First Trip to the Beach.....

This past week Jason, Macy and I were in Florida to visit the Grandparents.  Ok, well, Jason went to fish.  But anyway, I was able to take the baby for her first beach trip.  We went to Honeymoon Island and it was a great time.  Here's some pictures of our trip......Miss Macy is teething so she refused to take her thumb out of her mouth that day.  

The only mishap of the day was my crazy tan.  I lathered the baby up with SPF 85 so she would avoid a sun burn but stupid me didn't realize her lotion would rub off on me and leave me with crazy tan lines.  Ummm, it looks like I have some sort of skin condition.  My arms, my legs and my chest are blotchy and I am afraid that this tan will stick with me for the rest of the summer.  WTF.


Check out this picture of my leg.  Isn't my tan lovely?  It will go well with my new makeover.

Mommy Makeover!

I decided that I was in desperate need of a makeover because I had let myself go since becoming a mom.  I mean, I really let myself go.  The final straw was on my last week of work when the hem on my pants broke.  Instead of restitching them like a normal person I stapled them.  ::sigh,, good lord, I reached a new low.  And I officially crossed the line into becoming a total slob::  I am pretty sure a stapler should never be considered as an alterations tool.  

Jason, the baby and I are currently visiting in Orlando and I thought there would be no greater place than here to jump start my makeover.  Orlando is the land of shopping opportunity and I have been taking full advantage. 

First, I decided to cut my hair and give it some style.  This was a big decision for me.  I had really long hair (like freakishly long) so I was really nervous to see it go.  But I was tired of my hair and the work it required.  I was ready for a change.  So last Friday I went from this:

To this:

Next, I decided to go shopping for some new clothes.  I decided it was time I stop wearing my maternity clothes since I am 5 months post partum.  While it was a tough pill to swallow buying two sizes larger that my pre-pregnancy days it was something I needed to do.  So, these are some of the items that I have purchased for the new me......

I also purchased the following accessories.....

I purchased many more items but I couldn't find any pictures on the internet to post.  Anyway, I am off to a good start on my new look.  Now I just need to drop the weight, which is my next project.

Little Miss Piggy

I have started Macy on rice cereal.  She is a eager little eater but she has a ways to go before she masters the spoon.  Feeding her via the spoon is the funniest thing ever!  The food goes in but two seconds later the food comes out.  She manages to get the rice cereal every where!  I have to feed her naked and with a bib on because she is such a mess.  She gets it in her hair, up her nose and somehow in her diaper.  Needless to say she immediately takes a bath after her feedings.  


Check her out in action.....

Isn't she adorable?!  OMG, I can't get enough of her!

There is a Magnetic Pull....

Between Macy's foot and my C-Section scar.  And it hurts.


Oh and I can't find my cell phone.  I have tore the house apart looking for it.


That is all.......

The One Where She Pooped on my Sweater in Public....

Yet another poop story.....


Each year at tax time, Jason and I travel to McAllen, Texas to get our taxes done with a guy who specializes in Border Patrol expenses.  McAllen is a border town that is about 1 hour away from our house.  Jason hates to travel to McAllen but I love it because it's a real city and has more restaurant options other than Mexican food.


So our plan for was to get down to McAllen, get our taxes done and eat at a restaurant of my choice.  Awesome....I never get to pick the restaurant!


Well, I should have known that things never go according to plan.  Nothing worked out in our favor that day.  Remember how I said that McAllen was 1 hour away?  Well, McAllen is really 1.5 hours away.  Whoops.  We were a half hour late to our appointment.  Luckily, the CPA was kind enough to see us when we arrived.  All three of us piled into the CPA's office to review our expenses for the year.  Well actually, this is how it went.....Jason talked expenses with the CPA while I tried to entertain a squirmy 4 month old.  About half way through our hour appointment I noticed Macy stunk.  Like really bad.  But I decided not to change her because  I wasn't sure how much longer the appointment would go or if the tiny little office even had a bathroom.  I thought about changing her on the floor but I wasn't sure on how keen the CPA would be with that.  So I just let her sit in her dirty diaper and planned on changing her once we got back to the car.    


This would be mistake #1.


Mistake #2 would be wearing a white sweater.


I totally should have trusted my nose and changed Macy at the first smell of her nasty diaper.  Because the longer I let her sit, the longer the nastiness from her diaper was able to ooze out.  Yes, ooze out.  It oozed out the front of her diaper, the back of her diaper and at the legs.  Basically shit was coming out at the seams.  The best part about it was I was oblivious to the fact that Macy had a diaper failure.  Not only was it ALL OVER her cute pink outfit but it was all over my white sweater......and I had no clue.  No wonder why the CPA wouldn't make eye contact with me.


OMG, do you know how mortified I was when I actually realized that I had shit all over my sweater?  I didn't figure out I was drenched in poop until I got down to my car to change the baby in the back seat.  I sat through AT LEAST a half hour of our appointment with shit on my sweater!!  I wanted to crawl into a hole and die!


To top everything off I forgot to pack a clean change of clothes in Macy's diaper bag so the baby had to ride home in her diaper.  And my plan of going to a nice restaurant was replaced by a trip through McDonald's drive thru.


But hey, she is the only person who can shit on me and I will think it is funny.  That spells true love.


And since I FINALLY figured out how to right click on my new Mac, I will leave you with the picture I wanted to post yesterday.  It's of me and Macy on my first day home as a stay at home mom.  Don't mind her nakedness.......she just barfed on her third outfit of the day and I decided our washer needed a break.  Oh, and the quality sucks.  It was taken with my cell phone.  

Officially a SAHM!

I am officially a stay at home mom!  Today went great but I would be lying if I said I am not nervous that I might go bonkers.  I have decided to set up some ground rules in hopes that it makes my transition to a working mom to a stay at home mom go a little easier.

My rules of becoming a SAHM:

1. I have decided that I am not going to turn the TV on until Jason gets home from work.  That way I won't get sucked into bad daytime TV.  I am the network's ideal viewer in that I can get sucked into TV rather easily.  I seriously could watch marathon reruns of the Kardashian's for days on end.........don't judge.  You could too, you just won't admit it.  But anyway, I don't know how realistic this rule is but I am hoping to keep it up so I don't turn into a couch potato.  
2. I must wake up every day at 7AM and go to bed at a decent hour.  So far so good.  I keep having flash backs to my summer vacations in high school when I would manage to get myself out of bed.....oh....around 3 PM.  This is mostly because I went to bed around 5 AM because I was watching bad TV (now you know why I implemented the no TV rule).  If my parents knew I woke up at 3 PM they would have made me get a job so I was sure to play it off like I had been up all day.  Sneaky.  But this scheme would not go over well with an infant.......when Macy's not sleeping, nobody is sleeping.  It wouldn't be smart of me to stay up until 5 AM when she wakes up at 7 AM.  OMG, I couldn't imagine taking care of an infant on two hours of sleep.  nothankyou.    
3. I must work out at least 3 times a week  ::sigh::  I am not off to a good start.  I decided to put it off today and "plan" on getting in all my work outs in later in the week.  Typical.  I am such a procrastinator. 
4. I must get out of the house at least once a day.  If I don't, I am afraid that I will go stir-crazy.  So today we went shopping at Wal-Mart and I ran up to work....I mean my ex-work to finish up some last minute things.  

These are the rules I have set for myself so far.  I am hoping these rules will prevent me from going crazy.  While we might not live in the most exciting town (hello Ricardo, Texas population 700) I am determined to make the most of it.

I was hoping to include a pic of Macy and I on our first day at home together.  Unfortunately,  I recently bought a Mac computer and I have no idea how to add a picture I took from my cell phone :(  So until my dumbass can figure out this computer I might not being posting pics.  Seriously, is there a right click on this thing??

I am a butt sniffer

Sometimes I am not sure if Macy has crapped herself.  Instead of taking off her clothes and checking her diaper I just sniff her butt.  Believe me, if she has crapped her pants, I'll know.  I don't need to check her diaper.


Butt sniffing is convenient but it's not always classy or appropriate out in public.  Since becoming a mom I have a different mindset and I have become oblivious to public etiquette.  I forgot how to think like a normal person and what's acceptable in public and what's not.  I am pretty sure my butt sniffing gets sympathetic looks from others.  But the thing is, it doesn't bother me that people feel sorry with me because I have lost all touch with reality.  Should I feel bad?  Have I let myself go?


Eh, oh well.  I'm not cool anymore.......but I am not sure if I ever was.  Now I have something in common with the dog.


Anyway, here is a pic of my adorable little girl.  Seriously, I don't think I have ever seen a cuter baby!