Monday, April 30, 2012

Pie and Love

Last night was rough, and Xavier has been up and at 'em between 5 and 6 most mornings these days, so in the end I got a total of 5 hours of sleep last  night. Which makes for a rough morning. On top of that, as I was pulling a rhubarb strawberry (yes, in that order) pie out of the refrigerator this morning, it slipped from my hands and crashed on the floor. The pie plate smashed to pieces. The pie was rendered inedible by all the tiny glass shards. I swore under my breath and pouted at Kenneth. It wasn't just the pie plate I was upset about. The pie had taken DAYS to put together. It's so hard to do these things with a baby, and I look forward to cooking with rhubarb every year... I love food and I love cooking (when I can). And it's so hard to find time to do it with joy right now. So the days of effort it took to steal time here and there to track down the perfect recipe, get the groceries, prep the rhubarb and other ingredients, then bake it (which ended up being a 2 day process alone)... All that effort, ruined by tiny glass shards.

As Kenneth shooed me and my bare feet out of the kitchen to clean up (never mind the fact his feet were bare too), I grumbled about how I was trying to have a good attitude, but overall, I gave this morning a ranking of zero. He responded, "Well, you woke up this morning. You're alive."

Me: "Fine. I give this morning a one."
Kenneth: "And you're married. You have me."
Me: "Ok, I give it a two."
Kenneth: "And you have a baby."
Me: "True..."

All that I need.

Basically, I needed the reminding that all I needed to make me happy I already had. So while I still grumbled a bit more this morning, it didn't last much longer. I needed the reminding that life is good. God is good. Even if the morning includes tiny pieces of glass filling your labor of love pie.

Friday, April 27, 2012

Infant Potty Training

We started today.Because I'll try anything if it doesn't hurt anything and could make my life easier in the end. And because I'm a hippie enough with baby related things to try it. (Cloth diapers? Check. Baby-led weaning? Sort of check. Infant potty training? Sure, why not?)

So far, we're 1 for 1. So far, so good, ha!

(yes, this was a post on potty training. How do you like that? The things that are exciting as a parent. My FB friends are just lucky I restrained myself from posting about X peeing in the potty there.)

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

2 years/6 months

Two years ago we walked into our wedding together. Life together since then has been busy and beautiful. And I love it, and I love him. (To my husband, high five for making it longer than most celebrity marriages!)

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Also, for the last 24 weeks (or 6 months, but not officially yet), I've breastfed  my son. So many hours, so many of them frustrating at first. But I wanted to make it 6 weeks-- I'd been told it gets easier then, so that was my first goal. It didn't actually get easier until 9 weeks. But I stuck with it with 6 months as my next goal. We've nursed in planes, trains, and cars. In church and at work. It's been a lot of work. And still now that Xavier has teeth number 3, 4, and 5 coming in, there are hard moments again. But we made it to 6 months! *Cue patting myself on my back.*
Nursing at 12 days, when nursing took FOR-EV-ER.

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Wolf... Er, Husky baby and Auntie Piper

And then I realized...

While white is classic and you can bleach it, perhaps we should have registered for something with more color after all. Oh well...

Thursday, April 5, 2012

GQ

"I'm ready to be on the cover of GQ in about 25 years. See how cool I am in a baby fedora?"