count your blessings

good news: baby boy is doing well. at my ultrasound on tuesday, i found out that he's in the 48th percentile for height and weighs about 6lb. 8oz. so far so nothing to worry about! he's well on his way to being a 7lb. baby if he stays put for a few more weeks. i…

thanksgiving & birthday weekend

[12:30pm] i love my birthday because it usually falls around thanksgiving weekend so the festive mood from the holiday continues on to my birthday. sometimes my birthday falls on thanksgiving day which makes it even more special. this year, thanksgiving got off to a rocky start. i got into a car accident on wednesday evening.…

sweet news

i'm back. and with big news. the so family is expecting baby #2 on april 16th, 2017. currently i'm in my second trimester (14w 4d) and feeling infinitely better than i had been the past few months. the reason for my blogging hiatus was due to my morning sickness. with penny i experienced nausea, fatigue,…

penny’s first christmas

'twas a very merry christmas! i was so excited to celebrate our first christmas as a family because it's such an important, and festive, holiday. christmas is also my mom's birthday. it's rough having your birthday fall on the biggest holiday of the year and sharing it with jesus so we try to make it special for…

thankful

it's already december! one more month and it'll be 2016. i have gone through so many firsts with penny and soon it'll be her first christmas 🙂 last week was thanksgiving, my favorite holiday, and we had been planning to go up to boston to celebrate it with my side of the family. for those…

on to the next one

by far, the fourth month of penny's life has been the most eventful. the dreaded sleep regression, huge developmental gains, and a growth spurt. wait, another growth spurt? obviously, babies are constantly growing (penny is wearing size 6 months) but there are certain times where babies go through an extra 'spurt', so to speak, where…

hair today, gone tomorrow

i was hoping it wouldn't happen, but it has. during pregnancy, my hair became thicker and more lush. i had a lot of hair to begin with but pregnancy hormones caused less of my hair to fall out. naturally, we shed hair every day but this process stalls during pregnancy making it seem like you're…

essentials to survive the first two months

i have been working on this post for five days now. there isn't much downtime with a baby and i suffered from another bout of mastitis (!) but more on that later... penny had her two-month doctor appointment on monday. it was a moment that i had been dreading because of the vaccines - 3 shots and…

it’s not about you anymore

---- 6/10/15 ---- motherhood has been extremely taxing since day 1. as mentioned in my previous post, i've had to deal with latching issues. though it was resolved for the most part, i developed mastitis in my right breast due to plugged milk ducts. i produce much more milk than penny, or the pump, can…