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seth the stud: 3 months

I don't know why I never imagined myself having a boy. But now that Seth has entered our world we can't imagine life without him. I think that everyone feels that way about their children. Once they are a part of the family, everything just feels right.

In honor of Seth turning 3 months and exiting the newborn stage, I want to write a letter to him. I can't even believe he isn't a newborn anymore! 


To my sweet little man, 


As I write this, my eyes fight back tears because I feel so blessed to have you in my life. These past 3 months have been so amazing. You made me a mommy for the second time and I thank you for that. From the moment you were even a thought in our minds, you brought happiness and joy into our hearts. Even your sister has loved babies for so long and has always taken a special liking to boys! I like to think that you were an answer to her little hearts desire. Thinking about the last 3 months, I think of all the little things that make you unique already.

You latched on immediately and loved to sleep for 4 hour increments.

You still love your sleep, sometimes I think you would rather sleep than eat! 

Mommy most often has to wake you for your feeding.

You rolled over before you were 2 months (tummy to back). I heard a little baby giggle and turned to find you looking up at me and smiling.

Crying isn't your specialty. When you cry for more than a few minutes, you do this little baby cough as if to show you are "straining your voice". It's pretty funny and so cute.

You found your fingers at 6 weeks and love to suck on them until you fall asleep. 
Every morning you let mommy know you are hungry when the sucking becomes louder. I'll take that over crying any day! 

Just when mommy thought you wouldn't sleep longer than 5 hours at night, you showed me by sleeping from 9 to 6 at nine weeks! 

You haven't peed on mommy once(well, at least not yet)!

Even though you seem to be the shy baby, you didn't take long to start smiling at us.

You have out grown your clothes like crazy! In these pictures, you are wearing a 6 month outfit! 

I love that you have just enough hair so that mommy can have fun brushing it to the side. 

You learned to say "a goo" at 6 weeks and haven't stopped to look for our eyes to have the longest conversations with us. I hope you never get tired of talking to us. 

And most importantly,
I hope that one day you will realize that God has been looking for your heart and that you won't hesitate to look back at Him and spend the rest of your days talking to the One who made you. 

crazy about kale and kiddos

                                      
                                     
                                     

                                      


Lately, we've been taking longer walks around the Collection (the shopping area a few blocks from our house)not only to tire out the toddler, but also to keep an eye on any new stores opening up. I thought it would be fun to get some shots of miss Maci in front of the blank walls and of course, it didn't take long for her to warm up to the camera! Seriously, where does she get these poses from?! This kid cracks me up! She always enjoys stopping to look at every detail around her and I love that because it makes me slow down and reminds me to take a look also. 

With two kiddos, I am always looking for a quick dinner idea. The last time the husband and I had a date we had an amazing frittata at a very popular cafe in Ventura, Cafe Nouveau. Ever since hearing that kale is so healthy, we've been trying to add it to our meals, smoothies and salads. The frittata turned out pretty good, although I tasted more sausage than anything else. The hubs wasn't too impressed! 

I can't say yet that it's been tough with two little ones at home. It's been hard to get things done, but when I remember that they need ME more than anything else I really feel blessed and thankful that I have this time with them. Seth has been an easy baby and he has really spoiled this mommy already! So I can't complain ha! I love his little face! I caught him one night being so curious and talkative. He melts my heart over and over again. <3 <3

cookie lessons

                                                 wouldn't trade anything for this face!

After a few days of stressing about not being able to keep up the cleaning, a sermon at church really hit me and made me realize somethings about the root of my frustrations. The root of my frustrations came from certain desires not being met. Basically, I wasn't getting what I wanted and so of course, it was taking up much of my thoughts and my focus away from the more important things. My pastor reminded me that our desires have to change first for that frustration to go away. When we "fight" or "lust" for things and that desire isn't fulfilled we act out in different negative ways to try to get what we want. I definitely don't want to be a mommy that is stressed and unhappy about the wrong things in life. 

Those truths helped loosen me up and the next day at Target I saw a sugar cookie mix on sale. How fun would it be to bake with Maci! After a toddler meltdown (Maci didn't understand that we had to "make" the cookies first ha!), we had fun getting our hands dirty as evidenced by the pictures above. I wish I had taken a picture of her putting a handful of cookie mix into her mouth! Clearly, she still didn't get the idea. I mean why would they put a picture of cookies on the box if there aren't cookies int here?! Maci would like to know ;)

I am seriously looking forward to more baking memories with my girl. 

strollin through Ojai

This weekend we were invited by some friends to a water park out in Ojai. I was excited to get out of the house and for Maci to get out too since I kept her cooped up indoors all week (it's getting a little harder to get out just to the park with the two littles lately). Well, although the water park plan fell through, Maci and daddy were able to get a boat ride out on Lake Casitas and Seth and I ran off to do a little sight-seeing in downtown Ojai. Maci loved the boat ride so much she actually fell asleep (and if you know Maci she never just "falls" asleep anywhere)! Of course, I hit up a few stores do some thrifting and vintage shopping ha! After I grabbed a bottle of my favorite Lavender Lemonade (made locally in Ojai!) and walked down the main street to do some window shopping. 

This little town (and I do mean little) really captured my heart. I love the building structures and the small town feel. Hopefully next time we can stay longer and have dinner at one of the restaurants.