Week 15: Do we need to find Scarlett an agent?

This week we finally had a full week without a snow storm! That meant that it was back to business as usual... Monday was a holiday, but otherwise Scarlett had a full week of daycare and I had a full week of work. On Friday, Scarlett was home with her daddy, so they decided to come visit at the end of the day so she could meet some ( her HumRRO family. We made sure to get a picture by the sign on the 7th floor in case she ever ends up working there! :) Despite being VERY tired, she did very well. She wasn't her normal talkative and smiley self but she barely fussed at all as we took her on a tour of the office. Since it was the very end of the day on a Friday, a lot of people were gone already but she probably met about 20 of my coworkers. Not bad for a first trip! Once we got home, she was exhausted (she missed her nap by about 2 hours) so we started her night time routine and it was off to bed. While she slept, Dave came by and we watched some Olympics.

On Saturday, we went to my coworker's house, Jessica, for brunch. This began another day of terrorizing Scarlett's schedule. Right about the time she should have been napping, we headed over there. Jessica introduced us to her brother and sister-in-law who live in our neighborhood and have a 2-year old son. We may look into using their daycare provider because she is available on Fridays and quite a bit less expensive than Betsie. This was set up as a meet and greet just in case. Scarlett started getting a little cranky at the tail end (around 12:45 pm) so we headed out to give her a quick nap before her 3 month photo shoot at the Picture People.

By the time we got to the photo studio, Scarlett had a total of about 1 hour of naps the whole day when she should have had about 4 hours. We really weren't sure what to expect. We figured there was a very good chance that smiling pictures were out and we would be lucky if we got any where she wasn't crying. Our photographer, Ariel, checked us in and we discovered that his sister is named Scarlett and she was having a baby that day! Ariel immediately hit it off with our Scarlett. As soon as we put her down on the blanket, she started smiling. Next, he had us put her on a boppy on her stomach. Then the real fun began! A lot of babies hate tummy time. Scarlett never seems to mind it, but this time, she started cracking up! She was laughing more than we'd ever heard her laugh before! It seemed like anything Ariel did was the funniest thing she had ever seen. Paul and I just kept looking at each other in amazement. After a few more shots, Paul and I realized that her shirt was on backwards. We had just had a bunch of pictures taken of her with her shirt on backwards and unbuttoned. Well, it is hard to button a mock turtle neck when it is on the wrong side of her body. We had to stop the shoot and put her clothes on correctly. Scarlett wasn't crazy about that idea but quickly started smiling again once she saw the camera. The whole thing was hilarious. It was like she was really hamming it up for the camera.

Three outfit changes later, the shoot was over and Scarlett was again tired. She was now in the process of missing yet another nap. We had to wait about 20 minutes for the pictures to be ready to view and we already felt like we were torturing her by keeping her awake, but we had to feed her anyway. Once we saw the pictures, the real torture began! There were so many cute pictures that it took us another hour to choose some and decide on a package. During that time, Scarlett gave up on us and fell asleep on her daddy's chest for a quick nap. Paul and I kept remarking how good she was being -- she really didn't cry at all the whole time we were there unless we were changing her clothes. Our appointment was at 2:30 PM and we didn't leave until close to 6! We figured she would make us suffer for it later. In fact, when we finally got home close to 7 PM, we fed her and she went right to sleep. We kept expecting her to wake up and refuse to go back to sleep but she slept through the whole night! She even slept in a little bit -- 7:45 am. We've really pressed our luck over the last few days by messing up her schedule. Unfortunately (and fortunately), she is so adaptable that she almost encourages us to just do what we want! We're cutting her a break today and staying home and keeping her on schedule. Besides, we have some fabulous new pictures to hang!