Showing posts with label baby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baby. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Easter Fun
In an effort to avoid storing an Easter basket, I came up with a not-so-typical basket for Hez that we'd be able to get use out of year round. A Boon Inc "Stash" organizer, filled with lots of art supplies. Paints, big chunky paintbrushes, chalk (I had no idea chalk came in that many colors!) and triangle crayons (easier for little ones to grip).
Chalk was a hit, and he colored the sidewalk and his mouth.
I think I may try to have Hez decorate a wooden egg every year as he grows, it would be cute to see them all lined up years from now. So since he isn't quite coordinated enough to actually paint an egg, we did a little tie-dye action. One coffee can, some craft paint and a wooden egg.
Little bit of each color...
Drop in the egg.
Shake it up...or roll it.
And that's it! Nothing fancy, but it came out cute and the baby got to be a part of it.
And the colors are nice and springy too!
Cutest 'green' eggs ever...Young House Love made some awesome all natural dyed wooden eggs for their baby girl. I might have to do this next year!
Chalk was a hit, and he colored the sidewalk and his mouth.I think I may try to have Hez decorate a wooden egg every year as he grows, it would be cute to see them all lined up years from now. So since he isn't quite coordinated enough to actually paint an egg, we did a little tie-dye action. One coffee can, some craft paint and a wooden egg.Little bit of each color...Drop in the egg.Shake it up...or roll it.And that's it! Nothing fancy, but it came out cute and the baby got to be a part of it.And the colors are nice and springy too!Cutest 'green' eggs ever...Young House Love made some awesome all natural dyed wooden eggs for their baby girl. I might have to do this next year!
Alterations
While I am still working on having completed a successful clothing item for myself, I have learned that altering baby clothes is quite simple. Most boys shirts seem to be wide and boxy looking on our tall and skinny baby, plus I think that's kind of the look nowdays. Needless to say, I've been taking in his shirts for a nice fitted look. Fancy baby.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Friday, April 22, 2011
House Party
Since his party was the Saturday before his birthday, I couldn't not do anything for his actual birthday. So I blew up some extra balloons to jazz up our light, hung a little streamer and made some carrot cupcakes. We hadn't made plans for anybody to come over, but Hez's cousins got to spend the night and celebrate with us!
I almost want to leave them up, they make the light look way cooler.
Static electricity!
This time around, he actually blew out the candle! Insanely adorable.
But still no frosting mess!
I almost want to leave them up, they make the light look way cooler.Static electricity!This time around, he actually blew out the candle! Insanely adorable.But still no frosting mess!
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Come Join the Fun! Hezekiah is Turning ONE!
Party day! We celebrated Hezekiah's First Birthday with lots of friends and family at a local park. I headed over an hour before the party to set up (with some help from my little sis) and quickly realized an hour to set up the overload of stuff I planned was not enough! But it all came together in the end! I also learned that those super cool really big balloons will not float with regular helium. Major bummer!
Anyways, on to the pictures. And get ready, there's a lot of them! Here's the fun dessert table! I spent a good portion of time making the marquee sign with Hezzy's name and Christmas lights (and had lots of help drilling holes from the husband). I got the idea after seeing that Sandy over at The Winding Road had made her own (for her own amazing circus party)...I figured it would be easy enough! But oh man, it took forever and threading in the lights (couldn't we have just spelled "HEZ" instead?!) was a seemingly grueling task. But it turned out so cool it was totally worth it.
All the goodies...cupcakes, licorice (which I've apparently misspelled!), lollipops, a bucket of toys, stick on mustaches, peanuts and lots of balloon-animal balloons (with a little air pump too!).
Elephant Peanuts! I took a sharpie to an old burlap sack I had lying around and filled it with peanuts.
Cupcakes in all sorts of flavors: vanilla, peanut butter-chocolate, red velvet, German chocolate and even gluten-free vegan. And I kept it simple with the decorations by gluing scrapbook paper onto toothpicks for little flags.
Hezzy's cake! And this was no ordinary cake, lucky baby got a whole-wheat carrot apple spice with cream cheese frosting. He's not one to gravitate towards sweeter foods (yay veggies!) and he loves cream cheese on toast, so I figured if he had a preference, or could talk, he'd ask for something like this. And that little strongman is a favorite toy of his, and how we decided on the whole concept of vintage circus.
Next to the dessert table was another table with two buckets. And a beloved stuffed animal of Hez. We encouraged everybody to bring books and toys to donate to our local children's center instead of bringing presents and I was so excited to see the loads of donations our friends and family brought! I ended dropping off two boxes and a large bag full of toys, books and clothes!
The other bucket was filled with little party favor bags for all the kids, tied with a little "Thanks for coming to my party!" tag.
I stuffed the bags with a box of old school animal cookies, play dough and a little circus animal and then it was up to the kids to fill it with whatever else they wanted from the treat table.
A somewhat last minute thing I thought of (since we're frequently browsing our soon-to-be-closed-clear out-sales Borders) was to put a book out for everybody to sign. And how perfect that I was able to find Dr. Seuss's Birthday book on clearance!
Here's a view of all the tables at the park. It was such a nice day for a park party, although the wind kept blowing away all our balloons!
Unfortunately, I totally forgot to get a picture of the table set-up I did, so here's a lame 'practice run' picture that was set up on my dining table. I'll admit, I'm a little OCD when I plan stuff. But basically, each table had a tin bucket (I had decorated them with duct tape) filled with popcorn, a circus animal with balloons tied to them, and some frames. The frames had scrapbook paper with a number "1" on one side and a picture of Hez on the other. And since I had 12 frames, I put a picture of him from each month.
Popcorn buckets for the table, decorated with colored duct tape.
And whoever sent back their RSVP tickets got their name thrown in a little raffle to win a Jamba gift card and a little puzzle and candy!
And the best part of any one year old party has to be the cake...or the mess of cake! But this guy is as clean as they come and most of the mess on him was from us trying to encourage him to dig in. He did get a little into it when I gave him his spoon (he's very into feeding himself right now!).
And after a minute, he just froze. So many friends and family singing and cheering him on just got to him and he didn't cry or anything, he just looked down in a blank stare and wouldn't move or look at anybody. Pretty cute, and a sure sign that there wasn't going to be any cake on the face today!
But it did make for a very simple clean up...guess we didn't have to undress him after all!
I've still got some more pictures from the party, namely the photobooth! But I think I've reached my picture limit for one post so they will come later! Also, I wont post anybody's pictures without them being cool with it, so if you don't mind that your photobooth picture gets posted I'd love it if you left me a comment! They are insanely cute!
Anyways, on to the pictures. And get ready, there's a lot of them! Here's the fun dessert table! I spent a good portion of time making the marquee sign with Hezzy's name and Christmas lights (and had lots of help drilling holes from the husband). I got the idea after seeing that Sandy over at The Winding Road had made her own (for her own amazing circus party)...I figured it would be easy enough! But oh man, it took forever and threading in the lights (couldn't we have just spelled "HEZ" instead?!) was a seemingly grueling task. But it turned out so cool it was totally worth it.
All the goodies...cupcakes, licorice (which I've apparently misspelled!), lollipops, a bucket of toys, stick on mustaches, peanuts and lots of balloon-animal balloons (with a little air pump too!).Elephant Peanuts! I took a sharpie to an old burlap sack I had lying around and filled it with peanuts.Cupcakes in all sorts of flavors: vanilla, peanut butter-chocolate, red velvet, German chocolate and even gluten-free vegan. And I kept it simple with the decorations by gluing scrapbook paper onto toothpicks for little flags.Hezzy's cake! And this was no ordinary cake, lucky baby got a whole-wheat carrot apple spice with cream cheese frosting. He's not one to gravitate towards sweeter foods (yay veggies!) and he loves cream cheese on toast, so I figured if he had a preference, or could talk, he'd ask for something like this. And that little strongman is a favorite toy of his, and how we decided on the whole concept of vintage circus.Next to the dessert table was another table with two buckets. And a beloved stuffed animal of Hez. We encouraged everybody to bring books and toys to donate to our local children's center instead of bringing presents and I was so excited to see the loads of donations our friends and family brought! I ended dropping off two boxes and a large bag full of toys, books and clothes!The other bucket was filled with little party favor bags for all the kids, tied with a little "Thanks for coming to my party!" tag.I stuffed the bags with a box of old school animal cookies, play dough and a little circus animal and then it was up to the kids to fill it with whatever else they wanted from the treat table.A somewhat last minute thing I thought of (since we're frequently browsing our soon-to-be-closed-clear out-sales Borders) was to put a book out for everybody to sign. And how perfect that I was able to find Dr. Seuss's Birthday book on clearance!Here's a view of all the tables at the park. It was such a nice day for a park party, although the wind kept blowing away all our balloons!Unfortunately, I totally forgot to get a picture of the table set-up I did, so here's a lame 'practice run' picture that was set up on my dining table. I'll admit, I'm a little OCD when I plan stuff. But basically, each table had a tin bucket (I had decorated them with duct tape) filled with popcorn, a circus animal with balloons tied to them, and some frames. The frames had scrapbook paper with a number "1" on one side and a picture of Hez on the other. And since I had 12 frames, I put a picture of him from each month.Popcorn buckets for the table, decorated with colored duct tape.And whoever sent back their RSVP tickets got their name thrown in a little raffle to win a Jamba gift card and a little puzzle and candy!And the best part of any one year old party has to be the cake...or the mess of cake! But this guy is as clean as they come and most of the mess on him was from us trying to encourage him to dig in. He did get a little into it when I gave him his spoon (he's very into feeding himself right now!).And after a minute, he just froze. So many friends and family singing and cheering him on just got to him and he didn't cry or anything, he just looked down in a blank stare and wouldn't move or look at anybody. Pretty cute, and a sure sign that there wasn't going to be any cake on the face today!But it did make for a very simple clean up...guess we didn't have to undress him after all!I've still got some more pictures from the party, namely the photobooth! But I think I've reached my picture limit for one post so they will come later! Also, I wont post anybody's pictures without them being cool with it, so if you don't mind that your photobooth picture gets posted I'd love it if you left me a comment! They are insanely cute!
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Happy Birthday Hezzy!
My awesome husband carried our chair down Stockdale Hwy just so I could find the perfect grassy spot to take pictures on. Totally worth it because I love how fun they turned out, and we took his Easter pictures too. 
Happy First Birthday Hezekiah! I'll save all the sappy stuff for the baby book! 
This guy loves his bike and always has the biggest proudest smile when he's riding on it. 
Party pictures are on their way, I just finished editing them!Friday, April 15, 2011
Little Baker
We spent all day baking and are ready to go for the party tomorrow!
Rule is...if you help make it, you help eat it. And he happily obliged.
Rule is...if you help make it, you help eat it. And he happily obliged.Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Come on and Take a Free Ride
UPS has been knocking on our door almost every day this week it seems! We've finally got Hez's bike seat and helmet and are excited for a summer of bikes trails! 
Consensus? He cried. At first. But who really wants to wear a big funny helmet with a paci decal that says "I love mom" on it? I'm not one to complain about a decal promoting myself, but I do get that the helmet can be a bother. Hence the lack of one on my own head... I am planning to pull the little paci and other decals off and replace them with something cooler though.
But once we got to riding, he started to figure out that it was a pretty cool little set up. Sit back, relax and enjoy the view while I do all the work. And so far I am pretty happy with the front mount bike seat for him. It is slightly awkward to pedal, but not enough to really care. I'm not planning to race with him or anything, so for around town leisure rides it will do quite nicely!
Consensus? He cried. At first. But who really wants to wear a big funny helmet with a paci decal that says "I love mom" on it? I'm not one to complain about a decal promoting myself, but I do get that the helmet can be a bother. Hence the lack of one on my own head... I am planning to pull the little paci and other decals off and replace them with something cooler though. 
But once we got to riding, he started to figure out that it was a pretty cool little set up. Sit back, relax and enjoy the view while I do all the work. And so far I am pretty happy with the front mount bike seat for him. It is slightly awkward to pedal, but not enough to really care. I'm not planning to race with him or anything, so for around town leisure rides it will do quite nicely! 
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Ready for the Outdoors!
Last Mother's Day, I got this Schwinn Gateway I'd been itching for at Target. And since last Mother's Day I had also just recently had a baby, I have only had one chance to ride it. That being the day we brought it home when I gave it a spin up the street.
image from target.com
But this summer, Hez is old enough to ride on the bike with me and I can't wait to get it out! I also can't wait to add a few things! Like this handmade wood porter crate. Gorgeous! The price is $125, and it's easy to see it's worth it for the craftsmanship. And it can hold a latte. Mmm. Not that I've got $125 lying around, but I can dream!
image from etsy.com seller onemorebike
And of course Hez is going to need a proper seat...and we're waiting for the UPS truck to deliver it (and his new baby helmet!)! I've been reading reviews on this WeeRide Kangaroo Child Bike Seat. It's priced under $50, so around the same as the traditional back mounting child seats. But I like the idea of him riding in front. I think getting him strapped in and taking him out would feel a lot more natural with him in front when you are balancing a bike, as opposed to awkwardly turning to get him in/out. I could be totally wrong though, I've never put a baby in a bike seat before! But I love that he would have such a fun view and I like that there's a little spot for him to put his arms up on. If you click on the link there's a cute picture of a little kid asleep, pretty funny.
image from amazon.com
I have two concerns with the front mount though. I know by comments that it does force you to petal slightly awkward because the seat is obviously somewhat wider than where your knees would normally be. And also the back support. If you recall most traditional bike seats, the "shell" of the backrest goes all the way up past the child's neck. Which I like, extra protection in case of a fall. A five point harness is a must for me though. Which both this front mounted and most back mounted ones I see have. I'm anxious to see how it'll work for us!
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