I saw a light shine from a window, and as I looked again, your face came into sight.

Hey look it's mom!
She thinks this is a kiss, but I'm really making funny faces out the window.

Favorites Part 2

Peg Perego Skate
So versatile.
car seat attachments included.
bassinet feature.
convertible.
ONE PIECE!
I looked at every freaking stroller in the world, and the scary part is in 10 months they came out with new ones! I'm so last year. I was at the airport waiting to go to Magic, so of course the entire LB airport is full of hipsters of all types. The guy next to us said, "little dude your boots are fly and your rollin in style. I'm feeling your stroller." I couldn't help but laugh. Everyone, but mom's does not see the stroller craze. It's like putting your child in a Honda vs. a Bentley, you obviously want to ride is luxury and style. Well anyway, I love our stroller. It is so easy to use, once you figure it out. It came with a rain cover, and also a cover to keep them warm. I highly suggest it, and the car seat is amazing, heavy, but amazing. It is leather so it's super easy to wipe down. Now if only he enjoyed the stroller longer then 20 mins....




Favorite tips
Ice trays! So this applies now, since Arlo is teething. We make smoothies and fill up the ice trays, stick the cubes in his mesh feeder and a nice cool treat. We have also made chamomile tea ice cubes which is a natural pain reliever. It helps and he likes it. Frozen fruit is also easy, but I love the cubes.

Favorites

What are your favorites? Favorite baby food, clothes, stores, gifts to give, high chair, bottles, diaper rash cream, websites, car seat, stroller????? I want to know! Why, because that is all us moms talk about? That and what our babies are doing now. So in honor of me wanting to know your favorites, I will tell you mine! Although, only 3 people will probably respond to this. I still want to know!

Tonight I will give you two, because I am feeling generous. I even gave my mom a box of girl scout cookies, and if you know me, I don't like sharing cookies.


I found this website after I had Arlo and immediately bought new bedding. I fell in love and I fell in love hard. It was the kind of love that knocks the wind out of you. Besides bedding, they have adorable dresses. I almost thought about putting Arlo in one, but didn't think it would compliment his hair.

Arlo has the noggie nature with the tweety brid sheet. We don't use a bedskirt, since we have to lower his mattress to the bottom, and bedskirts don't fit right. Does anyone have a way around this? Also I would love one of the quilts and/or the brown bark sheet. Just incase you feel like buying us stuff.
and drumroll please.......

Tasty Baby! I defenitly use Earth's Best, but I wish I had the time to make his food everyday. Especially now that he has more options. Before we started on solids my mom sent me info on Tasty Baby food. I looked for it at the Wholefoods in Hollywood, but they didn't carry it yet. When we moved to Belmont Shore I found it at our local Wholefoods(it's in the frozen section). Arlo loves the Mamamia, a blend of Butternut squash, zucchini, quinoa pasta, parmesan cheese & sage. It tastes so fresh and I feel good about feeding it to him. (yes, I taste all his food) Don't worry mom's it is organic!


And this is just because...
Arlo's first trip to the beach

Shadow

Today we went to visit my Nonna. This women means everything to me. She has been there for me when everyone turned their back on me. She has been my rock and my heart. I love her more then she will ever know. When I was a kid, my grandpa use to call me her "shadow." I would follow her around the house while she cleaned and mopped her house with vinegar. She picked me up from school everyday and she made sure to always bring me a snack, it was usually cinnamon bread from Lucci's.
Today things are different. She is 88 years old, and she is sad. She is sad that she can't hold Arlo by herself, she is sad that she can't babysit him, like she did me. She is sad that her body doesn't work like it use to and that she can't live in a house and cook everyday, but today her face lit up. She loves Arlo more than anything, and I am so happy that she gets to see me as a mother. She gets to see me as a women, who created life. What she doesn't realize is that she has created this family, that she is responsible for all of her children, grandchildren, and now all 5 of her great grandkids.
She is a fiesty women, but you can't help but love her for it. She has shown me so much, and I only hope one day I will be half the women she is.

She also bought Chris a brush. He humored her and let her brush his hair. She is something else that women!
3 years ago

*The first picture is Arlo at 3 months. He is such a little man now!

It's happening to fast

Arlo started walking this week. We were in vegas for magic, and he took his first steps in the Venetian hotel and I thank him for waiting for me to take his first steps after I got home from work. I have always worried that I was going to miss important moments because of work, and slowly I am realizing I can make being a mom and having a career work(I guess taking him on business trips helps. Some might think I'm crazy, but it's the only way I can do it.) Up until this point, I have spent hours and days trying to find a way not to work. Any way I crunch the numbers, I have to stay employeed full time. Good thing I like buying shoes for aliving. Otherwise, being a working mom would be even harder.
Arlo at the park. Some boy didn't want to play with him.

After returning from Magic, Arlo had his 10 month check up. He is right on track and healthy as can be. I have been avoiding sleep training him for some time now. He still gets up to eat 2-3 times in the middle of the night. I told the dr. I was finally ready to stop bf him at night and work on getting him to sleep through the night. He was all for it, until he saw that Arlo was FINALLY getting his first tooth. We didn't believe him because we always feel like one is coming in, but then this morning it happened. The kid was finally cutting his first tooth! Frozen fruit is a life savor so far! Poor baby is handling it like a champ.

This is his new favorite place to play hide-n-seek.

I hope everyone has a good weekend, we are keeping it mellow and I'm starting to plan for his first birthday. Stay tuned for that post!
I don't know where the time has gone. Arlo at 6 months...