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Lindsay Lohan ain't got nothing on me!

Dreaming.

I love being home with my sweet William on maternity leave.  I am so lucky that I get to take a couple months off to bond with my babe.  When we are not bonding (aka, when he is sleeping), I do one of the following things:

• watch him sleep (this is what I do more often than not)
• shower/brush teeth/possibly brush hair
• clean my house/laundry
• pump
• google things like "infant is stuffy", "infant puffy eyes", "infant sleep schedule", "when do babies eyes change colors", "is green poop ok?"
• eat and drink gallons of water
• drool over magazines and dream

What do I dream about?  I dream about building my dream home.  Here are the dream home requirements: must be on at least five acres, must be large enough for at least three kids, must have large kitchen, must have swimming pool, must have porch with view, must have lots of trees and space for kids to run.

Here are two pictures that I "dream" the exterior of my dream house will look like:

courtesy of elle decor (june 2010)

Carrot Top?

It may be the shirt, but doesn't it look like we might have a carrot top on our hands?

Stretchy Pants

My post-baby wardrobe reminds me of this clip from the movie "Nacho Libre."  With one exception: I wear my stretchy pants in my room...and EVERYWHERE else.  In fact, stretchy pants are the only pants I wear lately.

I prefer to call them yoga pants (it sounds much classier, even if I haven't done a lick of yoga since birthing my weight-inducing-nugget) and I have a pair for every day of the week.  I am literally on a seven day rotation of stretchy yoga pants.

So, for those of you readers who are pregnant and have been told that all you have to do is "breastfeed and the pounds will come off"--Don't believe it.  Instead, invest in stretchy pants.

Here are my recommendations in order of my favorites:

Monday - Lululemon Gather and Crow Crop
These pants were a push present from my sister, Katie.  Isn't she so sweet!  Instead of jewelry, she bought me workout pants.  It's like saying: "Congrats on the new baby....NOW get rid of that flab, stat!"

Tuesday - Lululemon Groove Pants

These pants are soft and flattering, but most importantly--Reversible.  This means that they are my Monday pants and Friday pants.  And no, that is not my belly in the picture below.  If it were, I would not be wearing stretchy yoga pants everyday.

Wednesday - Zella Live In Capris
It is Wednesday; so therefore I am wearing these now.  I like how these are tailored.  They do a good job at taking the focus off the muffin top and toward my knees, which; amazingly enough, did not retain any pregnancy weight.  They also have a hidden pocket in the waistband, perfect for storing pacifiers.  Oh boy, I just now realized that these are reversible too...I am thrilled.  Less laundry.



Thursday - Hard Tail Bootcut Roll Over
These pants are tried and true.  They have been with me for about eight years.  They are no longer black and have multiple holes near the heel but are as soft as suede, cashmere and velvet put together.

Friday - Re-wear Monday's Lulu's reversed

Saturday - Avani Tie-Hem Cropped Yoga Leggings
I don't hate them, but I don't love them.  They were a Nordstrom Rack find for $20.  Can't beat that.


Sunday - Nike Dri-Fit Cropped
These are more "jogging" than "yoga" pants.  And I do as much jogging as I do yoga :)  Nevertheless, they are stretchy.

And after looking at all of my yoga pants, I have had two epiphanies: 1) I should go to yoga soon 2) I need to add color to my boring-black stretchy pant rotation.

Hmm... which epiphany to conquer first?
....Regardless the color: If they stretch, I'll buy.

I'm sleeping with another man...

Since William's birth five weeks ago, we have taken 2,000 pictures--no joke.  And when I say "we,"  I mean ME!!  I swear, my baby is going to think that his mommy is a Nikon D90. The camera is in his face more than I am.  

I am sure that we will love having so many pictures to remember these moments; my only complaint is that I take ALL the pictures.  This means that I have plenty of snapshots of William playing, smiling, cuddling with Daddy and being held by relatives, but only a handful of me and William.  

I give Matt a hard time about it constantly.  "Why don't you take pictures of us?"  "I won't have any pictures of me and my son."  "He is going to think that he was raised by a single father." ....you get the point.  

Fortunately, Matt is getting a little better about remembering to take pictures. UNFORTUNATELY, the last two pictures he took have been of Liam and I sleeping.  Apparently, these are the moments that Matt wants to remember.

Matt took this picture one morning before he left for work.  William and I are taking a morning catnap (after a long night) and though it is not the most flattering, it makes my heart happy.  I am a typical firstborn/rule follower and I went into this baby thing with a lot of rules for William:

- No rocking to sleep

- No sleeping while feeding

- No sleeping in bed with mom and dad....

Notorious rule-follower, no longer.  I break the rules...just not everyday.
It's worth it to wake up to my baby by my side.

Here we are: breaking the rules again this morning

Notice our arms in the first shot, and our mouths (wide open) in the the second shot.  We are totally "twin sleepers."

Chunky Monkey

To those of you who bought Liam clothes...
THANK YOU

To those of you who were savvy enough to pick out seasonly appropriate outfits (ie. a 6 month sweater as Liam will be 6 months in January)...
I APPRECIATE THE THOUGHTFULNESS

To those of you me who washed all his clothes prior to birth...
IT SEEMED LIKE THE RIGHT THING TO DO

To the little chunk--you know who you are--who decides to fit into "3-6 month" outfits on your 1 month birthday...
YOU ARE GROWING UP TOO FAST (and none of your cute sweaters will fit you in the winter!)

Maybe they were wrong...

From the moment he popped out, everyone who looks at Liam says: "Wow, he looks just like Matt!"  And I am okay with that.  After all, I am extremely in love with Matt and think he is super hot...of course I would be happy with a "mini-Matt."

HOWEVER, maybe they were all wrong.  What they haven't seen is this picture of me at four weeks that my mom gave me this past weekend.  If you see what I see, then you must agree that what we have on our hands is a "mini-Hannah."

Hannah at 4 weeks

Liam at 4 weeks

And, for those of you who want to compare Liam to Matt:

Matt

Liam

What do you think?