Exciting Blogging News and First "Mommy Monday"

So my exciting blog news is that my blog will be taking a new format and I will be blogging a bit more often! When this blog was first started almost 1 year ago, I was doing weekly pregnancy updates. However, since my little man has now arrived and I still want to continue this blog, I decided it needed a new format. I have decided that I will now have "Mommy Mondays" and "Fitness Fridays". That means at least twice as many blog posts and I will also be throwing in some other fun blog posts such as YouTube TAGS, and special request topics. My "Mommy Monday" posts will discuss anything mommy or child related and "Fitness Fridays" will be fitness and health related posts. If you have any questions or any topics that you would like me to discuss, please let me know.

So for my first "Mommy Monday" today I am going discuss how fast babies outgrow toys and clothes. Over this past weekend I packed away most of Cooper's newborn-3 month clothing. I was fortunate enough to have lots of clothes given to us from friends with older babies and from gifts so I already had bins in Cooper's closet of the next size of clothing. I went out to Walmart and bought a couple more storage bins, washed clothes, and packed stuff away. I must admit I was a bit emotional packing away some of my favorite clothing. I am planning to keep the sleeper that he wore home from the hospital (along with some other memorable items) and display these items in a shadow box. A friend gave me another great idea. She told me to keep a couple of my other favorite onsies and dress them on teddy bears. I am definitely going to do this. I think it is such a cute idea! I will post a picture of the shadow box and the dressed up teddy bears when they are done. I really can't believe how much he has grown in the last 3 months. His newborn clothes already look so small and he is only 11 weeks. 

Along with packing away his small clothing, I am also going through some other baby items to sell. I am definitely planning on having another baby at some point so I want to save some stuff but there are things that I just didn't use so I want to sell that stuff. On my list of stuff to sell is his bouncy chair, my ring sling (I preferred other wraps/carriers), and a steam sterilizer. Hopefully I get around to putting up ads this week. I also plan to sell my nursing pillow (right now he uses it for tummy time and sitting) and my bassinets in the near future. Hopefully I can make enough money from selling these things to buy the Tula carrier I want. Not that it is absolutely essential that I sell stuff in order to afford the new carrier but I like de-cluttering my house so it provides me with the incentive to actually sell the stuff. I really don't want my house to look like a tornado hit it. I absolutely hate having my house full of clutter. 

As I mentioned in a previous post, a lot of my family was sick on Christmas eve so we celebrated Christmas with my mom this past Saturday. Cooper was very lucky and got some nice toys and books. Santa got him Fisher Price jungle gym and also an activity table that he can use when he is a bit bigger. We have the jungle gym set up in his room and he really seems to like it. I have the activity table stored away until he is a bit older because it says 6-36 months on the box. My sister mentioned that it is a good idea to rotate toys which is what I think I am going to do.

Do any of you have tricks to avoid too much clutter of toys? Do you have a particular system such as rotating toys for a specific time period? If so, let me know.

Here is a picture of his jungle gym he got from Santa. It has a mirror in the middle right now but it even has a place for an Ipod or Iphone in the middle for when they get bigger. However, I definitely don't plan to use it. I personally think if a child is the right age for this toy, they are way to young for Iphones and Ipads but that is a whole other rant. Anyway, at his age he really likes the mirror so I really don't need to worry about an Iphone slot.