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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
John Keats
As I was getting Cali ready for the day this morning, I could not stand how incredibly ADORABLE she was just laying there in her diaper on the bed. Oh my heck, SHE IS SO CUTE! I seriously can’t stand it!!!!!!! So I had to snap some pics. I LOVE THIS GIRL! The only thing cuter than a naked baby in a diaper is a naked baby in a diaper with a bow. Missed opportunity. Bummer.
And then we went to the park and they were adorable there, too. These little stinkers are totally my favorite things.
We took the princess’ blessing photos today– here are a few. She slept through the whole thing and would not wake for ANYTHING even though she was a sweaty little mess by the time it was over. That dress is soooooo hot, poor girl. I LOVE her dress. As soon as I found out I was pregnant, I searched and searched to find the perfect one; the one that I would have wanted my mom to dress me in for my blessing. It looks like a miniature wedding dress. LOVE it. I will be devastated if she turns out to be a little tom boy– I am so looking forward to reliving a pink, fluffy, sparkly, childhood through her. If she chooses camo pants over tutus my life will be over.
I laughed until I cried when I saw this– and then I had to watch it 10 more times in a row until I finally had had enough. Is this THAT funny to anyone else or am I especially sensitive to it since I just got back from living in Eastern Europe for five months?? I can’t get enough of it! SO FUNNY!!!!!
Jace also finds this hilarious. He will kiss Cali’s head when she is wrapped in her zebra blanket and then jump around, pounding his fists on his knees, laughing riotously, imitating the man perfectly. So clever!
We just got back from shopping and I can’t remember the last time I was SO embarrassed.
We were at GAP looking at clothes and there was a woman looking at clothes next to us. She was going through the clothes on an upper rack, not a foot away from me, and Jace said in a super loud voice, “Mommy, that lady has hairy armpits. That’s so gross.” I, mortified, tried to play it off as if he had said something else and jovially replied, “Oh really? That’s funny. Do you like this shirt?” He knew that was not the response his statement would invoke, so he assumed I had misunderstood him. Thus, he clarified himself in an even louder voice, “No, Mommy! That lady, RIGHT THERE. This lady right here has hairy armpits! It’s not funny, it’s GROSS!” There was no way I could pretend he hadn’t said what he said, the woman had heard everything from the first exclamation of disgust, and all I could do was apologize and rush to another aisle.
And then as we were looking at clothes around a bunch of people, Jace thoughtfully pondered allowed, “Mommy, why do you like to punch me in the face?” All the women turned and looked at me in horror. I was like, “What?! I have NEVER punched you in the face!” And he said, “Yeah, but do you want to punch me in the face?” Where in the world was this coming from?! I said, “No, I have never in my life ever wanted to punch you in the face, and any mommy that wants to punch their little boy in the face should be thrown in prison and locked up for the rest of their lives.” He thought about this and responded, “Yeah, that’s a good idea.” Oh my heck– I am surprised a swat team of Child Services workers didn’t come bursting through the door.
And last but not least, as we were checking out, Jace noticed that our casheir had a very pronounced chin (she MUST be very self conscious about it. Her profile looks exactly like a crescent moon.) And Jace announced, as she rung up our items, “Mommy! That girl’s chin looks like a banana. That’s weird.” Again, hoping she hadn’t understood him, I played it off as if he were talking about something else, and then he clarified himself once more, “No, mommy. Look at her chin. It looks like a banana. Look at it! HER CHIN LOOKS LIKE A BANANA!”
I swear I could have curled up and died right there.
Well, today was the day– my very first Sunday as a single mother of TWO! I thought it would be HORRIBLE because Jace always needs to be taken out for ill behavior (which Trevor usually is in charge of) and I knew Cali would need to be taken out to eat and I had no idea what I was going to do with Jace, and if I wanted to bear my testimony, what was I going to do with them both? So I was really stressing about this. I googled how to get to our ward (for the life of us we can not find our ward!) and had it all mapped out. We got all ready for church in record time and were going to be 10 minutes early for church, so I was feeling like the most “with-it” girl with two kids on the block. Well, I could not for the LIFE of me find our church building! There are seriously like 10 churches within a two mile square redius of our house and they all look identical and google maps was SOOOOO not right.
I drove around for 10 minutes trying to find it, then rushed home to see if I had my directions wrong, found I had them right, and then rushed out again to try to find it some more. Finally, I decided it was better to at least get the sacrament at a random ward rather than to continue driving in circles. So we went to a random ward and then left for home after sacrament. When we got home I saw some people in Sunday dress coming back to our building and I asked them if they were in our ward, they said yes, and directed me to our building. It is literally like 20 seconds away. And nowhere NEAR where google maps said it should be. Goodness.
Anyway, we got to our real church in time to go to everything else and Jace and Cali were angels the whole time! I don’t even know what I was stressed about! They also both looked absolutely adorable and I wanted to take pictures of them in the sunshine after church, but alas Cali was dead asleep by the time we got home, and Jace had already stripped down to his underwear the second I locked the door behind us. Soooo… perhaps next week. But I think this is the cutest picture ever. Trevor looks so hard core and Cali looks like his little princess.
And here are the first pictures ever taken of Cali with her paternal great-grandparents. Can you tell she adores them?
And this just cracks me up. She ALWAYS has to have her little arm out of her swaddling. I wrap her up as tight as I possibley can and then she grunts and wriggles and struggles until she has freed that little arm, and then she goes to sleep. It is hilarious!
So sweet.
Our princess is three weeks old and we still think she is just perfect!
Jace insists on wearing his superman outfit at all times in case Cali needs to be saved from an evil villain. If he is this protective now, I don’t even know how things will be when she starts dating.
He even drinks his whole Green Smoothie every morning (a spinach smoothie) so his muscles will be huge so he can protect Cali. Before, it was a battle every morning to get him to drink it– now he just guzzles it down for her. He is so sweet.
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