Visit from Family

Grandpa and Madeline
Clara on the beach!
Madeline on the beach

We had a fun visit from the Heders this past week! We went to Santa Cruz, the beach and just hung out at home! We played a mean game of Trivial Pursuit. haha. (I hate Trivial Pursuit because it makes me feel stupid)

We didn't have any pictures of Rachel, but here is her baby Clara who was sooooooooooooo dang cute (and chubby)! We had a great time--the Heders are always a blast. Thanks for visiting and making us feel like we had friends again!!

Lame Father's Day

So, I have botched Father's day as well as Adam's birthday this year, and Christmas. So for Christmas, I wanted to send him hang gliding, which would have been awesome, but it didn't work out, so I just gave him a tie (granted it was a SWEET tie), and for his birthday, I pretty much did nothing, and now father's day... I was totally going to redeem myself... I called every Best Buy, Target, Sears, in the surrounding area to find a Wii, which Adam has totally been wanting, and everywhere was OUT! What the heck! So, I had to do something, and I bought a Wii-mote (as we call it) for him, as a teaser to say, 'I will get you the Wii as soon as it comes back out again'. I thought he would be stoked. Well, he wasn't. He was just confused and disappointed. He kept thinking all day that I was playing a joke on him and that I secretly had it set up downstairs and any minute I was going to say "Just kidding!! It's downstairs all set up for you!!!" How awesome that would have been! But instead he finally said at the end of the day, "So, you really don't have the Wii set up downstairs do you?" I felt like such a turd. What the heck kind of present is a Wii-mote??? Later that evening I said, well did you kind of like your present? He said "yes, I will be upstairs playing with my Wii-mote for the rest of the evening". Well, at least he had a sense of humor about it.

Just us

Beep Beep!
Chomp. MJ is getting her two bottom teeth in.

Ha! I've killed the beast!

Madeline LOVES her babydoll. I'll have to video her kissing it with her open mouthed kisses--it's so cute! She's just chillin' watching Barney. lol. She totally loves Barney.
um...you think Madeline likes dogs???...watching Barney again.
Sun bathing princess.
We went to an Oakland A's game. Soooo fun! We could see the Oakland temple from the parking lot of the stadium.
Playing in the sandbox.

Damn Jeans

Yes, I'm still trying to lose my baby weight, and that means, literally (scale-wise) I have 8 more pounds to shed, figuratively (body wise) I don't know if I will ever entirely get back everything in it's proper place (does that ever happen??). People keep telling me that I will lose it when I stop breast feeding, but I don't know if I believe that because "people" also told me nursing would take off weight, and that the weight would be gone in 9 months (9 months up, 9 months back) but none of those have rung true for me, so I am not putting my eggs in the nursing basket either, I am really trying to work my butt off to , well, get my butt back.
Anyway, I went to Nordstrom the other day because I've always wanted to buy really cute, expensive jeans that fit me well. I always wear jeans that I inherit from people, friends or my Sister, Susan. Not that expensive jeans always fit you well, but designer jeans has been my weight loss inspiration since the beginning (actually when I was preggo I used to tell Adam that I was getting designer jeans as a push-present to myself --and then you know how we women are, your size is never small enough to justify spending $150 on demin fabric.)
Anyway, back to Nordstroms: I asked the girl to get me all the jeans she had in my size... and she brought me 4 pairs of jeans!! Seriously?!! And she said "Sorry, this is all we have in your size" Seriously, I wanted to deck her. I think her better angels were holding her tongue back from letting the words out "Maybe you should try a different department (like the plus size department)".
So as I left the store almost in tears and with no jeans, I came home to fill out an on-line weight loss program that I'll never do. As I was filling out the questionnaire, I got the munchies and ate TWO skinny cow ice cream bars! What the heck?? Am I trying to lose weight here or what? ugh. The whole weight loss thing is a joke. I am a horrible dieter and exercising with a baby seems near impossible (I can't imagine having more than one baby!). But I have made time to do it, but it comes at a price, I just don't have time to get my house as spic and span as I would like, or I don't have time to read a book I wanted to. In the end, hopefully my eight pounds will come off; and if they don't, it's totally worth it to have such a cute, healthy little angel.
But I have to admit, I think I was chomping down the ice cream in defiance of the Jeans sales girl, and the weight loss program and just all the pressure I feel to lose these last eight pounds that just don't want to budge. Sometimes we all need to rebel a little bit. There's one skinny cow left in the freezer...
p.s. I don't want to read any comments to this post about how your weight loss was easy and just "came right off"; I will only accept sympathetic comments, constructive suggestions, and/or a little poster of a kitty falling off the side of a bath tub saying "hold on!".

Crawling Video

Here is Madeline cruising down the hallway. Since we took this video she has learned to do short stairs too.

Mom and Babe at the Beach

Actually Adam was there too, but he was taking the pictures (for a change- just kidding). We had a fabulous time at Half Moon Bay beach, and Adam even jumped in the water and swam around a bit which was quite impressive because it was cold and windy. So I told Adam he had proved his manhood ;).
Half Moon Bay is a cute little beach town that's about a 30 minute drive from our house. Madeline loved playing in the sand, and finding dogs to look at, and trying to sneak little twigs into her mouth while I wasn't looking (Her favorite thing to do--no matter how fun the snacks I get her are, sticks always win out).
This is the link to the Ritz Carlton, which we did not stay at , but it is at half moon bay, and it is gorgeous! Look at the view!!! Yes, I did buy the huge Nichole Richie sunglasses... which I thought I would never do.
Don't mind the cleavage. Do you see her pointing? Her new thing is pointing at everything, it's soooo cute!
Wow, I look super chub in this pic, but it's a cute one of her crawling-- oh the sacrifices we moms make...

Thank you to Lauren!

I just need to say Thank You again to Lauren for the updated CUTE blog that she made for me. Thanks!! I totally LOVE it!!!