Welcome to my blog. I write about life, friends, food, and share silly photographs of my adventures. Also dogs. Also babies.
just gonna officially take a break from blogging here for a little while. too many feeds to keep up with - being a working mum is no joke and it turns out i just don’t have the mommy blogger gene after all! quite disappointing, honestly.
anyways - if you wanna follow along with what the fam is up to, you can find me on:
- twitter
- my instagram
- otis’ instagram
brb y’all!
some photos from life lately. it’s been a busy 20 or so days since i last updated! here is what’s happened: otis started daycare, we went up to beaver brook and i learned to chop wood and we cooked a delish canadian thanksgiving feast, otis turned 4 months old, floris’ parents came to visit (and i forgot my camera), i got my work visa (!), we went to DC for our friend liz’ wedding and otis went to his first zoo! he also has started eating formula, and trying little bits of solid food! he really likes mashed potatoes (i do not blame him).
i start work tomorrow (eeep!) and am very excited to get back, but am also a little nervous. so much has happened these past 4 and a bit months! now i am a ~working mum~ and i hope i can do it! i will try and practice the fine art of self-care, and not put too much pressure on myself to do everything. i am also excited to get into a routine - getting us and the kiddo and the dog up and out the door on time is going to be a very fun challenge, i think. fingers crossed!
a couple photos of the fam at our friends michael and niina’s wedding last weekend! matching bowties are back, and homegirl got a perm! well, an “american wave” technically, butt my hair is permanently in beachy waves for the next 6 months and i am INTO IT.
this month is gonna be nuts. otis started daycare on monday (aaaaah!), we are heading upstate for a canadian thanksgiving celebration this weekend, flo’s folks arrive next week and we are going upstate again and to the north fork of long island then we have another wedding in DC! then floris heads back to work (and hopefully i do too). time has really flown, it’s crazy!
a little bit of life lately! pictured: hanging out at our new favourite place ever (a quick drive to a quick hike to a secluded lake, yes please), otis being silly & also turning 3 months old! as well as a great outtake. don’t worry, i rescued him before he face planted.
not pictured: we’ve rearranged our apartment again (and again and again) because when you have nothing to do but hang out with a baby, you tend to get obsessed with furniture placement. we’re going to build some shelves soon and i am very excited for that.
back to the big milestone, though - otis is 3 months old! the past three months have freaking flown by and we are officially out of the “4th trimester”, as the mommy blogs call it. this just means things will get a little easier, apparently. and it’s been great so far! every day he get more animated, and he’s even started copying us when we buzz at him (pictured), which is totally crazy and so funny. he smiles all the time and is thisclose to rolling over. most importantly he sleeps through the night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
we did sleep training at about 2.5 months, as recommended by our doctor, and boy are we glad we did! it was about 3 rough nights and then no problems since then - he’s out from about 7 pm all the way through until 6 am, and soothes himself if he wakes up in the night. three cheers for sleep training!
next up? otis starts daycare in october, so we’re planning on taking things super easy and thoroughly enjoying these last weeks as a freewheelin’ family. real life will start again before we know it.
my mum came to visit! we drove our new car (!!) out to montauk and went to the beach and got lobster rolls! it was such a great day!
i turned 29 last week and feel pretty ~meh~ about it. it’s a weird age, i think. in any case, i hope for nothing but health and happiness and adventures in the last year of my twenties. i think i’m going to make a list about this, so stay tuned whoever you are.
ok bye!
a few photos from our picnic the other day. weather was perfect on wednesday so we decided to enjoy our afternoon outside under a tree at fort greene park.
we ate some garden veggies, and listened to harry potter 4 on audiobook (floris has never read them, so we started listening to the audiobooks on our drive up to toronto - so fun!) it was the best afternoon.
anyways the whole sitch was cute as heck (especially the bucket hat on otis!), so i took a bunch of photos.
did my most annoying lingering chore today, signed & mailed green card application papers, had a shower (!), folded the laundry, went to the movies with the baby and he slept through the whole thing (!!), went to the grocery store, put the baby to bed without any fussing (!!!), opened my outstanding mail, cooked actual dinner.
husband is out for drinks with a friend and i’m here enjoying this rotisserie chicken we got from whole foods + some roasted yellow zucchini with a glass of rose (!!!!!!) and watching the olympics BECAUSE WE HAVE CABLE NOW.
as soon as i post this i almost guarantee everything will fall apart but for now i feel like a total champ, so i’m gonna document it.
boom.
otis is 2 months old today! what a cutie. i can’t believe how fast time has flown. to celebrate, i’m baking two pies. a tomato pie and a peach, blueberry, raspberry crumble pie. it is very hot outside and inside and i kind of regret this, but alas.
he’s smiling more and more these days, which is just the best! makes up for all the barf and poo we have to clean on the daily. so much barf and poo. truly next level poo.
2 month hot take: having a lil baby is so fun - so exhausting, but so fun! i’m very thankful that floris and i have all this time off to watch him grow! he’s staying awake and is interested in his surroundings a lot more each day, so i think we’ll start heading out on fun nyc adventures in the next couple weeks - i’m getting a little fort greene feverish and want to go exploring. ideally it will be less hot and humid when we do these things…fingers crossed.
also, we’ve really gotten the hang of babywearing over the past week, so i’m feeling much more confident about being able to fly solo with the babe strapped to me (i’m imagining dog walks, grocery shops sans stroller, quick errands, etc).
ok going to watch the olympics now, byeeeeeee
i love this photo of otis & his dad taking a dip in lake simcoe! kiddo sure has been to a lot of different bodies of water in his first 2 months of life! can’t wait to take him to the ocean this summer.
just a few snaps from our time in the netherlands! we had such an amazing visit with floris’ family and friends there, and can’t wait to go back. it will eventually be our home, so it was so great to introduce otis to his dutch roots, and look at different neighbourhoods and villages where we could possibly settle one day.
we did a lot of boating and swimming (the best) and exploring, and even got to celebrate otis at a lovely surprise party with floris’ extended family! otis is a lucky and very loved baby. i also bought a jumpsuit that is probably my most favourite article of clothing that i’ve ever purchased, and i don’t know if i’ll ever take it off?
we’re only in canada for a few more days before we drive back down to nyc, and the next few days will be spent with friends and family and doing lots and lots of packing. will we fit everything in our tiny clown car? only time will tell.
baby updates: otis is doing so much more looking and smiling and is starting to chat with us, which is the best! he’s also staying awake for longer stretches of time, and is sleeping in longer stretches through the night (hallelujah). i don’t know what we did to deserve such a chill baby, but i’m so thankful we’ve got one! otis is the best. breastfeeding is still not my most favourite thing to do, but we are getting better at it every day, so i hate it a lot less than i did a few weeks ago. i am giving myself at least one more month before we think about introducing some formula (he can start daycare in september, so we might supplement a bit on days that we send him). there are so many little bits and pieces to this whole keeping a baby alive thing, but we’re definitely learning a lot! thank goodness for dr. spock.