One Week From Today

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My beautiful BABY will be two. But instead of dwelling on the fact that she is growing up entirely too fast, let’s just look at some amazingly gorgeous pictures. We had these done today.

(And no, I did not know the flowers would be those colors. No, I did not see the background in advance. No, I did not turn her bracelet so that you could read her name in the pictures.)

22 Months

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Little Muffy Muff,

I can’t believe you are almost two years old. I have already booked your birthday party! Yes, you are having a big party with all of your friends. I have been told that’s silly but I just want you to be happy. I know you will have so much fun. Especially when you find out that we get to sing and dance and do parachute time at your party!

You have grown up so much just within the last month. You continue to come up with new two and three word phrases. You are a good problem solver. You are now obsessed with letters and numbers. You want to learn letters and match them and make the sounds. I don’t think it makes much sense to you yet, but you love it all anyway. I hope you continue to have that love for letters and words. You are one of the most well-mannered toddlers I have seen. You insist on saying please and thank you for everything! You even thank me for things like putting your pajamas on. It makes my heart smile to think about it. You have such a sweet and kind and loving spirit. You are also so active and I like to say that you are part pogo stick. You bounce and jump and never stop. Even when you get in bed, some nights it takes an hour of you laying there before you fall asleep. But you never complain, you just lay in bed and play quietly.

It still drives me crazy that you are such a picky eater. Your favorite food is a Big Bird Bar (still) which you call a “Bee Barn” and ask for at least five fifty times a day. The only meat you will eat is chicken. In the form of nuggets. Although last week you surprised us and ate tacos one night. Crunchy tacos with ONLY meat and cheese. You also like yogurt, cheese, bananas, and any sort of baby food fruit. We tell you it’s applesauce.

You are still my entire world. I don’t know how I lived without you until you came into my life. I spend so much time thinking about you, praying for you, doing things that I think will make you happy. Including obsessing over Gymboree clothes for you! I just want you to have it all but somehow not have that attitude. I’m sure that will be a line I always struggle to stay on top of, without falling to one side or the other. Just know that I woul do anything for you.

Love, Mommy

* 22 months, from Kiddie Kandids (scanned in on my once-again-dirty scanner)

2008 IN REVIEW

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We were so blessed with a wonderful year. No major catastrophes, no deaths in our families, a daughter who has stayed healthy (with the exception of a few colds) and continued to grow and learn and amaze us… Here are the highlights of our year.

January- please note her lack of hair, compared to now

February- and Bailey is walking!

March

April- happy first birthday, Bailey!

May

June

July

August

September- Jonathon and I went to Disney World

October

November

December

Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas!

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Profile of an Angel

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Since our camera is still gone and we don’t have any new pictures, I thought I would share another of the Christmas pictures. Once again, this is NOT the one we put on our Christmas cards. However, we did get a 10×13 in black and white!

Not Me Monday- Crazy Crazy

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Crazy Crazy, that’s how our life has been lately. Some of it’s good, and some of it is just annoying. The good part is that we have gotten Bailey’s Christmas pictures done, and I am going to give you a sneak peek. This is NOT the picture that will appear on our Christmas cards.

But they did an amazing job, and we could not choose just a few so we ended up buying a giant package of way too many pictures. If you need to get pictures done, check out Portrait Innovations. Their prices are really reasonable, and their backgrounds and scenery stuff is great!

I did not let my child watch Barney on repeat for two hours so that I could get my Avon order put in this morning. (Edited to add: I DO NOT LIKE BARNEY. My mom got Bailey a Barney video once from the library and she fell in love. She would choose Barney over anything else at this point. We have two videos, Shake Your Dino Tail and Barney’s Birthday Party. But it keeps her busy.)

I did not stay up until 1 a.m. the other night to watch episodes of Kitchen Nightmares online.

I did not buy five more sets of hairbows at Gymboree. I am not addicted to curly hairbows.

I did not drive fifteen minutes through traffic and pass about 30 other restaurants only to get to another IHOP when the first one was closed. No, I am not that into pancakes. And Bailey was not in the backseat yelling “Cakey! Cakey!” the whole time.

I did not have my mom iron the dress for Bailey’s Christmas pictures.

I did not spend way too long looking at a website with cheap t-shirts that have funny and tacky sayings on them. Who would do that??

I did not get a bunch of Avon orders during the middle of the night so that I could win some states for my Avon contest before other people woke up to start working on it! I am actually doing GREAT, but I still need quite a few states. If you want to help me out, check out that link or read the post immediately below this one.

I did not feed Bailey the mini peanut butter cups out of my ice cream last night. Because I was not overwhelmed by the disgusting amount of chocolate. (Really, I rarely get tired of chocolate, but it was BAD.)

To read what other people did not do this week, check out My Charming Kids.

Bailey’s New Towel

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Check out what I just got Bailey from Avon. She got the pink bunny one, and then we are going to go get pictures taken with it, in the little bathtub that they have at the studio It is even cuter than in the picture, and it was only $12.9– which is less than I have seen for a lot of other cute hoodie towels!

I also ordered her some of the bath paints because they are only 99 cents right now! So we’ll get those next week. I know she’s a little young for them but I thought they’d be something fun to put in her Easter basket. We can always put them away for when she’s a little bigger. I just can’t pass up a sale, especially when it’s stuff for her.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

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Kiddie Kandids pic

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Last week when my mom and I were at Babies R Us, the photographer asked if she could take some pictures of Bailey (for practice and to enter in a photography contest, supposedly). They just opened a Kiddie Kandids studio there a few months ago.We got a free 8×10 out of the deal.

Normally, I get her pictures done at JC Penneys for a lot cheaper. That’s where we went this morning for her Valentine’s Day pics. There was a new photographer there this morning, and she did a really good job. I even ended up ordering one pose with both me and Bailey in it. I hate pictures of me lately.

But anyway, here is the one they took last week. I think it turned out really cute

Christmas Photos

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Today I took Bailey to Penneys to have her pics done to send out in our Christmas cards. For the first time, I wasn’t thrilled with our experience there. Our favorite lady, Miss Rita, wasn’t there today. I had to make the appointment so stinkin far in advance because of the holidays. Normally I just call on Monday and do the “Hey, what days are you working this week?” thing with her, and we set up an appointment.

It was SO busy today. We were the second appointment of the day, and they were rushed. Our photographer was nice, but she didn’t really do a great job getting Bailey to smile. If you know Bailey, you know that just about anything makes her smile. So I don’t really know what the problem was there. Also she only took like four shots in front of the Christmas tree. The rest have a black background.

We ended up ordering just a package with one pose. They are on a black background. She looks adorable. But, it wasn’t what I was expecting. We aren’t going to be putting up our Christmas tree this year, because it goes in our living room and she is officially crawling now. Today she took off across the floor and hasn’t stopped. (Kelli, if you are reading this, I am lying. She’s not crawling at all. She doesn’t need to move up to the next room in the nursery). I am afraid that she would pull our entire tree over on herself. Or all of the GLASS and mirrored and glittered ornaments that I so thoughtlessly redecorated with two years ago.

I know, we should teach her to leave things alone. However, I also like to leave my child alone in a room and be able to go pee by myself. Or check my email. Everything that can really hurt her is out of the way. The other stuff, she will learn not to get into. So that was a really long way of saying, no tree this year. My mom offered to let us come over this weekend and take family pictures in front of their tree for our Christmas cards. I think that’s what we are going to do. I wish I had diamond rings big enough to twinkle in the pictures.

Jonathon told me I could probably upgrade my rings for our five year anniversary. Two years away. Are you sentimental about your rings, or would you trade them? I think I am going to trade in my engagement ring and keep the wedding band. Wow, off topic.

If you made it this far, you deserve a cookie for reading my random train of thoughts today.

Wordless Wednesday- Happy Halloween!

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Five Month Picture

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Bailey’s 5 month picture- once again, I’m behind on posting because we’ve had these for quite a while now!

Wordless Wednesday- Through the Eyes of an Angel

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Meant to post these a while ago

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Here are Bailey’s 3 month professional pics. I just scanned them in quickly because I’ve been meaning to post them for a long time. Looks like I need to dust my scanner!