my handsomes.

Just look at these handsomes.  We are all finally together again!  And look at Wade's face, that is one of my favorites.  He is seriously adorable.

Below are random things that have happened lately that I need to document.

Vanity.

I am vain.  I just think about myself too much and it is really silly.  I am trying to change and P and I were sitting in bed the other night talking.  (This is my favorite time of the day because we are really silly and get the giggles together often.  LOVE that.)  So I explain to Perris that I worry about how I look, or make things about me too much, and I don't need to worry about my hair or clothes so much.  After explaining and discussing this, there is a lull in the conversation.  I am like 8 inches from Perris' face and I just stare at him.  Then I admire his eyelashes (they are so long and beautiful and I always tell him that.  Wade got them!  Just luscious.), and say "Um, can we trade eyelashes?"  He says "Nooooo" and as he says that I realize "Oh darn it, that lasted about 5 seconds.  That was vain."
Oh well, I continue in my quest to shed the vanity from within.

Motherhood questions answered:

Often before I had a child and was contemplating having one, I would wonder how on earth I was to manage certain situations?

You know when you're on your way home (or in Public) and you suddenly have to go to the bathroom extremely bad?  And it's all you can do to just hold on until you can park and RUN into the house/run to the restroom in the store?  Maybe not, but this would often happen to me.  Well, let me tell you, I have learned that upon the FIRST signs or inklings of a restroom visit I SHOULD GO.  Otherwise I'm going to have a really close call because I'd rather have an accident that neglect my sweet child.  I mean if I'm headed home I need to drive safe, park safe, safely exit my child from the car, and bring them inside!!  In a store I have to briskly walk whilst not running into people and then leave the cart outside and grab the babe to enter with me.  I haven't listened to those first signs probably like 3 or 4 times since Wade was born and I seriously thought I might have big trouble.  Really I have almost had accidents.  Bad bad bad.  Am I the only one?  These moments have been followed by laughter-filled calls to Perris to tell him what I almost just did!  Hilarious.  You'd think I'd learn.

I remember calling my sisters and asking, "What do you do with your baby when you shower?"  I mean it seems kinda obvious NOW, but then I really needed to know because no logical answer came to my mind.

I have also learned to nurse just about anywhere.  It's kinda like when I was in Argentina as a missionary and after a year or so I believed there was nothing I couldn't do in a skirt.  Running on gravel roads, climbing hills, chopping firewood, etc etc.  Well so far there is no where I have not been able to nurse.  It's like you reach this level of triumph. (Kinda like when I gave birth I told myself I was the shiz.  I mean seriously I like joined this special club of women who birth children.  Amazing.)

 Wade loves to rub his feet together every chance he gets.  That has always been so soothing to me, too.  Especially when I'm going to sleep at night.  And Perris does it too!  Is this genetic?

 He is seriously the happiest little man.  And whenever he is in this baby carrier, he kicks like he's jumping.  He loves looking out and seeing everything going on.  Just love him.  And his papa.