10 Months!!

Well Miss Natalie is 10 months old today! I can't believe how big she is. The crawling is out of control. After 3 months of crawling she is a pro, and sooo fast! I'm hoping she holds off a few more months on the walking. She can walk with her push toy and stands on her own for a few seconds here and there, but so far no steps.

Not much new since last post. She does make a cool new sound with her tongue and she thinks she is so funny (side note: of course she is funny....she is my kid). She can give a high-five. The puppy eats all her toys, they both steal them out of each others mouths haha...ewww. When bean doesn't want any more kisses she waves her hands at Mia to make her go away. I've been doing well with the gym, it's hard dropping bean off in the baby room, but it will get easier. She never cries and when I walk by the window to check on her she is always smiling and playing.

We have been going to a little kinder-music class at the JCC around the corner. It's cute, only 8 or 9 kids. most babies are 8, 9, 10 months and a few over a year. Natalie dances and claps up a storm, and most of the instruments in class she has at home so she is familiar with a lot of them. She has so much fun, even though it throws off our schedule all day. I wake her up early and then her naps are a fight, but honestly, its worth it. She gets to socialize a bit and listen to mommy's horrible singing voice.

On a stinky note we are struggling with food. She has been doing well with her bottles, not great, but better than a few weeks ago. However, she refuses to let me feed her...ANYTHING. She wants to do it all herself but has no idea how to use a spoon so meals are a complete mess and she barely gets anything down. I've started to give her more finger food the last week to help resolve the problem but she pretty much just plays 90% of the time. It's a fight, I reluctantly lose at her game, frustrating. I know it's just a phase but man oh man I miss my good eater!! My moms been a huge help this week. She made homemade minestrone soup for her to eat, cut up fruit, made eggs etc. For lunch today I actually made toast and spread her stage 3 meal on it, and cut it up. She might have consumed a fifth of the bread....sigh.

I did start planning her birthday party last week! I can't wait, it should be lots of fun. She'll have no idea obviously, but we will have a blast watching our little girl at her 1st BIRTHDAY! Where did the time go!

 

She has yet to nap more than 15 minutes twice today, so I'm going to go attempt dinner while she plays. Nick comes home tonight from CA! Horray for daddy! And hooray for his two helping hands! I can't wait till tmrw! My favorite day of the week. We are going out for my birthday this weekend with some friends. I CANT WAIT! Thanks                  
                                                 mom for babysitting! You're the bestest!

GO GIANTS!

I started this post Monday after the Super Bowl, but we added some more chaos to our family and I got distracted lol. We got another dog....a puppy to be more specific. We named her Mia (after Mia Hamm of course). She is a King Charles Cavalier. I've been looking to get another dog for Winston. He needs a friend and some one else to play. Nick and I no longer have the time to expel is endless energy playing catch 9,000 times. I was contemplating rescuing. I have always wanted a big dog, but we don't have the yard for it. So when miss Mia unexpectedly came into our lives, I just went with it! It's been working out really well. She is adorable, lovable, and her and winston get along great. They play and play, and she puts him right in his place, steals all his toys, and licks Natalie constantly. We love her, what a great match. Potty training and getting her to listen as well as winston will be our biggest challenges. 

THE GIANTS WON THE SUPER BOWL!!!!!!! So, so excited :):):):) We had a few friends over for a "wing -off" it was impressive on many levels....none of which I experienced cause I have "animal bone issues". It looked fun. I won some cash in the football pool. Natalie played with Michael and Alice (our friends 6 and 1 year old). It was cute. The dogs were everywhere, fun times were had, good beer was consumed, madonna was conceded yet entertaining...oh and did the I mention the GIANTS won?!?!?! 

Natalie is getting so grown up. the last few weeks we learned how to high-fve, climb the stairs, can walk with a push toy, stands unsupported for a good 7 seconds, loves mickey mouse club and octonauts on disney channel, mumbles in an old man voice, says dada on command, has a wicked diaper rash (sad face), made out with Mia, throws her hands up like an Italian, missed her daddy...lots, started stage 3 foods and is loving it, eats toast, bagels, edamame, eggs, and Brussels sprouts....I'm forgetting something. 

I told my mom all I want for my birthday is a night out lol. She is going to keep bean for us on feb 25. I'm very excited :) I cherish my weekend with my hubby now that he travels so much. Getting to go out with friends will just make a saturday night that much more fun! Happy Birthday to me! Nick has been working so hard on the road lately. I really stoked to have him home with us next week. We are going to have a nice relaxing wknd! It's been a rainy week, so hopefully we should have some cooler weather coming up. 

I booked the pavilion for Natalie's first birthday!!! I can't believe I've started planning already, she will be 10 months next week. holy cow. I love her so much, it's unreal how fast she is growing up. She is most defiantly the light of my life :)

Nick and I joined the YMCA! I'm so excited, I can't wait to get back in shape. I went twice this week, I'm very sore lol. Plan on going again tomorrow. I've gotten way too skinny, and I'm sick of hearing about it from everyone and their moms. I need to put some weight back on. No cardio, just strength training and lots of weights! They have a great babysitting area, and they do mommy errand mornings during the week were I can drop bean off for an hour to play and go grocery shopping if needed. Such a nice perk! 

Bean looks more and more like Nick everyday. It's so amazing to see such a resemblance, from her facial expressions to her feet and toes, it's all him!! So cute. We are starting to see some hair come in, finally lol, a little bit. And her eyes are so pretty, light brown with maybe a bit of hazel.

We are going to start a little mommy and me class next week on thursdays. I'm excited for it, I think she is old enough now to really get something out of a structured class and interacting with other kiddos (besides her few little buddies). I'm not excited for the mommy competition garbage...that's half the reason I'm so anti-mommy social lol. Maybe ill be pleasantly surprised, and everyone will just be nice, and un-judging. The joys of south florida.

Ok I'm done posting. Nick and I are watching a crazy awesome Irish movie right now. I just tried a new (to me) beer from sierra nevada called ritual something lol. It's fantastic!! Really hoppy, love it :)

WOOOHOOOO GIANTS!!