Mother & Daughter

We've been meaning to do something like this for a while...and now, two months later... oh well!

Cute Shoes.

I had to take a picture...since this may be the only time she ever wears them... Next week when she has her 2-month appt. we will see that her feet fall into the 90th percentile, whereas the rest of her body in like the 25th :) She has some big feet!

Thank you to Trista for these SUPER CUTE shoes. I'll be saving these for the next girl (hopefully I'll have more than one girl!) And I'm immortalizing them on the blog :)

Welcome Samuel ...?...Pace

So it may not even be Samuel but the middle name is even more hard to tell at this point... Jen, my adopted sister-in-law, and mother to Ava, who I have blogged about, just had another sweet little one. This baby is her first (and last, she affirms!) with her husband of one year, David. She has three other kids from before.

Jen wants to name him Samuel David Pace. David wants to name him something ridiculous (sorry David...but then again I'm pretty sure he'll never read this post!) like Samuel Duncan or Samuel Xavier David... we'll see. Jen is used to getting her way so I'm thinkin' Samuel David may be the winner :)

He is very cute as you can see! AND since he is about the same size Claire was newly born, he seriously made us realize that babies do indeed grow very fast! She's like twice his size!

Samuel with me...still have the double chin...

Hot Date

Last night, Jordan and I left Claire with one of her favorite aunties, Jessica, to go out on the town. We finally used the PF Chang's gift certificate, compliments of Mainha & Painho for our anniversary last year, (yes, we're finally using it!) and had a great dinner! PF Chang's is my favorite restaurant, and the locale of Jordan's and my first date!

I still remember that fateful day... when Jordan and I went out for the first time. I had JUST broken up with my boyfriend like 3 days earlier, who I worked with, and nobody really knew we'd broken up yet. THEN, I went out with Jordan, who ALSO worked at the engineering firm my ex and I worked at (yes, it's a workplace love triangle here) to PF Chang's in Summerlin...WHERE we ended up sitting RIGHT ACROSS from Jordan's boss!! Crazy. It was so embarrassing... we did kinda want to keep our relationship a little under wraps, since I'd just dated one of the engineers, and I kinda also didn't want to be known as the "work dater," you know? What can I say...they all wanted to go out with me :) :) :)

Anyway, back to the present. It was a fun date. We topped it off by....you guessed it....picking up a few things at Walmart. Yes, a very sexy ending to our great night :)

Getting to See Becca and her Little Cuties

It was so fun to see Becca and her kids this past week!

Highlights:

*Going to Rodizio for lunch, Becca, Heather, and me (and the kids...who didn't exactly leave the floor clean under the table :)

*Going to Heather's for Lauren's 1st Birthday, and Becca eating 3 HAMBURGERS. Ha ha!!

* Having Heather and Becca over at our place for pizza and Incredibles

We don't get that chance very often so it was great. Zachary is looking more and more like Phil! And Kaylin is as sweet as can be! It was great to be with them. Come again :)

I'm Just So Crafty!

Not. But my friend, Natalie is!! I call her the new Martha...you know, the one who doesn't have the jailbird past...

Here is my super cute new wipes case!! Don't worry, if you want to make one too (you don't even have to be in the diaper-changing stage in life...it can just be something you keep in the car!) I'm going to start a "how-to" blog for lots of crafts and stuff I learn. I'll keep you posted!

Just so you know, this was my first one...so the "imperfections" you can see....well, maybe I'll get better!

The "Never Thoughts" of Motherhood...

I never thought...

*It would be so tempting to just wear pajamas or yoga pants all day long and not get ready for the day

*I'd forget to brush my teeth in the morning so many times! (while I was on maternity leave...not now!)

*Losing weight would be so hard...maybe I'm one of those that lose weight only AFTER she stops breastfeeding? Or I might have to lay off the chocolate. Either way...

*I would be a PRO at sleeping while sitting UP! I could never do it on the plane (and believe me, I've been on a lot of LONG flights!) Guess when it's 4am and you're feeding the baby, you're just so tired, it just happens. And for me...ALL THE TIME. I need to rethink how to stay awake, because I'll wake up 2 hours later and I've got her on my lap still, and we're both sleeping! Glad the crick in my neck goes away by mid morning though :)

*I'd be so paranoid about SIDS and RSV. I'm always checking her to make sure she's breathing!

*I'd wish every day that my child...remains a child...a baby preferrably!

*It would be so much harder to resist buying clothes for HER than it is to buy stuff for ME (although, I've totally resisted. My mother-in-law, on the other hand...she has a problem. Claire already has 3 swimsuits...)

*That even though I have to make "sacrifices" because now I have a baby... (can't do certain things, go certain places as often, accept invitations to do things, etc.) I couldn't care less. Nothing is a sacrifice really. Having her is better than anything she makes more difficult for me to do.

*That I'd be paranoid about my milk supply and CONSTANTLY thinking about it and thinking about the next feeding, etc.

Motherhood definitelychanges things!