Handstitched Felt Hair Clippies

Our special hair clippies arrived two days ago! I joined the GymboFriends forums in September and there are so many wonderful SAHM's over there that make hairbows for so much less than the boutiques around here and are so much better quality. I love the handstitched felt clippies on Emma and they stay in so much better but they are some of the most expensive ones and most of the ones I see are small flowers. We already have three...red, pink and purple. Anyways, back to Gymbofriends.

I discovered HappieMommie on there and she makes felt clippies! She had created some and posted them to a thread over there....mostly a bunch of made to match Gymboree clippies. We only have a handful of Gymboree clothing so I wasn't too crazy about most of the clippies so I asked her about some custom designs. She had offered an amazing price just for her gymbofriends so I was interested in a cookie to go along with our new GAP outfit, a Colts clippie, a hippo to match the Island Getaway stuff from Gymbo, a Christmas tree to match our pink dress from Belk's, etc. She said she would love to create some customs for me but to give her a little time. They arrived on Monday and I absolutely love them! Thank you Heather!!


I immediately had to put the Colts clippie in Emma's hair. It is so cute and exactly what I wanted! I love that they are a little bigger than the flower clippies we have...they seem so small on her now. I took a few pictures of her wearing it and one of all the clippies but I can't figure out how to upload pictures from my new camera. Jon! lol...he is asleep because it is 4:00 AM. I will add some pictures tonight when I get home from work. I know you will fall in love with them too and immediately have to go visit Happie Mommie at her new Etsy store!

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5299965

There is seriously so much detail in these clippies...check out the ballerina slippers clippie in her store. Wow!

Elmo rocks, seriously!

We have the DVD where Elmo is a rockstar...literally, a rock who sings with Elmo eyes but the show tonight seriously rocked. They were some booty shaking monsters! Emma had a great time as did we. She laughed, pointed, danced, clapped, rubbed her eyes and wimpered "Elmo bye bye" when he left the stage. As did about half of the kiddoes there. It was so fun to watch her react to what she was seeing on the stage. Our seats were really good because the auditorium was smaller than I expected it to be and they cut it in half with the stage in the middle. The show was made up of songs that we all knew...Rockin' Robin, The Hustle, the Alphabet Song, etc. :) Bert came out at one point in a white leisure suit like John Travolta! lol

Emma passed out on the way home and I carried her in and laid her on her big girl bed. I took off her skirt and changed her diaper...she didn't even stir! I had to take a picture. :)


I'll try to add some pictures to this post in the morning. I had a surprise tonight too...an early Christmas present from Jon's parents...they bought me the Nikon S200 Coolpix camera that I had been eying! It took some great pictures and it wasn't at all aggravating like our other camera! Thank you for this evening and for my new camera...I adore it and it's red! :)

New Teeth and a Big Girl Bed

That is right...plural...Emma has two new teeth! I guess that explains the extreme moodiness last week. We knew she was cutting her second top tooth and it finally broke through the gum last night. Thank goodness for teething tablets and her teething necklace. We have seriously had to give her so much less Motrin this time around with the teething. Jon was looking at her tonight and noticed she has a bottom tooth on the side! Emma is offically a five chomper gal! :)

Please excuse the horrible coloring on this photo. I was way too close with the flash...Emma is definitely not that pale! She was hugging on Lizzie so I took advantage of the moment...we realized the tooth later! Can you see it?!

She also has a new big girl bed that is courtesy of Gamma & Papa (Emma's new names for Gramma & Grampa) this weekend. She has actually fallen asleep in it once and has slept all the way through the night in it three times (after being put there already asleep.) She doesn't even hop out of bed in the morning, she waits on us to come get her. She loves being able to climb up on her bed with her Boo Bunny, Lizzie and her books in the evening when we play in her room though. I have caught her in there "reading" several times.

Don't you just love the Colts bedding? We are going to keep using her bedding that Granny made because it goes with her room...pink, green and lavender but the Colts will stay on during football season! I can't believe how well she is doing with the big girl bed. She would scream every single time we tried to put her down in the crib...like please don't put me in that cage! She is now mama's little big girl and that is a little bittersweet. :)



Can you tell she just woke up? :)

Elmo Makes Music...LIVE!

So tomorrow is the big day...Emma gets to see Elmo in real life! I am not exactly sure how great our seats are but it is going to be so much fun. I wonder how Emma will react to the lights going down and seeing Elmo running around on the stage below us (I think our tickets are in the balcony.) I have been telling her for two weeks now that she is going to see Elmo in real life. She says "Elmo mama?" and grabs one of her Elmo book and hands it to me. She will so totally "get" it tomorrow night! :) I am planning on fixing her hair up with the adorable new Elmo bow I found online for the concert. I hope our camera does not choose tomorrow night to be on the fritz again! I want to have pictures of the memories we will make at Emma's 1st concert! :)

Oh yeah...tomorrow is also Emma's 17 month birthday!

Go Colts!!

I hope they kick some serious Patriot booty today! :)


Can you believe Emma wasn't even 7 months old yet in this picture?!