baby beach bum

yesterday's sunshine and warmth made for a lovely beach day!!...so off to 20th street we went.

emmerson had to call the boy before we left to make sure he would be there...

there's something magical about seeing little toes touch the sand for the first time. she loved it.

ahh the sweet taste of summer in the middle of february...

confessions of a slob.

i've turned into a slob. i always said that i wanted to be a cute mom. with my hair done, make up on, cute clothes. well let me be the first to admit that i am a complete failure. *sigh*

i've never really been one to brush my hair...but now that i have thin stringy post pregnancy hair, that makes for a disaster on my head. fully.

make up is probably a once a week occasion...and the double chin that i grew since having a child doesn't help the whole face situation.

as for clothing...i tried to dress cute one day recently. a cute little dress, tights, boots...i tried real hard. i felt like a poser. is it sad/gross that somedays i try to wear light colored shirts so that the baby puke wont show up as much? sweatpants are my wardrobe heaven.

i feel better just talking about it. this is good therapy. time to make a change. operation cute.

starting tomorrow i'm going to make more of an effort to look more presentable. lets face it, when we feel cute, we are happier. i want that back.

i'll let you know how it goes...thanks for listening.

Our Sweet Girl

Emmerson Claire from Greg Nielsen on Vimeo.

i like free.

here's to denny's for providing sweet husband and i with free breakfast...

and here's to living in del mar where the majority of the population doesn't care about free things, therefore making the line minimal!

californians, you still have an hour...go get it!

addition

you all know these two...

...will soon be three!! i'm sooo excited to be an auntie!! can you tell? pretty sure that's all i've thought about in the last 12 hours! oh my oh my oh my. congratulations logan and michelle!

momma's little helper.

i cook...she smiles. pretty good trade off, if you ask me.

i guess he never got the memo.

looks like my previous post didn't make an impact on sweet husband...

see sleeping beauty curled up back there?

...i'm sensing a pattern forming here.

holidays

i wish i wasn't so obsessed with holidays but i always have been and i have a feeling i always will be. i think having a kid has only magnified this obsession... is it weird that i have outfits for emmerson for every holiday up until her first birthday? ...as in valentine's day, st patricks day, easter, 4th of july....and now you can officially think i've lost my marbles...her halloween costume came in the mail from pottery barn kids last week.

i need help.

poop.

if you know our daughter, then you know that she has a very healthy digestive system...let me explain. in the hospital the nurses made it clear that i would need to keep track of whether she dropped a deuce or not in the first 24 hours of her life. well she did before they could even get a diaper on her....and six more times in that 24 hour period. this frequency continued for about 6 weeks, and then dropped slightly to 3 times a day and she's now a twice a day kinda baby. i'm ok with that. well yesterday was a day i sure didn't expect to see in our near future...NO poopy diapers. i was shocked/terrified that she might explode!! well do not fret dear friends, we're back to normal today, and i just wanted to share with all of you the infamous "poop face" that we've tried to capture several times. they are blurry, but this was the first thing that cracked me up about her in the hospital and she continues to make the same face now. i love it to pieces and it never ceases to make me giggle.

now she wont wonder why i call her stinker bell or poopsie daisy later in life.

carmel apple dip

I just have to blog about the snack that has been consuming my life these days. i literally cannot get through a day without having it, or at least craving it and i'm here to share it with you. ladies and gentlemen...the recipe for my favorite carmel apple dip:

1 8oz pkg of cream cheese (softened)

3/4 cup brown sugar

2tbsp sugar

1tbsp vanilla extract