You probably aren't suprised...

...that I haven't updated lately, but apparently this little girl is!

She's super surprised because I've taken 79049872346 pictures of her, so why haven't I posted even a few of the things she's been doing?

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SHOCKED!
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DISMAYED!
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FLABBERGASTED!
(Or just freaked out by the giant hat... thanks for the hat miss loree!)

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Well... the first week in May our little Curley Q slept in her room for the first time! She was almost 3 months old and it was NOW or NEVER. She wasn't sure what was going on at first... I watched her on the monitor for 23 minutes while she laid there motionless... with her eyes wide open... in the dark... and then they slammed shut... hilarious)

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Later that week was my birthday, the 3 month anniversary of LC's birth and Mother's Day all in one weekend!!

Here we are at the Dancing Marlin on my birthday. We met daddy downtown for lunch.

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LC visited Daddy's office for the first time!

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And had yummy burgers for b-day dinner... where Leah was called "HE" for the very first time (and second, third, fourth and fifth times) by our waitress.

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Daddy was not happy about this. Seriously. He gets mad if you call Beans a "he" and she's a brown dog named BEANS...

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Then the Mother's Day luncheon on Saturday with two grandmothers and a great-grand one too! So happy to have so many good, great and grand mothers!!

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Then we celebrated my b-day AGAIN (I like to party) at our favorite rib joint with family. LC's first time to smell prime rib.

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Later... Thinking about prime rib.....

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Fisherman Curley on Mother's Day.

We went to church with our moms.

(It wasn't sunny, it wasn't rainy and she wasn't fishing, so I took the hat off)

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My first Mother's Day!!!!!

"MOM STOP taking so many pictures of me!!!!!!!!"

It was mid May when I went an entire day of LC's life without taking her picture. Am I crazy for finally stopping my daily paparazzo habit? Or am I crazy for having taken zillions of pictures EVERY day for 3 months?

(Grand)Mothers - They don't make them like they used to...

If I am ANY good at all at being a mother... it is because "I've stood on the shoulders of giants."

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Two ladies: My mom, Betty (who will now forever be GranBitty... or Bitty) and my mother-in-law, Julie (forever LC's Grannie). They are not giant ladies, but they are two GIANTs in the field of motherhood.

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I can begin to express my gratitude, but it will never end. I loved them both so much before we had our daughter, but my love and respect for them only grows exponentially each day. I can't count the number of meals they have cooked, chores they've done at our house or hours they've spent helping me get used to this thing called motherhood... The encouragement they've given me is boundless, and probably above all, the example they have set for me is priceless. We thank God for them every day.

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Check out these hot grandmas!

They sure don't make grandma's like they used to.Above, you can see them just hours before they became grandmothers (and grandfathers)

Below... their first hours as GRANDMAS!

Below was LC's first trip to her Bitty's house. (Bitty and Pops)

And below you can see LC's first trip to her Grannie's house (Grannie and GranStan)

Below is LC's Coming Out Party!!

(Coming out... of the house after 4 weeks

of seclusion cause Mama was afraid of her

baby getting the flu or something!)

More hugs and snuggles from the grandest of mothers...

That was LC's first (barefoot) Ladies Luncheon!

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!

We love you!

Go Green!

A multipurpose title for the day...

First...

Yay Mavs! We're headed to the second round. This always gets my blood pumping.... especially when its the SA Spurs that we beat! (Although nothing beats that TRIPLE overtime excitement when the Bulls tied up their series last night! Intense! I LOVE the NBA playoffs... so does this girl.)

Second...

Little LC is a bum genius! While I was pregnant I told Kevin I wanted to use cloth diapers. He laughed at me (rolled his eyes and called me a hippy) and said... "Let's not." At the time, there was just too much too learn already... too many new things... We were first-timers who felt like we knew NOTHING. Although, if there was ONE thing I was confident of, it was my ability to change a diaper... a disposable diaper. So, of course you should attack a new challenge with as many confidence builders in your back pocket as you can. So we stockpiled newborn pampers... (with the stripe... those who know about the stripe, love the stripe.)

When we brought our baby girl home, we both laughed and agreed that "doing the cloth diaper thing" would have been disastrous for us. For one thing... we had created this tiny little POOP MACHINE! Learning to use cloth diapers, however simple it may prove to be... would have caused someone in our house to have a breakdown... since we were changing 12 or more LARGE, FULL, POOPY diapers every day at first.

In the last two and a half months though, I have become comfortable and confident with many other baby care tasks... and I need a challenge. :) Not really, I want to save money and save the planet and they are WAY cuter than huggies or pampers. So even though Kevin thinks I'm a weird hippy, I'm doing it. My friend Brandie took me to this little shop and introduced me to the reality of today's cloth diapers... and convinced me to buy them. I'm so excited! Here is my little "bum genius." She may turn out bow-legged from all those layers between her legs, and she may have to sleep on her tummy to keep the blood from rushing to her head... but isn't her big booty precious?

Here's a pink one!!