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.

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!

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!

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!

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!

15 months old

My little boy! You are 15 months old today!

You have the cutest personality! Gentle and sweet making the cutest faces, then a little mean at times when you don't get your way, stomping your feet and crying! You are growing, learning and exploring and it is amazing to watch you change before our eyes!

You are in everything these days! You leave a mess behind you ha! You put toys and toilet paper in the hamper when I'm not looking. You empty out cupboards and laundry baskets... working away like a busy little bee.

Your favorite toy is still the break-dancing Mickey. You are always dancing and singing.

Your vocabulary is expanding and you are understanding so much! There is too much to write it out!

You are still a great eater and love to sit and enjoy your food. Your favorite fruit is blueberries. You can eat soooo many in one sitting!

You weighed 19lb last we checked (We are going for your 15 month check up tomorrow so we will see)

You are in size 4-5 diapers, 4 still fits, but I also have been using 5 too.

You are in sizes 12-18

On good days you sleep from 730-8 waking 1-3 times for a sip of water or to nurse, usually less than 5 mins and you are back out. I keep a sippy cup in your bedroom so you can take a sip then go back to sleep! But teething or sick nights it's out the window and you will be up about 5x for comfort.

We are almost fully weaned. Some nights you don't nurse at all and some nights you ask for it. But we are down to 1 and none!

You love Zoe and laugh and babble with her all the time.

You also love to pretend you are on the phone and walk around babbling, laughing and making hand gestures like you are talking to someone haha.

You are always paying attention to what is going around you and COPY everything we do in a second!

We love you sooo much!!! Happy 15 months!!!!

Just a little food and juice over here

I've been working on new toddler recipes for my little guy and new juice recipes for our family. Here are some new things!

Juice 1- 4oz Kale, 1 apple, 2 small carrots juice. Tastes pretty good!


Juice 2- Straight up orange juice too with breakfast. (3 oranges)



Today for lunch I made chicken and veggie quesadillas.



Baby K loved them and made a huge mess with them too ha!



Tonight I made chicken and veggie meatballs with spaghetti squash! I'm in love with this new recipe!


RECIPE! Check out the recipes here
http://growingtowardsadreamrecipes.blogspot.ca/

Tomorrow my little guy will be 15 months!!!!! He is growing and learning every second! I better get working on tomorrow's post!

Nutrient packed toddler meals

Making meals for a growing toddler gets tough some days. Baby K is good and eats most foods. He usually eats what I make for the family which makes life easy.

Since he has been sick with the flu the past couple months on and off I want to make sure he getting a lot of needed nutrients to help boost immunity!

He loves his fruits and veggies so I'm adding a lot more berries and green veggies like kale and broccoli. He is crazy for blueberries and if he sees them before his meal it's over and he will only want the blueberries ha!

We made kale chips the other night and baby k loved them! So that's a new item we added to our menu.

Now that we have the juicer I will make him fresh juice to sip too (kids should not drink more than 5oz of juice a day, I diluted the juice with water as well)

Fats are very important for a growing baby. Healthy fats like avocado. Baby K loves avocado and sometimes I spread it on his toast too.

Every week I'm looking for new healthy recipes and menu plans for baby K. If you have any meal ideas send them over my way!

A new recipe I found was chicken/veggie meatballs. I will try them this weekend and let you know how it goes!

2013 goals vision board!

2013 goals... I still haven't fully written them out. I usually do every first week of January, I've been doing that for years! But this year all 22 days of it has been so hectic.

I looked over my last years goals and I have achieved 5 of goals I wrote down. Which made me feel great. Yay!

Instead of writing my goals this year I decided that I will put my goals with pictures on my vision board. That way I can take a look at them everyday! I'm getting to work on that today!

One goal that I will discuss weekly on my blog is weight loss goals. Daily lifestyle changes/goals.

Life is different with a little one, more busy, less sleep, less time for things like working out. Balancing it all can get a little crazy and you always need room to tweak and adjust the routine because let's face it the baby makes the rules here ha!

Here are my simply put daily goals:

Eating healthy- home cooking
Adding things like daily probiotics, chia seeds, and cooking with coconut oil and olive oil.

Juicing weekly for added nutrients
Exercise 2-3x a week
Increase daily water intake.

Mini goal- to drop 10lbs by spring.

Seems easy enough right ;)