Mar. 13, 2006

Roses are red,
I'm shouting hurray,
Becky surprised me
with a mocha today!

And it really was a surprise, we got a lot of snow yesterday and I expected her to be late because of bad roads. But she said the roads were pretty good and she got here early, hence the Starbucks.

7:05 Drop off, awake. Becky said she hadn't slept this morning and I said I would get her down, muhahaha!

7:20 I rocked Ariel for a bit, then put her down, and she fell asleep. Am I good or what?

8:00 I think this is about when Ariel woke up, but she was being quiet and just looking around.

8:15 Bottle and zantac

8:45 4 Month Photo Shoot #1. "Before the Flood" (little Alias reference there)









9:15 The photo shoot ended when Ariel's dress was completely soaked in spit up. I tossed it in the wash with my things, I'll try another shoot this afternoon on the black background.

9:20 Put Ariel down for a nap

9:30 Asleep

Ok, I didn't want want to post this earlier, because Crissy wasn't done yet, but here are the results of Suduko Challenge #1 (using the USA Weekend puzzle)

Me: 18:32
Dad: 13:00
Becky: 6:30 (with Dad as witness)
Crissy: 9:00 and just caught a mistake and will start over.

I really really think Becky must be a savant. Or a genius. Or possible an evil genius. I thought this puzzle was easy, I never got stuck and I didn't have any distractions. How could Becky do it 3 times as fast? How how how????

10:30 Ariel woke up, would go back to sleep, I put her in the bjorn and she fell asleep.

10;45 Crissy and Gavin came over.

10:50 Just playing around:


11:05 Ariel woke up and Crissy took her and decided that she was happy and needed to play before she ate, so in the exosaurer she went.

11:20 Bottle by Crissy

12:50 Photo Shoot number too (boy was it nice to have my assistant Crissy helping with the smiles and burp cloth). Crissy pointed out that her dress has chicks, not ducks, so I think I'll scrap that collage anyway.











(perfectly timed spit up)


Becky, to order prints, please reference the numbers from my flickr account.

12:35 I tried putting her down for a nap, but I think she was too over stimulated.

12:50 Bjorn, asleep

1:50 Adam fell and bumped his head and his shrieking woke Ariel up. I set her down so I could comfort him, and she was fine.

2:10 Bottle

2:45 Asleep in the bjorn again. I did not mean for this happen, I was thinking about going to Target.

3:00 Getting cabin fever. Must. Leave. House.... Now! Leaving, going somewhere....

3:30 Dropped Ariel off at Becky's work, the boys and I went to Target. I went in for $2.50 Magic Erasers and spent $88. Gotta love Target.

Mar. 10, 2006

Roses are red,
Few things are better than toffee,
Becky found brought me one,
A Starbucks mocha coffee!

7:15 Drop off. Ariel was awake. I moved her to her bouncy seat.

7:40 Bottle. I gave her the Zantac, but she had one burp/spit up early on in the bottle and it may have all come up. And she was pretty spitty after the bottle too.

I had to get a picture of my favorite outfit before it had to come off. I love this Carter line so much, it would almost be worth having a baby for it. Though my genetical prone boy babies may not look as cute.


How can a baby this sweet spit up so much?


These booties were knit by 87 year old Great-Granny Shirley:


And for your daily weather report, it's snowing again. The temperature finally dropped to 25 deg and the ground cooled enough for it to stick to the patio. That means the roads are getting slick and we probably aren't going anywhere today. Boo-hoo.


8:30 Put Ariel down for a nap on Adam's bed.

9:15 Ariel starting peeping, I went in and rocked her a bit and she went back to sleep in a minute.

9:20 I cleaned my bathrooms! You know, I only had the house cleaner come once, back in January. I keep meaning to call her again, but there's this language barrier. My first call to her took 15 minutes to just get her my address, translated through her 8 year old daughter. And after she came, she left a note that I pondered for weeks but never got it's meaning. Anyway, I'm staying on top of day to day stuff like sweeping, bathrooms, kitchen, but it's too much to think about mopping the floors and dusting. I will call her today. I think if I can have her come once a month, I'll get by with everything else.

11:15 I needed to change Adam's diaper, and all the diapers were in his room. When we went in there, Ariel finally woke up.

11:20 Bottle

11:30 Crissy and Gavin came over for lunch.

12:45 We decided that the boys were to crazy to have at home, so we went to the mall.

1:15 Ariel fell asleep in the carseat stroller.

1:50 Ariel woke up, Crissy decieded to change her diaper (which turned out to be poopy) and her outfit.

2:00 Ariel had a bottle while the boys had a cookie snack and the Mommies split a cinnabun.

3:00 Left the mall.

3:25 Got home. I was trying to encourage Ariel to fall asleep in her carseat but she kept fussing. I went to move her to the bjorn and smelled a poopy.

3:50 Asleep in bjorn.

4:05 Pick Up

P.S. Becky - I should have opened that big box when you got there, there was something for Ariel in it.

Mar. 9, 2006

7:00 Drop off. Asleep crib.

7:05 I ordered pictures last night and forgot to order one. I was trying to crop and upload when Adam decided he wanted to go "night night" (yes he just got up). I was trying to finish my project (notice, not 100% kid related) and he started freaking out.

7:30 Adam's freaking out woke Ariel.

7:45 Ariel in the bjorn.

8:30 Jeremy took Alex to preschool. Yay!

8:42 Bottle. She kept it down pretty well.

9:00 Play time. I got Crunch Bug out for Ariel. My guys loved Crunch Bug. Ariel is less impressed:


Adam replaces Ariel's "nuk" yet again:


9:17 Adam kept asking to go "night night" so I thought I could get him down for a nap. But for this plan to work, Ariel would have to go down too. I got Ariel situated in the crib and laid down with Adam. I had to get up a few times to put Ariel's pacifier in, which disturbed Adam.

9:40 Ariel asleep. Adam not. Sigh.

10:15 Adam again asks to go night night. When we went in there, Ariel woke up.

10:17 I put Ariel back in the bjorn and left Adam in his room to see if he'll put himself to sleep. So far, no deal.

10:20 Ariel went right back to sleep. Adam, still no deal.

10:40 Adam FINALLY stopped crying and when to sleep. And he's doing that sad whimper sniff in case I don't feel bad enough.

Ok, I don't want to leave anyone in the lurch, so here's my backyard this morning. We got a little more snow last night. It's suppose to be cold and snowy all weekend.


11:00 I took pictures of the boys's new sweaters so I could update my knitting website.

Here's Alex's sweater:


And Adam's slightly too small sweater:


11:42 Ariel is still sleeping on me, and I'm getting bored. So dad, here's the recipe you asked for (yes Becky, Dad had grits for the first time and LIKED them).

Aunt Eula's Cheese Grits

2 Cups quick grits
6 cups water
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
2-3 eggss, beaten
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp salt
6 drops of tabasco

Cook grits according to directions, stirring frequnetly. Add rest of ingredients, bake in 9x13 buttered pan at 350 until firm (I baked them 45 minutes).

Oop, there's Adam, gotta go.

11:50 I put Ariel down in the bouncy seat while I got Adam. He was grumpy, but cheered up pretty quick.

12:00 Ariel didn't wake up when I put her down, but is now awake. I changed a poopy before her bottle.

12:05 Started feeding her the bottle and she wasn't eating and was getting really frustrated. I finally tried sqeezing the nipple and nothing came out. So I switched the nipple and all was good. Becky, have you had that happen?

12:45 Left to get Alex from school. Ariel was oddly sad in the car.

1:00 Got to preschool. Normally I leave Ariel in the carseat, but I put her in the bjorn to get her calmed down.

1:15 Instead of going home, we went to Pearl Street. A friend invited us to a natural food store baby event. I was going just to say hi, but when we got there, my friend wasn't there. We hung out for a bit and got some free samples, like hot chocolate.

1:30 Decided that while we waited for my friend, we might as well be doing it at Starbucks. Since it was afternoon, I got a decaf MMM (marbled mocha macchiato). I think I'm done with those now, too sweet.

1:45 Headed back to the natural food store. Still no friend. I got her work number from a coworker. Alex announced that he needed to go potty, but there wasn't one at the store so we had to go accross the street to Borders.

1:55 Finally locate the bathroom. I thought Ariel was smelly again, so I changed her diaper, which was poopy, and then changed her clothes too. Mmmm, much better. I try calling my friend but the number was wrong.

2:15 Check the natural food store one last time, my friend was finally there. And she let us know that the reason we couldn't use the bathroom was because it was behind the pharmancy counter, and we would have to pass a pharmancy test to be allowed back. Even she wasn't allowed there. Hung out for a bit, then realized Ariel was hungry and we needed to go.

3:00 After a miserable car ride home (want bottle now! waaaah!) we got home and Ariel got her bottle.

3:30 Pick up. Per Becky's request, here's my backyard at 3:44, by my camera's clock, which confuses me because I thought I took it when Becky was still here. As you can see, the sun finally came out and a lot of snow melted today.


And while I was doing this update, the boys were waiting for me and looked pretty cute. I don't get them together very often:

(and as Becky noted, Adam really is wearing overalls today. And we didn't have a single nekkid episode.)

Mar. 8, 2006

Good Morning Everyone! I hope you are having a good day. I am very optimistic that I will have a good day, because yesterday afternoon was so bad that it has to go up from there. It all started because I was trying to do something other than pay 100% attention to my kids. I had been knitting Adam a sweater, and I was almost done. So I thought I could finish it up in the afternoon while my kids happily and quietly played together. First, I sent them both outside. That worked for a bit, until Alex took a shovel and poured sand all over Adam. His hood was full, his pants were full, his ears were full, even his diaper was full. So then I had to send Alex to his room and give Adam a bath. And it's hard enough to wash Adam's hair even when I'm not trying to remove a million pieces of sand from his scalp.
After this drama, I got to work on my sweater for a bit, and the more I work on it (at this point, sewing the pieces together) the more I realize it's going to be a teeney bit small. And when I spend $40 on baby alpaca fancy-schmancy yarn and spend 35 hours knitting, I want the sweater to err on the large side. So this turn of events was not improving my mood.
Then it was time to make dinner. As soon as I started, Adam decided that he needed my full attention and spent the 20 minutes of prep attatched to my leg crying. And then the best part of my evening - for dinner I was making a smoked salmon frittata that cooked in the oven in a skillet. When I was removing the skillet from the oven, I grabbed the handle in such a way that it hit my forearm. And then I was commited to that position until I got the pan on the counter. The result - a good second degree burn. I seriously contemplated posted a picture, but it's way too gross. Anyway, that was how I spent my Ariel free day. Wheee!

7:05 Drop off. Ariel was asleep, put in crib (which is amazing since she slept through the snow flakes on her face and Adam's warm welcome.) I know you care, so I'll let you know that I changed my sheets and Adam's sheets at this time.

7:10 Ariel woke up. I left her in the crib to contemplate this decision, hoping she'd see it my way and go back to sleep.

7:50 Ariel did not see it my way, though she was quiet for 20 minutes. I finally took her out of the crib.

8:00 Ariel let me know she was sick of the carseat. Before I put her in the bjorn, I checked her diaper and changed a (normal, though somewhat greenish) poopie.

8:05 Bjorn.

8:30 Crissy and Gavin stopped by. Crissy wanted to hold Ariel immediately, of course.

8:40 Crissy fed Ariel a bottle. Then Crissy used 2 burp clothes to clean up all the spit up. It was A LOT of spit up.

Quick photo session to show off Ariel's sweet Valentine's outfit.


Crissy keeps bothering me about Ariel's hats getting too small, so I pulled this lemon hat out of my stash. Oh, and right before this picture, I was going to get a picture like this but even more cuter and smilier when my camera battery died. As Crissy said, I missed a photo opportunity of a life time:


I do believe Ariel is getting some chunky cheeks!:


Adam was helping with the photo session (and wearing the aforementioned sweater which is not *quite* as small as I thought):


9:15 Decided to go to Starbucks. Our Starbucks.


9:30 Got to Starbucks. Ariel was fussing a bit, so I put her in the bjorn instead of the stoller.

Today was a very big day for Crissy. She did not get a caramel macchiato. See, occasional we both get the desire to get a drink other than our regular, but then there's the chance that it might not be as good. And why risk it? But Crissy had been meaning to try out the cinnamon dolce latte even since it came out. And she did! And it was good! That's one small step for Crissy, one giant leap for Crissykind!


And her drink was even more risky, as there was a barista we didn't know. After Crissy mentioned it (and I had of course already noticed it) I asked him. I said, "Excuse me sir (and yes, he was probably 20), are you a new barista? Or baristo? Are you a barista or a baristo?" He said he had transfered from a different store (whew!) and he didn't speak Italian, but he though he was a still a barista.

I also tried a new drink. I tried the marbled mocha mocchiato (which Becky had teased me and said she would bring me one today, but showed up empty handed. No poetry for you today, Becky). It was good too, just a sweeter mocha.

Our boys played with stir sticks while we drank our coffees:


In the background, you will notice an old man. This is not, I repeat NOT, our Grumpy Old Man.

10:15 We decided to adjourn to Chez Crissy.

10:30 Got to Crissy's. Put Ariel back in the bjorn.

11:00 We had gotten the Marcus collage printed out 8x20 and tried to put it in the frame. But somehow it was not printed the same as the Gavin collage I made last December and was not fitting in the frame right. It's like it was printed 5% bigger, even though I used the same file as I did for Gavin. Crissy said we now have an opportunity, so we are both contemplating our next move. Poop.

11:25 Crissy and I were contemplating making lemon poppy seed muffins or brownies for lunch when the school nurse called. Marcus was not feeling well so Crissy had to go pick him up from school. Right at that moment, Gavin started walloping Alex on the head, so we used that as an excuse to leave (and have a teachable moment about how we treat our friends. We do not wallop friends).

11:45 Got home, bottle. Ariel was very spitty AGAIN. She spit up on her new hat, so I had to rinse it out (Becky - it should be hand washed).

12:somthing Started updating my blog while feeding the boys lunch.

Oh, and remember Monday how I said how beautiful the weather was? Well, it's snowing today, or rather trying. It's still above freezing so it's not sticking. Gotta love Colorado.


1:10 Ok, now it's getting serious about snowing. That picture above was taken at 12:34:16. This picture was taken at 1:06:39. See how the grass is covered now? And you probably can't tell, but the snowflakes are a lot bigger too. Guess this means the parents will not be joining us for dinner tonight.


And yes, that is a a weight bench on my patio. Jeremy was supposed to deal with that a while back. Oh well, I guess it can be our lawn jockey.

1:15 Adam just showed up at the office door like this:

saying, "Potty." I have NO idea what that means. He would like to use the potty? He just went potty in the potty? He just peed in his diaper? (Notice I'm not entertaining the thought that he might have peed on the floor.) Never a dull moment around here.

1:20 Ariel is seriously stinky. Like I have to hold my breath when I'm holding her. So I gave her a spong bath (she didn't cry Becky, she didn't cry!), changed her diaper and her outfit. She smelled much better, and immediately spit up again on her new clothes. Pah. And all the while, Adam was standing at the big potty, saying potty and not doing much else. Finally he asked for his diaper and pant back on.

1:45 Popped a Bob the Builder video in.

1:50 Ariel was starteding to doze in the bjorn, so I swaddled her and put her down.

2:00 Made my lunch, tricuits and cheese. Crissy told me she's moved on to english muffin pizzas, but since I don't have a toaster oven, that's not going to work for me.

2:05 Ariel looks like she'll go to sleep, but she's not there yet. Here's outside now. Notice the accumulation on the weight bench and table:


2:15 The nap didn't stick. Must be too close to feeding time.

2:20 Bottle. She seemed to keep this one down better, but I'm on my last burp cloth. I think Ariel once again qualifies as a spewing volcano of spit up.

2:40 Hanging out, burping. Here's Adam and Rufus.


I don't believe I've introduced Rufus yet. I bought Rufus right before we went to Steamboat because I was worried that Adam might miss Ariel. Rufus is named for my FIL, who always had really good name suggestions when I was pregnant. He best was Rufus (somethingican'trememberbutisfunny) Dupre from Motor City. Anyway, Adam wanted Ariel to go in the swing, but since she had just eaten and generally hates it anyway, I suggested he push Rufus instead.

And here's the back yard as of 2:56:37. The kid's table has blown over, though it doesn't seem to be particuarlly windy:


3:03 Ariel fell asleep in the bjorn.

4:02 I seem to have lost an hour. Ariel just woke up, but I am unable to account for our activities in the last 59 minutes. Hmmmm, I briefly talked to Crissy about Marcus's strep (did she consider ME and MY plans before she started down this path?) checked my email, checked my message board, wiped Alex's butt, took Adam's diaper and pants off so he could sit on the potty and not do anything, then put them back on again. How did that take up an hour?

Here's my backyard at 3:59:37. Still snowing, but not as hard. Is is getting dark.


4:05 Ariel seems to had a false alarm and went back to sleep.

4:20

What now? Apparently I'm running a nudist colony out of my house. Yeh, never a dull moment. Tomorrow is overall day.

4:25 Pick up, Ariel woke up during the carseat transfer.

Mar. 6, 2006

Last night at the parent's house for dinner, Dad said my blogs are getting shorter. I take that as a challenge, so how do you like THESE apples, Dad?

7:00 Drop-off. Becky has been hitting more around 7:15 in the last week, so I was a bit surprised that she was back at 7:00 and I had just gotten out of the shower (read: slightly wet and nekkid). Ariel was awake, but I left her in the carseat.

7:30 Ariel didn't go back asleep in the carseat, so I tried swaddling her and laying her down for a nap. She did not like this idea.

7;40 Gave up on laying her down, put her in the bjorn.

8:00 Fell asleep in the bjorn.

8:45 Crissy called with a Fabulous Idea. We had gotten coupons for free espresso drinks at a new coffee/ice cream shop. She suggested that we meet her and Gavin and give it a try.

9:00 Got to the coffee place (which happen to be right next to "our" Safeway Starbucks). Crissy was already there with her caramel macchiato, which she had to teach the barista how to make since that's a Starbucks drink. I opted to feed Ariel first, then get my drink. Crissy and I liked this coffee place. They have a kid's section, with tons of toys. Beats the dirty looks from the Starbucks Grumpy Old Man.

9:15 Ariel was VERY spitty. It seemed like the whole bottle came back up.

9:20 I went and got my free mocha. It was good, but I can't compare it to Starbucks because I forgot to ask for soy milk, so it tasted pretty different. But it was still good, and FREE.

9:45 I left Ariel with Crissy and Adam and I made a quick Michael's run. I had to exchange some baskets that I bought yesterday, and Crissy needed a picture frame for her Marcus collage.

10:10 Got back to the coffee place. While I was gone, Crissy changed Ariel's outfit for a dry one.

10:15 We left the coffee place.

10:25 Got home and Grammie was waiting for us. Welcome home Grammie! Ariel fell asleep in the carseat, so I left her there. While she slept, I folded and put away Alex's laundry.

11:07 Wake up, bottle. She seemed to keep this one down better and I got a few burps out of her.

11:20 We spend our post bottle upright time outside, talking to Grammie and the boys. It's a beautiful day here, nice and sunny and warm.

11:35 Came inside, Ariel hung out in the bouncy seat with a newly washed toy (yes, Crissy, I finally washed my baby toys for Ariel!) while I did the blog.

11:45 Blog update completed.

11:50 Speaking of Dad (muhahaha) looks like I got ditched today. Last night Dad asked if I would be home between 11:00 and 12:30. I said yes. He said he would try and stop by after his doctor's appointment. Did he stop by? No! Did he call? No!

11:46 Changed poopy diaper. It wasn't very big, but it was very hard, borderline constipated. Ariel also did not like waiting for me to throw the poopy in the toliet, the diaper in the outside trash and wash my hands. Wah!

11:50 Into the bjorn.

12:20 I swaddled Ariel and put her down awake, she fell asleep very fast. While she was sleeping, I started a grocery list and ate lunch (melted cheddar on triscuits and strawberry shortcake that Grammie brought).

Here's what Ariel looks like napping laying down. I put her on Adam's bed or my bed. Right now she's on my bed since Adam will need his bed soon.


12:30 Put Adam down for a nap too.

12:50 Update blog again while finishing my strawberry short cake.

12:50 While updating my blog, I checked my email and saw that Crissy had emailed me back regarding Marcus's collage. She wanted to swap out a few pictures, so I finished that for her. Here's the revised collage:


1:10 Attempt to republish log and comment back on Becky's comments. And that time is a slight estimate, as always, plus or minus 5 minutes. Sheesh.

1:25 Ariel woke up

1:28 Bottle

1:43 Bjron.

1:49 Asleep. I used this time to alternately refresh my very boring email inbox and complete my grocery list.

2:20 After confering with Grammie for her famous cheese grit recipe (which will be a side to a cajun shrimp dish), I decided my list was complete enough to go to the grocery store. Adam was still asleep, so just Ariel and I went.

2:25 Before the grocery store, I popped into the knitting store to take a picture of the March project. It's a scarf with hand warmers:


2:30 The grocery store. Ariel was awake but quiet in the bjorn. I picked out 3 cooking light recipes this week that should be pretty good. And my only impulse buy was Cadberry Eggs. The most disturbing part about those eggs is that even Crissy, my fellow junk food lover, won't eat them. I only need to eat a few a year and then I'm done too.

3:15 Home from the store. Ariel hung out with Grammie while I put the groceries away.


The boys have been playing with the neighbor boys all afternoon, who were waiting for the stove repair man to come, sometime between 12-5.

3:30 Ariel was a bit cranky, so given the time, I fed her another bottle.

3:35 The neighbor's stove repair guy came.

3:45 Back in the bjorn while I updated the blog. She fell asleep pretty quickly. She's out of sync today, usually I keep her on a pretty good eat/play/sleep cycle.

4:00 Done updating the blog (and the stove repair guy left). Refreshed my email some more, and looked at my parenting message board.

4:05 Ate one Cadberry egg and started the USA Weekend Stickduko puzzle.

4:10 Ate another egg. Mmmm, Becky, mmmmmmm. Muhahahaha!

4:15 Ariel woke up. I continued to work on my puzzle. It's rated medium and is slow going. Becky, I dare you to go to USA weekend, print it out and do it. And then time it and tell me how long it took you. You too, Dad. Triple Dog Dare!!!!!

4:20 Took Ariel and puzzle outside.

4:28:30 Pick up.

4:31 Becky and Ariel left.

Dad, I said you would be amused by this blog, Becky said you would think we were obnoxious. So which is it? You have to comment!!!

5:11:47 P.S. I think the stickduko took me about 45 minutes, but at least I didn't have any mistakes.

Mar. 3, 2006

7:10 Drop off. Becky said Ariel should go back to sleep, so I left her in the carseat.

7:30 Sure 'nough, Ariel went back to sleep. I used this time to clean my desk. Now, I'm not much of a flybaby, but one piece of advice that I have taken from the Fly Lady is trying to eliminate hot spots (hot spots are those piles that seem to grow everywhere). I got rid of my kitchen counter hot spots by creating a monster desk hot spot of doom.

Here's the before picture:


And here's the after!:


And I really did put every thing away, not just move it to another hot spot. We'll see how long this lasts.

8:50 Go to Crissy's house

9:00 Get to Crissy's. I took Marcus's 7 year portraits while Crissy fed Ariel.

Here's one of Marcus:


Ariel just chilled:


10:00 Ariel was pretty wet again, so I changed her clothes and put her in the bjorn. At some point, she fell asleep.

11:45 We all went to CiCi's for lunch. Mmmm!

1:00 Got home, bottle.

I then spent the rest of the afternoon working on a collage for Marcus. Ariel was in the bjorn napping for most of it, she also watched the ceiling fan for a while. Here's what I came up with:



3:35 Another bottle

4:00 Pick up. TGIF!!!

Mar. 2, 2006

7:10 Drop off. More poetry!

Roses are red,
I want to dance the polka
My sister is still the best,
She brought me a mocha!

Ariel was awake at drop off, but I encouraged her to fall asleep in her carseat. Jeremy had a meeting at 8:30 and if he dropped Alex off at preschool at 8:00, it would be child abandonment. So I was going to have to take him to school, and I wanted Ariel to be still sleeping when we left.

7:50 Ariel was never fussy, and she finally fell asleep in her seat. (And Becky I sniffed her good and hard, she didn't make a poopy.)

8:40 Left to take Alex to school. At some point on the ride, Ariel woke up.

9:05 Left preschool. Ariel had been fine up until this point, she was suddenly realizing she was hungry.

9:20 Got to Crissy's house, I fed Ariel a bottle.

9:40 Play time with Crissy. Crissy also was carrying Ariel facing outwards, and Ariel spit up ALL over her floor. It was amazing. Ariel should NOT be held that way.

10:30 I swaddled Ariel up, she fell asleep watching the ceiling fan.

11:30 Bottle. Crissy fed her this one, while I did Suduko.

12:30 Crissy went to change Ariel's diaper and found that her shirt was soaked too, so an outfit change.

12:45 Left Crissy's to pick up Alex. Ariel was awake in the carseat.

1:00 Got to preschool. Adam fell asleep, but Ariel didn't. I took her carseat out of the car, and we waited outside for another mom to bring Alex out.

1:10 Left preschool. At some point on the ride home, Ariel fell asleep.

1:35 Got home. Ariel stayed asleep in her seat.

2:10 Wake up, bottle.

3:30 Asleep in bjorn. I did another Suduko puzzle while the boys played outside.

4:15 We almost made it all day without pictures (I forgot to take my camera this morning, which is a bummer because I missed the very cute outfit that I bought).

I was trying to get Ariel on her belly, but she didn't like that. Then I was just taking her picture and the boys came over to give her kisses:


She really did like it:


4:30 Pick up. A bit of a gamble, Ariel might be hungry on the way home, but I didn't want to feed her right before she got in the car, and that half bottle Monday didn't make her happy. How'd it go, Becky?

Mar. 1, 2006

7;15 Drop off. Asleep, crib.

7:50 Ariel woke up, I wanted to put her off a bit before her bottle, so I put her in the bjorn.

8:10 Ariel fell asleep in the bjorn.

8:45 Crissy and Gavin came over for a playdate.

9:55 Ariel finally woke up, I changed a poopy.

10:00 Crissy fed Ariel a bottle while I shoot Adam's 21 month pictures.



11:00 Ariel took a 10-15 minute doze.

11:30 Crissy and Gavin went home.

12:00 I swaddled Ariel and rocked her for a little bit, then I put her down awake with her pacifier. She fell asleep on her own!

1:00 Bottle

Here's Ariel, still in her original clothes after lunch:





We hung out for a while, then I put her back in the bjorn. At some point she dozed off, but I don't remember exactly when.

3:45 She was starting to wake up, but I finished the job by changing her diaper. Then I had to put her down to change Adam's diaper and that made her sad. She cried.

3:50 Bottle. Alex did the first part, then I finished up.

4:10 Ariel hung out in the bouncy seat while the boys and I did clean up time. Actually, I think all three kids watched me do clean up time. At least no one was crying or screaming.

4:20 Pick up.

Ariel had a very good day. She ate when she was supposed to, didn't spit up too much. Slept well, and was mellow. Yay!