a day in colorado

baby's first hockey game

our mini christmas on the 23rd. my fabulous sister in law, steph, made us these blocks.  john gave us a baby monitor.

from my mother in law.  she always gives me awesome crafty gifts like this and two years ago when she gave me a sewing machine.  i'm gonna be so domestic.

and baby opened a few gifts too.  this one was a teething stuffed animal toy from uncle nate.

all colorado pictures can be seen here on facebook.

in a sink

i've got a headache and i'm hungry and i keep wasting my time so i'm not in a fabulous mood right now. but this picture makes me smile every time. especially since it was taken on december 22nd right after baby's most recent monumental blowout. most. recent.

that's a big deal.

and she just looks cute. because she's naked and all.

i've got lofty goals

here are my goals for today:

unpack
finish laundry
dishes

wish me luck!

it's not all about baby y'know

this is me with my precious husband.

he made us dinner today, did the dishes, spooned me for a sunday afternoon nap, showed me pictures from his thailand/vietnam trip, and played with our baby.

and he looked really good while doing it all.

no more of this

we're sleeping in our own crib tonight.

happy new year!

i strive

my parents are precious. i can only hope that someday my marriage will be as cute as theirs.

like father, like son

after church today i was watching this fine group of family play aggravation when i noticed that set of twins on the right.  hair, face, clothes, posture.

2:53:20 PM

13 seconds later...  2:53:33 PM

2:54:41 PM

2:55:20 PM

2:55:51 PM

almost creepy huh?  good thing i love my father in law.

merry christmas!

and now we're in cancun

denver was quick.  in on wednesday evening, out early friday morning.  whew.  the flight there was the easiest yet.  the plane took off, baby ate, baby slept, the plane landed.  from denver to cancun was really easy going through the airport but definitely the most difficult in terms of keeping baby happy for the duration of the flight.  she was downright fussy at times.  but honestly... who cares?  does that sound insensitive?  i don't mean it to be.  just sayin' i did the best i could.

so now we're in cancun.  it's supposed to be around 75 all week which is a little chilly for my tastes so let's hope the wind isn't to strong and let's also tell the sun to shine extra on me... and not on my fair skinned hilliers.

can i get a few words of comfort about my child's new night time sleep patterns?  ever since georgia when i gave up trying to adjust her to the time change, she's been waking up during the night.  just once, but still.  i've been putting her to bed later than usual normally because it's easier to keep her up late than to get her down early.  so if you'll remember, the fourth nap won.  so her night time sleep averages nine hours and she seems to wake up normally right in the middle of that.  she's always gone right back down as soon as i feed her, but now she'll fall asleep nursing after two minutes and i can't wake her up again because she's OUT and then i have to put her to bed asleep which i really hate to do.  not sure why i'm writing all this because i really only meant to write two sentences but whatever.  really, i just need a little comfort that traveling won't screw up my kid's schedule for life.  that's all.

okay.  it's after midnight.  i need to make myself go to sleep now.

merry christmas!!!

tuesday night with the maycocks

tuesday night we hung out with the roswell maycocks.  ALL of them.  that means my aunt and uncle that live in roswell, and all of their kids and 16 grandkids.  minus marianne and andrew and lucy who were held up in greenville.  but they were there in spirit so i will continue to say ALL.

cousin catherine, her husband russ, and her baby parker

cousin sara had eva FOUR DAYS after i had baby.  my brother walter commented on how similar they looked.  well buddy, maybe it's because they've got the same maycock genes.

they loved each other.

cousin david and his wife audrey

dad and his brother, my uncle dick

this is a "candid" picture.  i won't explain it, but i'll have you know that it was HILARIOUS.  

cousin catherine with baby girl and cousin sara with her other daughter lizzy.

cousin david, his daughter jane, walter, and some of the other kids, doing some sort of wii dance to big girls you are beautiful.

welcome to atlanta emmy!  we all had fun smothering baby girl.  she loved it.  you can tell.

fireplace picture.  dad and buddy have halos.  because they're angelic.

so, that was my tuesday night.  and then i had a slumber party with my blogging sister emmy and we stayed up til 3 in the morning.

just kidding mother, i mean, we went to bed as soon as we told you goodnight.

in our christmas best

just for fun, here's a picture of us. because i know you miss our faces. or at least baby girl's.

smores

tonight, these three girls came over to roast smores and we sure had a lot of fun.

is this a cuddle?

when i put my child on my hip, this is what she looks like. baby girl, can you get any farther away? probably not. but i know you'll keep trying.

liza,

i hope you get well soon and come over to play! i love you!

the fourth nap won

seconds after i hit "publish post" i heard my child wake up.  i don't know how to describe it but i can just tell by her breathing that she's awake.  so i listened to that for 15 minutes.  then i listened to some stirring for 15 minutes.  and in the next 15 minutes i listened to whimpers become cries.  that is when i gave up hope that she'd fall back asleep and i went and got her.

i fed her for a while and noticed that her nose was all crusty.  well, sure enough, it's not just me that's been congested and had a runny nose.  apparently my child has been silently suffering as well.  so i got out that bulb sucker and honestly, you would think i was rocking her to sleep.  you've never seen anyone so calm and content.  even with my finger and a bulb sucker aggressively jabbing up her nose.  she didn't try to move her head at all or let out any sound that she was upset.  actually, she was cooing throughout the whole thing.  i think she was probably just so relieved that i finally was going to open up her nose so she could breathe again.  but really, it was incredible.  seriously. 

so then i cuddled her (she's starting to cuddle!  barely.) and put her back in bed and she was fast asleep.  it's not like she wanted to wake up and play.  and i really don't feel like she was THAT hungry.  she ate a full meal but she wasn't ravenous or anything.  it's like she's just decided to live in two different time zones and that means 8-9 hours at night and four naps during the day.  this is not a terrible situation in the least but let's cross our fingers that this situation doesn't get anymore out of control.  i like to be in control.

2.5 hours at costco

with my brother, walter.

we had a grand old time.  we initially went to look for "old timey gifts" (that's the theme this year... let me know if you have any suggestions) for our cousins and pick up a few things for my wonderful mother.  instead, walter spent over a hundred dollars on himself, i bought myself a christmas present that i'll have mom give me, and we got separated and lost each other for at least a full ten minutes.  it was a blast and here are two pictures from it.

 

the second picture is when we got separated.  i said "i'll go get the flank steak (this is what home made beef jerky is made out of) for mom" and then i left.  when i returned, walter was no where to be found.  i looked all over the store.  TWICE.  then i grew weary from carrying around seven pounds of raw meat.  so i rested.  in this massage chair.  with my meat.

eventually, i had to get back home to feed baby.  and we were hungry too.  but i can only imagine the things we could have done if we weren't so pressed for time.

ps- the past two nights i've put my baby down for bed around 8... her normal bedtime.  but then she'll wake up 2.5 hours (the length of a normal nap) later.  baby, this is not a fourth nap.  this is called "down for the night" and you need to stay there.

it's not too bad because i've been awake and stuck on california time too and my dear mother loves to laugh at me when i say "i just put baby down for bed... again." but really, let's try to get this right tonight.

i bought my child skinny jeans

i don't consider myself a very trendy person.  i don't have boots, useless belts, colorful scarves, bangs, or anything else of that nature.

but today, i bought my child skinny jeans.  and OH MY GOODNESS you have never seen anything cuter in your life.  i only did it because she's so skinny that normal baby jeans make her look like a thug.  but we might have to jump on this bandwagon where baby is concerned.

i don't have any pictures of her in them yet but i promise they'll come soon enough.  however i DO have pictures of some fake uggs that i did NOT buy her a few days ago.  but looking at these pictures now i want to go back and get them.  as much as i hate shopping for myself, who knew it would be so irresistible when it comes to my kid?!?!

check out those rosy cheeks!

don't worry.  she has a diaper on.  i would not be holding her like that if she was without.

now tell me that isn't the most adorable thing you've ever seen.