Teamwork

Hey there!

Happy Hump Day, everyone! I hope your day has been as great as mine has been. I got some new cloth diapers and wet bags from Grassroots Baby Store, http://bestbottomdiapers.com, and http://www.diaperjunction.com/, drank delicious coffee from Old Crown, then took babe on a walk around the neighborhood. I love supporting local businesses!

In addition to having fun with my babe, I've learned about wool cloth diapering from this blog: http://themindfulhome.blogspot.com/2013/08/cloth-diapering-with-wool-everything.html. I would go into detail, but honestly this blogger does such a great job going into it! Check it out if you want to learn more. I think that this weekend a friend and I are going to go on the hunt for wool items at thrift stores to make our own woolen cloth diapers if possible.

Today I'm also thinking about how Dave and I will be married for two years this upcoming Tuesday. How is this real life?! I feel like we just got married yesterday!

So far for our anniversary we are thinking about going to Brava's for dinner since Bo catered our wedding  and people like to say that was their favorite part of our wedding...thanks, ya'll haha.

For Dave's gift, I purchased a backpack-style Eddie Bauer diaper bag from Target and it honestly feels like I gifted myself as well because it is amazing having my hands free of diaper bag when I'm lugging around a car seat. It also has stroller straps, which now lets us have all of the basket space under the stroller free from diaper bag items.

I'm unsure if Dave has gotten me a material gift yet and I don't expect one, but he has already given me the best gift I've ever been given - my baby Dill.

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Dave has seriously been my rock through pregnancy and parenthood thus far. Before Dillinger was born, he probably could have shaken me to death multiple times between me not wanting to eat Mexican food EVER, my emotional breakdowns that led to me crying on the floor, and ordering food then not wanting it the second it came to the table because it didn't sound edible any more.

He probably wants to shush me every time the hormones take over and I bawl like a baby because sometimes I'm just so exhausted, overwhelmed, and hormonal and every single milestone and difficulty feels so BIG. But he just reassures me and helps me every step of the way. He walked parks, our neighborhood, a nature preserve, the mall, and the hospital halls with me to get this baby out. He was there for every contraction and reminded me to stay calm when I was in the worst pain of my life (pushing all-natural was terrifying as hell.) He cut the cord and swaddled our babe while I was being taken care of after birth. He drove home twice a day while I was in the hospital to take care of the pets and bring me extra clothes.

Since the birth he has brought home dinner more times than I can count, handed me everything I need when I'm glued to the couch or bed breastfeeding, has ordered me breast shells and batteries for the baby's white noise machine without asking, has taken turns with me rocking our screaming baby to sleep, and he has been so amazingly fun to tag team parenting with wherever we go.

Teamwork is the most important part of rearing a child. It's not always easy or pretty, especially when you aren't sure what your baby needs in the beginning. It's sometimes scary and messy (milk, pee, poop, spit up everywhere). But every day you get through it and by the next morning you are so excited to do it all over again.

Teamwork is what has gotten us through the last four years and 1 month of being together.

Teamwork has gotten us through nearly 2 years of marriage.

Teamwork is what will get us through all of the hard and/or beautiful times to come.

Love you, Dave

XOXO,

Lauren