February 2011
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My favorite people at the park.
Everly’s frock - Vintage, a $2 bargain find from the Raleigh Flea Market last summer
Yellow belt - A re-purposed Zuzii headband
Moccasins - Vintage Minnetonka from Pony party
Hair Clip - Kid to Kid
Diaper - Gro Baby
Love,
M
The weekend.
Everly picked up a cold sometime last week and most of our weekend was spent trying to wipe her runny nose (although she much preferred to wipe her nose on us!) . My friend Quyen provided a great tip recently for keeping little noses from getting chapped due to constant wiping when they’re sick - we rubbed a little Lasinoh cream (the lanolin ointment women use for breastfeeding) under her...
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Ladies Room Fashion Show. Week of February 21st.
Hello my loves! I’m back again with this week’s work clothes line-up. Can you believe it’s Friday already? I’m not complaining or anything, but seriously, how did it get here so fast?!?
Alright, let’s get this show on the road.
Monday (On my front porch because I left work early for a midwife appointment) This outfit isn’t my favorite by a long shot, but it...
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Puppy love.
I’ve gotten a few emails from readers wondering where oh, where have our little dogs gone. I admit they have been pretty absent from the blog lately - but not from our lives. Oh no! These little rascals are right up under us all of the time.
They’ve both adjusted really wonderfully to not being the “baby” in the house since Everly arrived although I have moments where I...
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Dear Baby Sponsor Highlight: My Natural Baby...
I am so tickled to introduce a sweet new sponsor today! My Natural Baby Boutique is an online shop full of organic, naturally made products for mamas and babies. The mother/daughter entrepreneur team behind this shop have handpicked everything and ensure that all clothing and accessories are certified organic cotton or bamboo and all of their toys are eco-friendly and non-toxic.
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Fuzzibunz One Size Cloth Diapers Giveaway winner
Our randomly selected giveaway winner is LittleBGCG who wrote “I had no idea that cloth diapering existed until blogging/twitter, seeing all the cute babies in fluff got me interested!”
Congrats my dear! Please email me at dearbabyblog@gmail.com to claim your prize.
And for the rest of you - I’ve got some really awesome giveaways lined up soon. So excited to tell you all about...
Saturday we had nothing planned.
So we lingered in bed with our little pajama monster, ate bowls of cereal and multigrain waffles and headed outside to enjoy our first 70 degree weekend of the year.
When we moved these ferns (and a few other plants) from our front porch to the laundry room late last fall, I crossed my fingers that they’d survive the winter given our past plant indoor plant survival history. What I...
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Ladies Room Fashion Show
Dun dun dun dunnnn!!!!! (pretend like that’s a horn playing)
Welcome to my new segment on Dear Baby - Ladies Room Fashion Show!!! (Audience Applause) With the number of bathroom breaks I take these days and my new handy-dandy Android phone (omgah obsessed) - I figured this might be the easiest (and also, the laziest) way to capture my adventures in trying to dress an ever-growing baby bump...
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Love, Love here we are.
We try our best to celebrate the themes of Valentine’s day every day. We try to say I love you often. To leave kisses on cheeks and lips. To show our gratitude for one another in gestures big and small. So in a lot of ways, Valentine’s day feels like all the rest, save for a few extra red hearts.
Here’s what we did to celebrate:
Late afternoon soccer playing to take advantage...
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Valentine's Day Diner Dinner
Our plans for Lovie Dovie day this year are pretty simple. We’re going to visit my mom in Asheville this weekend, enjoy the beauty of the mountains, and then head back to Raleigh in time to celebrate our annual Valentine’s Day Diner Dinner.
It started a few years back. Natasha and Scotty had just moved out to San Francisco and none of us were in the mood to fight the crowds at the...
A few things to entertain you over lunch.
1. I’m crazy about this cute idea on Ohdeedoh for displaying children’s artwork. They spray painted metal trays and hung them on the wall, then used little magnets to attach each artwork piece. This makes it so easy to exchange them out as new masterpieces are created.
2. Here’s a couple of super pretty, maternity friendly vintage pieces I found on etsy last night:
This...
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Cloth Diapering 102. How cloth diapering actually...
Ok. So you’ve got your diapers and you’re ready to go - Here’s what happens next.
How often do they need to be changed?
You have to be more mindful of a child in a cloth diaper vs. a disposable. You can’t keep your child in a single cloth diaper for hours on end as there isn’t a cloth diaper on the market that can stand up to all of the chemicals and absorbing...
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Cloth diapering 101. Choosing a diaper.
Alright - so let’s get right into this. I’d never given cloth diapering a second thought before I got pregnant. My best friend Natasha mentioned that she was cloth diapered as a baby along with most babies in her family and that they all had been potty trained at an early age. That got me curious, so I googled. I started reading and learned some really interesting things. Cloth...
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Everly's Party on Ohdeedoh →
Just discovered that Everly’s San Francisco themed birthday party was featured on Ohdeedoh today (Only the most wonderful children’s design blog ever) Totally stoked to see our sweet little party on one of my very favorite websites- Click the link above to check it out!
Love,
M
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Dear Baby Sponsor Highlight: Melondipity
Ahh, Baby hats. How I love thee…
My most favoritey fave fave of all baby accessories. In case you haven’t noticed, the good majority of photographs on my blog have Everly in some sort of hat. They keep the sun off her face when it’s warm and keep her toasty when it’s cold.
And with Arlo (hooray- I can call him by name now!) on the way, I’ve begun my search for some...
