Video: Bee Learns to Crawl

I had such high hopes to post about Christmas and finish all of my 2012 blog drafts by the New Year. Ha. But today, TODAY! I'm going to chip away at it. It's priority #1 if I want to have my blog book printed in time for my Birthday.
However, here's something exiting that's happening at our house lately. Little Bee has learned to crawl. This opens up a whole new world for her. And us! Doesn't it just melt your heart when a baby crawls to your feet and wants to be held? It becomes less heart-melty when you are trying to clean the bathroom and she crawls across the soapy floor to pull up on the un-scrubbed toilet and whines until you put down toilet brush and finally pick her up and she looks at you like, why did you stop scrubbing? Love her.

Phoebe Learns to Crawl from B&G Duncan on Vimeo.

Video: Talking Phoebes

Talking Phoebes from B&G Duncan on Vimeo.

Video: Burrowing Baby

I have about a thousand blog drafts about the birth story, the 4th of July, and mommyhood that are very nearly halfway done and waiting for me to give them 5 minutes of editing and a few pictures for good measure. But every time I attempt to sit at the computer my attention is directed elsewhere. I could/should be sleeping or at the very least hunting chocolate. Whoever said that new mommies shouldn't eat chocolate was dead wrong. New mommies require chocolate to survive.
Phoebe is 6 weeks old this very day and steals my heart about 100 times a minute. To celebrate, here is a little video of my burrowing baby that brings me joy. Very little of our lives could be considered "scheduled" these days, but our regular mornings consist of a stroller walk to the H-Rock with our neighborhood besties (so momma can get her talk on). Back at home we snuggle, nurse, and sing songs in the rocking chair until she's ready for a nap. When she's tired she burrows her head into my shoulder until she finds juuuuuuust the right place to fall asleep...like I said, 100 times a minute.

Burrowing Baby from B&G Duncan on Vimeo.


And because I'm so obviously on a roll here today, one more of Phoebes smiling and cooing for her daddy. This girl and her daddy. More on that later!

Smiling for Daddy from B&G Duncan on Vimeo.

P.S. When BD watched this video he said, "Haha, I'm a dork." I said, "No, you're a dad!"

Killin' time

BD here. 'Round here there's been lots of time killin' going on while we're waiting for this thing called a baby. I've been instructed that it is actually *not* helpful to remind Gina every few minutes that the baby is not here yet. So...I've taken advantage of the down time over the long weekend and finished a video of our adventures in Australia. I tell you what, that little Hero2 that I splurged on just minutes before the trip is quite the amazing camera and worth every penny. Sometimes when I watch this video I wonder how we got so lucky. Sit back, make sure it's in HD, click on full screen mode, and enjoy.