So It's been quite a while, ok over a year, and a lot has happened since I last posted. Scott has graduated from Med School and is now a first year resident! It's crazy how busy he is but he's making money! ;) We also moved and I am now a stay/work at home Mama! I love it!
So far it is just Oliver but give it 8 months and we will be adding a second to the crew! That is mainly my reason for starting up again. I figured I posted while going through Oliver's pregnancy and it's so fun to look back on all of that so I am doing it with #2.
Part of what I will write about is this pregnancy but also what Oliver did that day/week that was just crazy! So to start it off right Mr. Oliver dumped an entire gallon sized bag of animal crackers on the floor. They were everywhere! Then he tried to feed them to the dogs and cried "Yums" as I swept them up and threw them away. He really is a silly one!
I will start the pregnancy posts tomorrow as that will be 7 whole weeks!!
Monday, July 29, 2013
Sunday, April 15, 2012
DIY Baby Food
Here is my hand at DIY baby food! My husband and I are trying to be "better" for our son and one of the areas we are desperately trying to change is our food. We have always agreed that we would like to make our own baby food so we could monitor what went in his body. I am very big on breastfeeding and not wanting artifical items going into his body so making organic baby food just seemed right.
We have already tried a few foods before today but they have fallen kind of flat with our little man. We tried avocado first, followed by green beans, bananas and peas. We did try a mix of avocado and banana together and he seemed to like the mixture better then any of the others plain. We are in no way pushing our child to eat solids but just offering them to him after a nice full belly of breastmilk. We tried giving the items a little more solid but he wasn't having it. It seems for Oliver the runnier the better at the moment.
We have several busy weekends coming up and our week nights aren't conducive to making food on a regular basis so I have decided to make a bunch and freeze. I had been doing a lot of research on baby food and found a couple of great sites I am pretty much relying on to get me through the puree stage. Wholesome Baby Foods, Sweet Peas & Pumpkins and Styleberry Blog. They are all great but Wholesome Baby Foods is my all time favorite!
The hubs and I made a trip to our local organic food market since we aren't quite in season for the farmer's market yet. It was a great time. I picked out our food and Scott tried to weigh Oliver on the food scale. He's sitting above 16 lbs! haha
We picked up the following:
.5 lbs of peas
2 lbs of green beans
A bunch of bananas
2 lbs of plums
2 mangos
4 avocados
5 apples
2 bunches of carrots
3 sweet potatoes
1 acorn squash
We have already tried a few foods before today but they have fallen kind of flat with our little man. We tried avocado first, followed by green beans, bananas and peas. We did try a mix of avocado and banana together and he seemed to like the mixture better then any of the others plain. We are in no way pushing our child to eat solids but just offering them to him after a nice full belly of breastmilk. We tried giving the items a little more solid but he wasn't having it. It seems for Oliver the runnier the better at the moment.
We have several busy weekends coming up and our week nights aren't conducive to making food on a regular basis so I have decided to make a bunch and freeze. I had been doing a lot of research on baby food and found a couple of great sites I am pretty much relying on to get me through the puree stage. Wholesome Baby Foods, Sweet Peas & Pumpkins and Styleberry Blog. They are all great but Wholesome Baby Foods is my all time favorite!
The hubs and I made a trip to our local organic food market since we aren't quite in season for the farmer's market yet. It was a great time. I picked out our food and Scott tried to weigh Oliver on the food scale. He's sitting above 16 lbs! haha
We picked up the following:
.5 lbs of peas
2 lbs of green beans
A bunch of bananas
2 lbs of plums
2 mangos
4 avocados
5 apples
2 bunches of carrots
3 sweet potatoes
1 acorn squash
Saturday, April 14, 2012
DIY Pallet Potting Bench
I have found pallet love! At work we had 2 very large, heavy duty, pallets that we weren't sure what to do with. I saw this on Pinterest and decided I would try and make it. I ended up using only one pallet and some 2x4s.
We could have gone one of 2 ways with this project. The easier and more rugged way or the harder but much more pretty way. We chose easy and rugged! The harder way would require us to remove every piece from the pallet and then design from there. The easier way involved keeping the pallet as intact as possible and just adding some 2x4s to make the bottom shelf. We needed to split the pallet in half to make a top and bottom shelf. We used the sawzall and cut it down the center.
We could have gone one of 2 ways with this project. The easier and more rugged way or the harder but much more pretty way. We chose easy and rugged! The harder way would require us to remove every piece from the pallet and then design from there. The easier way involved keeping the pallet as intact as possible and just adding some 2x4s to make the bottom shelf. We needed to split the pallet in half to make a top and bottom shelf. We used the sawzall and cut it down the center.
Once we got the top cut, we flipped it over and cut the bottom side.
We did not want to have the 4 pieces on the bottom shelf so we removed those. This worked out very well as we used the 4 pieces we removed to fill in holes on the top side of both shelves.
Once we removed them we nailed them to the top.
We added 2x4s to the ends to help with strength. On the bottom shelf we also needed to add a 2x4 the length of the shelf since there are only 3 boards that run through the middle of the pallet.
Then we attached the legs! We wanted our table to be 36" high so we cut the front to legs to that height.
After the front legs were added we added the back legs. We chose a height of 50 some inches for the back to legs so we could add a small top shelf. We then screwed in the bottom shelf. We used an extra pallet to raise the bottoms shelf off the ground so we could screw it in place.
We then added our top shelf and we were done!
Friday, April 13, 2012
Breastfeeding Rocks!
I was given the chance a couple weekends ago to participate in a photo shoot to help promote nursing in public. I was very nervous at first but thought what the heck and went for it. I am so glad I did. The pictures were taken by an amazing photographer! Her name is Destri of D&orfs Photography. She photographed several moms, I think 5 in the Des Moines area and 6 in the Ames area. The pictures are going to be used in a calendar and also in media material to help promote nursing in public! Here are some shots from the shoot! Did I mention they were amazing? :)
I will add more later when I have a chance!
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Blog Gets a New Look!
So I have been terrible at keeping up with this. I wanted to use this as a way to come back and remember all of the small moments in Oliver's life but here I am, 6 months in, and have nothing. I am vowing to myself I will at least write one post a week if not more.
I have also changed the name. I could never find a name that I liked and fit where I wanted to go with this blog. On a trip to Iowa City I started thinking about Green Olives and Olive Green the color. So I went with Green Olive with the hanging R! A lot of things I will be talking about with Oliver and in our life are ways we are going green and becoming more "crunchy"!! :) So here is post 1 and his 6 months post is coming soon!
I have also changed the name. I could never find a name that I liked and fit where I wanted to go with this blog. On a trip to Iowa City I started thinking about Green Olives and Olive Green the color. So I went with Green Olive with the hanging R! A lot of things I will be talking about with Oliver and in our life are ways we are going green and becoming more "crunchy"!! :) So here is post 1 and his 6 months post is coming soon!
Friday, December 2, 2011
Oliver gets out of Des Moines!
Oh my goodness where has the time gone? Oliver is already 2 months old! He has met a lot of people in the last 2 months and gone quite a few places! Over the last 2 weeks he made a couple big trips. The first was to Iowa City. He went and saw Heather and Emily, and pretty much slept the entire time! We also went to my work and met all of the wonderful people I work with over there.
The next trip was to both his Grandma and Grandpa's houses for Thanksgiving. We stayed for 5 days and had so much fun! On Thanksgiving we went to my Aunt and Uncles house so he could meet some of his cousins and all his Great Aunts and Uncles.
The next trip was to both his Grandma and Grandpa's houses for Thanksgiving. We stayed for 5 days and had so much fun! On Thanksgiving we went to my Aunt and Uncles house so he could meet some of his cousins and all his Great Aunts and Uncles.
Cousin Madison holding him!
Cousin Baby Macy (not really a baby anymore!)
Cousin Crystal holding him!
Cousin Kiah Holding him!
Kiah and Oliver and Crystal and Baby Lilly
Daddy getting his tummy!
What?!?! There's turkey? No way!!
My first Thanksgiving!
After we were done here when we to Great Grandma Zoe's house! She was sooo excited to meet him!!
Great Grandma Zoe meeting him for the first time!
Just like Daddy - Asleep after dinner!
Sunday, November 20, 2011
He likes the swing? :)
We were given a swing from our wonderful family at one of my showers. Ollie being 7 weeks old had only been in it 3 times. Each time he acted like it was the most awful thing he had ever been in. I don't think he was ever in it more than 5 minutes.
Since he loves his birds so much (sounds in his bouncer) we had been taken it to the bedroom with us at night to help put him to sleep. Friday morning Scott went to work and we hung out with the animals in bed. The dogs soon started to get restless and needed to go outside. Ollie and I made our way to the living room but it was so cold I didn't want to go to the door with him. I sat him down in the swing and turned it on low and hit the bird button. I forgot to hit the button to make his birds spin and walked over to let the dogs out. By the time I got back he was almost asleep! I think the spinning birds plus the rocking was just too much for him. He ended up taking a 45 minute nap in it!
Fast forward to today. He took over a 2 hour nap this morning, a short nap after lunch and is currently sleeping in there again! Who knew all it took was turning the spinning birds off! Thank goodness I will take another thing that makes him happy any day! :)
Since he loves his birds so much (sounds in his bouncer) we had been taken it to the bedroom with us at night to help put him to sleep. Friday morning Scott went to work and we hung out with the animals in bed. The dogs soon started to get restless and needed to go outside. Ollie and I made our way to the living room but it was so cold I didn't want to go to the door with him. I sat him down in the swing and turned it on low and hit the bird button. I forgot to hit the button to make his birds spin and walked over to let the dogs out. By the time I got back he was almost asleep! I think the spinning birds plus the rocking was just too much for him. He ended up taking a 45 minute nap in it!
Fast forward to today. He took over a 2 hour nap this morning, a short nap after lunch and is currently sleeping in there again! Who knew all it took was turning the spinning birds off! Thank goodness I will take another thing that makes him happy any day! :)
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