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The first week after Gwen was born, Taylor stayed home from work and we both kind of stayed up most of the night with her- he was more likely to be awake for the first half (like, midnight to 4am) and I was more likely to be awake for the second half (4am onwards). It worked well because we were sharing the baby care equally and we both got some sleep, but not a lot. This week he’s back at work and it’s EVEN BETTER. He’s arranged to work from home for the next six to eight weeks, which is AMAZING, because he works nights and since he’s up anyway he’s been doing everything with her! I’ve been getting so much sleep I don’t even know how to deal with it. Last night I went to bed at around midnight and this morning he woke me up at eight. EIGHT. That’s later than I normally sleep on a weekday!

It also helps that Gwen is such a good baby; sometimes I don’t even want to go to bed- I just want to stay up and gaze at her and count her little fingers and toes. Last night I stole her from Taylor and snuggled with her in bed before I fell asleep and it was pretty much the best thing ever. I still can’t believe we made this baby and I grew her in my belly and now she’s here and more perfect than I ever could have imagined. WOW THAT WAS MUSHY. Sorry. It’s true though.

In unrelated to my adorable baby news, I woke up this morning and my blog layout was all messed up, so I apologize for the ugly font and too-wide pictures. Apparently all my CSS edits vanished overnight? UGH SUCH A PAIN since I don’t remember how I changed it in the first place. THANKS A LOT, WORDPRESS >:/

Taylor just uploaded his pictures of Gwen from yesterday, and I’m getting emotional looking at them. She’s napping so I can’t look at the real thing while I’m on my computer, although I often go stare at her while she sleeps. I just love her so much!

Can you believe Gwen is over a week old already??? I certainly can’t. Taylor keeps saying stuff about he can’t wait until she’s a bit bigger and we can do this or that or blah blah blah and I’m like NOOOOOOOOOOOO PRECIOUS TINY INFANT CAN NEVER GROW UP. Yesterday she had her first visit to the doctor, and she’s already regained the 1.5% of her birth weight that she lost AND MORE, and grown one centimeter.

Since she was one week old yesterday I asked Taylor to take some pictures of her, but he hasn’t uploaded them yet so for now here’s a bunch of random stuff…

On Wednesday we took her out for her first shopping trip downtown. She was a total angel and slept the entire time we were out, but I way overdid it and spent the evening literally sobbing from my various pains- my embarrassing problem from September is back, and my milk came in, but since it won’t come out (breastfeeding is a no-go for me again) I was a swollen mess. ANYWAY I’m recovering/deflating nicely now so PHEW.

While we were out Taylor bought me a fancy new down-filled waterproof parka from The North Face so I don’t have to choose between being cold and wet this winter, and LITERALLY the second we stepped out of the store the sun burst through the clouds, so Vancouver people can thank me for any nice weather we have in the next couple weeks.

This morning I successfully got her into a properly wrapped Moby for the first time! We took Georgie out for a walk together, and it was GREAT. I officially love this thing, so much simpler for short walks than busting out the stroller, plus it means I’ll be able to take Georgie to the dog park again!

Anyway, this baby bundled on my chest is starting to wake up so I’d better go, but if you want to look at fifty billion pictures of my baby and my pets all day please follow me on instagram YES FINE I ADMIT IT I WAS WRONG ABOUT IT. Happy Friday everyone!

Can’t stop won’t stop.

Back when I was pregnant Taylor and I spent a lot of time trying to think off baby names. We had a list of some names we liked but there was nothing we were like, IN LOVE with. We just couldn’t think of a name! Sym made suggestions, our friends & family made suggestions (multiple people suggested “Daisy,” which is weird), my mom and I spent a couple hours on baby name websites, but nothing jumped out at us.

After she was born the brainstorming continued, and finally we picked something: Gwendolyn (Gwen or Gwenny or Itty-Bitty Baby Face) Violet. Taylor and I agreed on Gwendolyn together, and Violet was Symphony’s suggestion (I am so happy she could be involved, I really want her to feel included in the whole baby thing).

(This picture is from Friday, before we left the hospital. I’ve been kind of slow in downloading the pics from my camera)

I swear one day I’ll have a real post, but for now I ACTUALLY caved in and got Instagram to better inundate you all with baby pics (like my recent blog posts haven’t been enough)!

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Friday night, after we got home from the hospital and Taylor was downloading the pics from his camera. I still had all my cool bracelets on; the red one says CODEINE, as in “don’t give me codeine or I will throw up everywhere. Of course, I threw up anyway but that’s a different story…

If you wear giant oversized tees with wide necks you can do skin-to-skin with your baby and not expose yourself if your neighbors glance in the window.

November 8th, 2012.

Welcome baby :3 Only three percent of babies are born on their due dates, I guess mine is fancy like that.

I wouldn’t want anyone to think I haven’t been posting because I’m doing something crazy like IDK having a baby or something. I’m not, I’ve just been doing this:

Please enjoy this peek at my workspace, I’m currently in the middle of making seven mini killjoy banners, yikes.

If you like to be kept updated about any baby progress you can follow me on twitter.

SIKE I HOPE YOU DIDN’T THINK I WAS TALKING ABOUT BABY LARAMIE BECAUSE

STILL PREGNANT. Nope, I’m talking about this one who turned eleven today!

We already had her birthday party with her friends, of course, but we still have our presents to give to her (we got her the second Wildwood book, Under Wildwood, and stuffies of Marceline and Cake from Adventure Time). She actually goes to her dad’s on Monday nights so this morning I’m going to make a little cake to have with her after school, or possibly at the hospital if things start happening (ya rite).