* drum roll please*
welcome to the world baby GIRL
Olive Grace
she's already awesome - so sweet and gentle. it's a nice reminder that it's possible to just sit and stare at something that's doing absolutely nothing for hours on end. and you know it's a little bit silly to be doing that, but you just. can't. pull. your. self. away.
and now, five reasons why having a newborn again rocks
1. we got to ditch our dogs for a little while. i'll tell ya, nothing lessens your loyalty to your furry friends than having kids. they slide down the totem pole of priorities pretty dang fast.
we pawned our pups off when the baby came and i'm sad to say that, other than quincy occasionally asking were milo is...and then immediately getting distracted by something else before we can answer, we haven't thought about the dogs once.
in fact, it turns out that having two kids is easier than having two dogs. so, if anybody's looking to add a dog to your family, we've got some good options for ya...
2. the dinosnore! does ANYBODY remember these things other than me and my siblings???
dinosnores were these awesome neon-colored (rock on to the eighties) plush dinosnores with a ball or something rolling around inside of them. when you move them, the ball rolls and makes this weird "snoring" sound as if your fuzzy friend isn't a man-eating ferocious creature at all, but rather a meek little snoozer with an acute nasal problem.
i first mentioned a dinosnore right after quincy was born because when she breathed, she sounded like a dinosnore. the boy (and everybody else on the planet) had no idea what i was talking about.
fast forward two years, my sis has a baby. of course, she remembers the dinosnores because she had one too. we reminisced about them and how bizarre it is that nobody's ever even heard of them. seriously, there's not even a wikipedia page for them or anything. i can't even add a link to the word "dinosnore" because there's nowhere to link it to. so sad
well, the boy, in hearing all of this talk, somehow miraculous finds me a dinosnore!! i almost started crying when i opened the gift. okay not really, but i could have! i have no idea where he found it - trust me, i've been looking for two years now. they don't even come up in google searches - it's like they never even existed. pure awesome.
3. as adorable and hilarious as quincy is anyway, i think she's really stepped up her game this past week to try to make sure she's got our full attention. from putting hampers on her head and calling herself a robot to just being a ridiculously cute little stinker, she's definitely keeping us entertained and on our toes while the baby's sleeping (and let's be honest, even while the baby's awake, too)
4. for the most part, quincy completely ignores the baby, but for whatever reason, she's really fixated on the fact that she gets to eat big people food and all the baby gets to eat is milk. she mentions it with every meal and every time i talk about baby olive, she says, "no MY like olives. the baby only drinks milk."
...okay, so that's not really a reason why having a newborn rocks, but it's pretty cute nonetheless
