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Happy Wednesday!  It's the halfway point to the weekend :)

I want to just start this post with a little note to all that our Subaru was recovered on Sunday evening.  Untouched, unharmed, and all that was missing was an empty purse, my sunglasses, and some Purell hand sanitizer.  At least the thieves were sanitary :)  They must know me better than I thought!  Anyway, we can joke about it now, but it was a good end to a not so great start to the weekend.  Now you can all rest easy!

Sunday night started a trail of rough nights for us around the Natale house.  Poor little Sofia has been cutting her molars for about 9-10 weeks now...no joke!  Those things just stay under the skin and won't move!  Finally, three of them are through the skin, and one still lingers, but it looks like brighter days are ahead of us!  Along with it (or on the side, whatever) she began to have really bad congestion and fever.  Poor baby had the shaking chills on Monday night and I felt so bad for her.  My only about 3 hours of sleep paled in comparison to what she was going through and the Mommy in me kicked in.  All you want to do when your baby is sick and rock and hold them and that's just what we did.  Unfortunately, when she is in MY arms, she only wants to nurse and be with me.  So in order to actually get her to lie down in her bed, J.R. has to be woken up to do that.  Makes me really dread the day I decide to wean her from breastfeeding, but we won't talk about that right now :)

Anywho...she and I have been quarantined to the homestead as to not spread our funk to other littles.  We have been making the best of it though!  Swimming in the little pool (which actually is not swimming at all!  More like sitting!), dancing in the living room, practicing walking in circles around the house, wagon rides, visits with Poppi, annnnnnnnd...

you've got it!  Photo booth on the iMac!  This feature just CRACKS us both up!  And Poppi was around to get a laugh with us as well.  You gotta make the best of the rough times and that's just what we are doing.

Hope you all enjoyed our silly photos and that you got a few laughs too!

And thanks to those of you who sent emails, etc. voicing your concern about our car situation.  Thank the good Lord we made it out on the positive side!

Happy Hump Day!!!!!!

xoxo

Still In Shock

Saturday morning our family had a rude awakening.  J.R. woke up early, around 5:45 a.m., to go on his morning road bike ride before it gets too hot.  I hear him come back into the house and he is standing at the foot of our bed saying, "Susie, I think someone stole our car."  What?!  Did I hear him clearly???  Is this a really cruel joke???  Well, unfortunately, he was not joking at all.  My car that was parked right in our driveway, in our front yard, was totally gone.  

Shocker!!!

Now I know things could be worse.  It could have been the house.  Thank God none of us were harmed.  But in all, it still makes me feel very vulnerable.  I have always felt so safe on our little street.  We live right by MTSU and St. Rose church.  Our street is made up of older ranch style homes that are either owned by little old people who have lived here forever or new couples/families like ourselves.  We all look out for each other, know our routines and schedules, etc.  But who is going to be up in the middle of the night watching out for each other?  

Yes, the car was unlocked and we usually pull into the back yard behind the gate, but on this night (like many before) we just left it out front thinking nothing of it. 

So now I don't have a car, Sofia doesn't have a carseat (which isn't cheap folks!), no stroller, one of my purses, my sunglasses, and a few other things.  But we are safe and unharmed.  Gotta look on the bright side!

Sofia has returned to her infant carrier seat that is still within weight limits to be safe, but not as safe as her big car seat was.  And it was pretty interesting getting her in and out of the back of my old faithful 1997 two door Honda Civic!

She looks pretty happy though!

That's a look at our weekend.  Like I said, I still can't believe it!  We will have to see what happens with insurance and such from here.  With only one of us working this changes so much.  Things just aren't as easy as they are with two incomes but we will make it work.  I just feel so uneasy in my own home now and that is what makes me sad.  We sacrifice so much to make everything better for Sofia and give her the best and safest place to grow up.  I guess we can't protect our little babes from everything though.  This is a reminder of that.

I hope you all have had a much better weekend!!!!  

Enjoy the ride ;)

Man...It's HOT outside!!!!!

 It's hot here in Tennessee in case you haven't noticed.  Or I guess if you don't live here, but either way, let me say it's HOT!  The bummer about hot days is that babies and hot don't mix well.  Shoot, for that matter, Mama's and hot don't mix well!  This means that baby is trapped inside a house ALL day.  And Mama is too.  We have to get pretty creative these days.  We pretty much do the same thing every day.  

We get up in the morning and I drink coffee and Sofia plays or pulls on me and keeps me from drinking coffee.  The latter is the usual.  She is my little Rooster head :)

I bought a larger inflatable pool earlier this summer but it's more trouble than it's worth most of the time, so instead I break out the $7 baby pool.  She seems to enjoy it more anyway.

The crazy thing about the heat is that it's so hot that even the hose water is really, really warm and the tiny little pool is not relief for too long.  About 45 min and she's done.  But look at how much fun she has in the first 5 minutes!!!  Woohoo!

Lounging in a chair in a diaper and tank top indoors is also pretty good to do on a hot day!  She looks like such a big girl here.  sigh... 

And what better to do on a hot day than play around on Pinterest or catch up on emails???  Or go to iTunes and order the Katy Perry CD and have a dance party???  It was all Sofia's idea.  I promise!!!!  And don't worry Daddy.  There wasn't any internet shopping going on.  ;)

So, that's about it.  We pretty much are just trying to stay cool.  We actually are really busy this summer meeting up with my sisters and their kids, going to the pool, hanging with friends and family.  It's going by so fast but it is wonderful and I thank God every single day for the opportunity to get to see my baby girl grow and enjoy life!  Stay cool everyone!!!!!  And go dance to Katy Perry.  It will make you smile :)