Now & Then.

Now, October 2015

A lot can change in a year! Pounds lighter, a new mindset, new goals, and a new blog to share #mymamaheart with you.

Then, October 2014

Now

Then

 I plan to set my intention for the rest of November to enjoy my days and moments with Forrest & Hunter that we have together :)

Hunter's Second Halloween | October 2015 | 17 months

Our Halloween this year was spent with me and work and Hunter with a viral illness (notice the spots around his mouth!) so we didn't have any trick or treating excitement.  I still put his costume on and grabbed a few photos as his costume was too cute.  I found it at a local consignment store for $10 and I had some credit, so I scored it for $5!.  I found out later it is "Sully" from Monsters Inc, a children's cartoon movie.  When I finished work Halloween night, we watched the movie. :)

Happy Fall y'all from Hunter

Dear Hunter | 17 months

Dear Hunter,

Out of your  mouth since the last letter has been SO MANY NEW WORDS.  Cracker, cookie, book, milk, and my moms swears you said poop this weekend.  Ha.   We had a good start to the Fall September 2015.  Your blonde hair and blue eyes win you so many compliments and I just can't believe you are mine.  I love capturing your personality through my camera and probably have more pictures than I will ever know what to do with.  (and never end sentences with propositions, I should know better!)  Daddy wants to hang a huge longhorn something or other in our house, and I want to fill it with huge canvases of the photos I've taken or had taken of us, our family.

We have a "day care field trip" coming up soon.  I got your Halloween costume at the consignment store and I love it..   You do too.  This year we will trick or treat, or at least go walk around in your costume.

Your eating has gotten a little pickier but you still like vegetables and applesauce pouches the best.  Every day, you are becoming more and more a little toddler.  And everything fun that goes with it!

Later this month, we have fall pictures scheduled.  Daddy just grumps around a little but will be happy in the years to come that we captured ourselves all together on a yearly basis.

Work for mommy and daddy has been a little busier, but we have lots of patients.  You don't seem to mind and love mornings with daddy playing hide and go seek and cuddling with mama before bedtime.  We love you <3

More Summersville Lake and Myrtle Beach Pictures | Hunter 16 months

Dear Hunter | 16 months

Dear Hunter,


Today you are now 16 months, or as I say often, a little over a year.  Soon I will be saying, a year and a half.  The days are long but the weeks and months are fast.

We are on vacation this week so we have been able to spend more time together than usual.  We spent the first part of the week with our Olgers family, the second part with the Katona family, and the day we arrive home, you get to spend time with your Holman grandparents.

Even just spending a few days in a row with you I have seen so many new things, each day you show me you are learning, growing, and becoming a little man!

For the last week, you have walked around saying apple more times than I care to admit.  I'm not sure if you are referencing the applesauce pouches or if you just like to say the word all day e'ry day.  You started saying words or something like the word for the sign language you know (more, all done) and still use hungry and thank you multiple times a day.  You have a fun new word you started yesterday yeah, and I play a little game every evening and ask what you want for dinner.  Spaghetti is a yeah and everything is a no or some baby words other than yeah.

You still nap well in the afternoon.  During vacation, you woke up early, before 7 am, everyday until the last 2 days, we kept you up pretty late past your bedtime, and for probably the second and third time in your life you slept til 9 and 8 am.  It was glorious.  For mommy at least.

Today, you played in the kiddie pool all  morning with other littles.  You shared pretty well and only walked away with a small bruise on your head so far this vacation.  You have been walking since a little before your one year birthday, but you are still pretty wobbly at times and can come crashing down at any point.

As I said before, spaghetti is your new favorite food.  And green beans.  Broccoli is going by the wayside for these foods.

Mama has really enjoyed this week off with you and is definitely not looking forward to Monday morning day care drop off as tears will be shed, but working is a necessary evil.  Day care friends, teachers, and atmosphere has been so good for you and I try to remember that on days that will be like Monday after vacation.

Looking forward to when you talk more and more over the coming days and months!

Hands down, favorite baby product.

What a lovely iPhone photo... Anyways, my very good lifelong friend is a queen of reviews. She will looks at reviews and find me the best nipple cream because she is just an amazing friend that finds her best friend what's needed most in a mothers day package circa may 2014. Aka Hunter's birth and the beginning of my breast feeding journey. Anyways, I digress.

Above is pictured a product my review loving friend found and told me about. I was at the mecca of moms, target (only second to chikfillA in being stocked deep with moms and babies alike) and saw it. It's not totally inexpensive but not a horrible price at around 15 bucks either.   This is magic, amazing smelling, baby cleaning juice. No kidding. I bought one bottle for my house and one for my moms, OVER A YEAR ago.  Both are going strong with no sign of becoming empty. I use this "waterless" soap cleaning magic on Hunter nearly every morning to "freshen" him up before we being our day. I keep some in my diaper bag in a travel container in case things get really messy. I use it for big diaper gross times when I just am not in the mood for an extra bath. I haven't tried Musela's other baby products, but their nipple cream is hands down my favorite (tied with the honest company). Hear that Ava Anderson non-toxic.... We need a nipple cream too! 

Moms, what's is your favorite baby product and why?