take THAT, stairmaster!

Yesterday I did four loads of laundry, and since I did this while wearing Alma in the carrier I was only able to carry one load down to the laundry room at a time. I was also only able to carry one load UP at a time. And with the amount of stairs one has to climb to go from our basement level laundry room to our third floor apartment, I figured out that I climbed 720 stairs yesterday, just doing laundry! No wonder my legs are akin to that of a supermodel.

Today we're moving on to diaper laundry. Fortunately this only takes one load. Whew.

Alma is officially two months old today! She went for her two month check up on Monday and passed with flying colors. She has gained three pounds since she was born! This puts her in the 75th percentile for height and the 15th for weight... what a little string bean.

She kind of freaked out all of Monday night in response to her immunizations so I decided to take a bath with her in order to calm her down. I mean, this kid loves baths. All was going well until she got so relaxed that she pooped all over me. I have never had to take a shower in order to recover from a bath until that incident. Gross baby.

No new pics. Sorry. But don't worry - she still looks pretty much the same as she did in the pictures from the last post. Except for her new mustache. Just kidding.

And I apologize for the proliferation of run-on sentences in this post. I type how I speak. Grammatically incorrect.

overalls and our neighborhood deer.

Right out side of our apartment building is a huge field that Boise State owns and is planning to build a big track and field complex in it. In the meantime, it is used as a practice field for the Bronco football team (yes boys, I can watch Kellen Moore from my balcony), a massive goose tarmac and grazing land for our neighborhood herd of deer. There is a family of six deer that have taken up residence at the MK Nature Center in town and they're the most urban deer that I know. On any given day you will literally see them walking through people's front yards or crossing a street downtown, but every morning they can be found in the field outside our apartment, grazing.

Here are five of the six of them hanging out this morning - two of them were babies last summer and we've gotten to watch them grow up!

Alma is grown out of the majority of her newborn clothes (and it's about time since she'll be two months old next week!) and while I was trying to figure which of her clothes fit her now, I realized that she (kind of) fits into these awesome overalls! Granted, they have to be rolled up but they're still pretty rad. You can't see it from the picture, but they have a tiny moose embroidered on the bib and it says "baby moose" below it. I love them.

Alma says, "Pardon my huge, mostly bald head. It's very hard to hold it up."

I realize that this picture is very fuzzy, but this is what she does every morning when she wakes up and we un-swaddle her. Raise 'em and praise 'em!

And lastly, I tried to upload a video but that apparently exceeds the Rachel-internet-savvy capacity. So instead you have to look at a picture of me cooking dinner and that chaos that ensues in our kitchen when that happens.

new pictures!

Gramma and Grampa Goochey came out to visit Alma last week and she received lots of cuddling and napping time with them. This also provided some much needed rest for her dear old mom. Speaking of rest, what the heck am I doing blogging this at 4am? I wish I knew. Woke up to feed this silly baby and I just couldn't fall back asleep. I am really going to regret this at about two this afternoon.

The weather is finally warming up here so we are getting to wear warm weather clothes! Alma is too small for any of her actual legwarmers to fit her so I cut the sleeves off of a football themed onesie that she has never worn. Go 80s baby!

Her Grampa Goochey couldn't pass up this dog while we were shopping at Target. It is unreasonably cute. Plus, you don't have to feed it, it can't shed and I've been told that it won't pee on the carpet. A miracle! We are trying to think of a good name for it... Wincoln? LiWanda?

She now loves bath time. As you can see, she barely fits in our kitchen sink, so unfortunately her head is all cocked to the side. It's hilarious to see how relaxed she gets once she's in the warm water. I always imagine that she's like "Aah, just like amniotic fluid. It's good to be back home."

My two favorites. Doing their favorite activity. And holy crap, can you believe that Alex shaved his beard? It makes him look fifteen years younger! Just kidding, then he would only be 11 and that would be illegal for us.

Hanging out in her crib. She likes to hang out in their occasionally during the day but she has made it quite clear that she does not want to sleep their yet. We tried it out the other night and she screamed for about an hour. Oh well, back to sleeping in her bouncy chair and/or our bed every night.

And just a couple of pics of the "nursery," ie: the southeast corner of our bedroom. Yay one bedroom apartments.

Also, a dumb thing that I did: left my wallet with my debit card, driver's license, credit card, LIBRARY CARD, etc in my mom's car and she drove back to Nampa with it - a half hour away. Not having a driver's license really hinders the effort to drive over to Nampa to pick up your driver's license. Of course, chances are I could drive there and not get pulled over, but I could just see it being my luck that the one time I decide to drive without it I get pulled over for something stupid like tailgating a cop (Right Jared? Right?). Dummy Rachel.