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Lucy: Five Months

Our Lucy girl is such a joy. Her chattering continues to crack us up. Her smiles are always very bright in the morning & when she sees us throughout the day. She saves her big laughs for special occasions ~ belly raspberries on the changing table with me & her Daddy’s silly faces.

Lucy’s had two big developments this past month. She now will flip onto her tummy {rolling always from the right side} quicker than you can blink when we lay her down on her back in her crib. She’ll then tuck up her feet like a lil froggy & turn her head towards the wall & sleep at least for a good seven hours straight. That means if she falls asleep after a busy daycare day at 8p, that she’ll typically wake up around 3-4 to nurse before she fairly easily goes back into her crib for another few hours. Weekends though she’s been a sleeping rock star. She slept 10-8 Saturday night! Thank you Lucy girl!

Her other new trick is pulling herself from laying down on a boppy to sitting up with us holding each hand. She gets such a big smile when we cheer as she does it. She’ll lay back down on the boppy & hold her hands out to do it again & again. It’s so cool to see. On her monthday, she continued to standing up too.

She puts everything in her mouth. She still loves her thumb, likes the wubba, Sophie’s okay, as is pretty much anything else in her reach including my hair. She’s continued to be an eating champ, a nursing pro & finishes every one of her 4 oz bottles at daycare. Our ‘happy spitter’ is still living up to that name but she doesn’t seem bothered by it.

I don’t have official size updates since she doesn’t go back to the doctor {hopefully} until her six month appointment at the end of Nov. But I’d guess she’s over 15 pounds now. She’s out of almost all 0-3 mo clothes, she fits well into her 3 month clothes {Circo & Carter’s pjs}, some 3-6 clothes {Old Navy, Gymboree} & a few 6 mo Carter’s.

My little girl has been having wardrobe malfunctions at daycare. She’s peeing out of her cloth diapers almost every day. She goes to daycare in something cute, & comes home in a rag tag mix of what she was wearing & what’s in her spare clothes bin. I’d been setting aside the bigger of our daycare cloth diapers for my big girl, but starting the end of last week, mixed in some of the smaller ones hoping that will solve some pee leaking issues. Lucy has graduated to size two disposable diapers at night {we’re currently using Luvs on her with no issues}.

Can’t wait to see what this next month holds. So far, I’m loving this age/stage!

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My TW INS

I found & purchased these onesies off etsy while in the hospital on bed rest. I’d almost forgotten about them when my Mom & I discovered them still unworn last weekend.

After both spit up on their then outfits, Mom pulled these out last Sunday. At size 0-3 months, we squeezed Lucy’s on while Zach fit into his perfectly.

Fifty photos taken & never got smiles from both at the same time. But so fun trying!

Life with these two truly means double the grins & double the giggles!

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BlogHer Book Club: Diary of a Submissive

I love the BlogHer Book Club. Because while the books sent to me straight from the publisher & the lil bit of cash {which helps me feel better about splurging on fancy gelato} are nice, BHBC also pushes me to read things outside of my norm. Outside my comfort zone if you will. I wouldn’t have picked up Theodora. Or Daring Greatly.

And most certainly not Diary of a Submissive by Sophie Morgan. But because I don’t mind reading something different {& yes, so I don’t want to miss out on a book}, I sometimes hit send on the form before I really read the description. I felt slightly uncomfortable later on just reading the description. In a what-have-I-gotten-myself-into-&-yet-I’m-curious kind of way.

Diary of a Submissive arrived just as I’d finished Matched {where kissing was oh-so-scandalous}. I threw it in my pumping-at-work bag & in the hour & a half a day I sit in the pumping room, I read Sophie’s memoir about her sexual tendencies.

I don’t blush much & have read a bit of smut before, but just the first few chapters had me running on Facebook to tell friends in a group that I was in over my head.

I haven’t read this summer’s much discussed Fifty Shades of Grey. Because I’d heard it was a lil crazy & a lil cheesy & not so well written. & hello, I had two newborns & very little to no time to read smut this summer.

I believe Diary of a Submissive takes Fifty Shades & turns it into 100 shades of making Suz blush & feel uncomfortable to the point of wanting to stop reading. But I read it. I had to know how a seemingly normal 30-something lived this life & why & how.

Would I recommend it to all my friends & family? No, remember I live in the Bible belt states for goodness sakes. But it was interesting; kinda like watching something super foreign on National Geography is interesting. Happy to never go there, okay that you now know more about it.

I know the discussion on Diary of a Submissive will be quite interesting. Jump on over to BlogHer Book Club Diary of a Submissive for more specifics.

I was compensated for this BlogHer Book Club review but all opinions expressed are my own.

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Choosing to Work {Liberating Working Moms}

Tracy, the creative mind behind the awesome website, Liberating Working Moms, messaged me a couple weeks ago. I was honored & humbled that she thought I was worthy of guest posting on LWM. We decided for my  post {hopefully first of multiple} to describe why I choose to be a working mom of multiples.

For the last eight years, I defined myself as a working girl woman. Sometimes begrudgingly on rainy cold Monday mornings & warm, sunny Friday afternoons. But a faithful, full time employee none the less.

Then {finally!} I became pregnant, & I had hints early on that it was to be a BIG pregnancy. My worker status became taken over by my being Pregnant {with a capital P indeed}. When word at work spread {& it spread shockingly fast} that I was pregnant with multiples, I suddenly became the Pregnant Employee. Pregnant came before employee in my mind & somewhat thankfully the minds of my coworkers who suddenly thought I wanted advice from all {not really} & thought they could ask completely inappropriate questions {why is that?}.

The number one question coworkers {even ones I didn’t know} asked: ‘are you coming back?’ or phrased ‘you aren’t coming back, are you!?’.

… Jump over to read the rest of my guest post on Liberating Working Moms.

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AppleCheeks Cloth Diapers

I remember hearing about AppleCheeks cloth diapers online way before I was pregnant. Their bright colors, fun names & cool designs stood out to me. Then I met the oh so fun & sweet Katie from AppleCheeks at BlogHer ’11. And even though Zach & Lucy were just a dream at that point, I looked forward to using the diaper she gave me on what I then called ‘future baby’.

Six week old Zach in his first cloth diaper 7/3

Katie & I have kept in touch, and when I mentioned that the AppleCheeks Wild Child size one diaper was the first cloth diaper Zach ever wore & how much I loved it, she offered ever so kindly to send me two more. Because both babies needed AppleCheeks love & one to spare!

So excited to receive fluffy mail!

I chose the Cherry Tomato {hello NCSU red!} & Appletini envelope covers & bamboo inserts because they were cheery, bright colors that would also work on either baby. After multiple washes & dries {I both line & dryer dry depending on how much time I have}, the colors are still as fun & radiant as ever.

Zach 10/13 in Appletini

And speaking of washing & drying, I also love that the soft bamboo insert in this pocket/envelope style diaper doesn’t need to be removed for washing. Unlike some inserts that get stuck in the pocket, these easily slide out in the wash aka no Suz digging out pee soaked insert FTW! And the inserts slide in easily enough that husband’s hands can do it.

Lucy in Cherry Tomato 10/12

These diapers are very trim fitting which means that while they work great on my skinny babies’ legs & booties, they might not be as perfect of a fit on chunkier babies. Although they’ve grown well as Zach was 7 lbs in the top photo & around 12 in the photo below.

Zach in Cherry Tomato 9/22

I’m hoping my babies will last in the AppleCheeks size ones {up to 20 pounds} for a while longer because they are honestly some of my favorite diapers they wear. It took me a little while to get these photos & this post done because they are a daycare top pick!

Lucy loving her AppleCheeks 10/12

I was provided AppleCheeks diapers to review but was not otherwise compensated for this review. All opinions stated are genuine & my own.