Shutterbug Mama

badass tatts

Published by Sarah-Ji on Friday, April 29, 2005 at 21:54.

so i come home from work, and what do i find my teddy has done with our baby? well, just look at that bad ass tatt on her little arm...next thing you know, she'll be cussing like a sailor!

...yeah, they really think they're bad ass...only one of these tattoos is real...can you guess which one?in addition to her new teeth and new tattoo, cadence has also expanded her menu...after 7 months of being exclusively breastfed, she at a whole bowl of rice cereal tonight! granted, there were only 4 tablespoons of cereal in that bowl, and 3 tablespoons of it was breastmilk, but hey, her tummy's only about the size of her itty bitty fist, you know...*sigh*...i'm definitely not ready to wean yet, and she still went at it pretty good on the boob after the cereal, but it is a big step for her...

speaking of growing...

Published by Sarah-Ji on Thursday, April 28, 2005 at 22:13.

it was bound to happen...after all, according to googlism, cadence IS growing...well, i came home today and guess what...she grew herself a couple of bottom front teeth! woohoo! now the nursing gets REALLY fun...i wish i had a photo to share, but she's shy about showing off the new additions to the inside of her mouth...they're still pretty tiny, but they must grow quick, cuz my mom just checked for toofuses yesterday and there weren't any there then...

wow...sniff, sniff...she really is growing up so fast...

...tonight, we went over to the bryn mawr historic district for dinner at francesca's...i grew up near there...i never knew that was a historic distrcit until today when i saw all the banners proclaiming it as so and the new fancy starbucks building on bryn mawr near kenmore...anywho, it was dining out for life in chicago, and francesca's was a participating restaurant...i have to say, the food was absolutely yummy...kinda pricy, but it was for a good cause, so i didn't mind...

...off to bed now...

googlism for cadence

Published by Sarah-Ji on at 15:37.

well, i don't know how googlism found out what i already have known for months now, but yes, the almighty google concurs that cadence is, in fact, GROWING, and cadence is, in fact, the BEST little girl i could have ever asked for...

happy bday/anniversary!

Published by Sarah-Ji on Monday, April 25, 2005 at 07:31.

happy 7 month bday to my cadence joy

and

happy anniversary to my sweet teddy!

xoxoxoxoxoxoxo

toothless grins

Published by Sarah-Ji on Monday, April 18, 2005 at 14:46.

look ma! no teeth (yet)!

...in a few short days, my little cadence will reach her 7 month birthday...i really can't believe how fast time is flying by us...and despite all the drooling and knawing, she's still got that charming toothless grin...but she's already looking more and more like a little girl and not so much the little baby whom i could cradle so easily in my arms...

...i used to know what it's like to be the apple of my daddy's eye, and now i know how it feels to be on the other side...now i know what it meant to my dad, those days that i spent by his side in the hospital as his life slipped away...now i understand a little bit the overwhelming power of emotion he must have felt in the last moments as i held him and he breathed his last...it is a potent force, this love for a tiny little someone who will always be a part of me...

...it's the latter half of april, and this is a time of the year when i tend to reflect on life and death all that's in between...in a couple weeks, it'll have been 3 years since my dad passed away, an event that has left indellible marks of sorrow and tenderness on my heart...so much has happened in those 3 years...i had no idea then that i would come to know a joy that is so powerfully beautiful as is my little cadence joy...oh, how i wish my dad could see us now...and whether you think me silly or not, i have to say that i think he does see us, and that even he is not immune to the joy that emmanates from this little being, my little cadence joy...

lost post

Published by Sarah-Ji on Friday, April 08, 2005 at 14:59.

...i wrote a really long post last night about the bob dylan show and some other stuff going on, and, well, blogger deleted it...then i wrote a really short post about how blogger deleted that post and how i'm too tired and busy to rewrite it, and, well, blogger deleted it again...you'd think i would've learned my lesson by now and copied anything i'd typed into Word before i tried to publish the post and relinquished it into the blackhole that is blogger...so the really short story is that i wish i'd gone to see bill mallonee instead of bob dylan and that next time i'll keep my money and listen to bob at home on my stereo instead of paying an arm and a leg to hear him barely carry a melody...those were nice seats though...box seats are nice...anyways, teddy and dave's friend harmesh is visiting from the UK and since i wasn't allowed to take a camera in the the bob dylan show, here's a picture of the boys...harmesh helped dave babysit cadence while we were at the show...i'd heard lots of great things about him so it was nice to meet him in person finally...

...tonight teddy is playing at depaul univ's talent show at the harold washington library w/ his coworker and his coworker's roommate who's a student there...they're playing uncle tupelo's 'new madrid' and wilco's 'theologians' and the allman bros' 'sweet melissa'...i love the first two songs, so it ought to be fun...plus i get to take cadence, so she'll get to see her daddy perform on stage for the first time...now let's see if this damn thing will post...

i've got some good news and i've got some bad news...

Published by Sarah-Ji on Tuesday, April 05, 2005 at 17:25.

...the good news is that i am fulfilling one of my dreams tonight to see bob dylan in concert @ the auditorium theater downtown…i got me and teddy the best seats in the house (i think we have our own private box according to the seating chart), and so i finally get to see the man up close and personal…sort of…auditorium theatre ain’t uncommon ground or even schubas for that matter intimacy-wise, but it sure beats the allstate arena…

the bad news is that i won’t be able to see bill mallonee in concert tonight at schubas…goodness gracious, i think it’s been almost an entire year since i’ve seen him live! and he probably won’t be coming back around thisaways until summertime…*sigh*…we won’t even get to swing by the venue to say hi like we did in november when we had dinner with him @ the abbey pub…i think i’m gonna have to go out to the cornfields this summer when he plays cornerstone so cadence can see him live too…if i’d known back in february that bill was playing tonight, i would’ve bought dylan tickets for one of the other 5 nights that he’s playing in chicago…oh well…

and then of course, there's REAL bad news like the pope dying and peter jennings having lung cancer plus all the other stuff out there in the world...

but then there's REAL good news too, like all my friends who are looking forward to becoming mommies in the coming year and...well...other stuff out there in the world...

finally...SPRING!!!

Published by Sarah-Ji on Sunday, April 03, 2005 at 18:10.

just chillin'

...well, it looks like spring has finally hit the windy city...teddy & his bro dave were cooped up in the apt for HOURS brewing their latest batch of beer, but it was absolutely gorgeous outside, so i took cadence for a nice long stroll...we broke in the lightweight stroller which she is finally old enough for...it is SO much easier to carry this thingamajig down the stairs than her heavy-duty all-wheel drive stroller...

...the birds were chirping, the sun was shining, the breeze was inviting…it was just one of those days when you feel absolutely grand and glad that you have a little one to share it with, to whom everything is new…i pointed out the crocuses and daffodils and scilla that were blooming in our neighborhood and the robin hopping across the lawn and the koi swimming in their urban pond…cadence didn’t seem all that interested, but she sure did look cute in her sunglasses and nifty littly cap...

…all our walks usually end up at laurie’s planet of sound, and today was no different…i have to say, this little stroller is SO much easier to maneuver around those cramped aisles than her SUV stroller…people were actually able to walk around us this time…

...i don’t actually buy as much music as i used to…back in the days of my weekly browses through reckless records in wicker park, i thought nothing of walking out of the store with half a dozen new albums…now, most of my music money is going into buying new baby clothes and paying the bills and rent so as to afford the luxury of a mostly stay-at-home dad (that would be teddy, of course)…oh well…there’s always emusic.com and the new legal napster…and wluw…today, i settled on 3 new cds--the decemberists' picaresque, which i had to have for their track called the mariner's revenge (i am a sucker for songs that include the accordian, mandolin AND tuba), an older album by the mountain goats (one of the bands i plan on completing my collection of during my lifetime), and a best of album by the blind boys of alabama (just because)...

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