Water Baby

Guess who has a water baby? That's right we tried out the pool yesterday while Grandma and Grandpa were over and she was absolutely precious in the pool. Well, actually just the jacuzzi, the pool was too cool for her and she grunted and fussed when Micah barely put her foot in. But she loved the jacuzzi so YAY! I knew she loved her bath time but wasn't sure if that would cross over into pool time and it did. She is wearing the bathing suit my mama (grandma) bought her. It is so stinkin' cute I almost couldn't take her in it. I would've left it on her all day if I could.

This was a pretty awesome weekend, considering the fact that Micah and I are both missing the farm and my brothers desperately. Friday we celebrated the Quiggle's 10 Year Wedding Anniversary! Woot-Woot! We went to our jam, the place we go whenever we have something to celebrate about, Pepe's Mexican Food and Cantina. Elsie got all dressed up for the occasion as well. Don't look at me, she asked to wear her tutu.

On Saturday I got up and actually went shopping with Shan without Elsie. She needed a new pair of jeans and needed my opinion. Micah wanted to spend time with Elsie and told me to go. What a good daddy huh! The denim shopping was a success and I came home in time so Micah didn't have to use a bottle, I was able to feed her. We took naps and relaxed the rest of the day until about 7:00. Micah and I went to the Storm game. It is the minor league where Padres draft from who just so happen to be playing the 66er's who are the minor league the LA Dodgers draft from. It was a special game because Manny Ramirez what a designator hitter, he is actually in the Major leagues and plays for the Dodgers but is on probation, blah,blah,blah. Anyway the game was awesome and we were there for over 2 hours with Elsie. She was great, and even slept part of her nap through it. Plus the best part was it is only 10 minutes from home and $10 total to get in!

Yesterday my parents came down because they were having Elsie withdrawals and wanted to see all the pictures from Michigan. Seeing as it was over 100 degrees it turned into a swimming day as well. We can never complain about that. Plus there was an added bonus, our friends Neil and Dawna were back visiting from Erie, PA and were able to meet Elsie!

Enjoy the pics!

Going out to celebrate. Bea took this pic, pretty good huh

Elsie was still napping, hence why she is not in the girl shot

Elsie in her tutu

At the game

I know it looks like bird poop on his shoulder but Elsie just spit up on him

She fell asleep, even with all the commotion

Awake

Watching the game with Daddy

I know right! Too Cute!

Elsie and Dawna

Elsie's first Tractor ride

Elsie Is Here!

Michigan

I know I haven't blogged in a while but a couple of weeks ago Elsie became extremely ill and I was all caught up on making sure she was on her way to recovery and that was about the only thing on my mind, then last week we flew to Michigan so Elsie could meet her uncles and we returned home Thursday about 1:00 a.m. By the way, thanks to all for all your prayers and concern for Elsie while she was under the weather.

So why did we travel to Michigan you ask? My brother Bear bought my grandparents old farm house in Burtchville, MI this past November. He and Greg moved out there and have basically become farm boys on 30 acres of land. Yes that's right I said 30! I visited them in January while I was 7 months pregnant and needed another fix, plus they were dying to meet their niece, and I was dying for them to meet her as well. So Micah, Elsie, myself and Josh(my youngest bro) flew out for a visit. Elsie was amazing on the airplane and even did well in her car seat on the way to the farm (about and hour and 1/2 drive North of Detroit) This was an awesome trip, there are too many details to blog about so I will just post pictures since, well let's be honest, that's all you want to see anyway. We did absolutely nothing, besides visit my grandmother in Gross Pointe,MI. We enjoyed the scenery, the beautiful weather, tractor rides, quad rides, walks around the property and of course home cooked food every meal. It was so nice to eat every meal together. We did not go out to a restaurant once and it was wonderful. Breakfast, lunch and dinner all together as a family was more than I could ask for. This was one of the most relaxing vacations I have been on yet.

I have to say my favorite part of the trip would be without question the interaction between my brothers and Elsie. They are amazing uncles and Bear even offered to change her diaper a few times. I had to hold back tears while they played with her so many times because it just blessed my heart so much and yet it also made me sad because I wish we all lived closer to each other so they could see her more often.

Ok on to the pics before I ramble on about everything.

Getting ready for take off

Chillin' in our Nashville layover, if it were a longer layover Elsie could've met her cousins...

Captured her uncle Bear's heart at first glance

same with her uncle Greg

you know this can't be good

the view of of the backside of the farmhouse, garage and barn

tractor rides rock

Bear could handle the tractor and drink his coffee, so natural like he was born to do this

going for a walk around the acreage

multiple stops to love on Elsie

snakes! Just a lil' ol garter snake is all

crocodile eyes

just sunbathing

meeting her Great Grandma Carolyn

The Great Lakes

All tuckered out

relaxing with her Uncle Bear in the hammock

Uncle Josh making a mess of Bear's land

She wore her I heart daddy shirt in honor of Father's Day!

Baby Einstein

So I have come down with some kind of flu, tragic I know, but it really is when you have a 2 month old and are fearful she may catch it as well. I pray she doesn't but in the meantime I needed to come up with something to entertain her during her wake time instead of me laying next to her while she is on her jungle gym mat, or holding her, or kissing her well basically anything that involves breathing on and touching her. So I decided on placing her in her swing, in front of the TV while a Baby Einstein DVD played. I was not really expecting her to watch it but maybe the noises from it would get her attention... and to my surprise she is actually watching it, intently I might add. She also hasn't stopped talking or moving since it started. At first I thought she was restless but realized she was just excited and continued to squirm and squeak throughout the whole video, so precious I know! I am sitting near her typing on my laptop.

Anyway last night I gave her a bath and afterward her hair was crazy and I called her our lil' baby Einstein, so I thought it appropriate to include her picture from last night.

Cereal Night

So we met another couple besides the Quiggle's that love cereal just as much as we do, and when I say cereal I mean the good stuff that you got as a kid but for some reason you rarely get as an adult, probably because the sugar and fat context. Anyway we had Josh and Kate over a couple weeks before we had Elsie and decided we should have a dinner that just consisted only of Cereal. Everyone was stoked about it and said we would do it after the baby was born. We finally found a day that worked with everyone's schedule, which was yesterday and we made it happen. There were rules to this event.

Each couple had to bring two different cereals. One that they agreed upon as a favorite, the second was a wild card that neither had ever tried. Then each person would have to sample each cereal and vote on their favorite. The attire for the evening was pajamas and slippers (very appropriate don't you think)

So we all tasted each cereal at the same time and said how we felt about it. Fruity Pebbles and Chocolate Chex won my vote!

I can't wait for our next cereal night except we might be doing it over candlelight and in formal attire.

The Spread

Kate not pictured

The catastrophe (but cut me a break, I was holding a sleeping baby while trying to eat out of a paper bowl, this was bound to happen)

All tuckered out