Ellen Slater https://www.ellencslater.com/ 20-something musings on life, food, and money Mon, 23 Sep 2024 01:36:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://i0.wp.com/www.ellencslater.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/cropped-Copy-of-Ellen-Slater-Logo-3-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Ellen Slater https://www.ellencslater.com/ 32 32 74905162 9 & 10 & 11 Months with Z https://www.ellencslater.com/9-10-11-months-with-z/ Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://www.ellencslater.com/?p=80042 We’re doing one more Z update before he turns 1, and oh my gosh, he’s going to be a whole year old so soon! Z is so smiley and social and curious, but he has a healthy dose of, “Excuse me, you aren’t my mommy,” in there. In the last few months, he’s grown increasingly […]

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]]> 80042 2.5 Years with C https://www.ellencslater.com/2-5-years-with-c/ https://www.ellencslater.com/2-5-years-with-c/#comments Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://www.ellencslater.com/?p=79972 We have a full-blown 2.5 year old. Really, we have for a couple months, but if I told you my disciplining-myself-to-organize-kid-pictures story, I’d bore you to tears. So just assume that now my pictures are organized and I finally dropped them into this post about my little toddler best friend. She’s so freaking cool and […]

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]]> https://www.ellencslater.com/2-5-years-with-c/feed/ 1 79972 Day in the Life: 9-month old & 2.5 year old https://www.ellencslater.com/day-in-the-life-9-month-old-2-5-year-old/ Mon, 05 Aug 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://www.ellencslater.com/?p=79976 I have a proper 9-10 month post for Z and a 2.5-year post for C coming, but I also managed to capture a full day in the life with them a couple weeks ago, and I never actually remember to finish out the day when I start. So. Here it is. I’ll note that this […]

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]]> 79976 6 & 7 & 8 Months with Z https://www.ellencslater.com/6-7-8-months-with-z/ Mon, 03 Jun 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://www.ellencslater.com/?p=79927 Poor Z is getting the second-child treatment big time with these posts. But he’s still getting them, because I want them. So, here we are with a big three-month update. Z is the most social, smiley little (big!) baby. His blue, blue eyes light up when you look at him, he loves to be interacted […]

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]]> 79927 4 & 5 Months with Z https://www.ellencslater.com/4-5-months-with-z/ Mon, 25 Mar 2024 11:08:50 +0000 https://www.ellencslater.com/?p=79913 We’ve had Z with us for almost 6 months at this point, and the fact that I’m just telling you about the last two months should tell you that things are kind of chaotic around here. Great, but chaotic. A few highlights: We bought a minivan! We love it, and it’s much more suited to […]

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]]> 79913 Day in the Life with a 2-Year Old and 4-Month Old https://www.ellencslater.com/day-in-the-life-with-a-2-year-old-and-4-month-old/ Fri, 01 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.ellencslater.com/?p=79895 So, while I am behind on C’s 2-year post (by almost 2 months, yikes, but fortunately she’ll be 2 for a while) and Z’s 4-month post (it’ll be combined with 5 months because we’re already almost there), earlier this month, I managed to take notes on a full day of what we did. And then […]

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]]> 79895 3 Months with Z https://www.ellencslater.com/3-months-with-z/ Mon, 15 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.ellencslater.com/?p=79878 My happy little boy is getting so big! Z at 3 Months Z is so sweet and fun. He loves to be held, sit and stand (with assistance), and coo, babble, and giggle. His hands are busy, and he is a smiley little thing. He is very alert, and loves to look around. He likes […]

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]]> 79878 2 Months with Z https://www.ellencslater.com/2-months-with-z/ Fri, 08 Dec 2023 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.ellencslater.com/?p=79866 Month 2 with 2 kids: ✔️ It’s chaotic, but it’s good! Z at 2 Months Z has a pretty solid rhythm to his days, even if the exact times aren’t consistent. He naps well and mostly pretty easily, and when he wakes up, he’s more than ready to eat and stretch and smile at you. […]

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]]> 79866 1 Month with Z https://www.ellencslater.com/1-month-with-z/ Fri, 17 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.ellencslater.com/?p=79857 We’ve had 2 kids for over a month. It has totally flown by. I’ve always been pretty proud of how go-with-the-flow we’ve been as parents. As much as I love a schedule, C taught me that kids don’t really care about your perfect timetable, and I followed her lead as much as possible. Having a […]

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]]> 79857 21 & 22 Months with C https://www.ellencslater.com/21-22-months-with-c/ Wed, 08 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.ellencslater.com/?p=79788 I was going to just post a late 21-month recap, but truthfully so much changed in the last month-plus, that they started running together. Like, she has a baby brother now and while I had a lot of her 21-month post ready-ish before he was born, I wanted to include some stuff about the very […]

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