neversleeper

Hello interwebs. You know Audrey, yes? The baby who must be held all day long?



Did you also know that she does not sleep, ever? I'm not kidding. This child is kind of a freak. She never naps. If she does, it's for 15 minutes, tops. Or she'll sleep in the car, and we never really spend enough time in the car to make it worthwhile. So when I say that I hold her all day long, I'm not exaggerating. Remember Tobias from Arrested Development? He's a nevernude. Audrey's kind of like that, but a nerversleeps. But she's only going to be this tiny once, and I won't get that time back. So I hold her as much as she needs, and give her squeezes and kisses all day long.

That kind of caring for a child requires huge amounts of time though. Right now even, she's awake and sitting on my lap, chattering away. It's 11:30 at night. What the deuce, crack baby? The girl never sleeps. So as you can imagine, I never really get anything done. And that extends to the world of gluten-free baking.

I've decided to put the bakery on hold. Meepcakes will return one day I hope, but for now it's just too much. The moms who can do it all? I love them. I've always felt that working moms were great multi-taskers, but I feel it even more now. Being a parent is a full time job and trying to start a business while being in the most chaotic time of raising my children is just nuts. For now the plan is to resume the bakery when Audrey gets a bit older. It just allows me to be a better mom to her.

I haven't forgotten about Julian! He's my number one dude. Like a lot of other people who have blogs and write about their kids, I've decided that Julian should retire. I'll still post pictures of him, and occasionally a few stories of cute things he does, but he's at the age now where he's really aware of himself and his world, and I don't want to post really personal things on here that would embarrass him. He deserves some privacy too. I certainly don't post every detail of my life here. This is my happy blog. There was another one I used to have that I quit because it was full of woe, and I decided that I'd much rather document the good things going on.

My neversleeper finally fell asleep. At 12:15 am. Not even kidding you. So now I need to do the same. Love love love to you.

Uff Da!

Check out little Audrey with her new hair clips!


The awesome Emily of Last Train to Pooksville made these. Have you seen her precious daughter, Poppy? I love her. She's an authentic Asian baby, while mine is merely a faux Asian. Poppy is Korwegian. Korwegian = Korean/Norwegian = ultra cute.

My Lovely Lady Lumps (I call her that sometimes) was in desperate need of some clips because, well, you've seen her. She's a hairy baby. So I ordered some sweet felt clips from Emily's etsy shop, uff da designs. All of Emily's clips are handmade and sewn (not glued) onto a little girl sized goody hair clip. What I like a lot about these is that they're small enough not to be crazy looking on a baby's head, but big enough that they don't pose a choking hazard. Also, she has a bunch of really great items made from upcycled fabric.

Check out Emily's etsy shop! This wasn't a sponsored post, I just really like the things she makes and think she's a nice girl.

six months

O, haaaaiiiiiii!! How are you? I'm great! Not quite so blobby anymore. New babies are great but so very weird looking. Also, I eat stuff now! My parents are always grinding up gluten-free oats, and pureeing things like carrots, apples, and bananas for me.


Wait a sec, what? I'm six months old already? And this sitting up thing? I just figured out how to do it. Before that, I would tip over and my mom would catch me and say, "saved your life!" all the time.



Oh, Mom. I know that's not a real rabbit on your finger. Don't be crazy!! Now put that camera down and read some Harry Potter to Julian. Or at least pretend it's for Julian's sake. We all really know you're hardcore obsessed.