Drama Queen

When Little E was merely 3 weeks old my mother gave her this preemie-sized onesie that read "Drama Queen". We put it on her and she was swimming in the thing and we made sure to take a picture. SSG and I decided we should put it on her again today at nearly 4 months old. As you will see we can't even snap the crotch! It's been fun to look back and see how our little super hero has grown.

Awake

Well I need to get my blog entry in before Thursday is over. This is going to be short because someone is cranky but will not go to sleep. Shazam is on duty right now so I will make it short and sweet.

So I may not be getting Mom of the year this year. Tonight Ella was cranky before dinner so I thought I would put little E in her swing. She doesn't generally love it but I really wanted to sit down and I really wanted to be able to sit down to dinner and not hand a baby back and forth when one of us needed to cut our chicken. Since the swing is in the living room and little E could see the tv I decided that she shouldn't watch Law and Order. Instead of turning the tv off like the mother of the year would have I actually went to the on demand part of the tv and put on a kids show for her! Yup the child is not even 4 months old and I have her watching tv and guess what she loved the show I picked for her. It was a strange 14 min little story with very little dialog about a boy, his dog and a frog. They all go out to the park and the frog escapes and it is quite cute. There is really nice classical music and Ella sat watching her show and we got to eat in peace. So yeah I am that mom who lets her kid watch tv. Judge you all you want but any port in a storm I tell you any port in a storm.
Now I need to go and rescue Shazam as little E is not settling down and I think my shift is starting.

Tag!

I've been told by SSG that it's my turn today to post. Unfortunately I'm feeling pretty crappy today, run down, and a bit uninspired. As far as feeling crappy, this morning I felt like I was coming down with a cold only throughout the day I haven't really developed a lot of cold-like symptoms. I'm not sniffly or sneezy. I had gone out for a little today and soon after coming back I needed to lie down. I just felt a little achy and just not well. I'm not sure what is going on. We got our H1N1 shot on Monday and I'm wondering if I'm having a bit of a delayed reaction and it's just making me feel under the weather. It wouldn't be such a big deal except for the obvious. Little E. She really cannot get sick. I've been handling her very little today and using lots of Pure.ll. Hopefully I'll get some rest tonight (HA!) and feel better tomorrow. What I do know is that next post, it will be much more interesting and more substantial than me complaining. I have a few things floating around that I can share.

Oh yeah, one last thought. Maine sucks it. Hard.

Sound Track

Since I have been sprucing up the old blog I have now added a playlist that plays as you read. I am not the music person in this family so I will not take credit for the actual songs just the addition to the blog. The actual play list is the playlist that Shazam made for me to listen to when we went for our iuis. She called it swim swim. We listened to it as Ella was created and now when Ella is upset we go in her nursery and listen. It calms her right down and I like to think that she recognizes it. Two of the songs I particularly love to listen to. The Luckiest by Ben Folds is the song that we walked down the aisle to and Heavenly Day by Patty Griffin was our first dance song. I am sure Shazam will add to our playlist once she knows that it is on the blog. For now enjoy some tunes as your read.

Whoops

So in an attempt to shake things up a bit over hear on Darwin has 2 Mommies I decided to do have a new layout. I like it but unfortunately I erased the blog list! Whoops. I can remember some of them but if as I recreate the list you don't see your blog or if it wasn't there to begin with but you think I would like to read your blog leave your blog address in the comment section and I will update the list. Oh silly super sammy g!

So I decided that I should try and do NaBloPoMo. In reality since I skipped yesterday I have already failed but since I posted late on the 31st I am going to count that. I also think that if I post twice in one day over the month it makes up for it. I will try to get some of the posts that have been swimming in my head for the last few months into the blog and try not to rely on picture posts to fill in my days. I am sure I will resort to that at some point though! I wonder if saying you are doing NaBloPoMo counts as an actual post...That totally seems like cheating but hell if I can not get to another post today I am going to count it. That is it for now. Must come up with witty blog posts for the rest of the month. Requests will be taken. Anything you want to know about?

Halloween Fun

We had a nice Halloween last night. Ella and Darwin were lobsters. I thought about getting Drew a costume too but there was no way we were going to get that crazy cat in a costume. Ella was only in her costume a few minutes but that is because it was really hot and I didn't want to cook her. My parents came over and brought dinner (yummy home made spaghetti and meatballs!) and we hung out watched the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown and handed out some candy. Our first holiday home as a family. Neither of us are huge Halloween fans but we rallied for the cause. I am sure it will be more fun when Ella can actually go out and trick or treat.

Ella in her Halloween Pajamas

Sweet little sleeping pumpkin!

Cutest lobster in town.

Ella is not so happy about her costume.Darwin as a matching crustacean.Grampa and Grammy with their favorite grandchild.Grammy having fun with Little E