My Baby boy or should I say big boy

Baby K hasn't reached the weight or length capacity yet for his infant carseat, but it has for me. Boy was it getting heavy!

We had got the evenflo symphony 65 3 in 1 carseat as a shower gift so decided to install it yesterday.

I find it so hard to use the straps, it took me 15 minutes to tighten the straps to have only 2 fingers space between baby and strap. I find it awkward and hard to put baby in and out of. But maybe any carseat would be hard placing a baby in and out of. One thing I hate is at the safest recline allowed baby still seems upright. Allowing his head to flop. Not cool.
Does this happen with all carseats?

This causes mommy stress haha.

On another note while out today I bought my big boy a little pool for the backyard. I'm sure he will just love it! Can't wait to try it out!

Soo glad the weekend is here!

Wordless Wednesday

Goals for the week

Before I got pregnant I would write out my weekly goals on my blog. I started doing fitness Friday a couple months ago with fellow bloggers too. So this weekend I decided to get back on track with my Monday weekly goal posts.

This week I want to focus on these 3 goals.

1. Daily walks, I want to head out everyday for a walk (we just came back from a 45min walk!)

2. No drive thru! Where I live I'm surrounded by drive thru's! I admit I go through them often now that I have a baby and sometimes it's easier to pick up dinner or coffee at a window haha!. So this week my goal is nooooo drive thru's! Let's see how I do eek!

3. More water intake. This is always an issue for me. I don't drink much water. So I want to make sure I have a glass of water with every meal and water in my tumbler thingy taking lots of water in!

I'm totally focused this week! I'll be tweeting my daily accomplishments too!

What are your diet goals this week?

Show us your living Room blog post

Today on Kellyskornerblog.com it's show us your living room!


My living room and kitchen are open concept. Something we love about our home.





I'm usually sitting at our kitchen island watching tv, feeding the baby or on the laptop.



We only have a few of the baby's items out. His exersaucer, playpen and rocking chair, it's all that he uses these days. 

When the baby is playing and I'm watching tv sitting on the sofa so we can chat together ha!





I don't have much on the walls or counters. I never liked having too much in a room. I could use a little more tho now looking at the pics it looks a little empty ha!





We love our big windows looking out into the backyard.

We have so many windows and it's rare that we have the lights on at all during the day.

So this is my living room!I can't wait to check out others and get some decorative ideas too!

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.

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!!!!! 

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.

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 ;)

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)