Leah’s surgery is 18 days away.
This is how Saturday went:
-Ms. Crankypants stole the show.
-Leah got visits from her Gran and made a new friend, Sharon (one of Mandy’s colleagues), who reads the blog and leaves awesome comments.
-More Ms. Crankypants.
-Mama and Mommy went on a date – all the way to the park next door for a Grilled Cheese Truck moment. We need our date nights! Yes – I actually ate a grilled cheese sandwich. It was thrilling. And it stayed down. On a day to day basis I still need to be super-careful about what I eat, since the surgery is really just a work-around and not a fix, but it was glorious to be able to eat on that particular occasion.
-While we were at the park we met a mama and her 6 year old kiddo who has Down Syndrome. We chatted with them for a bit and got their contact info so we can keep in touch! Knew there was a reason the Grilled Cheese Truck lured us out that night!
-Epic Angry-Baby face when we returned from our date. Upon arriving in PICU, we stopped to talk w/ the nurses for a couple of minutes because we were informed our tiny tot was sleeping. When we walked into her room, we discovered that she was not asleep, and she gave us the most pouty, scowly look you could imagine on such a beautiful litte face. Not scrunchy face – “How far can I push out my bottom lip” face would be a better description in this case. Here is what her face said: “MOMMIES! You’ve been here for FIVE MINUTES and you haven’t come to SEE ME yet? You’re GROUNDED! Go stand in the corner and think about what you did wrong. And on your way back, bring me milk and more toys!”
-Family snuggle time. Once BabyBug got over the sting of betrayal (which lasted all of about 15 seconds), we brought her over to the pull-out couch and did tummy time, and then we all cuddled as a family for a little while. So nice. Can’t wait ’til we can do that at home.
Sunday happened like this:
-Visitors! Great-Grandpa, Grandma, and Aunti came to visit today and we had a grand old time with our little sweetheart. You guys won’t be able to keep a straight face when you see the outfit we put her in yesterday. If you follow the Bug on Facebook, you’ve already seen it, but if not… teehee. See below.
-Not much else! We love having visitors but we also enjoy some quiet time!
And now Monday:
-Visitors galore! Friends Robyn & Hillary came in the morning, and Uncle Ralph turned up in the afternoon. Our cousins BB&E came a little later, and two of our friends visited still later! Busy day!
-Another awesome outfit. Yeah.
Pictures:
When you walk into Leah’s room, this is the first thing you see: The wall formerly known as the Wall-‘o’-Mermaids. There are more on the side wall too. She’ll have a nice little scrapbook when she breaks outta here.
“Sup?”
Cool!
“I haz fun toys!”
Sleepin’ and holdin’ Gran’s good hand.
“Oh hai, you want one? TOO BAD! NONE FOR YOU! Or maybe I can share. Okay. Here you go.”
Babytongue!
Yeah, I grew that!
Holding Gran’s hand
At one point she seemed to be trying to pluck the hearts off of the blanket. It was pretty freaking cute.
Sigh.
Um. Yeah. Totally by accident. It’s like they’re my wife and sister or something.
Showing off our awesome tracking skillz. Right! Left! Look down! Look up! Good girl!
Showing off our monkey-nomming skillz.
Deep in conversation with MiniBug.
“Bored now.”
“Oh fine. I’ll look at the camera. JUST KIDDING! My eyes are shut!”
Look at this precious little contortionist. I don’t know how she is comfortable with her neck like that.
OMG SHOES.
It’s exhausting being adorable.
“Sigh. Okay. I give up. Just pile on the cute.”
“I take that back. We have to draw the line somewhere.”
“SRSLY?”
“LEG WARMERS?!?!? I should have kept quiet and accepted the jeans!”
“Mama, why u do this 2 me?”
“No, srsly, why?”
“I love you Mama. I forgive you.”
Your new Jazzercise instructor. As soon as I started taking pics she began to “dance” and strike various exercisey poses. It was pretty funny.
“Aunti Staci, is your arm gluten-free?”
Aunti Staci and her MiniMe.
“TOYS!”
“I love my monkey! Thank you Gran!”
“U NO CAN HAZ MY MUNKEY!”
“Yeah, I’m talking to you!”
We love bathtime
We hate bathtime
“HALP! DON’T GIVE MOMMY THE COMB!”
“’cause this!”
“You think you’re taking away my MiniBug? Back off, Buster!”
“MiniBug is MINE!”
“You can’t steal my MiniBug but I’ll give you a kiss instead!”
Knocked out
“Really?”
Still trying to decide how she feels about this outfit. I just love this funnyface.
“Oooh, this is soft!” Leah was playing with this dress ALL DAY. She was having fun tossing the ruffles up and down, holding onto the layers, and even trying to nom on it.
Robyn & Hillary!
Here you see the whole outfit. If only they made white baby socks that looked like knee-high boots.
Hillary took this pic!
“Hi Uncle Ralph!”
Sleeping Beauty
Sweet and psychedelic and alllllmost smiling.
Little button nose
There we go with the weird neck position again! She seems to love it!
Hi Mama!!!
Practicing our dance moves.
She is too cute. You should need a license to be this cute.
*love*
BabyBug is getting pretty good at tracking! I can’t tell if she’s following me and the camera, or whether she’s noticing the little red light that flashes when I get ready to shoot the picture. Either way I’m proud of her!
“Look, Mama! I can look up and down!”
How is she so cute???
Yeah. That happened.
Overwhelmed with the cuteness!
I agree — she must have the cuteness license! She is way past the learner’s permit on cuteness! I just loved meeting and holding Ms. Leahbug!!! Thank you so much for letting me come over! As one of her greatest fans, seeing her in her (literal) crib, made me so happy!! And it’s like they tell all the big stars, she does look a little smaller in person — I’m sure she will grow into that 9-month sleeper – lol! (Honest, I did check the baby sizes for weight and she’s almost into a new size!) I’m also glad the Mommies had a lovely night out and that the Grilled Cheese Truck brought good food and new friends your way! I hope you’ll let me come back soon! I miss all the lovely looks of your beautiful girl!!!
Hi ladies,
I just wanted to let you know that I am still checking in on you and thinking about you all the time. Both Katherine and Emma say, “Baby Leah” every time they see the iPad. They love seeing all of her pictures. You guys are in our thoughts and prayers.
Love,
Kristin
Hi ladies,
I just wanted to let you know that I am still checking in on you and thinking about you all the time. Both Katherine and Emma say, “Baby Leah” every time they see the iPad. They love seeing all of her pictures!
Love,
Kristin
Great to hear from you, Kristin! Thanks for all your positive thoughts. That is so totally adorable. Perhaps when Leah is settled in at home we can arrange a get-together!
These are some awesome pictures of the baby bug, but nothing compares to seeing her in person! 😀 It was great seeing all 3 of you!!!
And I’m still wondering how you managed to take a picture of the notification telling you that you couldn’t take a picture.
My guess is that a screenshot is a small file compared to a high-res iPhone photo. So maybe there was room for a screen shot but not for a photograph.
I’m so glad you guys came to visit!!! Hope to see you again soon!
Oh, Leah, if I had a ruffly colour-swirly dress like that, I would love it and play with it, too. (Although I would refrain from nomming on it. Apparently that stops being cute after a certain age.)
Speaking of noms, Lisa, I’m so glad you got to have a treat that agreed with you!