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The Christmas Photo Shoot...

Let me take a break now, from travel agent stuff to tell you about our photo shoot at JCPenney.  The day was going great, Memmy was 2 1/2 weeks old, MP was in fine form that day.  First off, the photo shoot we originally scheduled was on Saturday at about 11:00am.  We got up at 7am and realized we would be late around 9am.  Yep.  2 hours.  2 hours to get ready.  Not for a new parenting couple of two kids.  8:30am First off, I had two outfits for the girls all picked out.  They were these little Fall School Girl style outfits that were immediately shut down by Papa.  Correction, Papa shut down MP's outift, so I had to find a new outfit for Memmy too.  This sets us back a good ten minutes.  8:40 Memmy gets hungry.  Whip out the boobies- 15 mins left, 15 mins right, burp 5 minutes.  9:15 Find new outfits for the girls. 9:23 Papa takes a shower while we wait and play, hold Memmy and change her into her outfit. 9:33 Papa gets out of the shower, gets ready.  I change MP. 9:55am we decide we want to take a wardrobe change for the pics, in their Christmas pyjamas, I have to repack the baby bag of plenty and put even more inside it.  10:05am Memmy gets hungry.  I call and cancel the appointment.  But I reschedule it for the following day... and we repeat this process once again.

Fast Forward to Sunday at 3pm at the JCPenney Portrait Studio.  MP has this new thing where she says, :Mine! Mine! Mine!  Over everything she sees that she would like to claim ownership to.  Only, it sounds more like she is saying... MYNA! MYNA! MYNA!   She does it to waitresses in restaurants, she does it to kids...  she does it to Poppy.  

The portrait studio play area had Finding Nemo playing there, and her favorite wooden toy thing.  So, as she sees other kids playing with it she starts her yelling... "MYNA! MYNA! MYNA!"  We divert her attention with Nemo, and then she sees kids with lollipops.

MYNA!

We walk her around the studio to look at the rooms with kids taking pictures.

MYNA!

At this point, we realize, Memmy is hungry, and MP is hungry and if we don't remedy this in a few minutes we were going to have, a disaster.  I wasn't even thinking about how the photos were going to turn out, much less the scheduling anymore... we just had to get food in these kids.  Memmy was easy, whip out a bottle of formula, and insert.  Now MP was a little different, getting a two year old to eat when she is having a tantrum, is well... impossible.  Now, for those of you who don't have kids... you can't help it, you just forget that two hours goes by so quickly and it creeps up on you.

So, the lady calls us up for our pictures Memmy is still having her formula and MP is crying.  She calms down for pictures with tears streaming down her face.  But they manage to capture some cute pics.

Our New Digs...

We love our new space!  It has tall ceilings, and wood floors and a great homey feel to it already.  There is a loft above looking over the whole house and it is going to be my office.  We are 95% done unpacking.  and about 80% done organizing. 

Our new house is great!  MP & Memmy love it... it's sort of tore up still- from unpacking and everything, but slowly we are starting to see the beginnings of our evil, secret lair.  Also, MP barfed the other day (she barfs about a lot of stuff) and I can't get the barf smell out of the girls' bathroom.  Ahhhh feels like home.  MP loves her room, and when anyone comes to visit she shows them all their room.  

Some more pictures & update on our move...

Some more thoughts on the day... Memmy looks almost exactly like MP did when she was born and had the same exact stats on her, except that MP weighed one ounce more!  Memmy also has a lot more hair.  Mama had to spend a little extra time in the recovery room because the C-Section took a little longer than normal, my uterus wasn't contracting back so I had a LOT of excess bleeding.  

The Move:

More pics later, when I can locate the camera and the cord.   Our new place is so much more snazzy than our last place.  It has these cathedral ceilings and 2 bedrooms and a loft.  We also have a cool hang out porch and a fireplace!  We are very excited about these things only because we now have space and don't feel as trapped.  Better also, is the fact that all my relatives are a skip away (literally).

 

INTRODUCING...

Miss Emily Mairin Keith, born 21 November 2008, at 12:33pm 7 lbs 8 oz, 19 and 1/2 inches.

Here's details of the day...  Papa, MP & I got to Grammy & Poppy's house to drop off MP (they were going to meet us at the hospital later).  I cried when we left MP mostly because I am hormonal, and mostly because... well you know why.  And if you don't  you must not have any kids yet.

I'm not going to be able to be on here long, so I am posting just one pic and will get to the rest soon.  Just went through about 48 hours of cluster feeding, and if you have breast fed before, you know how crazy tired you can be.  I think I am delirious.  

Anyway, we get to the hospital an hour early and we have to wait.  Haha, I was too anxious.  Anyway, got my spinal, and they yanked her out.  Literally...  nothing too crazy happened... we are both well... and Memmy is healthy!  

Thanks for all the well wishes, and I promise we will be in touch soon... 

love

MAMA, PAPA, MP & Memmy

Can't sleep...

Gonna meet my new baby in about 7 hours!  CAN'T SLEEP... anyway, here is a quick update... we are moving to a cool place... right next to Auntie Julie & Uncle Rod!  Here is our new address...

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if we look across the street, there is Frames Port, if we look to our left there is Auntie Cel's, then Uncle Jack's then Uncle Manny's a couple miles down is my dad & mom... COOL!  

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