Coffee with Colleen

This is my friend Colleen, who had her baby, Emily Leona on January 9! We've been friends for years, graduated high school together, but hadn't seen each other's babies yet, so scheduled coffee this week.
Here are the girls! A LOT of people (I think everyone who entered Woods while we were there) came over to check out the babies and ohh and ahh and ask if they were twins. ??? Come on, people! They look completely different and there are two moms here! :) So funny.
The girls, side by side. Emily weighs over 14 lbs, Macy, not quite 11 lbs, but 11 days older!!!!! So precious.

Tuesday Thursdays

This is Anna (Banana) and Carma Pimento with Macy out at the soccer fields by our house. We have a little Tuesday/Thursday routine while Micaela (Anna's sister) is at soccer practice, I take Macy up in the stroller and we walk around the track. It is so much more fun to exercise with a friend to talk to!!!

I babysat all three of the Pimento girls, Sarah, Anna and Micaela for years when I lived at home, and Carma babysat me when I was little. Now, the girls will babysit Macy :) Gotta love it! Anna is so sweet with her... Can't wait to see the next generation grow up!

Dinner... IN!

So last night was date night with Gabe! We stayed home with Macy, made a huge dinner together and watched New Moon. I am crazy over the Twilight series. The books are amazing, and the movies are so fun! Gabe was such a good sport when Twilight came out, and he said he would watch the movies with me as they came onto DVD. :)

The picture above was our "appetizers"...
I made a new recipe- Sweet Potato Fries. Pretty easy to do. Peel sweet potatoes, cut into fries, drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with seasoning salt. I thought they were ok, Gabe really liked them. We ended up eating one sweet potato between us and had an entire pan leftover. I think I'm going to try hash browns with the leftovers.

YUM! Asparagus! Love this vegetable...
And... the best meat known to man. Tri-tip, marinated in yosheedas... Delicious!

Sleep...

So Macy has been a good sleeper from the start. She easily went 4 hours, then 5 in the night, now does between 6 1/2 and 8 1/2 every night. It's amazing! We're doing the Baby Wise book sort-of loosely, and I feed her every 3 hours in the day, then awake time for up to an hour, and then sleep. The last time she eats is about 10 PM and then she goes into her crib awake and puts herself to sleep.

So usually I like to hold her during the day when she's sleepy and rock for awhile and she falls asleep within 2 minutes. Not anymore! She has decided she likes to be alone and put herself to sleep all day long! She let me know this a couple days ago by screaming her head off until I laid her down and she was instantly quiet. No burp, no nothing, just a quick smile and off to dreamland.

The picture above I just took of her falling asleep for her nap. No fuss, just sucked her binky, waved her arms a little and... asleep in no time!

Macy also likes her hands out when she sleeps now. She can "Hoodinee" out of any wrap, and cries until she has a hand, "handy"!

This was last night, before bed. She was giving me this face every time I took her fist out of her mouth to try and get a picture!

The Craft Show

On Thursday, Macy and I went with Katie to the annual Lynden Craft Show to "help" our Aunt Sharon in the Hi Hoe Nursery booth. I say "help" loosely since Macy was there and was a major distraction that didn't allow for much to get done. :)

Macy and Aunt Sharon. I just love how excited Sharon has been for me throughout the whole pregnancy, birth, motherhood process. Sharon is the Mimi of triplets, and still realizes how miraculous and perfect Macy is without ever comparing her to Annie, Abbie or Ellie- I love that she never says, "Can you imagine having THREE of these?" :)

Macy loves her Aunt, and Great- Aunt! She thinks they are both hilarious!
I am loving this new hoodie. It has snaps instead of a zipper and is reversible!!! Thanks Raelene!

Unbelieveable

This day is one to remember. I was just leaving Little Caesar's Pizza on Yew Street and there was a car parked in front of me since the driver was chatting with someone out his window. I'm behind him, waiting patiently, needing to turn left to get out and wondering how long it will take for him to see me and MOVE. There was a big group of people smoking on my left, so I couldn't pass him. I'm waiting and Katie, who was with me, says, "Honk at him to move." I'm debating it, and she goes, "NO! This guy is backing up! The car on her right, right in front of the 7-11 was backing up, right into HER- the whole passenger side of the car. I'm stuck, the car in front of me doesn't move, there's no time to back up, I lay on my loud horn for the count of two, the crowd of smokers sees it all happen, someone yells, I'm watching the man back out, not even looking in the rear-view, behind him, NOTHING!!!!! And...

CRUNCH.

I about had a heart attack. I'm furious. I'm shaking. I'm freaking out. I have never been in an accident.

He was going 2 miles an hour. 2 miles an hour into my SISTER with my BABY IN THE BACKSEAT. So thank the Lord Macy was on my side in the back, and Katie is fine, and there's a dent in the passenger's side, but the car is drive-able, all that. One of the smokers came over to show her disgust at the driver who climbs out of the car and it's an 83 year old man. Literally, the man is 83, cannot hear at ALL, and never apologized.

It reminded me of that Jerry Seinfeld routine when he asks what is the age someone says, "I'm not turning around to look anymore...I'm putting it in reverse and coming back!" That was exactly what happened.

Whole scope of life, I know, it's no big deal, it's a thing, not a person, but I'm sort-of on a rampage about it. Should people be allowed to drive when they can't hear and obviously shouldn't be on the road? What if Macy would have been on that side and he had hit us hard enough to hurt her? What if my car was smaller? It's not ok that he doesn't realize that he was wrong and should be more careful. If he would have felt bad, I may not feel so upset, I don't know. Accidents SUCK. It ruined my day, that's for sure.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I'm sorry. I couldn't resist. Today I put Macy in this velour track suit (a Gymboree wonder, from her Auntie Kate, as are the glasses, brought from Prague...) for St. Patrick's Day and had to snap some pictures she looked so dang cute!!!!
Doesn't this look like she's shielding herself from the "mamaratzi"??? :)

My baby leprechaun... Best St. Patrick's Day of my life. Every day just gets sweeter.