10 months

I was a little late in taking my sons 10 month photos and even later in posting them. 10 months! Now its almost 11.

10 months:

• He dances when he hears music of any kind
• he loves pointing at things
• he creates all kinds of games to play
• he still fights sleeping
• he is eating a ton of solids
• his favorite food is yogurt

Here are a few pictures of him at 10 months

DIY: Feather hair clip tutorial

I saw some hair clips recently that I loved. They were simple feather and button hairpins so I decided to see if I could make my own and share the tutorial with you. They are VERY easy to make and pretty cheap. I think they turned out looking pretty classy and would make a great gift!

Materials:

-feathers

-hair clip

-button (vintage?)

-felt

-glue gun

Step 1: cut out a circle of felt the size you would like the body of your pin to be

Step 2: Use your glue gun to place feathers on felt

Step 3: Glue (or sew) button at base of feathers

Step 4: Glue creation to pin back or Barrett (or whatever you want)

Easy right? The whole project only takes about 2-5min. I made several at once so I have some for myself and some to give away as gifts.

Happy New Year!

Happy new year! Its the time of year where everyone has great hope for the future. The new year brings promise of a better you, a better year. 2011 was hands down the most eventful/important year of my life as it brought me my son. It also ended with me becoming lazy/overtired and not doing many of the things that I had hoped to be doing. One sandwich leads to 2 months of eating gluten. Eating gluten leaves me feeling sick and tired. Felling sick and tired leads to me not feeling up to all the cloth diaper laundry and using way to many disposables. So on and so on. The bright side is that i have lots of 'resolutions' for the new year!

2012 goals:

-eat gluten free/organic (again)

-Make my own baby food

-return to full time cloth diapering (disposables are a slippery slope)

-Figure out why i feel sick all the time and try and remedy the problem

-Begin training for Holistic Health Practitioners license.

-Find a local community of like minded people and really invest in them

-Expand my doula business

-Set goals and organize Hope and Heritage shop

I hesitated to post my goals because once they are out there people might see how far I come from acheiving them. I dediced that it might prove to be some kind of accountability for me. So in the name of oppenness and accountablilty i will be taking some time throughout Jan. to do a blog post focusing on each of my goals for 2012! If i can follow through and actually post about each gaol this month, there might be hope for the rest of my resolutions after all.

Happy Holidays!

These holidays we have been super busy. On Christmas eve we arrived in Toronto Canada to visit tylers family. We have been spending the last week enjoying family, relaxing and a white christmas (almost). While Christmas itself was warm and not so snowing, the days after provided lots of snow. Jude loved watching it fall and was not to sure what to make of it on the ground. I hope everyong had an enjoyable Christmas week!

very very busy

These last few weeks we have been VERY busy. We have completed 2 holiday markets, one of which was 2 days long. I came down with a horrible cold for which i could take no medication due to breastfeeding, which turned into a sinus infection that has lasted forever. I have had a few doula interviews that resulted in my having a doula client every month from now till April with lots of scheduled prenatal and interviews coming up. I also gave my notice as a counselor, last week will be last week. With all of the busyness we took some family time this weekend to get our house ready for the holiday.

Picking out our Christmas tree

Pretty exciting

Jude had a traumatizing encounter with Santa

With lots of things going on and even more things to catch up on, it was nice to take some time to do one of my favorite things, setting up the christmas tree. This year we got a small tree and put it up on a table. Now that Jude is moving around we figured it was safer.

9 months

My son is now 9 months old. He has officially been out as long as he was in (a few weeks longer then he was in actually) and I can hardly believe it. 9 months ago was hands down the most amazing moment of my life as I meet my son for the first time. 9 months before that Jude was just a tiny little guy and I was confused and wondering why I was so tired and why I was craving cheeseburgers SO badly. This month has brought with it tons of change. A few new tricks that Jude has picked up:

-Pulling himself up into the standing position

-walking with help from mom and dad

-blowing spit bubbles on purpose

-commando crawling

-eating bites of mom and dads food

-fake crying to get attention

Each new change is so exciting to watch. Even now after all this time with him both in belly and in home, I am still constantly blown away that i have a son and that my son is so amazing.

Printable Love

I am love with free printables. There are so many beautiful prints out there in the Internet world that are free to use and can give ones house or office and instant lift. I am the kind of person who loves free things, no matter what they are. I hoard the free band aid packets the hospital gives out as a promotional item, I take hand fulls of matchbooks even though I do not smoke and don't really have any use for them, I love getting things for free. It is even more rewarding when I can use the things that I collect for free. Here are a few of the free printable items I have been loving lately:

From the Blog eatdrinkchick here are some adorable cup sleeves.

Source: eatdrinkchic.com via Sara on Pinterest

From the same blog, here are some super cute Christmas tags

Source: eatdrinkchic.com via Sara on Pinterest

'like' armommy on Facebook and you get lovely monthly prints. Here is Novembers.

Source: armommy.com via Sara on Pinterest

I printed off these thankful cards from jones design company and took a big branch into work so that my clients can work on a 'thankful tree'. Starting tomorrow she is having a week of free printable giveaways in honor of the upcoming holiday season!

Source: jonesdesigncompany.com via Kassie on Pinterest

There is a small glimpse into my current free printable obsession.