Our family

Brita and her mom

Brita and her dad

Family hug

For Mom

Peter's mom always wants recent pictures of Brita. Here's one that's seconds old.

I love my sling

I bought a baby sling a while ago. I really like it. It's so nice to be able to have two hands to do things. I might have already mentioned this, but I thought I'd do it again even if I already did. And to be quite honest, I don't remember if I blogged about it before and I'm too lazy to go back and check. Anyways, it's a Maya Pouch and it's so comfortable. At least for the first couple of hours of wearing Brita. I usually wear it to church so that Brita can sleep through church, which she does sometimes. Random people come up and ask me about it. At church people point me out as the one that wears the baby sling. At least I'm known for something, right? Ok, that's all about that.

Remember the scary spider?

Here's a blurry picture of it.  Why blurry? you ask.  Because sometimes they just turn out blurry, that's why.

Pretty in Purple--That's Brita

(think of it to the tune of "Pretty in Pink")




For all those who wanted purple pictures, this post is for you. There is one more pair of purple pants not pictured here.

Happy Easter

Easter pictures

I meant to bring pictures from Easter and post them for you all to see. But I didn't. Maybe I'll remember to bring them to the library tomorrow. I just thought I'd let you know what you almost got to see today. :)

New Nephew

I have a new nephew. I'm so excited. I was just thinking that we needed a Jacob in the family. And then we got one. Good job, Katrina. Jacob Shawn Laird is a great name. Happy day, happy day. He was an Easter baby, too.

In related news, Brita is now officially in 3-6 month clothes. This is not due so much to size as the fact that we'll be sending all her semi-boyish clothes off to Jacob. Fun, fun.

She giggles

It's SO cute.

I've had a birthday, shout hurray

I finally got my birthday cake pictures, so here you go. In case you don't remember, Peter made me a castle.


Try not to mind the really weird looking me.

It finally happened

Brita fell asleep in her jumper. It was kind of like: jump...jump...eyes closed head down totally out. Then I said something about it and woke her up and she cried and cried. She was a very tired girl. Her naps were all less then ten minutes until she finally fell asleep on me at 4:30. She's got a very stuffy nose again. I think it's worse than last time, actually. Last night she didn't sleep too well either. Oh well, we've got to wear her down sometime. Maybe tonight she'll sleep. Maybe not. She won the battle of the nap in the crib today. She wins that one pretty often.

Doing taxes

So I'm supposed to be filing my taxes right now. All the websites are too scary, though. And they want me to enter my SSN on an unsecured website. I don't know how I feel about that. I offered to file the taxes so that Peter wouldn't have to do it, but I think I'm going to make him do it anyway. Computers scare me. Good thing I married Peter, huh?

Big, hairy, and ugly

I just killed a spider. It lived on my kitchen window, apparently. He jumped at me. It was scary--why can't they just die quietly? I finally got it when it tried to crawl inside a box of Fanny Mae.

On an unrelated note (but maybe still working in with the title), we watched The Princess Bride again the other night. It's a good show.

Brita jumps

Here's a video for your viewing enjoyment.

D&C -- Disposals and Clogs

We don't have any clogs in our apartment. I'm grateful. We do have a bathroom sink that drains incredibly slowly, but that's because the stopper is too low. Anyways, just thought I'd post about sinks that don't drain well.. :)

Three months

Brita is three months (and well over a week) old!

She wears three month clothes (well, just this one outfit)...

She sits...

She jumps...

She eats her hand...

Us blogging

Here's what we look like blogging today. Just so you know.

Happy International Women's Day

To all you women out there: Happy day!

Brita plays with toys

Well, she kind of plays with toys. She sometimes grabs them and sometimes tries to eat them. It's entertainment for us at least.

Sleep, blessed sleep

Brita has finally started sleeping without being right next to me. It's so nice. She sleeps in her crib for naps (sometimes) and at night (sometimes). Usually when she's not in her crib for naps it's because I'm too lazy to put her in there. Although there are still times when she must think she's going to die if she's not right next to me. Luckily she's cute.

It's been nice to get things done. I can cook and clean now. It's so fun. That's not saying I do cook and clean, but I CAN and that's what counts, right?

Here's a picture of her sleeping with her striped blanket. It's how she normally sleeps, but she's not normally sleeping on the floor of a computer lab at BYU.

I wouldn't play spoons with her

Brita has some deadly fingernails on her lately. She swiped me across the face the other day and it really hurt. Like mother like daughter, I guess. We went up to school and a guy from Ukraine saw us and came to meet Brita. She grabbed his hand and dug her fingernails into him. He said that I must not be looking after her. Oh well, at least she doesn't scratch herself. I have cut her nails since then too.