The Lovely Lampshadelux

     A lovely friend of mine has started up a clothing redecorating business and has graciously given Kaelynn a personalized outfit to love.
     If you've been following along, or know us, you will know that Kaelynn is a wild child. She has no real fear of anything and is usually up for trying new things. As I write this, she is climbing all over an Avon delivery box.
     Along with clothing, Kim (L.S Lux) makes personalized shoes. She has a etsy and an instagram account dedicated to her work. Check her out, she does adult as well as children items. Before July 4th, I modeled some fabulous 4th of July celebration shorts that she modified.    

Sweet dreams

      Sweet dreams my little one. You're doing well with your bed, for the most part.

      Bed time ritual is at 8pm, we start to get ready. We do bed time bum, pajamas, and neckercise. We then nurse in the big bed and wait. Around 1030-11pm, I transfer her to her bed and make sure she is cozy (but if I put a blanket on her, she wakes up). I'm not sure when she wakes, but she ends up in our bed (possibly around 2-3am). There are times when she is able to put herself back to sleep from waking, but other times no. There was even that one time she fell out of bed. Oops!
     It's a learning curve. At least she will spend all nap time in her bed -even if we nurse in the car and I have to not so gracefully roll out.

First sighting

     Hello half tooth! I name you Terrence. At 16.5 months old, your appearance is welcomed. Here's hoping your friends come join Bite Club very soon.

     Teething, besides being long, has been.so-so. There are days where she's super clingy and nights where there is no sleep. There are the teething poops and the fist eating. There is randomly crying and nothing I do helps. However, through the bad days, the good days are Good Days!
    
      Time will only tell how long teething actually takes, but I am thankful that I did not have to try brushing a baby's teeth!

     A week's tooth progression:

A berry good afternoon

     My best friend invited us to go strawberry picking with her and her daughter. Of course we agreed. We love strawberries, especially when they're fresh!
     We all packed into the car and headed off to Fruition Berry Farm. I was excited because this would be my first time at Fruition and Kaelynn's first time ever picking.
     Boy, did she have fun. All the berries she could eat (and maybe a flower and leaf), new people to watch, being outside, tractor rides, and a new play structure to scale.
     Unsure how long later, we had 14 lbs of strawberries! Hello jams, fruit and as Kaelynn would say "it's delicious".

Racecar Wars

   The bed is all done and brought up to the newly rearranged bedroom. We tried it out last night and it was a no go. I pretty much figured that it wouldn't be that simple.
     I nursed her in our bed. She fell asleep. I scooped her up while humming and rocked her until we got off the bed. I laid her in bed and turned on her Glow Worm. Success...for thirty minutes. Of course, she woke up when I started to fold laundry. She rolled out of bed and stood there angrily crying. The rest of the night was spent nursing, trying to put her down, crying, daddy explaining that this is her bed and he worked hard to make it pink for her. Finally, at 10pm, agreed that nap time, diaper changes and stories will happen in her bed for the next week.

Skeleton Park Arts Festival

     Yesterday was a gorgeous day in town. On the spur of the moment, we decided to go downtown to the Skeleton Park Arts Festival. It helped that I had my iced tea tumbler from David's Tea to fill up (and baby had one too). Plus, I knew we would be spending time with a super amazing chainmail artist friend.
     I filled up my tumbler with Watermelon Mint iced tea and then made a pit stop to grab Tiffany a Chai Frappe from McDonald's. We got to the park and it was super busy, of course. We found them and dropped off our stuff at their table before exploring a bit.
      First stop, the park. Wild children were running all over. Kaelynn climbed up the slide and went down once. I decided it was far too full of larger, wilder children for a 16 month old to toddler about. We then walked along the path and checked out the booths and tables. A woman in a carrot suit scared her, otherwise she was.generally unimpressed.
      It was getting on in the afternoon, so we stood in line for a sausage from The Sleepless Goat. It was pricy (far more than I wanted to spend, I was hoping there would have been a $2 hot dog stand), but it was good. Lunch was sausage, bun, lots of fruit and really watered down iced tea for the little.
     We spent time oogling Tiffany's amazing work and watching her do her thing. I hope she didn't mind having a tiny baby around. I saw something adorable a few tables over and we went to look. I bought it. Kaelynn now is the owner of a small needlefelted Princess.
     It was getting onto 2 pm when I thought we should leave. She had no morning nap, was far to busy to just let her run around and burn herself out, and really...she needed a nap. Thankfully, she fell asleep on the bus. We took the long way home, and she slept the whole hour.

     It was a glorious afternoon in the park, and we even ran into friends and gave them hugs!

     If you're interested in seeing more of Tiffany's work, check out her Facebook page:

Ti A Me Chainmail Jewelry

Father's Day

     Yesterday, we celebrated our second Father's Day. We had a relaxed day at home.
     The day started with waking up early to make bacon roses. The instructions online said to use a mini muffin tin with holes drilled in the bottom to hold the mini roses. I did not want to put holes in my tin/buy a new one, so I used the top of my cake pop pan. It worked great on top of the broiler. While they were cooking, I whipped up a batch of pancakes. I was so excited that he did not even notice they were bacon, until I told him.
     The rest of the day was spent decorating the cake I prepared earlier and playing.
    It was a good day.