Ailee Petrovic

Personal October 5, 2019

Georgie at 8 Months

The past month has been a big one for our Georgie Girl. She had her first tooth come in (the other is right under the surface!) on the bottom, which has been bothering her for the past week. She took two road trips this past month – one to Austin and another to San Antonio. She is solidly sitting up, crawling around at a rapid pace, and as of today, starting trying to pull herself up on the couch. Slow down, slow down!

Georgie is finally enjoying her non-nursing meals! She loves steamed sweet potatoes, black beans, broccoli, strawberries, salmon and warm apples. She is a total mess after dinner, which is when she gets to let loose with food the most. The girls love helping with bath time afterwards (I think they see it as a way to postpone their own bedtimes!).

Georgie said “Mama” three times so far – with witnesses each time, or else Sasha would claim it wasn’t so! Ha. It definitely isn’t a consistent thing – nor was it necessarily directed at me, BUT you’d better believe I am claiming it as her first word!

Mom Talk September 13, 2019

Birthday Gift Ideas using Walmart’s NextDay Delivery

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Walmart. The opinions and text are all mine. Thank you for supporting the brands my family loves!

With school back in full swing, the birthday parties have already picked up. We’ve got three on our calendar for Isla this month and one for Emilia, and I’m notoriously thinking about a gift just days before the party. Fortunately, Walmart’s new NextDay Delivery service has hundreds of amazing gifts for young kids and you can order them and have them at your door the very next day – no membership required! It’s so easy to toggle to ‘NextDay Delivery eligible’ on the site on your computer or mobile device to see which items are part of the new service. I did a round up of some of our favorite baby and kid toys for one to five year olds – the girls have been given or played with all of these at friends’ houses.

Personal September 5, 2019

Georgie at 7 Months

My last ‘Georgie monthly update’ was at three months, and a lot has happened since May 5! Thankfully, I’ve taken notes each month of milestones as she’s hit them (i.e. inconsistent sleep, eating but not ingesting, sitting but also toppling over – ha!). My Granny Jill wrote me a letter a few weeks ago reminding me the importance of tracking the events of each child, so I was motivated to share what she’s been up to for the past four months.

Four Months: Georgie’s big ‘firsts’ included traveling on an airplane, rolling front-to-back + back-to-front (considered putting ankle weights on to prevent this – ha!), sleeping 12 consecutive hours (but not consistently!), three outfit changes in one day (blowout queen!) + going for a ‘swim’ in a pool. Her smiles were out in full force this month, and she started laughing very frequently!

Mom Talk August 13, 2019

Baby Must Haves with Walmart’s NextDay Delivery

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Walmart. The opinions and text are all mine. Thank you for supporting the brands my family loves!

The last six months of our lives would best be described as baby season. We’ve had handfuls of our closest friends give births, and we’ve been invited to a lot of baby showers and sprinkles. I always love these get togethers – more than any other kind – because although I don’t adore being pregnant myself, I love pregnant people! Ha. The best double standard. And I love watching expecting moms open gifts – sometimes puzzled at what this gadget does or what that bottle would be used for. I have my ‘go to’ baby registry guide and enjoy helping first-time mom friends navigate through the long list of baby items. However, my preparedness for the showers has gotten a little iffy recently following Georgie’s arrival, and the thought of traipsing all three girls to a store to get a gift sounds rather unpleasant. Enter Walmart’s new NextDay Delivery offering – order online, receive the very next-day, shipped in just one box. There are over 100,000 necessities and nice-to-have items that are eligible for this new service, and almost all of my favorite baby gifts are on that list. I did a roundup of some of the most frequently purchased bottles, pacifiers, bath items that you can order online at Walmart.com and have delivered the next day. The two very best part of NextDay Delivery is that it’s not only fast, but it’s FREE – there is no paid membership required – and so easy to use, even on your phone. You just enter ‘NextDay Delivery’ mode on the Walmart site, and from there, you can search all of the eligible products.

Week in Review July 5, 2019

Our 2019 Summer Durango Trip

For the last six weeks, we escaped reality of sorts and spent time in our favorite home-away-from-home: Durango, Colorado. My parents bought a house there in 2012 – we visited twice in 2013, then spent six weeks there in 2014 when Isla was a newborn. Since then, we’ve tried to spend at least three to four weeks there every year. This past trip, with all three girls in tow, was especially fun, as Isla and Emi are now at fun ages to explore and play together in the most kid-friendly city.

Some highlights from our time in Colorado include:

Watching Sasha, Isla and my dad race in the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic – all on varying courses, naturally. Isla was such a champ – we were so proud of her!
Spending days playing cards, feeding fish, going on walks and hikes, riding bikes, going to the park, getting ice cream, drinking lemonade on the front porch, swimming at the rec center, playing tennis, getting chai tea lattes and vegan/GF baked goods at Smiley Cafe, celebrating Sasha and Isla’s birthdays and Father’s Day, and doing scavenger hunts with the girls.
Hosting our best friends, the Thompsons, for a few days – it was so much fun having the kids all play together! We did not want them to leave!
Spending quality time with my parents for the first two weeks of the trip and lots of good Petrovic family time.
Potty training Emilia… or rather, having her potty trained. The three days of doing it weren’t my favorite!
Riding the D&SNG train through Cascade Canyon – we had the best time! It was such a memorable part of the vacation.

We cannot wait to go again – hopefully we’ll be back in the fall. I am so grateful that Sasha was able to use his paternity leave this summer. Six weeks with my favorite people on earth – it was truly the best. Here are a few (ha) of my favorite photos from our time in Durango!