i sew good.

blam, i was so pregnant! this time last year i was barfing my brains out and worried sick over mrs. baby. i was worried b/c i couldn't keep anything down and thought for sure she would suffer from it. thank God i had plenty of fat reserves for her to live off of. see ladies, love handles and badonkadonk do have purposes! now i am no longer barfing my brains out nor am i worried sick over mrs. baby getting enough nourishment. God is Good!




photo on the far left is tal at one month and the other two are her 4 month shots. one regular and one action. this is her new trick. she does this to get out of her swing, car seat, and also in the bathtub. she looks so different. i can't believe she was ever that small. this leads me to tell you about the few parental rights of passage david and i have recently obtained. one is the "oh my gosh, when did my newborn turn into a squiggly, tubby blob of smiles and laughs?" david and i had a fabulous weekend. last night we were looking at photos from when she was itty bitty, and laughing at how cross eyed and spacey she was. i really couldn't believe that it was only 4 months ago i had a baby and she was so tiny. she's a crazy baby now. seriously this child is wild. this was our first "where did the time go?" feeling and it's only been four months.
i can't imagine having this same feeling yrs from now. it's beautiful and sad all at the same time. i think the sadness part is the acknowledging that you will/can forget wonderful things. and time robs you of your memory. no matter how hard i stared at her when she was a month old and tried to burn the image into my brain it faded a little and that is sad. the other right of passage was when tal fell off the bed. i can only now talk about it because when i'd think about it i'd cry. she booked it off the edge of our bed by scooting north. not rolling, but scooting. david or i had never seen this. both of our hearts dropped when we heard the thud. thankfully she screamed immediately, but our hearts were broken. i cried the whole way to the clinic. by the time we got there she was all smiles of course, and the doctors were asking me if i was ok. the doctor also, in an attempt to make me feel better, said that babies bounce...when i told my friend and mother of 2 kids, she said "you took her to the clinic? you're so funny". funny? i can't wait to be that relaxed. i can't wait till i've recovered from the first-time-mom syndrome. i think i'm getting there.
my last right of passage recently earned was the ' preemptive declaring of oneself well again'. i got sick with a sore throat and ear thingy friday and as helpful and wonderful as david was this weekend he could not produce milk so i had to step up and feed the baby. and when he had to install an alternator in his truck i had to step up and take care of baby. now david is at work and i once again, am stepping it up (not like in the dance movie, i don't have that much energy). it's like in that one Cosby episode where both Claire and Cliff were sick and the kids were fighting and passing the chores onto the next weakest in line, and Claire was like "ahh hell no". well that's me. i'm trying to say 'hell no' to my throat and muster enough energy to change the diapers and give snuggles when needed.
oh that last picture if of the stuffed owl i made kelsi for her 18th birthday. I'm sew proud. i can't take credit for the design. i saw one for sale at a local handmade market here in town and loved it. but it was a little pricey so i said ahh hell no and made one myself. i'm going to make a mommy and baby one for tal! pictures of those to follow.
ciao loves!