Day 30: Post a picture of an outfit that is your style or you wish was your style
Since I blog primarily from my phone I can't post links at the moment but these came from pinterest and are very much me, braid and all.
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Summer Blog Challenge day 30
* I skipped a day again, yesterday's prompt was to post a "How To" post but I didn't have time to put one together.
Day 30: Post a picture of an outfit that is your style or you wish was your style
Since I blog primarily from my phone I can't post links at the moment but these came from pinterest and are very much me, braid and all.
Day 30: Post a picture of an outfit that is your style or you wish was your style
Since I blog primarily from my phone I can't post links at the moment but these came from pinterest and are very much me, braid and all.
4 Months
MV turned FOUR months old on the 26th. FOUR months! He's growing so fast it makes me sad yet happy and excited at the same time.
We postponed his shots and check up until July 16th, I decided I wanted to space them out a little bit. No real reason behind it, I just bumped it back. Which means I will bump again at six months to ensure proper amount of time between boosters.
But anyways onto the stats and pictures from the last month :)
Weight
15 pounds. Not that much of a gain this month, I hope that's ok when we see the doctor. We had a checkup for his ears a couple weeks ago and they weighed him that day at 14.8, scales can be a little different so we'll see.
Length
25 inches, no change there. *** I noticed I put 45 inches in the three month post! Typo! I will go back and change it when I'm on the computer next lol
Hair and Eyes
No changes with his eyes currently light blue with a dark ring; hair is still up for debate if you look at him face on he is blonde, but if you look at him from behind his hair is fairly dark. So depends who you ask lol.
Clothing size
I've packed up a few more things but we haven't gone up in size since last month. Shorts are 3 months (tiny waist), pants and shirts are 0-3 months, full sleepers with feet are six months.
Diapers
Still in size 2's, we did try out the size 3's but they were a little too lose. What we need is an in-between size, something to accommodate giant thighs and a slender waist lol.
Sleep
We've had a couple nights where we get 6 and 8 hours sleep :) but most nights MV is still waking twice a night looking for a snack. I've noticed these night feeds getting shorter so when I get the courage I will try to cut them out, if it was just me I would do it already but hubby needs sleep for work and there will be crying involved I'm sure.
Eating
We are now stretching to three hours between feeds, there is still the occasional two hour stretches but usually I can distract him and hold him off. I feel like this might be helping our night stretches, I hope to stretch to 3 1/2- 4 hours by the end of July.
Bottle strike is still on.
New Developments
We have a visible tooth that just won't break all the way through :( this teething bit really stretches on forever!
Still lots of "talking" to anyone who will listen and respond. If you don't say your share his tone turns frustrated lol it's pretty cute.
He loves story time. We read two books every morning, MV stares at the pictures and chats away :)
He holds onto anything he can like it's his job. Death grip. lol
MV has discovered his tongue, he plays with it all the time, sticking it out and trying to lick things.
Everything is going in his mouth lately.
He is becoming mobile, we haven't had anymore rolls this past month but MV will push off of surfaces (floor, change pad, people, toys etc), this allows him to push himself across the floor of in a circle. I've found him in different spots, and turned around anywhere between 180-360 degrees.
We had a couple laughs in the past couple weeks, it's difficult to make him laugh but when he does it is hilarious. I can't wait for them to be full fledged.
He is very into toys finally, he would stare at them before but now he will sit for extended periods of time holding and chewing them. He loves the exersaucer and is figuring out that when he touches certain ones they make noise.
I hope I haven't forgotten anything, I'm so bad at keeping track of time!
And now time for pictures. :)
We postponed his shots and check up until July 16th, I decided I wanted to space them out a little bit. No real reason behind it, I just bumped it back. Which means I will bump again at six months to ensure proper amount of time between boosters.
But anyways onto the stats and pictures from the last month :)
Weight
15 pounds. Not that much of a gain this month, I hope that's ok when we see the doctor. We had a checkup for his ears a couple weeks ago and they weighed him that day at 14.8, scales can be a little different so we'll see.
Length
25 inches, no change there. *** I noticed I put 45 inches in the three month post! Typo! I will go back and change it when I'm on the computer next lol
Hair and Eyes
No changes with his eyes currently light blue with a dark ring; hair is still up for debate if you look at him face on he is blonde, but if you look at him from behind his hair is fairly dark. So depends who you ask lol.
Clothing size
I've packed up a few more things but we haven't gone up in size since last month. Shorts are 3 months (tiny waist), pants and shirts are 0-3 months, full sleepers with feet are six months.
Diapers
Still in size 2's, we did try out the size 3's but they were a little too lose. What we need is an in-between size, something to accommodate giant thighs and a slender waist lol.
Sleep
We've had a couple nights where we get 6 and 8 hours sleep :) but most nights MV is still waking twice a night looking for a snack. I've noticed these night feeds getting shorter so when I get the courage I will try to cut them out, if it was just me I would do it already but hubby needs sleep for work and there will be crying involved I'm sure.
Eating
We are now stretching to three hours between feeds, there is still the occasional two hour stretches but usually I can distract him and hold him off. I feel like this might be helping our night stretches, I hope to stretch to 3 1/2- 4 hours by the end of July.
Bottle strike is still on.
New Developments
We have a visible tooth that just won't break all the way through :( this teething bit really stretches on forever!
Still lots of "talking" to anyone who will listen and respond. If you don't say your share his tone turns frustrated lol it's pretty cute.
He loves story time. We read two books every morning, MV stares at the pictures and chats away :)
He holds onto anything he can like it's his job. Death grip. lol
MV has discovered his tongue, he plays with it all the time, sticking it out and trying to lick things.
Everything is going in his mouth lately.
He is becoming mobile, we haven't had anymore rolls this past month but MV will push off of surfaces (floor, change pad, people, toys etc), this allows him to push himself across the floor of in a circle. I've found him in different spots, and turned around anywhere between 180-360 degrees.
We had a couple laughs in the past couple weeks, it's difficult to make him laugh but when he does it is hilarious. I can't wait for them to be full fledged.
He is very into toys finally, he would stare at them before but now he will sit for extended periods of time holding and chewing them. He loves the exersaucer and is figuring out that when he touches certain ones they make noise.
I hope I haven't forgotten anything, I'm so bad at keeping track of time!
And now time for pictures. :)
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Summer Blog Challenge day 28
How do you do your laundry?:
I have no secrets when it comes to laundry.
I buy my detergent at the store, we use purex for me and hubby and baby purex for MV.
I don't trust homemade detergent especially with hubby's construction clothes.
I wish I had a clothes line but hubby and I don't see eye to eye on that one.
I wash everything in cold water.
I mix whites and colours.
I use lest oil for stain removal/prevention it has not failed me yet. Hubby's aunt showed it to me.
I occasionally use oxyclean on sheets and whites.
I have a bottle of bleach but I'm scared to use it.
I do a lot of laundry each week.
2-3 loads for MV
1-2 loads for me
2 loads for hubby ( 1 reg, 1 work gear)
1 load of sheets/blankets
1 load of towels
If you have any tips I'd love to hear them :)
I have no secrets when it comes to laundry.
I buy my detergent at the store, we use purex for me and hubby and baby purex for MV.
I don't trust homemade detergent especially with hubby's construction clothes.
I wish I had a clothes line but hubby and I don't see eye to eye on that one.
I wash everything in cold water.
I mix whites and colours.
I use lest oil for stain removal/prevention it has not failed me yet. Hubby's aunt showed it to me.
I occasionally use oxyclean on sheets and whites.
I have a bottle of bleach but I'm scared to use it.
I do a lot of laundry each week.
2-3 loads for MV
1-2 loads for me
2 loads for hubby ( 1 reg, 1 work gear)
1 load of sheets/blankets
1 load of towels
If you have any tips I'd love to hear them :)
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Summer Blog Challenge day 27
Best gift you've ever received:
Honestly I don't know.
I'm pretty exhausted so my brains not working... I tend to ask for more practical ish gifts, like our electric fireplace my mom bought me for Christmas, or how my mom paid for my hair appointment for my birthday .
And hubby and I have always been pretty low key for gift giving...
So...
I suppose I was pretty pumped about my white watch. So that's my answer my watch from mothers day.
Good night!
Honestly I don't know.
I'm pretty exhausted so my brains not working... I tend to ask for more practical ish gifts, like our electric fireplace my mom bought me for Christmas, or how my mom paid for my hair appointment for my birthday .
And hubby and I have always been pretty low key for gift giving...
So...
I suppose I was pretty pumped about my white watch. So that's my answer my watch from mothers day.
Good night!
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Summer Blog Challenge days 25 & 26
*again I'm skipping days 23 & 24, I decided to take the weekend off*
Day 25- ideal day of me time:
It's almost hard to even try to think what I would do for me time it's been so long!
I'm just going to list things in point form.
- sleep in, wake on my own no baby crying or alarm clock
- eggs benny for breakfast
- Long hot shower! Wash my hair and shave my legs all at once!
- go to the salon for a mani and pedi
- go get my hair done
- go get a relaxing massage
- spend as long as I want in Chapters picking out a new book or two
- spend the rest of the day reading outside while sipping wine and eating Swiss chalet for dinner yumm.
Day 26 - what does your significant other do that makes your heart melt:
This one is easy, this last month especially I've literally watched him fall head of heels in love with MV. He loved him before of course, but now they both are much more into each other it makes my heart pitter patter to watch them together <3
Day 25- ideal day of me time:
It's almost hard to even try to think what I would do for me time it's been so long!
I'm just going to list things in point form.
- sleep in, wake on my own no baby crying or alarm clock
- eggs benny for breakfast
- Long hot shower! Wash my hair and shave my legs all at once!
- go to the salon for a mani and pedi
- go get my hair done
- go get a relaxing massage
- spend as long as I want in Chapters picking out a new book or two
- spend the rest of the day reading outside while sipping wine and eating Swiss chalet for dinner yumm.
Day 26 - what does your significant other do that makes your heart melt:
This one is easy, this last month especially I've literally watched him fall head of heels in love with MV. He loved him before of course, but now they both are much more into each other it makes my heart pitter patter to watch them together <3
Recap
Happy Tuesday almost Wednesday :)
So I decided to take a break for a couple of days, the challenge topics for the weekend were not of any interest to me so I thought instead of blogging about something I wasn't into I would just skip it. Plus after almost a month straight of blogging I needed a break :)
Nothing too exciting happened this weekend, it was busy but more so for hubby than me. We did go out for a nice breakfast on Saturday and MV and I accompanied hubby on a side job he was doing in a cousins rental on Sunday.
I'm trying to get MV comfortable with being out for longer periods, we have a reunion in August and unless he accepts a bottle by then he will be out of his element for two long days ... fun for me I'm sure :s
Speaking of MV he is officially four months as of today :) I've noticed/heard of other people going by number of weeks when they track months but we go by the actual date. He was born on the 26th therefore every month on the 26th he is a month older right? I do know a couple other people who do it this way too.
I will post his four month post tomorrow once I get a chance to weigh him :)
I can't believe it is almost July, I'm not sure if the nursery will be done in time for me to join the linky party I really hope I can track down a few final pieces I'm looking for.
I have a few house projects I really want to tackle in July, specifically before the 21st. That's the day of MV's baptism and unless someone else offers their home we will be inviting people back to our place for a BBQ lunch and cake.
Oh we got a Dollar Tree store here in town now. I'm told this is an American store new to Canada. We have our Dollarama but lately the prices there have been creeping higher and higher I did go check out the Dollar Tree tho and I am a little disappointed. I see all these blogs talking about awesome stuff they've bought there but I didn't see anything like any of it. I'm hoping it's because they are new and better stock will come later.
I'd better go write my challenge posts now so I can head off to bed. I'm sure MV will wake soon looking for some boob lol
So I decided to take a break for a couple of days, the challenge topics for the weekend were not of any interest to me so I thought instead of blogging about something I wasn't into I would just skip it. Plus after almost a month straight of blogging I needed a break :)
Nothing too exciting happened this weekend, it was busy but more so for hubby than me. We did go out for a nice breakfast on Saturday and MV and I accompanied hubby on a side job he was doing in a cousins rental on Sunday.
I'm trying to get MV comfortable with being out for longer periods, we have a reunion in August and unless he accepts a bottle by then he will be out of his element for two long days ... fun for me I'm sure :s
Speaking of MV he is officially four months as of today :) I've noticed/heard of other people going by number of weeks when they track months but we go by the actual date. He was born on the 26th therefore every month on the 26th he is a month older right? I do know a couple other people who do it this way too.
I will post his four month post tomorrow once I get a chance to weigh him :)
I can't believe it is almost July, I'm not sure if the nursery will be done in time for me to join the linky party I really hope I can track down a few final pieces I'm looking for.
I have a few house projects I really want to tackle in July, specifically before the 21st. That's the day of MV's baptism and unless someone else offers their home we will be inviting people back to our place for a BBQ lunch and cake.
Oh we got a Dollar Tree store here in town now. I'm told this is an American store new to Canada. We have our Dollarama but lately the prices there have been creeping higher and higher I did go check out the Dollar Tree tho and I am a little disappointed. I see all these blogs talking about awesome stuff they've bought there but I didn't see anything like any of it. I'm hoping it's because they are new and better stock will come later.
I'd better go write my challenge posts now so I can head off to bed. I'm sure MV will wake soon looking for some boob lol
Friday, June 22, 2012
Summer Blog Challenge day 22
When I grow up I want to be:
I probably wanted to be nearly every profession possible growing up. It changed frequently and being a nurse (my current profession) was never one of them. Funny how that worked out.
The list from what I can remember includes:
Firetruck. My mom loves telling me this, I wanted to be the actual truck...
Real Estate Agent. I remember carrying around my uncles old brief case with the real estate section of the paper inside. I had a notepad, pen and red marker to circle the houses I liked.
Teacher. I think this is standard, almost everyone I knew wanted to be a teacher.
Marine Biologist. Also popular among my friends, this was inspired by my grade two teachers love for whales and showing us Voyage of the Mimi.
House Designer. I later found out this really was an arcitech. I was pretty serious about this one in high school. As a kid I used to draw house plans in great detail (maybe all those real estate papers inspired this)
...
I know there's more but I'm exhausted so I'm giving up. I considered skipping this post all together but stuck it out. Now it's time for bed.
I probably wanted to be nearly every profession possible growing up. It changed frequently and being a nurse (my current profession) was never one of them. Funny how that worked out.
The list from what I can remember includes:
Firetruck. My mom loves telling me this, I wanted to be the actual truck...
Real Estate Agent. I remember carrying around my uncles old brief case with the real estate section of the paper inside. I had a notepad, pen and red marker to circle the houses I liked.
Teacher. I think this is standard, almost everyone I knew wanted to be a teacher.
Marine Biologist. Also popular among my friends, this was inspired by my grade two teachers love for whales and showing us Voyage of the Mimi.
House Designer. I later found out this really was an arcitech. I was pretty serious about this one in high school. As a kid I used to draw house plans in great detail (maybe all those real estate papers inspired this)
...
I know there's more but I'm exhausted so I'm giving up. I considered skipping this post all together but stuck it out. Now it's time for bed.
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