My new obsession is ribbon shopping. Finding all colors, patterns, and kinds of ribbons that I can make hair bows out of. I am sure my husband isn’t too happy about it, and I am sure our daughter won’t be the biggest fan, but I am sure she will grow into it. LOL
Breakfast…
Since I have been cutting back on fresh fruits, and banana’s of course while trying to prevent a gestational diabetes diagnosis with this pregnancy, I find myself craving fruit constantly. Although I must say, I shared this with BOTH boys for breakfast… so I didn’t eat too much of it!
My husband and I don’t really do valentines day or many commercial holidays…
But for Valentines day… the boys got a little mini cake, and balloons from their “LaLa” my husband’s aunt.
They are still working on the cake… but love the balloons… The dogs don’t like them as much though…
I made some hair bows for the baby today.
I love to sit down and work on some crafts, and today Camden decided to be my assistant for the project while Daddy and Ben took a nap.
I still have more to do, and more ribbon choices to hunt down at the craft stores, but how cute are these choices?
I cannot get over how cute some of the baby clothes out there are… Another trip to the clearance rack got me a great score for the baby. Although we still have a long way to go clothes.
She is already a little princess
When you are trying to reason with a toddler, there are a couple main ingredients you need…
Smarties… Raisins, and a crushed up peppermint.
By any means necessary!
I met Kristine, Cora’s mother on twitter in the wake of the most tragic event of her life. She had lost her daughter, only a few days old to a undetected congenital heart defect.
Over the next year, we talked, became friends, and finally met during the 2010 BlogHer conference where all I could do was give her a giant hug. We still talk weekly, and when we found out we were having a little girl, Kristine offered some of Cora’s belongings to pass along. I was touched.
Monday I got a package from Kristine, with this in it.
Our little girl will not only keep the memory of Cora alive, but help save more lives.
Remember, February is Congenital Heart Defect awareness month.
I met Marie on the BlogHer conference message board when she was looking to share a hotel room a couple ways for the conference last year, and we hit it off great, and became amazing friends. Marie is my parents age, and has MS. She drives this kick ass little scooter which I pinned myself up against my bed in the hotel room also. She is an amazingly crafty woman, and she made our little girl this little quilt. I am in love with it.
Yesterday I got a surprise package in the mail thinking it was my sunglasses and cork screw I accidentally left behind in our hotel room back in August, and while those important items were in there, this beautiful quilt was also.
She is the best!
This boy loves fire trucks.
He lines them up all along the couch, floor, coffee table… basically all over the living room.
At night, he parks them all in his “garage” also known as under his bed. Cutest thing EVER!
Today, he had no idea I was even taking a picture of him. As his little brother took a nap, I snapped a couple pictures, and played around with some of my editing software… How cute?
Today, I took my oldest son Camden and went to visit my parents for a couple hours. I was originally going to take both kids with me while my husband got a couple things done around the house, but the little one fell asleep for a nap before I could get him dressed and out the door, so he stayed behind and napped.
Camden enjoyed the one-on-one time with Ole and Momo (Grandma, and Grandpa) and had a blast.
My mother, even sugared him up with some Smarties as a treat.
This is what is going on in the picture. It was actually hysterical. Camden would take the candy and pop it into his mouth, and chew away, then this look of… OMG! SOUR! would come over his face like clockwork.
Although he can eat lemon’s with no problem?
I love my “work”
Today when the kids were occupied with my husband, I ran off and locked myself in the nursery to take some pictures of products I am reviewing in the next couple months. I looked at it as an opportunity to get some work done because I am seriously behind on some things, and I lost even more time this week because of the kidney stone saga.
In the words of Ricki Bobby… I made that kidney stone my bitch.
After battling with this thing for well over a week, and thinking it would literally never pass like my last one, I passed my stone today. I was beyond excited, but I also wanted to take a picture of it to show people that yes, kidney stones really do look NOT like rocks, and they are not smooth by any means. If you could look closer, you would see this SOB has some kind of shark tooth looking hook on it.
Fun times!