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a letter To Brayden – 4 Months

Baby Brady-

you are four months! four months, already?! you are slowly turning into a little boy with a little personality. you are such a calm, happy baby. i always envisioned the second baby to be a terror but so far you are clam and easy going. while your sister was a better sleeper you have gone through trauma, learning to use your newly found suction and reintroducing your pacifier. you handled your surgery like a champ, and i am still in awe of how you handled everything. with the whole thing behind us now it seems so surreal because i have forgotten what your cleft looked like. all i see is a handsome baby boy who has the most infectious smile and giggle. your sleeping patterns since the surgery have gone back to normal, but you are waking up once or twice at night because you are such a gassy boy. daddy and i often die laughing so hard because of your loud tooties, we just don’t understand how it comes out of your tiny body. i guess you’re just a little boy and that’s what they do! you love your sister, you often watch her jumping, singing, acting silly and it looks like you are thinking, why can’t i do that?! in time. we introduced your jumpy on your four month birthday and you love it. as long as there is something to nom on you are happy. you love your hands, your sleep-sounds giraffe and your blanket. you still love to be swaddled partially because you love the blanket to be on your face. sometimes i have to check to see if your breathing because you smother your face with your hands and blanket so much. now that you have recovered from your surgery you love your play mat again and once we took off your no-no’s you were back at trying to roll over again and you finally could tuck your shoulder enough to where it did not hurt your nose or mouth. you are also scooting all over the floor and trying to sit up. it all seems to be going so fast because we know what to expect. i love your age right now and look forward to all the fun that is around the corner!

13 pounds 5.3 ounces – 27th percentile. my little peanut!
28 inches – 65th percentile
size 2 diapers
3-6 month clothing
talking up a storm. getting the ‘d’ sounds out, why does dada always have to be the first word. i am praying that you get mama out first. 🙂
you are eating rice cereal now that your stitches have dissolved in your mouth. your pedi says your mouth is still really swollen inside. we also think you are teething.
you love the swing more than anything. worried about transitioning you to your crib this month because you don’t like sleeping without movement.
you have been eyeing your feet and finally figured out how to get to them.
you love looking at the lights from the tv. you laid on your mat watching basketball intently a few weeks ago.
your hair is really coming in now. it gets really greasy fast because you sweat a lot so it looks dark and like you have a mohawk but when you see it after bath time it is really light and fluffy (as your sister describes it).

for whatever reason the video uploaded with only half the sound. not like you need to hear me but i don’t know what happened!?

sister love: payton truly adores you. if you are crying she asks me to sing twinkle, twinkle. now that she has fully learned the song, she just starts to sing it if you are fussy. if she feels you need your pacifier she will bring it to you and put it in your mouth. she loves picking out your clothes and while shopping a few days ago told me what you love. when we first saw your lip without the stitches and glue she stopped, put her hand to her mouth and gasped, mommy, buddy’s lip perfect. awwweee! he’s so cute! i think it’s safe to say little boy that your sister loves you BIG! i can only hope that this will never change.

you figured out if you lean forward you can get those toes a lot easier!

welcome to the circus!

some of y’all may or may not know that i love to bake. have since i was a wee little thing. i have an obsession with cupcake liners, i need to take a picture of my cabinet (yes, i have an entire bottom portion of a cabinet full of just liners) so you can see what i am talking about. it’s actually kind of sick, like i need to seek help, or maybe my vendor needs to tell me to calm down on the pretty papers. i took a hiatus when we were out of the house for obvious reasons and started accepting cupcake orders again a few weeks ago. since i opened the shop back up i have had an order every weekend. i wish i could keep it this way for a while. when a girl i grew-up with was looking for a baker for her daughter’s upcoming circus themed first birthday i jumped at the opportunity and we started brainstorming. i have to admit that the control freak in me loves when clients allow me to guide them through what works vs. doesn’t work. i had a vision of sweet leila’s smash cake but i knew that would require me to dust off my cricut cake machine box that had been tucked away on one of our garage shelves since getting it for Christmas last year. i watched all the videos last week and bit the bullet, plugged it in, colored and rolled some gumpaste and hit cut. the first few attempts were frustrating but once my machine and i became buddy-buddies she cut like a charm or maybe she was happy the curse words stopped flying her way? either way, my smash cake came into fruition and it was the easiest cake i have ever, read ever frosted. i was singing, “da nunna-nunna-nunna-da-nunna-nunna-na!” i guess this stemmed from hubby crossing the border, but i was giddy and truly happy to be baking. i wasn’t stressed, thank god and actually having fun. i guess my hiatus was worth it, because a year ago, i would have thought of this order as “work” vs. “fun”.

welcome to the circus – smash cake

i was too proud not to take a picture with my cake. i know cheesy. but whatevs.

the table

the flavors chosen by the client were:

princess cake with vanilla cream cheese

red velvet with milk chocolate buttercream (this was a first time flavor combo for me. usually everyone wants cream cheese, it was pretty good!)

and

devils food with oreo buttercream

if anyone is considering this theme for a party it was so cute! there was a gourmet hot dog cart with a popcorn machine, shaved ice station, cocktail station with adorable goblets, the centerpieces were large plastic popcorn tubs with shooting stars, clown sunglasses, clown noses and the jumpy was literally the size of my house, no joke. the favors were in gable boxes, circus themed of course! and there was a ridiculously cute sign out front that directed the guests to all the circus fun (no pic because the hot dog dude’s truck was in front of it when i left). the only thing missing for me was a cotton candy machine!

if you live in southern california and are looking for a hot dog cart, this company travels all over.

that’s it. i love it. but mainly, i love parties, party planning and being a part of why guests go to the party, for cake!

a whine sesh & curried egg salad {recipe}

i am honestly having a shitty day. it’s the fourth day in a row where i feel like doing absolutely nothing. i don’t feel well, i just feel outta whack. i think it’s the hormones speaking and i realize that i did not even do my weigh-in wednesday post. this clearly shows that i am just having an “off” week. brayden had his four-month shots on tuesday and has been whiny since. i never experienced this with payton, she would just sleep for a day or two and bounce back. jim won’t be home until about midnight since he is crossing the border to see his co-workers dentist. don’t ask, just accept that you read that and move on. so, basically on top of this super magical day i get to do the nighttime routine solo. i am so not in the mood. i guess i better get used to this. he will be gone monday through friday next week. and, since cooking for a toddler and this measly adult isn’t the most exciting thing i decided to finally post my egg salad recipe that i told so many friends about. so i leave you with something egg-citing. i know, corny.

curry egg salad

recipe from my brain.

what you’ll need:

6 hard boiled eggs, peeled and chopped

1 rib celery, diced

1 stalk green onion, chopped

1/4 cup mayo (use more or less depending on how you prefer your salad)

1 teaspoon yellow mustard

1/2 teaspoon curry

salt & pepper to taste

tomato

bread of choice

here’s how:

in a bowl mix together all of the ingredients. taste for salt & pepper. if you like more curry, add more. it’s easy peasy.

i toasted a slice of rye bread since it is allowed on the 17-day diet, starting cycle three. i placed tomato slices on top with some cracked pepper and sat happily eating as the kids slept. it’s the simple things in life that keep us going!

and now leave to press post since the damn dog barked and woke the baby up after only being down for twenty minutes. does anyone want our corgi/dachshund mix dog? i swear…

what’s up? how’s it going? what’s new?

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ugh. blogging brain is in a funk. i had a long discussion with my friend yesterday about the direction of my blog. there are a lot of you who frequent my blog on a daily basis, do you speak up? no. do you even care what’s going on with my blog? or, are you just blog stalking me?! from looking at my analytics it is insane to me what my numbers are. i mean insane. there are a lot of you. i have now said this twice. so, where am i going with this? i want to meet you lurkers! i also want to know what y’all want to see on my blog to keep it interesting. do you like my recipes? do you like my crafts? do you like my baking? do you like hearing about my everyday life? do you even like this blog? well, you must since 80% of you are reoccurring readers. i have added a poll to the top left sidebar to see what will keep you interested. if you came here from a giveaway and you are disappointed that they aren’t happening like all.the.time well, then i am sorry. a few months ago i thought that it was a good decision, i thought wrong. i think a lot of bloggers learn this lesson at some point. i will do a few giveaways here and there but i don’t want to lose the original feel of my blog. make sense?!?

i also want to start accepting fellow bloggers’ buttons under my monthly blog sponsors. if you think you’re a small time blogger or a big time blogger and want to let your button shine on my sidebar then email me and we can chat!

this is where you leave me much needed feedback so i can go on merry with little birds singing around my head. okay, go!

and yes! i totally used an old school myspace glitter image on my blog. be jelly.

housewives recap

heather: loved her wine and painting party. i also love that she looks like she is secretly dying inside when she is around all the women. what are you thoughts on her hubby? i think he’s being funny for the show, again, another person who needs a nose job.

gretchen: are you serious with your opening ensemble? i think you stole my two-year-olds hair clip, please give it back. and those boots? ridic. please send them back to zappos immediately. i didn’t like how she didn’t step-up to slade when she told him about brooks. i wonder how he will react when she tells him about the bracelet…

tamra: eddie is seeming a little cray-cray. weren’t you just flirting with vicki? it’s not like she put brooks’ hand on her boob for a long time, it was just to get some attention. give the girl a break…simon #2. did bravo just replace simon with eddie because he’s better looking?

vicki: um, i feel for vicki. it seems like tamra and gretchen are throwing it in her face. i wonder if she knows about brooks’ troubles? i don’t think she should have left don for him. i like don better, and he’s better looking.

alexis: you’re an idiot. you don’t have any questions for the plastic surgeon? have you looked in the mirror? you should have plenty of questions, my dear.