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    Father's Day! Oh my goodness is that crazy or what? I have to say it was only in my wildest dreams when I first met Bj that I thought we'd be celebrating a wonderful day like today. It's cliche to say, but Bj really is a fabulous father. He is being so great right now while we try to be gentle with Tuesday's sleep. And Tuesday just loves him. Sometimes she cracks up when she catches him out of the corner of her eye – too funny. Bj requested this outfit of Tuesday's, so snappy!

    I let Bj sleep in this morning while Tuesday and I got up and got the day started. But I couldn't keep him from working and he cleaned up the yard and later vacuumed. Seriously. And he did it all while extremely sore. He played six softball games for charity yesterday and while he was hanging out with Tuesday today he said that if there was a fire he didn't know if he could get out fast enough. So ya, he was sore. Luckily the evening was much more relaxed as we all went over to my brother's house to celebrate with my dad.
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    My dad and all his "kids" Emilie (my step sister who is a senior this next year – WHAT?!?!), my brother Brent, and Tuesday and I. I was determined to get pictures with everyone.
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    I think this was Tuesday's first picture with this set of grandparents. You should have seen what was going on behind here to get her to smile, there was literally puppy dangling, funny stuff.
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    Brent's girlfriend Kat. Tuesday loved hanging out with her. She also loved a present my dad brought over from family friends for Tuesday. He kept forgetting to give it to me, but it was perfect timing because Tuesday loves it, having only recently discovered spoons:
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    Mmmm spoons. Bj took the camera at one point and I love the point of views he can get being so tall.
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    I want to find all my favorite pictures of the expressions people make when holding/playing with/talking to Tuesday. They are awesome.

  • Tuesday and I had another great day today. Bj spent the day playing softball for a charity tournament, so Tuesday and I spent most of the day in the company of my mom, with visits by nana and pops (who are headed to southern California), and gramps (no pictures because we'll see him tomorrow for father's day). I spent my non baby playing time reading The No Cry Sleep Solution. I haven't implemented much in the book, but we had been trying the Ferber method and it just wasn't working for us. I actually did like the Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems book in that it talked a lot about the science of sleep and why babies (and everyone really) wakes at night. Turns out hearing Tuesday cry at night is my personal hell so it was a no go. Now I feel like Tuesday has horrible associations with her room, so we're working on that. I think my main plan right now is to get a schedule happening. I need to finish her bumper as well, since the bed situation we have going on in her room is a bit sketch:
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    Picture is grainy because I just took it with the ISO cranked and no flash since Tutu is sleeping in there right now (yes, asleep and it's only 8:38 now finishing this up at 9:36 – hope this time it sticks… I think I was putting her down too late before for one thing). After I get the bumper done I'm going to work on a few matching things. Bj and I want to do a wall of awesome for her with these Ikea shelves. And I want to paint up her dresser and put some awesome pulls on it. I think I have at least fifty seven projects in my list of to dos… When can I start having Tutu help me with stuff?

  • Today Tuesday and I had a fabulous day visiting with friends in Corvallis. We had to go down there because little miss sparkle pants has outgrown her size 0 diapers! These were the first we put on her, folded down to be out of the way of her umbilical stub. They have been a bit low rise for a while and we were doing a combination of size 0 and 1, but taking 0 out of the mix meant we needed about six more diapers. Of course I could just order, but what fun would that be? And I would have been much less likely to come home with the cute impulse purchases I got for her…. and the super cute covers. Ah my little tutu. It's not my fault she looks so cute in everything!

    First though we met Sarah at New Morning Bakery on 2nd (not third, trust me I drove up it all the way before realizing it was on 2nd – how long did I live in Corvallis?).
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    I am getting better at remembering to take pictures of Tuesday with her friends! Partly because I borrowed Bj's little point and shoot. Do you think Tuesday likes Sarah? 🙂 My plan is to make a little book for her so that she can have all her people in it and before we see them, if it's been a while I can say, "Look that's so and so and you're going to see them." The idea is that the person will then be familiar to her and not so scary. She doesn't always do well with people she hasn't seen in a while (yes, dailies are back baby!).

    After lunch and checking out Sarah's super cute place we went to Wee Bunz, and then to Erin's. With a quick stop in between to pick up a pack of onsies. The long sleeved shirt she is wearing above is a onsie that Erin dyed a semi solid. She is going to do a rainbow semi solid pack for me I can't wait!  She also did this onsie for Tuesday. If you want any of her cuteness she has an etsy store. At Erin's we got to see her awesome garden. Makes me really jealous. I haven't mentioned that our house is still not done (but it's not) or that our back yard is a serious urban jungle (but it is). Sigh. Instead of a picture with Erin check this out:

    That's right Bj, I figured out how to put in a video on my own, whoo hoo! Yes, my voice is a bit high. And I talk to Tuesday loudly. My mom has pointed this out to me ("you're going to make her deaf!"). I am working on having multiple levels of sound when talking to her 🙂 Reminds me of when I had to work on my voice for crew ("it's not CRAP Amber it's crap." Anyone remember that?).

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