You turn your head for a second.....

And your baby turns into a pirate!

Maybe not.
But when I said "You turn your head for a second...." you totally thought I'd finish it up with a "your baby falls and gets a goose egg" or something...didn't you?
Or maybe you're an optimist... and you thought I'd follow it up with a "your baby takes her first step".
Huh... Maybe I underestimated you.
Anyways. We finally made it on The Morning Walk
that I promised Miss M. Oh, you know The Walk.
It's The Walk that I promised we'd take if they actually opened
the Crack Shop around the corner from our house.
And by Crack Shop, I mean Starbucks. It's the same thing.
I told Miss M that if it actually opened it would be a good excuse to take a walk in the morning. True to my word, we made the 14 minute trek this morning. After we de-pirated the baby hat.

Coming to a tub near you!

Fat and Naked Baby....now with Bubble Beard.

Like a baby with a real facial hair, but more cute and less weird.

Baby Bites

For anyone who has ever tried to feed Miss M, this might actually mean something. For those who haven't, you'll just have to trust that it is significant.



In one sitting...... a whole container of baby food in one meal. It was almost too good to be true, but it happened again at daycare the next day and at home the next night. We are on a 4 day eating spree right now!
Mr. Zimny and I theorized that there has been some experiment where our baby has been secretly switched with her opposite -a baby that now eats, but doesn't sleep. But it turned out that the not sleeping was a new TOOTH. It 's a TOOTH and not a tooth because it 's a big'n. It's a lower side tooth and looks like it really hurt. So now we have a baby that both sleeps and eats...
can you say happy family?! Miss M can't - she's got a mouth full of food!

The grass is always greener in a big girl room

So... we did it. Just barely, but we actually got Miss M's room ready and her moved in by Monday night. At like 11:55pm. Whatever.

And on with the dramatic before, during and after pictures.....

Before - empty and yet full of loneliness...geez, does it get anymore dramatic than that?!



















During-with Mr. Zimny taking care of strangling hazard type coax cables:














During- with lovely grass, painstakingly (read: hurriedly and with great back strain) painted by mom.














Because every yellow walled baby's room needs random green grass...Why?
Because I SAID SO! WHEN I OBVIOUSLY DIDN'T KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO STENCIL ANYTHING.
FYI: It's especially hard to stencil something when 1)you don't actually have a stencil and are forced to make one and 2)you've never actually stenciled something before.
But after doing like 6 feet, the grass kinda grew on me. Ha! get it... GREW on me.... 'cause it's grass...right. Anyways, now I really like it.

During- While Miss M decides exactly where in her huge room she will store her various helmets and stuffed animals. You can never have enough storage space for these things....

After- with Miss M in her crib. 'Cause it's like 11 or something and shouldn't babies be in bed by then? You'd think her parents would be more responsible than that. Geez.















Oh.... a note about responsible parenting. Say you get away from the baby for an evening. You decide to go out and have a nice time with your friends... but you feel like there is something missing... a little baby sized void... it's good to have a replacement. But remember, safety first - strap it in.

Just Trying to Help

This weekend starts the changes to Miss M's room. Thanks to grandpa R.L. it is now painted a lovely and cheerful yellow.




Grandpa R.L. : " Does this color please you my Princess?"
Miss M : " It will do for now, and yes, two coats will be necessary. Do not let any drip... if I see one drip on my floor..I'll take you by the collar and...."
Grandpa R.L. : "Yes, Princess, yes, what ever you desire..."

And as a side note, while typing this I realized that I couldn't call my dad grandpa Randy on here because there are two grandpa Randys. Thats never been a problem until now.

Anyways.... Miss M helped a little too....

At first she was the tape holder.... but as you can tell by the look on her face here, she became a bit bored with that job. This look means something like "Woman, your actions have become tiresome. Stop putting stuff on my head, give me that camera and let's go play airplane."
When I turned my head for a second she took it upon herself to become "helpful":

By the end of this long weekend, I'm hoping to give both before and wonderful after pictures.... if someone could just stop being "helpful"....

A little something different

I went to get a hair cut on Friday, and came home with this:







I know you expected pictures of like a crew cut or something, but to me straight hair is about as drastic. It's the first time in my life that I've had straight, non-poofy hair. It's probably only fun because it's temporary... but it'll be fun while it lasts.

This is what an empty heart looks like.

Alex is gone.