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  • It's strange that the good and bad days in my life right now are so tied to sleep. We go from wake up happiness:
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    To insane tiredness:
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    And everything else in between in the course of a day. I realize more and more how much I need other people to help me, and that can be a hard thing to figure out when you're like me and want to do it all. There is no way I can. Today lunch was brought to me, my mom came over to take my packages to the post office, and I called a neighbor to hold Tuesday so I could fix dinner since Bj was still at work. I also got Tuesday to take a 20 minute nap (not on me) and did a little spinning. I think those tiny bits of me time are going to be my sanity. Back to the photo journal of my day.
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    New toy. She will play with this for five minutes by herself, but half an hour or more if you shake it and talk to her about all the parts. She really is getting so social! Also I love this sweater my mom knit her. She has been the spit up queen lately (Tuesday, not my mom), so I have a tub full of woolens to wash tomorrow.
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    The first bobbin is finished, now on the second, hoping to get a third done and make a true 3-ply (fiber from Squoosh). Now that we're using the sling I can do a little more on the computer. I was able to stock the Hello Yarn update and got a few things.
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    And when my mom stopped by she brought her new camera! Not bad considering the lack of sleep and make up!

    Well I'm going to go try to get this little bird to sleep!

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  • My sweet baby girl decided to give us a wonderfully relaxing weekend, with lots of naps and sleeping in. I attribute that all to this:
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    Near constant eating. Seriously, and you can tell she's gotten so much bigger!
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    (more of this series to come, we were having lots of fun with her tonight). She still is, of course very tiny because she's a baby! Six weeks old yesterday, craziness.
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    Her first sink bath. She loved it, of course, she's a water nut.
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    Tiny feet. Okay I'm officially not on any topic for this post, just Tuesday love.

    My favorites from tonight:
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    and then…
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    He always gets her to smile like this.

    But I bet I can get you to smile like that:
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    What? I was doing it for scale. ๐Ÿ™‚
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    Okay I cut that down from 30 pictures (which I cut down from the 100s I've taken this weekend). I don't think I'll ever get over that this is my daughter and that she is so fantastic! I love her little personality and just seeing her change everyday, it's the most wonderful thing.

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  • Oh my little bird, she is so cute!
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    I keep saying that but she keeps getting cuter every day so what am I supposed to say? 30 minutes after I posted the last entry she went to sleep. Imagine my shock when Bj woke me up at 7 to say he thought she needed to be fed… we didn't wake up once in the night! I don't think this will be a regular thing, as she needs to nurse, but the day before we were up in Portland all day and she never napped so I think she really just wore herself out. And last night she did another good night of sleep, but with little eating breaks. Then after we played in the morning for an hour we went back to sleep… until noon. It was wonderful, I really hope I'm raising someone who likes to sleep in, because I really do.
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    Those very late nights now seem very far back in the distance. She still keeps me plenty busy during the day though, so I'm not sure when I'll have time to tackle this pile:
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    Mmm yummy new fabric. Our local quilt shop has loyalty punch cards, and I had two full I'd been saving. Their newsletter highlighted this awesome space fabric, so I went to get some for Tuesday, and got a bunch of other fun things as well. I hope to do something like this someday… maybe before she grows into a toddler bed? Ya, that's a good goal.

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