and so it goes...: June 2008

Someone told me the other day: You should post more on your blog!
And I thought, YEA! I SHOULD post more on my blog.
So here we are.

One of the most common things I hear after having little Eden is (in some form or another), "Time really flies by!! Just wait..It goes by soooo fast." At first I disagreed. We thought she would never smile and ALWAYS be cranky and cross-eyed! Heh heh.
But, wouldn't you know it, 2 months have already passed, we're seeing smiles every day, and...well...still a LITTLE cross-eyed from time to time...but getting better.

It has been pretty amazing to sit and stare at the little one. I know I may be pointing out the obvious, but she's so tiny. Like a miniature grown-up (I guess that's what they call a baby). Mini sneezes, mini coughs, tiny hands and fingers and feet and toes! Tiny finger nails and eye brows and ears...soon to be holding her head up and laughing. It's pretty nuts, if you ask me. And she's ours. AND I am in awe of the personality that is already forming. For example, she doesn't like to burp after she eats. She is very dramatic. She does NOT like having her arms wrapped up..they need to be free and ready to grab her ears at a moments notice. She seems pretty independent. Would rather lay on her back and look around than be held tight. She doesn't need to fall asleep in my arms. We can put her in her bed and she will lay there and "talk" to herself til she falls asleep. When she gets hungry, she makes it seem as if she hasn't eaten in months, perhaps years (and by that I mean she is very vocal and gets mad QUICK!).

Eden is also very hilarious. She will randomly throw up DISCO hands, possible gang signs and various numbers from 1 to 5. Sometimes when she is startled, both hands will fly up in to the air as if she was conducting an orchestra. She loves her pacifier/binky/NUK but will unknowingly grab it out of her mouth with her hands and throw it across the room...followed by a terribly sad cry as if asking,"Why would someone DO that??" She can't laugh quite yet, but will smile with her mouth WIDE open and just BREATHE. She is very ticklish..and that should be fun once the laughter comes.
She tends to smile mostly in the morning and really only gets fussy now if she is hungry, gassy, or annoyed. Oh, and she NEEDS NAPS - just like her daddy.

We are trying to pick out things such as: Who does she look like?
Who's personality does she have?
What things does she get from
mommy/daddy/our siblings/grandma/grandpa?
We haven't determined much yet, except for the naps thing.

I apologize in advance for how sick you may get of me talking about Eden. :)

In other news:
I started back at work part time. It has been going well. Everyone keeps asking me, "How are you doing...?" With that sad look in their eyes. It's really not that hard for me to have my mother in-law watch Eden a couple days a week. I think co-workers were expecting me to rush off to the bathroom every couple hours crying.

We planted a rose bush in the back yard and I hope it makes it. I don't know if it was the ideal spot because it seems pretty sunny back there most of the day. I have been watering it as much as possible. Tim has been really good about maintaining the front yard; watering/mowing/weeding etc.. and it looks really nice. When we first bought the house the lawn was brown.

June 20th was Lyla's birthday. Pretty crazy that it has already been a year. Still feels like yesterday... AND pretty crazy that is has been a year and we have a 2 month old! Uhhh..WOH! We went to visit her gravestone on the 20th. It looked beautiful and I am so happy with the way things turned out-from where she is buried to the picture on the gravestone. It was a bitter-sweet day. There is a new little one to the left of Lyla. They still had the flowers from their ceremony up. I wish Lyla would have been the LAST little baby to be buried there. Just terribly sad when new babies come.

Summer has definitely begun it Coeur d'Alene. Live music, boats out on the lake, street festivals.. Two weekends ago was Car d'Alene, where people bring their classic cars out and display them for all to see. Last weekend was the Ironman triathlon, which is amazing to watch. 2600 people compete: 2.5 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride and a 26 mile run.

That's the latest for now.