Gabriel's Christening

Sunday was in one word, perfection, it was very hot and extremely humid here in NY but it was also magical, being witness to our little monkey's day.
We were surrounded by friends and family who all came to celebrate this momentous day in our young baby's life.
We are grateful and humbled by how much our family & friends are always there for us in good and bad times.
My little man was a happy as can be like he always is. always smiling and always bouncing...no seriously this boy ALWAYS bounces even when he sleeps his legs are going.
check out the fun times we had.

The details

The gorgeous rosary was made by seller hello designs. The pictures do it NO justice, it was amazing and so perfect! Can't wait to order one for D's 1st communion next year

Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend

Gabriel's favorites

remember how i told you last week about these things that G is in love with?
here is proof in case you were wondering

Unless of course your brother shoves cake in front of you

5 months

ooh i found toes!

Holy heck where has the time gone?

I cannot believe my little man is 5 months already. He is accomplishing so much, still tipping over though when sitting up, i think he just like to be held so he can bounce in our arms.
He rolls over like there is no tomorrow, gone are the days we could put him down and change his diaper without a fuss, now we are lucky if we can get it on him in one try.

He has also mastered the art of blowing raspberries and he loves it. he will sit and look at me and get all serious then purse his lips and whoa bubbles galore.
I love it. I can't get enough of his chubby legs and his round cheeks.
I'm completely smitten with this boy! he has got me wrapped around his chubby little fingers.

Father's Day

Father's Day was a complete bust and relatively quiet. Hubby didn't want to go anywhere because of how he looked from last week's accident. So we stayed home. Kiddie kandids fucked up because I had done a session with the boys and had this nice frame made up to give to him for father's day. they claim the lab was/is backed up. to this day i have not yet heard anything. so i guess we will be sticking to the picture people since at least i get the pic same day. It just sucks that they don't have the props they used to when Darren was a baby.
Anyway
To my husband on his first father's day (with a baby anyway)

How can i express the joy that fills my heart whenever i see you with our boys. evry little girl dreams of their prince, their knight in shinning armor and i can actually and proudly say i AM one of the lucky girls who found her knight.
You (as proven by Sunday's fiasco) have shown me you will always protect our boys and be there for them.
I fall in love with you even more now because of what an amazing father you are and how much our boys look up to you.
I love you baby and happy Father's Day

It been a crazy hectic week

I have not been able to post much this week although I sit at night in bed when I can't sleep and think of stuff I can write about on my next post (obsess much viv?) like how Gabriel is loving these little heaven sent things and how I could NOT live without these, as in if i had to pick 3 things to use after baby what would the be?... this would be #1

Instead I've been taking care of my older babies as in hubby and Darren because during our usual Sunday walk which somehow became a bike ride,
It started out just fine

Until Michael & Darren both went over the bike's handle bars and had a very intimate encounter with the sidewalk.
Darren ended up with 2 broken toes and Michael...oh my baby he has stitched under his eye
above his upper lip all the way to the nose, inside his mouth. a chipped tooth and another that had to be popped back into place and is now in place with braces...oh yes as in metal mouth braces!
I'll spare you guys what my husband looks like but for now here is a thumbs up from my big strong boy hoping you guys have a less eventful weekend than we did

Cloth Diapers : The big change

Look what came in the mail today!

   

I'm so excited to try these. since i was pregnant with Gabriel the thought of cloth diapering came and went and initially i thought "eww never" i remember being cloth diapered and I did NOT want to go through that.
I figured i would be the pampers snob i was with Darren. (Huggies did not work at all for us with either one of the boys, they had terrible leaks as in not just clothes but sheets, mattress and anything or anyone monkey came into contact with. I do love their wipes more than pampers though!)
Then the whole dry-max pampers situation came to light with reports of infants having chemical burns on their tushies. Although Gabriel had been wearing them for 4 months without problems, i didn't want to take a chance and so that whole situatuion kicked my butt into gear to look into cloth seriously.
Also it was killing me seeing our garbage pail full of 'sposies that would take up to 500 years in out landfills, oh and i've been on a green kick too.
I started researching my options, turns out there are many to be had. The amount of choices is overwhelming to say the least
Pre-folds

Hybrids - GDiapers



pocket diapers or one size  - fuzzibunz
all in ones (AIO) - bumgenious / Grovia
one size - rumparooz
sleeve - thisties
fitted - kissaluvs
flat - birdseye

And those are just the types. then you can add liners, covers, inserts, doublers...you get the idea.
Anyway we decided and by we i mean I, that hybrids would be a good place to start just to get the hang of it and get comfortable. We compromised this time we is HE. that we would target brand up& up 'spoises for nighttime since we didn't want to wake up with shit all over us. BTW target diapers ROCK!!!!
So off i went cyber shopping at amazon after reading many many reviews and pouring over sites explaining an breaking down cloth diapering. We came down to 3
Gdipares
bumgenious
and fuzzibunz.
They all have their pros and cons and as i go about testing each one i'll update. So far what i like about the Gdiaper is how easy it is.

this is what the main cloth cover looks like with the inner snap-in liners

then you add the disposiable/compostable liner to the inner one into the pocket it forms

 

finally put in on

The velcro makes it easy to put on baby
We have had blowouts (2) where it leaks onto the inner "plastic" liner but he's done that with pampers and actually worse. so i'm not discouraged yet. I love their cute designs and how comfy they are. Yes you need to practice getting the insert just right but in the diapers defense i got the small size liner which goes up to 14lbs and Gabriel is 15 something already.
I love the G on his butt too!

I'm waiting on my fuzzibunz and bumgenius to come in the mail so i'll keep you updated once i use those. so far Gabriel seems to like his Gdiapers

For more cloth diapering info check out this site or just do a google search

Seriously Rabbi STFU!!!

This man decided he all of a sudden "knows" what is right for a baby! He decided to write this article about how breastfeeding can affect your marriage.
Essentially, the Rabbi says that women who are devoted to breastfeeding are committing a “cardinal sin” by not putting their husbands and thus their marriages before the needs of their children. He goes on to say that when husbands see their wives breastfeed they lose interest in their wives sexually, and since the “erotic nature of a wife’s body is a principle element of attraction in marriage,” choosing to breastfeed and bond with your baby is akin to choosing the demise of your marriage. “It is not the bad thing you do that destroys a marriage, but all the good that you fail to do, preoccupied as you are with a sinful relationship that diverts your attention away from your spouse.”
Sinful relationship? Wow.
he says "
Obviously, breast-feeding is not the same as carrying on an extramarital affair. But when a mother gives her breasts to her son and takes them away from her husband, the effect on the marriage can feel the same"
uhm seriously, i doubt my husband feels that our son is "stealing" my breast from him!
like Hailey said:
"Stick to the Torah... what you know, because you are not a woman and do not have a woman’s intuitive wisdom!

 ***UPDATE*** 

Rabbi Shmuley wrote a retraction of the article.It turns out they’ve been receiving a number of comments (oh, really?! can't imagine why)
read it here

It seems to me that Rabbi Shmuley’s first article passionately vented his personal opinions about breastfeeding and women and his second article was written after he’d composed himself a little. It’s too bad he didn’t write the second article first. I think he could have saved himself a great deal of negative press.(quoted from breastfeedingmomsunite.com)

Baby Mamas (Put a Sling On 'Em)

We died...and went to heaven

and heaven is now promptly sitting on my hips!
and by heaven i mean these:




uhuh! my thoughts exactly!

you can thank bakerella for this!
oh and your welcome but i don't take responsibility for any extra stuff on your hips!

This is what nap time looks like

When Gabriel decides he won't nap without me. I had to get stuff done while he napped so after he fell asleep while nursing i had no choice but to put him in the crib like this. he is such an angel

Memorial Day recap

I hope everyone had a good memorial day. We started our weekend by spending time with family on saturday. Sunday we went to a BBQ

Then Monday it was all about the water play

It was a great weekend and just the prelude of what is to come this summer!