Rock a bye Cheeseburger- Tales of Motherhood

So today my mom and I went out for lunch with Sophia. We both ordered cheeseburgers and of course as soon as we took our first bite my darling daughter began to cry...loud. So I picked her up and began rocking her back and forth to quiet her. For those of you that don't know or haven't been around during one of her breakdowns, Sophia loves to be bounced, rocked and "figure 8'd" (combination of the two in a figure 8 motion. don't ask me why) when she's upset and without fail it calms her down.

So anyhow, once mom finished her burger I handed the baby off to her so I could eat mine. We're sitting there chatting and all the sudden I realize I'm rocking my cheesburger! Literally rocking the thing back and forth and spraying burger juices and fixings everywhere. I've officially reached a new level of nuts. Allthough, truth be told. I don't mind. Makes live pretty darn entertaining.

Here's a new picture of Sophia in her "out on the town" gear...

Cheeky

Mom is still so stunned that I've grown so much that she felt the need to post pictures of me in my car seat at 1 week old and 6 weeks old.

In case you were wondering...yes, I am storing up nuts and seeds for the winter.

All Grown Up

I'm growing up so fast that mom and dad are stunned. This weekend I found my toys in my crib. It was like "POOF" there they are! I'm told they were there all along but I guess I was too busy studying the back of my eyelids to see them. Now I hit them with my hands and stare at them for what seems like forever (10 minutes at most). Here are a few pictures of me all grown up...

MOOO!!!!

I'm now starting to (kinda) fit into some of my cow paraphernalia. Yes, I have quite the collection of cow gear. Grandma grew up on a farm and her sisters, my great aunts, showered me with cow clothes. I must admit, I do think I look pretty fantastic. Besides, I wear milk down the front of me day in and day out I might as well pay homage to the cow.

MOO!

Incredible Shrinking Baby

Today little Miss Sophia had her 1 month check-up and is tipping the scales at 8 pounds, 2 ounces! We also found out that she is 20 3/4 inches long. Either she shrunk in the last 7 days or the nurse that came to the house last week was just a tad off : ) Her new stats put her in the 20% for weight and 50% for height! At this rate she might be taller then her mom by age 3.

She's now laying on her play mat grunting. I'm about to join her. Laying down that is, not grunting.

40 Day Blessing

Today Sophia had her 40 day blessing where she was welcomed into the Greek Orthodox Church. She behaved beautifully. No tears (unless you count right before and right after) at all! This was a very special day for our family and we wanted to share some photos.

The bottom photo is of our friend Paula and her daughter Ailey. Ailey was born 5 days before Sophia. I was lucky to meet Paula in my Aqua Mom's swim class (and later, her husband Blake in child birth class). Turns out we attend the same church (among other bizarre similarities). Neither of us knew we were having girls and I'm thrilled that we can now share the joys of having a daughter.

Tomorrow is Sophia's 1 month appointment with the pediatrician. Her reflux is still pretty bad and we're not sure the medication is working : ( Hopefully she'll have some answers because we're having a tough time seeing our little girl hurt.

Hot Tamale

Here is a picture of my first mini skirt (compliments of Aunt Monica). Dad's not thrilled about it but I figured I might as well break him in early.

Mom's Mom

Mom's mom (she's not too fond of the Grandma word yet) left yesterday. Here is a picture of us together. I miss her already!

Whoa!

Yesterday the nurse came to weigh/measure me and I'm 7lbs 12oz and 21 1/4" long!!! Here are a couple pictures of my reaction to the news...

Captions are as followed:

Wait, how much?

Are you kidding?

OH DEAR!!!

Boogie!!!

Last night I had my very first booger! Mom picked it proudly. She wanted to take a picture of it but Dad and Grandma didn't think that was such a pleasant idea.

Nikki and Pierre stopped by to visit me last week and brought me my very first doggie! It's so soft and I love it!

4 weeks today!

It was a big weekend in the Karras household. I had my first tummy time and as you can see it was extremely eventful : ) I peed and puked on my mom (and the floor)...AT THE SAME TIME! and I turned 4 weeks old!

Tales from the Sleep Deprived

Last night Sophia was having one of her fussy episodes and wouldn't sleep. I put her on my chest to soothe her while Taki ran to get the pacifier, burp cloth, and other such items needed to pacify her. When he got back into bed he informed me that he was going to "rest his eyes". I told him to go to sleep and that there was no use in both of us being up but he insisted he was just going to rest his eyes. I've heard that one before.

Once Sophia calmed down and fell asleep I decided to try and put her back in her bassinet. This was about a half hour later and Taki was sound asleep. I put her down and she was instantly awake again. I was leaning over the bed trying to calm her when I feel Taki caressing my elbow. I thought he was just trying to offer support but was a bit curious why he was soothing my elbow. After a few minutes I hear him say, "Honey, her head feels cold to me".

You know you've had too little sleep when you confuse your baby's head with your wife's elbow.

Sans Stump and other news

Big day in the Karras house....I lost my cord. I know, gross, but still cause for celebration...no more sponge baths!!!

The nurse came on Friday to see how I'm doing. I now weigh 7lbs and am 19.5" long. I'm growing like a weed! Soon I'll be able to finally fit in my newborn clothes!

Garrick and Renee came to visit me this weekend and brought me this cool giraffe. It's bigger then me!!!

It's the Great Poop Charlie Brown

I can assure you little Miss Sophia will not be thrilled that we told the world about this but.... we all need at least one truly embarrassing story from childhood.

As some of you know, Sophia has had some digestive problems and the most recent development involves a bought of constipation. For those of you who have not had to deal with infant constipation, the poos are basically little hard rocks. About the size of a bouncy ball.

Thursday night I woke up (read: Soph woke me up) to change and feed her and discovered a bouncy ball. I didn't expect her to have one in the middle of the night and so I quickly pulled the diaper out from under her. Apparently when I did this the little ball rolled out into her pj's. I realized when I went to put the new diaper on that it had escaped. I quickly took her outfit off and scrunched it up so the poo ball wouldn't fall out. After I put her new clothes and diaper on I went to remove said poo ball from her old outfit so I could throw it away and wouldn't you know it was missing. GONE. No where to be found. I searched high and low. At this point I was somewhere caught between mortification and amusement at how absurd this was. I had to wake Taki up to assist me in the search and rescue operation. I was paranoid that it was stuck to the back of her head or somewhere in her new clothes. After much laughing we finally found the little rascal behind the changing table. I still can't figure out how it escaped. I really thought I had been pretty careful but obviously not careful enough. So there you have it. The case of the missing poo has been solved.

Needless to say there will not be a picture to go along with this post. I think I've embarrassed the kid enough.

Mom the photographer

Mom thinks she's a photographer. I don't have the heart to tell her that almost every photo she takes is blurry.