Mama's little princess :)
Carly is a moving machine!! She crawls everywhere, and quick! She also pulls herself up on everything (including my leg while I am trying to do anything...), and just recently can stand for up to 15-20 seconds bouncing without holding onto anything- she squeals with delight! She also crawls over to her Sit to Stand walker and then proceeds to walk around with it. I know. She will be walking before we know it. We are SO NOT ready for that, however, I know she is so I will be happy when she accomplishes a little more independence (....I think....).
Someone just spotted Daddy coming home....
We have been pretty busy these last couple of weeks so that's what caused the delay in blogging (Sorry everyone!)- well that and Carly is teething again, causing loooooong exhausting nights followed by days where I am lucky to catch a nap only if she naps too (...haha...yeah. naps are a joke around here). So unfortunately, blogging has been the last thing I have time for when I've got a cranky baby on hand.
I hope you all had a great Memorial Day! I didn't get too many pictures on Memorial Day because I was focusing on family time- not photo ops, but I can sum up our day in the few pictures I did get! We spent the day outdoors, enjoying some sunshine & quality time.
Crockpot Buffalo Wings (I will post the recipe once I get my recipe page going)
One of the benefits of having a lemon tree.....
Homemade lemonade!
Simple and delicious! We might have added a splash of Malibu rum at one point...but who knows...
...and lots of relaxing in the spa :) Such a good day, enjoying each others company
and doing a whole lot of nothing!
Carly is getting better and better with her finger foods and that is what I have been incorporating daily to hopefully get her to the self-feeding point by 1 year! Love feeding her, but why selfishly handicap her when she does have to grow up sometime!
Downside? It can get rather messy....
But look at that smile! What's a little extra time cleaning up when I get to see that smile? I still feed her breakfast in the morning because that's oatmeal and I'm not crazy. She gets finger foods for snacks and lunch time, and then dinner (depending on what it is) is partially spoon fed, while also allowing her to self feed a little. Due to the fact that she is still learning to coordinate her actions to feed herself sufficiently, I spoon feed her two meals so I know that she is getting enough. Of course she is still getting 3-5 bottles a day so we are not at the 100% solids point yet- that won't be until about a year old.
Some of the snacks she gets are:
banana
cheddar cheese cubes
puffs (she likes these from Plum Organics)
steamed carrots
We only recently entered the non-pureed food world (like only a week ago) so we haven't experimented with very many dinner options yet, but so far she has gotten:
peas & carrots (amazingly she likes peas whole- she couldn't stand them pureed!)
overcooked pasta with avocado
cucumber & avocado chunks
mashed potatoes
I am looking forward to trying other things, along with the ease of not having to puree everything before serving it, not that it's hard or time consuming, but it does create one more thing to clean up-and who wants that?!
Our most recent ABC girls play date was hosted at our friend Jackie's house and we spent the morning out by the pool enjoying some fresh air and discussing the latest, over a potluck brunch! Unfortunately, this is about as good as the pictures get these days- these girls just won't hold still for long! They are all so busy with their own agendas....things to discover and grass to taste!
Our brunch was delicious, I wish I had gotten a picture of everything! We had mini quinoa quiches, coconut-lime-banana-nut bread, Greek yogurt parfaits with fresh strawberries, freshly brewed blueberry mojito iced tea (UH-mazing), and I brought a sort-of strawberry bruschetta. "Sort-of"?? Well, here's my thing: I prefer strawberries in the freshest state possible. The recipes I found for this all asked you to heat the strawberries with sauces and such, which I am sure all tasted amazing, but it just didn't sound appealing to me for a morning brunch. I chose to create my own thing using ideas from the recipes. I used a baguette (not toasted), goat cheese spread, freshly chopped basil, and freshly sliced strawberries. True, this was in part because I ended up prepping at Jackie's house that morning due to poor time management, but I think it came out very tasty!
In other news, Carly now gets into everything so I am being forced to babyproof, something I have been putting off, but I am now left with no other option.. For example she will not leave the poor dogs water bowl alone...
I know this isn't a super important one, but I would like to figure a way to prevent her from getting soaked every time she goes outside. I think we will get baby gates for the kitchen and back door. Back door you wonder? Well the screen door that goes out to the patio is one of those retracting doors that rolls up rather than swinging out like a normal door. So...because of the nature of this door, there is nothing keeping her from just pushing through the screen and it's SUPER annoying to always tell her to leave it alone (Duke has also ran through it a few times which although hilarious, not ideal!). We are renting our house so it was not something we installed, but I'm thinking that a baby gate will solve the issue and still allow us to have the door open for a nice breeze.
Which leads me to my next thought....
Will I ever be able to shower alone again?
No comments:
Post a Comment