Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Spring Time in DC

It has been the perfect weather here for the past few weeks. The sun is out and the traces of winter is subsiding. I love spring. I enjoy watching the bare branches form their first buds. Then as a matter of days the trees and flowers pop out. Two weeks ago these trees were bare. Can you believe so much beauty can be produced in only a two week period of time. Like I said. I just love spring. I will never get tired of taking pictures of the blossoms here or smelling their sweet fragrance as you walk by.Spring is here and we are enjoy this time as a family.

Sunday, March 25, 2012

First Haircut

So Adam needed to go get a haircut and while we were there we decided to get little man a first haircut. He did a great job. He just sat there and let the lady do her job.
My little man is now looking like a little boy with his new haircut. I regret then buzzing him. It will grow back in time.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Teething Beads


I just recently found out about these teething beads. I met a friend of my sister's who swore by them. She wished she had these for her older children. So after looking at them and then reading about them, I thought I would give it a try.

Amber Teething Necklace-the natural choice for mother and child

Baltic amber helps with teething pain

•Immune boosting properties •Reduction in teething pain •Calm a baby without resorting to drugs •Anti-inflammatory and therapeutic properties •Recognized by allopathic medicine as a natural analgesic

Baltic Amber has some of the highest concentrations of Succinic Acid found in nature, and this is what makes it so special.

Want to read more about these beads? Check it out.
http://www.amberartisans.com/amtene4.html

The package arrived today and I immediately put them on my little man. I don't know if they work yet. As little man was teething today and was pretty grumpy. I still used my Lavender essential oil which is a charm on him. Once I am convinced these beads work I will definitely be posting about it.
In the mean time here is my little man in his teething beads. I kind of think he is looking a little like a hippie child in the them. Especially this picture of him.


Oh do you see his bruise he got on his head. I found out that lavender essential oil helps. It was a goose egg two days ago.

Lemon Cupcakes

We have been watching a show on tv called "Cupcake Wars" and a little Alton Brown. And before you know it we were in the kitchen coming up with our own idea for a cupcake. We call our cupcake Lemon heaven. So what I did was make a white cupcake, once it was cooled I injected the cupcake with the lemon curd my nephew made and then we topped off the cupcake with a whipped cream with a dash of Lemon essential oil in it. WOW! It was fantastic! It is definitely a keeper


Cousin Feeding His Cousin

Little man's cousin asked me if he could feed his cousin. I thought it was so cute.
Half way through the bottle his cousin said his legs were falling asleep, so I finished the feeding.

Monday, February 27, 2012

Saturday's New Tradition

We used to love getting up on Saturday mornings and go out to breakfast before little man arrived. It was sort of our tradition or our thing to do. Now it seems our thing on Saturdays is to go to lunch, and run and get formula. Now that little man is getting older he is really eying my food. So to keep him happy I gave him my baguette to munch on while I ate my soup. He loved it.




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Friday, February 24, 2012

First Plane Ride

I was so nervous about flying alone with Little Man. I worry about the unknown lately. I asked for advice and read online how to travel with a little one. In the end it was a great trip. Little man did just fine. The security people just loved him and would stop us so they could take a look at him and try to get him to smile.

I wasn't so worried about getting through security it was mostly about the flights. The first plane was packed. Every seat was full and it was a small plane with only 2 seats on each side. We had an aisle seat and the man sitting next to us at the window was very kind. The man on the other side was really grumpy. Little man fussed here and there but did great for his first flight. I realized that I gave him the bottle a bit too early as we were taxing on the runway for quite a while. I realized that little man had almost sucked up his bottle and I had to water his bottle down quickly just before we gained speed to leave the runway. Once in the air he relaxed and ate treats. He was more interested in playing with the tray table. The flight was only a hour and half and the last 20 mins of flight little man fell asleep. The place had to circle for a while which made us a late arrival.

We were suppose to have a 40 mins connection. I literally had 10 mins to get to my next gate. We had to wait for the stroller and then make a run for the next gate. We made it just in time. We had another small plane to get on. We made it to the gate and headed outside to drop off the stroller and climbed the stairs to board the plane. We were the last to get on the plane. It was a full plane once again. As I am walking down the aisle I can feel the people starring at me. I see those who avoid eye contact, those who have frowns. those you know they are think, crap a kid on the plan. We walk to the very last row on the plane and find that there is 2 open seats.

Oh it was the best plane ride ever. Little man ate his mum mum and drank his bottle, he had room to look out the window and play with the arm rest. It was only a 40 min flight and the flight crew just loved him.
When we got to baggage claim all those people who avoided eye contact and had frowns on their faces, came up to little man and told him how cute he was and how they didn't even know there was a baby on the plane.
We waited and waited for our bag, and it never came. Later that afternoon they delivered my one bag to me. It was a tight connection, we were lucky to make it. Apparently the bag was not.

So our adventures begins.


Sunday, February 19, 2012

Family Fun

I can't seem to take enough pictures. It is fun to take the time to get a few shots as a family and with our little man.

Here he is with Daddy.


Here he is with Mommy.


Here we are as a family.

Faces

Little man has been making some real funny faces lately. I caught a few of them and put them all together. He has a fun personality that is evolving everyday.

Enjoy!

Baby in Bow Tie

I really enjoy dressing little man up for church on Sunday. I realized last week that his dress shirts are all way too small. I went shopping with a friend this week and scored 2 dress shirts for little man. They are kind of too big, but he will only grow into them. They will be fitting him like a glove soon. Can you believe he is wearing size 18-24month in this shirt? His pants are 12 month.Since I found him new shirts I was thinking it was time to make him a bow tie. I have been searching the internet on making a bow tie. I have found a few to try. But the problem is I don't have a sewing machine anymore. So I have been holding off until my B-day when I requested for a sewing machine this year to replace the one that broke last year. The reason I am mentioning this is because yesterday I found a bow tie that you do not need a sewing machine for. I made this bow tie from an old ugly tie for my man and then hand stitch it for my little man. Check out this awesome tutorial for making your own man or little man a tie.
It is from "Make it and Love it"

http://
www.makeit-loveit.com/2010/05/repurposing-neck-tie-into-bow-tie.html

So here are some shots of my little man showing off his new shirt and bow tie.