Sushi and Salsa!

This week was busy!

I went out for sushi lunch with friends twice this week. Yum! A new place opened up just down the street from my house so we had to try it out. It's a cute small place and sushi was delicious ;)

Today I had my first class of salsa babies fitness! The class was full! There were about 20 mamas. The class was so fun and everyone was friendly and the instructor was really nice. What's salsa babies? It's learning how to dance salsa while holding your baby in a wrap or carrier. I used the baby bjorn carrier for this class. Kristian loved bouncing around and listening to the music and I had a great workout.

Followed by a sushi buffet lunch with a friend haha.

Tomorrow is fitness Friday! I forgot to post last week so I need to catch up!

Finding a bottle baby likes.

 There are so many different types of bottles, standard size, wide neck, special ones for breast fed babies... So these are all the bottles I have.

Avent, Nuk, Medela calma, dr brown, playtex drop ins, tommee tippee, and Playtex vent aire.

 

 My SIL  tried to give Kristian a bottle (dr brown standard) on Sunday at my sister's shower. He just bites on the nipple but doesn't suck.
 
It's not the biggest deal since I love breastfeeding anyway... but there are some days where I need to leave him for a couple of hours so I'd like to feel calm knowing that he will eat!

We tried me leaving the room, even the house while someone else feeds him... we tried giving him the bottle when he is really hungry.... yesterday DH tried with the tommee tippee bottle and seemed like he was ok with it, and wasn't chewing it. Looked like he was also ok with the playtex drop in bottle.

He only ate a little so we will try everyday until I'm fully comfortable but I like the tommee tippee bottle :) yay!



Did you have trouble getting your breastfed baby to take a bottle?

My Sister's Bridal Shower!

The most delicious cake!

 Sunday was my beautiful sister's bridal shower! It was soo pretty! She had a purple theme and the whole set up looked beautiful... The pictures say it all!

The bridal head table :)

Centerpiece, Cakestand with a teapot of hydrangeas and pearl decor

Gift boxes filled with cookies, purse holder and a thank you card

My sister the bride did pretty much all the baking for her shower!

We played a bunch of games too... About the bride question games, a fun poem centrepiece game and the fun toilet paper bride ha!

Haha my great aunt looked adorable!

The bridal party :)

My sister had a wonderful time... We always do with our family and friends.

Cookies!

Kristian was sooo good! I think he was confused with seeing soo many people haha he slept a lot that afternoon too. He met many members of my family for the first time too.

My sweet baby, he is excited for his aunt's wedding!

The wedding is in 2 months!!!!!!! This weekend we go for our dress fittings! I can't wait!

My sister beautiful bride to be!, Niece and SIL and me and Kris.

My baby is 3 months old!

3 months old!

What are you doing these days....?

You are always smiling! and you let out cute little laughs and screams ha!.
You pay attention so much when we speak to you and try to talk back
You love the tv and always turn towards it
You are always looking around and love getting to know the world.
You babble to yourself when riding in the backseat of the car, and I turn the radio off and just listen to you :)
You get distracted so easily now when nursing, if I'm talking or laughing you look up at me and want in on the fun

You love our attention and love playtime
You let us know when you are bored and already have a whiny cry which is so cute ;)
You have a strong neck and hold yourself straight up when we hold you
You love bathtime, you love being pampered
You still hate being cold, so we need to dress you quick!
You hate a wet diaper and need it changed right away. Making mommy a diaper changing machine haha
You finally found your thumb and suck on it until you poke yourself with your other fingers and cry ha!
You are EBF and still wont take a bottle, making sure ill never leave your side :/
You still love to relax to the sound of water/rain from my iPhone or sleep sheep, it totally calms you down.
Your sleep schedule is all over the place and you are changing it on me all the time. I'm having a hard time getting it to any kind of normal. But we will get there! ;)

1 day old

I love you sooo much! I'm soo happy to be your mom.

Things I never realized, things I did not know

I never realized that sooo many delicious foods are the cheesiest most chocolatey, most spiciest ones ha!
All of which I'm staying away from while Breastfeeding.

I didn't know that all the books I bought to prepare for motherhood did not have the info I really needed. Much of the information/advice I was looking for came from family, RL friends and twitter friends ;)

I didn't know how much I would enjoy Breastfeeding to the point that I feel sad when I think about weaning after 6 months.

I didn't know anything about 'growth spurts' the frequent feedings and the huge extra supply it brings on right after.

I didn't know how quickly babies grow out of their clothes haha!

I didn't know that the baby's force when pooping would send poop dripping out the side of his legs or up his back. Haha!

I didn't know suctioning out the baby's boogies would be such a fun thing to do.

I didn't know how hungry you get while Breastfeeding. I'm hungry all the time! !!

I didn't know that I am awesome at multitasking.

And most of all, I didn't know how much love I could have for my little boy, love that gets even stronger as days go by.

Turning 3 months this weekend!

Not a wordless Wednesday

Last night was rough, baby didn't sleep well and I have noo idea why. His sleep pattern changed since last week (growth spurt) and the lack of sleep is getting to me. Total zombie mom right here.

Tonight I left baby K with DH for an hour while I went to do my nails. It was the first time going out without him! It was weird not having to lug the diaper bag or carseat ha! But sitting doing my nails I could only think of my baby boy!

I had left a bottle with DH but Baby didn't take the bottle, so we still need to work on that. But overall he was good!

My diet has been all over the place. Breastfeeding makes me sooo hungry. Today I did really well and stayed within my calories ;)

Here are todays iPhone pics ;) (using blogger app so not in any order)

Busy Chocolatey Monday

The day started off slow, baby and I slept in which was nice. When we woke up the baby's diaper had leaked! Pee and poo! So I had to clean up a mess and give my little guy a bath. Bath time is so fun, I think my little boy lovess being pampered haha!

We didn't end up ready until about 1pm, so I decided to just get dressed and head out for some fresh air and breakfast, well lunch I guess :). We we went to a nearby plaza and did a little shopping. I bought some nursing bras, a new tall tumbler cup, new large wine glasses and some baking supplies.

 This weekend I did a lot of baking! I made my yummy banana bread (using whole wheat flour and added coconut flakes) I also made chocolate cookies for my sisters bridal shower.  I made another batch of the chocolate cookies today too... This time I gave into temptation and ate 4 cookies! I'm off of chocolate because I noticed chocolate bothers my baby's tummy (breastfeeding). So lets pray it doesn't today!

Hope you all had a great Monday
:)

Future Blogger haha!

Fitness Friday - Week 3

It's fitness Friday with Cait over at http://cait-theblessedlife.blogspot.com/

Week 2 was "Move every day" I think I did really well with this.  Walking in the mall, cleaning the house while my little one plays nicely in his playpen, or just walking around the house to get baby to sleep :)

This week was extra hard when counting calories. Baby is going through his 12 week growth spurt, and has been nursing every 2 hours during the day and back to every 3 hours a night. So I have been really hungry and have not been doing well with portion control.

Today while out I was soo hungry and was about to hit a fast food place for a burger and fries! But thought, I'm was doing so well with not going to fast food drive thru's (Tim Horton's not included :) so I went to Tim Hortons instead for a sandwich.


In 2 weeks Salsa Babies fitness class starts! And the mom and baby fitness dvd i ordered should arrive soon!

We are on week 3 of fitness Friday: Drink hot tea or coffee in the morning instead of soda

I'll do well with this goal because I don't drink any pop, we don't even have any pop in our house.

Since I was pregnant and now breastfeeding, I only drink water and occasionally ice tea.

My goals for week 3: Count Calories on My FitnessPal, Move everyday and make healthy choices.

Yummy seafood pasta!

This afternoon a friend and I with our little boys went out to lunch. We went to one of our favorite Italian restaurants.
We had delicious fried calamari and seafood pasta. Soo good! Not exactly sure how to log these calories in my fitnesspal, hmm! Let's make today a bonus day.

After lunch we went to the mall to shop a bit. A walk after our meal was definitely needed. I was soo surprised how long baby K slept for. I was worried he was going to wake up and cry during lunch hahaa!

He is changing sooo much! I love it! It was a perfect Wednesday. Now we have ribs in the slowcooker for dinner!

Hope you had a great Wednesday!!

Fitness Friday!

I tracked my calories this week on my fitness pal. I actually only met my goal a few times this week. It's been tough sticking to the calories I should be eating. Especially with Breastfeeding I find myself sooo hungry!

I think I did well with daily exercise, lots of walking and holding baby while doing some squats haha. I didn't to my exercise DVD but I ordered a new one so can't wait for it to come.

I haven't stepped on the scale since earlier this week, I was down 1lbs. Hoping to be down another by next week.

This weeks goal, move everyday!!