Putting this out there so that in case it never happens again I will have record that it did, at least once. Declan slept in his crib for 11 hours straight last night. My little man is growing up!

We celebrated Bryan turning 34 this weekend with some yellow cake with chocolate frosting. Target was out of oversized 3’s so I picked up some white menorah candles instead… It seemed like a good idea at the time.

Month 9 was full of changes in these parts.

- A certain baby is sleeping in his crib at night! He isn’t sleeping through the night and every night is a different waking pattern, but we can put him down around 7:30 and know that he will be asleep at least until about 11:30. This has been a life changer. I put him down and can wash dishes, do laundry, blog, or just veg on the couch for a bit! It is very nice to have time to myself again. Next step is to move the sewing machine out of the nursery, as I now have time to sew but can’t because it’s in his room!

-The teeth count is four fully in (two top and two bottom) with one more that just broke through on top and I think one or two more making their way up on the bottom.

- We had our first allergy scare this month. Declan had always been sensitive to dairy, but he is older now so I started to reintroduce it to my system in the form of vanilla latte’s. Right around that time I gave him some scrambled egg off my plate. The day of the egg and the entire next week his face had a red rash on it. I switched back to iced coffee and the rash is gone. I am not sure if it was the milk or the egg (babies under a year old aren’t supposed to have egg whites..oops) so now we are kind of tip toeing around, praying he won’t have severe egg OR milk allergies, becuase those don’t sound fun at all.

- For the most part day-care drop offs are now without tears! Woohoo! (More so for Bryan, since he drops him off).

- Lots of standing and walking along couches and chairs and tables and anything else chest-high.

- No words yet, just lots of G’s, D’s and C’s.

- We have started giving him a lot more finger foods (peas, corn, chicken) which he loves! He is still taking three bottles while I am at work (I am still breastfeeding and pumping while at work) and the pediatrician says it’s time for us to switch him to two bottles and substitute the third with a meal.

- He will do the ‘touchdown’ sign on command.

- As you can tell from the picture above, it is becoming more and more impossible to keep this kid still! Bryan was trying to keep him smiling and laying while I took the pictures but he was still rolling around. He loves moving around, checking out everything he isn’t supposed to touch, chasing the cats and just overall keeping us on our toes. I am not looking forward to when he starts to walk!

I have to point out Declan’s outfit this time. Bryan’s nickname when he was little was Bronco Buster and while I was pregnant I found these little vintage overall’s with the words Bronco Buster on the waist! They just now fit and were so cute on him!!

Overall 9 months has been so much fun. Month 10 will bring his first plane ride, his Christening and his first Thanksgiving! I can’t wait!

Bought Declan’s christening shoes. Boy are they white!!

We didn’t carve pumpkins this year since Declan is still too young for it, however there is a pumpkin contest at my work tomorrow so I decided to create something that I pinned!

Gauzy pumpkin

I had Bryan pick up a pumpkin while at the grocery store and I put to use the rest of the white sheet from my DIY crib skirt. I ripped a few strips and packed up my glue gun and some felt and headed to my parents for Sunday dinner. While waiting for dinner to be ready I glued glued glued and ended up with a not-too-shabby mummy pumpkin!

I was going through all of my bookmarks recently and came across Booster Seat Fabrics. Love love love. Want want want.

Now if I only had projects for each of these I could justify buying them! Have a wonderful weekend!

(I can never resist a POP up sale)

Upgrading from Office 2003 to 2010 at work. 4 hour training session. Sweet.

Happy Monday!!

I learned pretty quick that story time wasn’t an easy thing with a baby who likes to eat anything and everything. I read about these books… somewhere? At $5.00 each, the Indestructibles books are well worth the money. Declan has pulled, bitten, slobbered on, crumbled and crawled over these books and I just smooth them out and dry them off and they are like new!

On a side note, we let Declan play with an old laptop that I have. I believe what I said was “What harm can he do to it?” and before I could finish the sentence he had ripped off the letter C and had it half way to his mouth. Well, that answers that.

Note: This is not a sponsored post. I always appreciated baby product reviews when I was pregnant (heck, I still do!) so I wanted to review a few of my favorite products.