the coriatys

May 30, 2013

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And just like that, our crazy month of May is over, ending with my birthday - my first one as a mommy. Being a mom makes birthdays even more special somehow. I had a pretty mellow day compared to some other years (I mean, I was having a private beach dinner in the Bahamas for the big 3-0!), but this year was even more fun because I was with my son.

My mother-in-law made me her yummy enchiladas with green sauce and homemade brownie dessert on my birthday eve, and on my birthday Kyle and I spent the afternoon at the park with my friends Anna & Emily and the evening having dinner and a double dark chocolate shake at Ruby's with Brian. Pretty much the perfect day.

And next week, my mom is taking me to get a massage! I'm one happy mommy.

happy birthday to me!
family pic at Ruby's, flowers from my mother-in-law,
blowing out my candles, and rockin' the party hats!

May 29, 2013

3 months, con't

When Kyle smiles, his whole face lights up from an adorable toothless grin. I can make him smile all day long just by looking him in the eye and smiling at him, or even just by talking to him. But when there's a camera around (even my iPhone), getting a smile out of this boy is a very different story: he gets a concerned look on his face and just stares at the camera, wondering why it's in his face.

Ugh! I want nothing more than to capture the sweet smile I see every day, but so far I've been pretty unsuccessful. This is the best Brian & I could do for his 3 month picture with Penny:

a little smile peeking out!

what's going on, mom?

Hopefully I can capture his huge toothless grin that I love so much sooner than later!

May 26, 2013

traditions

Brian & I have always loved celebrating events and milestones through traditions. One of our first traditions as a couple is to celebrate our "date-a-versary" at Knott's Berry Farm every year. This all started because our date-a-versary is close to Halloween (October 28), the time of year when Knott's closes at 5 p.m. to set up for Knott's Scary Farm. Neither of us loves Scary Farm (aka 3 million high school kids and 2-hour long lines), but we both love the rides and the atmosphere at Knott's. We discovered that if you go to Knott's during the day close to Halloween, NO ONE IS THERE! It's amazing. There are no lines. You can stay on the rides as many times as you want without getting off. You can circle the park and go on everything in 2 hours. You can have funnel cake and boysenberry punch for lunch, then ride Montezooma's Revenge until you're sick. It's so fun. So every year we go to Knott's for the day, then out to dinner. Some of my favorite memories are of Brian and I at the theme park, just the 2 of us enjoying the day.

Last year on October 28 I was 5 months pregnant with Kyle, so our Knott's trip consisted of no rides - just fried chicken and biscuits at Mrs. Knotts Chicken Dinner (heaven for a pregnant girl). And this year Kyle will be 8 months old, so October 28, 2013 (celebrating 12 years!) will be his first trip to the park. We can't wait to make him part of our tradition.

Every year, the first thing we do when we get to Knott's is take a picture of the 2 of us holding up how many years we are celebrating:

Corny? A little. But so fun.

Now that we're married, we still love to continue this date-a-versary tradition and added a new one for our wedding anniversary: have dinner at the restaurant where we held our wedding reception. We have so many fun memories at the Main Street Wine Cellar, where we hosted all of our friends and family for appetizers, wine and dancing. The Wine Cellar is the perfect spot for date night - great wine and beer selection, fun menu and everywhere we look we have a memory of the day we were married. It's the perfect way to reminisce and re-live one of the best nights of our lives.

Instead of holding up how many years we're celebrating, we decided last year to try and reenact one of our wedding photos every time we visit:

1st wedding anniversary - before we thought of the reenactment idea :)

2nd wedding anniversary

3rd wedding anniversary

This year was especially fun because it was our first date night since Kyle was born. Grandma came over to watch the baby and those 2 hours away, just the 2 of us, were just what we needed to focus on each other and enjoy our special day.

the short rib sliders (top) were served at our reception. So good.

Now that we have Kyle, I'm so excited to start more traditions for the 3 of us. Summertime camping trips, Sunday night family dinners, making birthday cakes, scavenger hunts with his cousins, breakfast with Santa... so many fun traditions in our future. I can't wait!

Wedding photos by the talented Joseph Martinez Photography

May 25, 2013

13 weeks * 3 months

So I'm realizing that the week-by-week posts don't really correlate with the monthly updates. Today, Kyle is 13 weeks old, but he turned "3 months" on Thursday. I guess I'll eventually transition to doing just a monthly update, but for now I'm still having fun posting these every week. So, here is what Kyle is up to at 3 months/13 weeks.

First of all, we took 3 month pictures. How cute is this little man?! And where is his neck?

(We still need to take his photo with Penny in his 3 month onesie - coming soon, I promise!)

We went to breastfeeding workshop to find out how much milk Kyle is taking in a each feeding, and to get an update on his weight. At 12 weeks he weighed in at 14 lbs, 7 oz and gained an average of 1/2 an oz each day since our last weigh-in at 6 weeks. Right on target!

He's not a huge fan of tummy time, but I make him do it a few times a day. He'll be a happy boy (see above) for about 3 minutes, then it's all over. But he is very strong and I swear he is already trying to crawl. No movement yet, but he has the motions going on. Slow down, buddy!

One of his favorite things to do is take long walks with mommy in the Baby Bjorn. He loves being outside and looking around, while licking the Bjorn. Mmmmm. Our walks sometimes last an hour! We're pretty lucky to have a park as our backyard, so we'll walk all through it and watch the kids play in the playground, or the little boys practice for their baseball game, or the high school kids make out on the benches.

If Brian gets home from work early enough, he'll join us:

Typically, Kyle is a pretty good sleeper at night. He'll sleep 12 hours, waking twice (or sometimes once!) to eat. But of course I'm laughing as I'm typing this because last night he had me up 17 times. Ok, maybe it was 3 times, but it felt like 17. He went down at 9:30 pm, then was up at 1 am, 4 am, 6:30 am and then up for good at 9. I'm hoping we just had a bad night and will be back on track tonight. Life is much more fun when mommy is not up at all hours!

We got him a mobile for his crib, which has been nice. It doesn't put him to sleep (yet), but he likes to watch it for a while so mommy can get dressed! Yay!

I guess maybe it would help him sleep if I laid him in the crib the correct way. Oops.

Kyle's starting to grab onto more things, which is fun. He'll entertain himself in his carseat by holding onto his burp cloth, and he'll hold onto my clothes for dear life.