21.1.12

all dressed up and nowhere to go.


lucy my girl, you're picking your own outfits often these days (especially shoes). i must say, your taste is impeccable. unfortunately, your bladder control is, umm, NOT.

furthermore, you insisted that the coat should be BUTTONED, because you were leaving. naturally. you wouldn't want to catch a chill!

*i'm resolving to post snippets of day to day life again, because these are the things i want to remember. i often get bogged down by being "behind" on blogging the big important thigs so i skip blogging all together. but that's pretty silly. because this is my journal darnit. bring on the single images, instagrams, and funny quotes with no photos. do you feel that? do you suffer from blog guilt?

10.1.12

vivi, our hospital stay.

can i just say this? i LOVE the hospital. L-O-V-E. love.  alone time with my new little love, someone to check on us both and bring me tylenol and ice packs and mediocre food. it's heaven. minus the bed. the bed is terrible. i just loved getting to finally RELAX and enjoy my sweet vivi. did i mention that the weeks leading up to her birth were among the most stressful, overwhelming weeks of my life? did i mention we moved on a thursday, had no heat and no power, we all got the stomach flu (with no laundry options), and i had to be induced for medical reasons on saturday that same week? oh yes.  it was absolute insanity, but it was all worth it to be snuggling my girl and that hospital room felt like a five star hotel.  we had a few visitors which i loved, but viv and i had a lot of time one on one in the hospital because danny and our moms were scrambling to get as much ready in our new house as possible before we came home! it got a little lonely at times, but you can't really complain when this girl is your roommate. isn't she a beauty? 




she has a crooked toe! we call it scoliosis of the toe. or her scuba toe. because i may or may not have been scuba diving when she was just a wee little jellybean in my belly. obviously i didn't know i was pregnant at the time. ;)



these are the only photos we took of viv and i in the hospital. woops! luckily i look super glamorous. uhhh.... yikes.  


getting ready to come home... i chose her sweet little outfit not knowing if she would be a boy or a girl, i just love my babies dressed in white! 







psst! word from heather is my birth photos are almost ready. i'm DYING to see them and share vivi's birth story with you! i tell you what, i don't understand why anyone woiuldn't have their birth photographed. seeing these images for the first time is going to be like christmas!

3.1.12

baby love.


just checking in to say happy new year! i have a feeling 2012 is going to be a busy one for our litte (or not so little?) family. three kids, two babies. i can't believe that less than 18 months ago max was my only child! everyone is asking how life is going with 3. so far so good! the holidays helped a lot- danny was around more and we had a little down time as a family of 5. but let me tell you, the challenge of 3 kids has nothing to do with the third one! the baby is easy, it's the two you already had that are the challenge! ;) anyway, i have lots to share about our first month with sweet vivie, but i started editing some pictures and just had to post this one. my lu LOVES her baby! these two just melt me.

happy new year blog friends!
xoxox
jess