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Last week I put together Belle’s new Sensory Tub. I found some cute Valentine stuff at Target and Hobby Lobby and I couldn’t wait to put this one together. In the Target dollar bins I found cute little plastic hearts in pink, purple, and red. Also red X’s and O’s. The boxes these came in were called table scatter. The bins had little plastic hearts that were kind of like ornaments, I

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Way back in September (I think) I posted how Belle decided she wanted to try this whole potty training thing. It went well for a little bit. She had only a small interest in it and we didn’t push it since a few weeks later we were driving down to Florida. When we came back she had lost all interest in it. Nothing at home and maybe here and there at The Bug. She has been picking it back up

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We made an adorable little penguin the other night. It was pretty simple and I let Belle fully decide where everything should go. Before hand I cut out a rectangle and an inch wide strip from black construction paper. I cut another inch wide strip from orange construction paper, and a white square. I rounded the edges on each share and cut the two strips in half. I had Belle glue

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Since yesterday I did a tour of Belle's bedroom, I thought today I would do a tour of the playroom. Considering most of my posts and pictures are of us in Belle's playroom. Nothing has been moved around since we first put it together but it is filled now. Her playroom we basically did on a budget. It was the only way to talk The Hubs into getting it done before Christmas. We spent a weekend

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While I was writing a post about the playroom I realized I have not posted any updated pictures on Belle's bedroom in a while. It hasn't changed drastically from her nursery, colors are still the same, furniture is still the same but we have finally added decoration and most of the baby stuff has been put away. When we found out we were having a girl I knew her room was going to be pink. It was 

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Our Snow and Ice activities ended last week. While we aren’t leaving the artic just yet we will be moving on to learn about the different animals that live in the cold and snow. We’re starting off by making a fun snow owl puppet. Super easy and a lot of fun to play with afterwards. We started with a brown paper bag that Belle painted white. I gave her a sponge paint brush to use to give

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Belle has a play date tomorrow. We have had some before, but with our neighbors across the street where we kind of made play dates so the adults could talk and catch up. This time she was invited by a friend from school. We keep telling her she’s going to her friend’s house on Saturday and talking to her about it. I think I am more excited than she is. I am really excited to get to know

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On Monday Belle and I painted some snowflake silhouettes. I took some painters tape, cut it and made snowflake shapes on white construction paper. Belle picked out pink and blue. We don’t have very many paint color options currently. We are working on it as we go. I squirted a little of each on the paper and let her go to town. All I told her she had to do was cover the snowflakes. Belle

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I realized I never posted about the rice table. Belle received a water table for Christmas from her grandma. I have been wanting one for her but we just never ended up getting her one last summer. We planned to put it in her playroom for the winter. I spent the week before Christmas dying the rice in anticipation for all the fun we were going to have. The Hubs and I greatly underestimated the

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Well the snow finally came last week. I knew it was coming, it had to come. It was unnatural to not have snow yet. But I still hated every single flake that made its way to the ground and stuck. Sometimes you are just tired of snow and I really could have gone a whole winter without it. Honestly after last year I am still over all that snow! But I will take until mid January with no snow.

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I mentioned yesterday that this week is the last week of Belle’s snow and ice unit at school. Given that we live in New York we should have had a ton of fun activities to do in the snow. Well, we have yet to get any snow. We live in the city that is pretty much only known for snow, which we are not even close to the snowiest city in the country let alone the state. It’s all pretty odd. They keep

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Last Friday we took the day off and took Belle to the National Museum of Play. We love this place. It is huge and there is so much to see and do, and the best part is kids don’t realize they are learning while they play. When I was in school for teaching, I remember one of our professors made the statement that a child’s job is to play. Playing is how children learn and it is incredibly true.

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A fact about me that I have not put out here, I went to school for Childhood Education. Numerous reasons as to why I am not teaching and actually it turned out better for me not to be a teacher. I did student teaching plus worked in a daycare while in college and I miss it a lot but in all honesty I do not have the patience for it. At all. I have a ton of left over teacher resources, craft

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I wanted to do a year in review but as I was going through pictures I just couldn’t decide what I wanted to spot light. Our year started out slow and besides Belle’s birthday and Disney there wasn’t much going on. So instead I picked out pictures from each month of my girl. She started this year still looking like a baby and ended it looking like a little girl. She started the year in the

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I really had all intentions on posting about Christmas. And then The Hubs got the flu two days after Christmas. He still claims he is sick. Is there anything worse than the man flu. Seriously? Any ways, we had a really nice Christmas. Santa spoiled our little girl like crazy. As well did mommy and daddy and both grandma’s.   Belle throwing the reindeer food on our lawn. On Christmas Eve we

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2011 was a tough year. We started off the year with the passing of my father. It was a hard year to get through. All the firsts with out him. While some events and days it felt normal for him to not be there, there were others that made waking up that day and facing it difficult. We did have a lot of pluses this past year, it wasn't all bad. The Hubs got an amazing new job that basically doubled

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For the past 2 months I have been shopping, planning, and get crazy with all the Christmas fun. I started me shopping lists and my shopping in November. I knew what we were getting Belle and slowly getting ideas for the family. We took Belle to Christmas parties and her and I did some fun Christmas crafts (thank you Pinterest for making me even more crazy). My department at work for the

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This past Sunday I packed up my cookie cutters and baking supplies and Belle and I headed to my mom’s house. We spent the entire day baking and decorating cookies. It’s not truly a tradition that my mom and I bake cookies together. Some years we have no time to get together and make our own. Other years I call her up to bake cookies with me or else I will have no motivation to get it done.

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It matters not if a tree is green, plastic or aluminum.  It only matters that it is decorated with smiles.                       J. Allen Harrison Our tree this year! I have so much to post about but Belle and I have both been sick for the last three weeks which has made blogging difficult. Especially this time of year with so much going on. We went a couple weekends ago and picked out

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I just want to show off the cutest kid in the world. Seriously. Love her!

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There is one Christmas Eve from my childhood that I still think about every year. A close friend of our family who worked at a local radio station called to tell my dad he was going to be late for the party we were at. He received a phone call from a woman who was crying because she had nothing for her grandchildren for Christmas. No food, no clothes, no gifts. Our friend had some leftover food

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After a year of talking about it, starting it, and then putting the whole project off, Belle’s playroom is finally finished! Well minus curtains and some wall decorations. I couldn’t be happier with the finished product either. The whole thing came out really good. We had a spare bedroom that quickly turned into a storage room for items we just didn’t know what to do with. A couple weekends

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Last night we had our first trip to the Pediatric Urgent Care. When Belle and I had got home from day care last night we noticed that she wasn’t using her right arm. She wouldn’t move it and cried if we tried to move it. The only fall we could think of was from Monday night. When we were out trick or treating Belle decided she wanted to get out of the stroller. Instead of telling us she chose to

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Happy Halloween! Hope everyone has a wonderful day and don't eat too much candy!!

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On Saturday we went to one of our local pumpkin farms. We basically go every year for the pictures and some of the activities. This year we thought it kind of lost it's appeal. Next year we may try one of the other 5 in this area. It was pretty chilly here on Saturday so we didn't end up staying long. But we did get our yearly photos, and yeah, I did not pose this child at all. She did it all

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I was going to write full posts about our trip to Disney, but I am writing up full posts on each day of the parks on my Disney blog. If you want to full updates you can head over there. Over here, I am going to post osome pictures with possibly a story here and there. There is just too much to tell and I have nearly 500 picutes. I am not posting all the pictures obviously but I can't do the same

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Tuesday was our Epcot day. We had breakfast with the Princess scheduled for 9:30. Epcot had extra Magic Hours in the morning so we decided to get there a little early and have The Hubs run for some fastpasses and meet us at Akershus in Norway. My mom had bought Belle a Princess Belle dress for her breakfast. It was even more perfect that Belle is the greeter at Akershus. We arrived

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We had a fabulous trip. So much fun but it went so so quick. To me the whole trip is a blur. Before we left we were already planning next years trip, and I already can not wait for it. This was our third time going the same exact week. This year it was way busier then it has ever been. Busier to the point that we will give it one more go next year and then think about changing the week we go.

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We arrived in Disney late Sunday morning. We bummed around the resort a bit before we headed off the Downtown Disney for some shopping and dinner. We ended up being on the second floor of the Cabanas. It wasn't a bad room and we had a nice view of the quiet pool right outside our door. After we were unpacked and I decorated the window for Belle's birthday we decided to walk

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Happy Birthday Daddy. I miss you more and more every day. I wish you were still here with us to see your beautiful granddaughter growing more each day. I wish that you could have gone to Disney with us and ride the Haunted Mansion with us. I love you and miss you terribly. There is not a day that goes by that I don't think of you and wonder if you are here with us. Are you watching over us? Do

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We are back. We got home around 6 last night. We are pretty much all unpacked and I have one more load of laundry to do. Of course some cleaning up around the house needs to be done too. I have not been able to go through all of my pictures yet, nor have I done anything without photopass pictures yet. Hopefully tonight I will sit down and start telling all of you about our trip. It was

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Isabelle, My baby girl. Your actually not a baby anymore. You are my little girl. My little lady who turned two years old today. These last two years have been absolutely wonderful, and I cannot imagine my life without you sweet heart. You are so smart and growing leaps and bounds every single day. And you are so, so happy. Unbelievably happy all the time. Every day I catch bits of

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At this moment we are on the road on our way to Disney World. I’ll be gone for a little over a week. I have a post or two scheduled and I may check in with some picture, but I am not promising anything. Our Disney Trip is finally here! Have a great week everyone!

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Four years ago today I woke up at my parent’s house. Four years ago today I watched my new sister cry as they placed the veil on my head. Four years ago today I walked down a beautiful aisle on my father’s arm. Four years ago today I saw my best friend waiting for me at the end of the aisle. Four years ago today I had the best kiss of my life. Four years ago today we were

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Saturday was Belle's 2nd Birthday Party. Where has the time gone that we have celebrated my baby's second birthday? I have been planning Belle's party for months. Month's of ideas, weeks of work, and hour's of putting everything together. And in a blink of an eye it's over. We are completely blessed by all of our family and friends that love Belle and came to celebrate her. She is a very

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This year I made Belle's invites. After a couple different ideas, and printing about 3 different times this is the finished product. I can't believe my baby girl's second birthday party is Saturday already!

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We decided months ago after talking with Belle’s doctor to wait and potty train her after our trip. With driving from NY to Florida it would be too much for her. We didn’t want to put her in a spot where she would need to go right then and be nowhere near a bathroom. We didn’t want to put her in a diaper or pull up for the car ride either since it would just confuse her. Our best option was to

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A couple of weekends ago we took Belle to playground. It may be the last time this year which is sad. I am so hoping we get an Indian Summer this year and we can get there one more time. She loves the playground and is doing so much more then she was at the beginning of summer. This kid can climb the stairs by herself, she is going down the big slides and is swinging on the big kid

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When researching cute ideas for Belle’s birthday I found ribbon topiaries. They are so cute but I wasn’t about to spend $30 plus dollars on just one. I looked around online and found instructions for them that are simple. So I got the bright idea to make a couple for Belle’s party. I made two before I decided to make this tutorial. They are simple but can be time consuming. What you need:

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Belle's first day of Gymnastics was this past Saturday. She did great. Her listening skills at home have been pretty non-existent lately so when she did exactly what her teacher asked it was a breath of fresh air. She sat on her mat and jumped and stretched with all the kids in her class. When Miss. Melissa asked the kids to put their mats away and come back to mom I was so happy that my little

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This past Tuesday was the first day of school for the kids in our city and suburbs. While Belle has been at daycare everyday through the whole summer her daycare runs on a school schedule. Her daycare is also more known for their preschool and pre-k. So even though she is in the toddler room she still has a pretty structured day. Tuesday was the first day of the school year at The Bug. It

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Happy Birthday to the most amazing husband, wonderful father, and the greatest best friend I have ever had. Happy Birthday Patrick. I hope you have a great day.

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It’s sad to know that summer is unofficially over with Labor Day now in our rearview mirrors. This summer went too quickly. Normally by now I am welcoming autumn with open arms. Sweaters and jeans, scarves and hoodies, pumpkins and pretty leaves, and let’s not forget about Apple Cider and Pumpkin Spice Latte’s. Which of course all of these make me smile, but it is with a heavy heart that I say

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I think we are finally getting somewhere with time outs. Belle started out really well with Time Outs. If she wasn’t behaving we would ask her if she needed a time out, she would then answer yes, and put herself in it even though we were not putting her in a time out. She mainly gets time outs for hitting or doing something that will get her hurt and she isn’t listening to us telling her to stop

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I am off today from work. I decided after Belle and my last day off together that I will send her to daycare this morning so I could go grocery shopping and get some stuff done around the house. We both slept in a little today and then the morning went pretty smooth until I walked out the door and realized I didn't have my keys. Yup I locked myself out. Best part, my cell phone was in the house

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This past Sunday we went to our county fair. Now we are really lucky that our county fair is huge and more like a state fair. I am not positive if it is true anymore but we at one point had the largest county fair in the country. And fair food, is the best. So Sunday morning we dragged ourselves out of bed (it was a late night the night before; Family Picnic). And then it happened, thunder and

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Confession, this summer has made me hit a total blogging slump. I have nothing fun to write about, even though we are busy and have been on the go nonstop since the beginning of August. I have no ambition to write, I blame the heat. But, I don’t want to just walk away from my blog. I love it, I love all of you who have stuck around, and I have put way to much work into to just leave it. Like I

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I am so sorry that I have been totally MIA for the last week. This summer is really killing us heat wise. We do not have a/c and that last heat wave we had it was over 90* in our house. Left little energy to sit at the computer and punch out some posts. Plus we are getting into our super busy time. For the next few weekends we have stuff going on almost every day. So yeah, busy. We are officially

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I am that mom that calls daycare every day to see how Belle is doing. We only see her teacher in the mornings so I don’t get a full report of everything when we pick her up. When I call her teacher tells me what they did how she’s doing blah blah blah. Yesterday when I called I wasn’t expecting a report on how my child hasn’t been wanting to play with the other kids for a while now. Her

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This morning at 12:01, marked an end of an era. This morning Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 premiered. No more Harry Potter books, and now no more Harry Potter movies. The Hubs and I will be going to see the last installment tonight and it is such a bitter sweet moment. I cannot wait to see the movie, but in the same breath I am sad that this is it. Who would have thought that 14

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Growing up my parents were members to a local car club. Ok, not just members, the car club was a good portion of my dad’s life. My dad bought his “baby” when I was one and shortly after joined the club. My brother and I grew up in this club. We worked the club’s events in the summer and on Sunday’s we went to car shows. Well into our adult life’s it was still expected of us to work the car show

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My attempt at the fireworks from the 4th of July. My little point and shoot was on the fireworks setting but I do not have a tripod and did not have a stable place to but the camera as you can tell in most of them.

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I hope everyone is enjoying their 4th of July. We are having a blast enjoying the sun, our backyard and our local carnival. Have a fun and safe holiday!!

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Last Saturday my work had their annual family picnic at a local amusement park called Fantasy Island. We are lucky in this area that we have two amusement parks, one that use to be owned by Six Flags that is pretty good and then this one that is tiny and for the most part good for younger kids. The kiddie area is huge. Since this year the picnic was at Fantasy Island we decided to go. Ok for

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On Sunday we left Hershey and headed to Lancaster PA. We called ahead to ask if we can check in at 2 instead of 3 since the wedding was at 3:30. Thankfully the reception was being held in the hotel and basically everyone checking in for the wedding was allowed to. The hotel is called Cork Factory Hotel. It's only been open for about two years and is in an old cork factory. Hence the name. It is

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On the 18th we left Belle with my mom and headed on a six hour road trip for a friend of ours wedding. The wedding was on Sunday and since it was only about a half hour away from Hershey we decided to stay there Saturday and continue on our way Sunday. We stayed in a really nice hotel that if we traveled more with Belle this would be my first choice. All the rooms have a full kitchen and allow

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Last week we had a really sever thunder storm. It was reported that we had over a thousand lightning strikes. Including one hitting a house a couple streets over from us. I am sure there were more then just that one in our neighboorhood since the thunder was crazy. The Hubs was awake for all of it and I was in and out. The thunder would wake me up but then I would doze off inbetween until

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So I have been MIA for the past week. I didn't mean to be but one thing led to another and so on. We were in Hershey PA two weekends ago. We didn't get home until almost five o'clock on Monday. We went to The Bug to get Belle as soon as we got back in town. The first thing we noticed, besides her lack of excitement that we were home, was a yellow goop in her eyes. We decided to wait it out

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There is so much going on right now. We leave at 9:00 tomorrow morning for the wedding in PA. I have laundry to do still, and since I haven't touched the laundry I have yet to pack anything for the three of us. I have shopping to do to get last minute items for us and that Belle will need. We have been so busy that I haven't even had time to stress over the fact that I will be away from Belle for

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This weekend will be my first weekend away from Belle. In Belle's short 20 months she has only spent one night away from us. But we were at home so if she really needed us we could be there in a matter of 15 minutes. This time we will be six hours away. Six hours and in a completely different state. I have been pretty good with all of this. It was something we had to do if we wanted to go this

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The Hubs and I are in some major trouble when Belle hits her teenage years. I truly believe that she was born with the ability to roll her eyes immediately, because people my 20 month old is a pro at it.Last week Belle and I were outside, her in her pool, me in a chair watching her. She started taking a cup, filling it with water and dumping it out of the pool. I was fine with it until I realized

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I dropped Belle off at daycare yesterday like normal. Nothing was different, but when I got back in the car I wanted to cry. Belle has been in the toddler room since March. She's doing great but for the first few months morning drop offs were rough. She didn't want The Hubs or me to leave. She would cling to us and sometimes cry when we left. It was heartbreaking to me since she never did this in

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Truth, I didn't know what to write about for today. I started a post discussing what has been going on in my head that last couple of months. But to be honest, this heat and no AC kept me from wanting to finish it. So instead I am posting pictures of Belle swimming in her pool. Cause in reality that is all we have been doing the last few days. We love our pool! Cutest pony tail ever! Her

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This past weekend was our local Greek Festival. Being that I am Greek we had to go. We haven't been the last 2 years so this year was a must. Honestly there isn't too much to do there other than eat. They have a ton of food and all of it is amazing. I didn't get many pictures. It was raining that morning so not many people ventured out to the festival that afternoon. Plus when we left it had

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Isabelle,Today you are 20 months old. In just 4 short months you will be a two year old. Two years old already kid. Slow down for mommy. You are getting so big and learning so much. When we came home from camping earlier this week you had a whole new list of words added to your vocabulary. Your favorite word is still yeah right now.You moved up to the toddler room a couple of months ago and you

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With the hot weather here the last few days we pulled out Belle's pool. She loved it last year and she loved swimming classes so I never figured that she would cry when we first put her in. But she did. After a minute or two she finally looked around and started splashing a little in the pool. She was laughing and playing with the sprinkle part of her pool. It took a while before she would

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The Hubs had the computer last night (fixing my photoshop) and this morning our internet wasn't working so I was not able to upload my pictures for Wordless Wednesday. And I had some cute ones to post. So instead I am going to write about how it is June 1st. And that means that summer is seriously right around the corner.With Memorial Day behind us we now start our nonstop go go go weekends of

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This past weekend was officially the kick-off of summer for our family. We welcomed summer the same way we have for as long as I can remember. We went camping.We spent the weekend relaxing and having fun...in mud. Yup, like most of the country it has been raining nonstop here. So the campground was nothing but mud. As the weekend went on most of it began to dry out. Well, until the huge

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...It must be that start of summer!!!As of tomorrow afternoon we will be with my family in the great outdoors. For as long as I can remember we have been going camping every Memorial Day. Naturally when The Hubs and I met he began to go camping with as well. And now that we have Belle she will learn the fun and gain the memories every Memorial Day weekend as well.I have some of the best memories

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Liz over at A Belle, a Bean & a Chicago Dog is hosting a blog hop this weekend where we are all posting our "Senior Hotness". It was fun going through my photo album from Senior year. It brought back so many memories and events that I had completely forgotten about. It was had to choose some pictures to best depict me from Senior year. It's only been 9 years since I graduated but it seems like

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Apparently this is Thumbs Up.

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One of the things we love about The Bug is that as long as it is a certain temp and not raining they will play outside every day. With all of this niceish (niceish being that it's warm but raining or sunny and chilly) Belle has been going out close to every day for the last few weeks.Last week it was a very nice day and I dressed Belle in one of her new outfits. It was a cute little skirt with

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This past weekend was wonderful. We played outside, grilled hot dogs, went to a couple garage sales, and ended the weekend by going to the zoo.Our Village was having its annual village wide garage sale this past weekend. As we were driving by one I spotted all baby and kid items. I of course made The Hubs stop and we ended up getting Belle a $40 ball pit for $10. The kid is obsessed with balls so

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A friend of mine is due with her second little bundle next month. She recently just purchased her double stroller which of course I had to go check out. Which I then fell in love with this beauty. The Baby Jogger City Select. Now don't get me wrong, I have no complaints about the stroller we currently have. Our Gracco travel system is great. It folds with one movement, it’s not heavy (meaning I

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Belle is finally feeling better. On Monday, after I posted about Belle feeling better I received a call from The Bug. Belle had thrown up her lunch. I left work immediately to get her. We got home and I laid her down for nap. She then slept for four hours. I called the pedi knowing they wouldn’t have us come in. I talked with one of the nurses and we basically had to take Belle off of all food

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This past weekend I did not win Mother of the Year. At all. Friday was our big shopping trip that my mom and I have been planning for about 2 months now. Everything was set directions printed, coupons printed, diaper bag packed. And then Belle spent the car ride down throwing up. And here comes my big mommy fail. We kept going. I didn't turn around and take my sick girl home. She slept pretty

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I thought I would post the craft that Belle and I did together for Grandma's Mother's Day gift. It came out really cute, and honestly wasn't all that time consuming. Supplies:Different colored tissue paper (I used 3 colors)GluePipe CleanersPom PomsDie Cut Flowers (I did something different)Plastic Bottle (I used a Tropicana orange juice bottle) In advance I had ripped the tissue paper into

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Mother's Day was wonderful. We finally had beautiful weather here. Spring and summer are trying their best, but winter just won't let go this year. We spent the afternoon outside enjoying the weather and snacking on good food. The kids played in the driveway soaking in the sun and breathing in the fresh air. It was a peaceful enjoyable day. I couldn't have asked for more.   Belle made me a

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Happy Mother's Day to all of my friends and family. Have a wonderful weekend and enjoy! Photo Credit Before I was Mom I cleaned my house each day. I never tripped over toys or forgot words to lullabies. Before I was a Mom I didn't worry whether or not my plants were poisonous. I never thought about immunizations. Before I was a Mom I had never been puked on, pooped on,spit on, peed on, or

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Belle decided to pretend to fill up her car with gas by using her straw sippy cup. Where do kids come up with this stuff? I can not wait for summer!

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This past Sunday was our local March for Babies. I am so so happy to say that our team raised over $1,000. Our initial goal was $500. For our first year I am so proud at what our little team did. It was a wonderful day, perfect temps and the rain held off until the very end. My 6 year old nephew decided to walk with us last minute and he was such a tropper. He made it all 2.8 miles with out

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In just 3 days we will be walking in support of all babies across the country, and those that are not born yet. I am proud to say that I have met my goal and then some. I am also very proud to say that not only have I exceeded my goal but my team has exceeded it's goal and we are still fundraising. There is still time to make a donation. No amount is to small. Every dollar you raise helps

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Our Easter Sunday was filled with family. We had a wonderful day visiting both sides and never felt rushed. Belle woke us up at 8 by throwing everything out of her crib. She found her Easter basket "hidden" on the coffee table. So the Easter Bunny wasn't very creative this year. So what. Belle loved her egg shaped side walk chalk and the new crayons and coloring books. She found a new pair of

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I hope everyone had a fabulous Holiday weekend. Our weekend was full of Easter events. A couple Egg Hunts, a big breakfast, and an old fashion ham dinner, plus lots of Easter baskets.On Saturday we packed up and were on the road to The Hubs father's house at 7:30 in the morning. The Hubs father lives two hours away from us and we left a half hour later then we wanted to. Belle's nana and papa

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Happy Easter!! Have a wonderful holiday weekend!!

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This past Saturday we attended a children's Easter Party. It was similar to the Christmas party we attended in December but The Hubs and I both felt that this one was much better. The kids had more to do and the entertainment was better as well.My mom was in charge of the craft for the kids to put together. She had decided on having the kids make bunny ears. They turned out really cute. She cut

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Just a quick update. I wanted to post about the Easter Party we went to on Saturday and put up some pictures but Belle came down with a fever last night. When she was tucked into bed finally and I was able to sit down at the computer I just didn't have the energy or brain power to write out a post. I will try my best to get it up for tomorrow. Cause seriously my kid had the cutest bunny ears and

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This week's topic for Toddler Talk Thursday is what is in your child's Easter Basket. Belle is still too young for a basket full of chocolate and candy. So we have to get creative. So far I have only picked up a few things, sidewalk chalk in the shape of eggs, a new board book, and Minnie Mouse sunglasses I got from the Disney Store when they had free shipping. The Hubs and I have come up with

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Belle turned 18 months on the third of April but last week Thursday Belle had her 18 month doctor's appointment. And wouldn't you know she hasn't gained any weight since her sick visit in February. But she has made it up to 60th percentile on height. And her head circumfrence is still in the third percentile. No shots at this visit so she did really really well. We don't go back until after her

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The spring weather has finally come our way. So this past weekend we soaked in the sunshine and the 70 degree weather as much as we could. We played with Belle's car, went for walks, played in a Snow White play house and went to the play ground. And we had the best time having daddy home with us all weekend. The Hubs recently got a new job at a different bank doing the same thing and getting

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