Oatmeal and milk

I am going to tell you something that may shock you.

The Pea does not like peas.


Olivia tried peas yesterday for the first time and really did not dig them. Truthfully, she only gets truly excited about oatmeal. How boring is that? We have been feeding her this one:

I am going to make it from scratch, this site is full of great homemade baby recipes. The other foods she likes are avocado and sweet potato. She also still really loves her milk. We haven't gotten on a real solids schedule yet, but maybe we should. I am not very good at strict schedules for myself so it's kind of hard to put Olivia on some sort of routine. I mean, we sort of have one, but it can vary. She is happy and thriving so I am not concerned. In this household, every day is different and there is always something going on. That is just how we flow I guess.
Sleeping is getting better. We still bring her into bed but the oatmeal for dinner idea really worked. Pea goes to bed with a full belly and doesn't wake up so hungry in the middle of the night. Sleeping through the night, however, seems to be a luxury of the past.

This is what I wake up to in the morning. I wouldn't trade it for the world.

Muse Monday

“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.” -Sophia Loren

image via Google

photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt

Sunday Finds

Instead of the usual farmer's market, we decided to go to a swapmeet instead. I had never been and I was very excited to buy Olivia a cute t-shirt, an adorable summery outfit, and soft thermal pajamas for 50 cents! Wow! They will be washed in hot water to get any possible yuckiness out.
And for $1:


Stay tuned for pictures from the pea's first zoo trip! :)

Time is flying...

When I first laid my eyes on her, I saw this:


And 6.5 months later...

above photo by Urban Housewife

Wishful Wednesday

I wish I had loads of energy. TONS. Energy to go and go and go without sleep. Energy without limits so I can accomplish all that I want to do in one day.

RUN

SEW

PLAY

READ

CLEAN

WRITE

KEEP UP WITH...




all images minus last via: google

Cosleeping, she decided.

A couple of posts ago I mentioned that Olivia would wake up promptly at 4:30am crying. Exhausted, I would lean over and bring her into bed with us. Since the pea was brought home from the hospital she has been sleeping right next to us in her crib. We'd usually get an extra hour or two of sleep if we brought her to bed with us in the morning. It was clear that she liked being close to us as much as we loved having her there. Well, this seems to have reached a bit of an extreme. The crying now begins at 2:30am.
This waking up every hour on the hour starting at 2:30am began around Friday or Saturday night. In an effort to catch at least a small snooze we would each move to either side of the bed to leave some space for Princess Nightowl to sleep. This was the only thing that worked! Last night, she officially slept IN our bed ALL night. She woke up at her usual 2:30am, was pulled into bed, and that was all we heard from her until the morning.
The alarming part is that her cry is scared and desperate right from the start. As soon as we scoop her up she is quiet and right back to sleep. Does anyone have any ideas as to what is going on? Obviously she wants to be near us, and we have no problem with it. Cosleeping has been her choice, not ours.

The bed hog.

Muse Monday

“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”