Andi Pandi

We're home!  After a month at mom and daddy's house, we have made it safely home.  Not without the required amount of mama-drama though:

As hubby and daddy were loading up the car and moving cars around in the drive way, my precious car took a wound to the driver's side fender that involved a big crunch from the bumper of an (uninjured) f-150...booo hoooo!

So we decide we have to drive it home, and after much evaluation, hubby and daddy decide that the car is road worthy and we have nothing to worry about.  Do you THINK that possibly stopped me from worrying?  In the first 30 miles of the journey home, I must have mentioned to steve (20 times) that we could

• a. not afford an accident right now,
• b. the medical care in that part of the country was sub-par (and i knew it first hand) and
• c. OUR PRECIOUS BABY IS IN THE FREAKING BACK SEAT!

After that amount of time though I finally unclenched and decided to relax by speaking non-stop for another 90 or so miles about crap that no one on earth cares about.  (How far did I walk to class in college? NO ONE, INCLUDING YOUR HUSBAND CARES BITCH!) Then, it started to get sorta rainy and sleety out.  Yay! New stuff to worry about! Then it went from a little sleety to down right icey.  And then it went to scary-icey.  And then we were like the minority by NOT being in the ditch! weeeee!  The last 75 miles though was like totally nerve wrenching.  Baby: screaming, Mama: biting nails and recalling broken-leg memories, Hubby: trying not to throw the car in the ditch to end all the tension and screaming.

We arrived safely.  Just in time to be iced in the house for three days.  (And do you think I have gotten around to unpacking yet? no. ha!  you are so funny.)

Enough of this crap already, here are your pictures! yay!

Sophie will now officially smile at you when you smile at her first! (and sometimes when you do nothing at all and she has gas!)

Her aunt leesie named this the Vibration Station.  We think she has little tiny baby-gasms...

I love this picture.  It looks like she is giving me "a look" about something. (Like the way it takes me more than 7 seconds to undo my top and get her fed?  Can we improve on that time mom? Are you really doing your best here?)

I love THIS one because her pants could not possibly be up any higher!  She is so long that she needs to wear 3 to 6 month old clothes, but is kinda thin so the waists are huge on her!

Sleeptime baby. I was able to keep aunt leesie from putting lip gloss on her pouty little lips!

And this one is the Creme:

Haaaaa! She burps best in the sitting-up-face-squashed position, but I am sooo saving this one for the first prom date she brings home!

Hello my lovlies...

I am still at mom and dad's.  I am returning home this week though and that means: pictures, posts and lots and lots of random crap from my brain!  It will be So. Exciting.  Er, at least not quite as boring as leaving the same damn thing up here all the time.  Sorry.

Bethiclaus and I are scheming together to be big dieters!  Her new years resolution is to get to 140 by July 4th.  Mine is to get to 130 by July 4th!  I love having a diet buddie!  (Mostly because non-dieting entities cannot understand how heinous it is to have to make a meal out of celery and rice cakes with butter flavored sprinkles.)

In that vein, I have a big suprise (bigger than you think...and maybe nauseating to boot) for you next week when I get home...It will be the kick off of my diet and may actually scare me into submission.

My girlfriend emilita found out that she is having a little boy this spring and I am so darned excited for her and yes...i may potentially have thought something like "oh, he will be such a nice boy for Sophie to marry, from such good people and with good morals and values"...But I swear, I will try not to think that way for another 20 years...it makes me sound like a 50 year old Jewish woman!

Okay, I tried to start a flickr account, and you know what?  It was more of a pain than it was worth.  I already have shutterfly and snapfish accounts and now to have to sit and wait while pics upload to flickr?  it is too much for me.  Oh, also, there are a few people that I know that like to have pics mailed to them, either in print or email and I am just UP TO HERE in pictures...I need like one central program that will let me order prints or books or whatever and also link to this blog.

Okay last thing:

New Years Resolutions:

1. Lose this damn weight.  I weighed 191 when Sophie was born and I weigh about 160 today.  I want to weigh 130. but will settle for 135.

2. Learn how to post links in my blog. (CHECK).  I had to actually go and read the stupid manual online, but I finally know how and I am thinking I am the very cool red-headed step child of the Blog community now for learning this.  (as you can see, I have posted two links in this entry and woah...i am exhausting myself with the coolness).

3.  Redo this blog.  So i went ahead and paid for the blog...sigh...which means i am committing to doing it now. (the last year was a personal-beta for me).  So now, I need to come up with some things to make this look nice....am sad that Zoot gave up on this stuff...sniff, sniff...

4.  Stop crying every single time the baby cries.  I can stand her little fussy stuff, but when she is just sobbing and crying and I can't figure it out, i feel like a total failure and cry along with her.  This. Must. Stop.

5.  Finish the cute little quilt i made for bethi's daughter...I gave up on it after our meeting last year fell through, but I really do think that later is better than never, so I am going to at least try to get the stitching done...or mail her the pieces, i don't know which one.

That's all.  That is all I have for now.  These aren't really good resolutions are they?  These are more like short term goals.  I need to think this through a little more.