Catch up on previous updates here: Oliver’s birth story | Month 1+2 | Month 3 | Month 4 | Month 5 | Month 6 | Month 7 | Month 8 | Month 9 | Month 10 | We loved spending our afternoons at the pool this summer and will miss it a lot! Whats the winter version of the pool for kids? It’s amazing how your opinion can change within the space of a month. Last month I was sad that I only had two more updates left until Oliver turned a year, and now I don’t mind at all. I think I have

I call out “Downward Facing Dog” and Ollie does it! So cute! I started doing “Itsy Bitsy Yoga” (a book by Helen Garabedian – given to me by a friend) with Ollie this week and I can’t believe I waited this long to begin. I was obviously doing some of the activities throughout the day as they can be as simple as jumping your baby up and down, but I hadn’t made a time to sit down and do a few poses together on the yoga mat. I skimmed the book again last weekend to refresh my mem

Catch up on previous updates: Oliver’s birth story | Month 1+2 | Month 3 | Month 4 | Month 5 | Month 6 | Month 7 | Month 8 9 months out vs 9 months in. Nine month’s old is such a fun one because that’s how long he was inside my belly and I still think that is remarkable. It has obviously been a much busier 9 months than when he was all tucked inside but it’s incredible getting to know our little one. This month he has grown in leaps and bounds; not so much physically, but in

Catch up on previous updates: Oliver’s birth story | Month 1+2 | Month 3 | Month 4 | Month 5 | Month 6 | Month 7 | Happy 8 months sweet boy. You are truly a delight! (Outfit deets: Jeans- Gap (old) similar, similar, similar | Shirt | Old Navy ) This month has been an interesting one. Oliver is moving around so much, and getting into so many things that he has me on my toes. He isn’t crawling just yet but is so close it could happen any moment. Every time I turn around, he has

Our little vegan baby, Oliver, is 4 months old and now I understand how all parents say that time flies. (However, the first 2 months didn’t. Read about that here.) In the third month, the fog lifted and now that we are really having fun, the weeks are flying by! Sleep Night: What a difference a good night’s sleep makes! Oliver is sleeping about 10 hours at night (from 9:30pm – 7:30am) and we couldn’t be more grateful. I feel like a semi-normal person again. I still need an e

Check out my previous mama update in Diary of an Overwhelmed First Time Mom. Everyone kept saying that life with a newborn would get easier around the three-month mark, but after one month that seemed so. far. away. (See post above.) I was so overwhelmed with my recovery and Oliver’s non-stop crying that I couldn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel. I just had to take it one a day at a time and keep telling myself it would get easier for us both. Thank goodness it did! S

Week 1 The first week was amazing. A-maz-ing. I remember texting my friend Kristy, on October 15, “I’m high on life right now!” I really was on cloud nine. Oliver was feeding well, sleeping well, I was feeling all the feels and even though my recovery was really slow and I couldn’t do much – being with him was a dream. Someone told me that they didn’t really connect with their baby at first and that the newborn phase wasn’t their favorite. I remember thinking, “That’s crazy,”

Anyone who knows me knows my Type-A personality has the tendency to get a little anxious and a tad controlling. You know what doesn’t help that? The Internet. Like the time I searched “pain in my right side 20 weeks pregnant,” and ended up diagnosing myself with death. (Oops.) At that point I made the wise choice to ditch the Googling and switch to books instead. Full disclosure: I haven’t finished all ten of these yet. Blame pregnancy brain, but lately I’ve had a hard time s