3 Months

My Sweet Rivers Simone

You are three months old.

You are so lovely.

Everyone says what an easy baby you are and your momma agrees.

You hardly fuss as long as you are allowed to be a part of the party - I think the concern I had when I was pregnant with you about worrying about you and your college years because I could already tell you  really like to party, is valid.

You are a very curious baby.

You are able to focus on objects for a very long time like you are dissecting them.

You are a healthy and big baby.

Your dad stepped on the scale with you today and you were 14.8 lbs, I can't wait to see how long you are next month at the doctor's office.

You are really talking a lot and you really like girl talk because your momma is your favorite person to talk to.

You really like watching tv with your dad and he is happy because he finally found a girl who would watch a movie with him since your momma always gets up and wanders around during movies.

You get really excited after you get out of the bath tub but you always get very quiet and still when I massage your feet with baby lotion right afterwards.

You found your hands a few weeks ago and make the cutest slurping sound when you suck on them.

You are very stingy with your smiles and make us work really hard to get one out of you -

but when you do.......oh it melts us.

You cry everytime we put you in your carseat but as soon as we give you a pacifier you are happy.

You REALLY love your pacifiers.

You are really strong and can pretty much stand up as long as we hold your little waist.

You are the BEST sleeper and have been since you were born - it is pretty common for you to sleep from 10 until 7 am........thank you.

I need to clarify, you are the BEST sleeper at night. During the day you hardly sleep at all and I attribute this to your need to party. But you sleep when it counts so thank you.

You love your Mondays with Oma and your Thursdays with Grandma Mogg. I know they treasure that time too.

You have made motherhood so easy and natural for me. It is such a joy to be your momma and to spend the precious moments of your beginning life with you.

A Year of Sudoku

The day was Monday, February 8th and Dave and I were spending a few extra hours in Bakersfield before driving to LA for our honeymoon because we had just learned of our flight's delay. We decided to head over to Borders for some reading material for our trip. I am quite the sudoku fanatic so I immediately headed over to the puzzles section to find a new book. As soon as I saw 365 days of Sudoku, I immediately thought of completing one for everyday of our first year of marriage. Did I really think I would complete it at the time? No. Did I have any idea what memories of the year those pages would eventually hold? No. I am so glad to have completed this project and so glad to have memories of what this wild year has brought us. There are funny anecdotes from our life as newlyweds - from our first married fight, the night Dave locked me out of the house and I was extra mad because my pants were unbuttoned and I was too bloated to button them up, the day we found out we were pregnant, the first time we heard the baby's heartbeat, the day we learned Ralpherson can howl really well and on command, to the delivery of our baby girl and every magical moment in between. Sure, the majority of the book is quite boring and to be quite honest it is mostly a diary of what we had to eat for dinner and what we watched on tv but even that is fun to look back on. In fact, from the diary I realized that I cooked more than Dave gave me credit for. Also, I have a record of exactly how many movies we watched in one year and it was probably about 35. Ridiculous. While all of this has been fun and I will treasure it forever, I cannot tell you how relieved I was as I sat down to complete the final remaining puzzle in the book. I even told my mom the next day how happy I was that the book was over and I didn't have the stress of trying to complete the puzzle everyday. Well, tonight at my birthday dinner I was given a 365 day calendar of sudoku puzzles......ayyy. Here's to year 2.