My precious.

Today is my birthday!  There is SO much cleaning that needs to be done, but I think I'm going to take a day off from that and do some of my favorite things!  First off, I watched Enchanted.  It's SUCH a good movie!  I love Giselle.  She's so happy!  And she has fabulous dresses.

Like I said, fabulous.

Anyway, here are some pictures of my little precious babe.

Wearing her new dress she got from the baby shower from her Aunt Danielle.  Stinking CUTE.

Hahaha.  What a face.  

She probably couldn't get any cuter though.  My little papoose baby.

She had just gotten her 6 month shots about an hour before this.  Poor little thing hated them.  

It's still weird to me that I have a little tiny human being that I take care of.  That trusts me.  That looks up to me to take care of her like I did my mom.  I love being a mom!

Our day so far.

I'm trying to start Saoirse on a new schedule so that she'll sleep through the night.  This new schedule requires just 2 to 3 naps a day and less feedings.  Hopefully (crossing fingers) over the next week she gets used to it and starts sleeping all through the night.  

So to keep us entertained, we watched some Kipper and went to the park.

We probably sat there for half an hour. She was squealing the entire time and actually screamed once. I think it was the first time she's done that.  It was pretty cute seeing how excited she was to be outside.

This is what we're doing right now.  Just snuggling and chilling.  

On a slightly sidely note, as soon as that picture was taken (with Photobooth) and she saw herself and me she got all wiggly.  She's getting quite the personality.  :)  I love it.

Other than that, I'm really tired no extremely tired.  Wait, extreallymely tired.  Yes.  Last night Saoirse decided to barely sleep.  Geez, I hope this new schedule thing works.

My old roommate.

And when I say "old" I mean elderly.

Miss Emily Rebekah Hewlett came on an impromptu visit to dear old Utah a week and a half ago and we had SO much fun!  It was great hanging out with her!  It was just like old times - including the harassment I seem to have no problem throwing in her direction.  No wonder she loves me so much.  She lives in New Jersey now and the day she left there was an earthquake that delayed her flight out of Philadelphia and the day she was supposed to go back hurricane Irene was going through her state.  So she ended up staying a few more days.  No problem.  It just gave us more time to harass each other.

Here are some pictures of the event that I stole from her Facebook.

 These two are so cute!  

 So we might have attempted to take the stroller hiking.  Probably won't do that again.

 If there is one thing I'll miss about Utah, it's going to be this view.  Holy cow it's beautiful!  Taken up in Rock Canyon.

 What's a party without deliciously homemade Pot Stickers?  These little guys are soon to meet their fried death.

Geez we look good.  I love this girl!!  

I'm soo happy Emily came to visit!  It was seriously amazing seeing her!  I can't wait until we see her again. 

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.