Oy Vay

Soooo....... the other day Drew and I were trying to run out the door to run some errands. I had a slight meltdown and was in tears because I could not find one piece of clothing that I owned that looked somewhat decent on my dumb ever-enlarging body.

Drew: "What's going on?"

Madie: (in tears) "NOTHING looks good on me!"

D: "What? You look fine, just throw something on, let's go."

M: "I can't just throw something on cause I look fat in everything I own!"

D: "No you don't you look great."

M: "No I don't! I just keep getting bigger and bigger right here!" (pointing to my love handles, tummy and butt- which is true by the way)

D: (a bit exasperated) "I don't know do some sit ups or something if you don't like it."

GLARE.

M: "I AM EXERCISING! EVERDAY! YOU'RE NOT HELPING!!!!" (slam door)

......... a few minutes later..........

D: "I'm sorry, you're beautiful- and pregnant! This is a wonderful thing that's happening to you, we're going to have another baby! Don't worry about how you look because you really do look great, you don't look fat, you're beautiful."

M: "Fine. Just for future reference- never tell your hormonal, very tired pregnant wife to do sit-ups when she says she's feeling fat."

Happy Valentine's Day!

We had a lovely Valentine's Day with our Valentine- dressing her up in everything she owns that is pink or red or has hearts on it; having one-hour-long church (THE BEST); making Valentine sugar cookies; and V got to watch Sleeping Beauty (for the 10th time in the past 24 hours) and Little Mermaid.  In case you haven't heard Baby V's OBSESSED with Disney movies, especially Pocahontas, Mulan, and Sleeping Beauty.  She will sit for hours if we let her and just watch them- I most definitely appreciate them because when she watches them that's the only time that she'll hold still for longer than 2 seconds at a time.  By the way, we watched "Bright Star" this week and it's my new favorite movie- if you are looking for a great love story and just a beautiful movie- WATCH IT.  I love it.  A lot.  

I'M SO TIRED.  and fat.  boo.

Happy New Year

Well, I'm very sorry that I'm such a bad blogger- my New Year's resolution is to be MUCH better at it- we'll see how that goes.  Anyways, 2009 came and went in a blur- especially the Holidays.  It's true that with babies time just flies by- V is almost 15 months now, can you believe it??  Well, Christmas was lovely this year- Drew actually had a few days off, a Christmas miracle, and we had a Hansen Christmas and a cute little Hafer Christmas, as well as the normal Casillas Christmas festivities.  We of course had our Mexican food Christmas Eve at Nico's house this year with my Grandpa dressed as Santa of course and had all of the kids sit on his lap for the kiss/hug and gift exchange.  Valentine wasn't so into that as you can tell- she was way tired, I think that if we had done it a little earlier she would have cooperated maybe?  And if it wasn't me handing her off.  Oh well, next year, next year.  The food was delicious as always, I particularly enjoyed the "gringa" enchildas and the one tray of mint brownies we brought out of the 10 million trays we've made in the past month.  Stupid mint brownies.  Well, I was up till 5 that night trying to finish all of my home-made presents that Drew and I decided to so for each other and Valentine this year- that's when it really sucks that I'm a horrible procrastinator, the doll I made for Valentine took FOREVER but turned out very cute-  I'll have to take a picture and post it I forgot to do that.  I was planning on making a dress for V also, but waaaay ran out of time.  Oh well.  The frame I made for Drew turned out awesome, and he made me a very darling scrapbook of V- can you believe that I don't have hardly any printed pictures of my baby?  Now I do!  Thanks Drew!  Anyways, on Christmas morning we all went down to our own piles of goodies and were joined by our fun cousins Ian and Grace and our aunt Joanne, whose house caught on fire and we were blessed to have them spend Christmas with us in our home.  We exchanged our gifts for each other which is always fun but took a looong time- there's just too many of us now.  Then Drew, V and I went up to our room and did our Hafer Christmas around our little tree (which I LOVED and Valentine was very good at destroying and taking off the ornaments) after which V and I took an AWESOME two hour nap.  We than had some family come and visit and watched an old Cary Grant movie.  The next day the Casillas's all came over for a tres delicieux breakfast and fun white elephant gift exchange.  Among some of my favorite gifts were the Utah Jazz warm up jump suit and matching coat, the snuggie (which Page got- ha), the make-your-own-gummie-bears kit (which was intended for Merry), the Everybody Poops book (courtesy of Taylor of course), and the Robert Pattinson calendar.  Lots of fun.  New Year's was pretty uneventful- we made a TON of wontons- yum, and had seven layer cookies and oatmeal bars.  I still can't believe I haven't gained 10+ pounds from all of the food from the Holidays.  Jeez.  But New Year's was nice, we just ended up watching Glee Season 1 and actually completely forgot to watch the ball drop.  Whatever, I've seen it before.  The only really interesting part of the Eve was when Micah ran around the house screaming and yelling "Happy New Year!" and I told him that I'd punch if he woke up my baby.  Fun.

Lame

While eating mint brownies:

Me: "So Mom, from what side of the family do I get the fact that I carry my weight right here and here (pointing to my stomach and love handles) in a cute little band around me?"

Mom: "That's called you had a baby"

Kirby: "That's called mint brownies."

Me: "Oh. Dangit."

Awesome

Concerning Merry's Work Christmas Party:

Merry: "Kirby, can you come to my work Christmas party on Friday?"

Kirby: "Um, maybe, Grandma isn't going with you this year?"

Merry: "Uuuuuuuugh, No! Because she is pathetic and rude."

The Joys Of Motherhood

So two nights ago Valentine woke up around 2 in the morning- I nursed her back to sleep and as soon as she finished she threw up all over me and herself and the bed. Awesome. So she got a 2:30 a.m. bath and I took a 2:30 a.m. shower and we did a 2:30 a.m. laundry load. Then she threw up again at 8 in the morning after nursing again (again on me and the bed) and again half an hour later after drinking some water. Awesome. After having nothing but water and eventually saltine crackers and the worst diaper I've ever experienced she was fine and has been better ever since luckily- maybe a little more clingy and cuddly than usual which is fine with me. The next night she woke up again and I could NOT get her back to sleep without nursing- so I grudgingly gave in (I was worried about getting yacked on again and I'm trying to ween my nurse-happy baby) and the whole time I lied there thinking "Please don't throw up, please go to sleep, please don't throw up, please go to sleep, please don't throw up, please go to sleep, please don't throw up, please go to sleep." She didn't throw up and she went back to sleep. Phew. Nothing like vomit in your hair and cuddling with this cute little face all day to make you realize the joys of being a mother.

Happy Halloween

We spent a fun fun Halloween with cousins in Richmond this year.  Valentine dressed up as an adorable black kitty- just like her cousin Ceily!  She had her pumpkin bag in hand and had a lot of fun getting candy from new admirers.  She also had a lot of fun eating her Halloween candy as you can plainly see.  Fun fun fun- Halloween is most def still my favorite holiday especially with my cute cute baby to dress up- can't wait till next year!!!