Football Round Two

The Huskies won their bowl game and now it's time for the Seahawks to win their first play off game. This is my first playoff game to watch, that is why I have this awesome Seahawks fan shirt. Grandpa not only watched me this morning while mom went to her class but he bought this outfit for me! I love him so much, he's so nice to me.  Mom and dad told me that not too long ago the Seahawks actually were in the Superbowl. When I asked what happened they didn't want to talk about it...something about the refs being bad? I'm not sure but I'm thinking if they really work hard tomorrow as a team they could win against the Saints. 

I wasn't around back then but here are some pics of mom, dad and Grandpa way back in the Superbowl days. 

Night time Fun

Getting ready for bed is fun at my house. It starts with a fun warm bath. I get to exercise by kicking my legs and waving my arms. It makes a lot of waves in the water which I like. I think my mom really likes it too because she cheers me on and says, "you can do it" and "good job" to me!

Then after bath, daddy cuddles me up in a warm blanket, puts my pajamas on and then I get to have dinner with mom.  After dinner, dad sits down in my favorite rocking chair to read bedtime stories to me. I must have been really tired the other night because I feel asleep during reading time, that has never happened before! I hope he didn't think I wasn't interested....

Then, usually after reading I go to sleep. It's a surprise after that for mom and dad to see when I'm going to wake up again to either eat again, cry or just see what is going on in the middle of the night in my house. Usually, nothing exciting is going on so I usually go back to sleep until the morning. 

Note from mom, Topic: SLEEP

Sleep: the single most aspect of motherhood that I was scared of. Before baby I required sleep-at least 8 hours. I respected sleep, I never took it for granted. I thank sleep for helping me not get sick very often. It is such an under rated aspect of health. 

So when Price came, sleep went out the window. The first 3 months he was waking up at least every 2 hours during the night wanting to nurse. Pretty common for breast fed babies. Remarkably I didn't think I was even really that tired. I think the first couple months you are running on adrenaline and just this weird instinct you suddenly get when you become a mom. You wake up to the cry and you jump out of bed ready to go, it's a strange thing but awesome to say the least. So about 2 months into this mommy hood thing that is when I really started getting tired. I think the novelty was wearing off and the adrenaline was dwindling. I tried to do what everyone said, "sleep when the baby sleeps." Well yeah, I tried, it doesn't always work. I'd rather throw a load of laundry in, cut up some vegetables for dinner, check my email, do something "unmommy like" things while the baby sleeps. Oh, and forget about exercise. The personal trainer can't even muster up the strength or desire to whip out the hand weights and mat and do a workout when the baby sleeps. Looking back on my "plan" before baby....well, that was my plan. Ain't gonna happen. I just have to count my lucky stars that I have a job where I can exercise. So anyway, not sleeping when baby sleeps is probably why I was really tired all of a sudden. I was not getting quality or enough sleep.

So this is where the heaven's gates opens for me. Price is 3 and a half months old and for whatever reason he has decided to sleep longer stretches and we are thrilled! I don't want to talk too soon, I know things change quickly but I want to express my appreciation and excitement for his newest task. The last two nights he sleep a straight 6 hours! Unbelievable really. He went from 3 to 6 hour stretches just like that. We think he's going through a growth spurt or just that this is what babies do. It's funny for me to think about praising 6 hours. Before we had Price 6 hours of sleep would put me in a zombie state the next day, it just would not cut it. But after this 6 hour stint I woke up jumping out of bed ready for the day and not hitting the concrete wall in the afternoon.

 We'll see what happens. It's a roller coaster ride for sure but a fun roller coaster so I'm ready to see what's next. 

Happy Boy

I wasn't always happy with being on my stomach but now I think it's fun! Not sure what is happening with my shirt but that is besides the point.

 I was dressed up like teacher Daddy today with my Tie T-shirt. I was also trying to act like a math teacher. "Now class....here's a story problem: When you have a basket of 24 apples and the apple picker takes out 1/2 of them, and the worms eat 1/4 of the 1/2, how many total apples to you have in the basket?" 

Oh, and by the way, days later, Ted is still standing, well kind of....I think he wants to do the Limbo?

Move over Michael Phelps

Change is Good

My daddy was a little sad but also excited this morning when we woke up. He is sad because he no longer gets to stay home and play with me all day. Instead he has to go back to work to teach his middle schools math. 

He was happy and excited though because he hasn't seen his students in over a month and he misses them so he'll have fun! Another change is mommy is going back to teaching her fitness class today. She used to teach 4 classes in the morning, 3 days a week but now she is only teaching 1 class to start out. That'll be nice because she won't be gone too long and I won't miss her too much. Besides, I'll have visitors from my Grandparents. Today Grammy is coming over to take care of me. I'm excited! 

Happy New Year!

2011 is going to have a lot of cute! Daddy did this little photo shoot of me because I love to talk, talk and more talk