Life Lately… June

I haven’t been great at posting lately, so I’ll give you an idea of our life lately.

Loving –

• Outdoor baby baths.  I think he’s the only one who was clean that day (no-shower Sundays).
• Tacos Hass tacos (authentic taco place near us). I read about it awhile back and we gave it a chance when the wait was too long at another restaurant last month, and have been back 3 times. (don’t worry, Yabos, we still love you) So now I have a favorite place for tacos (hass), a fav place for other mexican (yabos) and a favorite place for margaritas (cinco).  I need them to all join forces.
• The Lone Bellows Pandora station (thanks, Claudia)
• My blueberry bushes have berries!!! They aren’t ripe and there are just a few bunches, but every year there will be more, and that’s exciting!
• Jenson’s new noises – he’s making a lot of mouth fart noises and brrrrr noises, and it’s funny.
• The anticipation of a long weekend and days worth of baby snuggles

Not loving –

• Ann Coulter’s article about “soccer”. I wrote a big long explanation about why she’s an idiot, and then I decided that she doesn’t deserve more attention, so that’s all I’ll say about it. Don’t google it because it’s a waste of time, but if you already read it, you know what I mean. She doesn’t seem to know anything about any sport.

Doing –

• Project Life album: I’m almost done with December, lol (I take A LOT of photos). And when I say almost done, I mean that the photos are mostly in place – I still need to write notes throughout. This is what I do during my bedtime pumping session. I was pretty thrilled I’m that far, but considering it starts with Jenson’s birth in October, that’s not so great. Part of the holdup was needing to buy an album and more album pages. I need to be more selective of which pictures I choose, but it’s hard because Jenson is SO cute!
• Just a few workouts a week. Jenson isn’t the greatest sleeper, so my workouts depend on whether I need to nap on my lunch hour or go to the gym. I’ve been doing at least 2 workouts/week, which isn’t great, but I’m not sorry. I’m mostly just doing about 40 minutes of cardio and 5-10 minutes of body weight exercises afterwards. Sometimes the only motivation I have to go to the gym is to read a magazine on the treadmill or elliptical. Besides, those magazines aren’t going to read themselves.

Planning –

• To do something with our garden or salad table. Yeah, we haven’t done anything yet, and it’s almost too late! Some things planted themselves, including a tomato plant or two, and zucchini. We pretty much have a zucchini and tomato garden right now. It did have asaparagus, but we forgot to pick it because it started while we were in Vegas.  There are a lot of weeds, but there’s a ton of zucchini, and at least 4 tomato plants (none of which are in the area where they were planted last year)

• Constantly planning Jenson’s meals. While he mostly eats pieces of what we eat, I try to be more well-rounded with his meals so he has better variety.  Since he tends to cram things in his mouth, some things that we would eat just aren’t going to work for him until he has teeth (pizza, for example).

Wishing –

• We lived closer to my sister’s family. Max and Jenson are 4 months apart, and it would be amazing if they were closer. That’s not going to happen, so we are looking forward to them visiting at the end of July.  Look at this mug!
  
• Time would slow down. Jenson is nearly 9 months and that makes me a little sad. It’s so fun to see him grow (he is REALLY growing right now) and change, but he’s almost not a baby anymore!

Have done –

• We went to our friends’ baby shower over the weekend. They moved to Chicago shortly after Jenson was born and they never got to meet him, so it was nice that the shower was for everyone, not just the women. It was actually a luncheon (no games, etc), so….bonus.
• Donated my frozen milk from January. I feel lucky that I’m able to produce plenty of milk for Jenson, but also have enough leftover to help out a local baby who lost her mother shortly after birth.
• Donated blood.  Apparently it was fluid donation week for me.  When I donated in January, the Red Cross sent me an email to tell me that my blood was used for a man in Michigan.  I thought that was really cool to know that it was used – hopefully they do again.