Yes, October-December was super busy with the holidays and all of the preparations, as well as keeping up with our day-to-day activities. We traveled to Syracuse for Thanksgiving, I ran a 10-miler in VA Beach with my friend Kat from college, we saw many college friends and old co-workers at holiday parties, my parents and sister came up for Christmas for a week, and then Kevin's parents, brother, and his girlfriend came down for several days. Not to mention hosting some extended family. And all of the preparations for guests, Christmas shopping, cookie baking, etc. Phew! All of this is why I love the Holiday Season though, and New Year's Day is always so anti-climatic when either people are leaving our house or we are coming home.
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| Unexpected White Christmas! |
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| Everybody's leaving! |
CJ's big present this year was a train table. We were trying to save that for last when opening presents Christmas morning, but he escaped the living room and found it. Well, needless to say, we opened the rest of his presents for him. I actually think we all went a little overboard, and am going to try my best to not repeat next year (but the toys are so darn cute!)
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| CJ also liked the puzzles that he received |
Since October, CJ has developed immensely. He FINALLY started to walk (by himself) right before Thanksgiving. One night he just let go of our hands and started walking around the house like he was a pro. And that was it. Now he rarely holds our hands when we actually want him too! He also has had a language explosion. I left CJ's 15 month appointment thinking we may need early intervention if he didn't have 10 words by 18 months- but now he has far surpassed that goal. In addition to actually knowing many words (and mostly using them correctly) he is just very vocal in general. You can barely understand a thing CJ says, but he'll just talk and talk and talk. Sound familiar? (He has a very talkative Daddy).
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| Putting on his "shooos" while he is holding his "cack" that goes "eeoww" |
I have not made many resolutions this New Year, but do have some goals in mind (difference? goals seem more attainable than I WILL lose 20 lbs or whatever your resolution happens to be). I only have a few. As always, I am trying to keep up with working out and losing weight. This year may be the year for pregnancy #2 so I have a few (well, maybe 10) more pounds to lose before I gain it back again. HA!! I have started Insanity again so if you hear some yelling coming from the basement of my house at 7AM that would be me. It's probably the hardest and best workout you can do at home though, and it's what really helped me begin to take off some of that baby-weight last year.
As I mentioned above, I have let some of my hobbies get pushed down on the priority list in these past months. CJ and I keep quite busy during the week with two formal playgroups, library storytimes and playgroups, and seeing other friends. Now we are taking Parent-Toddler swim classes as well once a week. The only time I really have to myself is naptime in the afternoon (CJ needs to take naps until kindergarten!) and then some evenings. Most of the naptimes were taken up by holiday stuff, so now I can hopefully devote more time to blogging, organizing pictures and scrapbooking, and of course cooking. I ended up starting another 365 Project because I found that having one really keeps me motivated to take pictures and experiment. This time I am uploading them to a website- if you want to follow along check out this link.
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| At the library |
Finally, each time I post to this blog I am going to post my favorite recipe of the week that I made. (Yes, one of my goals is to blog at least once a week). This week, I made recipe that I got out of "Eating Well" Magazine last June to use some of the abundance of cherries that we received from our CSA. We ended up having to freeze many of those cherries and now I'm finally getting around to using them. Although when thawed they aren't as pretty as fresh, they still taste fine. The base is quinoa (lots of protein for a grain!), wild rice, cherries (I used sweet), cheese (I used smoked gouda), pecans, olive oil and vinegar (I used balsalmic). It's a great light lunch dish! Here is the recipe. The picture on the Eating Well site is so much better than mine, I really need to start using white plates when taking pictures of my food!
Have a good week!
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