Play date overload!

I have been slacking on this blog thing. I'm about to play serious catch up!

About two weeks ago, I was asked to admin for my local moms group on Facebook. I can't begin to tell you how excited I was. I love play dates! I love meeting new moms! This is perfect for me.

So over these few weeks I have met some awesome moms. We have done walking outings and tomorrow is our first zoo trip! I am so excited to make some close friends with kids W's age.
I'm going to host a play date in my home in the next two weeks, I can't wait.

Mommy pick up

Today at the park while swinging Walker I was approached by another mom. She has a 9 month old daughter would, coincidentally, also loves to swing!

She was super friendly and started asking questions about whether I was a SAHM and if I knew of any play groups. After some chit chat she cut to the chase and wanted to get my number so our little ones could get together. We exchanged numbers and are hoping to get together this week.

This is my first ever mommy pick up. I have never felt comfortable enough to ask a random stranger for their number so our littles could hang out. But I am so excited that she had the courage to ask me because I desperately need some mommy friends in the area. I am hoping that we connect enough to where I can have someone to go on walks with or grab coffee and swing the littles in the park.

I honestly never knew this was a thing until just recently. Maybe I can start my own play group by grabbing random ladies in the park? :)

Here's my boy swinging away today. He refused to sit back and wanted to lean forward with his arms through the leg holes. What am I going to do with him :)

Monkeys and tigers and spring cleaning?

I am playing catch up in blog posts tonight!

Two weeks ago was our first zoo day! Walker, being that he is only 5 months old, wasn't to in to it. That is until we hit the zoo train. He loved the zoo train so much. Lucky for us my best friend has a zoo membership so she can get us in for free. We have been once a week for the last two weeks and plan to continue to go every week for the summer. Honestly, it's really great mommy exercise!

All 4 of us had a total blast. 

I have also spent the last two weeks deep cleaning my house. Talk about tedious work. All that's left is the office (which I am converting into a play room slowly), and our bedroom. Tonight I spent two hours on our bathroom, but after all was done it looks like a whole new room!

I am excited to have everything organized again. We desperately needed it.

Sweet peas

This week we started sweet peas. This was by far his favorite food so far.

I bought a bag of organic sweet peas for a little over $3, steamed them, and blended them. I filled as ice tray and froze the peas over night. The bag made enough for 8 days worth of food for little man. 

I was recently trying to decide when to add another meal to his day. Right now he is eating dinner (although the first time we try a food we try it around lunch time just in case he has a reaction to it). I want to add breakfast in a few more weeks. Right now he doesn't show a whole lot of interest in food. He spits out more then he eats. He is still a champion nurser though so I'm not worried about his food intake. 

Next week is mangos! 

Pears

This week pears are on the menu!

He has had pears twice at the time of writing this and he liked them way better the second time. I spent about $5 on 4 pears. I steamed them and blended them with water. It made about 3 weeks worth of food (I freeze all of it, it's good for 3 months). I tried something different when giving him the food this time. I put some on his tray for him to play with. He wanted nothing to do with it, which is funny because he loves to grab the spoon from me and try to feed himself. 

Next week it's on to sweet peas! 

Butternut squash

Last week we had butternut squash with a dash of cinnamon. He really seemed to like it (even though he spit out nearly all of it.) He has yet to eat more then maybe 5 bites at a sitting. He isn't quite ready for  more then that. 

Here are a few pictures:

Yummy yummy. As I am sure most know, I make all of our baby food myself. I tried two separate ways of making the squash. I steamed one and baked one. It didn't seem to make a difference to him. Two medium sized squashes cost me about $4 and made enough food for about 2 weeks. We still have a week of food saved up. 

I really love watching his try new things. He is so animated in his facial expressions. 

Walker's 5 month post

Where is the time going? I swear it was only yesterday that I had this sleepy little newborn who did nothing but snuggle me all the time. I now have a infant who is bubbling over with personality. I adore watching him grow up, but does it have to be so quick?

Sleep:

Yes! He is finally starting to sleep again. I never thought I would see the day. In fact, I was pretty sure I wasn't going to sleep until he was grown and out of the house. However, he has proved me wrong. My issue is no longer with him not sleeping, its with me sleeping on the couch because I fall asleep while nursing him. Walker goes to bed around 9pm, wakes around 1-2am, and then I end up fallen asleep on the couch with him until 7am. If I do ended up putting him back in the rock n play he wakes again around 5am. So the issue lies in me. 

Also, we are switching to his bassinet as soon as he is no longer coughing. He is still recovering from being sick, so I am waiting for him to fully recover. I plan to switch him to his crib at 6 months. The thought breaks my heart. 

Daily Life:

He is doing wonderful with a schedule lately. He wakes around 7, naps around 9-12pm, plays, naps again around 3pm, plays, naps around 5, dinner and bedtime routine start about 7, start nursing by 8, asleep by 9pm. He is assisted sitting and getting really good at it. I know that at any minute he is just going to sit up on his own completely. He has mastered rolling from back to belly, belly to back is still a challenge though. He loves to give bear hugs and open mouth kisses. His teething seems to be picking up a bit, but I don't see any teeth coming in. All in all he is a great baby. 

Solids:

He tried avocados, butternut squash, and pears so far. He loved the butternut squash and pears, he absolutely hated the avocado. I will be writing a post about each of the foods he tries I'm just running a bit behind. 

Here's a few pictures from the past month! Love my baby bear. 

Two fantastic Target deals

This week I bought an Ergo for $50 (originally $115), and a Chicco Nextfit carseat for $150 (originally $280). Target was offering two $20 off coupons, a 20% coupon, and for the Ergo a $20 gift card. The carseat was also on sale for $223 I believe. I knew these were steals. 

Walker loves the Ergo! I currently own a Infantino carrier that neither W or I really like. He always fights me when I try to wear him. I had my eye on an Ergo for awhile, and to be perfectly honest I wanted the Camel color instead of the Galaxy. I have since really started liking the Galaxy print. Here is a picture of our first ever back carry 

I look pretty rough, but we both really enjoyed it. The only other carrier I want is a Tula.

The Chicco Nextfit is the steal of the year for this momma! I had been researching over the last few weeks trying to decide between the Chicco Nextfit and the Britex Marathon (currently we are a Britex family). The two deciding factors came down to this sale and the fact that a friend of mine told me that children ABOVE the 50th percentile grow out of the Britex earlier due to the short shells. We plan to do extended rear facing and I read this seat is great for that! I am waiting till he sits by himself to switch him, but I knew we would need a new seat in the next month. Here is the seat 

I am ecstatic over these finds! Any other mommas take advantage of the Target coupons?

Guest bathroom remodel

We moved into our house in June of 2012 and since that day our guest bathroom has looked something like this...

I have never been happy with it. Recently, I have gone on a remodel kick and I wanted to start with the guest bathroom. Which resulted in the pictures down below.

All I needed was a little paint, a few shelves, and about $30 worth of yellow decor to transform the guest bathroom completely. I am absolutely in love with the way it turned out. I still want to frame the mirror, but that a project I will tackle down the road. Now on to the master bathroom!

C25K update

I have been meaning to post this for a few weeks now! 

I am on week 3 of C25K (I am so far behind). With the recent wedding and just Walker related stuff I have only been able to get to the gym once or twice a week which means my weeks overlap. However, I am making progress and find myself really looking forward to going to the gym. That is something I never thought I would say! I am really excited for the Color Run this year! Plus I am hoping to be shedding some of this baby weight. 

I just finished up the second week with is run 90sec walk for 2 minutes. I found this to be fairly easy. I ended up running almost 2 miles in 30 minutes every time I went to the gym. This is definitely progress for me. 

I am loving this running regiment! Maybe ill be in shape for a 10K at the end of the year? ;)

This was technically on the cross trainer. I like to spice it up.

Avocado update!

Well it turns out Walker hates avocados. 

Who would have known? 

We tried them two days in a row and he broke out in a rash on his back. So we quit all solids for a few days (this coincided with him getting sick) and we started with butternut squash, which he loves! 

We will revisit avocados in a few weeks to see if he still gets a rash. I read that a baby should try something 12 times before they can actually decide if they like it or not. 

2 times down, 10 more to go. 

Pedi appointment and breathing treatments

We are sick. 

Very sick.

Yesterday, I was woken up at 5 am  by a coughing baby. As soon as I picked him up he threw up all over me. He had been congested for a few days with a cough, but no fever. I assumed it was allergies. 

I set a Facebook status asking for home remedies for his cough. I tried vicks on his feet, steam showers, cool humidifier, anything I knew of. On that status, a nurse friend mentioned that he didn't need to have a fever to have RSV. She asked if he had retractions. After a little research, I concluded that he did have retractions. After talking a bit more to her, I decided we needed to see the pediatrician. 

A quick call to the pediatrian and they wanted us in immediately. I threw on clothes and loaded up W. We headed straight there. 

They ran a test to check for RSV which (thankfully) came back negative. However, the pediatrician said he has a severe chest cold that mimics RSV. He prescribed breathing treatments. 

After leaving his office, We came home and took a nap. I woke up feeling incredibly sick. I'm pretty sure I have an upper respiratory infection. Coughing hurts SO bad, plus the runny nose, headache. Blah. Ben stayed home from work today so I could sleep and hopefully feel better. 

At the time of writing this, I feel way better. Not 100% but better. Walker is feeling better as well. He is doing awesome with the treatments. I'm hoping he will be 100% by this weekend.

I'm so glad I posted that status and followed my gut. I didn't want to go to the pedi just for them to tell me he had allergies, but I knew it was something more serious. 

Always follow that gut feeling when it comes to your babies. 

Starting solids

and I mean real solids! Tomorrow kicks off Walker's first real solids and we are starting with avocados!

We have decided to do homemade baby food for a few reasons, but the main one is that it is way cheaper to make his food then buy it from the store.

So here goes nothing! I have been reluctant to start solids because I don't want to start him before he his ready. Tonight at dinner it was easy to tell the boy is super interested in food! He will stare at anyone who has food in their hand. So for I am so excited to see how he handles it. We will still be nursing before he gets solids each time because the bulk of his nutrition will still come from breast milk. I'm thinking he will start getting his food in the early afternoon around noonish. I will post with pictures on how he handles it! 

For information on how to prepare avocados for your little one visit Stormy over at Life's a Dance . She has a schedule for introducing solids to your little one that we will be following. 

4 months

My baby is FOUR months old. Holy Moley. 

As of 3/1/14, since 2/29/14 doesn't exist this year. 

Sleep:

He is the king of no sleep. We just tranistioned completely out of the swaddle, but we moved into a sleep sack. It's like a blanket that zips around him so he can't pull it up over his face. 

He seems to like it. Plus when we snuggle during the day we always use a blanket. He is still waking up 3-6 times a night. We are working through this right now, but this momma is so tired. I can barely function some days. He is also anti naps unless they are in moms arms. I would love to hold him, but this isn't possible everyday. He wakes up as soon as I try to lay him down. Right now I figure persistence is key. I am anti cry it out method, but I will allow him to fuss for a minute or two before soothing him. 

Nursing:

He is a nursing champ! I had so many issues in the beginning and I was so close to giving up. I am glad I stuck with it through the cracked nipples, intense pain, and bleeding. We are now nursing 100% pain free. The only downer is that we are still using a shield. I wish I could say that we intend to wean from the shield, but I think we will be stuck with it for the remainder of our nursing journey. Honestly, it's not that terrible. I think maybe thats because I have never had the luxury of nursing without the shield. When it comes down to it, I will take nursing with the shield over not nursing any day. 

Daily life:

Walker can roll from back to belly and belly to back now. Tummy time is ancient history (which I am sure he is glad about). All of him movements are now purposeful which is so fun to watch. He can interact with toys now and I adore it. We have started building up our library. Ben and I have decided to buy 4 new books every month. This month we purchased The knight and the Dragon, The Alphabet tree, Dream Train Steam Train, and Alphabet under construction. I am already adding books to my amazon cart for next month! I love reading and I am hoping to pass that on to Walker. We are also practicing assisted sitting which he is doing very well at. 

Solids (new category!):

Walker has taken up an interest in anyone with food within 10 feet of him. He will stare them down and open and close him mouth. So we started oatmeal this month! He wasn't a fan at first, but we have only done this twice to date, but he seemed to like it the second time. The first try I used water and the second time I used breast milk. Next Sunday we are starting avocados! I am so excited to see him with these. We are also making our own baby food! Any tips would be appreciated! 

During our 4 month photo shoot

He loves his Sophie!

Hanging with mom

Mr. Green eyes. 

Finally some outside time

Here's something I never thought about when we got pregnant with an October baby. He was born right when it got cold outside and by cold, it was freezing the week he was born. So we have been trapped inside for the past almost 4 *sobs* months. This week we were able to go on two, yes TWO, walks. Lets just say Walker wasn't too happy about the bright sun, the high winds, or the fact that he was strapped into another form of the dreaded car seat, but after about 10 minutes he LOVED it. 

Walks will be a part of our daily life very soon. This momma wants to get her butt into shape and raise a baby that loves to be outside. 

                                               

                                                

Happy Valentine's day!

Happy Valentine's day!

Mom says I can't date till i'm 40.

C25K day 1

The color run is April 26th and I WILL run it this year. 

In preparation for that run, I am starting Couch to 5K. For anyone who doesn't know, C25K works by doing interval training. So for the first week I run for 60seconds, walk for 90 seconds, then it increases every week. You run 3 times a week for 30 minutes for 8 weeks and by the end you can run a 5K. Awesome right? 

So I put all of my other exercises on hold. I have always wanted to be a runner and this is a great start. I thought it would be a lot harder then it was. Once I pushed through to the half way point I was actually enjoying it, yeah me enjoying exercising. Who knew that could happen? I am really excited to start this program. 

Walker did fantastic for Ben while I worked out. I was gone for about an hour and when I came back Ben had him asleep on his chest in the rocking chair singing to him. My heart melted. I adore when they bond like that. 

Walker 3 months

I just realized I never posted Walker's 3 month post! Whoops!

Walker was 3 months on 1/29/14

Daily Life

We are still going with the flow. Walker rolled over on the day he turned 3 months (from back to belly). We have yet to see him roll from belly to back yet. I don't force a lot of tummy time on him though. He found his toes a few days before turning 3 months. He constantly has them in his hands now. It makes diaper changes a bit harder haha. He is fully in 3-6 month clothes, and 3/6 month sleepers. The 3 month sleepers are WAY to short for him. As for facial expressions, this kid is full of them. You can tell exactly what he is thinking from the look he gives you. 

Sleep

We have a bedtime routine (that I am about to change!) We start our routine with a bath at 8pm, baby massage, snuggles, nurse/read a book. He is usually out by 9:30. He then proceeds to wake at about 4:00 and 6:00 each night. The time we wake up fully for the day varies from as early as 8 to as late as 11. Boy loves his sleep unless its a nap, then he hates it haha. I want to change the time back to bath at 7, bed at 8 but we just went through a sleep regression of waking every hour to hour and a half. I am hoping we are on the other fence from that one now. I don't know if I can take much more of that. So I am waiting another week or two to mess with bedtime. 

Nursing

We are still going strong and honestly better then ever. He is still stuck on using the shield, but to be honest it doesn't bother me much anymore. I enjoy nursing so much. It rarely hurts now (it took a whole lot of praying to help with that) and I no longer feel like giving up. There were a few days when I really considered quitting due to the pain. I even saw a lactation consultant who didn't help at all. 

Right now we are debating when to start solids. I am wanting to wait until 5 months, but I will take the pediatricians advice into consideration. Walker is just doing so well with breast milk that I don't see the need to start solids just yet. I am buying all the equipment to make the food myself starting next week! I will post about that as it goes along. 

Magical crockpot

This week I read a post on the bump.com about women using their crockpot to make cooking dinner with an infant easier. I have had a crockpot since we got married and up until this week have used it maybe 3 times. 

Yesterday I used it to make BBQ chicken sandwiches. HOLYMOLEY they were yummy. I also used those bags you put in first to make cleaning up easier. Yup. I am in love.

Why have I never thought to do this before?! 

So, I have plans for chicken tacos tomorrow and a roast on Saturday. Any other moms out there love their crockpot? Got any special recipes for me? I will be using this nonstop for the next few weeks. 

My baby rolled!

He rolled from back to belly tonight! I am so not ready for this. 

I had a fever and some serious body aches so Ben came home to help care for Walker while I slept. During the hour I slept he rolled over! I MISSED IT. I'm not super upset because he has done it three times since, but come on kid. I better see your first steps!

Remember that post

where I said I was leaving Walker and Ben to go to a bachelorette party out of state? Well, that isn't happening anymore. 

I was having nightmares over leaving. The whole thought rocked my daily life. I would cry just talking about it. So, in the end I decided it would be best for my family if I opted out. Lets be honest, I wouldn't be any fun anyways.

When I finally worked up the courage to tell the bride, she was SO understanding. In retrospect, it was silly of me to be worried about telling her. She is a mom of two under 3. She gets it and she didn't want me to feel bad about not going. It really made me appreciate how amazing my friends are. 

This is the part where I am going to brag about them for a bit. I have two absolutely amazing friends. One is D and the other is C (they don't know this blog exists. I am a closet blogger so I don't feel its fair to share their real names without their permission). While they rarely agree with me in terms of parenting decisions, we support each other regardlessly. Between the three of us there are 4 kids, yes we are out numbered. I have been friends with both since high school and I am so thankful that I have them as a built in support system. I am seriously so lucky. 

I am so excited to be celebrating D's wedding in March.

You took your infant where?!

Yup folks. You heard it right. I took my 3 month old to the movie theater. 

In fact, we went to see Frozen. TWICE. 

So not only did I take my infant to a movie. I took him to the same movie twice. 

If your haven't seen Frozen, get in your car immediately, drive to your local theater, buy a ticket to the next showing, try not to fall in love with ever character. No, but seriously this movie was worth seeing twice. 

In my defense though, I saw it the first time with my best friend and the second time with Ben. It was equally awesome the second time. 

So how did I do it? I lazor beamed anyone who gave me a mean look. 

Ok ok. I brought my hoppy pillow and little man nursed and slept the WHOLE time, both times. 

Yeah I was a little nervous. But we made it through. 

It was almost to easy. We also went to matinee movies just in case he decided to scream blood murder during the quietest parts of the movie. 

In fact, here is a picture of my sweet boy right after we saw the movie, for the first time. 

Seriously, this is my ring tone now. LOVE this song :)

Girl look at that body

Today is day 1!

I started Zumba this evening and can I just say holy moly I am out of shape. However, I am SO ready to feel more confident in my body. I'm not necessarily going to go for a goal weight. I want to feel better. I want to look in the mirror and not hate everything I see from my boobs (although there days I have those too) down. 

My second goal is to run my next 5K. I have walked the last three and the last one I walked in 55 minutes. I want to run the Color Run on April 26th. Saturday I am starting Couch to 5K in hopes of meeting that goal. 

I also started tanning (I know, I know its bad for me. But a girl has to have her vices very now and again). I am in a wedding in March and the dress is navy blue. I am whiter then white since I was pregnant all summer and refused to lay out in the heat. I swear I will only tan until the wedding :)

The only down side to my fitness goals is child care. I can only work out on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays because Ben gets the other days. I am just not comfortable with leaving Walker in a gym daycare. I toured the daycare, I talked to moms who use the daycare, but I just can't do it. If I have learned anything this far into motherhood, its that your trust your gut and my gut says to keep him out of that daycare till he can at least sit up by himself. So we have to trade days. Also, my Zumba class gets out at 7:35 and after I tan I don't get home till 8:00-8:10 so we were late starting Walker's bed time routine and he didn't go to bed till 10 tonight. Hopefully this doesn't become a regular thing. For as much as I love working out it can't interfere with our system that I worked my butt off to set up! 

I'm also trying to come up with a new blog name. We aren't trying to become 3 anymore, we are 3. Hopefully something will come to to me :)

Leaving baby overnight?

I have a bachlorette party to attend in exactly 18 days in a completely different state. I am freaking out over the idea of leave Walker for a full 24 hours. We have never spent a day apart and to be completely honest, I wouldn't even go if I wasn't in the wedding. 

Ben will be staying with him obviously, but I just have so many worries. Ben has never done a night feeding. He has never put him to bed, or done bath time by himself. They are  both going to be completely miserable when I'm gone. I highly doubt either of them will be sleeping much during that time. 

Aside from that I have to pump for the trip. Right now I am sitting at 30oz. I'm hoping t have somewhere around 60oz when it's time to leave. I am going to show Ben how to make a bottle using formula in the off chance that's not enough milk.

All the logistics aside, I am freaking out. I don't want to leave my baby. I wish Ben and Walker could just come with me. It's getting to the point where I keep having theses terrible stress dreams about the house catching on fire or Ben forgetting Walker and leaving him at home. The list goes on. There is no real solution though. Since I am in the wedding I am expected at the bachlorette party. Honestly, I would have a blast at the party if I wasn't so concerned about the well-bring of my 3 month old at home. 

At this point, I need to accept that i will probably bawl my eyes out more then once that night and continue with the pumping. 

The baby blues

I wanted to write this post to draw attention to a subject that few want to talk about. 

The baby blues. 

 

Now that Walker is almost 3 months old, I can definitely look back and see that I suffered from the baby blues. It was the loneliest I had every felt in my life, those first few weeks. I loved my son with everything I had in me, but I felt completely isolated from those around me. I only wanted to be around Walker. I had terrible night time anxiety. Just the thought of having to go to bed made me nauseous. Everything and I do mean everything made me cry. Ben could look at me wrong and I would bawl. These are all normal things, however these aren't what I want to write about. 

The problem isn't that I had a minor case of the baby blues, it's that when I was asked by my husband on multiple occasion if I was feeling a little down I would lie. 

I lied because in my head I couldn't be that woman. I refused to be her. I had failed at having a natural birth, I wasn't going to fail as a mother and admitting to the baby blues was admitting that I couldn't do this. 

In society, we have this perfect idea of what a mom should be. She should cook gourmet meals, have a spotless home, look spectacular (and thin of course), be about to care for her children's every need, never have a bad day and still have energy to have sex with her husband. 

Well I'm calling bullshit. 

It took me week to realize that feel lonely didn't make me a bad mother. My marriage suffered because I wanted Ben to fix something that I couldn't even tell him was broken because I wanted to fit into the mold of a perfect mom. I needed to fit into that mold after my failed natural birth. I didn't want to admit that I was struggling because I didn't want to be judged. My friend's are great examples for the "token mom" and I couldn't tell them that I was no where near meeting those expectations. 

Time healed my baby blues. Routine, scheduling, getting to know my baby, and falling into my role as a mom really helped. I'm still not super mom. My house is rarely clean (because I refuse to miss a second of my child growing up on me). There are nights we have PB&Js for dinner. I know that my child feels loved though. To me, that makes battling the baby blues worth it. 

Scheduling our lives

No, but seriously, if your also a stay at home mom how do you do it?! 

Right now we are working on a bed time routine. I want our lives to be at least a tad bit more predictable. We started this schedule this week (of course, Walker and I ended up sick this week too):

8:00- Bath time (this was with mom all week because the steam from the shower helped with his breathing). We do soap every 3 days, so usually these are water baths. 

8:30- We do a baby massage, jammie time, and snuggles.

8:45- We start to nurse. I want to implement a book into this time as well. 

Somewhere between 9:00-10:00 he will fall asleep and I will swaddle him and lay him in the rock n play. Usually he doesn't wake up, sometimes he does. I try to let him sooth himself back to sleep, but if he starts to cry I always go and get him immediately and we nurse again. 

Now his wake times during the night are a bit erratic since we just started this system. He usually only wakes twice. The first will be around 3-4am and the second is almost always 5:30-6am. He wakes up around 8 to nurse and we snooze on the couch till 9 before starting our day (usually). 

Now during the day time, its anybody's game. We have no schedule for anything. I choose to nurse on demand so I never look at the clock for nursing. I let him sleep when he chooses, but we also have no regular activities. We almost always play on our kick in play piano, exersaurcer, and gym. We sing songs and listen to music. I need to start reading more books to him. Once it's warmer, I want to go for a walk once a day (even for 10 minutes). 

I have all these plans, but it's impossible to get on a schedule. I need time in the day to clean, take bathroom breaks, and eat and I never seem to have it. So anyone out there have a schedule they use? I would love to hear it!

Ever get that feeling...

that you aren't doing this parenting thing wrong?

I'm constantly wondering if I am creating a person that will be a gem to our society. By adhering to his every demand is he going to be the whiny, bratty child that everyone says i'm raising? To be completely honest, I don't know. I'm not sure if I'm any good at this mom thing.

I do know that I love being a mom. I'm not sure I have all the answers and on a day like today, when I have been criticized about my choices in parenting I'm not sure I give a damn. I love my son and I feel like he deserves to know how much I love him. I love him enough to give up doing what I want so he can be comforted by constant nursing. I love him to the point where my sleep doesn't matter, he wants to nurse and cuddle every hour through out the night then so be it. I love him enough to wash diapers every day because it's better for him. I love him enough to bring him into my bed early in the morning to nurse and snuggle until we choose to get up.

I love my son and i'm getting really sick of being told I'm raising a dependent child.

Personally, I believe a 2 month old should be dependent on his mother. God intended me to care for him and in my book that includes comforting him, soothing him, cuddling him, and loving him in all the ways that I am capable. I have been blessed to be a stay at home mom, he deserves all of my time and attention.

Maybe I'll regret my choice of attachment parenting someday, maybe I won't. Right now I'm enjoying loving my boy because today is all that really matters.

Walker's 2 month post

I can't believe he's 2 months old already!

*as of 12/29/13*

Daily life:

He is the light of my life. He has become so active in the last month! He responds with smiles and coos.   He is a happy baby 99% of the time, the only fussy times we have are around nap time. He hate tummy time, but loves his exercisaucer (spelling?). He loves to stand. I have a feeling I may have an early walker on my hands! He is a momma's boy too. He prefers me over anyone else and I can't say that I'm upset about that. 

Sleep: 

Walker sleeps fairly well for his age. He use to have a schedule of bedtime at 10, sleep till 3 then nurse, sleep till 6 then nurse, up for the day around 9-10. I recently switched his bedtime back to 9 so he is waking every 3 hours like clockwork and wanting to start his day at 6 (not good for this momma). We are still working through the kinks of this new schedule. As for nap times, we recently started napping in his crib. No real problems. On the first day he took a 3 hour nap. I was really proud of him. 

Nursing:

I have chosen to nurse on demand so every day is different. I never deny him boob time, so usually he nurses every 2 hours give or take 15 minutes. He always nurses to sleep and I plan to let him do that for at least the first 6 months. 

I'm going to include his one month picture on this post as well. I never got around to writing a one month post, but I did take a picture!

*as of 11/29/13*