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Three Months Old

our little bat is three months old! 🫶🏽
he is already wearing six month clothes, getting more hair by the day, loves his toy ball and to chat with mom & dad, and still has a very serious demeanor (haha!) — i am obsessed with him and love seeing his little personality start to pop through 🖤

Tiana 6/30/23 Tiana 6/30/23

High Protein Food for Pregnancy

I deeply struggled with getting the recommended 90+ grams of protein daily during pregnancy and had to do some work to find foods that worked for me. Some of these aren’t the *most* healthy but they helped me get that amount when I was basically in survival mode. I’ve since been asked by several friends for advice on this so I want to share what I did and hope it helps!

Chicken breast was the quickest way to get a huge amount in one sitting. I ate that almost every night and just mixed it up with different seasonings.
Eggs. I had eggs for breakfast every single morning and just switched up the way I cooked them.
Nutritional Yeast and Chia seeds are easy to sneak in to many different meals. I added them everywhere I could.
Dave’s Killer Bread is a great brand to get extra protein in different meals. I would eat their bread, bagels and english muffins and they are all good with different flavors.
Kodiak Cakes. Making these can be time consuming so I would just make a batch of them and freeze whatever leftovers for later.
Orgain Protein Powder for shakes, chocolate flavor is my personal favorite!
Chobani Complete Yogurt Drinks
Think Protein Bars. These made it a lot easier to get extra protein while I was snacking and they have a lot of great flavors. Brownie Crunch, Target.
Core Power Protein Shakes by Fairlife Milk. Chocolate Flavor, Walmart.
Lunch meat, cheese, almonds or peanuts as a snack between meals. I know it’s controversial to have lunch meat during pregnancy but I just made sure I was having high quality meat and I never had any issues or concerns.

* This is not health advice, this is just what worked for me personally.

Tiana 4/10/23 Tiana 4/10/23

Preparing for Baby E

We are going for a very minimal setup right now because we are in a one bedroom but here are some of the things we’ve added to our baby registry. I had a hard time finding out what was most important vs completely unnecessary - I hope this helps any moms who are trying to build their registry. Once baby is here I’ll make sure to share what we ended up using.

Nursery Must Haves:

Feeding:

Infant Care:

This section has been updated after our newborn season to include items we wish we had right when we got home and recommend having on hand.

Travel & Transportation:

Nuna Stroller & Carseat Travel System | Car Seat Cover | Beanko Diaper Changing Station | Nuna Wind Cover | Nuna Cup Holder

Tiana 4/3/23 Tiana 4/3/23

Bonn Baby Shower 2023

Our baby shower was on Saturday April 1st, 2023, the rain stopped just before the shower and allowed us a perfect warm afternoon. The theme was “spring duckling” and we chose a bright spring theme with a white and powder blue color scheme. Decor was rustic serving trays, simple florals, citrus fruits and rabbits added here and there.

We wanted the food to have a casual picnic feel to it so we served croissant sandwiches, wraps, veggie cups with ranch, fresh fruit, strawberry vanilla cupcakes, cookies and pastries for dessert. Each guest was given a small basket, honey stick, mini jam jar, tangerine and chocolate chip cookies as a favor to take home.

We are incredibly thankful for our family letting us use their home to have this shower and for helping to set everything up and shower my husband and I as we anticipate the arrival of our sweet boy this summer.