caylin turned 6 months yesterday. whole-ee-shit. crazy how time flies. milestones as of late… * she fed herself the other day. with a sippy cup with handles. booya. * she’s screaming now. like, ear piercing shrieks that send chills down your spine. they’re happy shrieks, but they are still close…
in pictures. because it’s 10:30 and i don’t feel like writing. i am le tired. please ignore the crappy photo quality on half of these. we used my mom’s camera and she had it on the lowest setting. she knows not what she does! and i…
i am realizing more and more how much i’ve neglected to take time for myself lately. it is entirely my fault, and i know that, so i really have no room to complain. but in the last week, it has become blatantly obvious that i need to step back,…
this past week caylin started sleeping full time in her crib, which is huge. and bittersweet, like i expected. and convenient and awesome all at the same time. my mom had her napping in the crib during the day, but i still had her sleeping with me at night. i…
somehow over the course of a month, caylin has turned into one. like… leaps and bounds of progress in every area. at 5 months and 1 week she is * sitting up unassisted and playing with her toys - able to pull herself into a sitting position by holding onto my…
holy crap, it’s been a year already. i feel like just yesterday i was freaking out about not only being pregnant, but how we were going to plan a wedding in less than a month! i still have the wedding planning spreadsheet in my google docs. and then i…
this is me starting a new trend for myself. i’ve been emailing myself snippets of memories and saving them randomly in evernote but i’ve never actually PUT them anywhere (unless they turned into tweets). so this will be that repository from now on. too many little things have…
that i am allowed to take care of another human being. i was laying in bed feeding caylin tonight, waiting for her to fall asleep, and my brain always wanders off in those 20 minutes when she’s in between the last 2 ounces and passing out. all of the…