My week (in instagram)

Here is a peek of my week from instagram. You can follow me on instagram by searching for alwaysmewithyou.

As I write this post we are actually stuck with a broken down car in Ellensburg Washington (don't worry, before I even finished my post we were already on the road again). If you ever break down in Ellensburg Dean's Automotive is the place to go. We are on our way to a family reunion near Spokane Washington. We spent a couple days at some friends house in the Seattle area. We loved catching up with our friends! We also explored Pike Place Market, the original Starbucks, the Olympic Sculpture Garden, the Space Needle and the San Juan Islands. One of my favorite parts was taking the ferry to San Juan and spending the day together looking at the local shops, driving around the island to see if we could spot any orcas and eating a delicious lunch on the cutest outdoor patio.

Owen has started mostly walking now and only occasionally crawls. He is quite the show stopper. There is something extra adorable about a toddler first learning to walk, waddling with their legs spread too far a part and abruptly falling on their bottom every once in a while. Too cute!

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Sleeping through the night?

Owen has always been an ok sleeper. He still wakes up about 3 times during the night and wants to nurse...ok, maybe thats not too good of a sleeper. I have always done ok on little sleep, I was the girl in college that instigated going to mexican food at 3am. Recently I have started thinking it would probably be best for both of us to get a full nights sleep. I think not sleeping through the night is harder on me than I realize. So I decided to see how night weaning would go. My plan...
Step 1 Let him nurse shortly, give him his pacifier and soothe him back to sleep (stroke his hair and sing to him)
Step 2 No nursing, give him his pacifier and soothe him back to sleep (stroke his hair and sing to him)
Step 3 Mommy and baby sleep through the night!


It sounded like a pretty good plan. Last night was the 6th night of trying it out. The first three nights I was actually encouraged. I tried nursing him for a shorter time, giving him his pacifier and soothing him back to sleep. It worked! The last three nights haven't gone so good. He woke up very upset, would not take his pacifier at all and wanted nothing to do with the soothing him to sleep stuff. He woke up wanting to nurse around 6 times. Then yesterday I discovered the problem. He cut another molar! Thats 10 teeth and another on the way. Poor little guy. We will have to try again when he is not teething. In the mean time...Did you wean your baby from night feeding? What have you tried that worked? Does your little one sleep through the night? Any advice?

Happy mothers day!

Happy mothers day to all you mothers out there!

Where are you on this mothers day? Are you doing anything special to celebrate?

I am happy to be with my mom celebrating the wonderful mother she has been! Three generations of moms together today, grammie, mom and me. My little bug can't tell me happy mothers day or make me a little craft but he is his sweet little snuggle bug self and I am so glad to be his mommy. I woke up this morning to this beautiful pot of fuchsia tulips from my boys.

We are in Pismo beach on our first Hamilton family reunion! I won't be able to do a real blog post while we are here because there is no internet at the place we are staying. This is my first go at iPhone blogging. :) I hope you have a wonderful day!

The photos are from instagram. You can find me on instagram at alwaysmewithyou.

Back home

This is what our bug has been doing the past couple of days. Even as I type he is asleep across my lap. While we were out of town he got pink eye and an upper respiratory infection. We are both home resting and having a sick day. I always seem to get whatever he gets. I can't keep myself from kissing his sweet lips and he can't keep from rubbing his slobbery face on mine.


We were awake at 5:45 this morning. Owen could not sleep with all of his congestion. We sat on the chair in the living room rocking. He finally went back to sleep but by then I was awake. There is something romantic about being awake while the early riser sleeps. Paul and I sat quietly chatting on one half of the bed while Owen was sprawled out on the other half. There are not many mornings that Owen is sleeping and we are awake, he is normally our alarm. We enjoyed sitting together watching our sweetheart sleep. 

Instagram

Do you have the Instagram app for iPhone? I just got it a few weeks ago. These are a few of my favorite iPhone photos I've put on there. A friend sent me a text the other day saying, "Christy!!! Instagram is like facebook but with just the good stuff! Pictures!" If you have it or get it my username is alwaysmewithyou.