Month 1 Video

A Celebration of Survival

Here we are one month into the parenthood!  Happy one month birthday to Ivy Grace tomorrow morning.  Hopefully she celebrates by sleeping in.

Little Ivy is continuing to do what she does best, which is...mostly nothing!  She enjoys her bottles or at least acts ravenous enough that I think she enjoys them.  It's hard to tell what she really likes...  It's also hard to tell what she doesn't like...

Here we have Ivy, plotting our demise.

Scott and I are feeling a little less insane now (ok it was only me who ever felt insane--Scott is, as usual, cool and collected through everything).

I spend my days celebrating the completion of regular tasks that used to be inconsequential but now feel monumental.  I worked out.  Cue the confetti!  I vacuumed.  Let's get a celebration cake!  I weed whacked.  Let's book a trip to Hawaii!

The new norm is kind of crazy and really hard, but we are enjoying it.  My favorite Ivy thing at this phase is definitely her fully body stretches and facial expressions when we wake her up to feed her.  So hilarious.

Yes, this picture is the exact same pose as so many others (including the one above) but this is literally what we do all day every day.

Things I have learned/noted this month:

1.  Did you know there are literally no words that rhyme with Ivy?  It's hard to give her nicknames or make up songs to sing her because of this.

2. Ivy's dad ordered a little video camera that he straps to his head and films her with.  Whatever makes the middle-of-the-night feedings more enjoyable... You can go watch Ivy do almost nothing on her Youtube channel.

3. The online motherhood community is confusing and chuck full of acronyms I do not understand.

4. We were driving to RC Willey the other day and Scott asked me what Babywise recommends as far as taking your baby somewhere during nap time.  I'm pretty sure Babywise recommends you...never go anywhere at any time for any reason.  This is the key to success.

5. You should apparently keep your baby awake longer during the day in order to help them sleep better at night, but the internet also says the worst sleeping mistake you can make is keeping your baby awake too long during the day, so... you can imagine the success we're having following completely opposing advice.

5 Years

Scott and I just celebrated our 5-year anniversary!  It was certainly not the anniversary extravaganza we are used to now that we have our newest roommate, but my mom came over and babysat so we could not only go on a date, but also sleep uninterrupted all night long.  This was quite possibly the greatest anniversary gift anyone could've given us.

We went to some fancy restaurant that was, of course, too fancy for our tastes, but it was fun to sit on the same side of the booth and people watch and laugh about just how tired we are.  On the way home we went to Sonic and ordered some shakes because that's really more of our thing.

It felt weird going out without our child even though we've only had a child for a few days.  Parenthood is bizarre.  I go back and forth from missing Ivy to wondering when she's going to college, all day everyday.  (At the moment, I'm hoping she's a child genius and can go at age...7...?)

I think this beanie is the most college-appropriate attire Ivy owns.

How did Ivy make an appearance in this blog post?  This is supposed to be about me and Scott!  Haha.  Anyway, it was so wonderful to celebrate our first big-ish anniversary together. There's honestly nothing more exciting to me than growing old with Scott and it's always fun to celebrate getting a tad closer to that goal.