Coming to Troll Town

Monday afternoon, our little family came home. Which meant we had to do a couple things.

• Dress Lisi in real clothes. This was harder than it seemed. We had to take her from this:

to this:

• Since Lisi's newborn clothes fit her like a giant bear robe fits this guy, we unfortunately had to take off her adorable hoodie.

 
Next, we had to get her in her car seat. She fit right in...

 

 Raise your hands if you want to go home!

Then it was off to Troll Town. Mommy, Daddy, and Lisi. Tired and happy to be home.

Family Night

Since Lisi's gags almost disappeared by yesterday afternoon, we had her sleep in the room last night WHILE WE SLEPT TOO!

It was pretty nerve wracking, and I'll admit to a fair amount of parental hovering in the darkness, but in the end we got as much or more sleep as we all did having her in the nursery.

Now we're ready to head home this afternoon.

And Lisi Mae is ready for another nap.

Project Gain Weight

Lisi Mae is a petite little girl. So we've decided she needs to fatten up. While Maren and Lisi negotiate terms to conclude the great Battle of Breastfeeding, we've used finger feeding of formula to keep getting our little girl some food.

 

Also, you just miss one of Lisi's monster burps at the beginning of this one, but getting a glance of sleepy-eyed Lisi is priceless.

 

We switch off finger feeding to make sure she's comfortable with whomever. But when it's Maren's turn to burp, this is the view I get of our little podling.

 

Lisi's Life: The Movie Part I

I shot this video just after Lisi had finger fed some formula for the second time. This is content Lisi. I don't suggest making the acquaintance of her evil twin. Face of an angel, lungs from the devil :) 

 

In any case, I thought you folks would benefit from her living, breathing cuteness. 

 

Ready for Day 2

Lisi's tired out from long night of poop and phlegm. Resting up for today's big goal--feeding!

Oh Yeah

Last week I was able to fly out to Colorado and spend time with Maggie, Bobby, and Ruby!!! I took lots of pictures of cute little Ruby.

We went and bought some yummy donuts!

 We went to the park almost everyday (it was raining one day). I think Ruby would live at the park if she could.

We went to story time at the library and played with bubbles.

We went on several errands...

Ruby got a balloon at Sprouts.

Target

We read many books.

We went out and got some ice cream one night. Ruby loves ice cream just like her mom.

And of course there were plenty of silly moments!

Thanks for having me come stay with you guys! I had so much fun and love you so much! Can I wait until Christmas to see you guys... NO WAY, NO WAY!

Bread

A couple of months ago I wanted to try making some homemade bread. My mom makes amazing bread and rolls, but I've never had the courage to take on the yeast and make my own bread. One day, while at the grocery store I took the first step and bought some yeast. About a week or two later I decided I wanted some homemade bread so I pulled out the yeast. I found a recipe in cookbook and started making bread! I was pretty proud of myself, but looking back on it, it was a disaster! First off, we only had white flour and we all know homemade wheat bread is the best. Secondly, there was some major poor time management on my part. The recipe made two loaves, but I only had one loaf pan, so the second hunk of dough was just going to sit on the counter while the first loaf was baking. I guess that's not too bad, but I didn't have time to bake the second loaf before we went over to a friend's house for dinner, so the second hunk of dough just sat on the counter for 4 hours until we came back home and I popped it in the oven. The first loaf was okay, but the second loaf was just a flat dense piece of bread.

Fast forward to yesterday. While at church I was sitting next to my friend who was feeding her little girl a piece of bread and I kept thinking "mmm... I really want some homemade wheat bread." So we came home and told Dave my plans. It took a couple of hours for me to muster up the gumption to take another stab at making bread. However, this time we had whole wheat flour, I found a supposedly wonderful recipe online, and I altered the recipe to just make one loaf (for our one loaf pan). The entire time I was making it I kept telling Dave that it just didn't look right and that it was going to turn out horribly. And this is what came out of the oven!
This bread is perfection!!! We each had a slice last night and I had a couple of pieces of toast this morning. YUM!