Thursday, September 18, 2014

Dressing Nettie

Dressing a baby is a ridiculous endeavor.  I am just super happy to shower every day.  How the heck do those awesome ladies not only dress all of their kids, but coordinate the outfit among all of there adorable children?  Luckily, I have Thayne Davis on my side.  He is for sure the stylish one in this family.  I dress the girl, and she usually ends up looking a little something like this:


Then Thayner comes along and suggests a few key outfit changes.  He's so cute about it.  He's really learned how to talk to girls these last three years of marriage.  He'll peek his head in and say, "Wow, you two look beautiful!...isn't Nettie cute? I love that shirt she's wearing...don't we have a headband that matches?  Also, I think this would look great with those pants over there.  Oh man, I think THIS shirt would just pull the whole thing together.  Eh, let's skip the rainbow tattoo today." and BAM:


Cutest girl in town.  Good thing I married such a stylish guy - he keeps his girls in line.

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Baby Overload


I'll admit it.  I totally staged the above photo...but not as much as you might think! All I did was move Nettie's arm to look like she was hugging Thayne and I made Thayne pretend he was asleep (he's not a super-great actor).  But, let's all be honest, if this photo doesn't just melt your heart...you have no heart.


 Things around here have been wonderful.  Nettie is now the center of our universe and has introduced us to a new level of love, paranoia, and fear.  To love such a tiny thing with everything that you are has brought us more joy than we ever imagined. 


Nettie had terrible jaundice for the first six weeks of her life and we tried the tanning beds and this little blue-light pad you stick to her back.  For weeks, I'd take her to the hospital to have her blood taken (she did NOT like that) and her billirubin levels checked.  They were always high and weren't going down.  The first few weeks of motherhood are hard enough without having "something wrong" with your child.  This was an enormous source of emotion, stress, and tears for me until we figured out the solution and the jaundice went away.  Jaundice is not a huge deal at all - but to me is was.  I admire mothers who for weeks, months, and years on end deal with physical, mental, or emotional handicaps in their children.

Nettie is hilarious.  She was born with a wrinkle in her brow and has a naturally mad face (like her mama).  She makes the greatest faces and I've given you a pretty good selection in this blog post.  


I was going to write what a typical day for us is (you know, a hilarious paragraph basically saying: "feed her, diapers, don't accomplish anything, feed her, diapers, don't accomplish anything, see Thayne, feed her...), but those of you who don't have kids don't care and those of you with kids already know.  Moving on...



I love the sheer terror in Nettie's eyes as her adorable cousin Haven proudly holds her and for some reason love this picture of her crying...


Hands down my favorite picture of Nettie.  I am so sorry about the inappropriate gesture, but I laugh every time I see this picture.  She has incredible control over that one finger and is constantly giving me the bird.



The remainder of this post is, like the title says, a baby overload.  Scroll down, or don't....whatever, I'm off to go stare at Nettie :)