A late Happy Fathers Day!

early mornin' wake up

We celebrated Fathers Day today since Brian was still on the boat last weekend. It has been a wonderful day. We headed out to Java Flats for a wonderful breakfast and the best latte in town. Fiona chewed on Papa's finger while we ate our breakfast burritos. Then we walked down to one of our favorite beaches, beach glass beach. This is the same beach where we collected all of the beach glass to decorate the tables for our wedding 4  years ago.  Brian threw sticks for the dogs while I nursed Fiona on the beach. It is one of those beautiful Alaska days. Blue sky, sparkly water, sun shining. Sitting on the beach I kept thinking how lucky I am to have this incredible family and to live in this incredible place. We are truly blessed.

Happy Solstice!

A tired girl

New Jammies

Are these really for me?!

lovin' the stripes

Happy Solstice!  Today is the longest day of the year. From sunup to sunset Kodiak will get 18 hours and 7 minutes of daylight today. With dawn and dusk we're looking at more like 20 hours of daylight! I've always loved that about Alaska.  We've often celebrated with all night bon fires and parties which isn't in the cards this year for obvious reasons (see pictures of little person above!).  She and I have had our own celebration today though.

We started our day by discovering the Solstice Fairy had been here! I read an article a while back about a little girl that loved fairies. The Solstice Fairy brought her new pj's at each solstice! (summer and winter) I thought, wow, I hope she comes to our house. We are all familiar with the usual fairies. The tooth fairy leaves us money under our pillow, the sleep fairy leaves us treats in our shoes when we take naps, but the solstice fairy brings us pj's! I'm so glad she found us! Fiona is modeling her new jammies in the pictures above and they look pretty darn cute.

This baby has decided that she had a nice nap from 8-9:30 instead of the bed time Mama thought she was getting. We may hit those bon fires after all.  We'll be wearing new pj's of course.

Rolling

Babies Don't Keep

Mother, O Mother, come shake out your cloth,
Empty the dustpan, poison the moth,
Hang out the washing, make up the bed,
Sew on a button and butter the bread.

Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?
She's up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.

Oh, I've grown as shiftless as Little Boy Blue,
Lullabye, rockabye, lullabye loo.
Dishes are waiting and bills are past due
Pat-a-cake, darling, and peek, peekaboo

The shopping's not done and there's nothing for stew
And out in the yard there's a hullabaloo
But I'm playing Kanga and this is my Roo
Look! Aren't his eyes the most wonderful hue?
Lullabye, rockaby lullabye loo.

The cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow
But children grow up as I've learned to my sorrow.
So quiet down cobwebs; Dust go to sleep!
I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep.

- Ruth Hulbert Hamilton

Who's Counting?

10 days to go until Brian gets home!  Some parts of this solo gig are harder then I thought and other parts are easier.  Fiona has been wonderful!  I thought I might be really in for it with the teeth coming in but she's really handled it well. She's been known to fight bedtime but has been really going down easily.  The harder parts are things like getting to the dishes and folding the laundry that has been piling up since Brian left last week.  I'm tired at the end of the day and I'd rather be playing with Fiona then folding laundry.  It'll get done before Papa gets home, remember I have 10 more days!  What I really miss is Brian's cooking! He makes such tasty things.  I go for quick and easy... black bean quesadilla anyone?!  I swear I've been living on those things since my college days! :)

The girl has been so much fun lately.  She's really perfected the roll from back to belly.  Once there she is stuck though.  I keep telling her not to worry, she'll get it one of these days!  She's happy and smily all the time.  She loves to "talk" too and tells me all about her day!  Oh, I can't wait to get down south and show her off to everyone.  She gets to meet the whole Jacobson gang in less then a month! 

Made in Kodiak

Alaska Grown!

teething necklace

check out my teeth!

We have a model in our midst...

I really love cloth diapering Fiona.  The diapers are so cute and I don't need to worry about any chemicals against her skin.  Living on an island with a land fill that is close to capacity makes us feel like we need to do our part for the environment too.  One of my favorite cloth diapering sites in Green Mountain Diapers. Great selections, great prices, great quality! I noticed that she needed some pictures of babes in her diapers.  Check out our diaper model about half way down the page!  She is officially famous now! (at least in the cloth diapering world!) Love it!

Teeth!

Just a quick note for today.  I began my adventure in solo parenting yesterday.  Good news is she went to bed peacefully.  She sometimes fights bed time and I rely on Brian a lot when she does so I was happy it went well.  Brian flew to Sand Point and will be doing his survey cruise until the 24th.  He brought the video camera so I hope he brings back some good footage of life on the boat to share.  They will be doing bottom trawl surveys from Sand Point to Kodiak.

And big news on the Fiona front... She has teeth coming in!  I saw one peeking out through her bottom gum last night!  So exciting.  I'm sorry Brian is missing it.  Fiona is handling it really well.  We've used the homeopathic teething tablets a bit and she's wearing her amber teething necklace which is helping a lot.  Brian was very skeptical about the amber necklace, claiming it was more of my "hippie stuff."  He did admit that in the past week she's been much less cranky about her teeth.  He said if the teeth came in with out much fuss he'd be a believer.  HA! I love it when I'm right!  Hippie stuff aint all bad!

4 Months Old!

Fiona in her "Mama Made" pants

Mama Made Pants

Munchin' on a string bean (it's organic!)

Hanging out in bed

It is amazing how fast these 4 months have flown by!  Our girl is 4 months old today.  She visited Dr. Laura today who said she's "Perfect!"  We knew that.  Fiona's still a teeny little thing but growing taller.  She weighs 11 pounds 13 ounces now and is 25 inches in length.  My dad would say she's the size of a nice silver!  We think she's a keeper!

She has decided to celebrate turning 4 months by learning to roll over!  She has done it more then once so we know its not a fluke!  Back to belly.  It's fun to watch her work at it and figure out what to do with her arms.  She's also working on some teeth.  We may not see them for some time but she's feeling them thats for sure.  She's a drool machine and has been munching on anything she can get into her mouth.

I've been teaching myself to sew.  I'm so excited about the pants that I made for Fiona.  They used to be t-shirts!  Somehow while hanging out in my closet they shrunk so I made them into pants for the babe instead!  The ultimate in recycling.  They turned out pretty darn cute if I do say so myself!  No t-shirt is safe now.