If I lived in Tajikistan, men would bow before my unibrow

I’m behind on everything: blogging, photo posting of my beloved little people, sleeping, brow tweezing, bathing. (I smell like a mixture of regurgitated boob milk + Lily vomit, if you must know. I was blessed with both today. I should really bottle this stench, call it Abstinence, and sell it to moms of teens across America. I’d make millions.) And what am I MOST behind on, you ask? Cleaning. That one’s gotten waaay out of hand. My house is gross. Grosser than gross…as in, the five second rule no longer applies here. We’re down to maybe three seconds. Now two. We lost a second since I started writing this paragraph. I should really be cleaning. Or at least bathing. Or tweezing.


Priorities.

Speaking of bathing, I’m not sure how other moms do it, but I learned with Lily that the secret to body cleanliness + doing your hair and makeup and miscellaneous bathroomy stuff lies in parking a piece of baby equipment right outside the shower door, permanently. It’s our always-there bathroom hangout, and it’s perhaps THE most important baby hangout. Ever.
Here, Miles chills in the bathroom while simultaneously mastering the art of shoving his entire hand in his mouth. He’s a multitasker already, that boy.


Lily crawled into bed with us at 6:20 this a.m. She said her belly hurt. By 7:00, she was puking all over the couch. Happy Monday to us.


So we homebodied it today and made chocolate covered bananas (in my defense, I promised her at approximately 6:30 a.m. that we’d make ‘em, thirty minutes prior to PukeFest), and we also painted the above, our first ever Lily-Mama canvas painting.


Chocolate covered banana and an afternoon viewing of Strawberry Shortcake’s Get Well Adventure, the perfect pick-me-ups.


And, yes, that IS a giant airplane next to her. And a chocolate covered banana. Which she licked a little, and that was it. Poor girl.


So while I was assisting her with banana cleanup and all, Miles decided it was a fine time to roll over for the second time – at last! Too bad I missed it. Again. Accursed banana.


Last, oh, Thursday-ish we met up with a few friends at the park. Gotta love those seventy degree Arkansas February days.


Going fishing for “seaweed.”


Success!


Yeah, I know.
Unfortunately, I suffer from the same butt crack affliction.

Bug.


A really cool one. Obviously.


On Friday, we headed to JumpZone.


Miles and Ashley.


Slip-sliding with Addi.

Lily’s back there somewhere.


And on Saturday, we got to go to our pal Autumn’s first birthday party.


Crafting with friends.


A hug for Addi.


Dancing girls.



Nap time.


Frosting time.


Autumn + Mommy and Daddy.


Autumn + cake!


We broke out Miles’s exersaucer over the weekend. He’s a fan.


What is he NOT a fan of? Rice cereal. He had his first taste of the stuff a few days back, and he pretty much just cringes over and over again and spits it out. I’ll give him some actual veggies and all in a few weeks. I’m gonna attempt to make his food myself. Poor guy.



Namzola  – (February 29, 2012 10:45 AM)  

No one in their right mind has ever eaten rice cereal - that stuff is Nasty. Poor Lily, hope she's feeling better. Wait till she starts school...stomach viruses get downright violent!

Ashley E.  – (March 2, 2012 12:20 AM)  

I hope we get to see y'all tomorrow. Addi's been asking to go slide with Lily since last Friday. Haha!

susan –   – (March 7, 2012 5:04 PM)  

ahhhhhhh, miles & lily can certainly make a girl smile... miss you all!!

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oh, and one more thing...

It has been suggested to me (okay, it was Ryan) that I change or clarify or otherwise DELETE what I wrote in my profile above – the part about how it sounds like our Lily was the spontaneous result of a completely unplanned conjoining of Ryan’s seed with my inebriated egg. I mean, yes, tequila was involved. I believe it was in margarita format. And, yes, there was one…and only one…night of unprotected sexy sex, along with some mildly embarrassing stuff that I could never, ever, ever go into because my mom reads this blog. But we wanted our Lily more than anything in the whole wide world. We just didn’t know it yet. That, and we’re Catholic, and Catholics make babies.



I’d make ten more just like you if I could, Lily. But no more tequila. It gives Mommy a headache and causes her to do silly things that make her blush the next day.