Bouncing Baby - Schedule at 19 Months

Hello my wonderful readers. I thought I would share with you Penelope's schedule now that we have passed that 19 month mark.

We do attend a Moms group in the fall and spring (they are on break for summer) and we would get up earlier and get ready earlier on those days. 

• She has been waking up about 7:30am-8am everyday
• Diaper change
• Cup of whole milk
• About 9am I fix breakfast
• Diaper change
• Change clothes for day (lately it's been so hot here this just takes a onesie or t-shirt if we are not going out)
• Now is the time we would go anywhere if we have to go shopping or park or whatever it may be because she is the happiest at this time and not really in melt down mode. 
• 10a-10:30am Milk time again
• Noon I will make lunch (water with lunch)
• Diaper change (she might have another diaper change before this also depending on if she needs one or not)
• After lunch she will take a nap when she is ready, usually no more than 2 hours and I always wake her by 4pm so she doesn't sleep to late and mess up night time routine 
• Milk when she wakes from nap depending on how late it is
• 5pm-6pm I will make dinner (hubby joins us around that time)
• Diaper change
• 7:30pm-7:45pm bedtime routine will start
• Bath
• Milk 
• Book
• Kisses 
• Usually in bed by 8pm.

Now this will change from time to time depending on how she is doing that day or if we need to be somewhere obviously life happens but on any normal day this is about what happens in our little world. Hope you all love each other!

My Ideal Housecleaning Schedule

Hello my wonderful readers. We all wish that we could follow our ideal housecleaning schedule but I know just like you do that doesn't always happen. Well this is the schedule that I try to follow when possible:

Monday - Relax and play with baby all day :-)

Tuesday - Clean up bathrooms 

Wednesday - Child laundry and towels washed

Thursday - Adult laundry

Friday - Vacumm, Trash out

Saturday - Grocery shopping

Sunday - Meal prep for the week

Constant everyday - Dishes, Cloth diaper wash, Trash does go out more than once a week depending on if it's full or not, 

I do try to get as much of this done during a week as I can but some times life just happens and that's when we have to just cut ourselves some slack and accept that it might not get done and not be hard on ourselves about it. I am very lucky to have my hubby help me a good amount of time with things when I ask him to. Hope this is helpful. Loves. 

Women's Retreat 2016

Hello my wonderful readers. I just got home from my second weekend away, but this weekend was me by myself going to women's retreat with the women from my church. Last year when I went was my first time away overnight from Penelope and she was sick and Aaron took her to the ER for the first time and I was so worried the whole time so this time was different thank goodness.

First I packed very minimal, just some leggings and jeans, pjs, and about 2-3 thermal long sleeve shirts and a couple t shirts (I ended up not wearing them because it was too cold), I took a fleece vest. I just took minimal toiletries and no makeup but mascara, also tennis shoes only, no other shoes. Took bug spray but didn't need it this time thank goodness and my trusty flashlight is about it. 

And second here are some pictures from the beautiful place.

 Elizabeth Hunnicut was wonderful as a worship leader you should all check her out!

It is a beautiful place only God can create!

Hope God blesses you all like He has blessed me in my life.

Our Stay at the Welk Resort- San Diego

Hello my wonderful readers. So a few weeks back I did a few posts on packing for a trip we took, the trip was for a friend's wedding and we stayed at the Welk Resort in San Diego. It was a beautiful room and we have already talked about going back when our kids are little older for a family vacation. Below is pictures of our one bedroom suite, it was wonderful and so good when you have a small child.

 These are from the wedding, we had a wonderful time!!

Last but not least is our first picture when we got the resort that is why all look tired but happy we were not in the car anymore haha. Hope you enjoyed and let me know if you have ever stayed there before. Loves. 

Mother's Day 2016

Hello my wonderful readers. Hope you and all the mothers in your life had a wonderful Mother's Day. We went to my mother in laws house the day before Mother's Day to spend the day with her then went to my parents house for actual Mother's Day. It was the first time spending Mother's Day with my mom, with me as a mother because I didn't get to do that last year so it was really important to me to do that this year. We did not take any pictures at my parents house for some crazy reason we always forget and need to get better at that but here is one we took at my mother in laws house. Overall it was a relaxing weekend and we got to tell both our parents the great news (see post before this one if you want to know). Love always.

Bouncing Baby - Surprise!!

Hello my wonderful readers! So I didn't post this week because I have not been feeling well and just life got in the way. On April 25th we found out some wonderful news that will change our family!

It is going to be a Happy New Year for the Thorsen family! January 2nd we are expecting our next little one to make their appearance. I am still deciding if I am going to blog this whole pregnancy like I did with Penelope so we will just have to see. Love you all! 

Bouncing Baby - 18 Month Update

Hello my wonderful readers. I can't believe our baby is now half way to TWO!! How can my little baby girl be a toddler??!! We went to the doctor for her 18 month check up on Monday and she is coming in at 24 Lbs 3.2 oz and 33.75 Inches long. 

She is running all over the place. 

Eating when she wants to eat and what she wants to eat. I have learned with a toddler when they are not wanting to eat or they don't want to eat something they will NOT eat it whether you want them to or not haha. Penelope goes a couple days with just picking at her food and barely eating it then goes a few days with eating everything in sight and so on and so forth. I have no idea why she does this it's just one of the things she has done for awhile. She is pretty much eating everything no real restrictions we have come across yet for allergies or anything, which I think is good. She is drinking whole milk by the gallon and a little juice in there sometimes watered way down. She drinks a lot of water out of a sippy or straw cup really well. 

We are still cloth diapering as much as we can and she does good with that. 

She is really starting to play on the playground at the park and loves just running around so I think we will be doing a lot of that this summer. 

She loves bath time 99% of the time, we all have our bad days of course. So I think we will have fun swimming this year a lot more. 

She is doing really well with learning to brush her own teeth, daddy does it and then lets her do it again by herself for now. 

Her hair is getting so long we might have pigtails by the summertime. 

She is a very strong willed and independent little girl. 

I hope you love hearing about her as much we love talking about her. 

Only way I could get her to sit still long enough to take a picture haha.