Thursday, February 28, 2013

16 months old

Oh baby K you are 16 months old! You are such a sweet little boy and totally crack me up! You love to be silly and you are very affectionate, always kissing and hugging us. Unless we say no, you will get upset and hit us :/

Everyday you do something new. It's always amazing to me because you pay close attention and copy the things we do without us even knowing! You learned another word last week. We call the pacifier a chucho and you call it tutto. You say about 10 words and lots of babbles that mean something to you! Haha

You have 9 teeth, 7 front teeth and 2 molars and another front tooth on its way!

You still love to eat and you turn and look and point at the sink where I prepare food if you want more. Usually looking for a fruit after dinner or your baby crunchies. You are using a fork more often now but using your hands is much faster.

You are in between sizes right now. Some 12-18 fitting snug and 18-24 way too big.

You love your stride rite shoes and I already have my eye on spring summer ones for you haha!

Your sleep is still great too. Taking 2 naps 1.5-2 hours each and 10- 12 hours a night. Depending if we are home or out late. You only wake for water if I have you in bed early, you will wake before 12am for a sip then sleep straight till 8 or 9am.

You still love to play with my hair. It comforts you.

You love Zoe and get braver and braver with playing with her haha. You are a dancer like your daddy haha you dance as soon as you hear music and love it. You love when I read to you and you always bring me books and point at it so I can read ;)

Today we played in the snow and had soo much fun!









Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Weekend birthday fun

This weekend was all about birthdays! Lots of food and a lot of cake!

Friday was my husband and niece's birthday!

We had family over Friday night. I lost all my picture because at the end of the night my memory card from my camera broke and I lost everything :( BUT! I have this. After many bottles of wine hahaha watch this

http://youtu.be/u2l_mNKsGlQ

Saturday night we went over my brother place for my niece's birthday. The kids had so much fun together.

The guys were watching hockey and yelled super loud when Toronto maple leafs scored.... Baby K got startled and cried really hard. He hugged me tight and took him about 20 minutes to stop sobbing :( it was the worst I've seen him cry. He was sooo upset :(

Here are some weekend pics ;)

















Sunday, February 17, 2013

Baby led weaning at 15 months. No more breastfeeding

When people ask me about breastfeeding I always say the same thing... it was sooo hard to start and soo hard to stop. Women need support, the only way I was able to push through and keep trying was from support from other moms. I wrote this blog post a while back. Weaning was soo hard  too. When I first tried weaning baby k he was about 9 months. I was forcing the weaning because I was going back to work..(to be clear baby k never took a bottle so pumping and giving a bottle was never an option) at 9 months he wasn't ready. We both weren't ready. It was really stressful on both of us. So I pushed my back to work date further out. Baby K at 9-10 months started the pincer grasp and feeding himself and was eating all his meals and less breast milk and onto the sippy cup. By 12 months he was daytime weaned. I still breastfed at night at first 2-3x then went to 2, then 1. Now last week to zero! Baby k is 15.5 months and with baby led weaning we are no longer breastfeeding. It was almost a surprise to me even though I was living it at seeing how much less he was needing it. When we were down to one time I was actually only offering one breast once a night for a couple weeks. Then that stopped too. We were not trying to wean, so I am happy that it was all baby k's choice. I just keep remembering the beginning when baby K was just born and trying to get to 3 months and at 15 months I wasn't looking for us to stop yet and little K was ready to move on.

Following my baby's queues and never forcing my ways on him has worked best for me and my parenting style. They eventually get it! They eventually learn how to sip the sippy cup, eventually learn to feed themselves, and eventually sleep through the night and eventually stop breastfeeding. At 15.5 month I actually feel that all the decisions I made so far worked best for our family and I'm not second guessing myself like I once was. I had some tough times and went against my initial instincts many times, parenthood is far from easy  and sometimes no decision is easy to make haha but if we can trust our decisions then that can take a load of stress off.

So moms do it your way, whatever way as long as you feel it's the best way and maybe it won't be at first but it will be eventually! Ha! I will need to come back and read my own words in future days I'm sure!

The Breastfeeding chapter of my life is now closed... for now :)



Friday, February 15, 2013

Valentine's Day!

We had a great Valentine's Day and Evening here :)

The day started with my little Valentine. Baby K loves to kiss and hug me and it is the most precious thing! It just melts my heart!

I served a heart shaped lunch with V day cookies.

We did some fun V day art too.

My husband picked up dinner on his way home and we had a nice dinner with a nice bottle or 2 (ha!) of wine and music in the background. A perfect valentines evening for our little family.









Monday, February 11, 2013

My Sister's Baby Shower! A LadyBug Theme

This weekend was my sister's baby shower! She is due March 31st! Her first baby and it's a girl! Our family is sooo excited and we can't wait to meet baby Ella!

Lady Bug Theme. Heart shaped lady bug cookies and Lady Bug thank you cards with red/black and white decor, with a jar filled with jelly beans for the centerpieces. 


Cupcakes! Baked and decorated by my sister and I!

Lots of gifts!

Opening Gifts
We played some games too! We played measure the belly game, guessing how many inches her belly is.
We played the dirty diaper game. Putting a melted chocolate bar in the diaper and everyone had to guess which chocolate bar it was.
We placed rattles under 3 chairs to win a prize. 
We also let the timer go every 5 minutes while she opened gifts. When it buzzed the persons gift she was opening won a prize!

Beautiful Preggo Sister!
Kristian Hugging his cousin

Kristian had a long day at the baby shower haha! But he had a great time and he tried green and red peppers for the first time from my salad and he loved them. He ate sooo many!







The shower was a success and everyone had a great time!


Friday, February 08, 2013

Baby shower and snow!

A snow storm hit us last night and all day today! We didn't think it was that bad until my husband only made it out of the garage and in front of the house before getting stuck. It took 2 hours before he made it back into the garage ha! A friend came over to help dig and push him out. So happy that our second car is a SUV because I had a whole day planned helping my sister for her baby shower tomorrow!

We are excited! Yesterday we decorated cookies and today cupcakes! My sister baked them, I helped decorate and package.

Yum! Don't they look delicious!

















Thursday, February 07, 2013

A little this and that

Baby K has thin hair and still needs to grow and fill in more. It's wavy too and sometimes gets tangled. The other night he had one tangle I couldn't get out so I cut it off. Ha! I taped it to a paper labeled it 15 months old tangle and put it in his first haircut envelope haha

Today it's been snowing all day here and I had so many errands to run, well I had 1 that ended up being 3. The night before I left my credit card at the mall. Nice huh. I dragged baby k in the snowy weather all around today.

We ended the evening at my sisters house preparing for her baby shower. Decorating cookies! We are doing cupcakes tomorrow! Yum!











Monday, February 04, 2013

Toddler, teething, menu and fun

Little K always got his teeth 2-3 at a time never just 1 at a time. He has 7 front teeth (4 top 3 bottom) and 2 top molars on their way in from what I can see!

Last night I put him to bed at 8 and at midnight he was up. Drowsy and fussy for an hour before falling back asleep. Teething is not fun. We have a long way to go still!

Little K is a great eater and loves pretty much everything. Except milk, he doesn't drink milk at all and the doctor is 100% ok with that. But suggested sneaking in other fats. So I'm adding more fat to his diet a lot more avocados to his meals and butter to toast and today cream in his scrambled eggs, which he loved today.

This little boy is busy these days having fun and giving me a workout! Ha!