Thursday, January 16, 2014

Updates

OK, blogger isn't letting me post pictures. So though I have been faithfully taking my photos, I can't share them with you. Not that you're missing much. If I could post, you would see a lot of:
-Potty training attempt #1 (unanimous decision made after 3 days to abort for a few months)
-Hudson rolls from back to front! And forgot how to roll from front to back. And sporadically remembers again.
-Hudson has taken this sudden intense interest in his toys, my necklace, everything. He's deliberate in his movements and his starting to scoot (on his face, silly boy) around the floor to get to what looks interesting. Much like his sister, cords seem particularly fascinating.
-Sleep deprivation. I remember vaguely a time when the kids slept through the night. Hud's up at least once, usually 3x/night. My coffee consumption is skyrocketing.
-We started food! Well, we started letting him have tastes of food. I was adamant Henri not get a nibble until 6 months. But Hudson is sooooo interested, and pediatrician said it was fine after 4 mo, so he's had a celery stick to gnaw on and bits of banana. He also had a green bean and I think his faith in the goodness of humanity was shaken for a bit. I intend to follow more of a baby-led weaning approach with him and just give him what we're eating. He still has the tongue thrust and he's in no way ready for food for nutrition, but he thinks he's hot stuff when sits at the table with us and family time at the dinner is important.
-Park time with this crazy warm weather.
-Library run with lots of books brought home
-Sock knitting


Typical week :) Making plans for the Super Bowl. Of course Sunday is going to be a tense day around here what with the Bronco's fan I'm married to....

Sunday, January 5, 2014

Resolutions

Happy New Year!!! It's been a whirlwind of family and fun, but real life resumes tomorrow (i.e studying for my final exam). I'm not a big fan of New Year's resolutions as I agree with my husband that if there's a change you should make in your life, it's silly to wait to make them. Also, no one keeps them. But I looooove lists, and I love even more to check them off, so I'm compiling a "To Do" list for this year. It's mostly things I'm going to do anyway (like clean the house once a week, pass my CNM exam) but I like having it written out. Being a stay at home mom means your days are usually a blur of the mundane and there are no checkpoints to show you've accomplished anything. So this will provide a little boost to me. And I've added fun things as well (like knitting a pair of socks and our planned vacation to Chicago). So far, I've checked off "write Christmas thank you's". Tomorrow we begin "potty train Henri" (drum roll, please. I see a lot of drama in our near future). And to keep from boring all my readers to death, I have decided this year to try to take a daily picture of our life and share 7-10 once a week. I'm sure I'll chat some too (let's be real, I have to brag about my kids occasionally!), and I might forget a few weeks, but I have folders all set up in my picture files so the yearly family photo books should be much simpler to assemble this year and I like the idea of looks at daily life. So, this past week:

My fuzzy-headed, red-haired chunker. 16#2oz at 4 mo. Huge fan of chewing

We've seen a big spurt in sisterly love this past week. He still thinks she walks on water.


The sub-zero weather doesn't phase her in the least. She loves snow!



We went to a Clemson vs. BC basketball game. The pict is deceiving, Hud actually loved it and both kids were really well behaved


Gram S and Sheffy came for a weekend visit!