Re: Maybe a baby in 2017
Posted: Mon May 27, 2019 7:07 pmAs of last Friday Mae is 11 months old! Time sure does fly. She’s quite chatty, always babbling, and has a working vocabulary of about seven words: hi, ball, more, guitar, dada, all done, uh oh. She’s friendly, and says hi all the time to strangers, which is quite amusing in busy places and she’s greeting so many people. It brings a smile to everyone’s faces.
Mae is on to three solid meals a day. For breakfast she usually has banana, Cheerios and maybe something else like raisins or strawberries, possibly oatmeal or a crust of toast. Lunch is generally a version of whatever we’re having, same with dinner. For instance, dinner tonight was tacos, so Mae had black beans and frozen peas as finger food, and I spoon fed her rice and a sweet potato/corn purée. She’s been getting about 4 oz of baby food every day. If I had time, I’d make my own, but at this point it’s store-bought. I’ve focused on the starch-based ones, because they have more calories than the fruit or veggie only ones, and I don’t need to fill her belly with something light. She has water in a sippy cup.
She’s still nursing, of course! She nurses before her morning and afternoon naps, and at bedtime, and two or three times at night. I don’t mind the night nursing, she sleeps pretty well now that she eats solids, and I still haven’t gotten my period back, so that’s a win in my book.
This last weekend we flew to New York City to go to my sister’s wedding. She got married on Friday, their three year anniversary. They were written about in the New York Times!
We trucked our whole fam, me, hubby and the three kids, through the big city. I was super stressed about it, but once I got there was totally fine. In high school I did a summer program at the Fashion Institute of Technology, so I was a little familiar with the city, and I also used to live in downtown San Francisco and studied abroad in Paris, so all my fears about losing my kids in a large city turned out to be a little exaggerated. They did need to learn a little about staying close and small personal space, but they quickly caught on.
My food choices left much to be desired, but I still lost 1/2 lb with all the walking we did.
That’s all for now. Best to everyone!
Mae is on to three solid meals a day. For breakfast she usually has banana, Cheerios and maybe something else like raisins or strawberries, possibly oatmeal or a crust of toast. Lunch is generally a version of whatever we’re having, same with dinner. For instance, dinner tonight was tacos, so Mae had black beans and frozen peas as finger food, and I spoon fed her rice and a sweet potato/corn purée. She’s been getting about 4 oz of baby food every day. If I had time, I’d make my own, but at this point it’s store-bought. I’ve focused on the starch-based ones, because they have more calories than the fruit or veggie only ones, and I don’t need to fill her belly with something light. She has water in a sippy cup.
She’s still nursing, of course! She nurses before her morning and afternoon naps, and at bedtime, and two or three times at night. I don’t mind the night nursing, she sleeps pretty well now that she eats solids, and I still haven’t gotten my period back, so that’s a win in my book.
This last weekend we flew to New York City to go to my sister’s wedding. She got married on Friday, their three year anniversary. They were written about in the New York Times!
We trucked our whole fam, me, hubby and the three kids, through the big city. I was super stressed about it, but once I got there was totally fine. In high school I did a summer program at the Fashion Institute of Technology, so I was a little familiar with the city, and I also used to live in downtown San Francisco and studied abroad in Paris, so all my fears about losing my kids in a large city turned out to be a little exaggerated. They did need to learn a little about staying close and small personal space, but they quickly caught on.
My food choices left much to be desired, but I still lost 1/2 lb with all the walking we did.
That’s all for now. Best to everyone!
But now I am told at least once a year my son is too tall for his age. 
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