8 months old.

I honestly can't believe Jack is already 8 months old. Matt left for Cuba this time last year. I remember him leaving like it was yesterday. This year has really flown by and so much has changed.

We moved down here last march, I had Jack in June, Matt came back to the states and we moved back up to Washington, now Jack and I are back down here staying with my dad because we are trying to buy a house. It's been a wonderful year.

I'm so excited to be buying a home, To be settled and not have to move again. We have moved 8 times in the last 2 1/2 years (including staying with our parents between moves.) thankfully for 3 of the moves the navy has helped us and packed everything up, but it is still so stressful moving so often! I'm excited to finally have a permanent place to call home!

baby led weaning

When I was pregnant, I KNEW I wasn't going to feed Jack store bought baby food. It has a shelf life of around 3 years, and you don't really know what goes into it. Manufactures legally don't have to put all ingredients on the packaging, plus it is stinking expensive!

What I didn't know, is that we would be doing baby led weaning. What is baby led weaning? Baby led weaning is the act of letting your child feed themselves from the very beginning!

Basically, we have just been giving Jack pieces of whatever we are eating! Jack LOVES IT! He does great with it, especially since he has 8 teeth already. The only down side is that he gets extremely messy!

It's pretty motivating to be eating healthier though! I'm very committed to teaching Jack about nutrition from the very start! Maybe I'm a mean, but I'm really pushing green veggies more than anything, and so far, Jack loves them, especially broccoli!


It's funny. You go into parenthood thinking you are going to do things a certain way, and it doesn't happen that way at all :)