Introducing....

Charlotte Marie Cluff

born September 20, 2010 at 2:36 AM

8 pounds, 21 inches

and stinkin adorable!

Anytime your ready.... anytime....

So I kinda of think that the last couple of weeks of pregnancy are just a big fat joke! It's like the universe just want's to throw every known sickness your way and generally anything that makes you feel like crap. Carrying a full grown baby in your stomach? oh no, that's not enough to make you want to loose your mind, let's throw on headache's, 2-3 hours of sleep every night, crippling sciatica pain, heartburn, and MANY more painful and disgusting ailment's that I won't go in to (your welcome :)) . Then to top it off a few day's ago my feet suddenly swelled to about 5 times their normal size! I hadn't really swelled much at all this pregnancy and then bam! 2 weeks left, the universe decided it wasn't gonna let me get off this time around. The picture just doesn't even do my feet and leg's justice, it is almost comical how swollen my feet are! I can hardly even walk, because my toes can't bend! It's ridiculous! I had to run to Walmart yesterday and very proudly rode in the electric wheelchair, oh yes I did! No way was I gonna waddle around that entire store! But seriously this little girl can come out anytime she likes.... anytime at all....

Just Because He's Cute

Here are some pics I took right before church today, just because he's cute :)

Nesting

So I have been MAJORLY nesting lately! And not in the productive getting my house clean and organized way (much to Brian's disappointment ) but the crafty kind of nesting. I have alway's dreamed about all the cute crafty girly things I was gonna get to make if we were having a girl and now that we are actually having one I hadn't done a thing. Finally the other day I started making some things and I can't stop! I have to remind myself that I do have another child and that ignoring him to make crafts for the new baby isn't exactly winning me any awesome mommy point's. Now that I got most of the things made that I want I'm gonna limit my crafting time to just while Ayden's in preschool :) And I guess it wouldn't hurt to NOT ignore the piling dishes and laundry.

I'm getting SO excited for this baby! I can't believe how close it's getting and I finally feel a little more ready. Although I am totally ready for this little girl to come, I'm having so much fun with just Ayden. It makes me a little sad that these are the last few weeks of just "us". And I feel a little bit guilty that very soon his little world is gonna be totally changed and he has no idea that it's even coming. But we are so excited and very ready (at least I am) for baby girl Cluff to get her little bun's on out here :)

Here are some of the crafty things I have been working on

Trying to girlify Ayden's car seat. I made a removable pad because we washed Ayden's cover so much the stuffing was a little bit lumpy.

Made a ton of flower bow's, these all attach by velcro to the different bands.

I really wanna do some more off these, because I don't think there is anything cuter than a baby with ruffle's on their butt! :)

Some burp cloth's

Worst first day of school in the history of the world!!!

So I have alway's imagined what my child's first day of school would be like. You know, waving goodbye as the bus drives away holding back tears. Yeah, SO not what happened! Now I have been having a huge reservations about the bus. All the people who evaluated Ayden kinda of pushed the bus, especially with the baby coming. It is a special bus that has seat belts and is supposed to pick him up right outside our apartment (Brian and I had a little laugh last night realizing that our kid would be riding the short bus :) But hey, no shame in that!). I finally decided that it would be a good thing and that if I'm gonna have him ride it I should start the first day of school, so we aren't changing things on him. So I wake Ayden up this morning for his very first day of school, make him a big yummy breakfast and head outside to wait for the bus. We waited, and we waited, and then we waited some more! Finally I went back upstairs to call transportation and see what the heck was taking so long. I call and they call the bus driver who said he already stopped by at 7:50. He had just stopped by the front of the apartment complex instead of coming around to us like they told us he would! Now it's 8:20, school started at 8:00 and we had been waiting outside since 7:35! I asked the lady on the phone where I was supposed to pick him up and she said she didn't know and that I should just wait at the front of the apartment and then talk to the bus driver about where the official pick-up would be. So, I run Ayden over to school (without a shower, or makeup, and extremely sweaty from waiting outside for an hour) and drop him off late, ON HIS FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL! I felt terrible having things start off so badly.

After about an hour and a half at home I get in the car and drive to the front of the apartment building. I wait out front for what seem's like forever (it kind of was, 25 minutes) and decide to go back to the car and get my phone to call the transportation people once again. As I'm about to call them I get an incoming call, it's from the school! The teacher saw me drop Ayden off and I guess thought that I was gonna pick him up so they didn't put him on the bus! Holy freakin cow! So now it's 25 minutes after school has ended and I rush to pick him up. Okay, so now I'm feeling like an AWFUL mom thinking of him sitting alone in the office waiting for me on his first day of school. I go in and Ayden is super excited to see me and the office lady couldn't have been nicer. She said things like this happen on the first few day's of school before things get straightened out (which I'm not really sure I believe).

What a CRAZY first day we had, definitely NOT what I imagined it would be like! But Ayden seemed to have had fun and I'm excited for him to continue going (hopefully without so many problems)! He was SO tired on the way home and passed out, SO cute! :)

This is how we roll

Some parent's like to take their kids to the park, watch them play, find things that make them happy. That's not how we roll. We like to take our kid to Target and make him play with toy's that scare the crap out of him. Granted, most toy's scare the crap out of him these day's so it's not as hard as you'd think to do this. He's pretty scared of puppet's, animatronic type toy's, or anything with loud noise. So we're strolling through the Target toy section when we came across a Jack-in-the-box. Pretty much all of Ayden's worst fear's combined. So being the kind of parent's that we are we wound it up, video taped his reaction, and maybe did it once or twice more for good measure. He screamed like a little girl! People came by our isle just to make sure we weren't torturing or beating our child. It is SO funny to us that Ayden is scared of anything, considering how unafraid he is of anything physically. Throw him across the room onto the couch, hilarious! Dangle him upside down and tickle his armpits, hilarious! Have him jump a few feet off the counter to you, NO FEAR! But for heaven sakes if you wind up a jack-in-the-box or put a puppet on your hand, TERROR!

So anyway's, this is the second take of the jack-in-the-box experiment and not quite as dramatic as the first. The quality is also pretty bad since we took it with Brian's phone, but the girly scream is very audible! :)

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My little 3 Year Old!!!

My precious little baby turned 3 years old today! Where in the world did the time go!? It's so hard to believe that 3 year's ago today I was holding a newborn Ayden in my arm's. It's even harder to believe that in about 3 1/2 months time I'll be holding another newborn in my arms.

For his birthday we took Ayden to the Phoenix Zoo. We were able to get free passes, which made the trip a lot funner and more easy going. We didn't feel like we had to hang around all day to get our money's worth and we even sprung for train tickets. They have a train that goes around most of the zoo and I HIGHLY recommend doing that! It was super hot outside and it was nice not to have to walk around the whole place, plus the driver was really fun and sang songs as we were going around. We even found a petting zoo! They had a train stop by this part of the zoo that we'd never been to that had a petting zoo. Ayden had fun poking and touching the goat's and even got kicked over by one for touching his tail :) hehe, has was a little suprised that they fight back! We then took him to Toy's R Us to pick out one of his birthday presents. Although he would have gladly taken the about $200 worth toy's he picked out, he settled for a water toy for the pool, a monster truck and a Disney Car's pez dispenser. He's got quite few more toy's that he will get tomorrow in a scavenger hunt, because isn't it more fun to spread the birthday presents out over a few day's!?