Good Friends. Good Weekend.

Our friends Zo and Kate came up for the weekend from Las Vegas. We haven't seen them since their wedding in September, so it was great! It was also our first big outing since Maggie was born. She spent the night (yes the whole night!) at Grandma Ollie's. She did fine, it was Mom that broke down- just a little when we left her Sat. night :(
She did great though, for Grandma, even drank good from her bottle. We picked her up the next day and went with Zo and Kate to Estes Park- it was beautiful, only about 78 degrees when we got there. It even treated us to a mountain thunderstorm which cooled things off even more.

Amiel's Ailments

Poor Cinci- it has been a rough week. First off, it has been between 95-100 degrees for like 20 days or something, and we bake in our little brick house with no A/C. Maggie and I pretty much spend all our time in the basement during the day. Amiel has been working outside and comes home to our hot box every night. If you know Cinc at all you know how warm blooded he is anyway and much he sweats. I mean, it can be 32 degrees and he will be sweating. This week with all the heat he came down with a mean case o' tinea cruris (if you really want to know, look it up) a very friendly little fungus. We are um, sparing you the picture on this one even though he wanted to post it. Then he cut his knee and it turned all red, streaky and hot-and we found out he had cellulitis. If that wasn't enough he was cutting metal of some sort at work and it sparked off into his eyes (and no he wasn't wearing his googles)- and they had to pick tiny metal pieces out of his eyes and face with tweezers- fun, fun. So please pour on all the sympathy you can for poor Puddin- he needs you.

Slings and Such Things

Ok, for those of you not well versed in the language of "babywearing" here is my quickie on carrying your baby. Mostly this post is about me wearing my baby and the things I wear my baby in- got it? This is also to vent a little about said apparati. My first sling was purchased well before Maggie was born and is a ring sling something like this one

Well for the life of me I cannot figure out how in the hell this thing is suppose to work! It is a huge struggle to get her in it and once she is, she is crunched up and lost in the bottom of it- I have not been able to really get much use out of it. It also kind of hurts my back because she is just swinging there around my neck. Any suggestions? And yes I have read and watched every video on in internet. I am wondering if waiting until she is older and can sit up and hold her head up will help- i dunno.

My next sling is actually a wrap- called Moby. It is actually so far my favorite, however for all the positions that you are supposed to be able to wear them in, I only have one that she seems to like- see picture. Once again I think once she gets older it will be better. However, I am worried about having her legs dangle out because of something I read about proper spine development etc. The other downside is getting in the darn thing, it is not something that you just slip on- you have to tie it first and it is really, really long, so the ends end up all over the ground or in somebody's gum in the Target parking lot.

Numero tres is supposed to be the best thing since sliced bread, and that is the Ergo. Don't even ask how much this thing costs. This one is supposed to be the best for spine development, ergonomically correct for the wearer etc. You can also wear the baby front and back. So far this one has not blown me away as I expected. It is not quite as comfortable for me as I thought it would be- the straps dig a little and I haven't found myself loving it. It is hard to get her down in it, but she sits sideways which is nice. I feel like I am squishing her a bit with the insert (the green thing in the pic), but she seems content when we get her in it. Maybe this one will be better when she is older too? Common theme here. One other thing- it really doesn't fit all people- Amiel can barely get it on and is not comfortable for either of them if he tries to wear her.

The good news is that she doesn't seem to mind riding in whatever I put her in and usually falls asleep. I guess thats the point huh?

Twin Lakes

We took a nice little trip to the mountains this past weekend- it was way nicer there than here! About 70 degrees during the day vs. the 90+ degree heat that Denver has had (and we have NO A/C) Maggie did great and really seemed to enjoy the outdoors and riding around in her Moby sling. Amiel did catch one little fish. I am afraid we distracted him from his fisherman duties quite a bit. Here is a little vid of the dogs having lots of fun and hopefully not scaring the fish away (yeah right).

It's Summertime Baby!

Here's to Friday night happy hours around the world! Try this yummy cocktail-

Tequila

Juice of 1 Lemon

Creme de Cassis (sweet berry type liqueur)

Ginger Ale

Perfect for the sizzling heat and purdy too!

And yes I have been watching too much food network tv during the day....

Who's your daddy?

Here is a baby pic of Cinc and his older brother Terry..quite a resemblance to her daddy no?