I’m participating in a photo a day challenge! Here are my images from the first eight days.

Me

Breakfast

Something I adore

Letter box

Something I wore

Made me smile

Favorite

My sky

(10 months, taken in New Jersey while getting dressed for a day in the city! This was the first layer.)

- Sleep: Still in his crib, with one wakeup a night, ranging anytime between 11 and 2:30. Then he wakes up around 5:00 and I bring him into our bed, nurse him and he falls back asleep for another hour or two. Although in the last week he has woken up every night 30 minutes after I put him down. It takes about ten minutes to get him back asleep and then we are back to the regular schedule. Not sure if this has to do with teething, but I am hoping it will end soon!

- Teeth: Six fully in, with a new one popping up on the bottom.

- Food: He has become quite the picky eater!! He loves to feed himself but is really picky about textures, so banana, avocado, apple… basically anything that isn’t dry he won’t put in his mouth. Which means he eats a lot of Joe’s O’s! His other favorite are the blueberry waffles from Trader Joes. I just pop it in the toaster and he will eat the entire thing. He will eat pureed veggies once in a while, and will only eat pureed fruit from a pouch, and barely even then.

- Milk: I am still breastfeeding, and feel very blessed to have made it this far and for it to still be so easy. I feed him once in the morning right when he wakes up, he takes two bottle during the day (I pump at work) and then I nurse him to sleep. I have always said that at a year we would switch over to milk but I have a feeling the weaning will go into his first year, especially with his sensitivity to dairy.

- Movement: We got up to about five steps this weekend! He is being super cautious about it and will sit down before he falls down. I am thinking he will be there by his first birthday.

We celebrated Christmas Eve dinner and Christmas morning at our home and it was incredibly nice to have the four day weekend to enjoy the time with our family. Declan was more into eating the paper than his gifts, but we had fun opening all of his presents!

We finally moved the sewing table out of his room and now he has the run of the place. It is so nice having an entire room that we know he can just enjoy, rather than constantly saying ‘no’ when he tries to pull out my fabric or plays with the sewing machine peddle!

I can’t believe that it has almost been a year since Declan joined our little family. It feels like just yesterday we were driving to the hospital, and at the same time it feels like he has always been here. I am looking forward to month 12 and all that 2012 will bring!

Happy New Year!

Declan and I spent the last day of 2011 down at San Elijo State Beach where my parents were camping for the weekend. Bryan had had the last two weeks off with the baby and I wanted to give him some time to himself. Declan napped on the way there (it is about an hour drive), we enjoyed some sushi for lunch and crawling in the dirt, and then he slept on the way home too. Yay! Bryan made us a delicious chicken dinner, topped off with a little champagne and then I called it a night! I tried to watch the ball drop to celebrate the New York new year but couldn’t find a live showing of it on our channels. Maybe next year we will do something a little more crazy, but this year all I wanted was some rest. We spent the rest of the weekend being lazy. I came down with a bad migraine Sunday night and it lasted well into Monday, but Declan was a trooper and even napped with me on the couch. We spent some time at the park and made our first cardboard house, much to Declan’s excitement. Tomorrow it is back to work with a new schedule of 7am – 4pm for me so that I can pick up Declan from daycare while Bryan coaches lacrosse. It should be an interesting few months, with our normal routine completely thrown off by practice and games. Here is to hoping that we all get used to it quickly!

I am not one for resolutions. I always make them but never follow them, life just always seems to get in the way. It just so happens that this change falls at the end of the year, but it isn’t a resolution, just a change. I need to switch out my morning latte for something healthier. I need your help to get excited about this change. Please send me your recipes for delicious, healthy, easy morning shakes! Something to start my morning off right while providing a good amount of calories that don’t come in the form of vanilla syrup…

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!

2010

2009

Now that all of your shopping is done (wait, it isn’t? you better get on that) it’s time to wrap! I made this tag download last year and hope you will find it useful!!

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas around here…

I am prepping my table set up for my first ever holiday bazarre! My mom and I will have a table at Fitness Elite for Women in San Clemente tomorrow night from 7 pm-9 pm. If you are local you should stop by! I don’t know many details about the event but there will be food and drinks, a raffle with proceeds going towards a local woman in need and lots of local vendors (like me!) selling their goods. Come on by!

It seems like every month the stars align… Declan turns a month older, I accrue 8 hours of admin time and it is Monday. Our monthly sick day. Today we got out of the house and enjoyed some Wahoos chicken tacos, black beans and rice. I love it when my lunch can be Declan’s lunch too.

Ever since my wedding I have kept up with wedding blogs and once in a while I come across one that makes me wish I was there in person. This is one of those.

Happy Friday!