Mother's Day-Explosions-Mackinac

My first Mother's Day was great :) We went to the early service for church and then after that we went to the mall (it was closed), Meijer and finally Target to find a mother's day gift for my mom (sorry mom-last minute i know). We got her a purse and a wallet-much needed let me tell you. Her old one was falling apart at the seams ;) After that we went to my Grandma and Grandpa Smit's house-they are just back from Florida and this was their first time seeing Baby A. As you can see Grandma Lily is quite proud =)

This is four generations: my mom, Grandma Lily, myself and Adelyn.

Grandma Lily made us a most fabulous meal of roast, beans, peas, carrots, rolls, jello salad, mashed potatoes and gravy, applesauce and last but not least strawberry pie-it's true we ate like kings! It was delicious and I definitely had 3 1/2 rolls.
After that we headed over to visit with Eric's parents. On Tuesday of this past week we blessed them with new landscaping and manual labor. We put bark down all around the house and moved a bunch of plants around. They loved it!



Yesterday the DeBoer's kindly invited us over. We try to get together with them about once a month. Lindsey made us a delicious Lasagna and I brought dessert, a Brown Sugar Spice Cake-yum! We were sitting down at the table enjoying our yummy lasagna when Adelyn's face turned a bright red and...

this was the result...SICK!

I cannot believe the amount of poo that comes out of one so small. As noticed by all my poo pictures it never ceases to amaze me and I think it needs to be documented.



May 1-3 we went to Mackinac Island. It was our first time staying on the island, we stayed at the Lakeview Hotel and had a blast! We went with 3 other couples and all their kiddies :) We somehow convinced the hotel (I still don't know how we lucked out) to give us the master suite for the same price as the shoebox rooms. Seriously it was huge! The only complaint was that we were right across from the elevator and the water pressure in the shower was seriously to be desired. eh tradeoffs. Adelyn was once again a trooper while we traveled-I tell you what shes going to be a seasoned traveler by the time shes 1! We had lots of fun walking around, swimming, eating fudge, drinking coffee, riding on the ferry, playing with friends etc.

Family pic on the ferry ride over to the island-yes I know my daughter's belly is showing-that's terrible.

Adelyn did a lot of this on vacation-she is a great sleeper!

Swimming! A loved it =)



My two most favorite people and the cutest picture ever!



Adelyn and I in front of the fort-I look cheesy I know.

And last but not least-this picture was taken today:

Eric somehow thinks this is an acceptable form of entertainment-whatever, she's happy, he's happy, mama's happy, everyone's happy ;)

Not Me Monday's...

Actually "Not Me Tuesday" is more like it. Before I begin maybe I better explain. There is another blog I read, MckMama, who occasionally does Not Me Monday's. She will blog about her Monday, in not me form and readers will leave comments about their Not Me Monday's.

While you read this keep in mind that Eric and I performed 8 hours of MANUAL labor in the yard yesterday. So while he got to go relax at work, yes relax, this is what I did:

Adelyn ate at 12:00 today and fell asleep shortly after she was done eating. I brought her upstairs for a nap and decided NOT to take a bath and instead cleaned (I showered and got all clean first because I knew it wouldn't last long, it never does). I had just settled with my book and my bath, when low and behold 10 minutes later Adelyn did NOT start crying. I did NOT let her cry for a couple minutes before I went up and changed her diaper (just pee, mind you) and "tried" to rock her back to sleep. So after 10 minutes I decided she would NOT have fun sitting in her rocker in the bathroom while I bathed. Not even 10 minutes after I settled in again I DID NOT hear the sound of her filling her pants. Once again, I didn't change her right away (as she sometimes will have a round two shortly after round one and if you change her right after round one, well, round two ends up...ON YOU). What do you know...round two came along. I, once again, did NOT get out of the bath tub to change her diaper. When I picked her up her "poop," ahem liquid like substance, did NOT drip out of the side of her shorts (maybe drip is too nice. I prefer streamed.) Since this was going to be a long clean-up (involving washing the swimming pool of yellowish-green poo out of the rocker) I did NOT watch the water and my relaxation run down the drain.

I did NOT want to relax this afternoon. NOPE, NOT ME.

BUT, alas, she is now taking another nap and after I publish this I might (key word folks: might) just get to read my book on the couch.

P.S. Whoever said that breastfed babies poop DOESN'T stain is off their rocker. That "stuff" (I would prefer another word but for the sake of keeping this rated G I won't use it) is toxic. It takes a combination of Spray n Wash and liquid dish soap and occasionally the second, sometimes third, wash to get the stain out.

Just kidding about the book on the couch. Adelyn woke up.

And I did NOT just realize that today is Wednesday and edit this post for the 5th time. Nope, not me.