Dallas + february

around january/february prim started to get fussy around 6pm until she went to bed. she would cry if anyone but me would hold her. my theory is that from birth until then so many people had held her for me that she just wanted to be with her mommy. at either her 2 or 4 month appointment we talked to her doctor about it and she recommended we start putting her to bed earlier because maybe that's all she wanted. we started putting her down at 8 instead of 9 and it really did help!

we went to dallas the first week of february to visit john and kat before they moved to arizona for the summer.

 this is a no judgement zone everybody. prim loves to fall asleep like this. she will fuss and fuss until we put a blanket over her face and she'll go right to sleep.

aw two bald babies. while kat stayed home and watched the babe, the three of us went to hot yoga. it was so hard....and hot :)

 stephanie and thad had a ball to attend so they stayed in a hotel and we (kat mostly) watched their kids. steph kept her eyes peeled for a bloom highchair for sale and found us one! much to our delight, she gifted it to us!!!!!! she is so sweet.

 i can't remember why i took this photo, i think it was chuy's? whatever it was, it was yummy. steph and thad live in downtown dallas so they're in walking distance to everything.

 we were up there over Super Bowl weekend. we had been inside all day and i finally talked them into going geocaching for fresh air! jon, thad and i with primmy went along this little walkway to find some caches which we actually never found. it was lined with bamboo! it was so cool, we could hear it growing.......

 i rarely ever offer to people "do you want to hold the baby", usually because i don't think about it and i guess i figure they'll ask if they want to. thad asked to hold her so many times on sunday and was sooo cute with her. she was still in her fussy state but she was really happy with him. i love when men love babies.
the weekend as a whole was tons of fun! we love spending time with john and kat and our recent reuniting with stephanie+thad+babies has been awesome.

 

 this is prim's new thing. yowtch!!!

 doesn't this look like a professional photo? i worked with cassidy at pure posh and she was actually the first friend i told that we were expecting. she totally guessed it "you're eating AGAIN?? why are you so hungry..???" prim loves miss keke!

 life on the farm. john and kathy killing our roosters for sunday lunch.

 prim and i went to a baby shower for THREE pure posh ladies. she was so fussy most of the night but loved miss andrea so much (can't you tell? haha)

 such a cuddly little baby. she would fall asleep on me like this almost every night.

 little neck!!!!!!!

i took this photo for my sisters and when i looked at it, it was clear she had a receding hairline and a bob.

 we walked along the river walk and found these beautiful art pieces! who knew!

 our neighbors cowwies had three babies!!!!! she invited me over the night one was born so i could just take it in, and i did. i really did.

 

 we promote independence and fresh air. ;)

 our valentines day baby in the shirt from papa! we went out to dinner and took the babe and each took turns standing and holding her while the other ate. true romance.

so much mail!!!!

 this sick thing always finds the worst places to lay, poor neglected kitty.

 this is the first time i wore her facing out and i think she dug it. look at her little ears. the weather was starting to get nice, so we were spending more and more time outside.

 my favorite jammies.

 we took primrose to the san antonio rodeo in her little cowgirl outfit from mike and kim! people couldn't help but stare at her with those headphones on, haha. the vibrating of the speakers put her right to sleep and she slept through most of it.

 this is the only time she liked this swing. waste of money.

 our pretty water baby.

and the piece de resistance of the month, her passport came in the mail! i can't!! she is such a doll.
we have no international travel plans yet, but my passport was expiring so jon and i both got new ones and we got the baby one just. in. case.

last day of our road trip! 4of4

the last day of our trip was spent driving through texas, as per usual if you live in the center of this enormous state. 

this is about how things went during the road trip.

first things first. dallas. and ikea. remember how people love to say 'everything is bigger in texas'? well yeah, everything really is. LOOK at how spacious this ikea is. jon and i laughed at the very few tiny fake apartments that were set up in this particular ikea. living in small quarters is just not the way of life here.

the main reason we stopped in Dallas was to take the JFK assassination tour. we were a bit short on time and change (…), so we opted out of the JFK museum and in to the telephone walking tour. for $2.50 we put my phone on speaker and learned about the sites all over Dealey Plaza. This Dallas County Administration Building is where the JFK museum is and is the former Texas School Book Depository where they believe Lee Harvey Oswald did the deed from the 6th floor.

here is the view of the same building. the window is on the sixth floor on the very end. it looks different from all the rest, like it is permanently open. the tour didn't give us a reason for this, so one can only speculate...

a couple blocks from where JFK was assassinated sits a nice memorial for him. it was placed there in 1970 and was designed by Philip Johnson. Jackie Kennedy approved the site herself and johnson described his memorial as "a place of quiet refuge, an enclosed place of thought and contemplation separated from the city around, but near the sky and earth." we were there on a calm day, but walking into that room quieted the cars driving by and was exactly how he described it.

view of the triple underpass jfk's limo sped under on the way to the hospital after he'd been shot.

the infamous grassy knoll.

the x's are not official markers, and no one knows who originally painted them. they were there for over 30 years before the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination when the city of Dallas removed them for an unknown reason. (they were obviously repainted, as they were there 1.5 months later when we visited). the two x's supposedly mark where jfk's limousine was when the two shots were fired. we were excited to come to this location because my dad told us that conspiracy theorists were in abundance here, ready to tell you about their view of the events on november 22, 1963. as previously mentioned in my posts about this trip, this weekend was unusually cold. hardly anyone was out and about in dallas so unfortunately, we did not speak to any conspiracy theorists. jon got this good picture of both x's and a view of the window on the 6th floor.

it was a very interesting tour. i really want to go back and go through the museum to learn more about the investigations of that day as well as jfk's life.

on our way home, we stopped at in-n-out burger in austin. i've never been obsessed with in-n-out, but it was nice to have a taste of home that we've been missing so terribly.
our vacation was a blast, jon and i had so much fun on our road trip-seeing old friends and new places. and not to mention the car! every time i get in my car, i feel like i'm borrowing an old persons vehicle, it's awesome and much nicer than i am used to. with our plane tickets, gas, hotel and food plus the sales tax that was much higher than we were expecting, the car was still a better deal than we could have found locally. so not only did we get an awesome deal on the car (jon is so good at that stuff), but we got a vacation out of it and got to break our new car in. it was excellent!