Monday started off
nice and slow. Olivia and Eliza decided to catch up on some sleep and slept in,
while Amelia and I cuddled up on the couch and watched some lame cartoons. It
was far from the usual morning routine around here, and pretty nice to spend a
little time with my diva. Eventually the whole house was up…eating, playing,
crying, fighting. Life as usual. We ended up going on a nice long walk around
the neighborhood with Olivia’s BFF, Bella, and her mom. It was nice to get out
and moving, and of course to catch up with friends. Eliza really seems to love
being outside too, it seems to calm her quite a bit. After naps and a snack, we
were off to meet Christian at baseball. After baseball, while the girls and I
made our way home for baths and bed, Christian made a quick run to the mall…it
may or may not be coincidental that my birthday is tomorrow. I do have to
mention that Eliza is really starting to smile and coo more and more every day.
I just love it, I can’t wait to be able to interact with her more, it’s so
awesome!
Out on Our Walk
She's Working on Her Focus...
Tuesday was my
birthday…31 years old! Gosh, these 30’s really crept up on me fast. It is much
less emotional than last year though, that’s for sure. The big girls came
barging into our room before heading off to school to wish me a happy birthday,
and then I spent a majority of the day with the youngest babe. Perfect birthday
company. My dad and stepmom stopped over to visit and take me out to lunch,
which was great. We had to make it quick with the little one, but it was great.
I took a birthday walk with the babe, then my mom stopped over with some
flowers after work. Christian and the girls brought some dinner home (and
cheesecake, DELISH!) and we spent the evening relaxing together. Not as
exciting as birthday’s past, but it was just perfect!
My Birthday Goodies!
My Birthday Buddy
On Wednesday I work
up particularly refreshed…Eliza gave me the awesome gift of a 6 hour stretch of
sleep! WHAT! Oh man was that just what the doctor ordered! Most of the day was
pretty calm and relaxed around the house. We were painfully low on food in the
house, so I did force myself to do some grocery shopping. I decided to take the
moby for a spin and seriously, how did I ever life without it?!? It mad
shopping so much easier…I had the whole cart open for groceries, she slept
pretty much the entire time, it was amazing! My new lifesaver, that’s for sure.
Other than a baseball game this evening, it was a pretty low key night. Nothing
wrong with that!
While Shopping, I Finished up Eliza's 0-3 Month Wardrobe - SO DANG CUTE!!
Being behind on
posting, I don’t have much recollection of what happened Thursday or Friday…being
that I don’t have any very descriptive pictures of either day leads me to
believe we didn’t do too much. I did finally get a picture of Eliza smiling…kind
of anyway. My phone is kind of slow, so it was the end of a smile. And the big
girls were home with us on Friday. I didn’t post anything about losing my mind
that day, so it must have went pretty well, LOL! I do know that Wednesday/Thursday
Eliza continued her wonderfulness with a SEVEN hour stretch of sleep, but
followed that up by completely falling apart with an evening of little to no
sleep Thursday/Friday. Oh the joys of completely unpredictable infanthood.
Smirk!
My Girls!!
On Saturday the
girls were back into swim class, so they were pretty excited. Unfortunately, I
waited too long to sign them up this time, and I couldn’t get them classes at
the same time (Olivia is in Level 3, Amelia Level 1). So, our time at swim
class has doubled, and I have to deal with a super antsy kid during each class.
Horrible planning on my part! After class, I dropped Christian off at home and
the girls and I were off for a playdate at my friend Kelly’s house. The kids
had a BLAST playing, so I’m hoping we can finally start getting together more
often. Eliza held up pretty well too. We had some lunch, chatted, she caught me
up on some of the stuff that’s been going on at work, and then some wicked
storms rolled into town. Once I could tell Eliza was reaching her “out of the
house” limit, we made our way home. Meanwhile, Christian helped his friend
Mariano replace his brakes, and later went out for a couple drinks with friends
after the big girls were in bed.
I took a snooze with the babe this afternoon...lovely!
Sunday was Father’s
Day, but it was not too exciting. My dad is always out of town over Father’s
Day, so we don’t really celebrate. Christian had loosely brought up the idea of
having a BBQ, but I’m just not in a place to host yet another BBQ at our house
right now. Too much going on, and I’ve already been sucked into three of them
since having Eliza. So, we just took it easy. We had a lazy morning around the house, finally getting
ready and heading to Perkins for breakfast. It was our first meal out with all
of the kids…thankfully, Eliza fell asleep just as we were getting there and
slept through the meal. Christian did his own celebrating and ran to Home Depot
to do a little shopping before taking the big girls over to his parents’ house.
He visited with his stepdad for a while, then left the girls there to spend the
night. With that, another week came to a quiet end.
Daddy with his Girls
Until Next Week
XOXO
