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Thoughts on last night’s Oscars
I love the Oscars. I look forward to it every year. Unfortunately, Matt and I don’t get out to see as many movies as we would like now with a child (cost of movies plus dinner plus parking plus babysitting makes for an expensive evening!). We normally would have seen every single Best Picture nominee…now we are lucky if we’ve seen half. Anyway, I wanted to jot down some quick thoughts on last night’s Oscars: Seth MacFarlane was okay. I thought he had a lot of good one liners…but some jokes obviously died from the beginning and I appreciated he recognized that. I didn’t realize he was such a good…
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Done with Diapers!
I can’t believe how fast this has happened but we are 100% fully done with diapers. A few weeks ago, we stopped using diapers with Natalie at naptime and she didn’t have a single accident. All that was left was nighttime, which I had read could potentially be years before a child was nighttime trained, so we didn’t push it and have just been monitoring her. For awhile, she was waking up with a wet diaper overnight perhaps 2-3 times a week. When she did have a wet diaper, it was often not that saturated—that is, I used to always have to have a super absorbent bulky nighttime diaper for…
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Baby #2!
I finally came out public (that is, made it Facebook-official) today with the super exciting news that we are expecting a baby boy this summer! The announcement photo was inspired by Pinterest of course and pretty easy to put together. So yes, I’m pregnant again. Things have been going really well with this pregnancy and has been exactly like my pregnancy with Natalie – which is why it was a surprise to learn it was a boy this last week! (not that pregnancy symptoms are necessarily a factor at all in determining gender) Basic symptoms: No morning sickness, in general Food aversions, again – mostly to meat. Ugh. Super annoying. …