December Daily 2011

Pin It Now! So I love the idea of an entire book devoted to documenting all of the holiday magic of December - check out Ali Edward's December Daily if you haven't already - but realistically with going back to work tomorrow (eek!) I just knew I wouldn't be able to commit to an entire album.

This month at The Scrapping Turtle we are working with Christmas papers - I got Bazzil Basics Holiday Style, I love the mix of bright colours with traditional Christmas colours - I also don't have a ton of Christmas photos and can't seem to find our Santa pic from last year - so I decided to do a December Daily two page layout instead - the hope is I'll have something to jot down each day - I left the weekend dates big circles because I'm sure that's where the bulk of the activity will take place.

I am already feeling so Christmasy! We have all of our decorations up inside and out and I have Christmas music streaming all the time.

Jingle Jangle!

One

Pin It Now! This is the eve of Jonah's birthday, tomorrow we've got a full day planned of fun things to do.  Last year at this time I was big as a house, knowing I'd be headed to the hospital early the next morning to be induced.

One year ago tomorrow we welcomed Jonah into our lives.

It's hard to know where to even start - to begin documenting this year in our lives.  How much Jonah has changed.  How much we've all changed.

Jonah is a bright and happy 1 year old.  He is all of the sudden super BUSY, all the time.  There were a few months between colic and now where he was content to just sit on the floor and entertain himself but it's like in the last few weeks he's discovered there's more to life - and wants to know what I've been hiding from him.  So he loves to be carried around. To point at things, to try to touch everything.  I think part of it is also that he's been going to daycare in prep for me going back to work so he's probably realizing that I'm not a permanent fixture, that breaks my heart a bit - I can't lie.  I know it's good in the long run but he still is just a baby after all.

And so at ONE year Jonah....

Has gotten to be a pickier eater but mostly in the sense that he wants to self feed, and to also feed me.  I would say he's gotten pickier but whenever I take him places people comment what a good eater he is so I think for him he's gotten a bit pickier but still overall good.  Yesterday I was birdie feeding him at the mall (chewing up some food for him - ;)) - and the man beside me commented on what a great eater he was.  I sort of wanted to apologize for what he may have seen but I was trying to be discreet so just let it slide and acted like it was totally normal to chew up food and spit it out and feed it to your child at the mall.

LOVES to search for our elf on the shelf every morning.  When he finds him (Clive Bigsby) he will shriek and try to grab him and wave frantically at him.  He tends to find him a LOT sooner than I would expect.

Has 10 teeth and more poking through, including 2 molars.  Poor lamb - I think that's contributed to some of the fussiness of late.  That and his sleep schedule seems to be shifting....I think he's outgrowing two long naps but one just doesn't seem to be enough - still finding our groove there.

Still doesn't seem too interested in walking - will use the walker for a bit but is such a speedy crawler I think he just prefers that for now.

Weighs 23lbs, about the same as he did at 10 months.  I think it's just because he's on the GO all the time now so he's just moving a lot more.

Is a real babbler - has his own little language and will just chatter away with me all day.  I just answer like I know what he's saying.

Loved Halloween and I think he will love Christmas too - we decorated this past weekend and he's enamored by the tree.

Loves to be pulled around in a plastic toy box with a frisbee as a steering wheel and play "car" with me.

Is our darling little big grinned sweetie pie.

We love you so much little man xoxo

11 months

Pin It Now! Jonah turned 11 months last week - this has been an amazing month with our little guy.

He offically said his first word - "again" - he says it mostly when he wants his dog Scout to sing another song...sounds more like "a-ga"...took me a while to realize that he was saying and meaning it but it is pretty consistent now and so cute.  The other words he says pretty regularly are: Baba, Mama and Dada but he uses those pretty interchangeably - "again" seems to be the first one he's using in the correct context all the time.

He is a mean crawler - can cross a room in the blink of an eye, literally.

He pulls up and will walk with the walker for a bit but not overly interested in that part.  More interested in the toys on the walker.

Has started getting into everything this month.  Figured out somehow how to open the baby gate (what the heck?!!?? - it MUST not have been closed properly...but still!), also got into his first real "mess" - knocked over a candle in a jar and it shattered EVERYWHERE....my fault for leaving it where he could reach, thankfully nobody was hurt.

Started eating a bit more solids, seems back on track after being sick earlier this month - likes to feed himself peas and pancakes.

Got a nasty cold that lasted the better part of a few weeks, but was such a little toughie, would barely complain except for doing this little pitiful cry.  Aw, poor dude.

Had a good first "real test" at daycare, was happy as a clam there with the other kiddies and he loves his daycare provider.  She makes homemade soup and I was nervous he wouldn't eat it so packed his own lunch but he gobbled it all up. Good boy.

Almost ready for a second haircut!

Headed to my in-laws this weekend with Kirk while I get my scrap on with some girlfriends.

Got SKINNY on us - I think being sick had something to do with it but all of the sudden the 12 month pants that I thought I was going to have to pack away fit.  Still has those chubbo litttle cheeks though.  Love them and love him.

A little news

Pin It Now! We're on our way to crazy town - expecting a new baby April 5th.  We are thrilled obviously, blessed beyond belief.  But if I'm being honest....nervous too!  Two kids under a year and a half? Ha! That will be nuts.  In a good way nuts but nuts none the less.  

If any of you have kids close in age any advice is welcome ;) - I know it will be great to have them so close in age but it's the logistics that are making me scratch my head.  I guess I'll just live it and see right?  

I am going to go back to work this fall until the spring - Jonah will go to daycare and then stay there the first few months the new baby is here which I think will be good for everyone.  We'll find out the gender in about 6 weeks time....this time around I honestly don't have a gut feeling.  With J at first I thought girl but then was SURE boy.  

My brother and sister in law are expecting Jan 30th (a boy) so our kids will be SO close in age.  I love that.  My brother and I are 8 years apart and his kids are 7 and 4 so I just assumed they were done....so glad they went for a third.  

Can't believe we're gonna have another one of these around: 

Makes my heart hurt a little less to think that he's already almost a year old

Life is good. 

World's quickest layout

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Just a suuuuuuuuuper simple layout from last month's Turtle projects that I forgot to share on here -  this literally took me 10 mins max - just punched out a bunch of circles, used foam dots to pop the edges and voila!

My kind of page.

Hope you have a great day

xoxo

In This Family

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I had seen this quote on Pinterest and on a few scrapbooking layouts so for this month's Scrapping Turtle sketch challenge I just copied it directly - I love how it reflects imperfection and forgiveness - and I loved how printing out the photos in 8x12 made it so easy to quickly pull together this page. 

Working with Bo Bunny's Forever Fall line: 

Have a great Sunday
xoxo

10 Months

Pin It Now! Ok so this first sentence I just need to copy and paste and insert the month #:
Oh gosh - 10 months already?  I feel like I just did the 9 month post.
But it's true!

I guess that's life with a baby - always changing.

This month has for sure been one of the biggest in terms of changes - Jonah's personality just seems to grow every day and he's now such a little boy!

At 10 months Jonah:

-Crawls around like crazy, is into everything - exploring, touching, throwing.  I have turned our main floor into a total baby jail - blocked off the dining room and part of the living room which effectively cuts the main floor in half and helps to contain him and keep him safe as he toddles around

-We have a sunken front room which is blocked off most of the time...yesterday as I was bringing groceries in I put him in there thinking it would be like a little "pen" and contain him....only to come in and find he'd crawled out and was trying to get back down (eek!)

-Into textures these days - liking food a bit lumpier than last month, not into his purees as much unless they are a little lumpy or have some baby pasta stirred in.  Also loving minigo yogurts, has one with almost every meal.

-Plays with Ben so well, will throw the ball for him (pretty far for his age I think;)) and then will also put the ball right into Ben's mouth as well as his own.  I'm kind of over the fact that it's really germy.  I know it is but there's not a lot I can do to contain it and the vet said as long as we're giving Ben his heartworm medicine then it should be fine.

-Had his first real trial at daycare - I was gone for about 3 hours and when I got back he was out in the backyard sitting in a baby pool filled with animal figurines having a grand old time.

-Makes all kinds of noises and funny faces - almost like a pucker and kiss noise which we think either means "I'm hungry" or "let's kiss".  I swear sometimes he says Hi Dada when he sees Kirk but it's pretty sporadic

 -Is a great stander and will stand for a looooooong time.  Has pulled himself up on his own once but we're not really sure how it happened b/c when we looked over there he was just standing holding onto the railing.  He's doing "plank" a lot so I almost wonder if before he pulls up regularly he'll teach himself to stand up but we'll see.

 -Still a good sleeper/needs lots of sleep.  Goes down around 6:30-7 now and up between 6-7:30 with two naps of varying lengths depending on the day and what time he initially wakes up.  Sometimes still wakes up at night and I go in and give him his soother and he goes back to sleep.  Got his arm really caught in his crib once.  Was so sad - I had to YANK it out so hard.  Lil chubster.

-Went for his 10 month apt yesterday - he's 23lbs 4oz and 30 inches

-Loves watching YouTube Disney song videos during mealtime on the computer.
-Closes his eyes and opens his mouth when he's eating something he really likes.  Ha.  Cute.
-Got his first haircut today :) - I'll have to take some pics, I was worried he wouldn't look like a baby but he still does.

Have a great day xoxo