i've bought several little outfits for baby girl already (it is hard not to!) but this is the first one i have made. i love sewing and thanks to etsy there are so many great patterns and fabrics out there to take advantage of. i bought a pattern for this adorable pinafore and bloomer set from romeo&mae. i loved it! it was easy to make and i think she'll just look so sweet in this.
miles is 18 months! he is getting to be such a big boy and it is a lot harder to think of as my baby. he follows directions well, when he wants to, of course! he loves to climb on any and everything and is almost an expert at the stairs. we've stopped using the high chair and he is now in a regular chair at our table or a little one at his and ethan's table.
sleeping: still consistently sleeping 11-12 hours at night, normally with no wake-ups.
routine: same as last month. wakes between 7-8 with a nap from noon-3. LOTS of playtime in between!
milestones: he is talking a lot more now. tonight he even said "oh man" - think in the swiper the fox voice (from dora, in case you aren't aware of who swiper is...) he consistently says mama, banana, car, uh-oh, bye, pee-pee (which ethan thinks is HILARIOUS - oh the joy of boys!) and "ew, poo" when we are changing diapers or if anyone is on the potty or near it. he will repeat some other words when asked, those are just the ones he says on his own. we are in the process of weaning back on the binky. trying to keep it only to when he is in bed. this will be an ongoing process, i can tell.
some of his favorites:
food: cereal, crackers, yogurt (regular and drinkable), mini sausages, corn bread, tortillas (plain or with butter), cheese sticks and turkey bacon. i tried fruit smoothies, but those were completely rejected! as were cheesy scrambled eggs.
fruit: still loves his bananas. will eat blueberries, apple slices, raisins, craisins and diced fruit cocktail. we haven't been able to get any good watermelon lately.
veggies: carrot sticks, corn, french fries
drink: we are finally bottle free! hooray! no more dr. brown's (well, for about 6 months anyway) he does well drinking out of a regular sippy and a cup with a straw.
toy: trains, tractors and little matchbox cars. he also loves the melissa&doug play food we got. both he and ethan will cook up all sorts of things with it. we got the slice apart food and he even tries to use the little play knife with it. it is very cute. my parents gave us a gift certificate to the discovery store for christmas and we found this great acitivty cube, it is a HUGE hit (though a bit loud!)
book: any books that make noise. he loves to push the buttons. he also like the john deere farm ABC book. he especially likes the pictures of tractors and the animals. he will point out the apple if you ask him where it is and will pretend to eat it and corn. so cute!
activity: he loves to color and dance..if he hears music, he will start clapping and dancing.
i found this blog through a mom board i am on and the woman who writes it is a photographer. if you have time, her story is AMAZING and i guarantee you will cry your eyes out. thankfully i read it for the first time when lance was away otherwise i know he would have been wondering what in the world was wrong with me.
she had so many beautiful maternity pictures, some taken by her and others by friends, that i got inspired and wanted to try my hand out at a few. i'm not quite ready to do my monthly pregnancy update, but i couldn't wait to share these taken at 23 weeks.
since moving ethan into miles room we have started putting him down in our bed. it is amazing how quickly he'll fall asleep most nights, as compared to when he was upstairs in his room. once he and miles are both asleep (or very close to it) we make the transfer. the other night when i went in to gather his stuff, he just looked so peaceful, which was nice considering how badly he had been feeling a day earlier. i love the way he is snuggling up to lambie.
as much as i'd like to get away from ready made, processed foods, it is hard. it is so much more convenient to just grab something almost prepared and just heat it up. but in an effort to have our family eat healthier i am trying to focus on making more of our own foods. i have always wanted to make bread, but an attempt at rolls a few thanksgivings ago did not go well and i haven't tried since. turns out i added too much butter so the things never rose properly, but still it was a lot of work and i just didn't have time for it on a regular basis. i do like to make biscuits and even tried the pioneer woman's buttermilk biscuits from her new cookbook a few weeks ago - a resounding "delicious" from lance until he found out how much butter was in them! 
using a breadmaker is wonderfully easy. i followed this recipe for french bread and it turned out delicious! we were running out of time though, so i had to help it rise in the oven a bit, but other than that, i followed the recipe pretty much as is. i will definitely be making it again! and hopefully will be trying out some other new breads. there seems to be so much you can do with the breadmaker.so you think these will be the moments where your child takes a first step, says his first word or something equally big and momentous.
so not the case.
to date, my proudest mommy moments include getting ethan to poop on the potty and not feeling like i am going to throw up when i get thrown up on.
ahhh, what fun.
getting ethan to poop on the potty has been the hardest, most frustrating thing i have done (and we still aren't completely there yet, i'd say we're about 85% there....after a year of trying...with little to no success until about a 6 weeks ago) and it has cost more money than a person would think potty training would cost, what with the treats, the prizes, the different potties and potty accessories, the extra underwear (since we often go through 4-5 pairs a day) and the millions and millions of wipes....i love the flushable ones, but they are pricey! he is so very close and i know when he starts doing it regularly without us even having to think about it, it will be a wonderful day for sure!!!
getting thrown up on and having to deal with stomach stuff in general is not my thing. not that it is really anyones thing, but i am about as far from it as a person can be. i run the other direction when someone tells me their stomach hurts. i get out of there before even finding out what that could mean. i have always wondered how i would handle it when i had kids. other people i talked to said it is different when it is your kid and i didn't really believe them. i was fine with the spit-up and that gave me hope. if i could handle that (and i did since both of the boys spit-up until they were about 6 months) then i was on my way to other things. i tried to make a deal with lance. he could handle the stomach stuff and i would handle diapers. poop didn't scare me the same way vomit does. thankfully our kids are fairly healthy and we've stayed away from awful experiences, but poor ethan cannot take liquid medicine for the life of him. i've tried almost every imaginable way (to include, in a bad mommy moment, hiding cough medicine in dr. pepper) to get him to take it with very little success. most often liquid medicine = gagging and throwing up. oh joy! thankfully at the age of two there are way more options for taking medicine and chewable tablets are allowed for staples such as tylenol and amoxicillan. ethan does well with chewables and tends to take them without much coaxing. we're still looking for a viable cough/congestion medicine that comes in chewable form...i've been looking at some health food stores and hopefully have found an option that will work. at least i hope it does, i paid for the expedited shipping since we're in the midst of an awful cough right now.
for us with coughing, comes throwing up. poor ethan, last night was rough and i am proud to say was the first time he threw up on me (or in the vicinity of me) that i didn't get nauseated. and this was an awful one...one where both of us had to get undressed and throw everything in the laundry. i guess i am making progress! and i am happy to report that ethan is much better today and hopefully the cough-barfing is behind us for a few months at least.
who knew that those would be my exciting milestones?!?
lately ethan has been interested in helping in the kitchen and he has gotten a lot better at keeping the mess down. the boys both helped make pancakes this weekend. i think miles was just excited to be up at our level for a change. i love having little chefs to help me!
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