undisciplined thinker

sign of the times

Had a moment today where I realized I'm am no longer in the youngest "adult" generation.  That there are things I can say that can be taken out of context by people younger than me and put into a context where I'm trying to look cool to them.  Interpretations that make me realize I am not apart of that group, that I'm getting old...

Teenage Grocery Store Clerk: "Did you find everything you were looking for?"

Me: "Yes and I need a book of stamps somethin' fierce, please."

Teenage Grocery Store Clerk:  "Okay...I have bells and Christmas.  Which one is more fierce?"

Me: "...............Christmas"

taste the rainbow

Bret called her Skittle the whole time she was in my belly, so what else could I make her for the first Halloween?

days 50-56 & days 57-63

A double post this time.  The last two weeks have just gotten away from me.  We took our first long car ride down to Portland for Halloween and I've been sick since we got back.  Bret has back surgery on Monday and hasn't been out of bed all week.  It's amazing the parenting that can get done while everyone is laying in the same bed all day.

 

days 43-49

Scarlett is all about the smiles and different facial expressions this last week as well as the need to be entertained with more then sleeping and eating.  She has found her hand a couple time so she could suck on it when Mama was to slow with the pacifier.  It's so crazy seeing her learn and process. 

can you hear the fit?

Scarlett is a very content baby.  Until she's not.  Then her face turns red and the arms start going and I can hear somewhere in those baby screams "Scarlett ANGRY!"

pumpkin patch 2, prices 0

It seems that maybe pumpkin patches just aren't in the stars for us right now.  We've been to three different patches and have come home with no pumpkins, cider or apple sauce!

Last weekend we went and it was sunny and beautiful and colder then hell!  We were outside maybe a half hour.  We took a few pictures, unwrapping the baby at the very last moment so that the evil 2 million mile per hour wind wouldn't cut one of her limbs off, and then left.

We went today.  The temperature was perfect, but it was gray and threatening rain.  Boo.  We didn't stay long, but again grabbed a few pictures. 

 

And yes I laid my 6 week old baby both in a box of gourds and on the ground in a cabbage patch, in October.  Deal with it.

days 36-42

This week Scarlett started playing her first game.  I will put her binky in her mouth and pull it back out really fast and she just smiles and smiles.  After a couple times she starts leaving it open so I can pull it out faster.  It's so cute to see her interact with her world. 

photo bombed

days 29-35

Rationally I know that babies develop quickly, but oh my it happens fast when it's your baby!  We've had a lot of developments this week.  She laid on her tummy and held her head really high for a long time looking around.  She tracked at toy from one side of her head all the way to the other.  She also got her first cold.  While at the doctor we found out she weighs 10 lbs 14 oz, gaining a little over 3 lbs from birth weight and she has grown 2 inches!  She's getting so big...

days 22-28

She is four weeks old now.  I can't believe it.  She's starting to mimic facial expressions, which means she is sticking her tongue out at us and we are getting some smiles.  She coos a lot when she eats, making lots of different little noises. 

I also can't believe we managed to remember to take a picture every day for a month! That bodes well for the future pictures, I think.