on the health train

Seth has always been the healthy eater in this household. Well, when I make healthy things that is. Our whole marriage he has dropped hints, and not so much hints, that we need to eat healthy. I'll admit, I just brushed it off every time. I LIKE MY SWEETS!!! I like my fried foods (corn dogs, scones, etc.) I got my sweet tooth from my dad. He loves him some sweets too :)

Within this last month, I had a switch turn in me that I all the sudden had this desire to eat more whole foods. It was pretty crazy, but here I am now learning the ins and outs of eating more whole foods. Don't get me wrong, I still love my chocolate and the occasional corn dog and In n Out burger and fries and.... :D But our dinners and most lunches these last two weeks have been A LOT healthier than I have always made. I guess it kind of helps also that little girl is still sensitive to dairy so I've been drinking a lot of almond milk and using that in cooking, etc.

I've definitely felt a difference in how my body feels and how much more random energy I have. (meaning, I still only get 3 straight hr stretches at night and when I wake up I am SOO tired but as I go throughout the day, I dont ever really desire to nap and can keep up with Warren :) )

I've been trying a lot of different recipes but I want to know if any of you have any favorite recipes or whole food blogs/sites?? I'm still looking for favorites, I've def found some good ones, but I"m on the the hunt for more!! Spill your secrets!

sleep....i need it, and your thoughts

Little one is STILL waking up every 3 hrs at night. If I'm lucky she'll give me five straight. But not every night and not very often. She's 12 weeks and it's no secret she can stand to go 8 hrs at night without food. She's a CHUNK! Which I love, but I'm not loving my 3 hr stretches at night. I've read a few different books about sleep training, but I want to know YOUR thoughts and ideas. I'm still trying to find what will work for us, but I need more ideas to go from. so PLEASE share :)

little miss

I feel like I never have time to blog anymore. I need to be better! Even if it's just one picture:) But here's little Lydi at 10 weeks. I feel like she's a lot older than that because she's already 13lbs! Twice her birth weight. She grew out of the newborn stage really fast with her chubs coming on. She's such a content little lady. We're hoping her dark hair stays and that she gets warrens curls, but we'll see. She's such a little love bug and I love kissing on her chubby cheeks. She's starting to smile more at our crazy huge smiley faces and high pitched voices to her. haha. Warren loves her and calls her Lydi, or baby girdle. (girl) it's so funny, i love that that's how it sounds to him. People always ask me if it's a lot different having a girl and so far the only difference has been that I can put pink on her :) She still sleeps a lot and I'm sure I can say it's more different when her little personality starts to shine more. I'm just lucky to be a mother to both my adorable bebes.

"pancakes please"

Warren LOVES him some pancakes. He asks for them almost every morning. And every evening :) I've been lacking in the "picture taking of our daily lives area" so I whipped out the camera a few mornings ago while he downed em complete with bed head.

I usually make homemade ones, because the recipe is sooo yummy but this particular morning I was tired like no other and he was persistent in wanting them NOW. So I just did the "just add water" ones. Well, I added too much water and was out of the mix so it made it harder for Warren to pick them up with his fork, so he used his hands :)

  
With a side of apple juice

This is his, "are you serious momma, you want me to smile? just get me down please" look

warrens ER visit

I finally downloaded all the pics from my phone and can now catch up on posts that I've been needing to do!

Dec. 1st, Warren had his first ER trip. I'm pretty sure it was more of a traumatic experience for me than it was for him. That day I was shooting a wedding and my mom was in town and she was helping out with Warren. In between my break from shooting the wedding and reception, I was home and making dinner and hurrying around to get things together so that I could make it to the reception early. I was cooking dinner upstairs so Warren was up there with me and my mom. I ran downstairs to get some spices I needed and called for Seth to go upstairs and help my mom with Warren because he was starting to get a little crazy. Right as I said that, we heard a big crash and Warren screaming instantly. I was pretty sure he had fallen off one of the dining room chairs, I sent Seth running up there. I then followed shortly and all I saw when I walked into the kitchen was blood drips EVERYWHERE and when I looked at Warren all I saw was blood on his forehead. I thought he had cut his head open. I think I went into shock, I didn't know what to do, so I did what moms do best, I cried. haha. Seth was suprisingly calm and he's the one that gets queezy with blood. He took care of Warren and bandaged it up while I stood there running around with my head cut off and crying.

What had really happened was Warren fell backwards on the dining room chair, but he was standing up facing backwards with his fingers over the top of the chair and when he tipped, the chair smashed the top of his finger so hard that it pretty much squeezed it open and chopped off the top fat. 

I was freaking out. He needed to be taken to the ER and I needed to leave right at that moment to the reception. I was a little hysterical I think. Warren's a little mommas boy and I felt horrible leaving him when I think he might have needed me the most. My mom told me she would go with Seth to go to the ER. So they left and I left. I cried the whole way to the reception. Luckily I was shooting the wedding for one of my besties little sisters and I knew their family well. I called to say I would be a few minutes late. BUT lucky me, I ran out of gas on the way there, I wasn't even paying attention. I ended up making it there and all went well. Seth said things went okay with Warren except for the fact that he was screaming when they had to tie him down and numb his finger. They stitched the top of his finger back together and then bandaged it up. He was on some pretty good painkiller and Seth said he just fell asleep in his arms that night. It hurt my heart so bad to see him in so much pain. I think I felt pain for him for the next three days. I hate to see him hurt.

The top finger picture is 2 days after it happened. The bottom finger picture is 2 weeks after it happened and when he got his stitches out. The other two are pictures the morning after it happened with his huge bandage they put on. Poor little guy. I hope things like this don't happen that often in this little guys life!

The doggie they gave him at the hospital and then sitting on the culprit chair with my mom.

birth story

She's here! 2 1/2 weeks early. I'll take that every pregnancy:) I sure wasn't ready though for it on Christmas Day. I've got lots more posts that are needing to be published BUT my hubs finished writing Lydia's birth story and I couldn't wait to share it! It's a lot more fun to read that anything I would ever write :)

Lydia's Birth Story

i love surprises

I meant to post this a while ago, but one day randomly my mom walked down the stairs and says "You have a surprise..." I turn around to see her holding these flowers. I was seriously so confused as to who they were from.

They were from my dadddy :) Now this was a HUGE surprise. Of course I know my Dad loves me and he tells me he does, but for him to do something like this was monumental :) It was the most touching thing to me and I needed it that day. I love you dad!