Poor Boom!

Well, Boom's Daddy has decided that she is going to be a Cleveland Browns fan. As such he has already taken to dressing her up for his team. Here is a picture of Boom in just one of her Browns outfits. Aunt B has decided she needs to be raised with dual loyalties since Mommy is a Falcon's fan. So we will have a Falcons bib on with her Browns outfits when we go watch the games. Unfortunately for Boom neither team can really be classified a winner (although the Falcons are much better!).

We will see whose able to gain her allegiance when she is older! :)

San Antonio here I come.

Well I going on my first business trip since Boom was born. I am not going to lie - I don't like it but at least I will only be gone a few days. In November I have to go to Dubai for a week and a half so I guess this is good practice.
Well I don't care what anyone says babies know when something is up. Yesterday I was a little sad about leaving Boom and I know she sensed something. She was very clinging yesterday evening - which I probably encouraged. Also fun was last night. She slept from eight until three - that is pretty good for her. We can finally see the light at the end of the sleeping through the night tunnel.
Anyways after she got up at three she thought it was play time. While this is cute at eight or even possibly six, it is not cute at three. She did not want to be in her crib, or her bouncer. I finally was able to rock her back to sleep at 4:30. My alarm goes off at 4:50 for work. I love being a mommy but today is a caffeine day!
She was nice and asleep when I left for work this morning so I thought I would stop by the daycare on my way to pickup my luggage and say bye. This was a huge mistake. She thought this was a normal day - as I am the one that picks her up, and got very excited. She then cried when I put her back down and told her bye (I shed a few tears too). Won't do that on the next trip. Ahh lessons learned.
So Boom's daddy is now a single daddy for the next few days and I know he will do great. Who wants to bet she picks this time to sleep through the night for the first time!!!

Why Boom?

Well if you are reading this blog, or found it through the wonder that is the internet you may be cringing thinking OMG this woman named her baby girl Boom! What kind of a parent does that. Please rest assured this is not the case. My daughter has a beautiful first name - Eve and her middle name is Olivia. Since our last name begins with a D, her initials spell EOD. Now at this point many out there are probably thinking- yeah so?

Well Boom's Aunt B is active duty Army and currently stationed in Iraq. Aunt B pointed out while Boom was still in the womb that EOD is explosive ordnance device in other words a bomb. As soon as Aunt B realized this she nicknamed Eve Boom. It appears that the nickname has stuck in my family so hopefully she will be an athlete where this will be useful. She is still mostly called by her first name but Aunt B only acknowledges her as Boom. Which is very cute. Seeing as how this blog is mostly for Aunt B I thought the title Boom's mommy was very appropriate.

Aunt B is going to get to meet Boom in person in October and trust me Boom could not be more pleased!!!

Why a Blog??

Why a blog???
Well, my little girl is two and half months old and will be three months old in a week - this does not seem possible. I have a friend from college, G, who lives far from several of those she loves and uses a blog to update us on her cute little boy Joe. I was born and raised in Texas and was transplanted to Ohio several years ago so several of my loved one are far away. This blog will help update without me constantly updating facebook - or God forbid calling family at 5 am because Boom laughed - yep did that! Boom's Papa was not overly amused.

Since technically this is the internet I am going to follow G's great example and post only first initials of adults. I hope you enjoy!!!