Tag Archives: Life with Stella
8.5 Months, Then and Now
This is alternately titled, The Top 10 Ways My 8.5 Month Old Child Reminds Me of Myself at 8.5 Months Pregnant. #10 – She alternates between runny poops and no poops. Constipation sucks. #9 – Related = she farts like a trucker (or my husband) living on a diet of beer and cheese. #8 – […]
Memorable Moment Monday – Troublemaker Edition
My child, the crawler, now gets locked sweetly and lovingly left in her bedroom while I shower in the morning, and this is what I come back to now… She gets into everything, butt least she seems to love reading, right? I’m not sure I’m ready for this. 🙂 To see more, check out PAIL’s Memorable Moment […]
Memorable Moment Monday – Scattered Clothing Edition
A twist on the scattering of clothing across a room… 🙂
Groggy
I just stared for awhile at a blinking cursor on a blank screen trying to think of a witty title for this post, but my glazed over eyes and foggy brain couldn’t think of a damn thing. Shit you guys, I need help. Stella has never been an amazing sleeper, but she was never a […]
Riverfest!
Today was Stella’s first riverfest! Our town does an annual festival that includes a kayak rodeo (basically a funny competition where kayakers compete to do the coolest “tricks” in the water hole), a floating competition of junk boats that people build, live music, drinks and food. Charlie was working, so he had to miss it, […]
Memorable Moment Monday – The Park Edition
This is being submitted as part of PAIL’s 1st Memorable Moment Monday! Stella’s 1st time in the swing and hanging out on a picnic table in the park this past weekend. 🙂
Sad Girl
We have had a fairly grumpy, whiny, tired little girl on our hands all weekend, and we think it’s probably due to teething. It’s hard to see her feeling so poorly, and it’s also hard to get anything done because she is wanting to be held constantly, BUT, the upside is that I am getting […]
Now That’s a Lot of Polka Dots
For the past week or two, Stella has regressed to sleeping pretty horridly at night (waking up 4-5x like a newborn instead of the 1-2x we had gotten used to). We had been putting her to bed, swaddled with one arm out, in the co-sleeper attached to our bed. She would sleep there most of […]
His First Father’s Day
This post is being submitted to the Monthly Theme Post on PAIL. Click here to find out how to join in! Luckily for my husband, Father’s Day never gave him negative/hard feelings while we were TTC. He was always very focused on celebrating his dad and was of the mindset of if it’s going to happen […]
Baby Led Weaning…aka The End of the EBF Era
Lately, I find myself feeling incredibly conflicted and the phrase “six months old” scares the crap out of me. You see, my little girl is growing up SO quickly, and I’m just not sure if I am ready for it. For me, the first big step towards letting her grow up is related to breastfeeding. […]
Fun with Friends and Family
This morning Stella’s buddy Liam stopped by with his Mommy and we took a nice two mile walk around town (Day 10 of 100!) and then had some play time on the mat. Then this afternoon there was some more play time with Daddy followed by a good nap. Another wonderful Sunday. 🙂
I love Saturdays in Summer!
Every Saturday is a good Saturday when I get to wake up to this smiling face…even if it’s 7:15am and I’m exhausted with a pretty severe hangover. 🙂 Charlie, Stella and I just walked down to the park to check out the annual hot air balloon and vintage car festival, but the crazy gale force […]
Stella’s First Brew Fest!
Last weekend, Charlie was still gone on his six day river trip with 10 of our good friends, and my parents had left to return to Minnesota the day before. That left me alone with the Stells Bells on a jam packed day. Saturday morning was the annual city-wide garage sale (where everyone brings their […]
Forever Young
I’m still working on Stella’s 23 week post that was supposed to go up on Thursday (a week of having my parents here, including my photographer mother, means that there are lots of great pictures to sort through first)… but in the meantime, check this out! Stella was having a little meltdown, so Grandpa Elmo pulled out […]
The Blower’s Daughter
A lifetime ago (okay, eight years ago), I was a senior in college, living in France, and finishing up my international business degree. I was blessed to already know a couple of French people at the university I was attending (they had done semesters abroad at my MN college the year before and I had […]
Weekends with the Bells
A completely narcissistic look at an awesome weekend of hangin’ with my daughter 🙂 (and for pics of my hubby and our dog – click here!)
What Kind of Parent am I?
This post is my contribution to the PAIL monthly theme post. For more information about how to join in, click here! Before I had a child, I assumed that I would be much more of a Type-A, schedule following, mainstream sort of parent than I have actually turned out to be. In fact, most people […]
Babies. I’m Surrounded.
I wrote this to my Mom on my phone last night at about 3am while pretty pissed off. To be clear, with the light of day comes some clarity, and I’m not mad anymore – just sort of incredulous/frustrated. Below, I’ve tried to tone it down a bit and explain a bit more, but geez… […]
10 Freakin’ Hours!
When I went in to get Stella this morning at 7:30am, she had scooted herself so far down on her swing that her legs below the knees were hanging off. Mind you – she had been sleeping in that swing for 10 HOURS STRAIGHT at that point, so she had plenty of time to wiggle her way […]
I Have Totally Spoiled My Husband
I have had this thought bouncing around in my head for the past couple of weeks, and yesterday it finally came to a head. For what seemed like the millionth time that day, my husband was holding Stella during her happy, cooing, smiling time, and when she started crying, she got immediately handed off to […]
A Blessing of a Job
Dude, sorry for the ridiculous cleavage shot. Stella and Daddy stopped by my office last week…apparently she pulled my shirt down a bit! As you are reading this, I am starting my 9th week of postpartum work. That means I’ve officially been a “working Mom” (8wks) for as long as I was a SAHM (8wks). […]
The Night I Slept in the Wet Spot
Not that kind of wet spot. The other kind. The kind that happens when your kiddo seems to suddenly be between diaper sizes and pees and/or poops up her back in the middle of the night for the third night in a row (which normally never happens!)…all the way through her pajamas and swaddle. The kind […]
