As we are already approaching 11 months with our first child, I thought I would write a post about my “mommy favorites” — things that I found to be essential in helping us survive the first little one. [I may add more and add photos later!]
I start by acknowledging my situation and preferences are potentially very different from the next mommy. We are frugal and in a fairly small house, living on one income. We had a son who was colicky for 3 months, never really enjoyed tummy time until he was ready to start inching around, and is just his own baby — every baby is so different in many ways!
We had plenty of preconceived notions, fears, and exciting wonderful things we looked forward to. We had some definite and some pseudo opinions; many of those have changed drastically since we had our baby!
I’m going to include here some of my favorite things from our experience. I hope that it might help someone out there. I had several great moms send me their short list and I found it helpful. I haven’t really included toys. That’s a whole other post! (more…)
So I guess as babies, we start off developmentally with a LOT of vowels, and just start to add consonants slowly to the front of them. Our little guy is so content to ahhhh ohhhhh uhhhhh all day long. It’s kind of fascinating to watch language develop in a child. I’ve seen pieces here and there, but it’s so interesting to watch it day to day. Some days he’s very vocal, and some days he’s much more quiet. I haven’t found the rhythm to that mystery. A couple of weeks ago when he started really becoming more vocal, he did it for a while and then took a break from vowels and just blew raspberries all day. He’d wake up, and it was the first thing we’d hear from his room. It was delightful.
