Not So Sleeping Beauty

Clara has been a not so Sleeping Beauty this past week. For some reason she started waking up in the middle of the night and I'm pretty sure it's just because she wants to be held. Maybe she saw monsters??? She sleeps great during the day, but at like 1 AM she decides she needs to be held. Mommy is quite the sucker when she's exhausted in the middle of the night. But I stayed strong doing the "Baby Whisperer" method on Friday night and we survived (love that book by the way!) Jason is quite the advocate for letting babies "cry it out" I learned. HAHA. Friday brought back WONDERFUL memories of Clara's first week home when Jason and I would snip at each other during the late night hours of crying. ;) I also discovered she LOVES her lullaby CD that Gramma Mara and Grandpa Richard got her for Christmas! It's a personalized lullaby CD so Clara's name is substituted in the songs!!! Sounds creepy but it's incredibly sweet and she is totally soothed by it. Here's a link to it: http://www.christianbook.com/youre-an-angel-personalized-lullaby-music/pd/96155Y#CURR

Jason has ANOTHER appointment with the foot doctor tomorrow. He's thinking the next step is to maybe do a steroid injection. Mmmmmmmm, sounds fun. But what Jason REALLY wants is for them to just chop it off. He's so frustrated with it!!! We can't even go on family walks it hurts him that bad. :( Hopefully it will get healed somehow!

I officially signed up for the Capital of Texas triathlon in May! I have been getting the triathlon craving again and I really loved this race/course when we did it two years ago. I will be doing the sprint distance instead of the Olympic distance this year. A sprint distance is 750m swim (which is like 15 laps in a pool), 12.5 mile bike and 3.1 mile run. I also signed up to motivate myself to exercise more. Because breastfeeding is the BEST diet EVER I really haven't felt super motivated to work out consistently. Sadly, Jason probably will not be able to join me in this race because of his foot. Maybe he can take up cheer leading and be my number one fan cheering me on.....

Ready for the bath! We had twins on Thursday night because we babysat Madilyn! We called ourselves "master parents" because we had the babies fed, bathed and asleep by 8:15. Wait, did I mention we forgot to feed Madilyn? Maybe not such master parents. Ooops! ;)

Passed out on the way home from church

Saturday night we went to this cute little coffee place for dessert with our friends Lee and Robin. Clara got to experience her first latte.....

.....and first live jazz performance. She was very captivated by the trumpet player.

Lee jazzing with Clara

Cool kid. I think she looks like Jason here...

However, I finally got around to looking at my baby pictures. This is one of me around the same age (maybe a tiny bit older). Will I have a mini me??? :)

Helping daddy outside

Distracted on the changing table

I win.

My good friend Tara (we met in 4th grade) came and visited us with her two kids, Lucy and Tex! They are sooooo adorable and sweet.

Princess Lucy serving Clara tea

I call Tex a mini-Tara.

Date night

Prune monster

Sweet puppies

Hanging out at Kemah with Jason's family

1st taste of guacamole. She loved it. So far, I don't think there is anything she doesn't like. This kid likes to EAT.

Favorite uncle

First swinging experience at the park