I can't believe it's 3:00pm already. Where did the day go? Time is just flying by at light speed, it's kind of freaking me out. I can't believe Julian is almost 2 months old already.

I keep thinking that I need to take WAY more pictures. I have been trying to get a family portrait of us taken, but either we all are in sweatpants and look scraggly or else we forget the camera or we forget to take a pic. It's infuriating. We just had Passover dinner over at Dan's parents' house on Monday and both of us looked decent and fairly stylin', the baby was freshly bathed and had a cute outfit on, and Bugs had a bath the day before, so he was all shiny and soft. I brought the camera and told Dan to remind me to ask his family to take a pic of us.

On the way home afterwards I remembered the family photo...too late. Infuriating. And tragic, because I know I will kick myself later for not having more pictures of this sweet period in our lives.

My poochy stomach is finally flattening out a little. I credit Baby Boot Camp. I broke down and bought some cheap capri pants from Old Navy because I just can't stand wearing the same old three pairs of pants all the time. I just can't. And two of those three pairs are sweatpants! When we were having the heat wave I could wear some cute skirts at least, but now that it's cold again I'm back to sweatpants. Dammit.

I really need some more hot weather. Not only do I have nothing to wear when it's chilly, but Julian only has a few sleeper-type outfits with feet on them, so I have to do laundry all the time. He's got about a *zillion* short-sleeved onesies, but it's too chilly to wear them. He has a few pairs of pants, but when you have to access the baby's butt so many times a day, it gets old pulling pants on and off. I like the easy on/off one-piece outfits. I like gowns the absolute best, but I've been wearing Julian in the Moby Wrap all the time lately, and the fabric wraps between his legs...a gown doesn't work.

Lately I just can't get this baby to take a long nap outside of the Moby Wrap. I tried his bouncy chair today after New Mom Group. He was passed out at New Mom Group, and in the car afterwards, and in my arms on the way upstairs. Once I put him in the bouncy chair though (a favorite napping locale), no dice. It was Playtime! So we played for a while, making silly noises to one another, smiling and laughing a lot, ultil he suddenly fell asleep about a half hour later. I snuck off, planning all the things I was going to do during his naptime, then he woke up again. not ten minutes later! We did that three times, then I finally put him back into his wrap, in the tummy-to-tummy position facing my chest. He passed out cold as soon as I put him in and has barely awakened since in spite of dogs barking, buzzsaws going every few minutes in the backyard, etc. He slept in that position for FIVE HOURS yesterday, and I don't think he woke up even once. He slept through a walk in windy weather to the grocery store and back home, through a sushi dinner in a loud restaurant blaring a baseball game on TV, then halfway through a visit to my friend John's house. Finally I woke his little sleeping baby ass up at 10:00pm for food, play, and a diaper change.

If only he would nap for five hours OFF my body. But I'll take five hours of nap however I can get it. He's supposed to be getting 14 hours of sleep a day. It's not easy to achieve this on most days.

We are redoing our back patio, tearing out the splintery wood deck and the scrubby little patch of grass that never grew right and putting in charcoal gray tile, plus stylin' modern lighting. It will be a nice place to hang out with the baby this summer. I can't wait to get a baby pool and splash with him in there.