Polkadot Patch

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I found a website with the cutest baby gifts! I love finding gifts that someone isn’t going to get a duplicate of. Normally I buy a shower gift off the registry, but I like giving something more personal when I meet the baby for the first time, or for a birthday party, or baptism. Some of the things on this site are a little pricey but others are really reasonable. Like isn’t this the cutest little guy?

My cute little Bug

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I haven’t posted any pictures of B in a few days and I thought it was time for some more cuteness The aqua dress is from Grammy and Grampa.  She was modeling before church on Sunday.

The pictures in the blue striped dress were taken on Memorial Day. She was opening a belated birthday gift from a friend of my mom’s. She was fascinated by the bag and tissue paper, but then when she found out it was a dress inside the bag, she lost interest. Unless it’s a toy or shoes, forget it. That girl knows what she wants!

If you click on the individual pictures it will enlarge them. I was just being lazy uploading

I need a graduation present

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We just got an invitation to our neighbor kid’s graduation party. I have absolutely no idea what to bring except money. I really don’t want to spend more than $20 and I am worried that a $20 check looks shabby. It’s a guy, and he is going to a state college for engineering in the fall. He likes outdoors stuff (camping, working in the yard, etc) and I think he’s a little bit dorky. Oh and he’s a wrestler. Is there somewhere cool that I could get him a gift card for? Or a gift that wouldn’t be cheesy? I have no idea what to buy guys, honestly, except for my husband. Please give me some suggestions.

Also I should probably say that my husband and this kid’s dad talk a lot and they came to Bailey’s birthday party and stuff. So they aren’t just random neighbors, we actually know them fairly well.

Bailey’s Birthday Party

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I guess it is time that I post pictures from Bailey’s party. I really feel okay about it. We had a good turnout with lots of friends there. The food was decent (just stuff I put together like a fruit bowl, veggie tray, watergate salad, chips and dip, etc). Her cake turned out cute even though she wouldn’t eat it. There weren’t any disasters, just a clingy, teething baby.

Bailey with my mom and our neighbor Jeannette

Friends Amy and Kaitlynn

Opening presents

See the little flower thing she has in her hand? She’s obsessed with it and takes it everywhere with her. That and the wand for the bubbles that Kelli gave her.

Bailey loves balloons. She has started trying to say “balloon.” She points to them and says “Buv!”

Sharing her toys with AJ, my friend Jen’s little boy

With my college roommate, Sarah

Birthday cake

We stripped her down to her diaper just in case she decided to eat her cake…

But she didn’t! She wanted nothing to do with it and cried until I got her out of her high chair.

Here she’s signing that she wants out

She’s glad all that nonsense is over so she can sit by herself and play her xylophone!

Happy birthday, sweetheart. We’ll try the cake again someday. If you’re anything like your mama, you will love cake with buttercream icing!

Bailey’s Birthday Celebration with Avie and Juna

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Today we went to Mae’s house for a playdate. Bailey had a good time playing with Avalon and Juna… and she was just fascinated by Miss Boo. I think it was mutual, actually.

I delivered Mae’s Avon order and she gave Bailey her birthday present since they couldn’t make it to the party. Remember the really cute pink shoes with bells on them? She got them for Bailey in a bigger size! I love them so much and I had planned on cramming her squished toes into them until she turned thirteen, so she is very thankful to have some bigger ones.

Here is a shot where I actually managed to get all three of the babies. That’s Avalon on the left, crying Juna is in the middle, and Bailey is on the right.

She also got a Disney Princess cell phone. Just what every toddler diva needs, right? She’s busy texting in this picture.

Bailey’s gifts

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She got some really fun stuff for her birthday. My parents gave us money to pick out a playhouse for her, to put in the backyard. They also gave us a cute picture frame and my dad got her a little girls Ping golf hat. I think this is the playhouse we are going to get. I was looking on Craigslist but couldn’t really find anything we wanted.

My grandparents contributed more money to her college savings account, and gave her this little guy from Kohls who she just loves every time we go in there.

Jonathon’s parents sent her two books. One of them is this Elmo music book that she is obsessed with right now.

My friend Faith got her this cute swimsuit from Target, and a matching coverup and towel. Hopefully we will get to the pool a lot more this summer.

She really likes this zoo that she got from her Aunt Jen.

Here is a Children’s Place dress she got from my other friend Jen, that I managed to find a picture of. Because I am way too lazy to actually get my camera out right now.

Some of her other favorite toys are a set of wooden alphabet blocks and a circus that you can take the animals in and out of. She likes to put the wooden blocks inside the circus tent. She got so many nice things. Lots of cute clothes and fun toys. We are going to wait and introduce the other toys maybe one every few days so she can enjoy the “newness” for a while.

Never Mind

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I was going to tell you all about the awesome anniversary present that I surprised Jonathon with today. Get your mind out of the gutter. It’s tangible, and not personal. I even took a picture to share, but right now the USB drive for my camera card is not recognized… or something… so I’ll mess with it tomorrow and show you then. I know you’re dying of suspense.

Bailey’s dress

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I realized that the post with pictures of this dress disappeared somehow when i was changing stuff in my blog. Um, I should say when Jonathon was changing stuff. I have no idea what I am doing or how to do it. He is my computer guy Anyway, this is a dress that Bailey’s aunt and uncle gave her a few weeks ago. I appreciate the thought, but seriously- a short sleeve summer-ish Valentine’s dress for winter in Missouri? And did it really have to have Raggedy Ann on it? So that is why we took pictures- to send to them with their thank you note- and now the dress will return to her closet!

“Okay, Mom, enough with the camera stuff!”

Just a quick brag

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This one’s about my husband. For Valentine’s Day, he gave me a new day planner. (I had actually been wanting one). When he gave it to me, he was like “What’s the date today?” I opened it to the 14th, and a piece of paper fell out. He had made four coupons for a DAY TO MYSELF where he will watch Bailey all day and I can sleep or read or leave the house all day and do whatever I want. He also said if I wanted a weekday he could take the day off work. He has like a million vacation days. I don’t think I would ask him to do that, but I am definitely going to take him up on this VERY SOON!

He gives me time to get stuff done and never minds watching Bailey. But I always feel like he is watching her so I can go get something done. I feel guilty just taking time away to relax. Like I am slacking and “sticking him” with the kid by himself. I shouldn’t feel that way; I know he loves here and it’s his responsibility too. The Mommy Guilt thing is just so hard sometimes. I feel the need to be there, all the time, making sure EVERYTHING gets done (my way).

Anyway, that was the best gift he could have given me. Well that and some hot lovin’ of course Um… yeah.

Belated Christmas Pics

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Here are our pictures from Christmas in Oklahoma City with Jonathon’s parents. They are pretty blurry because they were taken with our video camera (so no flash) because we (I) forgot the memory card for our digital camera. I tend to do that. So here are the memories from the horrible week. Apparently we ONLY took pictures on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. I guess we didn’t even want to remember anything else. LOL

Taking a bath in Grandma’s sink on Christmas Eve. Let me tell you we had to seriously scrub that sink before putting her in it. Their kitchen makes me want to vomit.


Checking out what Santa brought- Christmas morning- this was her first gift (from Mom and Dad obviously).



Yay, Mommy!

Opening our presents on Christmas Day




Stopping to check out the Christmas tree

Opening more Christmas presents


We spent Christmas afternoon/evening with Jonathon’s cousins and aunts and uncles. They are all much more normal than his parents. In fact his parents are really the only weirdos in the family. I don’t quite understand. Anyway here is Bailey’s cousin Grace and great uncle Marvin.

Bailey with cousin Isaac, who was one in November.

Bailey’s First Christmas

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Here is a whole slew of pictures from Christmas today at my parents house. Bailey got a ton of stuff. Well, we all did! I got a really cool keychain that you can load up to 60 digital photos into and it has like a two inch screen to view them. Perfect for showing off new pictures of my Bug I also got a gift certificate for a manicure/pedicure and some new OPI polish in dark colors! I had been wanting that. Bailey got a ride on lion. That and her Fridge Farm were probably her favorites.

My big gift to Jonathon was a new hard drive… how terribly exciting. But it was a good surprise for him because he had been bugging me for one and didn’t think he would get it because I said that was a boring Christmas present.

It was a very long day. I think everyone had a good time. My dad and grandpa got into a little tiff at the end of the day but overall, there wasn’t any major bickering or anything which is kind of rare with my family! Anyway, here are a bunch of the pictures in no particular order. I am tired and this is the best I can do.

Christmas Shopping

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I have been doing a lot of Christmas shopping already- most of it online because it’s so much easier than toting Bailey around everywhere. I have never been much of an online holiday shopper- I always thought it was impersonal- but I have found some really cool stuff.

So far we got Jonathon’s parents some car-related things that they have wanted (on eBay) and I got my mom something for her china set. We have finished shopping for my grandparents entirely. I would never have really thought to buy people gold lockets for gifts, but I found a website with some really cool ones so I ordered one for my grandma.

It came in the mail and it looks really nice. It’s white gold and you send in a digital picture to be printed in the locket. They sized it for me (remember when we were little and you had to cut down a picture and try to tape it inside your locket necklace?) and then I had something nice about great grandma engraved on the back. It’s going to be Bailey’s gift to her

Also we decided in my family that instead of spending like $100 on each person we are going to just get like one nicer gift for each person, from each person/family. It is really getting out of control, now that Jonathon and my grandparents celebrate Christmas with us, and I’m sure now that Bailey is here it will be even crazier. Plus, we have to buy for his parents, brother, our friends, etc.

My goal for this year is to be done with Christmas shopping by the end of November, and to have everything wrapped by Jonathon’s birthday, which is in early December.