Ok, so this is really late, but I have kind of fallen off the blog wagon.  It's hard to keep up when the last thing I want to do during naptime is upload pictures.  For this same reason, I have about 10 months worth of pictures that need to be printed or uploaded from my camera.  I'm so behind.  I need to dedicate an afternoon to taking care of this!  I'm going to put it on the to-do list!  Anyways, Here are some of Porter's pics from his first birthday.

I'm on 6 weeks of no poo and still loving it. My hair feels so thick and cleaner than it ever felt with shampoo. In fact, I got my hair cut on Saturday at an Aveda salon and my stylist used all Aveda products. My hair was limp and thin even right after I left the salon. By evening it was already getting oily. I couldn't believe it. When I no poo my hair isn't oily until the 3rd day. I don't think I'll ever go back to regular shampoo, but I'm not sure ill stick with baking soda and vinegar long term. I've read where it can be really damaging to the hair over time. Obviously, I don't want that- so I'm currently looking into other options. Overall, I'm really happy with y hair right now! The dandruff is gone and it feels better than it has in a long time!

So I am in my third week of no shampoo and here are the results. The first picture is the second week just after washing with baking soda and ACV. No product, just blow drying and using a flat iron. The second picture is the day after wash day AFTER working out!! I went on a run tonight and let my hair air dry afterwards (it was completely soaked with sweat- yuck) and then touched it up with a flat iron. Surprisingly it was barely oily. Before I started this experiment, my hair would be super greasy by the 2nd day of not washing my hair. So this is definitely improvement! My current formula is 1/2 cup of water with 1 T of baking soda, followed by 1 cup of Water and 1T ACV. I found my hair was still a little oily with the recipe I was using before, so I use less water with the baking soda now and that seemed to really help. I also used to do 2 T of ACV and I cut back to just 1T. Now y hair is pretty much perfect on wash days! Loving the results so far! My dandruff is gone and hasn't come back. Yay!!

Today I did my first baking soda wash/ACV rinse and I am in complete awe of my hair. No product, no flat iron-- just MY hair! Wow!

I have some photos from 9 and 10 months but my fancy little photo shoots just ain't happening anymore! He is too active and won't sit still long enough to set everything up! Oh well? I tried, right! I'll try to come back and post some stuff from 9 and 10 months but I will say that it probably won't happen. It's hard to find time for blogging these days. When I do have a spare moment I want to spend it staring at the wall, completely vegging out-- thinking of absolutely nothing. Ha. Anyhoo, porter is almost walking these days. We are just waiting for the magic moment that he decides to muster up the courage to do it! He has taken a few steps here and there the past few weeks but nothing consistent. Here are a few pics of my big boy (speaking of big, at his last checkup he was 18.14lbs and 29 in long):

I'm not sure about you, but I hate washing and styling my hair. And I hate that after I work so hard to make it look perfect, that it gets greasy not even 12 hours later. It's really annoying and kind of makes me never want to fix my hair! So I was talking to my good friend Darla, and she was telling me that she had stopped using shampoo altogether! Whhhhaaa?? Come again?? Yeah, I thought that was the craziest thing I have ever heard, until I started researching it. Then I realized that this is how our grandmothers did it back in the day, and somehow they always managed to have gorgeous shiney hair in all of those old photos we see. Anyways, after a little more research my curiosity got the best of me and I decided to take the "no poo" plunge! Basically, you wash with baking soda, and that's it! I'm going to try to only wash twice a week and see how that goes. I'm going to document my journey here so we can see if this is totally crazy, or totally wonderful! Here are my photos so far. I haven't washed my hair at all in 3 days, and I have worked out extremely intensely 3 times since then. I just rinse out my hair in the shower and let it at dry so far. It looks pretty disgusting if I may say so myself.

Wow, I am really behind on my blogging.  I can't believe it is already March.  Christmas feels like yesterday.  Porter is almost 8.5 months now, but here are some photos from his 7 month birthday.  The little calendar I have for him was missing a "7" for some reason so I put January 19th as the date (instead of "07") so I would know that these were his 7 month pictures.   Right around this time he started sitting up really good without assistance, which changed our lives!  He and Greenlee really started playing well together at that point because he could sit up and play with toys.  She is really good about entertaining him.  In January we also hit another big milestone with G-- potty training.  We completely day trained her in less than a week, which has been AMAZING.  I still haven't figured out how to train her for naps and nights, so I'm kind of waiting until she starts waking up dry to take away diapers completely.  But for daytime, it's all panties all the time.  We are saving so much money on diapers now! Other new things for Porter:

-- said "dada" at 6 months, now he is working on other sounds: "va va", "ba ba", etc.  But, still no "mama"

-- size 3 diaper, 9 month clothes

-- starting chewing his food, so I make his baby food nice and chunky now and have started giving him more finger foods with meals.  He still doesn't get the whole self feeding thing (he can pick up food, just doesn't put it in his mouth), but he loves to eat off a fork or for me to pop bits and pieces of stuff in his mouth

-- - waking up happy from naps!  this has been huge!

-- right at 8 months he started crawling, and a week later he started pulling up.  He is catching on to the whole "moving" thing really quick, and now we realize it's time to lower his crib!  I'm excited for his new found freedom, as it is refreshing not to hear him whine all the time out of frustration from not being able to go anywhere!  At the same time, it is definitely a little more work for me to keep up with him.  We found him elbow deep in Greenlee's potty the other day (before i had the chance to empty it out).  He is pretty fascinated by that potty, so we must constantly keep an eye on that little booger.  He is also fascinated by cords, so I have already had to start the discipline process.  Boo hoo!

Here he is at 8 months: