby lately - he tells her "it's ok" whenever she's crying but has yet to learn that his flailing limbs need to be reigned in in her presence. I finally got him away from my breast pump-which he was turning the speed up and down on as I was using it - uh, not cool!

Little miss Adrienne continues to be a sweet little thing. She's so sweet and cuddly that at night she only likes to sleep on top of people, and if we're lucky, next to people. She generally sleeps in 3 hour segments which isn't too bad. She's quick to let us know when she's hungry or wants to be picked up - let me tell you, she isn't shy! She's very strong and can hold her head up for quite a while. She'll be giving Luke a run for his money before too long!

Alas, some photos!

Sitting pretty:

Flowers we got for our anniversary:

Watering the plants:

The chocolate covered strawberries:

Playing in the front yard:

Hanging out in the front yard:

A small snooze in the swing: