Pumpkin Patch

Today all the moms and babes from playgroup headed over to Half Moon Bay to go to Arata Pumpkin Farm. We're actually in the middle of a heat wave, but it was cold and foggy at HMB this morning. Despite the fog, we all had so much fun and, after being friends for almost an entire year, we FINALLY got a group shot of all the mommies and babies (except for Laura and Mac as Laura is due with number 2 any day now). We're going to go back to the Pumpkin Patch with Daddy sometime before Halloween, so we didn't want to get our big pumpkin today, but I wanted to get J something, so I got him a lil baby pumpkin, which he loved and carried around with him all day. After spending 3 hrs walking around the pumpkin patch, J passed out in the car and slept for 2.5 hrs (his longest nap so far).

hmmm, pumpkins

wow, a field of orange balls

I think I like this place

Mommy and a not so smiley Jayden

our attempt at trying to get a pic of the kids sitting together in the patch

Izzy wasn't too happy

J's posse (From L to R: Jayden, Oliver, Clay, Lucy, Oliver/Nash, Jack, Izzy)

Da crew

J is all about clapping these days

J and Oliver having fun

Chillin in some hay

J's little pumpkin

Park and the beach..again!

Descriptions of the last two days to come later...too tired from a crazy, hectic, FUN weekend

Pacifica

watching the surf

trying to figure out the whole walking on sand thing

running in the sand

if you're happy and you know it, clap your hands...

hmmm, let me think...how can I convince mom and dad to take me here every day?

truly a California beach baby

clapping

I think it's pretty safe to say J loves the beach

clapping with sandy hands = flying sand in mommy's face

Jayden's 1st shell...pretty soon he'll be helping daddy collect shells

J chasing his new best friend, Gromit

life is good

check out that drool

my baby boy

the one and only picture of J and Daddy from our trip

A day in the life of a busy almost 1 year old

Wow, 2 weeks until Jayden turns one. Last year at this time I was HUGE, couldn't sleep for more than 2 hours, went to the bathroom every hour and was having crazy heartburn. Funny how that seems like years ago. While I don't miss being pregnant one bit, I do now understand when people would say to me "don't be so fast to want that baby out of your belly, because sometimes you will want to put him back." I remember being confused when people would say this to me...I'd waited for so long and all I wanted to do was meet my baby and I couldn't imagine ever wanting him to be back in my belly. Ha, well, now that I have a toddler who hits, bites and kicks me, throws tantrums, and is "busy" as one of my friends described, I definitely get it, and sometimes think back to the days when things were so much easier.

Exactly 1 year ago

Jayden and I are now starting to get used to our new schedule, now that J only takes 1 nap a day. We went to the gym every day this week and Jayden is having so much fun at the kid's club. It's been so nice for me to get back to something that I used to love and had pretty much stopped since J was born. The one problem I'm having is that I'm exhausted and sore in the afternoons because my body isn't used to exercising, but when you're a mom of a toddler you definitely don't have time to be tired...so, I'm hoping that I will get used to working out and will stop being so tired (it also doesn't help that I've been going to bed super late every night for absolutely no reason).

After the gym, we go back home and Jayden and I have lunch. Jayden hasn't been the best eater these last few weeks- at 1st I thought it was due to teething, since he usually doesn't eat that much when he's teething, but it's been 2 weeks, and still no teeth, and his eating hasn't gotten any better. He usually eats one big meal and then pretty much throws his food on the floor for his other 2 meals. After lunch Jayden passes out- sometimes he'll sleep for 2.5 hrs, but usually he only sleeps for an 1.5 hrs...so I have a little time to shower, clean, and make Jayden's dinner.

When Jayden wakes up we are off again and we head over to open gym at the SM Jr. Gym. I'm so glad we found this place- J has so much fun there, interacts with other kids, gets his energy out, and best of all, it's FREE since we take a class there.

Jayden's new obsession...BALLS

After the Jr Gym, we usually run some errands or go to Talbots Toys to play with the train tables. The early evening is really hard because both J and I are exhausted, so I try and stay close to home and try and distract J from realizing how tired he is. We usually just go outside and walk around our building or sometimes go to the park down the street.

Playing peek-a-boo outside

After playing outside, it dinner time, which usually is a disaster, and then we play around the apartment while I count down the minutes until bedtime. And at 7pm, I put my little tired boy to bed and he passes out the moment I put him down...and then I crash on the couch and wait for Jer to get home.