Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Family Traditions

The first time I spent Christmas with the Sevigny's in Massachusetts Scott's mom had made this yummy apricot bread that we ate morning, noon and night. It's been one of Scott's favorite holiday treats forever and it instantly became one of mine. We decided not to travel this year since Isaac is still so little. We were fine with this decision until Scott began craving his mom's baking. Pam bakes like crazy the days leading up to Christmas and it's all delicious. I haven't exactly been great at cooking since Isaac arrived so I knew I had to do something to help ease his "pain" (and mine too) during the holidays. Luckily Pam shared her recipe along with some very helpful hints. Pictured below is my first attempt at baking this recipe. While turned out great and we're gobbling it down, I'm not sure it filled the void. It's always tough being away from family during the holidays and I think everyone knows that some things are just better because your mom made it. At any rate, I hope to continue this family tradition here in Texas. Hopefully someday, Isaac will email me and ask for this recipe so he and his family can bake it too. Thank you Pam.

I've posted the recipe below. Not sure how it will work this way...try clicking on it to make it bigger. I may have to just type it out, we'll see.


Well, the scanning didn't work very well. I'll have to type it up some other day and post later.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Hall of Fame

Yesterday, shortly after this photo was taken, Isaac was inducted into the Diaper Blow-out Hall of Fame. He gave his momma quite the surprise when she reached past his sock to unsnap his pant legs. Momma has now been christened into motherhood.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Action Shots




Isaac has been working hard at lifting his head this week. Here are some shots of what he did today. Sorry the pictures are so blurry. Isaac wasn't exactly posing for the camera.


Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Sleep

We are trying to get Isaac to sleep through his middle of the night feeding and it may be working right now. Here is how it's going...

He wakes up at 3:45am this morning. I take him with me to the kitchen to make his bottle and he falls asleep by the time it's ready. We get back to the bedroom and he is still asleep so I put him back in his crib. He stays asleep! I'm thinking he'll be up as soon as I get back in bed but he sleeps for another half hour. This is good. Then I hear him again. I'm thinking he must be starving by now so I get up and go in his room. I go ahead and give him his binkie so I can put his bib on him without him waking Scott. HE FALLS ASLEEP AGAIN!!! (I know I'm jinxing this as I write) This was about 10 minutes ago. I should go back to bed and sleep but now I sit and wait.

Jinxed...I hear Isaac...wish me luck!

so I'm back. it's 9:15 in the morning. Isaac ate and went back to sleep until 8:00!!! I think Christmas came early. Now the true test will be tonight.

Monday, December 15, 2008

Saturday, December 13, 2008

You know you're a mom when...



  • you have no idea what day of the week it is
  • you lick your finger to get something off someone's face
  • you pick someone else's nose
  • you're very interested in poop