Bailey's Bed

As many of you know, last week we took on potty training and for the most part we were successful:)  We have a few accidents here and there but thats ok..

Our next step is the big girl bed which I have been putting off.  I have been putting it off because I can't decide what to do with Bailey's room.  We purchased the bed MONTHS ago..

First thought, maybe I was crazy buying a black bed for a 2 year old little girls room?  I love it but if you look at pictures in any catalog everyone always has white furniture for little girls.  I just loved the bed and I thought it would be different so hopefully when it goes in her room I will still love it.  I also love the bedding in the picture above (red and white) but try finding red and white bedding anywhere for little girls!!  Its impossible!!!  Unless you make it yourself you can't find it.  Wait I take that back I did find one set that I loved but did not love the over $500 price tag..

So here are my choices..

Choice #1.(Pottery Barn Kids) Everything except the canopy and remember going on a black bed not white..

Choice #2. (Pottery Barn Kids)

What do you think??  I can't decide, I need help!

Christmas!!!

It has been a crazy couple of weeks, as I'm sure it has been for everyone!  Here are some pictures from our week in no particular order..

Bailey and Matt at Breakfast with Santa..this is Bailey's face when Santa walked in..

This is Bailey hugging her Daddy so he would protect her from Santa:)

Bailey at Katie's Christmas party hugging Kiki and Tibby

Opening presents Christmas morning

On Santa's lap at Katie's party {this was her 4th Santa so by now she has realized he's not so scary}

In her new Princess Jeep

Bouncehouse from Gigi and Gdad...

Christmas morning with Grammy Sue and Grampy

Christmas Eve with Grammy and cousins Brooke and Ash

Not sure what shes doing here.

Katie's Christmas party

Bailey and I at Breakfast with Santa

Bailey and Grammy Kim

Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas!!!!

Santa Video

http://portablenorthpole.tv/watch/3e205b1cb6e5a3706bc0f4ddd4a94956

Check out the above link for a video that Santa sent Bailey!  You can make your own at http://www.portablenorthpole.tv/

Weekend

This past weekend wasn't too eventful but we did do a few fun things..
Friday night my mom watched Bailey so Matt and I could go see The Blind Side.  If you haven't seen it, you should!  It was SO good.

Saturday morning wasn't quite as much fun because we had to be in the car by 6:30am to go and get Bailey her second H1N1 shot.  Good news is that Matt and I were able to get one to and we were able to get this nasal mist that they just shoot up your nose..poor Bailey had to get the regular old shot..

After that we started working on our Christmas decorations.. we had already put up the tree..  I love our tree...it is artificial and I know some people don't like the artificial ones but I LOVE it..no cleaning up pine needles:)

We also put up Baileys tree..

We went to Michaels and bought a little snowman for our front porch..

This is just a picture of the box.  I had to take it because the actual snowman doesn't even come up to my waist and in this picture on the box he is the size of a house...

Fletcher enjoyed decorating too

Then later that night we went to church where of course we are talking about Christmas and Bailey is learning about it as well.. which is kind of hard for a 2 year old I guess b/c walking out of church she was talking about baby Jesus and his bday and how she wants to get him a car seat and how she wants to hold him...hmmmm.

Sunday I went shopping with my mom and got some lunch.  This was our view

I know its gross.  He usually doesn't do that..McCalisters must smell REALLY good.

Then later that night B was pumped because there was a Dora Christmas movie on.  She was zoned out for pretty much the entire hour like this

In case you dont know who Dora, Boots, and Swiper are they are Bailey's heros..  and she is not to be disturbed when they are on:)

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Advent Conspiracy

The church that Matt and I go to is one of the churches that started 
this movement..I was noticing on other
peoples blogs from all over the country that they are getting involved with this 
as well.. it is such a great cause and amazing if you really think 
about how much
it would actually cost for everyone to 
have clean water vs. how much we spend on Christmas..its crazy!! 
And its amazing how something like this can just start out
with a few people and then grow and grow 
and really begin to change people's lives all over the world.. 
so check out the link above!

Cause for Paws

If you love puppies like I do and want to help stray animals please visit  causeforthepaws.org
This nonprofit was started up by one of my favorite girls, Adriane....so head on over to her website and check it out!

updates and other randomness

Well I haven't blogged lately because I didnt really have anything to share..so just so I can have more than one blog post in November here you go:)

• Bailey got a swine flu shot.  Yay!  Bad news:  we have to find some place to get another one next month {because she is 2 she has to get the shot twice}  Yuck!
• Took Bailey to the doctor the other day and she was so good UNTIL we got into the doctors office.  Once we were in the doctor's office she decided she was bored so she ran around the room turning on the faucet, taking tissues out of the tissue box, etc.  I couldn't concentrate on what the doctor was saying so the dr had the nurse bring in some crayons and a coloring book to keep Bailey busy.  We put her up on the exam table so she could color.  She started throwing all of the colors on the floor and then threw one and hit the doctor in the face.  It was so embarrasing.  Im sure he loves us. 
• almost all of the leaves have finally fallen and {most of them} have been blown to the curb in front of the house so my lovely city can come suck them up in their fancy truck with huge vacuum ...Yay!  Here is how my back yard looked before:

Lots of leaves, right?

And here are a few other pics from around the house:

My new pilates machine/ table for all of Bailey's babies to pretend they are at lunch at daycare.  Other activities include but are not limited to gym class, naptime, and reading time.

Fletcher trying to escape nap in Bailey's playhouse.  He is so good at hiding:)

Last of all I think I found one of Bailey's Christmas presents...  you have to watch the video to get the full idea of how cool it is!!

So thats all...told you it would be random

Halloween!!

If you don't like pictures of fairy princesses you will not like this post.
We went a little camera crazy this weekend, as you will see.
Friday Bailey had her Halloween party at school where they went trick-or-treating from room to room.  It was great practice for Halloween night!

Before going to school for the Halloween party...

Her eyes are closed but I still love this picture!

At school ready to go trick or treating from classroom to classroom

 The little girl behind Bailey was a doctor.  She was super cute.

 She had the best time at her party.  It was chaos with 2 year olds running around all over the place with candy.  Needless to say Bailey did not take a nap that day, and she hardly ever misses a nap. Sugar + 2 year old = extremely hyper not sleepy at all toddler.

On Halloween Bailey started her night out trick or treating with her buddy Emma.  Emma was Minnie Mouse and was so cute but would not wear her Minnie Mouse ears:)  We of course took about a billion pictures of them because they looked like this:

Bailey, me, and Lucretia {our friend and neighbor/cat}

Family picture.  Fletcher did not like his costume and kept trying to get it off.  But he looked super cute!

Bailey thought he might like her tiara...

After trick or treating was all over grammy and grampy stopped by to see us  Bailey.
After  this picture it was off to bed.  I was so proud of Bailey she went to about 10 houses.. and was not ready to go home after 10. .but we made her {what 2 year old needs that much candy, anyway?}.  Unfortunately I'm pretty sure I know who will end up eating it:)

Yearbook Yourself

My cousin Jon did this on his blog and it was hilarious...so I had to try it. 

Mine isn't so much funny as it is scary.  Thank goodness I was born in 1980. 

1960

1976 {Look familiar mom?}

1992

1966

Mizzou Homecoming, Family, and Getting Old

This weekend was so much fun and super busy.  My family from Texas all {well not exactly "all" of them but a lot of them} came in town for the Mizzou/Texas game.  Even though we lost the game and it was kind of cold it was still so much fun...and I will know next time when ordering tickets that row 77 is like 3 rows from the top of the stadium:) ooops.  Even though we lost, it was cold, and we were in the nosebleed section it was all worth it to see my family that I never get to see!

Halftime

My mom, cousin Christen, and I freezing at the game

Matt and I

While most of us went to the game my dad and Sarah stayed back in St Louis to watch Bailey.  They took Bailey to Six Flags.  You would think Six flags would be a little too crazy for a 2 year old but there is so much for little kids to do there.  There were tons of rides she could go on and she had the BEST time!
She had so much fun in fact that we went back the next day and this time I went along.  When I was little I loved Six Flags..I thought it was the best thing ever.  So as soon as we got there I noticed there was a new ride there and I wanted to try it out.  This ride was the most awful thing I have ever been on.  Its not scary but it was still 111 seconds of misery.  It was a rollercoaster that spins...not sure what I was thinking but ever since I have had Bailey I have not been able to go on anything that goes around in circles.  I felt pretty awful for the rest of the day and luckily Sarah was willing to go on all the rides with Bailey while I sat and watched:(  I guess motion sickness is a part of getting old??  Even though I felt really crappy all day it was fun to watch Bailey have a good time!

On the playground at Six Flags

Swings!

This is the only picture I got of my dad and Sarah with Bailey..she is always moving so kind of hard to get a good shot.