the family bed

i was the last person in the world who thought i wanted to have a family bed. the concept behind the family bed is just that -- the whole family, including the children, sleeps together. intellectually, the whole concept was a little weird for me -- it sounded too child indulgent, too new wave. i mean, we have a bassinet in the room literally six inches away from my side of the bed -- wasn't that going to be enough? apparently, not for miss mia. she only wants to sleep with either of us. truthfully, though, emotionally, i kinda feel more at ease when she is sleeping with one of us. bringing her into our bed, though, turned out to be less emotional or intellectual, more just a matter of exhaustion. mia won't sleep well when put down. she sleeps a grunt-filled 20 minutes and then starts shrieking (did i mention our little angel is a fussy one?), so the only way we've been learning to sleep is... well, together. with us she sleeps up to four blissful hours. of course, i'm always worried about her suffocating or something similar so we bought this kind of in-bed bassinet thing where she basically has a walled off area to herself. we'll see how it works out... meanwhile, here's a shot of our angel actually sleeping (part of the a picture a day photo album for june)

marco & his first father's day

i took these two pics in the last vestiges of father's day. marco and his little girl were enjoying those last few minutes of father's day together seeing as marco had to work the whole day. don't they look absolutely adorable together? :)

bubby

i tried to make a bubby. but i don't really like the way the little guy came out. he looks nowhere near as cute as the one in knitty and honestly i thought he would be bigger even though i knew that he was supposed to be 7 inches tall (& mine is about 8 inches). i'm disappointed as i was making it for mia as her first teddy bear. maybe next time i'll make a baby bobbi bear instead (shell out some cash for the pattern) and hopefully it'll come out better. we'll see.

the long-awaited post

meet our little daughter, mia, born Thursday, May 31, 2007 she's our absolute joy, and we are completely in love :) her newborn pics are here!

yes, i'm finally back. well, "back" is kind of a relative term. technically, i'm back from the hospital, from giving birth, from pregnancy. but i don't really know what's been going on in the rest of the world since last wednesday. honestly, i've talked to very few people (mainly family)and my whole life revolves around the little one. actually both marco and i have wondered how two completely independent, self-sufficient adults have been reduced to the equivelent of one baby-slave. we live our lives in 3 hour cycles and if you get to sleep for longer than two hours then you're super lucky. we haven't really done much more than take care of her. seriously.

oh and just for the record, i took a pic of my very last week (week 39) with a belly. i don't miss the discomfort but kinda miss carrying her around with me...
last but not least, i had yet another baby shower! this shower was thrown by my aunt lupe and cousin debbie and their families. they couldn't make it to my first shower, so they were kind enough to give this one right before little mia was born. i was as big as a house by then, so forgive the huge pics :)