9 months and no patty cake

Am I the only mom that feels like her child's doctors appointments are like work reviews? I feel like I am sitting down for my annual review every time Enzo's doctor sits down with me. Thankfully, I get to keep my job and get a raise every time.

The other day Enzo and I went in for our 9 month review. My little baby boy is now 29.5 inched long and 21 pounds. He has hit all his milestones for his age and is a little advanced in some as well. ( this makes me smile) However, the doctor made a comment that by this age he should be playing patty cake. Now, he said this is nothing to worry about. But I just can't help but be the slightest bit concerned.

He claps, when he feels like it. Enzo can even give you a high-five. But patty cake. nope.

Today I sat down with him and tried to play patty cake with him a few times. But the new ball pit won in the fight for his attention. Alas, we will try again tomorrow.

Let's try something new

I'm horrible at this, I know, I promised you and myself that this year I would be a better blogger and here I am....not blogging.

I suppose this is how I am avoiding being accountable. If I don't write about it, maybe no one will notice? Well I noticed and the worst person to lie to is yourself. So here I am, writing.

I wont lie to you anymore. I haven't been doing the best job with keeping up with my resolutions. My running is sporadic ( i'll never get 200 miles in at this rate) and we already talked about my blogging, my creativeness is at a halt, and I have been slacking with different projects I want to tackle.

On the POSITIVE side, the best side, I HAVE been trying something new every week, I signed up for both the Gasperilla 5k and the Irongirl. 5k. And I got Enzo to wear shoes :) Yes it is the little things, isn't it??

So let me start by telling you the NEW things I have been trying.

The first week of January I had just gotten back from my pizza tour around NY during which I ate an estimated 6 pies and countless sweets. So needless to say the first thing on my mind when I got back was fitness. I was just planning on taking a nice easy Pilates class when Enzo decided that it was not time for mommy to leave. I checked the YMCA schedule and noticed they had Zumba at the same time little man goes down to bed. PERFECT. So there I was ready for some ZUMBA instruction, Never had taken this class before I introduced myself to the instructor and told her this was my first time. Her advice was just watch, keep moving, and you'll get it. WOAH was she wrong! I was all over the place! Apparently, unless I have a few drinks in me I have no sort of rhythm....well maybe I never do, but just think I do after a few drinks??  Either way, I am not sure if I left the class getting one step right but it was so much fun! And it really was a great workout, I will be back.

The second week I tried a new hair style. I haven't done anything but darken my hair since high school. Im out of HS 9 years already. WOW. So I went to the best hair dresser I know and this is the finished product

Amazing? I know right??!



Then last week I tried not only cooking with and eating fennel and rainbow chard. Nothing exciting to report on either. But the dish I made them in turned out pretty good.

Forever is composed of a bunch of nows

As Promised here are my 2012 resolutions. I spent a lot of time determining what I wanted to work on this year and this is what I came up with.... 

drum roll please....

_2012

This year I will       Live up to my POTENTIAL

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says “ I’m possible"

Take more RISKS. Try something NEW every week

Eat more FRESH, Healthy, GREEN foods

WORKOUT until it shows, until I’m STRONG

                                                 

I WILL

DETERMINATION. INTEGRITY. CREATIVITY

I do not have any super fancy design programs and I am only so-so with Word so this is as creative as my resolutions are going to look for now. And it looks much cooler on my word programs, but this gets the point across. My main goal is to improve my life so that it is one that Enzo can be proud of, Narcis will want to share, and I can look back on with no regrets and nothing but smiles.

xoxo Leah  

Bedtime Sucess!!

Finally!! It has been  a month now, with only one late night ( New Years Eve) that Enzo has gone to bed at his new bedtime! I could not be more elated! Unless he actually slept through the night of course. In time that will come. For now, a little HOORAY for our little man and his bedtime success.

This year my goal is to get Enzo sleeping through the night. No clue at all how to get that done, but I figure the older he gets and when he is done nursing that full nights of sleep will follow. In the mean time I am just becoming a pro at functioning on broken sleep.

Along with getting Enzo to sleep through the night I have also set up a little list of New Year's Resolutions. I am working on making it all pretty before I share it. Since it is something I plan to take the entire year I am ok with it not being ready right at the stroke of midnight. But I promise I will share it soon. I just got back from 10 days in NY seeing my family and friends and I am still going in circles now that I am home. I have got a list a mile long of things I need to get done. So until next time

Enjoy some pictures from our trip to New York

Enzo with Gramps

He loved opening presents

Enzo's First trip to NYC

Nutcrackers, my favorite

My siblings and me at the tree

Me, Narcis, and my little little brother

Yup, theres a baby in there

Daddy and Enzo

31 degrees at the Memorial

xoxo Leah

In the Blink of an Eye

Let me start out by saying "wow." It has been almost a month since I have blogged and I do not even know where to begin. My little guy has done so much growing this last month, it just does not seem real. One day he was this little helpless squirming, rolly polly and now he is a crawling, climbing, fearless little guy. I can't believe my baby is getting so BIG!

He is definitely keeping mommy VERY busy. When he is not pulling out all of his clothes from his drawers, he is crawling all over the house climbing up the coffee table, the couch, the shelves, and even the wall. Anything that he can grab onto to help him stand, hes climbing up it.

I feel I can NEVER express enough how grateful I am to be able to stay home with my son and watch him grow. The changes occur daily and it just amazes me how fast time is flying by. I'm afraid to blink because I am afraid I will all of a sudden notice my baby has turned into a boy, and then boom into a man.  I suppose that is just how it does though. Everyone tells you, slow down and enjoy it while it lasts. And I will now be attesting to that! Do not rush your babies, for they will never be this little and innocent again.

Enzo with his cousin just a month ago

Look at him now! No boppy needed!

Besides normal mommy duties, and general life I have been working real hard on my "dreams/ goals" whatever you want to refer to them as. I've (TOOT MY OWN HORN) now have run my second 5k with my 3rd tomorrow night. I am now even lower than my pre-preggo weight. I feel so good! So strong! SO happy! I was doing eh with my reading when along came Mr. Kindle and got me completely off track! I can't really complain. I love to read, and so what if I throw in a new book here and there. I was tired of everyone talking about how good The Help was, and I just love Chelsea Handler and felt I was doing her an injustice by watching her show and NOT reading her books. So I did, I read them. And I read a baby book to try to help me figure out how to get my nearly 8 month old son to learn how to sleep. ( in process, i will have to update on this later) Have I mentioned I love reading? I really do. So much more than I love watching TV, exercising, even eating chocolate... which really is HUGE.

Sometimes I feel like I have ADD and just need to refocus. So enough about my obsession with reading, I have also been working on a little business idea, and the Honey and I have decided to start talking wedding after the New Year. So many exciting things to look forward to in 2012! Well that is all for tonight, I will slowly get this blog to where I would like to be.

xoxo-Leah

my loves at my brothers wedding

Merry Christmas!

It's Just One of Those Days

I know I am not the only SAHM that has days like mine today. Days where you're tired of cleaning up, tired of never ending laundry, tired of always being the one being depended on for everything. I am just so. damn. tired.

 I get that this is my "job" and all but what others **AHEM..hunny..** don't always seem to understand is I NEVER get a lunch break, I never have a day off, I don't get PTO. Every minute I have in the day is taken up by some chore or someone else.

Most of the time I have no problem with this. Majority of the time I actually enjoy it. I love staying home with my son. I love when he falls asleep in my arms as I rock him to bed every night. It is just that, like everyone else, I need a break sometimes. But if I take a break from cleaning up after my "roommates" it just piles up and is more work for me another day. And lets face it, its impossible to take a break from being a mom. All I want is to go work out, come home to my clean house, take a nice looooooong, uninterupted shower, curl up on the couch, alone, TV off, and read my book. What I wouldn't give for 5 hours of peace and alone quite! Of course if I spent the entire night before up with Enzo, and 7 hours cleaning up that morning, that 5 hours of "peace" is wasted as I just try to de-stress and muster up some amount of energy.

I feel so guilty complaining. I have so much to be happy and thankful for and I really am. I am just having one of those days where I with I was here..

Oh to dream! 

xoxo -Leah

Thankful

Enzo's been sleeping a lot today, poor thing got his shots yesterday. This happens every time he gets shots, he sleeps a ton the next day. Normally I'd want him to be up during the day but I had a To-Do List a mile long today as I was under the weather all weekend. As I was cleaning up today I had on OWN on the TV and was listening to some of the most disturbing stories. Stories of mothers who lost all their children, young girls forced into prostitution. Sick. Sick stories. Even worse they are true stories. It made me not only feel sad for these women but it made me really see how blessed I am. I am so thankful for my life.

For my son, 

my hunny, 

our families, 

my friends,

my dogs, 

our health,

our safety. 

I am thankful for so much. 

During November I go through my clothes and take items to goodwill and donate food to food pantry's. Since I am not working this year and funds are low I don't know how much I will be able to give. I do know that any bit I give is more than others have. I urge everyone to go through their closets and if you haven't worn it in a year, donate it! Have a recipe for cookies that your dying to try but don't want to eat them all?? Bake 'em and bring them to a hospital or church. Actually I don't know if they take random foods but its an idea a friend of mine had and it sounded great to me!

I am so excited for the next couple of months. So much happiness in store. This weekend coming up my brother is marrying the love of his life and I could. not. be. happier! Then we've got family birthdays and Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, New Years! And all the fun in between! Tiring just thinking about it....time for bed. xoxo

Most thankful for my son