The Boob and the Beard...or used to be the Beard!

So my dear Samantha's little personality is starting to show a little more each day. One thing she does that is hilarious but also frustrating to those she does it to is she will occasionally not make eye contact for anything! When she is not in the mood she will avoid your eyes like the plague and will look everywhere except at you! Unless you are the Boob or the Beard as my mom likes to say! The reason is because during her little eye escapism she will usually always look at me or Chris instead of whoever is trying to steal her gaze. I am the Boob and my husband is was the Beard. He shaved his beard this morning...sad day! I would post pictures of the before and after but he did it while I was still in bed!

Anyways, yesterday was day 3 of no poop! Chris and I made a bet for when it would come... and i won! Woo hoo! The prize is a foot massage, YUM! But the even better prize was that we caught it! It was an icky lava poo too that I am sure would have spread everywhere if it was in the diaper! Another reason to be glad it came when it did was intern theater was last night and I really didn't want to either be pottying her or cleaning up a poo explosion during the play! Which by the way it was really funny! If you live near Roseville you should see their next showing at the Rock of Roseville this Friday at 6:30!

As you can see in the pictures I have been pretty daring lately and have been going diaperless at home and occasionally even out of the house. I am not fully ready to ditch the diapers completely but we have been very successful thus far without them. Diapers are like a security net and without them I have to be on  my game or else poop and pee will be everywhere. When she is wearing a diaper and I am doing something, occasionally I will knowingly let her pee in her diaper. It isn't wrong since she understands that the place to go is the potty but when the diaper is off my catch to miss ratio looks way better which means less laundry, less money spent and a way happier baby! (Not to mention, her outfits look and fit way better without a diaper!)

So I was digging in my underwear drawer the other day and found one of my pre-pregnancy bras, oh my goodness! I can't believe how small I used to be!!! It looks like a training bra now and I wasn't that tiny to begin with. Oh breastfeeding! When my milk first came in days after she was born I cried! I couldn't believe how gigantic my boobs were all of a sudden! I felt so unproportional and weird looking and NONE of my bras fit! (Of course now I hate bras and don't wear them) But eventually i got used to the new aliens attached to my chest and now its weird to look back at what I used to be! The amount of bodily changes I have gone through this past year are crazy! I literally feel like I have a completely different body than before and it doesn't just look different, it feels different too. And now that I have a normal we will see how long until it changes again! I am already starting to not fit into the jeans I bought weeks after Sammy was born Ha! All worth it!





Another note I am having a REALLY hard time with baby wearing Sam on my back. And I mean a REALLY hard time. I have been at it now for a little over a week and occasionally I can get her on correctly but not consistently and I don't know what it is that I am doing wrong. I found a baby wearing group on facebook in Sacramento and am hopefully going to get some help because this is one thing I just cannot figure out on my own! I really want to get it right because I want her to be involved in what I am doing and the front wrap just isn't always practical. So Chris has advised me to take a break from trying and try to get some help then try again after a little while which is very good advice! I was getting so very frustrated that it was causing me to not think rationally about which just makes the problem worse. So for now we will stick to the front wraps until I can get some help!