I added a LINK on the right over there --------> that goes straight to an album on Facebook where I upload all of the 365 pictures, in case anyone wants to get a bigger/better look at any of the pictures. I'm not very blog suave, so I have no idea how to make the link/button bigger or flashier.
Sad Day.
:(
Sunday, November 14, 2010
September 2010-1st Half
Hm. well. as you can see, we were obviously too busy with a new baby and....ya well my excuses end there. Pretty much all I've got it is what I wrote down about Amaia (and some about Solia, but let's face it, she's still pretty boring). 
Hm. Well it looks like my list of things is pretty boring.
Oh ya! We blessed Solia this month-and Justin was in London most of this month. Hence the lack of creativity in the girl's 365 pictures. And it was his first time out, so I was probably overwhelmed or something which is why I don't have much written down about this month.
Anyways.
*She likes to say "Oh feekin' gosh!"
*We taught her our names, and she says "Dustin" and "Elimy"
*If something is twisted, crooked, inside out, sideways, upside down, etc she calls it 'being tazey (crazy)"
*Backwards is "back ways"
*She always says "kank you eeehm" (I'm no longer Mommy, I'm Em).
*When I go to give Solia her pacifier, Amaia will yell at me "No Solia Need It!"
*I managed to get Solia's hair done up in hairties for the first time-before 2 months!
*When Amaia answers yes/no questions, she says 'nnnnnnnnnnnnnope!' and 'yyyyyyyyyep!'
*When asking to watch Baby Signing Time, she asks for specific ones: 1) The Food One, 2) The Car One, 3) The Night Time One, 4) Peach So Soft :)
* Walked around for a while saying "Oh snap!"
Mostly family pics from Solia's Blessing:
Just Solia:
Just Amaia:
Girls Together
365 Project
And that's it.
August 2010 Video
So. The reason I didn't put this up is I really wanted a clip from this movie to show you what Amaia was trying to do. Because it would have made no sense if I didn't put it in. So when I first made the video, I had just ordered the DVD online. I waited for it to get here, ripped it onto my computer, and converted it. I did that all twice. Both times most of the pixels were grayed out in huge square chunks. Anyways. So I tried to use my capture program, Snag It, to, well, snag it. And I got the video-but no sound. Then, I got the genius idea to just record it with my video camera like some teenager at a new movie release. And for all intents and purposes, it works. Just forgive the giant reflection of myself in the tv :)
and enjoy (by following this link to YouTube):
http://youtu.be/ajiVuSDFpn8
and enjoy (by following this link to YouTube):
http://youtu.be/ajiVuSDFpn8
Thursday, September 2, 2010
August 2010-2nd Half
Alright well I don't have a video with this one. I have a video made, it's just not done, and I'm waiting to get a movie in the mail so I can add a clip from it (for reference). But I didn't want to wait until it got here to post this post.
Things of note:
*Amaia says 'freakin adorable'-about herself, of course. After the one time Justin said it.
*Amaia's learned how to open doors, lock doors, and unbuckle the top part of her carseat buckle-all in one week.
*If she does something she's not supposed to (ie, make a huge mess with something) she'll start cleaning it up to 'make mom happy now'.
*Solia took her first shower-straigt from sponge bath to shower. I think we bathed Amaia in an infant tub all of one time, and of course she pooped in it and it was just gross. We showered her up until a couple months ago and now we only shower Solia.
*I've been trying to get Amaia to watch movies other than The Lion King. After a couple times she warms up to a new one, but every time I put a new one in for the first time, we'll get half hour into it before she comes whining that "Amaia no yike dis one"
*She's learned to say stop (SOP!!) and go away. She'll even tell inanimate things to 'sop', like if she knocks over her lego tower she'd go 'sop knock ofer!' and totally freak out on it.
Here are the pictures:
Just Solia
Some of the girls together, but not the official 365 photos
these are the 365 photos for the last two weeks
Just Amaia
Things of note:
*Amaia says 'freakin adorable'-about herself, of course. After the one time Justin said it.
*Amaia's learned how to open doors, lock doors, and unbuckle the top part of her carseat buckle-all in one week.
*If she does something she's not supposed to (ie, make a huge mess with something) she'll start cleaning it up to 'make mom happy now'.
*Solia took her first shower-straigt from sponge bath to shower. I think we bathed Amaia in an infant tub all of one time, and of course she pooped in it and it was just gross. We showered her up until a couple months ago and now we only shower Solia.
*I've been trying to get Amaia to watch movies other than The Lion King. After a couple times she warms up to a new one, but every time I put a new one in for the first time, we'll get half hour into it before she comes whining that "Amaia no yike dis one"
*She's learned to say stop (SOP!!) and go away. She'll even tell inanimate things to 'sop', like if she knocks over her lego tower she'd go 'sop knock ofer!' and totally freak out on it.
Here are the pictures:
Just Solia
Some of the girls together, but not the official 365 photos
these are the 365 photos for the last two weeks
Just Amaia
And like I said, no video, but I'll get it posted as soon as I can. It probably won't be before the 1st september post though....sorry :S
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
My First 'Tutorial'-Ribbon Bracelets
Sorry for the terrible picture-it's hard to take decent picturs of your own wrist...
The idea for this came from my inability to remember which side I'm supposed to start with when I nurse the baby. I could have just used a hair tie, but they always leave huge dents in my arm especially when I wear them while I sleep. I decided to make this super simple ribbon bracelet.
You will need:
-Elastic (I used one of those super long skinny balloons in a pinch, but it doesn't turn out as pretty)
-Ribbon of your choice-just make sure that it's wider than the elastic you picked
-Sewing machine AND needle & thread
-scrap of yarn (about 6+ inches)
-button to match/coordinate with your ribbon
Go for it:
1. Measure around your wrist with your tape measure and add 1/2 inch. Cut your elastic to that length.
2. Stretch your elastic and measure it fully stretched. It doens't have to be stretched as far as it can go, so don't strain yourself :) Some elastics (like my 1/2" black stuff) only stretched to 11 inches (with my 6 1/2 in piece of elastic) while my 'baby soft' 1/4 inch elastic stretched to 12 easily.
3. Cut your ribbon that lenght (of the stretched elastic).
4. Here I used a lighter to melt the ends of both my elastic and my ribbon as a fray check.
5. Knot your yarn into a circle.
6. Fold over the end of the ribbon and pin the elsatic in it, trapping the yarn under the loop of ribbon, shown above.
7. Place under your needle. Make sure your top thread is white (to match the elastic) and the bobbin thread matches your ribbon. Using a zig-zag stitch (or a straight stitch will work fine too, but your ribbon will fold up like a clam after a while), sew your ribbon to the elastic, (making sure to back stitch over that little flap of ribbon at the beginning to secure the elastic) stretching the elastic with your right hand and using your left hand to pull the yarn out the back, so that the whole thing actually feeds through. You should stretch the elastic so that it's the same length as the ribbon.
8. When you get to the end of the ribbon back stitch again.
9. Now make sure you've got your ribbon all faced the same direction so that it's not twisted, and overlap the ends, with the raw end on the underside and the pretty folded flap on top. You'll want to do this 'upside down' so that you are still sewing with the elastic up so you don't get white thread all over the top of your ribbon.
10. Take your needle and thread and sew your button right over top of your stitching so you can't see it. That's it!
Friday, August 20, 2010
August 2010-1st Half
Question: Anyone else feel dumb as they're trying to figure out how to start a new blog post? I always sit here for like 10 minutes running over different 'opening lines' in my head, trying to make them sound cool, but also trying to not make it obvious that I thought too hard about it. I wish I was more creative, then maybe it wouldn't be so darn hard....
Life's been good the past couple weeks adjusting to life with the new baby. Justin stayed home the first week after we came home from the hospital. He was suprisingly helpful around the kitchen (although he didn't cook much), claiming that 'his sink' was to never have a dirty dish in it. My mom came after that, and then his mom came.
Sadly, my days of being pampered are over. I was telling Justin that having someone come to help you can in some ways be anti-helpful. (Not that I don't appreciate it!). Hear me out: You go from taking care of one (or two, etc) kids, and also doing the laundry, cooking, cleaning, etc. You're used to it all, got it all figured out. Then along comes another kid. Now instead of having to adjust to having 2 kids (or 3, etc) and cleaning and cooking, your mom comes into town and she takes care of the older one, and the cleaning and the cooking, etc., leaving you to just take care of the one innocent, not-troublemaker little baby and lounge around and read/sleep all day. Then she leaves, and it's BAM! right in your face two-kids-and-all-that-other-crap.
I guess it's good that newborns sleep. Like all day.
Anyways, I promise my list of stuff is shorter than it was for the last post:
*Amaia's obsessed with the "5 Little Monkeys" song. Just ask her what the doctor said and you'll get an excited "No more monkeys jumping on the bed!" with accompanying hand motions.
*So we finally gave Amaia her busy book, but since we gave it to her as a present, she calls it the present book. And the swimming suit she got for her birthday is a 'present swimming suit', etc.
*So in June (I think) I posted a picture of this wire photo display thing we have in Amaia's room. Well on the side closest to her bed I hung a Pass Along card with a picture of Jesus coming out of the tomb (I think) on it. Anyways...every time we say prayers, we'll both say 'amen'. Instead of Amaia repeating it (like she used to), she'll point to the picture and say "Jesus up there...Amen!"
*She constantly asks to "watch dhoom" (Dhoom 2-a bollywood film that's totally awesome and you should go watch it sometime. Netflixers might be able to find it through the instant view thinger still)
*Everytime I change Solia's poopy diaper, she asks to look inside to see her poo. I mean really? Come on, now Amaia, that's gross :)
*Solia winks all the time (I'm sure not on purpose) and it's always with her left eye.
*Amaia finally pronounces Solia's name better. Instead of So-lee-uh (which is how's it's supposed to be) she says So-wee-uh. It's super cute.
*Did I mention how much Amaia adores her little sister??? I was scared she would be rough with her (she went through a very short hitting phase a few weeks before the baby was born) but only one time have I had to tell her to not hit/squish her, and ever since then she hasn't. She's constantly looking for her and has to 'see Solia', and she gives her kisses all the time. Like all the time.
*Solia is otherwise uneventful, of course. She sleeps all the time, which is going to come bite me in the butt here in a few weeks when she won't sleep at night. She actually spits up, which is quite a change from Amaia, who never spit up or even burped after nursing, but it's not like spit-up-every-where-I-need-a-new-shirt-now like some babies do.
Those of you who are my friends on Facebook have probably seen these pictures before. If not I'll explain: Justin and I started a 365 Photo project with the girls. (Hmm....did I explain this in the last post...? Oh well). Every day for the next year (starting the day Solia was born) we're going to (try) to take a picture of the two girls together. These sort of projects are supposed to help you become more creative photographers, because after a couple months you've run out of ideas and have to come up with more creative things to do picture wise. Because who wants to see 300 pictures of them just sitting next to each other?? So this first collage is all 'official' 365 pictures from the first two weeks of August:
Some shots of Solia alone (and fear not-I actually took more pictures of her alone than of Amaia alone. I refuse to let her be that second child who never had any cute pictures of jsut her when she was a kid!):
Here are more pictures of the girls together. Some of them were taken at the same time as the 'official' 365 pictures, but didn't make the cut as the cutest one of the bunch. Others are just random pictures of the two of them:
Just Amaia:
Life's been good the past couple weeks adjusting to life with the new baby. Justin stayed home the first week after we came home from the hospital. He was suprisingly helpful around the kitchen (although he didn't cook much), claiming that 'his sink' was to never have a dirty dish in it. My mom came after that, and then his mom came.
Sadly, my days of being pampered are over. I was telling Justin that having someone come to help you can in some ways be anti-helpful. (Not that I don't appreciate it!). Hear me out: You go from taking care of one (or two, etc) kids, and also doing the laundry, cooking, cleaning, etc. You're used to it all, got it all figured out. Then along comes another kid. Now instead of having to adjust to having 2 kids (or 3, etc) and cleaning and cooking, your mom comes into town and she takes care of the older one, and the cleaning and the cooking, etc., leaving you to just take care of the one innocent, not-troublemaker little baby and lounge around and read/sleep all day. Then she leaves, and it's BAM! right in your face two-kids-and-all-that-other-crap.
I guess it's good that newborns sleep. Like all day.
Anyways, I promise my list of stuff is shorter than it was for the last post:
*Amaia's obsessed with the "5 Little Monkeys" song. Just ask her what the doctor said and you'll get an excited "No more monkeys jumping on the bed!" with accompanying hand motions.
*So we finally gave Amaia her busy book, but since we gave it to her as a present, she calls it the present book. And the swimming suit she got for her birthday is a 'present swimming suit', etc.
*So in June (I think) I posted a picture of this wire photo display thing we have in Amaia's room. Well on the side closest to her bed I hung a Pass Along card with a picture of Jesus coming out of the tomb (I think) on it. Anyways...every time we say prayers, we'll both say 'amen'. Instead of Amaia repeating it (like she used to), she'll point to the picture and say "Jesus up there...Amen!"
*She constantly asks to "watch dhoom" (Dhoom 2-a bollywood film that's totally awesome and you should go watch it sometime. Netflixers might be able to find it through the instant view thinger still)
*Everytime I change Solia's poopy diaper, she asks to look inside to see her poo. I mean really? Come on, now Amaia, that's gross :)
*Solia winks all the time (I'm sure not on purpose) and it's always with her left eye.
*Amaia finally pronounces Solia's name better. Instead of So-lee-uh (which is how's it's supposed to be) she says So-wee-uh. It's super cute.
*Did I mention how much Amaia adores her little sister??? I was scared she would be rough with her (she went through a very short hitting phase a few weeks before the baby was born) but only one time have I had to tell her to not hit/squish her, and ever since then she hasn't. She's constantly looking for her and has to 'see Solia', and she gives her kisses all the time. Like all the time.
*Solia is otherwise uneventful, of course. She sleeps all the time, which is going to come bite me in the butt here in a few weeks when she won't sleep at night. She actually spits up, which is quite a change from Amaia, who never spit up or even burped after nursing, but it's not like spit-up-every-where-I-need-a-new-shirt-now like some babies do.
Those of you who are my friends on Facebook have probably seen these pictures before. If not I'll explain: Justin and I started a 365 Photo project with the girls. (Hmm....did I explain this in the last post...? Oh well). Every day for the next year (starting the day Solia was born) we're going to (try) to take a picture of the two girls together. These sort of projects are supposed to help you become more creative photographers, because after a couple months you've run out of ideas and have to come up with more creative things to do picture wise. Because who wants to see 300 pictures of them just sitting next to each other?? So this first collage is all 'official' 365 pictures from the first two weeks of August:
Some shots of Solia alone (and fear not-I actually took more pictures of her alone than of Amaia alone. I refuse to let her be that second child who never had any cute pictures of jsut her when she was a kid!):
Here are more pictures of the girls together. Some of them were taken at the same time as the 'official' 365 pictures, but didn't make the cut as the cutest one of the bunch. Others are just random pictures of the two of them:
Just Amaia:
Stay tuned: hopefully I'll get the next post up in a decent amount of time!
**I edited the 'Solia' post to include a short list of things about Solia from the first couple days of life. Head back to that post and check it out-the new stuff is in RED**
Friday, August 13, 2010
Solia J Colby
Yay I'm going to get both posts done today!
So. Like I said, I still ended up going in Friday morning bright and early to the hospital, as planned. Amaia stayed the night at our friends, the Kearns, house. That way we didn't have to worry about waking her up and getting her dressed just to ditch her over there. Even having that to not worry about, I still was getting up at 5:45 to do my hair and face (yes I wore my make up, even though they said not. Anyone who's surprised doesn't know me very well). I didn't sleep very well the night before. I don't think I was scared, but every time I woke up I had to check my clock, because I thought for sure I had slept in past my alarm and we were going to be late. But we were actually a few minutes early.
Once we got in, I got stuck with tubes and wrapped up in wrist bands, and stripped down and had to wear one of those awful hospital gowns. I was freezing and tired so the quiz I got from the nurse (do I have any prosthetic limbs, glass eyes, dentures, etc).....let's just say I must have passed because they let me go in and get sliced up. Between my shivering and yawning and half asleep-ness, I'm nut exactly sure what I told her. We were supposed to have the surgery at 8:30, but we got pushed back to make room for a lady who'd been in labor all night with no luck.
Once she was done, they wheeled me in, gave me a spinal and then laid me down. I thought it would take a while for the drugs to take effect, but like less than a minute later my legs were numb and I didn't even know it when they put a catheter in until she told me. Justin got to watch the whole thing (over the top of the blue shield thing, but he still got to see it all). We even got some of it on video, but to spare you the naked (albeit so covered in blood you can't really tell) bottom half of my body and the nice sliced open midsection I was sporting, I didn't add any of that to the video at the bottom of the post, so don't worry about censoring or anything. It's just harmless (even boring, dare I say it) video of the baby.
Anyways, they didn't let Justin cut off the cord this time, which he mentioned to me after the fact but I couldn't tell if he cared or not. He already likes this one less than Amaia based purely on the fact that Amaia is his California baby but this was was born in Texas ;)
I surprisingly didn't pass out this time, like I did last time. I was sure I would but I felt fine. When the doc pulled the baby out, she told me I'd feel a lot of pulling. Boy was she not kidding! It felt like some one had grabbed my huge pregnant belly and lifted my entire body off the table.
After the nurse and Justin took off with the baby, I got to sit and listen to the doctors chat it up while they sewed me up with over 20 dissolvable-can't-see-them-on-the-outside staples.
We got to go back to the recovery room, where the nurse did her thing with the baby. She bathed her in the sink where I could see, and then I got to nurse her. She actually latched on right away and had no problem with it at all. I was feeling super sick though. Apparently it's a side effect of the morphine they put in the spinal block, but I was vomiting for a couple hours afterwards. At first it was just clear foamy spit like stuff, and then it turned acidy. I couldn't even take a vicotin or anything because I just threw it right back up, so the only thing to help with the pain of heaving with a sliced open middle were those weak sauce IV painkillers. It got better after a couple hours, thank goodness, and I was able to take some real stuff and get some rest.
We spent the entire weekend at the hospital. We only stayed 2 nights post op with Amaia, and they literally kicked us out after the second night even though we really really (or at least I did) wanted to stay becaues Amaia had been admitted to the NICU for jaundice treatment and was going to have to stay the night. This time, we were goign to go home Sunday morning. My doctor was ok with it, I was ok with it since I hadn't had any problem getting up and around to use the bathroom and stuff (I had a lot less pain this time around), but Solia was dropping weight like crazy even though we were nursing all the time and she was latched on and sucking just fine, so they made me use a pump to get every last drop and then feed it to her after she nursed. We had to stay Sunday night so they could check and make sure she didn't lose any more weight.
The first day the Kearns brougth Amaia to visit us and then Saturday and Sunday Justin drove home to shower (since he would rather do it at home than in the hospital) and both times he brought Amaia back with him to visit. It was during that time that we did the 365 photos for the first 3 days (the two of them from July are in that second photo block down there). We finally got shipped home Monday morning.
*Sigh...* So I wrote a couple notes of the few things I noticed about Solia in the two days of July, but I forgot to add them. Here they are now:
*A list of the things Justin says she looks like, in the order he said them: Richard Nixon, Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars, Gollum from Lord of the Rings, Yoda, and finally just an old man (although I had to agree with him on that last one-don't tell!)
*As far as we can tell, she's got her dad's light hair and eyes, but mom's super long fingers and toes.
*She squeaks when she sleeps.
*Amaia calls her eedle (little) baby sister or suh-wuh-wee (which is also how she pronounces 'celery'...)
*Solia has the tiniest little dimple on her left cheek that you can only really see when she's crying or grimacing (which makes it hard to get a pic of it because you know she's not holding still during those times)
*She's got a little red birthmark on her bum which I find very cute :)
Here are some pictures:
So. Like I said, I still ended up going in Friday morning bright and early to the hospital, as planned. Amaia stayed the night at our friends, the Kearns, house. That way we didn't have to worry about waking her up and getting her dressed just to ditch her over there. Even having that to not worry about, I still was getting up at 5:45 to do my hair and face (yes I wore my make up, even though they said not. Anyone who's surprised doesn't know me very well). I didn't sleep very well the night before. I don't think I was scared, but every time I woke up I had to check my clock, because I thought for sure I had slept in past my alarm and we were going to be late. But we were actually a few minutes early.
Once we got in, I got stuck with tubes and wrapped up in wrist bands, and stripped down and had to wear one of those awful hospital gowns. I was freezing and tired so the quiz I got from the nurse (do I have any prosthetic limbs, glass eyes, dentures, etc).....let's just say I must have passed because they let me go in and get sliced up. Between my shivering and yawning and half asleep-ness, I'm nut exactly sure what I told her. We were supposed to have the surgery at 8:30, but we got pushed back to make room for a lady who'd been in labor all night with no luck.
Once she was done, they wheeled me in, gave me a spinal and then laid me down. I thought it would take a while for the drugs to take effect, but like less than a minute later my legs were numb and I didn't even know it when they put a catheter in until she told me. Justin got to watch the whole thing (over the top of the blue shield thing, but he still got to see it all). We even got some of it on video, but to spare you the naked (albeit so covered in blood you can't really tell) bottom half of my body and the nice sliced open midsection I was sporting, I didn't add any of that to the video at the bottom of the post, so don't worry about censoring or anything. It's just harmless (even boring, dare I say it) video of the baby.
Anyways, they didn't let Justin cut off the cord this time, which he mentioned to me after the fact but I couldn't tell if he cared or not. He already likes this one less than Amaia based purely on the fact that Amaia is his California baby but this was was born in Texas ;)
I surprisingly didn't pass out this time, like I did last time. I was sure I would but I felt fine. When the doc pulled the baby out, she told me I'd feel a lot of pulling. Boy was she not kidding! It felt like some one had grabbed my huge pregnant belly and lifted my entire body off the table.
After the nurse and Justin took off with the baby, I got to sit and listen to the doctors chat it up while they sewed me up with over 20 dissolvable-can't-see-them-on-the-outside staples.
We got to go back to the recovery room, where the nurse did her thing with the baby. She bathed her in the sink where I could see, and then I got to nurse her. She actually latched on right away and had no problem with it at all. I was feeling super sick though. Apparently it's a side effect of the morphine they put in the spinal block, but I was vomiting for a couple hours afterwards. At first it was just clear foamy spit like stuff, and then it turned acidy. I couldn't even take a vicotin or anything because I just threw it right back up, so the only thing to help with the pain of heaving with a sliced open middle were those weak sauce IV painkillers. It got better after a couple hours, thank goodness, and I was able to take some real stuff and get some rest.
We spent the entire weekend at the hospital. We only stayed 2 nights post op with Amaia, and they literally kicked us out after the second night even though we really really (or at least I did) wanted to stay becaues Amaia had been admitted to the NICU for jaundice treatment and was going to have to stay the night. This time, we were goign to go home Sunday morning. My doctor was ok with it, I was ok with it since I hadn't had any problem getting up and around to use the bathroom and stuff (I had a lot less pain this time around), but Solia was dropping weight like crazy even though we were nursing all the time and she was latched on and sucking just fine, so they made me use a pump to get every last drop and then feed it to her after she nursed. We had to stay Sunday night so they could check and make sure she didn't lose any more weight.
The first day the Kearns brougth Amaia to visit us and then Saturday and Sunday Justin drove home to shower (since he would rather do it at home than in the hospital) and both times he brought Amaia back with him to visit. It was during that time that we did the 365 photos for the first 3 days (the two of them from July are in that second photo block down there). We finally got shipped home Monday morning.
*Sigh...* So I wrote a couple notes of the few things I noticed about Solia in the two days of July, but I forgot to add them. Here they are now:
*A list of the things Justin says she looks like, in the order he said them: Richard Nixon, Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars, Gollum from Lord of the Rings, Yoda, and finally just an old man (although I had to agree with him on that last one-don't tell!)
*As far as we can tell, she's got her dad's light hair and eyes, but mom's super long fingers and toes.
*She squeaks when she sleeps.
*Amaia calls her eedle (little) baby sister or suh-wuh-wee (which is also how she pronounces 'celery'...)
*Solia has the tiniest little dimple on her left cheek that you can only really see when she's crying or grimacing (which makes it hard to get a pic of it because you know she's not holding still during those times)
*She's got a little red birthmark on her bum which I find very cute :)
Here are some pictures:
and the video:
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