Happy FIRST Birthday to E!!!!!

You changed our lives in the best way possible. Happy Birthday my little man.  

Documenting Baby's FIrst Year

I can't believe my little baby boy is almost ONE YEAR OLD!!!! I won't get sappy [just yet] but I thought I would share a few posts leading up to the big day. One of my friends gave me these adorable monthly stickers when E was born to document his growth. It's been fun taking his picture each month from just a little peanut, to sitting on his own, next it was crawling, then standing up and now walking.

Thanks to pinterest, I found a couple other creative ways to document your baby's first year that I wanted to share [I apologize up front for the small images].

How cute is this? I love the idea of keeping an object in the picture so you can see how big your babe is getting. They took it one step further and put the baby INSIDE of the object [laundry basket]. Genius! {photo credit}

This is such a cute idea too. Choose an outfit and take your little one's picture in it throughout the year. They start out swimming in it and by the end, they are busting out! {photo credit}

With this idea you can get creative. Use letter magnetics, blocks or I've even seen people write something out on a chalk board to document each month. All great ideas! {photo credit}

I love this idea for each year [which means I can start soon and keep going with E!] Take a picture of your baby and then using a program like Photoshop, add text with how old they are and what their favorites are currently or what milestones they are at. A fun way to document them as they grow old! {photo credit}


Have you done something unique to document your baby's growth? Please share, I'd love more ideas!!



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E's Red Balloon

[NOTE: I'm a proud mama & wife, which means, every so often I might sneak in a personal post about my family-they are my everything!]



This morning we made our way over to Grand Avenue for baby story time at the Red Balloon Bookshop.

This morning was also the first time I decided E could get his very own red balloon [they give them out after every story time].

E couldn't stop looking up at his very own red balloon, looped around his small drool-covered hands, squealing with delight. [cutest. thing. EVER.]

A short car ride home later, E was sleeping and I carried him and his red balloon into the house. As usual, our puppy came running down the stairs to give me kisses hello. But he stopped dead in his tracks.... because... there... was the RED BALLOON.

This morning was also the morning I found out that our puppy does NOT like balloons. And barking dogs wake up babies.