This week

Yesterday Lillian had her 12 month appointment and we got to see her favorite pediatrician.  We absolutely love Dr. Franklin and all of her staff.  Honestly I wish we could see her more than we do.  Unfortunately she had to get some vaccinations and after her appointment she was running a fever :(.

Then today, oh man today... she had her g-tube taken out.  I say "taken" loosely here because YANKED out describes it better.  Poor little nugget.

She's napping now, but I'll admit I'm a little scared to see how much it has leaked since she's napping on her belly.

Aside from being tortured having back to back doctors appointments this week, we've been enjoying the fall.  Especially the cooler weather.



I love my Keurig.  I love it even more since this little discovery.  It's like drinking fall.

 

I can't get enough of these boots.  You can find them here.




Stripes, hearts, flowers, skinny jeans, hat?!




A rare moment of interest in the little human.



A little around 40 seconds you can hear her adorable voice.  Ignore mine :).

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Ch-ch-ch-changes!

Changed the blog.  It was a little too "busy" before and this is much more my style.  Hopefully it loads faster without so many images as well!


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shhh... you didn't see this

I haven't sent these out to family, but I couldn't resist posting them here.  There are a ton more, but these are some of my favorites!

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Some Party Details

Her gold fish party was so much fun to plan.  Everything was decorated in orange and blue.  It was outdoors, so I couldn't get too fancy, but there were a lot of fun details I thought I would share (you know, in case you want to have an awesome gold fish party too). :)

I tried not to include people in the photos for privacy reasons. Also, blogger hates me and made it really difficult to upload and comment on these photos. So if the format is all screwed up I'm sorry, but I'm over it.

These were the invitations. A friend of mine so kindly cut the shapes out with her cricut and I put them together

Then I used the same fish to make labels for the 8 different types of fish crackers!

This last part of the banner shows the true colors better


 






 



The backside of the banner



Most of the kids that came to the party were babies and toddlers, so we had some Cheerios in container that had fish on them for favors. We also displayed Lillian's "First Year" scrapbook

 

And of course you can't have a gold fish party without gold fish. They also went home with some guests.




I hung blue streamers from the beams above (and placed blue and orange balloons around)

We also had a bubble machine :). It was $5 at walmart in the party section.

She had gold fish shoes!

I found this plastic container at a party store, and the window clings came from CVS! I just stuck them on the dish to decorate it for Lillian's yogurt parfait (instead of cake).  I also covered her high chair with a disposable orange table cloth for easy clean up!

  

She doesn't look thrilled in this photo, but I guarentee she had a good time :)





The bubble machine was up on one of the beams.





Clean up was easy peasy!  We changed her outfit and continued with the party!




Healthy food options.



The spinach and artichoke hummus was delicious with the pretzel crisps!

Yogurt parfait buffet instead of cake (organic yogurt, granola, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries served in small clear cups)

We provided organic milk for the little ones



The party was held right next to the Tot Lot in town.  A playground for kids 5 and under, with miniture playground equipment.





Hanging out with her cousins.





Partied OUT!





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You know what sucks?

.... Macy's and Bloomingdales threatening to sue me for using the name 'Lil' Bloomies' to sell my baby hair accessories.  I even sent them a very nice letter informing them I've never stepped foot in a Bloomingdales and had no idea they "owned" the word Bloomies, but it held meaning to me because the name comes from Lillian, and the town I was born in, Bloomington.

Whatever. There are other names out there.  I have until November to use my etsy and then I guess we'll move on to Facebook because honestly loading everything to etsy, and being charged for every item I post is not cool. 

You know what else sucks?  Knowing that they're probably just doing this to scare me out of the name, because they know it's not worth it for me to go to court.  Jerks.

Anyway, you know what doesn't suck?  Having an awesome 1st birthday party and no time to load pictures because my 1-year-old is too much fun to play with and hogs all of the spare time in my day.

She rocks my world.