Well it’s official, I have completely lost all most of my strength. This evening marked my first foray back into the land of pull ups, callused hands, ripped up feet, knees and ankles and the oh so exciting “I can’t move in the morning ” soreness.  I have to say that tonight wasn’t as bad as my very first trapeze lesson, but it was ridiculously frustrating since I used to be able to do just about anything and now can barely climb the rope.  They say that after you have a baby your strength comes back pretty quickly because of that beautiful muscle memory business but my abs and arm muscles are basically non existent  right now.  I am however, lucky enough to have the world’s best trapeze teacher, none other than Niff Nicholls!  She was so encouraging and supportive as I struggled to do what used to be so easy for me.  Elziebub joined me and was a real trooper for the most part.  Everyone took turns holding her when she got fussy and after class was over Niff and I rigged up the fabric and had a little photo shoot!

Here are a few pics from the last few days.

How cute is this hat?!!?

This is just about as cute as it gets.  I LOVE when she does this.

Just three seconds before this photo was being a total TERROR.  You would never guess it by how angelic she looks in this photo.

Look at that identical hand placement.  What a daddy’s girl!

This was one of those days where we were rushing to get out of the house but had to stop for the photo op!

Elzie is smiling like crazy now and cooing all over the place.  It’s so amazing to hear her little voice.  I really hope she can sing as beautifully as her dad can!

I hope everyone enjoyed the photos! I really can’t believe that Elzie is already 2 months old.  Where has the time gone?

Posted on January 8th, 2009 by BabyMama in Elzie, Friends, Trapeze | 3 Comments »

After months of slacking in the video department, I finally have a bunch of new videos to post.  They are kind of in order from newest to oldest.  The last video is from Thanksgiving and you can really tell how much she has changed.  It’s amazing to see how much more alert she is now….although, in the recent videos she is pretty passed out, but take my word for it, she is way more alert!  She smiles all of the time and makes the most adorable cooing noises.   As you can see, I cut all my hair off.  It was so mom of me to do but I really love the cut and it’s so much easier to take care of!

Happy New Year!!

Posted on December 30th, 2008 by BabyMama in Elzie | 1 Comment »

Merry Christmas everyone!!!  We hope that you all had a safe and festive holiday.  We had a blast.  On Christmas day we went over to the Aldinger’s for a lovely dinner.  We were visited by Santa towards the end of the night!  It was such a surprise and we are so excited to make his visit a tradition throughout the years!  After our visit from Mr. Hohoho we drove over to see Matt and Shelly as we always do at some point on Christmas.  We had a great end to the evening opening presents with them and sharing stories of our crazy lives.  After that we headed over to my parent’s house where we camped out for the next two days.  It was INCREDIBLE!  Jon and I got a much needed break from 24/7 baby care.  My parents really stepped up to the plate and made sure we got the rest we have been craving for the past couple of months.  We came back home last night and poor Jon woke up this morning with a wicked stomach flu.  Now, to top it all off, the stinkin cat is in heat.  It’s been an interesting day to say the least.  I am just now finding a moment of peace as no one is puking, crying, or meowzering!

Here are a bunch of pictures from the past few day’s adventures.  Enjoy!!

Elzie meets Santa for the first time and sleeps through the whole thing!

Realizing that she was missing it all, and that Santa’s beard was falling off, Elzie made an attempt to wake up!

Attempt failed…right back to sleep!

We even tried to entice her with a story but she insisted on sleeping!

Our Christmas Cutie

I couldn’t resist a little photo shoot in this outfit!

I scored the dress at Ross for $3 and the tights at Target for $1.  There’s nothing I love more than a bargain!

Here we are at Shelly’s Parent’s house.  I couldn’t help posting all of these little family shots because Elzie’s faces are so hilarious!

This is by far the funniest I have ever seen her look!  She discovered her tongue recently so now she sticks it out as often as possible.

I’m not sure why her tights are not on in these pics

We join in the face making!

Jon thought it would be funny to torment our poor girl.

Ok, in this picture she looks like some sort of weird muppet that I have seen somewhere but I can’t remember where.  Does anyone know what I am talking about? If so, can you leave a comment with what character it is?

Here my dad is enticing Elzie to make faces at him.

It worked, look at that huge smile!!!

Elzie was covered in milk, puke and poop.  We had to come up with something on the fly to bathe her in.  I scoured my rent’s basement and found this perfectly sized bowl.  I laughed and laughed when we put her in.  How flipping cute!

Today I put Elzie in the Bumbo for the first time.  She liked it down in the living room.

But then was unsure about it in the bedroom.

Then she decided she definitely didn’t like it in the bedroom!  Hopefully once she is a little older she will start to like it more!

Here we are playing a little “I’ll stick my tongue out if you will” game.  Elzie is getting very good at making me look like an idiot all of the time now instead of just some of the time!

I hope you enjoyed all of our photos from the holiday.  I will be posting videos soon!!

Posted on December 28th, 2008 by BabyMama in Elzie | 1 Comment »

So it turns out that when you have a newborn you have very little time for website related things!  I have been trying on multiple occasions to get new pictures posted but obviously, to no avail!  Alas, here are some new pics of our hilarious little munchkin head and her fabulous family

GG and Elzie maxin and relaxin in the glider

Babies in hats rule!

This was the first picture that made me say “hmmm, maybe she does look like me”

This is Elzie’s first, of what would be many, blowouts leading up to Xmas!

Our friend Olivia made Elzie this fantastic hat. The pom is so big!!

There will be more pictures and videos to come as we celebrate the holiday and get some much needed down time at BD and GG’s house!

Posted on December 27th, 2008 by BabyMama in Elzie | No Comments »