RUFFLED ZIPPER POUCHES

I just added these zipper pouches to Lemon Bee.  Check them out!

a day in the life

I thought it would be fun to document what a day looks like around here.  Everyone says "long days, short years," and I think it would be fun to have this post to look back on in a few years.  So here goes nothing!

6:10 AM  My alarm goes off.  I slowly get out of bed, brush my teeth, and head down stairs to make coffee and a little breakfast.  By about 6:30, I sit down to get caffeinated and do my devotions before Quinn gets up.  She usually starts to wake up around 6:30, but is content to play in her crib until I get her at 7 am. 

7:00 AM Quinn gets up for the day!  She drinks an 8 oz. bottle and is a happy camper.  I change her diaper and get her dressed.  We "chat" and give each other kisses, and then I bring her downstairs for "independent play time/squeeze in some time to finish my devotions and wake up."  Q plays with her toys in her playpen for about 20 minutes and nibbles on some cheerios.

Somewhere in between here I get dressed and put on make up and check my e-mail.

8:00 AM Breakfast.  Quinn is pretty much done with baby food.  Last week she just totally moved on to finger foods!  This girl is hungry too.  I am making full on meals for her.  A slice of buttered toast, scrambled eggs, cut up fruit...it's an event.

8:30 AM Walk.  At this point, I can't wait to get outside of the house.  So, we always try to go on a walk, even if it's only 10 minutes.

9:00 AM Nap.  Beacon snuck into Quinn's room as I was putting her down, and as I was searching for him under her crib, Quinn pulled herself up on the side of the crib and started laughing at me.  It was really cute.  During nap, I usually update our blog, respond to e-mails, work on Lemon Bee, and don't do laundry like I should.

11:00 AM Quinn gets up from nap and drinks a bottle.  Sometimes she wakes up earlier and just plays until I get her at 11.  When I walked into her room, look at who I found sleeping on the changing pad....

Since we had no pressing errands or places to be, we ate a quick lunch and went on a long walk.  We are getting some more cooler days lately in Florida...which it means it was in the mid 70s, low 80s :)

1:00 PM Nap.  After about 45 minutes of Quinn messing around in her crib (in which I was making banana chocolate chip muffins--GF), followed by her learning how to stand up in it...I relented to getting her out.

                                     

2:30 PM Quinn is totally happy with skipping her nap, and learned how to climb ALL of the stairs in our house...supervised, of course!

3:00 PM Quinn drinks a bottle and goes down for a nap.  Success!  I worked on Lemon  Bee, cleaned up around the house, and changed clothes since we had plans to go to dinner with Daddy!

5:30 PM Quinn finally woke up from her nap. I couldn't believe how long she slept!  Climbing the stairs before nap time must have helped!  We quickly got our things together and went to Chipotle to meet Matt for dinner.

7:00 PM Came home from dinner and got Quinn changed into her PJs, read her some books, and fed her a bottle.

 

All done!  Time to relax!

This was definitely a more quiet day for us.  Usually we have some sort of activity during the day.  But, hopefully I will enjoy looking back and remembering our simple days together!



early bird gets the worm!

Check out this little sale going on at Lemon Bee.  Ends Wednesday!

halloween 2013

It was so fun to get into Halloween this year with little Quinn.  We dressed her up as an Indian Princess.  (Thank you, Pinterest!)  I made her outfit, and to our dismay Beacon really loved the tutu.  He ended up eating some of the tulle and got really sick.  He wasn't eating or going the bathroom, so we had to feed him cat food with a syringe (eeww) so that he would go to the bathroom.  Well, thankfully he did...5 minutes before we were having friends over for dinner.  Double ewww.  Let's just say we confirmed that he did indeed eat part of Quinn's tutu.  And, he is feeling much better now. 

We really enjoyed our church's fall festival.  There were 21 bounce houses, food trucks, and "trunk or treat."  The weather was perfect too!

The picture below is from last year with my friend Amy.  Our girls are 4 days apart :)

This year was much better, in my opinion!



My little princess.

We went to a few houses on Halloween night.  Quinn executed grabbing the candy out of the candy bowls very well.  Her favorite?  Nerds.  The best rattle ever.

 

Hope you had a happy Halloween.  Now, let the official holiday season begin!!