Nov. 2014 Photos

Hi Blog world, remember me?

We took some professional pictures in November for the first time ever, to have some fun family photos  and because Layne just turned 2!
Here's a few photos from the mini session we did with a photographer I found on Facebook.  Turned out she knew some friends of mine!  Small world. :)

My little Layner Bee is a pro, I tell ya.
xoxox

Layne's First Ballet Class

I have been slacking and i think I failed on the weekly photos.  I got pretty far though!  A lot has been going on- and I'll update that soon. But I should mention, I need to change the name of this blog!  We moved!
We moved about 20 min out of the city into a town called Brookfield.  Home of the local Zoo. Come visit! BURBS!
More on that later.... with pictures and details.

For now- Layne took her first Ballet class!  It was a free first time class (we didn't join because we knew we were moving at the time).

Here are some photos our friend and Sophie's mom Heidi took.

4 out of 6 girls from my moms group (the other 2 were out of town)  L- R  Sophie, Ayla, Lola and Layne (with food in her mouth.   But i LOVE this picture so much!  

My sweet little ballerina. 

This is a framer

Layne holding Sophie's hand.  She LOVES Sophie and thinks she is her real life baby doll.  

More soon! 

xoxo

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July was busy!  I forgot about this here bloggy blog.  So I'm catching up!  Hopefully I'm on track with the weeks... 

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We went to Lincoln park zoo 

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We went back to Michigan with my moms group and Laynie enjoyed the pool the most I think. ;) 

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We went to south padre island with my entire family... Post to come separately on this.  We had a blast! 

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Home sweet home! 

Laynie helping daddy make pancakes. 💕

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Laynie had a lot of fun this 4th of July, while momma and dadee were at a super fun wedding!  

She even got her toe nails painted..  And she keeps saying... "Mama.  Toes. Pretty" 

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Laynie, giving her baby some "milky" 

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Summer is officially here!  The Chicago public pools and splash pads at the parks are open! 

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Happy Father's Day 2014 

20 months 

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Miss independent can walk up the stairs and go down the slides all by herself! I'm sure she could have done this sooner, but mama was too scared to let her go alone..  Now, she's all..."mama, slide!" 

Layne's words at 18 months

This child TALKS!  I call her my little parrot she repeats pretty much everything I say... Including the cuss words.  Oops!  Gotta watch my mouth! I started writing down some of her words at 18 months (she's almost 20 months now) (WHAT?!!). But I stopped adding to the list after a while, mama lost track!

Here's the list:  

Layne's words 18 mos

1. Mom

2.  Mommy

3. Daddy

4. Chai chai 

5. Laynie

6. Pops

7. Aimee

8. Mike

9. Ya ya

10.  Ty Ty

11. Holly

12. Nana

13.  Papa

14. Dori 

15. I 

16. Want

17. That

18. Mine

19. George

20. Poop

21. Ball

22. Doggie

23. Moo

24. Neigh

25. Baaa

26. Buddy

27. Beep beep

28. No

29. This 

30. High 

31. Five

32. Huggies (hug) 

33. EJ

34. Mantha (Samantha) 

35. Hat

36. Down 

37. Hola

38. Hi

39. Bye 

40. Froggie 

41. More

42. All 

43. Done

44. Night night 

45. Elmo

46. Uppy (up)

47. Uh oh 

48. Yucky

49.  Agua (water) 

50. Stop

51. Yeah 

52. Lola

53. Ayla 

54. Sophie 

55.  Mama 

56. Manda (Amanda) 

57. Poke 

58. Snowman

59. Happy

60. Away 

61.  march 

62. Help

63. Ice 

64. Yellow 

65. How

66. Bout (about) 

67. Okie dokie 

68. Andrew

69. Potty 

70. Keys 

71. Wally 

72. Outside 

73. Eyes 

74.  Nose 

75. Honey

76. Cherry 

77. Pizza 

78. Apple 

79. Nope

80. Shoes

81. Cozy

82. Cookie 

83. Play. 

84. Apple

85. Walk 

86. Babe 

87. Snacks
88.  Book

Sentences

1. I want this 

2. I want that 

3.  How bout it? 

4. How bout that 

5. I want cookie

6. I want play 

7. I wanna walk 

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Street festivals have begun in Chicago which means.... Summer is here!  

Bring it on Chicago! 

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I am lucky to have a moms group. A group of first time moms and we met when our girl were 3-5 months old.  

We meet every Wednesday and this week it was finally nice enough to have a baby pool party!  

Thank goodness for these gals and their sweet babes. 

Xoxo

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This past weekend, we got to see our dear friends Adair, noe' and Wally in town from LA for Mary's wedding.  After the wedding weekend in Michigan (blog post still to come) they came over to our house for a play date.  It was so nice to relax and have the kiddos play.  (Even though layne pulled Wally's hair). Terrible 18 months I tell ya! 

We can't wait for them to move to Indiana next month so this can happen more often.  

Love you guys!! 

Xoxo