20 Weeks

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Great idea for using your kids' artwork!

I love this idea of making a tray out of crayon drawings (perfect for you moms out there who can't throw anything away!)

The step by step instructions are available HERE and if you can, spend some more time on this great blog called Dried Figs and Wooden Spools.

Gucci Baby

A little Baby shopping and Daddy shopping at Gucci yesterday. Just doing our part to save the economy, folks! ;)

Baby love

We had a little photoshoot with baby-to-be today! Little Bean is now 1 whopping lb!! I cried the whole time during the ultrasound- tears just streaming! It was truly amazing to see all the details of how our baby is so perfectly and preciously formed! We watched blood pumping through all 4 chambers of the heart, the lips moving and sucking, and the tiny little fingers and toes dancing around! Baby is measuring right on track and has no abnormalities or problems! We are so grateful for this little miracle that is growing every day!

I made sure to turn away when the tech was measuring the legs and lower half just in case I would see something I am trying NOT to! So we still don't know if it's a baby boy or baby girl! :)






Baby's profile




Here is baby giving us a high 5!

Clean it GREEN!

I found THIS ARTICLE truly helpful and very informative with 25 recipes for non-toxic, green cleaning products that you can make right at home! With little baby lungs soon to be in our household, the toxic chemicals found in most cleaning products are something worth thinking about!

20 weeks!

To celebrate our halfway mark in this pregnancy, my husband surprised me with a dozen gorgeous tangerine colored roses!





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go away, Winter!

Got this adorbz dress from forever 21 this weekend but I have to return it! By the time it will be warm enough outside to wear it, I will be too big for it! It's cotton and it's NOT stretch. I wish winter would LEAVE so I can wear these cotton flowy dresses!










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A girl?

For a long time, I've felt that this baby is a boy, but now all of a sudden I'm thinking maybe it's...a girl? Hmmm... My skin has been clear and great except this past week when out of no where, I woke up with dry, red patches near my eyebrows, chin, nose, and even jawline. The skin became so dry I was using vaseline as a moisturizer...nothing else would work. A friend suggested I try aloe, and that seemed to work really well. But today, I've got a rash of little red bumps (are they pimples?!) on my chin. I have maybe had 1 or 2 pimples in my LIFE, so this is really quite new for me. I've heard that women who are pregnant with girls break out more because of the double female hormones, but this could be an old wives' tale.

Moms out there- did you break out or have dry patches like this when pregnant? With boys or girls or both?

Makes me wonder... but we aren't finding out the sex of the baby, so I can only speculate until this little bean makes it's grand entrance!

Mama & Me

My mum came to visit this week! She brought a gift for the baby- a beautiful crocheted blanket she made. Oh, and did I mention it's BLUE? hmmmm... Will Grandma's intuition be right?




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Time flies!

Last week I noticed the baby belly sticking out even more! Must be the way the little one was curled up all snug in there but I think it looks so cute! This was at 18 weeks!




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Brilliant idea for a play house!

I am gonna store away this idea for when baby is bigger- an under-the-table play fort that is both cheap AND space-saving! What a fabulous idea! It's genius for NYC apartment living: just fold it up and store in the linen closet when you're done!

I know some of you crafty readers out there could use this idea to make some REALLY cool looking playhouses!

Pretty cute idea

This Crafty Person  used old family slides to make a unique window curtain. It would look great as a screen/room divider in a NYC loft apartment too! Hmm... gotta remember this one!

I like the lamp idea too!