Our Second Favorite

Seriously!?!

breezy.tai — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 01:04:27 +0000

How stinkin’ cute is this kidlet. Dang!

Not much time

breezy.tai — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:36:00 +0000

Whew! This last month has been a busy one. Not much time to blog, but I’ve posted some cute pics of the baby on good old facebook. Even if you don’t have a facebook account, you can see the latest pictures by clicking here.

Here is a preview of the cuteness:

A short post in honor of Andrea

breezy.tai — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:47:02 +0000

This last weekend we celebrated Andrea’s birthday, it was a fun celebration, with lots of yummy food.

In belated honor of her birthday, I proudly present a google voice translation of a voicemail she left us:

By all of the Dina on it. Okay. Yeah. Okay, bye bye second fine.
Mack got. It’s a great day. Bye eat so. Okay, back to me. Okay bye.

The actual translation? Listen for yourself.

Just one of the many reasons we love her to pieces!

101st Post

breezy.tai — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 18:10:44 +0000

Goodness Gracious that’s a lot of blogging. (Never mind that it took me more than three years.)

Yesterday I lost the lid to the peanut butter jar. How do these things happen? After searching high and low, I gave up and improvised with aluminum foil, leaving the jar on the counter to remind me to look and have Scott look too.

I continued complaining about it well into the evening. “What the HECK happened to the lid??!?” I was floored. Finally I decided to put the jar in the pantry, aluminum foil and all. As I picked it up, a hint of blue lid smiled up at me from under the foil. My first thought was that I hadn’t ever lost it at all and had put that foil on top of a lidded jar. Was I going crazy?

That’s when I found out that Scott found the lid while I was out and replaced it, along with the aluminum foil. A true foil, you could say.

I laughed so loud I woke up the baby.

I can't eat peanut butter yet....

10 Happy Things

breezy.tai — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 04:51:13 +0000

I’m feeling pretty funkish tonight. Nothing feels quite right. So instead of continuing to give in to my bad mood as I have been doing all day, here’s this.

1. Anna Nelson – the newest, cutest little girl born to my soul sister Alli.

2. How Max gets really excited whenever I fake sneeze at him.

3. Scott’s at hockey right now. The ice is a happy place for him, so him being there is a happy place for me.

4. This song

5. The making and eating of scotcheroos. If you don’t know what these are, let me know, I’ll make you a batch!

6. Cooler Fall Weather – and this recipe.

7. Pretty fonts

8. Bloggers that I love portraying my thoughts in a way that I never could.

9. We finally have a wedding picture on our wall. It’s this one:

10. This bum!

Lovin the swings

breezy.tai — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:21:17 +0000

Max now loves the swings at the park. We went a couple weeks ago and met up with our friends. James was really good at not pushing Max too much.

1 AM thoughts

breezy.tai — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:43:07 +0000

has there ever been a worse idea than blogging in the middle of the night?

i got back an hour ago from seeing a movie with a friend. scotty was cute and asleep on the couch and did a drunk* walk down to the bed. i’m wired with thoughts of jackson, mississippi and a splash of diet coke.

for those curious, there is probably nothing quite as satisfying as pumping a full bottle of milk**. my body makes that stuff! just watch me nourish my baby, don’t try to stop me!

speaking of the bubs, everything lately to him is the funniest thing alive. things lately that have gotten hearty laughs include: the dogs at grandma’s / hushing the dogs at grandma’s / reading “moo, baa, lalala” / taking a bath, especially rinsing of the hair / rolling / sneezing / and of course the occasional*** tickle.

i can’t stop thinking of the little blue house that might become ours. scott would tell me to have “even hopes.” not too high, but not so low that i have a bad attitude about it. i’m basically roller-coastering between the two. one minute i’m the little blue house cheerleader and the next, i’m a sullen cynical. right now, i just want to sit in that kitchen and bake some cookies. and look out the window and just be there.

and a picture for your time here tonight:

the sun - - has gone - - to bed and so must i - -

* not actually drunk

** TMI? whatev.

*** not actually occasional at all, tickling him is my new favorite pastime

Conversations with the Cartwrights

breezy.tai — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:38:22 +0000

Her: I really hope we get that house. Maybe we should do something to discourage other buyers from thinking its awesome.

Him: Yeah! We could get a dog and just walk back and forth complaining about the neighborhood.

Her: Good idea.

Him: We could tell people that we see ghosts there all the time.

Her: Don’t say that!

Him: Yeah, that’s really creepy. I’m spooked out now.

(We are probably the only two grown adults anywhere that could spook ourselves out of buying a not-haunted house.)

What 6 months…

breezy.tai — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 03:28:09 +0000

according to Photo Booth looks like. Otherwise known as, come see what a slob Brianne looks like most of the time! Yes, we roll in style over here folks. I actually think the couple of pictures where I look decent were the day I got my hair done! As in, I never brush my hair! Welcome to my life. :) But the real story is Mr. Max. He who could have cared less about the large monitor in his face in pictures 1 – 3, now wants to grab it and see if he can fit all 27″ in his mouth… not gonna happen kiddo.

It’s Somebody’s Half Birthday Today

breezy.tai — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 03:15:15 +0000

Is this for real? I honestly cannot believe that my little Max is already 6 months old. In celebration, we ate some mushed pears, palled around in the baby carrier and tried really hard not to be put in the car seat. Okay, so that was all just Max, but not too bad a way to spend a day, right?

then...

now...

I know it is going to sound cliche, but I was changed forever the minute this little guy joined our crazy world. My body obviously has its baby battle wounds, but my heart is what has changed the most. I really thought I knew what I was getting into, this Mom stuff. I have loved lots of babies in my day. But it is just a different level of love and concern. Every minute of my day is enveloped with Max. Whether in the actions of taking care of him, or thoughts of how I should do things to make his little life the best it can be. So yeah, being a Mom is pretty great, but being Max’s Mama is what I was made to do.

Love him!