The private thing

So I really hate to go private and am considering not doing so. I love looking through people's blogs who I don't know and have found a lot of inspiration in the blogosphere, especially while I was pregnant. I loved finding Sea Legs Girl, the awesome Danish runner who ran A LOT of miles through her pregnancy. I loved reading home birth stories on Kate's blog that gave me confidence to do a home birth myself. I loved writing Selah's birth story for the world of pregnant bloggers to read. After my last post, I received a flood of emails and comments and learned that many people are reading on a regular basis, and I would hate to shut anyone out. However, I decided to go private for a reason. A couple of weeks ago, some creep put an icky (and now deleted) comment on my blog about my baby. It scared me. I am now trying to weigh the risks of having a public blog that both nice people and creeps can read. I have still not decided 100% whether to privatize or not. Any insight from you, my dear readers, would be appreciated.




And on to the rest of what's going on...

M was able to spend about 2 1/2 weeks with his mom in Iowa and I had about 9 days. It was a special time with family and S provided much needed comfort for her grandma.

Grandma and S snuggling, the way the spent most of our time there.

So sweet. Daddy loves his little one.

M's mom and brothers and their women.

The boys played football.

S LOVES her uncle Brett and I think he likes her too.

S and I flew back into Denver from Iowa, met my mom at the airport, and visited with Hannah and Noah for breakfast and a trip to the farmer's market. My mom and I bought fresh golden beets for Hannah's delicious beet, green, and bean warm salad. If you ever need a way to use your beet greens, let me know, it is delicious.

S admiring herself in her crib mirror.

Mom and I goofing around. We spent one night figuring out the camera on my computer and took lots of hilarious pictures. Mom spent the entire week here to help me while M was with his mom. She is amazing. My child was happy and slept well and often. My house is spotless and all of the projects that I was putting off are done. We drank too much wine and ate amazing food together every night. She refused to let me do a single dish because I worked all day. I can only hope to be such a blessing to S some day!

She is trying REALLY HARD to crawl at just 5 months. She can't sit up yet and doesn't seem to want to, but she does want to move. I think we have a little independent thinker on our hands.