three weeks postpartum.

since i know that everyone either a) likes to see the before and after pictures or b) is bored at work and saw that i made a new blog so they clicked it.... here you go.

in all of my 41 week glory.


one week postpartum.


three weeks postpartum.


in retrospect i probably should have worn a different color shirt [click to enlarge]. butttttt, im only 7 pounds away from my pre-pregnancy weight. :)

bath time [ fail ]

vegas' stump fell off of her belly button yesterday so i figured it was time for her to start having big girl baths. well, easier said than done. if there is one thing that V apparently hates more than baths it has to be being naked, and we all know that taking a bath includes stripping down to the birthday suit.


she was fine...


then the water hit her. eeeek, those were some loud shreeks!


so i promised her a pony.

i hope she doesn't hold me to all this pony mumbo jumbo because i am sure our homeowners association would not be on board with Mr. Ed in my backyard. :)

halloween and such.

this time last year we were living with CJ's aunt waiting for our house to close, so halloween was pretty uneventful. fast forward to this year and BOY what a difference a year makes. new house and a new baby, who would have thought?!?

we kept it pretty low key this year because vegas is still fresh from the ute. she was 12 days old to be exact. none of her three halloween onesies fit her very well because she still doesn't have those chubby newborn arms and legs yet. she had a pumpkin hat that we had to roll up to make it fit, but at least it was something. :)



we finally live in a neighborhood that had trick or treaters and i was happy about getting to pass out candy. however, i did not expect to have the number of kiddos that we did... five bags of candy, at two pieces per child, was gone in 45 minutes. i'm pretty sure we were the first people to turn our lights off at 7:30!!

all and all it was a pretty low key halloween. i cannot wait until next year when we can actually dress V up in an embarrassing costume and take her out!

it was bound to happen.

and it did..... last night.

cj goes to change vegas' diaper [who has been a little on the constipated side for the past two days]. all is fine until he realizes that its not just the standard wet dipe that he is used to. i hear him gagging and telling V that something so nasty should not come from someone so little... all of the normal dad phrases.

all of a sudden i hear "HELP, come in here!" so i rush to the front room and see cj holding V's little chicken legs up ever so carefully not to let them get in the big pile of baby poop that she let out without a diaper on under her butt. i seriously almost died from laughter.

first rule in diaper changes hun, is NEVER leave a naked baby unattended even if it is for like .03 seconds while you grab a diaper. just when you think they are done, they sneak a little surprise in just for kicks.

ahhh, the joys of parenthood begin. :)

this picture has no significance to the post, but i took it the other day on my phone [blurry] and had to share because it was so dern cute.