Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Baby smiles make my day

This morning I woke up feeling a little down. Questioning how I do everything with my baby boy. It was a "oh no! Am I doing things right!?" I started wondering if I'm under feeding or over feeding Baby K, should I be on more of schedule, should I play with him more or have more toys. When should I wean him from breast feeding, how long will it take me, when I give him milk should it be in a bottle or a sippy cup, should I offer him the pacifier only at night and not at all during the day. Do I hold him enough or maybe no enough... A million things in my head doubting myself, doubting everything I'm doing or want to do. What's right? what's wrong?

Then I look at my boy and he is smiling and happy and healthy and I know I'm doing something right. I'm doing what works for our family and that is right for us . I know some might find it weird that these things may stress a mom out, but they do. I want to make the best decisions for my baby boy, and I know I will make a lot of mistakes as a mom. But it's our job to think of what's best for our little ones and at times it can freak us out.

But a smiling baby is definitely reassurance that I'm on the right track.

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Happy 7 months baby K!






You are 7 months old!
 
You are wearing 6-9 months clothes more so 9 months and size 3 diapers
 
You love to play in your exersaucer and love your sophie teething toys.
 
You love to hold and touch the tags of your toys too haha
 
You are eating solids 3x a day trying new things every week! 
 
You are still a breast fed baby. Every 3 hours.  I have noooo idea how to even
wean you haha. We have a good thing going on so I'm not rushing to stop just yet ;)
 
You usually take 3 naps a day  morning, afternoon and early evening but like
your nights you are not consistent. Some days you need a nap after 2-3 hours 
of being awake other days you are awake for longer. You have Some good nights of
sleep waking once for a snack and some not so good nights waking a couple times. 
 
Your dad always wakes you up at night too because he can't help but kiss you 
good night or make soo much noise ha! You always wake up then smile at him.  
 
You do not just fall asleep when tired. If there is a lot going on you want to 
see it! When guests are over you are bright eyed and awake. Even if I go to your 
room and try to put you to sleep you know people are over and want to stay awake! 
 
You are such a sweet boy and you love to play with my hair and your own while 
nursing. 
 
You love Zoe, and laugh and babble at her all the time. In time you both will
be best friends
 
You love being outside, especially when held. It's sooo exciting to you. 
 
You are smiling and giggling all the time! You pretty much only cry when tired 
or hungry. OR when we take a toy away or come out of the bath 

 
I'm trying to teach you to wave bye bye with your hand, I can see you trying to 
copy me! 
 
You pay close attention when we talk to you, I love that about you. 
 
You are getting to heavy for the infant car seat and hope to have your dad 
install the bigger car seat soon! 

 
This month we registered you for daycare in the fall.  I went to see many 
places and decided on one I think you would like best. 
 
I can't believe you are 7 months!!!!! 

Monday, May 28, 2012

Baby food, zucchini purée

Today I made zucchini purée for the next new veggie for baby to try.

I washed 2 zucchinis and chopped the ends off and sliced it.

Then steamed it for about 10 minutes. Let it cool. And blended it all up. 2 small zucchinis made 6 40ml cubes.

I then placed them in the freezer.

Today I also made more pear purée to freeze.

Baby has been loving his Oat cereal more than the rice cereal. So we have Oat cereal now 3x a day with 2 40ml cubes of fruits/veggies.

Baby K is 7 months!! Tomorrow I'll write a post about that!

New dresses and fun weekend

We had amazing weather all weekend. We found a new park in our area we checked out this weekend too. It's perfect for long walks!

Saturday we spend the whole day out. Eating at our favorite restaurants. Talking, walking by the lake.

We totally messed up Kristian's sleep schedule with sleeping in and getting to bed late haha! I'll need to fix that this week. Although I don't mind at all staying in bed all morning.

I wore 2 new dresses I recently bought. The floral maxi dress from old navy and the white and beige one from Tommy Hilfiger love them.

What I don't love his my hair haha! Mama needs a haircut/style ASAP!

Hope you all had a fun weekend.

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Baby scrapbook


I finally put together baby K's scrapbook. I have 2 of them. 1 is for pregnancy pics and birth pics and a few pics up until now. The other documents every month. The good thing is that I blog about baby boy's monthly updates so I think I will print those out and glue them in! Ha! For now I finished 1 scrapbook and the other is ongoing.

I have sooooo many pictures in my computer that I still need to develop. I'm soo behind on that.

I also want to get some pictures on canvas that my friend recommended.

Do you print out all your pictures on a regular basis? I try every couple months, but like I said, I'm falling behind ;)

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Baby me and my baby boy. Ha!

Old pictures of me and some of my sweet boy ;) I think he looks a lot like me! (dated pics are me haha)


Making baby food while baby sleeps ;)

Baby and I slept in today so we started our day pretty late.

We went out grocery shopping this afternoon. We bought fresh pears and apricots for baby food purée!

Baby K has been constipated a couple days because of the rice cereal. I switched to oat cereal for now. I read dried apricots help with that as well, however I couldn't find organic dried apricots. The ones I did find said they had traces of nuts which I was not going to risk. So I bought fresh ones to try out. A friend of mine suggests prune baby food, I'll get that next time I'm out.

Ahh Mom life ;)

Little one has been sleeping for an hour and I'm getting a lot done! But he just woke up as I'm writing this ha!

We also will be switching out of the infant car seat soon too! This little guy is getting heavy to carry!

Monday, May 21, 2012

First pool party!

Baby K had a busy long weekend! It's Victoria day long weekend and we had lots of fun events.

Yesterday my aunt and uncle hosted a pool party. The weather was perfect!

The kids loved the water as did the adults! ;)

Kristian had a blast in the water! He was sooo cute! I bought him his first floaty which he enjoyed so much. He shared it with his cousin too, my little niece was so excited.

Later at night we went back to our house to watch the fire works, we can see them from our yard which has been a tradition since we moved here. It was a late night, but always lots of fun!

I ate terrible allll weekend! I'll need to get back on track this week. Oh boy!

Hope you all had a great weekend too!


Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Not so wordless Wednesday

I have lots of pics but lots to say too ha!

Today I decided to add a third feeding for baby boy. I added a Farley biscuit mixed with water for breakfast. Baby K seems to have a 9am wake up time the past 5 days. So at 9am I nursed him and 9:30 he had breakfast. Lunch will be at 12pm and he will have cereal and apple purée then dinner at 5pm cereal and butternut squash ;)

Yesterday was stroller fitness. The class is great and it's such a good workout! My body is sore today!

The weather has been amazing! But we haven't turned our AC on yet and boy does the house get hot! My husband had the window in the office open and Zoe jumped out!!!! But we got her back in quickly whew!

Hope you are all having a great week.

Pics in no order using the blogger app ;)