Pics of the Week!

From Left to Right starting on Top:
1) Munching on his hands (his new favorite activity)
2) All prepped out for his doctor's appointment
3) Screaming his head off at his playdate after his 4 month shots and a skipped nap
4) My little monster
5) Making faces in the mirror
6) Listening to daddy play the guitar

4 Months Old!!

4 months old today! 

• Does a spot-on pterodactyl impression
• Rolls over in the middle of the night
• Is starting to sit
• Laughs when we laugh
• Puts EVERYTHING in his mouth
• Gets "punchy" (punches his arm down)
• Sometimes grabs my arm when I'm trying to change his diaper
• Does not like his changing table
• Sucks his bottom lip
• Turns his head far to watch football or look for daddy
• 16 lb, 4 oz and 26.5" long 

Pics of the Week

From Left to Right starting on Top:
1) Waking up happy after a nap. We just re-enacted this picture today except it would be titled "Waking up happy after a failed attempt at a nap"
2) Playtime for everyone! Bailey has her wubba in the background
3) Chillin' with one of mommy's favorite toys
4) First solo bath with only mommy
5) Loves talking to himself in his mirror
6) Talkin' to daddy

Pics of the Week

Hmmmm, I can't decide if this will be a new feature or not that I do on the blog. I take so many pictures of Adam that it's hard to pick just a few to post!  But I'm not entirely sure that I'm organized enough these days to keep up with it ;)

From Left to Right starting on Top:
1) Sucking his bottom lip - this is a new "trick" he started doing this week
2) Dressed up for the Ohio State game. This lasted about 2 more seconds before he got tired and was put to bed
3) Sending a pic to Daddy during the day
4) Loves to hang out on his tummy after nursing and LOVES to look for his daddy
5) The only one who dressed up at our new mom's group last Tuesday!
6) Loves being wrapped - sometimes it's my secret (only) weapon to get him to sleep when he refuses

Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!!

We had a great day yesterday. Tom took a couple of extra days off to use up some PTO and because he deserved/needed a break after a pretty intense spring, summer, and fall at work.  He took Bailey for a special early morning walk (I'm sure she was glad to go without the baby) and we enjoyed coffee and conversation during little Bud's extra long morning nap. 

We dressed Adam up in his various halloween costumes for his Halloween photo shoots.  Bailey was more interested in the candy on the blanket than in Adam.  Haha.  The giraffe costume is a hand me down from a friend, although funny story I bought the same exact one for him at a consignment sale in August. Except I bought the 0-3 month size, because you know, he would be 3 months old during Halloween. I should have known better - thankfully Keri's giraffe was 3-6 months so that fit much better! 

The Superman costume was from Tom's parents. Apparently Tom had one that he used to wear when he was little :)  Again - it's a size 6 month. When they brought it a few weeks ago I thought for sure it would be too big for him. Nope, barely fits! He loves to fly these days :)

It was rainy but relatively warm here all day.  Tom and Bailey went downstairs to hand out candy and Adam and I joined them for a few minutes, but he quickly got bored so we headed back inside.  Bailey was once again a banana and had a good time sniffing all of the trick or treaters!

He thought my antennae were pretty funny. He's over it in this picture

Wordless Wednesday

Sew Crafty: A Baby Football Blanket

One of my favorite middle-of-the-night-nursing-pasttimes is to browse Pinterest.  Recently I came across this post for a football baby blanket, and knew instantly I had to make one!  I made two (with plans to make a third for Adam), one for our friends Joe and Laura who are huge Eagles fans and just had a baby, and one for our friend Stacy who had a baby ahem several months ago (but it's just now football season!!)

And just an FYI if anyone decides to make this - you don't actually need a whole yard of fabric like the tutorial says. As long as your fabric is 44" x 30" you should be fine!  (I'm glad I thought to look into this, otherwise I would have wasted a lot of brown minky!) 

Joey's Eagles Football Blanket

Laine's Alabama Football Blanket (So weird having Alabama fabric in our house!)

A handsome model on the football blanket :)

Some Updates on Us

So I realized that there hasn't really been much content to the blog lately....mostly just cute pics of Adam and random sewing projects! (I have more cute pics of Adam - see below, and more sewing project pics to post this week).

So anyways things have been going pretty well.  For those who don't know, I am no longer working full time (woooooo!) but this decision did not come without a lot of thought (and budgeting) and is certainly only temporary.  I always knew I wanted to stay home with our baby, but financially I always knew this would not be an option. 
Luckily with my career, I have a great amount of flexibility so I am taking advantage of it to the fullest! I am staying on with Children's as "contingency" status, which basically means they will call me when they need me and if I can work, I will.  Currently I'm working a few hours every Wednesday evening through December to cover some maternity leaves (yes, more people at work had babies - 12 total this year)! 
My other job is seeing kids through the Early Intervention program. This allows me the tremendous flexibility to try to pick up referrals in my area and to see them in the evenings and weekends when Tom can stay home with Adam. 
Also, we are extremely lucky that Tom has some flexibility in his schedule and can go in early and leave early to be home in time to watch Adam while I go to work.  I still need to try to pick up a few more referrals from EI but it's kind of cut throat trying to get kids in my neighborhood! 

It's indescribably amazing being able to stay home with Adam during the day, and I love that we don't have to figure child care costs into our budget.  But of course I worry that he needs to be socialized so I've been going to a few different mom groups to get both me and Adam out of the house once in a while.  It's been great being able to socialize with other new moms (one of whom may have brought some Guinness, the breastfeeding beer, to our last meetup). Yay for new friends with babies who like beer!

I feel like Adam has entered the phase where he does something new or different every.single.day. And it is amazing :D  I desperately want the next 9 months to go by super slow, even though I know they will fly.  And I know he will be fun after he is a year old as well, but he'll only be a baby once ;)  Speaking of Adam and being super cute.....some pics of our week:

3 Months Old!

Um, I really can't believe he is 3 months old already!

• Has started to laugh (and this is quite possibly the best thing ever)
• Sticks out his bottom lip when sad (but then starts to laugh/cry when I laugh at how freaking adorable his bottom lip is)
• Sometimes sings along when I sing him to sleep
• Is wearing size "6 month" clothing
• Tries to put his own paci back in at night
• Gets mad when something interrupts his nursing experience
• Kicks so hard on the changing table
• Talks a lot

My Perfect Day

Today was quite literally, a perfect day :D  I want to write about it before it slips away. 

It started early because I had to get up to pump (TMI - sorry) because Adam went another super long stretch sleeping last night.  I put coffee on and got ready for the day before Adam woke up (even though it was another 2 hours before I could drink my coffee, and it tasted a little burnt, okay so I guess in a "perfect" day I wouldn't have had burnt coffee). 

Anyways Adam woke up and we went through our usual morning routine. He went down for all of his naps today relatively easily (especially compared to yesterday, which was far far far from a perfect day). 
His first nap lasted several hours so I was able to enjoy my coffee while watching The Today Show, get dinner in the crockpot, prep a few sewing projects, tidy up the apartment, wash a load of diapers and a load of regular laundry, and catch up with the outside world via facebook and some text messages with some good friends.

Mid afternoon we had Adam's "Fall Photoshoot" which I prepped during one of his naps. He was surprisingly cooperative for it and I even got a couple of videos of him "talking". Here's a teaser/spoiler of his pics.  And this one is definitely my favorite! 

Tom got home and we all went for a walk to enjoy the beautiful fall weather.  Adam slept for part of it and Bailey had a blast sniffing the grass/sidewalk every 10 feet.  Later we gave Adam his bath and he amazingly went down at a decent time so Tom and I could have dinner together.  (Usually evenings are our hardest time of the day in regards to getting Adam down for his naps or for the night, so Tom and I usually eat dinner in shifts). And I don't know if our dinner was really that good or if I was just starving, but it tasted amazing! (Rosemary Ranch Chicken in the crockpot with brown rice).

And now I'm ending the day with a Sam Adams Octoberfest (keep sleeping Baby Adam!) and watching some football (Go Bears???) 

Wordless Wednesday

Things I'm loving lately (besides fall)



Market Pantry cake and sprinkles ice cream from Target

Bolthouse Farms very berry smoothie - it tastes like a healthy slurpee!



These tanks from H&M - I love how long they are!

Octupus drying rack from ikea - perfect for drying cloth diapers!

Aden & Anais blankets - I have to be honest - I wondered what the big fuss was with these blankets, but I love them!

Smiles from my lovebug

All these different faces!

*Disclaimer, I wrote this post back at the end of August and am just now getting around to posting it - but I am still loving all of these things. Even though I had to force myself to stop buying the ice cream from Target...I could go through a half gallon of it every week!

Wordless Wednesday

Sew crafty

I busted out the sewing machine the other weekend to work on a few projects and it's been sitting out ever since. Adam was taking longer naps during the day (that has since changed again) so I was able to work on a few things here and there.

Below are some pics of my latest projects. I also resized a cute T shirt that was too big for me, made a T-shirt bag out of an old shirt, and started a onesie for Adam out of an old shirt. The onesie is going to take some concentration to finish, so I'll have to wait until I have a good chunk of time. 

I found more remnant PUL at JoAnn so I made a 3rd large and small wet bag for us. I'm learning it's nice to have 3 of things that get soiled/need laundered because one will inevitably get peed/pooped/puked on while the other is sitting in the laundry basket waiting to be washed.

Large wet bag

Small wet bag for the diaper bag

Our rocker/recliner/glider has been great, but I've been constantly shoving blanket rolls behind my head to use as a pillow. I have a lot of fabric leftover from what I used to make the crib skirt, so I decided to make a pillow (with an invisible zipper).  It looks pretty lumpy because I had just stuffed it before taking this pic, but it's a little more calm now that it's been used for a week or so.

Pillow for the rocker that matches the cribskirt

Pillow again on the chair.  It matches his quilt too :)

And finally I found that I like using the small flannel wipes I made better than the large ones (for now - I'm sure as his messes get bigger the bigger ones will come in handy). So I made some more with some scraps I had lying around.  That's why they're all different sizes ;)

More flannel wipes made from scraps

Two Months Old!!

• Loves to stretch out super long on the changing table in the morning
• Still loves to eat
• Smiles a ton
• "Talks" to mom and dad
• Holds my shirt with his hand while nursing
• Starting to pick up his head on his tummy
• Working on a triple chin

Smilin' and Talkin'

It's only about 30 seconds long, but if you're impatient you can skip ahead to second 15 for the good stuff.

Happy Football Season and Happy Fall!!

Wordless Wednesday (Or an excuse to post cute pics of Adam)

Some more sewing projects

I busted out the sewing machine last weekend to fix a pair of Tom's pants, and thanks to a wonderful husband and a semi-cooperative baby, I was able to work on another sewing project!

A couple of weeks ago we had a night where we went through both changing pad covers in a matter of 2 hours, so I decided it would be a good idea to make a third whenever I got a chance.  I think it's because I already made one, but this one seemed so easy.

Here are a few other projects I was able to make before Adam arrived.

Some burp cloths from some remnant fabric

Two  small wetbags for the diaper bag

I resized a regular sized Aden & Anais crib sheet from Salvation Army to fit our mini crib.

 Muslin is not fun to sew with. Lesson learned

Some embellished burp cloths

This one matches my DIY  nursing cover.

Wordless Wednesday - I just can't get enough!

Confession: I actually had to double check to make sure today is in fact Wednesday before I posted this ;)