FIrst of all Pinterest is my new BFF during nursing sessions. It is sooo easy to scroll on my iPhone and hit Like...because I haven't figured out what "Repinning" means. I am obsessed. It actually almost kept me up last night after the 2:30 nursing session!
Second, I am drooling badly over these two recipes off two new blogs I've found and really like...
1st up: Bacon Chicken Dish yummm what's better than bacon and brown sugar.
And...for dessert: this yummy white chocolate funfetti fudge.
I will post a review when I finally get to making these two things! Tomorrow I need to make zucchini bread with the piece of zucchini I have in the fridge.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Monday, October 10, 2011
Freezer Style Cooking
Wow! What an afternoon. In between Claire's two naps I have prepared and frozen 6 meals!!! Yum!
I stumbled upon Once A Month Mom.com and it's AAAAHmaaazing! So then I just started picking an choosing recipes from there and other blogs and wrote up a grocery list.
Since Tim took off work today I dragged him to Safeway and we spent $200. The good this is now I have meals for the next two weeks frozen in the freezer. I still have two more frozen meals to make as I got tired standing in our tiny kitchen trying to cook, as well as, the fact we ran out of pots/pans and bowls!
I stumbled upon Once A Month Mom.com and it's AAAAHmaaazing! So then I just started picking an choosing recipes from there and other blogs and wrote up a grocery list.
Since Tim took off work today I dragged him to Safeway and we spent $200. The good this is now I have meals for the next two weeks frozen in the freezer. I still have two more frozen meals to make as I got tired standing in our tiny kitchen trying to cook, as well as, the fact we ran out of pots/pans and bowls!
Saturday, October 8, 2011
4 Blondes and a Brunette
Looks like that's what our Brady Bunch will consist of...
Since C slept so amazingly last night, I got two 4 hour stretches and an hour and half extra this morning. Makes for one happy and observant momma. While nursing her this morning I was playing with her hair and found a blonde patch...literally blonde at the roots for an inch and then dark. Her new hair is coming in while her beautiful newborn hair isn't even falling out completely, yet at least.
So Tim will be the oddball out until maybe the next kiddo.
Since C slept so amazingly last night, I got two 4 hour stretches and an hour and half extra this morning. Makes for one happy and observant momma. While nursing her this morning I was playing with her hair and found a blonde patch...literally blonde at the roots for an inch and then dark. Her new hair is coming in while her beautiful newborn hair isn't even falling out completely, yet at least.
So Tim will be the oddball out until maybe the next kiddo.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
If I had to give one word to describe her...
She's 7 weeks and the most curious little bugger. She loves to be held. By me. Me only. For now at least. She loves to be inthe know and see everything that is going on. Her favorite thing is seeing new faces, while in mama's arms. She really just would prefer to be carried on my shoulder then pushed in her shoulder. Today we went to the lake to walk with old friends and their babes. Claire was fussy to start and settled down, and fell asleep on my shoulder as soon as I placed her there. She was an angel the rest of the walk.
Right now we are working on learning how to develop a sleep time routine at night and getting her to sleep at least 4.5 hours at night. She's done it once so far and I am hoping it will come again soon. Bath time routine at night is nice but often she needs a bath in the morning too if she spits up throughout the night. I am currently reading Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child right now hoping to find some answers.
Claire's Milestones:
At about 4 weeks she started smiling, but not consistently. At 5 weeks we got consistent social smiles! She's been such a doll. This morning while in the bassinet I rolled over to her waking up and just laying there smiling, cooing and perfectly content while staring at the movement of shadows. She just melts our heart.
Right around the same time of smiling Claire started telling us stories. Well that's what we call them. I ask her to tell me a story and she responds with "coo", "ahh", "goo", etc. It's adorable.
Last weekend Claire met her great grandma and great grandpa from Buffalo. They traveled all the way down here to see her and it was a fun Saturday!
She now loves bath time. We do it in the sink without anything. Just me holding her and she pushes the edge and sometimes goes under the faucet if it's running (that's the only time she gets a tad upset). She lovessss to have the water run over her chest with a washcloth and she just relaxes completely with the water from the faucet running on her head. Then when it's time to get out she screams bloody murder because she's cold, wet, and hates to be changed into new clothes cold and wet. She settles down as soon as mommy picks her up!
We've been consistently using cloth diapers now for about a week. I use the disposables when we go out sometimes, but I used cloth yesterday at the soccer game and it worked wonderfully. It's nice to let her bum breath in a cloth fitted without a cover during the day (it's intense to learn about cloth, but not unbearable). We actually just ordered a few new fitteds that are ADORABLE. One came today and I am in love with her new poop catcher, so cute! I will do a post soon about the cloth diapers and what we use / do with them. I am actually in need of purchasing new cloth diaper safe rash cream for her. When I go back and forth her bum gets red and the newborn poo is just soooo frequent!
The dogs have been great with her with the exception of barking at every person/dog/car that goes by during the day. They are getting better and she sleeps through it most times unless she's overly tired.
Now I am going to eat her up for the next 5 weeks I am off of work for because today she is SEVEN weeks old. She has changed my life completely and I have never been so in love with someone as much as I love her. She is just the best thing in the whole wide world.
Right now we are working on learning how to develop a sleep time routine at night and getting her to sleep at least 4.5 hours at night. She's done it once so far and I am hoping it will come again soon. Bath time routine at night is nice but often she needs a bath in the morning too if she spits up throughout the night. I am currently reading Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child right now hoping to find some answers.
Claire's Milestones:
At about 4 weeks she started smiling, but not consistently. At 5 weeks we got consistent social smiles! She's been such a doll. This morning while in the bassinet I rolled over to her waking up and just laying there smiling, cooing and perfectly content while staring at the movement of shadows. She just melts our heart.
Right around the same time of smiling Claire started telling us stories. Well that's what we call them. I ask her to tell me a story and she responds with "coo", "ahh", "goo", etc. It's adorable.
Last weekend Claire met her great grandma and great grandpa from Buffalo. They traveled all the way down here to see her and it was a fun Saturday!
She now loves bath time. We do it in the sink without anything. Just me holding her and she pushes the edge and sometimes goes under the faucet if it's running (that's the only time she gets a tad upset). She lovessss to have the water run over her chest with a washcloth and she just relaxes completely with the water from the faucet running on her head. Then when it's time to get out she screams bloody murder because she's cold, wet, and hates to be changed into new clothes cold and wet. She settles down as soon as mommy picks her up!
We've been consistently using cloth diapers now for about a week. I use the disposables when we go out sometimes, but I used cloth yesterday at the soccer game and it worked wonderfully. It's nice to let her bum breath in a cloth fitted without a cover during the day (it's intense to learn about cloth, but not unbearable). We actually just ordered a few new fitteds that are ADORABLE. One came today and I am in love with her new poop catcher, so cute! I will do a post soon about the cloth diapers and what we use / do with them. I am actually in need of purchasing new cloth diaper safe rash cream for her. When I go back and forth her bum gets red and the newborn poo is just soooo frequent!
The dogs have been great with her with the exception of barking at every person/dog/car that goes by during the day. They are getting better and she sleeps through it most times unless she's overly tired.
Now I am going to eat her up for the next 5 weeks I am off of work for because today she is SEVEN weeks old. She has changed my life completely and I have never been so in love with someone as much as I love her. She is just the best thing in the whole wide world.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Sunday, September 18, 2011
One Month Old
Claire Elisabeth is ONE MONTH OLD TODAY!
1 month stats: 9 lbs !!!
Claire also got her Hep B 2nd shot and it was heart wrenching...she screamed then was easily calmed when I picked her up.
Nicknames: Beary, Bears, Clairey, Claire Beth, and Sweet C, more to come I am sure.
Things Claire can do:
She has rolled over probably more than both hands can count. It doesn't happen all the time and sometimes it startles her and she cries after the fact. She goes from her tummy to her back pretty quickly, especially if her hands are out in front of her.
Claire also props herself up with her knees bent like she'd like to crawl, but she's clearly too young. I have a feeling we may have an early crawler (uh oh!).
Sweet C loves, loves, loves, to stare and can get easily fixated on black and white objects.
She is extremely alert 5-6 hours a day and sometimes longer. Her eyes are so big and already turning, what we think is Brown. She's going to be our brown eyed girl (most likely).
She has the prettiest complexion. It's just gorgeous. Definitely got her daddy's coloring.
She has her mommy's just about everything else (see the picture for comparison). It is pretty scary how similar Claire looks compared to my baby pictures. Poor Tim!
Her hair is starting to fall out, as we've found random strands of her pretty dark hair around. Tim is very sad about this and wants it to stay. I do too!
Claire has been wearing cloth diapers not on a regular basis, but more and more as mommy is getting used to it. We like them because I change her as soon as she's wet because we can tell and she isn't getting rashes with them. Whereas the Pampers we are noticing rashes overnight. She really has the cutest fluffy bum because it's sooo big! Pretty darn cute:
Claire is gooing and gahhing all over the place. She loves to coo! It's adorable. The cutest thing is I say, "Hiiii" to her all the time in a high pitch and she's been imitating it. It really sounds like, "hiii". So cute.
Beary is smiling now. She has been shooting us smiles for about two weeks (like since just before she was 4 weeks old). She now can do it when I work really hard to get her smile for mommy. She loves to do it and they always show her entire toothless mouth. I just love her gummies!
Bears also drools and blows bubbles. We keep teasing and saying she's so advanced that she is already teething. For my sake, I am praying she isn't teething anytime soon. ;o)
Beary has gone to her first lacrosse tournament last weekend (I'll do a separate post on this). We won and the girl's gave her the huge (tacky) trophy.
Visitors so far:
Claire has been so fortunate to have so many visitors. We have seen Sada, Erin, Ian, Heather, James, Katie, Natalie, Jess, Sa, Miss Karen, and for now that's all I can remember because I am drawing a blank.
Places we've gone:
Target, Babies R Us, Marshall's, Giant, Starbucks, to Baltimore City for the Ravens/Steelers Tailgate (she must of been the good luck charm)
Century HS for the girls soccer game, OC, Kelly& Harper's house for a playdate 
, Liz & Penelope's for a playdate
Friday, September 16, 2011
Daddy Beware
Claire took her first bottle today!
I've started pumping since fall lax starts up soon! She didn't love it the whole time but she was hungry and enjoyed mose of it.
Yayyy! Sunday's practice will be easier knowing she cannot starve.
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