Mellow Yellow

You know what makes me happy right now? Besides smelling my yummy baby and laughing at Deklan, loving my hubby, and reading with Sadie....

Lemons.

Yep, lemons.

For a year now I've been wanting to try to make lemon curd. I was feeling sorry for myself one night (the usual reason that brings on my pity parties...my sisters and mom got together AGAIN without me) when there was a knock on the door. A friend brought me a sack of lemons. How appropriate for my sour attitude. Then I thought of this recipe and headed for the kitchen.

I wasn't too sure of it's taste at first and wasn't too sure what to spread it on. So I whipped up some almond poppy seed muffins. Erik and I couldn't get enough of those muffins with a generous spread of curd. Delish!

Deklanisms

This little boy keeps me laughing til my side hurts....here are a few of his latest....

"Mom, are you thinkin what I'm thinkin?"

"I don't know bud. What are you thinking?"

"I'm thinkin I need a treat."

OR

"I'm in my prime mom."

"What?" (Did I hear what I think I just heard?)

"Yeah, I'm in my prime."

"What?" (Seriously, is he saying PRIME?)

"I'm in my prime just like Melman on Madagascar."

OR, my personal favorite.....

whenever I pick up Sophie and she goes from crying to calm he'll say,

"Sophie knows her mom. Yep, Sophie knows her mom."

One Month!

Erik is OOT for a few days, so I have nothing better to do at night than to catch up on my "to do" list (that, and wish he was home) so I'm posting away....



For Sophie's 1 month birthday, we decided to get OUT OF THE HOUSE, because I'm getting a little stir crazy if you know what I mean. Deklan has been itching to ride his scooter so we went to the park. It was a little windy that day (last Friday), so Sophie was able to sport her cutest hat ever made by the oh so talented Tara. (Picture is after the park and Sophie was more than ready to eat and take a nap on mommy's soft bed).

Pink Sadie

What color are you?

3 Weeks Old

Sophie Brooke Dunn

She's here!!! Ten days early, 8 lbs. 4 oz. (biggest baby we've had!), 19 3/4 inches long, 6 days old in top picture, 2 days old (coming home from the hospital) in bottom picture. Back to her birthweight at her 5 day pediatrician visit. Has been smothered with hugs and kisses since her arrival!

We had already taken about 175 pictures before we even left the hospital so it was not an easy task picking two for the blog post. Truthfully, I didn't scour them too closely because, well, for one they are all adorable (minus a few of the "during labor" shots my mom captured) and also I'd much rather be cuddling with Sophie than blogging.

Which brings me to say.....i'm checking out for a while....not working (for money anyway), not blogging, not facebooking, not going to school, not teaching joy school......I"m pretty much going to be soaking up every second of every minute of every hour of every day of my baby and her big brother and big sister!

Light Saber P P

Deklan in his most enthusiastic voice announced, "MOM, I got all the bad guys with my light saber p p".

I'm slightly confused. "What?"

Deklan with a slight annoyance at my lack of understanding but not diminished in his pride announces again, "I got all the bad guys with my light saber p p."

Three years ago, I might have been a little appalled, even slightly disgusted and maybe even prepared to have a little talk about what's "o.k." to say and what's not....but I'm all ears.

"What is your light saber p p?"

"You know, that thing where the pee pee comes out!"

"And where are the bad guys?"

"They live all around the inside of the toilet!"

That's my boy!!! And by golly if it takes a light saber p p to get the urine in the toilet rather than a diaper, pull-up, or even worse--his underwear, I'll be the first to support it! He is one cool jedi!

(Pictures not posted for obvious reasons).