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Diapers.com

All of my MOMMY friends: I have been buying diapers in bulk on diapers.com & they have great pricing, fast free shipping & awesome customer service. Even better, if you mention my referral code, you get 10$ off your order! Code : HXLL0476

Also they have a lot of baby stuff at a better price than target or walmart. They usually have a 10% off promocode on the webpage all of the time.


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Makenzie's first meal out

Makenzie got her own lunch today at Red Robin.

Mac & cheese and oranges!
Red Robin...where kids eat free!

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I looooove finding ideas online that trump idea

I knew that I wanted to use real lollypops for makenzie's party invitations. This was turning our to be expensive and hard to find the perfect lolly pop.

What do you do if you can't find the perfect lolly pop....make it!

These are sugar cookies decorated to look like lolly pops!

It's a done deal, this is the invite!

The cookie will be wrapped in a clear bag and tied with a business card that has the party details.

If you live out of town, your invite will be different because I'm not fedex-ing you a cookie :0)
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Happy Birthday Kracker

Went to Hooters in honor of my favorite uncle kracker's birthday!

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Craft idea of the week!

I saw this on the news tonight at work. Get a white umbrella and let the kid (or grown up) use puff paint to decorate the umrella! FUN FUN FUN!

This is Beyonce, or Bouncie (depends on who you ask). She is my brother and Emily's dog. Happy spring!

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Bathtime fun!

Tonight Makenzie's bath water is purple!

She doesn't seem to care all that much but I was thinking that colored bath water might me a good reward when she is two and we are learning manners and how to be a good little princess.

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Party Time

Look close and you will see a disco ball in the picture. I love that our church has a disco ball but sadly they did not use it today while celebrating Jesus raising from the dead. But I could have totally planned a great musical experience, complete with disco ball usage :0)

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Trying something new

Alex and I are going to try a new feeding plan with Makenzie. Let me know what you think.

At the current time Makenzie gets a bottle whenever she wants and drinks however much of it she wants. She eats baby food around dinner, then we play for a while, then she get a little more baby food that is thickened up with baby cereal, and then a bottle to go to bed.

This was working okay for us. Alex and I don't lead too busy of lives outside of parenthood and it's pretty easy to stop and feed Makenzie on demand. Makenzie did find a loose pattern to bottle time but nothing strong or too regular (except the night time bottle).

Our new plan is really trying to get Makenzie to eat more formula 4 times a day and babyfood 3 times a day. Instead of letting Makenzie stop drinking at the first sign of contentness, we are going to really push for a big 7oz or 8oz bottle. This should eliminate as many feedings throughout the day.

Another this is during the day, Alex and I are both guilty of just feeding her a small 4oz bottle whenever Makenzie is fussy, for instant soothing. We are also both VERY guilty of this at night. It is way easier to give Makenzie a 2oz warm bottle and coax her back to sleep, than rock her back to sleep or rub her back in the crib for 40 minutes. We are going to try to cut out extra soothing feeds and try to get her to drink one 7oz bottle at night.

We are also trying to get Makenzie in the habbit of food beyond formula. And before you get all worked up, I am in no way suggesting supplimenting needed daily calories from formula, with baby food. We realize how fast the first 6 months went by and we know the next 6 will go by even faster, and at 1 year the suggest babyfood intake drops to zero and they are reccomend to eat 3 meals a day like grown ups. The increase in babyfood will be a pain in the booty because it's just a lot more work but....

Who said parenthood would be easy? NOBODY!


PS: it was kindly brought to my attention that the spelling and grammar on my blog was horrible. I'd like to ask for some understanding though, I blog from my phone! No spell check and the screen is too small to proof read :0)

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