bg paper: nick's world by ninascraps at oscraps.com
paper: one love by fei-fei's stuff at oscraps.com
foam stamp: alphabet soup foam stamp by emily powers at wearestorytellers.com
date tag: fortunate by fei-fei's stuff and creashens at oscraps.com
please excuse my typos - i'm too lazy to fix them at the moment
journaling: theres no doubt you had it rough as an infant. in fact, i dont have many memories of you not crying. it was beyond heartbreaking for me not being able to console you. after verbalizing my frustration with Aunt Eddy, she recommended turning on the vacuum. i thought it was silly at first but was desperate enough to try anything. it worked immediately! it was like a certain peace has washed upon you, it was amazing. after a while it started wearing out the motor on our vacuum cleaner. i took a long shot and searched vacuum" on itunes one day and was relieved to find Colic Sweep Vacuum Noise". I bought it for 99 cents, loaded it on my ipod to play in case of emergency and while out and burned a cd to play in your room, when needed. i was fortunate to find something that would soothe you so quickly. during your first trip to Milwaukee you were escpecially out of sorts. your schedule was off, there were so many new people around. we were desperate to help you so daddy brought out his headphones and I pushed play and you were at peace. We never really pinned down why you were so fussy as an infant...could've been colic or acid reflux but we were all happy once we found this cure.