Sunday, May 18, 2008

Mother's day photos & Swaddling issues

So, I have to apologize that it has taken me a week to get these pictures off my camera, onto my computer, and posted here. I blame two things. First, our desktop computer is broken so Andrew and I have been sharing my work laptop. It seems like whenever I thought about blogging, he was using the computer. Second, I blame the heat! It has been so hot here and it is hard for me to get motivated when it is so hot out!!


Anyway, our mother's day was lovely. Andrew made me a poster of Chloe's hand and foot prints and wrote "I love mom" on it. It was so sweet! He also made me breakfast in bed on Sunday! What a great dad! After church, we had lunch at Andrew's mom's house and celebrated mother's day and Andrew's birthday. Andrew, Pete, and Kristen made a yummy lunch and we had a great afternoon.




Here are a few pictures of the day:

Chloe and me in grandma's backyard. I love her chunky legs!!






Three generations!! This is not the best photo of me or my mom, but I love the expression on Chloe's face. She loves to stick out her tongue and spit everywhere!






The girl cousins...





All the cousins together. Grandma bought matching clothes for all of them. So cute! It is so hard to get them to all look at the camera at the same time!! This is the best photo I ended up with of the five of them.



The following picture was taken today after Chloe's nap:

We put her to bed with both arms tightly swaddled. After an hour, she had managed to break both of them free. It does not seem to matter what type of blanket we use, or how tightly we swaddle her, she manages to get her arms out. We usually find her sucking on her hands and talking and laughing. She is so happy to be free. The only problem is that she cannot sleep unless she is swaddled. We've tried! I think she is ready to sleep without being wrapped up tight, but I don't know how to teach her.....Advice??

2 comments:

Kate said...

oh, chloe's sweet leg chunk is trying to win over my affections from her lil melon! cute pictures, and i laughed at the pic of her busted out of the swaddle. you know andrea's determined that she WILL make it chloe-proof!

Anonymous said...

I love the pics of our cute kids. Shae looks adorable with her two little cousins.

I'm glad your just down the street now. It's fun hanging out.

Jen