a night with uncle buck...

clean booty in uncle buck's face (serves her right for letting her roam diaper-free)

"MOOOOMMMM! No camera's please! Can't you see I'm in the nude?!"

not quite how mommy does bedtime stories, but i suppose uncle buck's method works

after nugget went to bed uncle buck felt like baking...

this is how well that idea turned out...

buh-bye round one brownies...

note- no bueno! brownies without gluten are not brownies- more like charred dog poo!

excitable sunday...

for nana lynn's birthday we went to dinner with uncle reed and aunt becca (uncle buck). two things made the lil' bug super excited...

got him on her leash! (or his ear buds... either way, she's got him)

 

 

can't let go of her uncle reed

 

 

meet my chocoholic in the making (she takes after her mommy)

giving us a hard time about not letting her have the handful of chocolate cake she grabbed

pure joy...

after i failed as a fun mommy at the park the other day, we revisited the park the next day (daddy came along this time to ensure mommy didn't hold out on the fun this time)... annnnnnd this time i was prepared for the swings with my handy dandy de-germing wipes!

so excited to be at the park again

daddy had as much fun pushing her as she had swingin'

when she gets excited she clasps her hands (love it!)

check out those baby thighs! (i just wanna squeeze them- eek!)

nature walk time

visiting the local horsies

daddy went a little nuts with the fun

pure joy (daddy does the best stroller-coaster)

typical californians in january...

80 degree weather calls for being outside and soaking in some pure vitamin d... so we packed up bob, lathered on spf 50, and went to the park up the block... and in typical new mommy fashion, i didn't leave home without my camera... (sorry i'm obsessed much with her)

spf 50 baby... she is a white after all ("pasty-melanoma-prone" may as well be tacked onto our last name)

"swings please" (maybe next time i'll bring the sanitizing wipes, they looked absolutely disgusting)

staring at the other kids on the swing (in envy of those whose parents aren't germ-a-phobes)

like 3-5 minutes straight of staring at the kids on the swings (i felt bad at this point)

distraction (clearly when she's focused... she's focused... no matter what is in her hands)

8 months and already knows how to beg

when all else fails, try to distract again...

hamster wheel is spinning trying to find a way to get to the swings herself

babbling away some good conversation with her mama (even though all she wants to talk about is "dadda")

nap buddy...

uncle buck insisted she just needed a nap time buddy...

determined...

i've come to accept that my lil' miss has a determination about her.... currently that determination applies to escaping the confines of her crib. time to drop the crib to its lowest setting...

"i say no to nap time!"

goin' places... hopefully not out and down!

what a goofball

my two faves....

Ryan won't be too thrilled that I'm posting this... but I think its precious. He offered to put her down for a nap while I got some stuff done around the house, after a 1/2 hour this is what I found...

I don't know who looks more relaxed, but they both slept for 2 hours like that

houdini returns....

well the new bumper lasted all of 2 nights before houdini made her return.... at this point i give up...

I heard her chirping away, I walk in and find this.... (in the dark)

note the "haha i did it again!" face

busted

who needs crawling anyway???

Its been a month... and Jayme is STILL crawling (not scooting anymore, but actual crawling) backwards! Everyone (family, friends, Ryan and I) has worked with her to try and get her going forward- she is either stubborn, likes her method, or really just doesn't get it.... funny part is that if there is something she wants to get to, she will roll, shimmy, scoot, then position herself backwards and crawl in reverse to get to it! This past week we noticed she is trying to pull herself up to standing (still a ways off), but I guess my child thinks she can do without that whole crawling business...

dragging her blanket with her to her toys...

"a little help mom" (she LOOOOVES water bottles)

making her plan of attack

just a little more....

I may have given her a slight boost ;-)

5 seconds later...

looks like a crazy yoga pose as she tries to pull up and out of my idea of a playpen

third times a charm....

Up until she started REALLY moving around in her crib (about 5 months), we didn't put a bumper on Jayme's crib (that whole first-time parent fear of our precious child suffocating herself, or an extra measure to prevent SIDS)... Then she started scooting, which led to her bumping her head (and crying), getting arms/legs stuck (and crying out of frustration), and dropping her pacifier (and crying for someone to be her personal golden retriever)... I decided it was time to bust out the super cute bumper that came with the bedding my girlfriend got us. One problem... as cute as it was (and cushy), it didn't quite fit our convertible crib, which our Houdini child figured out right away... she always seemed to find the exact spot where she could wedge her feet and legs out of the crib and get herself stuck- We thought this was hilarious at first because she would do this fighting sleep, and when i moved her back to the center, we would find her in the same position (but in her sleep)... a few weeks went by and this was getting old. Ryan's solution- Moby wrap! That was genius, and we probably would have left his idea of Moby wrapping the crib if it weren't for two things- it is a pain to remove and redo EVERY TIME I go to change the sheets, and secondly,  its just not pretty. So after much debate about more options, I went to my trusted source (the internet) and researched various bumpers for larger cribs (for whatever reason convertible cribs are bulkier)... we ended up with the Carter's super soft bumper. (of course if I was changing out the bumper, I had to change out the skirt too for aesthetic reasons- Ryan didn't even notice ;-) So far (2 naps and an overnight later) I think we found a match for our lil' Houdini!

The Original (cute one, bummed it didn't fit right- if only I knew how to sew)

Why we had to do away with the original...

I would find her like this in the morning or after nap time (too often)

Ryan's Moby Solution

Did the job, but not up to my "cute" standards...

New bedding (bumper and crib skirt)

Fits PERFECTLY, and the best part is no more Houdini (for now)!