52 weeks of us: our week 2

So we're linking up again with Summer from Crosbie Crew for 52 weeks of us (or 50 weeks of us for me lol). 

Ignore the bruised eye... he tried pushing his high chair into the living room and slipped and hit himself on it *sigh*

Wordless Wednesday: Tristan's favorite hat

Toggle Along Tuesday: My must-have item

So I'm linking up with Mama G over at Growing Up Geeky for Toggle Along Tuesday. The topic is your must-have item for either you or your baby/ toddler. It took me awhile to think of something. When he was a baby I would say the drop-in nurser bottles since he had issues with gas but now that he's a toddler my must-have item is a baby gate...

Here's why: 

• time-out- we put him in his room with the gate up when he's having tantrums. there's no toys so it works. 
• so I can shower or do dishes or clean without worrying about him getting into something without me knowing.

We got a gate before he was even walking haha. It was a huge need for us. 

52 weeks of us: Our 1st week

So I'm going to be participating in Summer from the Crosbie Crew's "52 weeks of us". Though for me, it'll be 50 weeks of us since I missed the first 2 weeks and we have no "us" pictures for those 2 weeks. So here you go: 

Cowboy take me away...

SO, for the last few weeks I have felt depressed  out of touch. I ignored the never ending dishes, I kept putting off finishing the living room, everything. I've been stuck in this apartment every. single. day. I haven't gotten to see friends. It's always just me and Tristan, Chris works all day and then comes home at almost 7pm, eats dinner, and then either goes to a friends or plays his computer game until he goes to bed. I have felt lonely, tired, upset, etc. Well yesterday Chris's sister Steph came to visit their dad for the day and night so last night we dropped Tristan off with his grandparents and took Steph and we went to their friend and Tristan's godfather's house where we all hung out for hours. We went home after, slept, got up at 7:30am to pick Tristan up from his grandparents, Chris bought me a Pumpkin Spice Cappuccino with French Vanilla Creamer- it was heaven, and we went home. Then after Chris went to work and Tristan was napping, I got some country music playing on Pandora.com and cleaned. I picked up all the toys and put them away, cleaned up the floor, vacuumed, washed dishes, cleaned up the kitchen a little, put stuff in trash bags, and I felt great. Everything was suddenly ok.


I learned that I really need to start being able to see my friends more. I need to have time to myself. And I need to RELAX. 

Yummy goodness!

P.S. This is where I gotta go nuts... New England Patriots are going to the Super Bowl!!!! Yep, huge fan right here. That's what happens when you grow up in Massachusetts :).

Joys of being a mom to a boy :)

I love this!

And this!

Wordless Wednesday: Smiles :)