I tried to get some of her standing, but she wasn't cooperating. I will do a real photo shoot with her tomorrow with my good camera.
This is her after eating a teething biscuit. I only let her eat one before I'm going to give her a bath, they are the messiest things ever, but she loves them!
He weighed 7 lbs 5 oz and is 20 inches long! He is such an angel! Jay and Olivia are doing great and are so excited!
Say a little prayer for Olivia tonight, she checks in to Lakeside early tomorrow morning for a c-section! She's using Dr. Hall, the same doc that did my c-section so I know she's in good hands! Good luck Olivia, can't wait to meet Benjamin tomorrow!
I just got home from a short but exciting and fun trip to Kansas City. To hear the whole story, go to my brother's very entertaining blog to read all about it. Viv and I took a noon plane on Sunday and just got home tonight so I'm exhausted. It's stressful traveling with a baby! Anyway, Anderson Cash Essary was born on Sunday around 1:30 pm and he is so cute! P.S. The airline lost our carseat!
This is a pic of me last year on this date, October 23, 2007. No, I'm not smuggling a watermelon, this was less than a month before Viv arrived on the scene.
A few things have changed:
1. I don't have to wear elastic waist pants
2. My shoes still fit at the end of the day
3. I'm a lot colder
4. I don't have Jay Leno chin anymore
5. I don't get rude comments and stares, well mostly
6. I blog and blogstalk. Back then I thought baby blogs were so not cool.
A few things have not changed:
1. I'm still tired and cranky and hungry...and moody.
2. I'm still addicted to Reality shows and shows that are too young for me, Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill, The Hills, etc.
3. I can still have girls night
4. I still have fun with my husband and laugh a lot
5. I still read books, almost every night if I'm not too tired
6. I still don't know what I'm doing, but I'm having fun figuring it out!
Finally I got her smiling!
On Sunday morning we left early for a short trip to Elk City to visit Matt's grandma Lucy. Here are the 4 generations of Stansberry's. Lucy took us all out to lunch and was so sweet!
This is Lucy playing patty cake with Viv, Matt also got a video of it that's pretty cute.
This is Viv's, well, he's Matt's cousin's son, so whatever that is. Maybe 2nd cousin? They had fun playing at Lucy's house.
This picture was taken today after she woke up from her nap. A poop disaster!!!!!!! It was everywhere. I ended up taking her straight to the bathroom to put her in the tub. When I stood her next to the tub to get the water ready, her diaper fell off and when I turned around, our dog Daisy was licking the poop off of her rear. SICK!
We took off on Friday for a fun weekend in the country at my parents house in Porter. My dad drives the tractor at the peach orchard and pulls the trailor for hayrides to the pumpkin patch, so we went down on Saturday for a ride. I had a big fall photo shoot all set up for Viv and was so excited! Well, she woke up on Saturday morning not feeling good, throwing up, really tired and crying a lot. Not like her at all! So she slept through the hayride and my big photo shoot idea was cancelled. That's the reason why she has sad eyes in all the pics! Here' a great pic of Matty and Viv on the hayride.
Here's my dad on the tractor, everyone that comes down for a ride from the city calls him "the nice farmer," which we all think is hilarious!
My mom rode on the hayride too and slept in the same room as Viv all weekend so that I could sleep late! She also took us to Wal-Mart on Saturday and we got Viv's new carseat. It's sooo nice! It's a Graco 3 in 1 Nautilus, which had really great ratings online and was a good price too. It took me forever to decide on one!
Here's a pic of sad eyes Viv in the pumpkins. Poor girl! We took her to Mercy After Hours once we got home and found out that she has an ear infection, so we got her antibiotics and I hope she's feeling better tomorrow.
I really wanted a pic of Viv and dad in their overalls!
The reason we came to Porter for the weekend was that it was my sister Marcy's birthday. We went to our favorite Mexican restaurant in Muskogee for dinner, Hamlins, and back to the house for cake. Lots of candles there Mar!
This is the fall wreath that I made for her birthday, so much cheaper than buying one at the store!
Here's Matty and his favorite girls, Sophie and Viv. Sophie read to Viv and made her feel better all weekend, she's soooo sweet and she loves Matty. She told him that she wanted to marry him.
These are the gorgeous mums that my dad planted in front of their house, and they were sooo beautiful! I did lots of farm chores with mom, we fed the horses, cow, ducks and llamas. I let the cow eat out of my hand and he totally slimed me! Once we got home I had a letter summoning me to jury duty for the first week of November, that should be interesting...
Wow, I really had my hands full today and looked like a fool in the process! Here's what happened. I went to get my oil changed at a car place right across the street from Wal-Mart. Why didn't I just take my car to Wal-Mart for the oil change you ask? There were like 6 or 7 cars ahead of me and it would've taken too long. Anyway, I thought, I'll drop off the car and then I can walk over with Viv to Wal-Mart and get a few things. So, I got my things, ate lunch and then proceeded out to the parking lot when I remembered that my car was across the street. I had my purse, diaper bag, two Wal-Mart sacks, a drink and a BOX of diapers. Of course I had to go for the bulky box! So I consolidated as many bags as I could but that's a lot of stuff when one arm is carrying a 10 month old! I finally made it across the parking lot and across the crosswalk, which took forever, but by the time I got across I felt like I was in one of those reality show endurance competitions. My arms were burning, the box was slipping and the Wal-Mart sack full of formula and jars of baby food was quickly cutting through my arm! So, I dropped the box and kicked it all the way down the street to the car place, where I was almost in tears by the time I got there! Anyway, I'm home, I'm tired and I better have lost a couple of pounds. Elizabeth would've been proud, I really worked up a sweat!
Viv and I had a great time the other day at Hafer Park. I really went to spend some time getting to know my new camera, and Viv just happens to be a great model! She wasn't really into looking at the camera that much, but the model doesn't always have to be looking at the camera. I really liked catching her enjoying nature and having fun outside!
