This PROVES I have no business cooking! I nearly burned the house down. Some of you may not know that I don't have a sense of smell and I only have hearing in one ear. As it turns out, cooking is one of the most dangerous tasks I perform. I was trying to be superwife and start cooking something besides Chef Boyardee and sandwiches...so I started with a boiler of rice. Then I went to love on my baby and I totally forgot about the rice!!!!!!!!!! I didn't notice the entire house was filling up with smoke. I went to put her bottle in the dishwasher and as I passed by the stove, I noticed the mess (needless to say the open flame below the boiler was still burning just as strong as ever). Then the smoke alarm started going off. I then noticed the entire house full of smoke. The lid to this pot had cooked itself on, so I just ever so casually took it outside and waited for Dan to come upstairs and start screaming. The wierdest thing of all is that he never even did the usual "You need to [fill in the blank] next time." Yes, he always likes to tell me what I SHOULD have done. Anyway, this is supposed to be about the cooking, not the husband. Ha ha. I moved the timer down onto the stove and made a personal commitment to start using it, as it beeps when time is up. I just pray I hear it the next time I forget I am cooking. Another incident like this may provoke me to give up once and for all.

So, as you MUST have expected, I'm slow getting this blog updated. Well come on...I have a baby to take care of. :-)
So far Motherhood has been wonderful. Daniley is a very good baby! We are getting up only once or twice each night. She doesn't cry unless she's 1) hungry 2) has poopy drawers or 3) fighting sleep! Actually we have very little cries at all. She is so cute I just like to stare at her all the time. She makes hilarious faces at me and they crack me up. I laugh at her all day long!

Labor and delivery was pretty easy for me. I didn't feel anything thanks to the epidural. She was BIG...8 lb 9 oz! She was 20.5 inches long. This little hog can put away some food. At her Dr. appt. this week they mentioned she was weighing in at 95%. I said "what does that mean?" The answer: She is heavier than 95% of the other babies her same age. Oh well! :-)

We will be posting the rest of the photos from our photo shoot on dropshots, since the blog is not really the place to post 55 photos. View the other pics at www.dropshots.com/danicadear

Mommy is so in love!