Little Baby Becca

Do I really need a description? 😉

Just a cute little dress I got to wear Easter morning.
Such fun with a Minnie Mouse Pull-up Under my tights...
What do you think???

I thought for sure my playpen would be gone by now. Our youngins haven't been in it for over 20 years. Then when our niece had children we got to take it out and keep it in the spare room for when they visit. Of course that was our excuse to keep it around for me... By last Christmas children were just about done with playpens and it would be heading back to the attic. Then surprise! surprise! this last August our niece had another baby. The playpen should be around at least another 2 Christmas's... Now here we are, a favorite baby dress, pampers, a bottle of formula and a binky under the Christmas tree 

Got the chance to be Pampered for the first time in a while. (Sometimes the real word takes priority) But a sippy-cup of formula, a binky and a few hours hanging out on the couch makes everything better...

I got a nice surprise last week. It was super cold out and we weren't going anywhere. There were no youngins around so my wife put my playpen under the Christmas tree, filled it with my favorite Christmas Stuffies and a bottle. Then "forced" me into Pampers, tights and my favorite skirt-all. I got to spend the whole afternoon napping and playing in the playpen. Instead of my usual formula my bottle was filled with eggnog (non alcoholic). If you like eggnog I recommend trying it in a bottle.
After a few hours, 2 bottles and a nap I was rather wet and in need of a change but didn't want to get out. So she folded the side down and I scooted over with my legs out and she changed me in the playpen for the first time. It was too difficult to get my tights back on so she gave me a blanket and put the side back up. A little while later she brought me another bottle and some Cheerios. By the time I asked to get out to go potty I had been in the playpen for over 5 hours, the longest for me during the day. But all things must come to an end. She told me she let me stay so long because by next Christmas our nieces little ones will be to big for the playpen and we won't have a reason to keep it around. So this might be my last Christmas in the playpen... I sure hope not...

My first 5T-6T Pull-Ups

After talking about them for weeks, my wife brought home a large box of Pampers Swaddlers for me. She said she would put me in one, but only for a little while as the younings would be home soon. I didn't get a chance to even wet them, but she did put me in the new little dress she also bought...

I had to work a half day on Saturday, came in exhausted and cold. My wife ran a hot bath for me and said she had a surprise when I was done. She poured plenty of baby bath in the tub for me, left the Johnsons shampoo on the edge, and put the baby monitor on the vanity. She told me to relax, enjoy the bath and call her when I was finished. After my bath she took me into our room and as I expected she had the Huggies out on the bed ready for me. Once she snugly taped me in she slipped my favorite top on me along with cute little socks on my feet. Taking me by the hand she led me downstairs and to my surprise she managed to set the playpen up in front of the Christmas tree. She told me to climb in, it's nap time. I snuggled up with my stuffies and was rewarded with a warm bottle of formula.  I finished the bottle, curled up under my blankie and drifted off to sleep... I woke up a few hours later with my wife sitting on the couch just watching me. She smiled and asked if I would like another bottle as I didn't have any lunch. With my binkie still in my mouth I nodded yes and sat up. A few minutes later she returned with another warm bottle of formula, helped me out of the playpen and we curled up together on the couch enjoying the tree lights as I drank my bottle...

It has been quite a while since I have had any formula. Because of a shortage my wife cut back on bringing it home for me. She works for a logistics company that handles and ships baby formula among 1000's of other items that eventually land on pharmacy and supermarket shelves. However because of certain laws, if a unit of formula is damaged in any way the whole unit (pallet) can no longer be sold. The logistics company she works for allows the employees to take home any still good formula rather than throw it out. She brings home as much as she can and donates it to a local charity and usually keeps one can for me. (The company cannot donate it directly).
So I was very excited when I came home from work the other day and saw this large can of SMA Formula on the counter.  Short story long (LOL) I was taped into a Huggies Little Movers, and my favorite top. With a bottle of formula I was put in my playpen and told not to get out. About 2 hours later she came upstairs to check on me, I was dozing off with an empty bottle, binkie in my mouth and a very wet Huggies.