Sophia Jo {ten months}

Well our baby is 10 months old already!! And really, she isn't much of a 'baby' anymore! She is officially on the move now and I can't turn my back for even a second without her zooming off towards something. She still isn't doing the 'conventional' crawl yet...its more of a push with one leg, while dragging the other. But that doesn't slow her down!! She is all over the place!! Sophia is turning into quite the chatter box and will 'talk' to anyone who will listen. She LOVES getting peoples attention, which makes her a popular baby in the grocery store. We had a busy month with birthday parties, babies being born, engagements, a baby shower, and your first Valentine's Day! It's SO hard to believe that in two short months we will be celebrating your FIRST BIRTHDAY!! 

I sat you down in the chair and you instantly were planing your escape...

Goodbye...

FEARLESS! 

You were trying to climb over the chair to get to your chevron storage box!

Highlights from this month...

*You celebrated your very first Valentine's Day, and Daddy bought you your first rose! I dried it and kept it special for you!*

*You enjoyed your first Family Day with a nice low key day spent with Mommy and Daddy!*

*You had TWO new friends born this month! Charlotte and Hudson will be playing with you in no time!*

*You have finally figured out how to drink from a straw sippy cup! And now you are OBSESSED with drinking water from it!!*

*You went to cousin Ava's birthday party and jumped in a bouncy castle for the first time, and LOVED it!!*

*You cut another tooth!! It is one of your 'eye' teeth...so you have one fang now ha ha!*

*You are all about copying what Mommy and Daddy do these days...you love to clap and wave goodbye!*

*You finished your second round of 'starfish' swimming lessons! You will start 'duck' in the summer!*

*You went to your first dance competition to watch Anna dance and you LOVED it! You were dancing in my lap the entire time!! Fingers crossed your a dancer like your Mama!!*

*You are still loving food, although you have decided you don't want to eat anything from a spoon anymore...which makes it a little hard to feed you the applesauce that you LOVE!*

*You are now wearing mostly 18 month clothing...almost officially out of the 'baby section' in most stores!*

We love you baby girl!!

Morning snuggles with Mommy are the BEST!

This is the life!

A few days before Valentine's Day!

 What a ham!

Clothes are totally overrated!!

You are a total blurr these days with all your movement!

You LOVE to open presents!

...And EAT tissue paper!!

 HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!

Lost her pants...

Great Grandma reading a book after dinner!

Family Day selfie!

A new favourite pass time...taking all of the magazines off of the 

coffee table and throwing them on the floor!

Roadtrip!!

Snuggle time with Mama!

Trying out the walker!

Helping Mommy with the laundry!

Someone figured out how to pull themselves up in their crib...trouble!

We were cuddling on the couch and you fell asleep on me! 

So we both had a nap for an hour! It was just like when you were a newborn!!

But when you woke up....you were a SWEATY MESS! ha ha! 

Playing with Daddy!

Breakfast date with Mommy and Daddy!

Loving your peach 'popsicle'!!

Practicing your walking!

In the bouncy castle!!

After dinner walk!

You LOVE when Grandma reads you stories!!

BIG GIRL!!

Chilling on the couch!

You discovered mango...and LOVE it!!

Helping Mommy make dinner!

Talking a selfie after we had some family pictures taken!

 Wiped out after pictures!

Being all fashionable!

Having a snack with Mommy!

On the move!

Who ME!?

Goodbye...

Family walk!

 Swimming lessons with Daddy!

You found your shoes...

Playing with Coopy!

On the move...

Reading before bed!

Bath time!!

You think this is the BEST toy EVER!!

And you discovered the stairs...yikes!!

Time to explore in the snow before it all melts!!

You were VERY intrigued...

Walk and coffee date at Starbucks!

Friday Favorites!

Yahoo it's FRIDAY! 

I'm linking up this week with Andrea from Momfessionals for Friday Favourites! If you have a blog, you should link up with your favourites from the week too! 

A few of my favourite things from this week...

Dinner date with one of my besties!! LOVE this girl!!
We have fun no matter what we are doing...
even if we are in the Listerine aisle at Walmart! Ha ha!

My little fashionista! Denim shirt, leggings, and baby Uggs for the win!

Perfect words to live by!!

We had some family pictures done at our home and I am in LOVE with the ones that Chelsey has posted so far!!! We can't wait to see the rest!!

House of Cards season three is FINALLY out! 

We LOVE this show!!

After dinner walks with my favourite people!!

Sophia is on the move BIG TIME these days!
 I can't sit down on the floor for a second without her trying to climb all over me!

St. Patrick's Day is coming up fast so I picked up some fun ribbon to work on some St. Patrick's Day bows for Sophia and a few of her friends!

Thanks for stopping by!

 Have a great weekend!!

March Goals

It's March!! We are already 5 days into the month and I'm finally just getting around to posting my March goals. Hopefully at some point I will have these posts ready for the first of the month...maybe! ha! Before I move into my March goals, I need to reflect on my February goals. And lets just say that February didn't really go as planned in the whole 'goal' situation!! I definitely underestimated how sick I would be after getting my tonsils out and that put me on the sidelines of just about everything for a full two weeks. And with February only having four weeks in the first place...I kinda ran out of time to complete things.I hope to make better progress this month! 

These were my February goals...

1. Well I was only able to do physical activity 2 out of the 4 weeks in February due to my surgery! So I will count that as a win! But I will also continue to keep this goal for March.

2. Complete! This is what my recipe cupboard looked like before...YIKES! ha! I have a ton of great cookbooks, as well as a TON of recipes that I have printed off. So I needed to figure out a way to organize them!

I sorted all of my 'paper' recipes and put them into categories!

Then I organized them into a BIG binder!

Yahoo! Nice and organized!!

3. I didn't end up getting my sewing machine out this month like I had hoped...but I did complete a few projects that involved fabric ha ha! Does that count?! I made this bow holder for Sophia's room, and I made a bunch of bows and headbands for a few special girls! (Post about that coming soon!)

4. I did it!! I ate breakfast everyday! Once again, because of my surgery I was 'eating' an Ensure shake (GROSS)  for about 2 weeks for breakfast ha! But I figure that should count!! 

5. Epic FAIL. I read a total of ZERO books. I currently have 3 books on my shelf all ready to go. But it just didn't happen this month! Boo!!

And now onto my March goals...

1. My number one goal this month is to SLOW DOWN! The last few months have been particularly CRAZY BUSY! And I only have 2 more months of maternity leave with Sophia so I need to take it down a notch and really focus on what matters...my time spent with her!!

2. Once again, I am striving to get back into the fitness routine!!

3. I will try my best to dust off a book and READ it this month!! Fingers crossed I make better progress on this goal than I did last month!

4. I read an article online last week about how important it is for Moms to take some time in the day for themselves, and to just gather their thoughts. It was an amazing article and really motivated me to try to do this more often. So my plan is to set my alarm 30 minutes before Sophia wakes up every morning. This will give me time to wake up a little bit more leisurely, catch up on some of the blogs I like to read, or do a few things around the house before we start our day! It will also get me back into a routine of waking up early to head back to work...ugh!!

Have a great month!!