My brain is against me.

Soooo at the end of this lonely evening Saoirse is in her room crying by herself while my head tries to recuperate from the screams of a teething babe.  I can FEEL a migraine seeping through the cracks of my tired and withered brain.  Super, I love a good migraine.  Bring it on.  Seriously though, Saoirse is really starting this teething thing (that's what I like to say when she's inconsolable) and she is NOT happy about it.  She seems to be allergic to her bed (on top of her allergy to clothing) which makes it oh, so difficult for me when I put her in there to sleep.  Then I think, I'll just put her in her bouncer for a little while, then that turns into an hour of bouncing.  On the plus side, my calves will look great in no time.

I guess I'll go try to console her with a diaper change and maybe MAYBE a feeding.

Being a mom is hard.

In the meantime, this is our new favorite song around here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7mPqycQ0tQ

Her favorite toy.

She seems to have lost her book.  

At least she stopped staring at me.

Our little Zoolander.

SO, while I sit here thinking about how GREAT it would be if Saoirse would get at least a 45 minute nap in (alas, she enjoys anything but napping, including her tired cries and screams) I think of how cute she is getting and how wonderful it will be when she gets over this "not napping" thing she's doing.  This morning after feeding her I was laying next to her in bed trying my hardest to go back to sleep but failing, she was just laying there very awake, but looking around our room and just enjoying laying next to mom in the warm blankets.  It was soo awesome.  I caught a glimpse of her at 2 years old, coming to lay next to us in the morning to wake us up.  It's so strange how old she's getting!  I can't believe it.  In just a couple of weeks I'll be the mother of a 6 month old.  That's when all sorts of crazy things start really happening, like her crawling and the end of my leaving anything within her sticky grasp.  Right now, she's still only rolling to the left (I like to call her my little Zoolander) and trying so desperately to move in a forward direction.
P.S. weird fact, I was sitting on the couch writing this very post and heard what could only be the scratchings of a little mouse in the wall only to find Saoirse on the other side of the wall with her limbs through the crib slats playfully scratching said wall.  My crazy little Zoolander...

Anyway, here are the latest and greatest of the little drool bucket.

This is how every picture of me turns out, I swear.  She's turning into her mommy!  I love it!

Daddy and baby enjoying some time in the grass.  Saoirse seemed to be a little confused by the scratchy carpet.  When we laid her down in it the look on her face made me think she thought she was being eaten by some huge monster.  Hilarious.  Oh yeah, and I guess, her welcome for giving her the palest skin in the world.  She will have a lifetime of slathering on thick layers of sun lotion.  

This was taken yesterday and she remains the cutest baby ever.  P.S. after seeing this picture, I realized how stinking LONG her hair is getting!  Crazy.

A couple of weeks ago we packed up the fam to head down to Manti, Utah for the temple wedding of one of Joseph's favorite mission companions.  The groom was born in Taiwan and came to the United States for the first time ever just a couple of weeks before the wedding!  He married a girl from the States (Joseph thinks she's from Montana).  They're pretty cute together, he speaks Chinese to her and she speaks English to him.  It seems to work pretty well.  I mean, they got married.  ANYWAY, the Manti temple is BEAUTIFUL.  I am still shocked by it really.  See for yourself...

Yes I took this picture.  I know it should probably be in National Geographic or something.  

Super awesome Temple, super awesome people, super awesome day!  I hung out outside with Saoirse while Joseph attended the Sealing.  Have I mentioned how I LOVE sealings??  They're the best thing ever.  They're so magical and they always make me cry - whether or not I know who is being sealed whom.  Heavenly Father is so great!  He has provided us with a plan that makes it so we can be with our families forever.  That's FOREVER people!  What an awesome plan.  What the heck, it's seriously the greatest thing I've ever heard of.  How do I know it's so great do you ask?  Because I am sealed to both Joseph and Saoirse for time and all eternity and it feels awesome to know death can only separate us for a short time.  

Her allergy.

So, the mothers room at church used to be kind of cool I thought.  But the longer I attend this elite club of mothers who need to feed their babe during church the more I realize that putting a bunch of women in a room together who have virtually nothing in common creates awkward situations and conversations.  As I was leaving to go to Relief Society after feeding and changing Saoirse, a woman walked in with her son that I've spoken to on numerous occasions without awkwardness.  She said hi to me and took one look at Saoirse and said to me "Is your baby allergic to clothes?  I noticed that she isn't wearing anything and she wasn't last weekend either."  UM.  What?  Seriously?  "Uh, no, she gets hot when she's swaddled so I don't put anything on her."  Who asks that?  What the heck??  Well, I guess I should put something on her when we go to church - I did realize that taking a naked baby to church is unusual, but did it warrant that question?  It's hot outside, like I'm going to foof her up in some dress that's ridiculously hot and sweaty.

Well, here's a cute video.  The cutest one ever probably.  Blogger has been weird uploading videos so I hope it works.

Our baby is the cutest baby ever.

That kid just loves her daddy.  And she expresses that love with the best little giggles in the whole universe.

That is all.

Our unicorn farts.

After watching Tron with our neighbors, the Thompsons, two nights ago we ended up talking about cake.  I'm not sure why.  Cake is good?  And not knowing the name of that one delicious cake with the sprinkles inside (later discovered to be "funfetti" cake) we began to call it "That Unicorn Fart Cake" because obviously, unicorns fart rainbows.  Then last night Kendra and I decided to make everyone's dreams come true and while the husbands were at their meeting we decided to make a Unicorn Fart Cake.  It was pretty glorious.

 We made our own delicious frosting so that we could have as much as we wanted as well as make all the colors and happiness we wanted.  I think it turned out really well.

We based our farting unicorn knowledge off of Adam's shirt.

Such a FUN night!  Happy friends, happy food, happy happy happy.  Saoirse even enjoyed some of the frosting and promptly fell asleep.

My delight.

If you can ignore my fat arm for a minute, I finally got  a video of Saoirse giggling a little!  Long hard work to get this video.  I didn't think I was going to get it as you can see in the beginning.. but good thing I'm persistant. 

Her teeth make my life sort of miserable.

Bobee has *probably* started her teething faze of life.  Yikes.  This means crying for seemingly no reason and lots of whining and eating stuff.  Unfortunately she's not super coordinated yet with her hands so it's pretty much me putting stuff in her mouth to chew on.  The poor little dear.

I gave her a cold wet wash cloth to chew on which was cute because she'd make a weird face when it was in her mouth but she'd chew ravenously.  But again, she doesn't really have enough coordination to put it in her mouth on her own... so I think I might have to stick with her binky for chewing on.

Her cloth diapers and my next project.

Okay, so I LOVE my cloth diapers.  I ordered them off of this website www.theluvyourbaby.com because they were cute and WAY less expensive than EVERY OTHER BRAND I looked at.  Literally, every cloth diaper I saw was around $20 a diaper.  And that was JUST THE COVER.  The inserts for each diaper (inserts are to soak up anything needing to be soaked up) cost their own pretty penny.  But this site is linked to a small company based in Canada and each diaper comes with two inserts and costs $7 each.  And when you spend more than $70 you get free shipping.  Well, just to get started we bought 12 diapers (really the bare minimum if you want to do laundry everyday) which was a little over $80.  That's about how much 1 month of disposable diapers cost.  I LOVE CLOTH DIAPERS!!!  They're also super easy to clean - it's not a hassle at all.  And the best part is that we're saving loads of money every week we use those little things.  However, I've just been using regular old wipes you buy from the store.  They really don't cost much, especially because I don't wipe her every single time she has a pee filled diaper.  But I'm kind of getting tired of going to the store to buy them (lazy or a wonderful opportunity?).  Plus, I don't like wasting money on something that will be garbage.  SO my next project will be to make my own cloth wipes!  I found this awesome blog post that tells you just how to make them here http://www.myhappycrazylife.com/make-your-own-cloth-wipes/.  And the solution you use is super easy - just get a mixture of water and some of your favorite baby shampoo.  Badda-bing badda-boom.

I'm really excited to try this out.  I love the idea of saving money where I can.  Particularly when it's so dang easy to AND I can let my hippy side shine and save the rain forest (or whatever).  But really.  I feel good not filling up our beautiful gift of a planet with "disposable" (non-biodegradable) diapers.  I'd rather be a little more self-sufficient and love Heavenly Father's creation without filling it with crap (literally).

Our bobee.

Being a mommy is pretty much the best thing ever.  And being a mommy watching daddy play with the baby is even better!!  I love watching Joseph play with Saoirse and I love seeing her excited to see him when he comes home from work.