Eyes of My Heart

Flash of the future...

So, I was in the church nursery today visiting with my girl after my meeting and as usual, many of the other babies were having meltdowns. I asked if mine was good while I was away and the lead worker shoots me   a look like "of COURSE". Apparently, she never cries while I am away. She cries a bit when I leave  just to get me nice and guilty and then she plays contentedly until I return. Little booger.

Well, this other baby, started WAILING when I came back. She (I thought it was a he - her name is Hayden) looked me square in the eye and yelled MAMA!!! She crawls over to me as I was nursing my own and grabs at my leg, pleading with me, Ma...Ma..Ma...Ma... Another nursery worker diverted her attention for awhile but then when I'd finished nursing, she came back with, Ma..Ma, imploring me to pick her up. I did. Just then Pumpkin spins around and catches me with another baby. She uncharacteristically shrieks at me to put. that. intruder. baby. down. this-instant! So I went to her, Hayden in tow and scooped her up and then she was just fine. I walked around the room with a baby in each arm, pointing out goldfish and flowers and bears. What a relief to have pacified my daughter's rival feelings before her real competition comes. I'm so proud of her temperament.

And holding two babies at once...Heaven.

Her first swim...

I just received these pictures from Pumpkin's first swim on Memorial Day.  She absolutely loves the water. The one thing you can't see which just split my sides that day is what happened to her diaper. I didn't have any "swimmer" dipes and so I used two disposables on her which rapidly grew into five pound weights, spreading her legs wide and making her look like she was going to explode - very funny.

Update...

Well, look who's back on her blog! Er, me. I just haven't been in the mood to blog for weeks. Even now, I'm still not. But I thought I should at least update with my excuse reason. I'm pregnant again! Yep, we're expecting number two in late April. We are very excited and I am very tired - make that exhausted. So far, this pregnancy is very similar to the last one: fatigue, frequent trips to the bathroom and an aversion to certain smells. The other day, I was at a church creative arts meeting and there was a jug of red vines on  the table about three feet from me making me sick. That's just weird.

Let's see...there's been so many things that I've thought of blogging about but I've just been too pooped. So I'll list a few missed topics:

1. Our baby is crawling now. It's an adorable and time consuming new hobby.
2. I made homemade tortillas for the first time. Delicious!
3. Our band has started making our first demo. We still need a name!
4. I've become a worship leader at our church in addition to being on the creative arts team.
5. I was cast as Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker. Dream role!
6. I was cast as the nurse in Romeo and Juliet. Fabulous part. I LOVE performing Shakespeare.
7. I had to say no to number 6 as I will be very pregnant at that time. Not a huge sacrifice for a baby!
8. Our film company is forging ahead- our first short will be filmed in November (starring a rounder me).
9. I can't remember much else. I'm too tired.
10. Oh yeah - Our 9 1/2 month old daughter is getting four teeth in at once, poor dear.
11. And...our dear sister-friend, Mish, went away to college again. We miss her!

Who needs doors?

In our house, we had those black, mirrored, sliding closet doors that keep getting off track, causing you to shove and grunt and lift them into submission.  We also had a rather small guest room to convert into the nursery and those doors would. not. do. Life in a baby's room is so much nicer without doors! When I'm changing her and need a dress from the closet, I just have to put my right foot on her belly and reeeeeach......And not having doors means I can park my chair in front of the closet and still have easy access.

We liked this so much we did it in our office and bedroom as well. And we learned something very important. When you take the door off, be sure to place it somewhere SAFE. We placed ours behind the door in our bedroom (I still wanted a full length mirror) and the other day I closed the door a little too hard and KABLAM! Door down in front of the door so we couldn't get in! Luckily, we had another entrance from outside the house but this is what became of the closet door:

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Hi y'all..or you two...or...you.

I've been away so long I wonder if anyone will come back! Hopefully I'll have time soon to update you on my latest activities. In the meantime, check out Everyday Mommy  and join the discussion!

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