growing belly

Randomly during my pregnancy we would take pictures of my growing belly. Here are pictures 8-37weeks then a special little tiny baby at the end!

playtime

This little baby loves her playmat. Every morning she wakes up in the best mood and starts talking and smiling at everything...the lights, the window, the vents. Then we make our way into the livingroom and she plays on her mat while I make breakfast. She gets so excited as soon as I put her down and she sees her friends and the mirror. 

I've tried to take a video of how wild she gets but EVERYTIME I start to record she stops. I caught a little bit of it today though!

momma and baby style

I bought a couple of dresses from the ModCloth sale! I had a hard time finding something cute I wanted that would still be wearable with feeding a baby. I saw so much I wanted but wouldn't work. Here is one of the dresses I bought

She's a little uninterested in taking outfit pictures 

on momma- hat-66north dress-modcloth tights-UO shoes-Zara

on baby- headband-hand me down onsesie/tutu-Gap socks-gift

one month

Yesterday was Elinor's one month check up. It's so crazy how fast this month has gone by. This little tiny 6lb baby is so big already! I need to stop squeezing her into newborn clothes and pack them up to pass down to another baby (who is having a baby girl??).

She is now 9lbs 7oz and 21in! Whoa big baby! Obviously nursing is going well and she is gaining perfect. I was worried the whole time I was pregnant that I wasn't going to be able to nurse. There wasn't any reason for me thinking that, I just knew it wasn't going to work. I'm happy that she is growing and healthy!

 wiggle worm

first road trip

This weekend last minute we decided to take a trip to Philly to see Dave's family. Turns out Elinor is a great traveler! She did great on the way there only screaming and wouldn't take her bottle once so we pulled into a hotel parking lot so I could feed her and change her diaper. We let her hang out for awhile before putting her back in her seat and heading back out.

I was nervous she would be a wreck that night at Dave's Mom's house since she slept so much but she was good and slept her normal amount.
Saturday night though was a different story. She did not want to sleep. Finally around 2am she stopped her fussing and passed out. Thankfully we recently found out about Dr. Karp and the 5 s's and that helped a lot. We need to buy his book!
Sunday we did a lot of visiting we family. She was so grumpy that afternoon but after a long nap she was ready to meet all of her uncles aunts and cousins.

We were heading back home Sunday night but we stopped by a show before. We had her little headphones and the ergo which worked perfect. There was only one point when she decided she was starving so we went to a back room to feed her. I put her back on and we stood on the side of the stage. She passed out again right away.

 We were trying the headphones on and as soon as we did she went limp and fell asleep.

At the show and she even got a onesie

The way home was great. She slept almost the whole time. I had to take her out and wake her up to eat and change her diaper half way. We got home around 4am. She was up for 2 hr and the fell back to sleep till 10! Since I slept in the car too, I think it was the most sleep I've got!

Now I know she should do decent on our next trip there and our trip to Florida next month!

on the day she was born

December 8th

 sitting on a yoga ball, trying to deal with contractions,
she's here!, wrinkly feet from being overcooked, mama and baby,
swaddled and sleeping, first bath, Ellie and the puppy papa bought her

December 8th-9th

proud papa, mama and baby, my mom and Ellie,
we couldn't stop looking at her, balloons and flowers, mama and papa,
baby cuddles, going home outfit, on the ride home

It's insane how many pictures we have since December 8th. I need to go through and get rid of multiple of the same ones and take the ones off our phones. I don't want to delete or lose any of them! 

OK she is starting to wake up and needs to eat! Have a great week!

She's here!

Elinor Meira arrived December 8th at 1112am.

She is 6lbs 15oz and 20" long. She is completely perfect and the best baby! I have a ton more pictures from the real camera but we haven't downloaded them yet. Be expecting a ton more Ellie pictures!

no baby yet

I was supposed to be induced tonight starting at 6pm but they rescheduled it for Monday night. Hopefully they don't have to bump me back again because I don't think this baby is going to come on her own. I was really hoping she would because I didn't want to have to take any drugs but I'm also not going to tell the DR no. She obviously knows better than me. We had a talk with her a couple of weeks ago (I can't remember if I wrote about it on here of not) about our birth plan. We told her the only thing I want is natural with no drugs but even that I'm willing to change. I know you can't completely plan for births and things can change very quickly. I don't want to set myself up for disappointment. We are laid back anyway so whatever the DR thinks is best we will go with. Everyday I'm just so much more uncomfortable and more anxious to meet this little one. I asked Dave's mom to send us baby pictures of him so I could put our baby pictures together and try to decide what I think she will look like.

fresh baby Caitlin and baby David

we were both around 5 months in these

I was the chubbiest baby! Dave weighed more than me at birth but I quickly caught up and then passed him. 

I'm sure we will be updating on twitter and instagram while we are at the hospital!

my thursday (all baby talk)

Danielle from Sometimes Sweet did this fun post yesterday so I'm going to steal it for today...

Obsessing over: meeting this baby! I can not stop thinking about her. I've tried to crochet and read books but it is so hard to concentrate on anything when I'm so close.

Working on: nesting! We have had the nursery done for awhile now but everyday I find something else I need to be doing. There is always more laundry to be done or closets to be cleaned. At least the house will be spotless soon!

Thinking about: How fast this pregnancy went by but how quickly it slowed down this week. I look back on older blog posts from when we first found out and I can not believe how fast 9 months flies by. 

Anticipating: Sunday!! Because I'm scheduled to be induced! We had our 39 week appt yesterday. The Dr told us my cervix is still way posterior and she doesn't want to wait till after my due date. So hopefully by Monday we will have our baby girl!

Listening to: A Very She & Him Christmas. I finally got ahold of this and have not stopped listening. It has been so soothing and nice to listen to. I might bring it to listen to during delivery. 

Drinking: tons and tons of water and yogi raspberry leaf tea. This tea is now my favorite. It is such a nice light flavor and also strengthens your uterus! Who doesn't want a strong uterus??

Wishing: The baby decides to come today! I don't think she will, she seems to be stubborn but today is my mom's birthday! It would be a special day for her to share a birthday with my mom and also my grandmother. 


My mom is in town now for 2 weeks. I'm so happy and lucky to have her in town for not only her birthday but for the birth of her 7th grandchild! 
Happy Birthday Mom, I love you!

I like food

I'm tired and lazy so please excuse all the pictures being different sizes. I'm also sitting here starving looking at the pictures so I'm trying to hurry and post this so I can eat!

 Broccoli and Cheddar Soup recipe from Daiya

fillings for Doner Kebap and Gyros

 used this to make this...

 Tzatziki Sauce recipe from Vegan Dad

 We picked this and Gyros at the veggie food fest

 They both were amazing

 our trip to Cafe Indigo

 As soon as we walked in I noticed a sign for the gobbler special. It was their own homemade turkey, stuffing and cranberries. WOW! It was so good. We made a lot of these sandwiches last year after thanksgiving but of course a sandwich is always better when someone else makes it. The bread was also homemade and made the sandwich!

The hardest part was deciding on dessert. 

I went with a whoopie pie

 Spikes finally opened in the Burlington Mall! I got the junk yard dog which for some reason I've never got. I wanted 10 more after I finished and of course their fries are the best!

Dave brought me olives home the other night from whole foods. He used to hate olives until I turned him on to these guys. 

My last day of work is next week so I'm sure I will be doing nothing but eating. So most likely next Friday's I like food will be packed. Oh and it is the day after Thanksgiving! 

I took this video of the baby rolling around the other day. She goes more wild than this but ANYTIME I try to catch her on video she settles down. 

Happy Friday!

2 weeks

We had out last ultrasound today. We kept joking saying they would ask us to come back one more time before Dec 7th. But she is growing and moving great so they don't have to see us again! They said she is 6.5lbs and has a little bit of hair. No pictures though because her little face was facing my spine. We did get to see her take practice breaths and her rolls on her little chubby back. As the dr was walking out she said you should be meeting your little sweet pea in 2 weeks. Whaaaat?? 2 weeks!
Maybe I will be getting a baby for my birthday?!

yogi tea every morning

Before our appointment we went to bagel world. I got an everything with hummus. Soooo good!

Since I didn't have work today I went with Dave to run some errands. We ended up in New Hampshire and Maine. It was such a pretty drive and I even got to take a couple little naps. 

We passed a pumpkin field still full of poor little pumpkins no one wanted and then went to cafe indigo, which I will write about on Friday!

Dave even finally put on his new windshield wipers. Just in time for a little rain.

Sunbaby Diapers

We have been talking about and researching cloth diapers for awhile now. It gets so confusing! Lucky I have some friends that have/do cloth diaper. Here is a site my friend sent me that explains all the differences and one about what detergent to use. Plus there are some good message boards and youtube videos of how to's that make it less intimidating.
I found out about Sunbaby Cloth Diapers through a message board. All of the reviews I've read sound pretty good. Of course I won't know until she is here but since they are so affordable and one size we thought we would try them out. Oh and they have really cute patterns to choose from. Friday our first package of Sunbaby Diapers showed up!

 Dave grabbed one and went to her room to try them out on the bear. Besides almost putting it on backwards he did great! I don't think he has ever even diapered a baby with disposables before.

good work daddy!