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For someone who has only about 8 months of solids under his belt, our son is quite the picky eater. He has his favorites, but he does not like to have the same thing too often. Anything with consistency or on a schedule and it won’t work for him. However, we can always count on these overnight oats as a favorite. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day,…
It’s that time of year when you’re over the summer heat, time seems to stop, and all you want to do is jump into something cold. You’re running around to summer picnics, planning last-minute vacations, prepping for back to school, and/or stressing about how you’re going to have to go back to five-day work weeks once summer Fridays end. Since Liam was born, our summer days look a little different…
At our son’s first vaccine-free appointment last month (yay), we discussed his milestones and food plan. The doctor praised how well he was growing. She asked about all the food he was eating and specifically asked whether we introduced any diary to him. At the time we hadn’t given him any dairy products. She mentioned how important it was to create a more balanced meal now that he’s shifting to…
We are so excited for our son’s first Valentine’s Day! Like any first holiday, we are more excited to get him involved in whatever cute DIY Valentine craft we are creating. So, we decided to make these adorable stamped feet cards and sent them to our family. Do you remember those Valentine’s Day cards you would buy in grade school? They were themed for whatever cartoon character you loved. They…
Merry Christmas from our family to yours! 2018 has been a whirlwind and we can’t believe we get to celebrate our first Christmas with our son. As our family changes, so will our traditions. Luckily he doesn’t really know what’s going on yet, so we have at least another year to figure out our family’s traditions for the holidays. Like doing an annual family Christmas card. What we do know…
Every December, we scramble to find a cute or ugly Christmas sweater for a holiday party. It usually ends in a last-minute purchase with one we aren’t thrilled about. Since ugly sweaters became trendy, prices have gotten out of control. Last year, I searched for Mrs. Weasley sweaters. I was looking for something we could monogram with our initials (like in the film) not just an ‘H’ nor ‘R’. The…
Every Halloween, Fatima and I do a couple’s costume. In college, we were Peter Pan and Tiger Lily, then themed to Shondaland’s Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder, went easy and comfortable with Salt and Pepper, and then Harry Potter. Last year, we stayed in and sat on the couch dressed up as a pregnant married couple. Now, we have a third wheel that has to be themed with us. Our…
Liam is nosy. If it moves, makes noise, stands still, is colorful, lacking color, or not visible to the naked eye, he stares at it. He even has conversations with things around the house, like our shiny doorknobs and the corners of any room. Once his sight began to expand and his focus developed, we knew we needed to give him a mobile to focus his attention. However, every mobile…
We cannot believe it’s been three months since Liam arrived. It has been a wild ride. When we put our registry together, we thought we had everything. However once Liam arrived, he showed us what he liked, didn’t like, and needed. With three months under our belts, we put together a list of baby essentials. Please note: not everything is listed below, so use the link at the end for a full…
Happy Birthday Harry Potter (and J.K. Rowling)! We recreated the birthday cake Hagrid gave Harry on his eleventh birthday in first feature film, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. This cake makes the perfect addition to any Harry Potter party you’re throwing today. So how did we make this Harry Potter Birthday Cake? Fatima and I love Harry Potter. When the books first came out, I remember going to Barnes and Noble…
We purchased the Doona at a discounted rate in exchange for this review and subsequent posts on Instagram. All the planning we were doing throughout Fatima’s pregnancy involved how to make our lives easier for when our LO (little one) was born. We needed to maximize the storage potential in our apartment, find products that were dual purpose, and only get what we needed. As all parents know, that all goes out the…
I love my maternity photos. If Brian didn’t push me to do this shoot, I don’t know if I would have these photos to look back at. I wanted to return the favor and give Brian a photo shoot with Liam. We planned on a simple newborn photo shoot anyways, so it was easy to get this together. Tips for a Newborn Photo Shoot Best time for a newborn photo shoot…
Dear Liam, The hours leading up to your arrival felt like they happened years ago. But just a few weeks ago, we welcomed you to the world. We wanted to remember the day’s events, so here’s your birth story as told by your parents. We planned on meeting you on June 3. But it seems you wanted to meet us sooner. What a wonderful Mother’s Day surprise! Here is your…
We purchased the Doona at a discounted rate in exchange for this post and video. You can now purchase one from Amazon! All of the strollers we looked at were too bulky and hard for one person to manage on the subway. Then I saw the Doona at work. One of my coworkers uses it with her kid and had wonderful things to say about it. After a bit of…
Happy almost Mother’s Day to all moms, mother figures, and soon-to-be moms! Knowing the baby could come this month is surreal. As we get closer to our due date, the word, parent, is starting to set in. But before my wife brings our little one into this world, I organized a maternity shoot for her. A few weeks ago, Fatima said that she never got to enjoy looking pregnant. Besides her bumpies…
Over the last two years, we talked about wanting to order an ancestry kit. As our pregnancy progressed, we thought more about our ancestry, health, genetics and how all of this will affect our kids. We reached out to 23 and Me and they sent us two complimentary Health + Ancestry kits. In my senior year of high school, we had to compile a life story (well the first 17…