Oscar's new thing-sucking on his toes

This is what Oscar does the majority of the day. No matter what position you try to put him in, he trys to grab his feet.



This one is pretty funny. In his bathtub, because of the way his butt is positioned, it's harder for him to get his legs up by his face so he was getting really frustrated. And he was all wet and slippery so he couldn't get a good grip on his feet and it was making him mad.

our boy is rolling over

Oscar sleeps on his tummy with a pacifier and usually before he falls asleep I have to put his pacifier back into his mouth a couple times. So when I walked back to his crib for a usual pacifier re-do, it was the best thing to find him on his back staring up and smiling at me. He had rolled over onto his back and was probably pretty proud of himself. I put him back on his tummy, gave him his pacifier again and walked out. A couple minutes later I hear him cooing so I go back in there to see what he was doing, and he was on his back AGAIN smiling at me. I started laughing so he laughed a little too. Days like these are pretty awesome and make it fun to be a mom. Oscar also is 4 months old today so I was really just enjoying the heck out of him all day as I thought about how happy he is and how much he laughs and giggles and loves to be tickled.

On a side note...
People are always asking me if Oscar's a good baby, and before I can say yes, they ask me if he's sleeping through the night. So it's kind of like two questions in a row that are supposed to be one in the same. When I answer, "No he's not sleeping through the night he still wakes up to eat," I usually get a disappointed look. This has bothered me and I've been feeling guilty, like I'm a failure because Oscar's not sleeping through the night. Yes, I'm running back and forth to give him a pacifier when he falls asleep. No, I don't let him "cry it out" in the middle of the night when he's hungry. So it probably is a failure on my part that he doesn't sleep through the night.

But, today I don't care anymore. I'm ok with being a failure because I have a happy happy baby who is so sweet and social. I sure miss sleeping through the night, and I'm sure it's something Oscar would love to experience. But I'm not gonna feel guilty or feel like a failure over it because Nate and I still get to wake up to this happy face.....

domingo delicioso - fail

I wanted to make Sadie some rose cake pops for her birthday since I knew she wanted a rose birthday party. Not sure what she had in mind, but I think she just knew she liked roses. I thought these things would be no big deal. I decided to follow the regular cake pop recipe and then use the flower cookie cutters to get some kind of a flower shape that I could somehow make to look like a rose. They started out nice and easy just like the directions made them seem. I molded them into flowers...



And then I started melting the candy melts that you coat with, and it was a disaster from there on. The candy melts melted so weird, actually they didn't really ever melt. They just turned into paste. So when I started trying to cover the cake in them all I got was crumbles covered in what looked like dried up playdo.


So here are the dried up playdo balls. AND I bought some tiny little girl vases to put the flower cake pops in, and they never made it home from Wal-Mart. Big time failure today. I'll probably just be eating the unfrosted cake flowers for days.

our little swimmer

Our little guy went swimming for the first time this past week. He even got to go in the pool twice in a matter of days. I think he liked it. He initially had a very serious look on his face for a good 10 minutes. And then he lightened up and started smiling and getting excited. Here he is at his grandparent's pool on labor day.




Bald Oscar has lost almost all of his pretty black hair except for a funny little patch on the back of his head. We think his hair might be coming in blonde now.

domingo delicioso - dulce de leche

Has anyone seen any pictures of my carb face from my mission?

(definitely need to blow these pictures up)







Totally cute right? Well, this is why...



Dulce de leche-the most non-nutritional food invented, and the most delicious thing my tongue has tasted. I ate it day and night, night and day. Food was my only worldly pleasure on my mission, so I REALLY indulged when I felt like I needed a reward for my work. (which was daily) It's mostly a South and Central American thing, but since we live in the most abundant country in the world, you can find it here in the U.S. at most grocery stores in a squeezable bottle. I however, didn't know such a portion limiting container when I was introduced to the stuff. It came in plastic containers resembling a family size yogurt, which meant I could get spoonfuls out a lot quicker than the squeeze bottle shown above. I'd spoon this stuff onto warm fresh baked bread from the panaderia, bananas, apples, cakes, cookies, ice cream, my finger, anything really. And, I'm still spooning it onto those same things now. ( squeezing, not spooning acutually) There's no taste like it. Buy yourself some if you are owed a treat and then squeeze it all over everything.

such great clips

Nate and I were laughing at clip after clip of Seinfeld for hours the other night. Here are our favorites...( I don't know why the first two videos aren't playing. Just click the "watch on youtube link" that pops up after you hit play)
"The Opposite"..




The background on "The Opposite," which makes it even funnier. I love Larry David in this.




And one of the best Frank Costanza clips. We watched a documentary clip on Jerry Stiller playing Frank and how he improvised so frequently, and that's why this one was so hilarious. Julia Dreyfus is stunned.