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I feel like I haven't done a Thought Vomit Thursday in a while so HERE YOU ARE :)

• I miss my good sleeper.  Like in a serious way.  This month has been harder than any other month.  At least when she was a newborn I KNEW I would be getting up every 2-3 hours.  Not to mention I was still high from just having had a baby.  Now?  I am desperate for some sleep.  I am a zombie during the day and feel totally worthless...

• Lonnie's brother, his wife, and their two kids are coming to stay for the weekend.  I am super excited to see them but I can't quite get the motivation to clean my house.  Normally when they come I have everything all perfect for them and this time there is dog pee in their closet.  I don't care.  Also, I have no food whatsoever.  But mother in law to the rescue.  She is going to the store tomorrow for me.  Love her like whoa.  We will probably spend the whole weekend in the lake or on the boat.  That sounds amazing.  The last time they were here was when Blakely had salmonella...yuck.  So hopefully this time I will actually get to enjoy their company.  

• My sister in law thinks cloth diapers are completely disgusting and can't believe I am doing it.  She also made comments last time about me still breastfeeding and making Blakely's baby food.  I was totally caught off guard and couldn't believe it.  I am hoping this time to stand up for myself more and explain our choices a little better.  Oh, and I'll totally be doing diaper laundry while she is here :)

• I am so excited for the Olympi.cs.  Like a 12 year old at a Jus.tin Beib.er concert excited.  Four years ago Lonnie and I bought our awesome flat screen tv just because the Olymp.ics were coming on.  He loves them just as much as me.  I got a text just the other day from him that said this.   I AM OFF THE FIRST WEEK OF THE OLYMPI.CS!!!!!!!!!!  Now, if you knew my husband you would understand the excitement.  First of all he never uses all caps and wants to punch people who do.  Secondly, he never duplicates an exclamation mark.  Total excitement up in here.

• Do you watch Big Br.other?  Well, if you do, it starts tonight.  I highly recommend this as the very best in mindless tv entertainment.  Four previous house guests are returning.  PUMPED.  My vote is for Janelle...please oh please be Janelle.  She was awesome.  Or Dr. Wil.l.  I loved him too.  Lonnie always says he won't watch this show with me but he always ends up watching.  He will for sure watch if Dr. Wil.l is on it, he is a little gay for him.    

• I swear I am working on a post about the shaved ice stand that we bought.  I know you're on pins a needles.

• Ok, I gotta go clean up dog pee out of the closet.  Totally unacceptable to leave it there right?  Have I mentioned that I despise my dogs?  Free to a good home....

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A little thought vomit for your Thursday....even though Thursday is almost over...

• The weather has been beautiful here the past two days...like 75 and sunny!  Yesterday we went downtown and took a long walk.  Then we sat on a blanket in the grass and let Blakely play.  It.was.awesome.  I am so very ready for spring!  I even breastfed in public for the first time, if you consider the park public.  Lonnie was kind of surprised that I did it but, seriously, I was NOT going to the car just to feed my baby...crazy...

I bought the poor baby some sunglasses after I saw this picture...

she really just wanted to chew on the thing the whole time.

• Speaking of boobies, I'm pretty certain I have lost most of the sensation in my nipples.  I'm a little sad about this.  
• I haven't had a period yet...I've randomly had cramps here and there.  I wonder when that will happen...
• My super great friend that I hosted the shower for is having her baby like right now.  I am so very excited for her.  I've been talking to her throughout the day today because she thought she was having contractions but she wasn't quite sure.  She didn't want to go to the hospital just to be sent home.  Well it was the real thing!  
• Speaking of contractions and labor and all of that...it has brought back a lot of memories talking to her about that stuff today.  I have literally been on the verge of tears just thinking back to that day I had Blakely and all that lead up to it.   
• I totally took a pregnancy test yesterday.  I just felt weird (exhausted) for like 2 days.  Of course it was negative....it stung a little.  Not because I thought I was pregnant because I totally didn't (breastfeeding, no period yet, thick shell around eggs, no sperm at the moment) BUT I hate seeing that one damn line...I've seen it enough in my life...
• Lonnie has been working the late shift at work this week and I hate it.  I am so ready to get back on our normal schedule.  I am sure this is why I have been exhausted.  I go to bed way too late and then have to get up way too early with the baby.  I have been completely worthless around here...
• Carter's is having a big sale...all you peeps with little ones need to check it out... 
• Ok I have to try to go to bed!  

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It seems like it had been a while since I've done a TVT so here goes...

• I have a hot date tonight.  This means that I took a shower and AND shaved my legs.  I can only remember doing this one other time since Blakely was born.  The shaving part not the showering part ;)  Surely I did it another time....
• I have become obsessed with cloth diapers.  I mean I can't stop shopping for them, reading about them, obsessing over which one to buy next, I have even been dreaming about them.  This is so weird...Who am I?!?!?
• I want to get a new blog design here pretty soon.  But I kind of want a new blog name so I have to decide that first.  I want something that is reminiscent of my name now but something new and fresh.  I keep thinking that one day it will just come to me!!
• We have decided to go to New Orleans for a vacation soon.  I could not be more excited about this!  We are taking Blakely and my mother in law.  That way she can watch her in the evenings and Lonnie and I can go out!!  It is about a 7 hour car ride and I hope B does well in the car seat for that long.  We were going to fly but we would have to take the pump, the pack n play, the stroller, etc...it just seemed like too much.  We will see how this goes...I am so excited!  I love love love planning our trips.  I already have like 4 lists going of things to pack and things to do.  
• I am so ready for spring!  I can't wait until we can take B for boat rides.
• I packed up all of Blakely's newborn clothes this week.  They are so small!  I have a friend that is having a girl in April and I find myself not wanting to give her anything.  It is just so hard to part with any of the clothes :(
• Ok gotta go get ready for my date!  Happy Thursday!  

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Thought Vomit Thursday....watch out!!!

• I just got our new personalized stockings in the mail and had a total crying breakdown.  We are a family of three...wow!  Now, what do you fill a stocking with for a two month old???

• B is wearing Christmas outfits pretty much everyday this month.  Gotta get good use out of them :)  I will post pictures later this week, ya know, because I have taken like a zillion.  

• Speaking of pictures, I just read that you aren't supposed to use the flash on your camera unless you are more than 40 inches away on your new baby.  Well that is just fantastic!  Why didn't I read the manual BEFORE I started taking her picture.  Now I am going to stress out about her eyesight for the rest of my life and blame myself.   

• I have a new friend!  Yea for me :)  Anyway, she invited me to her annual cookie bake.  How awesome does this sound?  She gets all the basics to make cookies (sugar, flour, nuts, chocolate chips, etc) and one day after they take their kids to school they go to her house and bake cookies ALL DAY LONG.  If you have a random ingredient then you bring that yourself.  She also feeds everyone breakfast and lunch and they also have a fun festive holiday drink.  You then get to take home a huge assortment of cookies!!!  There are going to be about 10 people there and she said I could bring Blakely.  All of their kids will be in school so I will be the only one bringing a baby but she said everyone would love that.  I should go, right???  I really want to because it sounds so very fun but SUPER nervous about taking B.  I mean this will be around people that I will be meeting for the first time.  And if I take some cookie recipes it isn't like I can just leave if she freaks out.  Then there is the issue of feeding the baby...not really up for whippin' out the boob in front of strangers.  Anyhow, I will let y'all know if I go.  And I will so be keeping this idea in mind for the future...so fun!

• On the issue of feeding the babe, she is totally on a bottle strike.  We started giving her about one a day (sometimes skipping a day) when she was five weeks old.  She did fine.  She never ate as well from the bottle but she would eat and not fuss at all.  Well now it is a mess trying to give her that thing!  Arching back, screaming, the whole bit.  I tried a different brand of bottle...same thing.  So now I am flipping out because, I mean, SHE HAS TO TAKE THE BOTTLE!  I love that she loves to nurse so much but I need to be able to go places....  This is why I can't take a bottle to the cookie bake...that scene would be worse than flashing everyone!

• I am really starting to enjoy nursing.  I thought I was weird for not really getting the bonding thing with nursing that everyone talks about.  But now I am getting it.  I think it is because she is more alert while doing it and smiles A LOT.

• B is 8 weeks old today :)

• OK she fell asleep on her play mat.  QUICK, mommy, finish decorating the tree!

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Ok so I am doing Thought Vomit Thursday today!  If you haven't heard of this it is just where you throw all the things that are swimming in your head out on to the blog...bullet style so no need to form a cohesive post.  Perfect for me right now as I have given all of my brain cells to my daughter.  

• I should probably wash my hair more often.  I think I went 7 days this time without washing.  But just to be clear, I have washed my body in 7 days....
• I really hate cleaning the parts to my pump.  Seriously considering purchasing a months worth so I only have to do it once a month.  I kid...
• As much as I hate the pump I really love the sense of accomplishment I get when I see what I have produced.  What is up with that?  It's like because I can see it, it makes it more real.  I made that!
• My daughter has a fun new trick.  It is called the death nipple grip.  She clamps down on mommy's nipple and then throws her head back and rolls it in a circle.  It feels awesome!  I can't wait til she has teeth.....
• We just bought a memory foam pillow top for our beds.  OMG...why did we not do this when I was pregnant?  I think it would have helped my sleep a ton!!!
• We have our wine and gourmet dinner next Thursday.  I have RSVP'd and at first I was worried about leaving B.  I am still nervous about it but I am actually really looking forward to getting out of the house and dressing up...Oh and drinking wine as well!  I will be pumping and dumping for those who are concerned :)
• I really need to find a fabulous dress for this dinner...I should probably get on that soon.  I really just want to go shopping in general!    
• We are going to try to give B her first bottle of breast milk this weekend.  Why does this make me nervous?  Oh because of this totally irrational thing called mommy guilt.  I am worried that she is going to like it better and then not want to nurse and it will be all my fault for being selfish...UGH!
• I should really start figuring out who is going to watch Blakely when I go back to work.  Well, let's be honest, I need to figure out if I am really going to go back to work.  My plan was to go back two days a week.  I still want to do this but I have reservations.  My thought was that I would at least try working.  Then if I didn't like it I could always quit.  Well now I just don't know if that is the right thing.  But I also don't know if being a stay at home mom is my thing either.  Decisions...Decisions....
• My two dogs are driving me bonkers.  One of them is getting doggy dementia and the other one is just crazy
• Blakely LOVES her daddy.  She is just mesmerized by him.  It is seriously adorable. 
• I really want a blog makeover but have no idea how to go about doing that...I am so blog stupid!  
• I slept for three and a half hours straight last night....I felt like a new woman.  Thank you Blakely, thankyouverymuch!

Ok I think that is all for today