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Mom's getting artsy. We're off to Sundance for Wednesday night and Thursday. Will be home Thursday night after getting a blessing and seeing our peeps after the ceremony!

Then next week...SAC! The adventure never ceases!

Enjoy some rocking Viv photos!!

KT



Stephanie at work rocking the babychat skillz!



Great smiles with Nana!



Nana likes Tummy time way more than Viv does...ahah!!



Viv snoozing the night we were at Breightenbush.

Sheesh!

So I spend my day having lovely interactions with such a sweet sweet baby, but who would know!? Trying to get the kid to smile for the camera is almost impossible. She smiles and grins in her sleep, on the changing table, in the bouncy chair, when she's napping....for the camera? NO!

Here's my best shot at it. BP and I are going to tag team trying to get the super cute full gummy grin captured at some point. As soon as I figure out how to post video, I also have 2 + hilarious minutes of Viv just staring the camera down looking impossibly serious. No smiling!

To the evidence!
Try number 1:


Trying to get this kid to smile for the camera is difficult!

Try number 2:


Almost!

Try number 3:


Pretty close!

Try number 4:


And she's over it! The 2 minutes of video I have trying to do the same thing are pretty funny but fruitless. She's REALLY stinking cute when she gives you the big grin!

I'll capture it! I swear I will!

In other news, it's been busy around here. Trying to keep up with the garden, a growing baby (2 months! Wow!) and the house is really a full time job. I'm looking forward to Auntie Tamara and Grandma Nana coming in the next few weeks so I can get something done while they do some baby holding! BP has been busy back to work all over with Playwrite and Peace Warrior curriculum work occupying him. When Dad was here he got to see a final performance evening with a group of kids BP had worked with. He said it was really neat. I have yet to be able to schedule to get there, but I will!

The garden is rocking and I'm getting ready to do a bit of canning since Oregon strawberries have just come into season. Jam! YA! Other than that, we're all healthy and wise...just looking for a touch more tangible wealth these days. It's coming I just know it!

Enjoy your Tuesday!
KT and Viv

First visit to work

The bebah and I took a little jaunt yesterday afternoon to check in and see if work was still standing after the epic tax season. Folks seemed in good spirits and none the worse for the wear. Several folks at work hadn't met Miss Viv yet, so it was cute to see her OUT and about in the environment she had been in for almost a year.

Here's Eric holding the bebah...he's got skillz with 2 girls of his own (both now in college). Bebah holding skill never gets rusty.


Pam got an early start with trying to teach Viv how to work the ten-key...perhaps to help make up for the last 2 weeks of tax season I missed due to her arrival? Apparently Viv is about as excited about it as most normal people...fast asleep.


All and all, a successful voyage out into the work a day world. I'll actually be DOING some work next week, as I need to get caught up on some client bookkeeping that is woefully behind. I'm not sure that Viv wants to actually stay at work for a while but since she's still sleeping so much I might strap her on in the Moby and rock some bank reconciliations. You never know with us wily accountant mamas! Her current opinion of work is a bit undecided...what do you think?


And next week also for tells the beginning of studying for the dreaded tests again. Better try and keep my brain somewhat in the accounting realm or I'm libel to just float away in the baby bubble and wind up in retail! GAH!

We're off to see the lovely and talented BBdr (Dr. Sara) today for a little check up. Truth be told, we are having a terrible time weaning ourselves off of the frequent visits to her and are just going in to shoot the shit (and hold the baby). Perhaps a bit more baby Craniosacral, since Viv likes that so much. And we're going to see if there is anything to be done about the snorty, smacky warthog the child becomes when feeding or sleeping. I suspect no, but it never hurts to ask and it's a great excuse to love on the BBdr!

We'll get to posting more of the visit from Grandma Shirley who was here this week. Fun times had by all as the parade of Grands begins! Wardman is next on the 17th of May. Viv has many a project for him to tinker with! Now that I have figured out how to freaking download pictures from the camera we'll get with more posting. BP's been doing Playwrite this last 2 weeks and he's a bit behind. I'll help take up some slack!

Hope all is well with the far flung family and friends out there!

Katye and Viv

Pictures from yesterday -- Visitors, gazing, some shoulder action

Hello all,

It looks like the format of the blog is shifting just a tiny bit. I'm going to be posting pictures from the day before. It seems to make more sense, and be happening anyway.

So, pictures from the 21st below.

Here is a nice picture of Kt and the Bebeh doing some eye gazing. Also, Kt is using one of the signiture "Brianna" moves, putting your knees up, resting baby against them, then swaying baby back and forth as you watch each other. Memerizing way to spend a few hours a day, I tell you.



Here is a good sleeping picture of Ms. Viv. Somehow, once Kt laid her down for a nap she got on her belly. Of course pediatric folks "in the know" are WARNING PEOPLE IN ALL CAPS not to have babies sleep on their bellies, but you know what -- 30 years ago folks were being told the opposite, and ONLY to sleep them on their bellies. So we figured, if the kiddo was zonked out and happy, and being monitored (which she was, by both of us) then sleep on your belly bebeh, go for it.



Here is Matt from Kt's work rockin the baby-holding. Matt is a hell of a nice guy, and someone to whom we owe a great debt for taking on a bunch of extra work, during tax season, to cover for Kt's absence due to Bebeh. The baby seemed to like him just fine, another redeeming point.



And lastly, here is the bebeh on my shoulder. We snapped a photo because of the cute face she was making, but it doesn't seem to be given any justice in this photograph. At least I'm rocking one of Grandpa's old shirts, so that's a redeeming aspect of the photo.



Enjoy squeezing one out at the last possible minute,

Bp

Photos from yesterday, 4-16: Auntie Care and The Boss

My first full day gone went off without a hitch. Two aunties -- Alethea (below) and SJJ (that's what we actually call her, btw, not just some intartube moniker) came by and held the baby, and cleaned, and helped with baby's first bath (sorry about no pictures on that one, we'll remedy the "no baby bath pictures" situation soon). Apparently it was a smooth, fun, eventful day in the Baby Bubble (tm).

Also, a couple people from KT's work swung by. It was the day after D-day for them, so a celebratory baby-holding was in order.

Pictures below:

Auntie Alethea, one of the fine, fine helpers for the day.



Uncle Tad, who was thrilled to see Ms. Vivian



The Big Boss Kim -- our baby is a warm-up for Kim's next grandchild, due in July I believe.




Stephanie, also from KT's work -- whose daughter (nicknamed "Chiquita Banana" by Kt) is dying to come by and see the munchkin as well.



A great photo of Auntie Heidi. She is a preschool teacher and loves the kiddos. She was pulling off some good story telling by talking to the adults about this and that adult thing, but doing it as she was gazing at Vivian and in a storyteller voice. Vivian was absolutely enthralled. Then, later, when Ms. Viv was nursing nearby, Heidi was talking and Viv looked her way again -- obviously she has the magic voice.




Who knows, maybe more pictures today -- could be a bonus Friday.

Bp