Henry is almost 15 months! And February is almost over....wow...

What a week off! Kyle and I left Wednesday night for our couples getaway to Vegas. Thanks Dad for the skymiles! We ended up doing the trip for almost free. Can't beat that. We had a GREAT time, however have come to the conclusion that our next getaway will be much closer and more of a tranquil setting. We definitely enjoyed staying in bed, taking random naps and relaxing much more than going out. Although...the older Henry has gotten, the harder it makes it to leave. He had a blast home with his Grammy and my dad helped out and played with him for a bit as well. I don't even think he missed us!!!! :) He ended up sleeping 13+straight hours the day we got home...I ended up waking him up in the morning and bringing him in bed with us because I missed him so much and he just laid between us smiling and talking to the fan...:) <3

It is a few days early but I want to post about Henry at 15 months now! He is still in 18-24 month, or 2t clothes....and we bumped up to size 5 diapers. His eyes are still hard to tell what color they will be....so we call them hazel for now, mixed with brown blue and green. He is starting to play on his own with his toys more (and actually playing with some toys) like his cars, car garage, golf club and golf balls, basketball hoop and still loves books. He just loves the Lion King....I swear he wakes up sometimes and roars! It's so funny because he does the exact same thing at certain times in the movie...like certain dances for certain songs, and says uh oh or claps at certain parts. His grammy bought him some Lion King toys and he loves them and sleeps with Nala now. It's seriously so cute how much he loves it and just animals in general. He makes lots of noises that animals make, even more now than last month....and we always have him do what a mouse says..."squeak squeak"...but he does it really fast and quiet. Grammy said she had him do it the whole time we were gone:). If he says a cow anywhere he moos, or quacks for a duck.  My favorite is Hippo..."Happo". I will post a video of him repeating all the words. This post I guess is mainly about his speech at this age....I cannot believe how much he says, how clearly and he is already stringing two words together! Whenever he hands us something he says thank you...and can I add it is the cutest sounding thank you I've ever heard? It's cute enough that when he hands US things he says it, but the way he says it...gets me everytime. He has also mastered all done...saying it, the meaning of it and he has known all done in sign language since about 6 months old. We crack up, because whenever we are done doing something, anything...in the background we hear "all done!" It's hard for me to wrap around how much he understands at his young age and how much he can say. Like....the other day...I didn't know he knew what an apple, penguin, tree or whale was...and he pointed all of them out to me on his playmat. I feel like stuff like that happens everyday that he surprises me with knowing. His kisses are the best right now and loves to give them, especially to mama and babies. We were at the playcourt at Great Lakes the other day and he was loving on a baby there...and I recognized right away that it was a little 7-8 month old red head cutie from his classroom at school! How stinkin cute that he recognized her?!? He sleeps through the night 97% of the time now I'd say.... for 11-12 hours. Sometimes he will nap for 3 hours a day, and other times 1 hour. Ya never know. So basically for being a wake up every 3 hours type of baby for the first 11 months of his life....he is a great sleeper now! I still sleep like crap and never seem to get a good nights sleep no matter what. Boo!

I have a project I am going to be working on soon...and I haven't even told Kyle! I've seen all of these awesome DIY pottery barn knock off tables on pinterest and other tutorial websites...and I am going to give it a try soon. I've always hated our high top table in our kitchen, it's beautiful, but not sturdy and just doesn't feel cozy to me. So.....that is on my agenda for the next month....I am sure Kyle will be thrilled.....:)

Well....back to work tomorrow, kind of looking forward to getting back in our routine...and I know Henry will be excited to go back to daycare, even though most of his daycare days are half days now...it still gives him 3 hours in the morning to play with his buddies and do some fun activities. I cannot believe that Friday is March 1st.... the way time is flying by nowadays is freaking me out.

Sorry about the weird, random post.... I will get back in a groove this week! :)

Happy SNOW day! (Well...for me and Henry anyway). I cannot believe there is another snow day. I feel like we have had one a week for the past month at least. Kyle and Henry (they are different school districts) had one Friday as well. Now that Henry attends school at the elementary school, they are closed whenever the school is. I get so excited when I get that text early in the a.m and turn off my alarm. WWWOOOOOHOOOO :-). So only 4 more days of work until 9 off with my baby and two of those in Vegas with the hubby (alone time is muuuuch overdue....Even though the thought of leaving the little is killing my heart!) We spent the day at Somerset with Grandma Lynn and now are being lazy bums the rest of this cold, windy Monday...making butternut squash soup and watching Disney movies. <3

Here are some random pics from this past weekend:

new hair color! (sry about no make up here...) a coworkers sister is doing an apprenticeship and needed hair models= free cut and color/highlights! cha-ching!

hair did! (first time in a long time...)

V-day cupcakes....strawberry cake with vanilla frosting

 

 

philly cheese steak green peppers... O-M-G....I followed the recipe exact from here

 http://peaceloveandlowcarb.blogspot.com/2012/06/philly-cheesesteak-stuffed-peppers.html  They were soooo good and so pretty. I served it with scalloped potatoes and a salad.

A little toilet paper roll Valentines craft for the Grandparents

 

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Happy Thursday! I am up bright & early today....Kyle's cough kept me up all night last night. :(. Poor guy. He is staying home today and gets some Henry time as well. I am just praying Henry and I don't catch whatever he has... ***Edit*** I am just getting around to finishing this blog post today (friday!). Today was ANOTHER snow day! I feel like we have had quite a few so far.

So our dinner's this week thus far have been SO good! On Monday's Valerie (my mother in law) watches Henry during the afternoon...and we came home to a delicious dinner! Thanks Val! What a treat that is....it is not often that someone else cooks ME a meal during week nights. Tuesday I was really craving some chinese...now Kyle does not really like chinese. And we have tried every chinese restaurant within 10 miles of us and they are all disgusting. So I decided to take on baked sweet and sour chicken and fried rice. It is hands down the best chinese I've ever eaten, SO easy and it's also a great meal to serve to guests because it turns out so well and everyone is always impressed. Here is the link that I got the recipe from:

http://life-as-a-lofthouse.blogspot.com/2010/09/baked-sweet-and-sour-chicken-with-fried.html

It really is worth giving it a go. If you like chinese...and want to know what is going in your chinese food:) this is the recipe! Here is a picture of how mine turned out...

Last night I whipped up a simple and easy spinach salad, with walnuts, feta cheese and tomatoes. I drizzled some poppyseed dressing on top. I could eat feta all day every day. Yum. Such a simple, healthy and satisfying light dinner....(compared to the meal I cooked the night before...look above...for whaht looks like an army!) Here is a picture below

Hopefully I get around to cooking some new and fun meals this weekend. We have no big plans as of now and I have a few new ones I've pinned that I'd like to try...and quite a few toddler treats too....until then!

Some fevers and wood art wall decor

Is it just me....or is this winter dragggggginggggg?  Worst spring fever, ever! I am dying to get outside with Henry and do some new things with him....also a little tan wouldn't hurt! I keep daydreaming about starting our mornings out on the deck, going for a walk before workdays, going out on my dad's lake, spending long days at the pool.... it is already February...so just a few more months! Speaking of fever....this little Schultz family is having a little baby fever! ;). We have felt ready for quite some time now to add on to our party of 3, but timing wise with Kyle's work schedule hasn't been right just yet! The thought of giving Henry a brother or sister makes us SO excited ( & maybe a little nervous, mainly about the chaos, not about Henry not loving it because everyone who knows Henry knows he would love another little tyke in the house...but that is to be expected, right?!). It just makes me giddy...the thought about him being a big brother someday. I see all those pictures on pinterest of the cute mom and dad with their little pack of cubs all close in age posing all cute as a family and I can't help but pin them. Ok, ok.... I am getting a little ahead of myself here and this is NOT a preggo announcement in any way. But can you tell the subject makes me excited??? (We are pretty open about our future plans with friends and family so I am sure most of you already know our plans, this blog just helps me to express my excitement even more) :) I have seen some horrible comments on facebook and other places of moms judging others about their decision to have more babies or when to have more babies... it is SUCH a personal decision and I just wish all mom's would realize just because something doesn't work or isn't right for their family, doesn't mean that's what everyone else should do. That goes for all aspects of being a mom...not just when to add another kiddo. I knew feeling judged would come along with motherhood, but the competition among mom's is insane to me and I will never understand it. That is just my little rant for the day. Back to fevers...poor Kyle has been getting consistently more and more sick all day long. Henry has thankfully had a sick-free winter thus far, since our lake trip with Annie, Ryan and Ally back in October, as well as myself! Hopefully we can steer clear of this one, because his cough is pretty bad. :(

This weekend was another great one! Saturday was Kyle's youngest brother, Drew's 21st birthday!!!We met the family at Dave and Busters (he picked it so Henry would be able to go.....insert awwww here!:)) I have never been there before, but I loved it! We all had so much fun playing the games and of course Henry loved it too. He was almost in a trance it seemed from all of the loud music and lights and video games. Definitely hesitant at first, and by the end was running around, watching all the big kids and made a little baby friend. I didn't get any pictures because we were so busy playing games and chasing Henry.

Today was spent in....PAJAMAS!! :). During Henry's 3 hour nap, I followed a tutorial on http://www.shanty-2-chic.com/ for a wood wall art tutorial. I was originally going to do the LOVE one that they have posted there...however I had a change of craft in mind and did one for Henry's room. I wanted to keep it neutral and not too kidish so he can keep it with him as he grows older. He can totally rock this in his dorm room one day!:) I would!

This picture does it Zero justice. It turned out beautiful. I followed the tutorial on the website exactly, minus the wording. I also didn't line the wood planks up evenly, as I liked it more rustic and homemade looking. I used just plain old sand paper as well over the white letters to wear it down (which you can't see in the picture). I plan on making a few more...one for our room and a gift for my niece Ally for her 2nd birthday coming up.

This week is just a boring old work week, but I have some new recipes I am going to try and I will be sure to post them if they are worth it! :)