Settling In Mile High

We've been in Denver for just over 2 weeks now and we LOVE it already!! We are itching to get into all the activities it has to offer. Our apartment is not yet ready to share but as soon as we get the TV on the wall I will post pics. We arrived into town just hours before I was scheduled for my of orientation. I took this picture later that while walking over there overpass. Seeing the mountains in the distance will never get old, especially when you come from such a flat state. 

A Foodie's Weekend Dream

This past weekend Tj and I had experienced lots of different foods, thought I'd share cause you know #SavageLife

I tried Better Buzz for the first time, a coffee place that I heard about through my coworkers. I got an iced "best drink ever" and it was quite tasty. I never drink iced coffee and surprisingly I liked it. 

 Tj is obsessed with Kati Thai, a restaurant in San Diego that we knew very well before moving here. I had the pineapple fried rice!!

On Saturday we went on a Bite Tour through La Jolla. It was an especially hot day for San Diego so walking to each restaurant was not ideal. The food on our first stop wasn't great.

 Now this apple pancake at Richard Walker's Pancake House was pretty amazing 

 And someone really enjoyed gnawing on the bacon

Loved the chicken caesar crepe on the left

The last stop was Olive Oil tasting which I never knew was a thing

We heard about the San Diego Night Market from a guy on our Bite Tour, so we figured what the heck

 It was Asian night

 ONE DOLLAR lashes, and I only got 3 pair. What is wrong with me?

 LUMPIA!!!!!

 All of the lines were insane, including the one for this lemonade I had never tried

 It was worth it

 Tj's Saigon fries 

What a yummy weekend :)

Catching Up

I'm a little behind on posts so I figured I'd take this time to catch you up on our recent happenings. On Labor Day we visited The Cabrillo National Monument and Point Loma Tide Pools.

 Huge waves

 

 Got em'

 That following weekend Tj left for his friend's joint bachelor party and sent Noelle and I to her first concert. Mickey's Music Fest.

 I was all about the Aladdin segment 

By the way…I found these amazing dumplings at Trader Joe's 

Between the Gyoza and my Creme Brûlée kit from my friend Joanne it was a yummy weekend

Play Dates, Shots and FOOD!!!!!

Noelle went on her first play date recently with some of my new coworkers' babies!

 We went to Mission Bay

 Genevieve and Micah were so cute!!!

Hit me with your best shot!

After shots Noelle was in a good mood (she's a G) so we headed to Old Town for lunch.

Beautiful Church

 Interesting Name

6 months means FOOD!!!

There are recommendations from many health organizations to wait to introduce solids until babies are six months. My Pediatrician suggested we wait, so we did. Of course every parent is going to make this decision based on their baby but I did some research on my own and agreed that it wouldn't hurt to just exclusively breastfeed for another 2 months. I won't bore you with all the research because as many articles I found to support waiting 6 months, I found just as many that suggested starting at 4 months was more of an advantage. So who the heck knows, do what's best for your baby and I'm sure they will be just fine. Some of these same organizations recommend breastfeeding for the first 2 years and beyond, which I can tell you right now is not going down. I plan to breastfeed for at least 12 months but I can't promise anything after 1/31/2015 (just saying).

Up first: Avocado

Then a couple days later, Blueberries

I read that you should wait almost a week in between introducing each food but if both parents have no history of food allergies it is not as important to wait so long.

Then B-A-N-A-N-A-S!! *So excited to see Gwen Stefani on The Voice…LOVE HER!*

As you can see Noelle is not eating from a spoon. We decided to use the Baby Led Weaning method. Now I am not as "granola" as they come but I will do things out of the box if they make sense to me. I had a coworker who first introduced me to this method. At first I was sure I wouldn't use it because I had planned on making my own baby food and I was pretty excited about it. But as the time got closer I wanted to look into it and what I found, I agreed with. I spoke with Michelle again and she told me how great her children had done with it and that it was safe as long as you keep a close eye on them. Noelle has done fine with it, with the occasional gag. If you wanna know more about it I linked an article that I really liked at the beginning of the paragraph. The blueberries were too small to give to Noelle so we put them in these fresh food feeder. I'm excited for her to explore food independently and become the savage that I know she can be!