Happy Hal'ween

SLUG BABY NO MORE!
There is life in there! Here is the proof!

THE INTERNET IS THE DEVIL

I find myself googling questions as soon as baby girl goes to sleep! Behold the 8 stages of Google Grief!
Stage1: Curiosity. (so hooooow exactly do I help my baby ______)
Stage 2: Smugness. (hey I found helpful-looking pages awefully fast! I am a champion googler!)
Stage 3: Engrossment. (I can now ignore everything else in the world as I read 10 different opinions on this topic!)
Stage 4: Confusion. (how come there are 10 different opinions?)
Stage 5: Anxiety. (how am I supposed to know what to do??/How do I actually do this??)
Stage 6: Guilt.  (I already screwed everything up! She's ruined!)
Stage 7: Despondency. (I should just eat some more halloween candy)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN, BTW
The fact that its halloween doesn't excite me that much because baby girl is too young to have fun. It reminds me, however, that what???? Thanksgiving is almost here and then before we know it it will be Christmas???

The Blog Post Formerly Known as Prince (TBPFKAP)

MY SISTER CAMETH

Nanners visited me this weekend! I love her so much. Unfortunately I didn't take ANY pictures with her and my nephew in them. That was dumb. She was so sweet to hang out with me and watch the baby while I went clothes shopping for the first time in a very, very long time. It was really fun to have the whole family together (sans Garrick who I miss mucho) for Sunday dinner this week. I hope my sister in law Jen doesn't mind me stealing this picture of all the cousins together with my mom aka Grandma B (a moniker that inserts nicely into a black eyed peas song)... 

I KNOW MY HUSBAND IS SMARTER THAN I AM

I am not afraid to admit it. He actually got college credit from his AP classes in high school (now that I am older I realize how much of high school I spent goofing off).  But he is NOT as smart when it comes to popular culture. I  don't know whether to be proud of that or deeply ashamed. Here's a video of us discussing Fraiser/Cheers in front of our clearly unimpressed baby.

MY BABY LIKES TO SCREAM

She spent a good couple hours throughout the day and night doing it (so much fun when it is from 4:30 to 6 in the morning) She doesn't need a change, a burp, or to eat more... we think she cries when she's tired which makes us ALL more tired. 

And she can look so innocent...

 As of this morning, my current anti-scream strategy is to put her in her car seat and swing her back and forth. Not the smartest thing to do seeing as how lifting her carseat caused my sciatica which by the way hasn't gone away yet but...the pain is worth it sometimes;

We are TOTALLY investing in a swing tonight. I don't care how much it is or how far away we have to go to get one!!!

Don't Cry Out Loud!

AS FOR THIS WEEK

I juuuuust posted last week's entry... Now it's time for this week's! Update #1 no more rats yay Update #2 boo STILL have sciatica

I KNOW WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT

and what they want is videos/pictures of the baby! Enough about me and my daily escapades! * just so you know, the song featured by my husband and myself in that video is a real song. I know. Hard to believe.*

WE BOUGHT A CAR
Our second craigslist car is a pretty blue 07 Nissan sentra with manual transmission. It was the only non-american (i only trust the japanese for economy vehicles) car with under 70k miles listed in our price range yesterday and i'm glad it worked out! The only sad part is not owning a truck anymore.  That tiny pickup helped us help move a lot of stuff and a lot of friends' stuff. Adam is  reminding me that it also was a nice place to make out! .. It had no AC though and in AZ that is just suicidal. One time, me and my roommate drove up to Phoenix in it in the middle of summer. We put a pack of ice on the dash (it was a bag of water by the time we hit Casa Grande), wore skimpy clothes (or at least I did) and sprayed each other with a spray bottle for the 2 hour drive.  Good riddance!


ADAM GOT A COAT
So MWU has this thing where they give all the 1st years in every clinical program a white coat in this ceremony...  I wanted to go and support him but twas not to be because the baby was crying and my leg was still shooting pain. Adam wasn't offended in the least- he wished he could have ditched it too. Niether of us is the pomp and circumstance type.  We're more of the apathetic only-came-for-the-refreshments type. Mmm. Dessert tables....

Last Week's Post..

* I actually wrote this last Sunday but was waiting for pictures of the rat*

THE ROOF RAT MET HIS DEMISE

Finally! I was beginning to wonder if we were wrong somehow in thinking that we had a roof rat.. but lo and behold Adam saw the trap that he laid on the roof laying in the yard and there he was, neck broken, peanut butter on his nose... pretty sad end for him but I am really glad to  not have to worry about droppings on my kitchen counter in the morning. That said, we aren't in the clear just yet! Roofie could have had a family, so we left some traps up on the roof for good measure.

BABY GIRL LIKES TO SLEEP

But not from 1-4 am in the morning. Thankfully my own brain is sort of adjusting to her way of life- I sleep 1 hour and wake up and it feels like 3 or 4.  My dreams are really vivid but they aren't twisted and scary like they were at first. Someday I know she'll sleep through the night but until then, british period dramas are my best friend.  Long enough that I don't have to change dvds so often, and mellow enough not to give me crazy dreams. So far I've watched Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Wives and Daughters, To Serve Them all my Days, Little Dorrit, and I'm starting Horatio Hornblower  tonight.  That's a lot of miniseries for a week and a half! 

THE VOICE IN MY HEAD HAS A BRITISH ACCENT

I just noticed it...No doubt a side effect of the above-mentioned binge...

OUCH

since tuesday I've had sciatica. I don't think its very fair to get nerve pain as soon as you start feeling recovered from delivering a baby. I am seriously resenting my leg at this moment.