Baby Bug

Baby Bug is growing like a weed! In about 2 weeks she has her 4 month appt. which I cannot believe but which also involves a series of immunizations! Having a child I knew we would be dealing with the to immunize or not debate, but for me, I didn't feel like I had much of a choice. I feel like it's the best thing for her and for us. I'd hate to have the hassle of attempting to put her into school and say to them...oh no she doesn't have any shots.

Baby G doesn't love the shots but she gets over them. She takes her Tylenol and sleeps for awhile and then is generally good to go...so with that said just a quick note to ask everyone to think of her on Sept. 12 when she gets 5 shots in one day. Sad baby, sad mommies.

At Last

Things feel like they are finally starting to fall into place for us. Baby G is cooing and attempting to hold up her own head...I know at 3 months a lot of kids are doing this but believe me she has a BIG head so give her a break OK!



In other news I start my final (fingers crossed) year of my grad. program the last week of this month and I am actually looking forward to it. I've finally moved on to the classes that I am interested in so it should be a lot of fun for me. We've worked out a plan with a great friend for watching Baby G while I am in class one afternoon a week and Amelia will watch her the two evenings that I have classes...all will be fine as soon as I am comfy leaving her. I've been with her everyday since she was born so I suspect it won't be easy but I'm doing it for our family so it must be done.



I have a couple other things under way that I am looking forward to working on as well...so things should be good.



Oh well, on to the cuteness! Enjoy!

Nothing at all to do with the baby!

Now isn't that a catchy title...LOL!


We recently (in June) got DVR...and I'm not as crazy for it as I had expected that I'd be. I am grateful that when a show I watch religiously, Big Brother (stop laughing), is moved back to 2am and there is no way in hell that I can stay awake to watch it, that it can be taped and viewed by me at any time, or when Baby G (oops I wasn't going to mention her) starts crying and won't stop, it's lovely to be able to pause any old show and restart it when she calms down...otherwise I could do without it. But I've been watching shit I'd never usually watch, for instance National Lampoon's Van Wilder, Tara Reid is in this movie for Christ's sake!

With that said...now that I am home I find myself DVRing shows and watching them as I feed Georgia and am tied to the couch for a good half an hour to forty five minutes. I've never been a fan of soaps so this is a god send for me! For instance I've never ever had the desire to watch Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations...mostly because he insists on eating crap that I can't imagine eating, much less watching someone else eat. I do find foodie shows very interesting although I'm probably the furthest thing from a foodie, I eat but I don't much cook. I love to go out but I always get the same damn thing...#'s 153 or 141 from El Vaquero please.


But this particular Anthony Bourdain caught my attention, he wasn't coming to us from some deserted island, or from a South American jungle, nope he was coming straight to us from good ol' South Carolina. I was excited to see what would happen, what he would eat and it brought back some good memories for me.

As most of you know I was born and raised in Georgia which is a world away from where I am right now but I do remember the food from this region of our country. I was given Coca-Cola (to be a proper Southern Belle you must use the whole name, and run it together, Cocola) in my bottle as a baby and am as addicted to it today as I ever was. Anthony Bourdain found himself eating boiled peanuts, which I love! When Amelia and I took a trip to GA we saw a man boiling peanuts on the side of the road and I just had to have some. Amelia tried them and thought the were the most slimy disgusting things in the world but I love them. Anthony Bourdain seemed to like them too...they are quite tasty. One thing that I had completely forgotten about was Coca-Cola cake...I had this a lot as a girl and remember it being thick like a brownie with the aftertaste of a good coke burp (sorry for that, it wasn't very lady like of me a'tall!) But it's the truth. If you ever get the chance to try this cake, and I wouldn't recommend trying it anywhere but in the deep south, you must have it! I don't miss much from GA, god knows it was hell when I was a kid there and hell the last time I was there...and that was the last time, but I sure do miss being able to walk out into the backyard and pick a peach from the tree or gather pecans that weren't already shelled for you. It was paradise for this little girl and thanks to Anthony Bourdain for making me remember the good times.

If you must insist on trying to make this cake on your own, here's the link to the recipe taken from the Coca-Cola site! If you feel the need to look around on there you'll find other great recipes; Southern Belle Salad, Coca-Cola Chicken, and Cherry Coke Ham...yummy!

Wordle

One of my favorite blogs to read is Precarious Tomato. She is funny as shit! Something cool that she just posted on her blog is a wordle...it is a tool that allows you to put in a site and it creates this piece of word art using the words on the page...here's mine for this blog. I'm not as cool as her so I couldn't figure out how to make it larger...click it to see it larger!

MOO

A gift from my dear friend Channa!

Cow print is all the rage in Amsterdam!

Baby G and Pinky Tuscadaro!

Baby G on the hammock!

Best Friends

Full Time Mama

So many things have changed over the last week or so.

I found out from a friend, who feels guilty but shouldn't, that I was not having my contract renewed at my job...and that was later confirmed by my boss, so here I was jobless and insuranceless with a brand new baby and so pissed about it. But things have turned around for the better. We've decided that yes it's going to be hard but we had always wanted for me to stay at home with her while Amelia worked. We don't have a ton saved but we have some...and I will be collecting unemployment which my company now offers to contract employees.

The new plan is that I will stay with Baby G during the day and pass on all of my great wisdom to her and finish up my grad. program in a more timely manner than we originally thought. I sort of was planning on taking three years to do this program but now I will be able to finish it up in the two years that it should really take. I've never expected that to be possible for me but it finally is. I think we will be living in sacrifice city for awhile, meaning probably no Key West for Christmas but that's OK with us if it means that Baby G will get to have one of her moms around full time for at least the first year of her life.

Ironically the job that laid me off just sent me an offer today to pass my name along to another branch of the company and it was hard but I said no thanks. I feel like I was sort of handed my pink slip and a golden ticket all at the same time...this will probably be my only chance to do this, to be with our daughter all day everyday and I don't want to miss out on anything.

So wish us luck and keep your fingers crossed that we survive...I could stand to lose a few pounds so maybe I'll eat a little less but will be filled up with Baby G's laughs and attempted smiles.