Skip to main content

Everybody’s Working for the Weekend

My goodness this week blew by! We filled it up. Friday I cleaned the house. Saturday we went out to eat at Jim N Nicks, went shopping (hello, Trader Joe’s), and then went for a long walk on the Greenway. Josh and I just made pizza using their garlic parmesan pizza crust, sauce, organic mozzarella, and peppered salami. OMG. I can eat pizza like no other, but this one was a) delicious, b) filling, and c) semi healthy? I mean whole wheat crust, no GMOs, organic. I’m making that again and again. Eli loved our walk, but he liked it better when he was on my hip. Ha! Here’s a few pics from our walk.
IMG_8549                          IMG_8538IMG_8535
Then today we kept up the busyness. Although eating at ML Rose was a nice runner-up, the highlight of today would be scoring this jogging stroller for $80! Woot woot! Eli absolutely loved riding in the stroller while we went for a quick jog. He was just smiling and bobbing around. Like Ricky Bobby, he too likes to go fast.

What we bought: New teething toys and spoons. Ah! I can’t believe he’s about to be using spoons!
How my life has changed: We are finally eating at the table again! Eli will sit in his highchair and play with toys while we eat. No more passing the baby! We’re getting more confident going out in public. Lots of shopping was done this week. Our schedule is pretty much out the window now that he’s teething. Eating every four hours? Waking up only once a night? Gone. I hope he starts feeling better. I am exhausted.

Week 23
IMG_8471IMG_8476IMG_8484IMG_8479IMG_8493
This week I got my second tooth! I can sit on my own for about 30 seconds and I love to grab things. I discovered gravity, and I love to drop toys from my high chair especially. I got my first sip of water today. Mom and dad were out eating and dad let me play with his straw. He didn’t know I was smart enough to use it! Mmmm mmm.

That’s it for us! Have a great week
-Shantel
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

I thought I was fat

As a woman, I've always placed a lot of value into what I weigh and how I look. In the past few years especially I've been doing my best to move away from that, to focus on being healthy and feeling good, but those thoughts creep up for sure. It's my 6 week check in and I've lost 4 more pounds, so basically I still have 18 pounds to go. I started out these 6 weeks by going to the gym and only drinking water, but after week 2 Eli got sick for 2 weeks, then Anias got sick for 2 (make that 5...) weeks, then I got sick for 2 weeks, then Anias got an ear infection and would NOT sleep. He wouldn't fall asleep for 2 hours past bedtime and would wake up for hours. He's actually still doing this and he's still sick. Thursday he had a 101 fever so I took him in to the urgent care and his ear infection in his right ear did not go away. They put him on Augmentin and it just destroys his tummy. He actually vomited 3 times Friday on top of it all. I'm not used to thi...
4 comments
Read more

The Daniel Fast

When Josh and I moved back to Bellevue this summer we joined a new church, Zeal, which we really love. We've felt more challenged there to really engage, and twice a year the church as a whole focuses on 21 Days of Prayer. In January we fast during the 21 days, andre encouraged to give up something we feel hinders our focus (Instagram, sweets, etc.) We chose to do the Daniel Fast. The Daniel Fast is based on the following verses... “Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink." Daniel 1:12   In those days, I, Daniel, had been mourning for three entire weeks. I ate no delicacies, no meat or wine entered my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, for the full three weeks" Daniel 10: 2-3 So basically, we've been eating a vegan, gluten-free, no sugar or sweetener-added foods for the past 11 days. We don't have fried foods either as they're 'rich', but we do have whole grains. We drink 100% juice and wat...
Post a Comment
Read more

Not so fast

Well, this week wasn’t quite as easy as the week before. Hence, the late post. Yes I’m glad to be home, but things went very awry much of the week. Josh didn’t come home on time any day, and to be honest one of those days while the dinner timer was going off and Eli was screaming for dinner in his high-chair, Kito decided his antibiotic wasn’t agreeing with him and proceeded to vomit…5 times.  I may have cried. Eli was teething on top of that so sleeplessness was in the mix and our schedule got thrown off by doctor appointments and such. I’d much rather have things go as planned, but what can you do? Still- I feel like my compassion and ‘spark’ are coming back slowly.   What we Bought: Little yums teething biscuits and new diaper bag Most Awkward Moment: Eli pushed the shred box over and used it as a step so he can prop himself up and see outside. I was in the room! He was just so fast. Best Moment: Any of his very clingy hugs! He just loves you so much and you know it. U...
Post a Comment
Read more