I am peculiar. And if you are anything like me, so are you. I just can't seem to figure me out. Before getting pregnant I couldn't wait to let some tiny baby take over my body, but once Kaylee was on her way I really missed being the boss of me. So I looked forward, counted down days and tried to be patient for the day she would be here in my arms to love and to hold. Of course once it was 2 am and she had her own opinion on sleep I thought nostalgically on those now gone days when she was inside and I could sleep, mostly, through the summersaults and backflips. You see, apparently I am never going to be satisfied. I am always itching for tomorrow, but reluctant to leave yesterday. Could my husband be right? Is there just no pleasing me?
No, that can't be it! Ice cream pleases me. Chocolate pleases me. Chocolate ice cream really pleases me! So why am I never satisfied with today? Luckily I don't think I am alone in my peculiarity. It seems to be the nature of every people, nation, race, community, school, club, group, family and individual to find themselves in this kunundrum a time or two. (or three or four... thousand) We are all talk when it comes to change and tomorrow, the future, improvements, bigger and better, etc. but when it comes time to make the change we drag our feet, sleep in, procrastinate, or maybe even cry a little bit. Strange.
How have I come to such a conclusion? Well I'll tell you. This week has been a doozey. Duzey? Duozy? Whatever. I finally came to terms with the fact that Kaylee has long outgrown her playmat and baby bassinet chair so I put them away. Along with her baby bathtub, nursing pillow, too small onsies, socks, and Sunday dresses. I bought rubber duckies for her new big girl bath-time, a food processor for big girl food, blocks, and a big girl playmat. My baby is no longer an infant. She plays peek-a-boo, smiles when I walk in the room, sings nursery songs (tries), and loves rolling around rough-housing. And here I am torn between yesterday and tomorrow. Watching Debra Barone (Everybody Loves Raymond) send her twins to pre-school and bawling because my turn is already 7 months closer. Is this how all parents feel? Is that the key? Parenthood? It must be, I was normal before wasn't I? That must be it.
Parents are peculiar.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Eating Escapades
Kaylee decided recently that the world is far to interesting to waste one’s time nursing. So mom decided it was time for solids and bottles.
: )
Goodbye '09
Christmas is over…. how the heck did that happen?? Anyone else feel like yesterday we were eating leftover turkey and mashed potatoes, and today it’s already leftover ham and pie time. Time already to make and break those resolutions to shed said potatoes and pie (especially the pie) and to count down months until Mr. Sun comes out to play again. But before we get to taking down the tree and putting away the decorations here are a few pictures and stories from our happy holiday! Enjoy!
Our family picture this year! Taken Thanksgiving day on my in-laws floor, full of stuffing. Doesn’t get any better than that!
Picking out a Christmas tree
Ok, really doesn’t have anything to do with Christmas, but I thought it was really funny! Rodney was watching Kaylee while I got a few things done on the computer and I turned around to find this… so classic I had to grab my camera! You can’t see it, but she’s watching the TV. : )
Trying on our new hat. Adorable!
Again, nothing to do with Christmas, but how could I resist this face??
Love this picture! The shirt says “Snugglebug”, but the face says “Go ahead and try it, I dare ya”
Pretty in pink
Santa brought Kaylee a walker for Christmas. Other than the fact that her toes barely touch the ground, she thinks it’s great!
Of all the new things to tinker with and all the games to play on Christmas, Rodney decided to spend most of his time working on the new 3-D rubix cube. After several hours of shaking, twisting, throwing, and delicate rocking he finally beat it. Hey, whatever makes him happy right? : )
And finally, look who we caught breaking in…. : )
Our family picture this year! Taken Thanksgiving day on my in-laws floor, full of stuffing. Doesn’t get any better than that!
Picking out a Christmas tree
Ok, really doesn’t have anything to do with Christmas, but I thought it was really funny! Rodney was watching Kaylee while I got a few things done on the computer and I turned around to find this… so classic I had to grab my camera! You can’t see it, but she’s watching the TV. : )
Trying on our new hat. Adorable!
Again, nothing to do with Christmas, but how could I resist this face??
Love this picture! The shirt says “Snugglebug”, but the face says “Go ahead and try it, I dare ya”
Pretty in pink
Santa brought Kaylee a walker for Christmas. Other than the fact that her toes barely touch the ground, she thinks it’s great!
Of all the new things to tinker with and all the games to play on Christmas, Rodney decided to spend most of his time working on the new 3-D rubix cube. After several hours of shaking, twisting, throwing, and delicate rocking he finally beat it. Hey, whatever makes him happy right? : )
And finally, look who we caught breaking in…. : )
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Winter
Pros:
1. Christmas
Cons:
1. Snow is cold
2. Ice is cold
3. Wind is cold
4. Dark nights are really cold
5. Hair is constantly frizzy
6. Getting out of bed in the morning is extra hard
7. Getting out of the warm shower is nearly impossible
8. Sun + Snow = Headaches
9. Car doors get frozen shut
10. Colds, the human flu, the pig flu, and the shivers
There, now that I've taken a step back, looked at the whole picture, made the pros and cons list, and been objective about the whole thing I'm sticking with my previous conviction.
Winter should be avoided at all costs. After all, Christmas is still Christmas in Bermuda!
1. Christmas
Cons:
1. Snow is cold
2. Ice is cold
3. Wind is cold
4. Dark nights are really cold
5. Hair is constantly frizzy
6. Getting out of bed in the morning is extra hard
7. Getting out of the warm shower is nearly impossible
8. Sun + Snow = Headaches
9. Car doors get frozen shut
10. Colds, the human flu, the pig flu, and the shivers
There, now that I've taken a step back, looked at the whole picture, made the pros and cons list, and been objective about the whole thing I'm sticking with my previous conviction.
Winter should be avoided at all costs. After all, Christmas is still Christmas in Bermuda!
Thursday, November 5, 2009
As Promised
Ok, at long last and in no particular order... favorites of baby Kaylee Rayne!
Peek-A-Boo!
This is a Johnny-Jump that my mother in law let us borrow, she LOVES it! And fits in much better these days....
Splish-splash I was taking a bath... I already get more wet than her with all the splashing she's learned to do!
Learning to roll. She can do it when she wants to, but why roll over when you could just play?
Ok, seriously favorite. Not that I'm biased or anything, but I think this one could be on a card somewhere.
Good morning! Kaylee is such a morning baby, no idea where she got that with two night owls for parents.
Yes, it's a watermelon hat... : )
So happy to be outside, my baby would rather be outside than anywhere else. Except maybe the grocery store, she has a love affair with Harmons going.
Hanging out with daddy.
Posing for blessing day pictures.
When she was born she had a big ol' bump on her head which thankfully went away, but now we can't get her hair to lay flat in that spot for anything. It's constantly on end! Earning her the nick name "Rufio" from Bethany. (think Hook)
So there she is! Isn't she cute? She's happy to make personal appearances as well... ; ) I love her more and more every day, and just when I think I couldn't love her anymore she goes and smiles at me again. : )
Peek-A-Boo!
This is a Johnny-Jump that my mother in law let us borrow, she LOVES it! And fits in much better these days....
Splish-splash I was taking a bath... I already get more wet than her with all the splashing she's learned to do!
Learning to roll. She can do it when she wants to, but why roll over when you could just play?
Ok, seriously favorite. Not that I'm biased or anything, but I think this one could be on a card somewhere.
Good morning! Kaylee is such a morning baby, no idea where she got that with two night owls for parents.
Yes, it's a watermelon hat... : )
So happy to be outside, my baby would rather be outside than anywhere else. Except maybe the grocery store, she has a love affair with Harmons going.
Hanging out with daddy.
Posing for blessing day pictures.
When she was born she had a big ol' bump on her head which thankfully went away, but now we can't get her hair to lay flat in that spot for anything. It's constantly on end! Earning her the nick name "Rufio" from Bethany. (think Hook)
So there she is! Isn't she cute? She's happy to make personal appearances as well... ; ) I love her more and more every day, and just when I think I couldn't love her anymore she goes and smiles at me again. : )
Saturday, October 24, 2009
K-K-K-Kaylee!
I have oodles of adorable pictures on my camera, but no internet at home... so you'll just have to settle for emailed phone pics for now! 
We can finally do poney-tails! (anyone else think her hair looks red?)
Close-up!
You can't really tell from the picture but she's not sucking on the binkie. (Who does that?) She's nawing the daylights out of the thing!
She makes the funniest face with her tounge stickin' out and we ALMOST caught it!
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Done Waiting
It has been a while since I've blogged and things were looking a little dusty around here. I've had good intentions, every day I wake up thinking "Ok, today's the day! I'll update that blog, tell the world my exciting news and watch them all turn green with envy at my exciting endeavors. Around the world people will be inspired by my life and change thier own for the better. Yep, today's the day!". And each night I go to bed thinking, "Maybe tomorrow."
The problem seems to be, I just keep waiting. Waiting for something exciting to happen. Waiting for something inspiring. Waiting for something... anything... of note to report on. And today I think it happened. I discovered that, well, nothing is going to happen. It will probably be a few years before we take a major trip anywhere. Who knows if it will be in this life or the next before I make any kind of philanthropic, scientific, economic, or any other kind of "ic" breakthrough. And hopefully we've got a long while before noteworthy turmoil strikes. (Swine flu, stay back!) So I guess I'll just have to post about the little things along the way. Which is how it should be. I forget who, but someone sometime somewhere once said something like "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." I have that quote scribbled on a small scrap of paper hung on my magnent board, right next to another one that says "make your bed". (both good advice) So here goes; my life. Take it or leave it.... (I'd prefer you left it, I'd like to hold on as long as possible. But feel free to leave a mark or two)
My day starts at some dark hour of the morning with Rodney's alarm going off. I usually yawn, push him off the bed, roll over and close my eyes again. : ) Fifteen minutes later I half wake up for a kiss good-bye and a "drive safe" before stumbling to the bathroom to "stick my eyes in". Then it's a bowl of cereal and the GMU crew until Kaylee wakes up, and that's when the fun begins! She is the most adorable thing when she wakes up, even beats out my bed head, believe it or not... she stretches and smiles tells me all about her dreams while I change her diaper and get the bath ready. I know most moms bath babies at night but I can't seem to figure out how that one works. I look at the clock at 6 and five minutes later when I look back it's already 10:30 and bedtime... no time for baths!
Anyway, once we're bathed, dressed and fed the day can really get started! Oh wait what? What's that you say? It's noon? Lunch time? Ok, ok. So AFTER lunch the day can really get started! We get all packed up in the carseat, ready to head out to the grocery store or library or park or doctor's office or other assorted stores and errands and... wait what? What's that you say? Nap time? Ok, ok. Kaylee's nap time. I must say, I REALLY lucked out in this area! She is the BEST napper! I take her in her room, rock her for a minute or two and stick her in the crib, wide awake. I turn on the humidifier, close the door and come back a minute or two later to find her fast asleep. And she stays that way for at least three, usually four hours. Well, while she's sleeping I guess I'll do something productive. I put on the music or TV or something and get to the tidying/cooking/vaccuming/dusting/bed making/anything else I can think of to avoid folding laundry. I HATE laundry. It's the never ending chore. I swear, as soon as I can I'm bumming that one off on Kaylee. Poor thing, she'll be doing laundry when she's 4. Maybe 3. We'll see.
All of a sudden it's 6:00. WHAT?? My clock must be broken. I haven't even begun to think about dinner, and in walks Rodney hungry after a long day working outside. Dinner... dinner... quick dinner.... we've got macaroni! Poor boy, he's so sweet, he'll eat the macaroni or PBandJ and tell me it was just what he wanted. (Of course later he fixes himself some "real" food) Some day I'll figure this whole thing out. Believe it or not, this is progress from two months ago! I've started clipping coupons and making a game out of shopping for the best bargins, hunting down baby sales (tomorrow is a major book blow out at the local library... bring it on!) and experimenting with cake decorating. (ok, ok, so I've THOUGHT about experimenting with cake decorating. But I'll get around to it soon....ish!) After dinner it's time for family time, playing with baby and talking about the day (finances, yuck) until bed time.
Well folks, there you have it! My life. Maybe nothing extrordinary, but it makes me happy! I don't know the first thing about half the things going on in the world, but I could tell you story after story about Kaylee's smiles. I couldn't tell you who the hottest man in Holleywood is, I get giddy about the new WinCo foods around the corner. I hope all your lives are as happy as mine!
PS- Visitors/playdates/shopping buddies/phone calls welcome!
The problem seems to be, I just keep waiting. Waiting for something exciting to happen. Waiting for something inspiring. Waiting for something... anything... of note to report on. And today I think it happened. I discovered that, well, nothing is going to happen. It will probably be a few years before we take a major trip anywhere. Who knows if it will be in this life or the next before I make any kind of philanthropic, scientific, economic, or any other kind of "ic" breakthrough. And hopefully we've got a long while before noteworthy turmoil strikes. (Swine flu, stay back!) So I guess I'll just have to post about the little things along the way. Which is how it should be. I forget who, but someone sometime somewhere once said something like "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." I have that quote scribbled on a small scrap of paper hung on my magnent board, right next to another one that says "make your bed". (both good advice) So here goes; my life. Take it or leave it.... (I'd prefer you left it, I'd like to hold on as long as possible. But feel free to leave a mark or two)
My day starts at some dark hour of the morning with Rodney's alarm going off. I usually yawn, push him off the bed, roll over and close my eyes again. : ) Fifteen minutes later I half wake up for a kiss good-bye and a "drive safe" before stumbling to the bathroom to "stick my eyes in". Then it's a bowl of cereal and the GMU crew until Kaylee wakes up, and that's when the fun begins! She is the most adorable thing when she wakes up, even beats out my bed head, believe it or not... she stretches and smiles tells me all about her dreams while I change her diaper and get the bath ready. I know most moms bath babies at night but I can't seem to figure out how that one works. I look at the clock at 6 and five minutes later when I look back it's already 10:30 and bedtime... no time for baths!
Anyway, once we're bathed, dressed and fed the day can really get started! Oh wait what? What's that you say? It's noon? Lunch time? Ok, ok. So AFTER lunch the day can really get started! We get all packed up in the carseat, ready to head out to the grocery store or library or park or doctor's office or other assorted stores and errands and... wait what? What's that you say? Nap time? Ok, ok. Kaylee's nap time. I must say, I REALLY lucked out in this area! She is the BEST napper! I take her in her room, rock her for a minute or two and stick her in the crib, wide awake. I turn on the humidifier, close the door and come back a minute or two later to find her fast asleep. And she stays that way for at least three, usually four hours. Well, while she's sleeping I guess I'll do something productive. I put on the music or TV or something and get to the tidying/cooking/vaccuming/dusting/bed making/anything else I can think of to avoid folding laundry. I HATE laundry. It's the never ending chore. I swear, as soon as I can I'm bumming that one off on Kaylee. Poor thing, she'll be doing laundry when she's 4. Maybe 3. We'll see.
All of a sudden it's 6:00. WHAT?? My clock must be broken. I haven't even begun to think about dinner, and in walks Rodney hungry after a long day working outside. Dinner... dinner... quick dinner.... we've got macaroni! Poor boy, he's so sweet, he'll eat the macaroni or PBandJ and tell me it was just what he wanted. (Of course later he fixes himself some "real" food) Some day I'll figure this whole thing out. Believe it or not, this is progress from two months ago! I've started clipping coupons and making a game out of shopping for the best bargins, hunting down baby sales (tomorrow is a major book blow out at the local library... bring it on!) and experimenting with cake decorating. (ok, ok, so I've THOUGHT about experimenting with cake decorating. But I'll get around to it soon....ish!) After dinner it's time for family time, playing with baby and talking about the day (finances, yuck) until bed time.
Well folks, there you have it! My life. Maybe nothing extrordinary, but it makes me happy! I don't know the first thing about half the things going on in the world, but I could tell you story after story about Kaylee's smiles. I couldn't tell you who the hottest man in Holleywood is, I get giddy about the new WinCo foods around the corner. I hope all your lives are as happy as mine!
PS- Visitors/playdates/shopping buddies/phone calls welcome!
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