I want to be a fireman with BIG nipples...

Lily (who is will be 3 in a few weeks) was in my room while I was getting dressed one morning a few days ago. She wanted to know why my nipples were bigger than hers...she was worried she had boy nipples and wanted them to be bigger. She was very concerned but I tried to assure her that when she grew up her nipples would grow up too....fast forward to today, we're driving to the post office to pick up a package and a fire truck passes us...while we're at the post office, the woman behind the counter asks Lily what she wants to be when she grows up (she was wearing a plastic crown from her dress up set...I'm sure the woman was thinking she was going to say princess or something equally cute and girly) to which she responds "A fireman with BIG nipples" ...Of course the woman looked at me like I had 8 heads, and sort of nodded at Lily. Ahh...perhaps its time for me to find a new post office to drop packages off at. LOL

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I am a blog slacker...

Mother, oh Mother, come shake out your cloth
empty the dustpan, poison the moth,
hang out the washing and butter the bread,
sew on a button and make up a bed.
Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?
She's up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.

Oh, I've grown shiftless as Little Boy Blue
(lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo).
Dishes are waiting and bills are past due
(pat-a-cake, darling, and peek, peekaboo).
The shopping's not done and there's nothing for stew
and out in the yard there's a hullabaloo
but I'm playing Kanga and this is my Roo.
Look! Aren't her eyes the most wonderful hue?
(lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo).

The cleaning and scrubbing will wait till tomorrow,
for children grow up, I've learned to my sorrow.
So quiet down, cobwebs. Dust go to sleep.
I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep.

by Ruth Hulburt Hamilton

Okay, I am always on the run somewhere now, working full time is fully time consuming, its seems like I never have time to do anything besides work and errands and the house work has definitely suffered as a result. I've read this poem before but I came across it again today...it made me stop re-organizing the bookshelf in my room to come chill on the couch with a napping snuggly Sofie on my lap and a cuddly Lily to my side...They get big sooo fast.

Even Homer wears his baby...

Steve and I were veggin' out in front of the t.v. the other night watching The Simpsons and Steve spotted this. He was so excited about it, he actually backed the DVR up so I could take a picture. Steve is in Phoenix, AZ right now on a business trip so it's just me and the girls this week. Lily has been a broken record of "Where's daddy?" all night. She thought he was hiding upstairs at one point and screamed "Daaaadeeee" up the stairwell for about 10 minutes before I could convince her he wasn't up there. Ugh...I feel how Homer looks in the picture...I just have to make it to Sunday...

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Hi, my name is Becca and I'm a wrap addict

The first step to solving the problem is admitting you have one, right? lol (and yes, I do realize I have been a slacker when it comes to updating this blog lately). Okay, so in the time since I last posted I have owned and then sold many many wraps. Steve (hubby) thinks I'm completely crazy but has attempted to look the other way, or maybe I just think he's looking the other way and its really Bioshock I have to thank? (seriously though, I am not rich by any means, all the wraps I have except for maybe 1, were purchased with money made on ebay by selling things I had laying in my basement). I decided to compile a list of all the wraps that have been through my hands, what I have now and what is on its way to my doorstep...



These lovelies have lived here...
Vicky Storchenwiege sz 4.1
Lille Hoppediz Long
Ozean Nino Didymos sz 7
Blue and White Indio Didymos sz 4
Amethyst Indio w/ Linen Didymos sz 7
Earthy Rainbow Girasol sz 4.6
Silver Waves Didymos sz 5
Silk Nino Didymos sz 4
Babyhawk Reversible Mei Tai
Bellalina Bambina Mei Tei

These are the ones that have survived and still live here...
Vicky Storchenwiege sz 4.1
Lille Hoppediz Long (currently residing with the lovely miss Zoe)
Ozean Nino Didymos sz 7
Blue and White Indio Didymos sz 4
Babyhawk Reversible Mei Tai
Bellalina Bambina Mei Tei

and these are the ones that are on their way here...
Joringel Didymos sz 6
Silk Indio sz 6
Lime Waves sz 6
Earthy Rainbow Girasol shortie (~2.4m)
Earthy Rainbow Girasol ring sling (I had my ER wrap cut into 2, 1/2 is becoming a lovely ring sling and 1/2 will either get sold, get used as a lovely short rainbow wrap or become another lovely ringsling for a dear friend who has an exceptionally cute newborn and once complimented earthy rainbow ;)
Silk Nino Didymos sz 4 dyed sky blue (natural cream silk is just asking to be stained with one baby bodily fluid or another)

I will add photos of all the wraps when the revolving door stops spinning. Now thats its all typed out I think I may appear crazier than intended...especially because all of these have been in and out in the past 3-4 months!...but I swear there is a purpose to all this testing and if you ever need any babywearing wrap advice, well, then you know who to ask. :0)

My wrap stash...

Oh, I got all of my lovelys together and took a pictures. In the pile from top to bottom is Lille Hoppediz 4.6, Vicky Storchenwiege 4.1, Earthy Rainbow Girasol 4.6 and Amethyst Linen LE Indio Didymos 5.2. The Amethyst indio is my newest edition and it seems so special. The weave is so thin and delicate looking and its much softer than the other wraps to begin with because of the linen content. I adore it but I'm almost afraid to use it (and please excuse the messy hair/exhausted mama look in the first picture..I am tiiiiiired). On a slightly amusing note, with politics aside (although I like Hillary :0) there is a woman wearing her baby in a wrap in this Hillary ad. :0) If you like the wrap its a Gypsy Mama Baby Bali Stretch Cybele.