GRACE I CANNOT HOLD YOU ALL DAY AND DO P90X AND COOK DINNER AND RUN A MILE ON THE TREADMILL, PICK THE CORN AND TOMATOES AND VACUUM AND CLEAN OUT THE GARAGE, not to mention shower, I SIMPLY CANNOT!
but i did.
also, you CANNOT crawl until you are at least six months! I FORBID IT! so stop swimming on your stomach.
this house needs to be baby proofed and until then you are ... unhappily teething and getting a huge bald spot on the back of your po little head.
I LOVE YOU!
August 30, 2011
August 27, 2011
peaches
okay. coral pink/peach is def my new favorite color ever.
and arent these two pieces of furniture the CUTEST?!
child's cupboard via we-do-re-do's
wish grace was older so i could give her it to play with
and that dresser is fantastic.
oh and sawwy im slacking on vacation photos we took so many and i still havent unpacked!
b and me have been p90xing and i'm dying people.
but i have to get this prego weight off.
speaking of prego (no, i am NOT PREGNANT) grace has begun this weird clingy phase where she cries if anybody else is holding her if she's sleepy moms: is this normal? she's usually so mild and sweet tempered and lately she's been so CRANKY! that said, im still obsessed with her and she has also begun to chuckle outloud at me (cause she thinks im hilarious!) so i guess that with the smiles makes up for when she's so sad!
August 21, 2011
August 17, 2011
Sands
San Diego! It is so strange being home again, severytime we come back here I feel like I'm landing in high school again and it weirds me out. Grace ois so wonderful, she slept through the whole flight and has been smiling since we landed. Last night she stayed with my parents and we went to the old globe theater to see much aero about nothing. It was hilarious and also very cold since it was outside. The funniest man came up behind us while we were getting something to snack on Before the show, he was tall with a peasant top that laced up and a red kerchief and he came right by my ear and proclaimed loudly that he would have the such and such sandwich because it was named after his favorite shakeespeare character. I almost peed in my pants I was laughing so hard.
You always feel pretentious laughingoutloud during a Shakespeare play...
So I just smiled until my face hurt.
Grace woke up at five am and giggled when she saw me. It made my heart puff up like a big hot air balloon.
Brandon and a I are a nice shade of neon pink... Hopefully we wil be a gorgeous bronze before we leave but until then we look pretty silly and painful. Even grace put on her swimsuit and got a little pink on her face (I'm not certain how she accomplished this since she was under an umbrella all day long sleeping and kicking and staring at the beach umbrella.
W went walking on the beach yesterday morning, ere wasn't much sand to walk on but it was really lovely.
So, I'm pretty boring until I can get the pictures I've been taking up here! Sawwy
You always feel pretentious laughingoutloud during a Shakespeare play...
So I just smiled until my face hurt.
Grace woke up at five am and giggled when she saw me. It made my heart puff up like a big hot air balloon.
Brandon and a I are a nice shade of neon pink... Hopefully we wil be a gorgeous bronze before we leave but until then we look pretty silly and painful. Even grace put on her swimsuit and got a little pink on her face (I'm not certain how she accomplished this since she was under an umbrella all day long sleeping and kicking and staring at the beach umbrella.
W went walking on the beach yesterday morning, ere wasn't much sand to walk on but it was really lovely.
So, I'm pretty boring until I can get the pictures I've been taking up here! Sawwy
August 13, 2011
teehee teeshirts
somebody's growing like a weed! do baby clothes come small because this baby is wearing a 6 month onesie in this photo. yea. she is so long! grace weighs a whoppin thirteen pounds (its swimsuit season, dont you wish you could subtract that baby weight as fast as they gain it?) (sheesh)
i heard grace laugh outloud for the first time today. it was the sweetest sound ive ever heard. and not just a chuckle, she gave me the full real deal. it was adorable and i know im sickening the three people who read this with my obsession with my own child but i cant help it and just wait until you've had yours and then ill be reading all about how great it is that your kid has regular bowel movements.
we leave for san diego on gracies first flight in two days and im counting the seconds until i can show her the ocean and see her in the pool with her little swimsuit on.
i dont care who you are, isnt that the cuterest swimsuit?! it has a matching sunhat.
i wish there was one in my size. just kidding, i got these two
this one in light walnut
andddd
these bottoms withhhh
this top. except in pea green. i kind like to mix and matchy and let's face it, my size00-4 days are done for.
except jcrew! i hate you! i got 1-2 day shipping on thursday and they wont even be here until after ive left for california on monday! FAIL ups/jcrew.
sosad. guess ill be tannin in the nude! just kidding.
August 7, 2011
8-7-2011
today is grace elaine cochran's baby blessing. this is the dress i was blessed in, and my little blanket.
a lot of people dont know this but i knew grace was coming a long time ago. when i was a small girl i remember waking up in the night and slipping my doll under my nightgown and standing at the window, wondering what it would be like to be a mother.
later in life, i was 18, and i was trying to figure out what i wanted from my college career. one night i prayed very earnestly to know what i should do and fell asleep, and met grace. i was 18. it was the first time in my semi-adult life where i was single, i had just broken up with one of the only very long relationships id ever had and i wasnt pregnant or looking to become pregnant in my list of life accomplishments at that time. so in this dream it was me in a very white room and i was waiting. i'm not sure what i was waiting for but a baby appeared and began to cry. it had blue eyes, and i went to it to see if i could comfort it and the baby just cried louder, i asked it where it's mother was and to my surprise it spoke. mom, she said. and i backed away, because i just wanted to know which major to pick for college, i didnt want a baby! again the little one began crying, mom, it said, it's me, it's grace. i went to the girl and picked her up and she stopped crying and i woke up. i tried not to think about my answer all day at school the next day. a friend came over and put a bunch of talks by members of the church presidency on my ipod and i thought it would be interesting to press shuffle and find out what the universe thought i should hear.
i am not lying to you when i say that the first three talks had nothing to do with each other except for the repeated use of the word grace. it took me five years to embrace the knowledge that i knew as a little girl i wanted to be.
it took being sicker than any other time in my life, it took time and energy and space in my heart- and now that she is here i wouldn't have parted with myself for anything less than amazing grace.
when brandon and i were dating, i told him i was having a baby girl first and he laughed at me and said i had a 50% chance of being wrong. but i was certain.
after brandon and i were married, and on a night while he was training in pendleton for afghanistan, brandon woke me up in the deep blue california light to tell me all about a dream he had had about a tall, brown haired girl named grace. he told me she was playing basketball, and he was cheering for her and embarrassing her on the sidelines.
he said she was beautiful, and she is.
August 4, 2011
allabout it
phew this summer has been a crazy busy.
i almost feel like we've been running like chickens with our heads cut off from one state to the next- from wyoming to utah to arizona and next week to california. and all travels with this little tiny grace who is not so little or tiny anymore and is growing entirely too fast for my brain to understand fully.
last weekend we had the chance to drive ten hours to see brandon's birth father craig sanders' parents who are living in lakeside arizona. grace was an angel the whole way there and back and the drive was beautiful. it was very special to be with them and feel craig's spirit still living strongly in their love for him and his posterity. it is easy to see where brandon gets his guts of steel and heart of fluff from now. brandon's father died when he was about two years old from the bubonic plague and he is sorely missed. it will be a good day someday to meet him on the other side but for now we feel content and blessed to have his spirit among our family. it was wonderful to have all the siblings together for this purpose. i love brandon's family and now i know more people to love!
grace has developed a pitiful cry and pouty face when i stop feediing her to burp her. its sort of hilarious! this girl is SERIOUS about her food. like her mama and dad. she loves out of all the seats and swings and rockers we got her- the old jungle swing grandma elaine brought down to the house the most and she sleeps in it while i get yardwork done with grandma. today i am covered in wood stain we did the playhouse, the arbor, and the rockingchair which desperately needed a new coat/stain.
i can almost hear the wood slurping up that stain.
grace's blessing is on sunday! we have a ton of family coming and if i could feed more people i'd invite the whole world but between my family and brandons i think there arent enough crockpots to ask anyone else.
grace is wearing my baby blessing dress and mayyybe some old shoes i had too but i havent decided yet because they are cream with pink trim and lace and the dress is white. i used to hesitate mixing the two but ive seen it more and more recently the cream and white combo so we'll see when the dress gets here from home!
today we had the carpets cleaned and the roofer came for his estimate to begin next week, so much going on.
does anyone have recommendations on costco sheet cake? preferences?
okie i sleepy now. grace is laughing and trying to nurse and sleep all at once. this baby is honestly the happiest sweetest thing ive ever seen. she recognizes b and me now and smiles a LOT. still no giggles outloud except tiny chuckles in snatches and pieces, and a ton of cooing which is adorable. when i stick my tongue out at her she sticks hers back at me, such a lady! cant wait to introduce grace to her first giant tub- our pool in my backyard at home and her grandpa francis this weekend and sister lacheellee! see you soon san diego.
i almost feel like we've been running like chickens with our heads cut off from one state to the next- from wyoming to utah to arizona and next week to california. and all travels with this little tiny grace who is not so little or tiny anymore and is growing entirely too fast for my brain to understand fully.
last weekend we had the chance to drive ten hours to see brandon's birth father craig sanders' parents who are living in lakeside arizona. grace was an angel the whole way there and back and the drive was beautiful. it was very special to be with them and feel craig's spirit still living strongly in their love for him and his posterity. it is easy to see where brandon gets his guts of steel and heart of fluff from now. brandon's father died when he was about two years old from the bubonic plague and he is sorely missed. it will be a good day someday to meet him on the other side but for now we feel content and blessed to have his spirit among our family. it was wonderful to have all the siblings together for this purpose. i love brandon's family and now i know more people to love!
grace has developed a pitiful cry and pouty face when i stop feediing her to burp her. its sort of hilarious! this girl is SERIOUS about her food. like her mama and dad. she loves out of all the seats and swings and rockers we got her- the old jungle swing grandma elaine brought down to the house the most and she sleeps in it while i get yardwork done with grandma. today i am covered in wood stain we did the playhouse, the arbor, and the rockingchair which desperately needed a new coat/stain.
i can almost hear the wood slurping up that stain.
grace's blessing is on sunday! we have a ton of family coming and if i could feed more people i'd invite the whole world but between my family and brandons i think there arent enough crockpots to ask anyone else.
grace is wearing my baby blessing dress and mayyybe some old shoes i had too but i havent decided yet because they are cream with pink trim and lace and the dress is white. i used to hesitate mixing the two but ive seen it more and more recently the cream and white combo so we'll see when the dress gets here from home!
today we had the carpets cleaned and the roofer came for his estimate to begin next week, so much going on.
does anyone have recommendations on costco sheet cake? preferences?
okie i sleepy now. grace is laughing and trying to nurse and sleep all at once. this baby is honestly the happiest sweetest thing ive ever seen. she recognizes b and me now and smiles a LOT. still no giggles outloud except tiny chuckles in snatches and pieces, and a ton of cooing which is adorable. when i stick my tongue out at her she sticks hers back at me, such a lady! cant wait to introduce grace to her first giant tub- our pool in my backyard at home and her grandpa francis this weekend and sister lacheellee! see you soon san diego.
August 3, 2011
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