Is That Chocolate On My Burp Cloth?

This past Friday was Valentines day. It was the first time since my husband and I have been together that we didn't go out so we could stay home with the baby. We got take out and it was awesome. One thing you may start to gather about me is that I LOVE FOOD. I don't say this lightly, I really LOVE it, especially treats! :) Of course I got Valentines chocolates from my husband and I got M&M's from my Aunt. HAPPY DAY! :) So all day I munched on my chocolates and M&M's. By the evening my candy was almost gone. I was caught up in a sappy movie on TV when my husband came and joined the baby and I on the couch. As he took Carter out of my arms he pointed out a brown streak down his back. I detached from my movie to look at it and decided it wasn't as interesting as my movie because Adam would change him and that would be that. My husband was quiet for a moment and then started laughing. I turn away from my movie again to see what was so funny. He said its not poop it's chocolate. :) I didn't know whether to laugh or be embarrassed. See this wasn't my first offense with chocolate masquerading as poop... There was a hot fudge incident.. I was eating a brownie sundae when I spilled hot fudge.. I didn't know until the next day that I got it on one of our burp cloths.. There may have been licking involved to make sure..  Prior to parenthood I could hide my affair with treats.. but now I must share my shameful ways with the world... or maybe just my husband.

Puke or Gel?

This morning I got up before Carter to try and complete a few tasks ( like throw dinner in the crockpot, eat breakfast, and shower) before he woke up. I got dinner in, ate breakfast and was about to get ready to shower when I heard my son grunting ( yes, he grunts bc he really hates waking up) in the next room. I go in and see he is awake and not happy about it. I realize my shower isn’t going to happen until later... if even that. We make our way to the couch so I can feed him. I guess maybe he didn’t like his breakfast today because he gave it back to me.. Literally in my hair down my shirt in my arm pit ***cringe*** ***I HATE arm pits*** and on my pants. I love that I didn’t care that it was all over the child .. his face clothes and hair EVERYWHERE ...but that my thoughts were “ I wonder if I’ll need to use gel today.”
I am not even ashamed to admit that. Rest assured though I am going to shower, it smells weird..but if it didn’t it just looks like hair gel. 

Photo Failure

** No babies were harmed in the making of this post

As a DSLR owner I couldn’t wait to have Carter to take endless pictures.. I wanted to have cute poses and have people stare in awe at MY artwork MY pictures and MY baby. I remember being really out of it ( I was on a large dose high blood pressure meds that made me super foggy ) about a week after he was born but thinking I needed to try and get that amazing set of new born pictures. I hobbled down the hallway to our linen closet and got an off white sheet and hobbled back to the living room where I draped our couch with my “backdrop”. I grabbed some neat looking books and stacked them perfectly so that I could rest Carter on them.   I then wrapped Carter in a scarf. At this point my husband was looking at me like a was a nut case. I took the baby and placed him gently on the pile of books, before I let go I realized it wasn’t going to work... I kept trying to steady him and he kept flopping, and then screaming. I was very surprised... people get amazing shots of infants all the time ...surely I was talented enough to pull it off... After a few minutes of trying I was pooped ( again I mention meds) and discouraged. Apparently its harder than it looks to get those adorable newborn shots... So to anyone who is going to try .. newborns are floppy and don’t look at the camera and no matter how cute your baby is they will NOT look cute in the pictures you try and take. At least thats how it went for me... I got one ok shot just one... Here are a few of my flops..

And actually I have two OK ones that of course my husband was able to get him to calm down ( maybe because he didn't set him on books).. 

Notice there aren't any books... yeah they weren't working.. oh well.. That's all I have to say.

Until next time..