The Downside of Being A Mainer

So I'm sitting here on the couch, next to my sleeping baby (yesss!), feeling all fashionista-ish in my Gap tunic and New York & Company jeggings (with an elastic waistband and they're NOT maternity.  Score!) when I read this.  FFFFFFFFFFFFFF.  For reals?  No more skinny jeans?  I'm juuust jumping on this trend b/c I thought it was a no-go post baby/pre-baby, let's be honest.  Turns out, jeggings are my friends and I'm finally realizing it.  Guess that's what I get for living in Maine.



PS--I feel like this new fashion trends needs to be a secret from Tyler because I just went crazy at the mall, like 5 days ago, on all new jeggings and tunics to go with them.  He might just cry.  Super-secrets.

PPS--I love the fact that I blame my location for my lack of fashion sense.  Hey, that works!

"No More Waity, Katie."

I want this.  Bad.  It's completely frivolous, but so much fun! 

And how patient is our kitty, Rex?  Scarlett makes clicking noises like I do to get Mr. Rex to come see her.  I swear she says, "heeex." 

She's almost walking by herself; I predict just a few more days!

Cute baby biscuits!

Happy Scarjo!

Scarlett's (almost) ONE.

Scarlett had her first birthday party!  Her actual birthday isn't until the 19th, but Tyler's family was in town the weekend before, so my mom decided to host a party!  BOTH sides of families were there, together, for the first time. Quite a scene!  Her party was a success, so that was fantastic that it worked out.  My absolute favorite part was her outfit!  I found a great Etsy store called Sticky Noodles.  I had a lot of changes and a close deadline and still Brandi managed to get the outfit to Maine a day early.  Amazing!  Pictures to come!  (or you can get a sneak peek and check out my header!)

PS--HAPPY 2011! 

Gossip-y Fun.

I love that I'm not the only one who indulges in celebrity gossip; this is just a fun post to read and we basically share the same opinion on everything!

And here is a new Scarlett picture:  (b/c how could I post something without a picture of Scarjo?!)

Oh!  P.S--Happy New Year!! 

The Christmas Hangover. (full of random thoughts)

I never knew how deflated I'd feel after Christmas--blech!  It's like I just found out that Santa isn't real; just a yucky feeling!  I feel like I put so much effort and had such high expectations in this 1st Christmas with Scarlett that I feel a bit let down.  Not by Scarlett or Alyssa, but just by my lack of realization that traveling on Christmas is not such a good idea.  Next year, family can come to us! 

And really, it wasn't a bad Christmas!  I just still have not been able to get my house back in order; toys and decorations and crumbs and leftover desserts are everywhere!!!  On a positive note, I had my hair highlighted and that totally made me feel less overwhelmed!!  Also, the husband is home this week!  Yay for time together/free babysitting while I go to the gym, but he is like having another child around sometimes...no lies...and he has no idea!  I blame his mother;)  But he does everything for me and fixes the faucet, so I really can't complain about his trail of messy-ness! 

Tonight we're just in the livingroom hanging out, so we whipped out an older cd...I had forgotten how much I love old Mary mixes!  Britney, Lily Allen, Love Lockdown, and Poker Face!!! 

Scarlett was not a fruit lover when we started her on solid foods, but oh how things have changed:

She loves her berries!



We got a HUGE snowstorm here in the northeast.  I was all excited to bring the babies out to enjoy the fresh, white, fluffy snow...until we got outside and the wind blasted cold, wetness in the face!  Awesome.  We still managed to snap some photos:

A little miserable, but determined to get a photo! 

I took Tracey's advice!  Here's Scarlett in her bilibo!

Eeek...snow in the face!

Alyssa & me

Alyssa, eyeing my hat!

Yup, she decided it was worth stealing!

Me with Tyler



So much to do...!

Christmas is fast approaching and there is still looots to do!  Lots of baking & wrapping, so I'm pretty excited...it's the laundry and sweeping that makes me procrastinate and facebook! ;) 

I even still have a little gift shopping to do, but they're for guys who I don't know really well.  Not. fun.  And Scarlett would much rather eat banana whoopie pies and harass Mr. Rex, our kitty, than go out and about to more stores!

YUM!

As much as she's not a fan, she still makes shopping look cute!

Merry Christmas to you all...all four FIVE of you!  Woohoo!

Busy, busy, busy...

We've been crazy-busy here for the past few weeks with baking & shopping & visiting Santa!  It's all FUN, but lots of work!  OMG...Christmas is so much more fun with babies!!!  I'm just so excited to see their expressions when they see their filled stockings and Santa gifts.  Fun, fun! 

So, Scarlett is ELEVEN months old today!  Eeek!  Where has the time gone?  I so sound like an old lady, but it really seems like she was just born and the fact that she'll be a year makes her seem so old, even though she's still my baby.  In the past month, Scarlett has started to do lots of new, funny things.  She can stand (!), still not crawling, but instead, she scoots around everywhere.  She hands you things, waits for you to say, "thank you," and then expects them back.  She claps and has even just started waving hello and goodbye in the last few days!  She was standing up against a table, holding something in her left hand.  After trying to reach for it, but not being able to get a toy, she attempted to take a step closer, but then decided to go with the easier way and drop whatever was in her left hand and pick up the new toy.  Still, I feel like that's progress!!!  Hopefully, she'll be walking soon-ish!

We also went to go see Santa.  We couldn't schedule it for a time that Tyler and Alyssa could both go, so this time it was just the 3 of us Smiths!  Tomorrow, Molly and Alyssa will be going with Scarlett and I and I'm hoping that it'll be more fun.  Alyssa gets the Santa thing, so she'll be more excited than Scarlett...

Terrified.  Poor baby!

Really? 

Get. me. out of here!

Now she's trying to get a good look at him.

I can't wait to see what happens when Scarlett sees how much Alyssa loves Santa...hoping for some better pictures tomorrow!