Delightfully Domestic

Sullivan's first Christmas Photos

I snapped a few pictures of Sully on Christmas day so I can put one in a small ornament frame for his first Christmas ornament to hang on our tree. I was even able to find the exact same ornament that I have for Emery which I was pretty excited about! Emery's first Christmas photos are pretty sweet too and I'd say there's definitely a sibling resemblance between these two! 

 

xo.

Six Months

At six months old, Sullivan is:

• wearing 9-12 month size clothing. 
• waking 2-3 (or 4) times a night, but still napping pretty decently most days
• eating solids! I started him on oatmeal once he turned 5 months old and over this past month he's also tried mushed avocado, banana, carrot, potato, broccoli, spinach and apple sauce
• enjoying being a part of the dinner table conversation. I think his big sister likes it even more, although she acts so crazy in her chair now to try and get him giggling haha it might be becoming a bit of a problem 
• giggling, especially at his sister
• really playing with things now. and the other day he dropped a toy and got upset about it for the first time, it was cute
• rolling over when necessary (like mostly to get back onto his back during tummy time, or to grab something quick then flip back onto his back. he really hates being on his tummy haha)
• rocking this spikey blonde hair-do that doesn't show up very well in photos but I swear it's there! he actually has more hair than his sister did at this point (not that that's hard or anything)
• so squealy first thing in the morning! he wakes up way before everyone else so I always snuggle him in the living room and try to keep him quiet but his happy noises are so loud now! 
• more interested than the books I am reading to Emery at bedtime than nursing now which is really fun because now it feels like I am reading to both of them

 

xo.

 

 

Happy New Year!

 

These were my best nine from instagram (Mom- that means the 9 most liked photos that I posted to instagram this past year. there's like an app that generates it) and since I hardly blogged at all this year that's sort of the best summary of 2017 I've got. Thankfully the nine photos "most liked" were the nine I liked best too, haha! 

Introducing Sullivan Charles to the world - my hiking trip with my Dad in Arizona in February  - mother/daughter maternity photoshoot - Emery meeting her baby brother at the hospital - porch hangs all Summer long - standing up for my best friend 3 days postpartum - summiting Ha Ling Peak at 34 weeks pregnant - gardening with baby - Sully's first Christmas 

It was a pretty wonderful year. With having another baby and starting a second maternity leave year from school, both of which were so not at all a part of my plan, 2017 has shown me yet again that God's plans are always better than my own! 

 If you're a resolution-er, what are your resolutions? I have always enjoyed setting goals for the year (16 for 2016, 15 for 2015, 2013's resolutions). This year I have decided to just set monthly goals for myself since the first half of this year I will still be on maternity leave and then the second half I will be back in school and I just don't know what life will look like with the little ones and school and everything then! So just playing it month by month sounds better to me :) 

My goals for January are:

1. Cut sweets out of my diet (after the holidays my body wants this sooo bad)
2. Start blogging again (hello!)
3. Drink more water (so typical, haha)
4. Organize my closet (it's currently spilling out all over my room)

I didn't make any fitness related goals for this month because I'm finishing up a plan I started when Sully turned 3 months old, and I just haven't been slacking in that regard lately... it's what I've been putting INTO my body lately that I want to work on, haha! Did anyone else live on cookies for the month of December??

 

xo.

 

Five Months

At five months old, Sullivan is:

• reaching for and grabbing everything in sight, which is actually why this post is so late (he turns 6 months old next week..). I sat down in front of the computer while holding him a couple of weeks ago and he grabbed my tea cup that was sitting in front of us on the desk. thankfully the tea had cooled already because it poured all over both of us, and drenched half of our old keyboard. It turns out that there is a lot you can still do with a computer even if a bunch of keys are broken, so it took us weeks to replace it haha- but typing a blog post is not one of them! anyway, now that he is almost 6 months old I am having a hard time remembering what it was he was doing 3 weeks ago exactly - babies change so fast! So I'm guessing here... 
• wearing 9 month size clothing. 
• sleeping in his crib. not through the night yet- he usually wakes up once, sometimes twice, a night- but he falls back asleep easily in the crib after nursing. 
• napping way better in the crib! we have a nap schedule of sorts now. like, he'll nap in the morning after he's been up around 1.5 hours, and he'll nap in the afternoon and then sometimes a quick one in the evening too. they're not at specific times because  I really don't like to be bound by nap times, but if we are home he takes them all in his crib (and if we are out then he takes them, well, elsewhere haha like someone else's crib, or the stroller, a playpen, the car seat, ergo carrier, or my personal favourite- my arms :) )
• getting more blonde hair 
• babbling and singing loudly and often
• not showing any actual teeth yet but definitely signs of teething, he's chewing on everything and super drooly and gets those really red perfectly circular teething cheeks sometimes
• turning into another water baby for me, a dream come true! we are spending a lot of time at the pool these days and I can't remember Sully crying there yet haha, he's very content in the water!
• smiling, at everyone and anything and at any time (except tummy time!)

 

xo.