We had so much fun tonight blessing our friend Tosha and her sweet little girl that’s due in a month. For baby’s #2, 3, etc we always call them sprinkles. Smaller versions of full blown showers to just help the momma restock on diapers and such. So I tried not to go too overboard with the crafting. But pink is quite fun to decorate with. :) I’ll try to give you links if possible to some of the ideas I used.
Decor
My goal was cute, pink, and cheap! I started with making a little flag bunting for the fireplace. I just grabbed a few different pink papers at 50% at Hobby Lobby and cut triangles out. I sewed (yes, you can sew paper) them onto bias tape, but you could easily glue them onto a ribbon of some sort.
Then I made a small diaper cake. I’ll have a great link to a diaper cake after the shower I have on Friday. For this one, I took a large bottle of Johnson’s baby lotion and basically wrapped a few diapers around it and tied it tight with string. Then I covered the string with ribbon and made a little pom pom flower for the top.
These little guys were the favors for the ladies. I got a ton of different pink nail polishes and just added a simple thank you tag to them.
Next up was getting a few pink plastic table cloths. I did sew up the sides of a few of them to make them look a little more fancy. But the only picture I have of this has 2 ladies in it who would not like the faces they’re making in the picture. :) I also raided the Walmart paint section. I grabbed a couple of each pink paint chips and cut them up to use for “confetti” on the tables. Free and they come in every color under the sun! The flowers were from my yard!
I borrowed the hanging lanterns from a friend so those were free too!
Food
Melissa did most of the food for which I’m super thankful. My 3 contributions were cake pops, kettle corn, and the punch. The cake pops turned out awesome. I followed
Bakerella’s instructions. I got a foam wreath at the dollar store and spray painted it pink to hold the cake pops and made a tissue paper flower to go in the middle. I didn’t get a picture of the punch, but it was fabulous. Get the recipe
here.
I made my cousin’s awesome kettle corn recipe and just added a little food coloring to make it pink. Delish and adorable!
Game
We just played one short little game that I got
here. Basically, there are 12 ultrasound pictures that they had to guess which part the picture was of. A nice change of pace from eating and guessing baby food flavors. We had a 3 way tie for the winners! Then it was onto gifts. Doesn’t she just look so graceful in the picture. Only Tosha can pull that off at t-minus 4 weeks until baby.
I crocheted this adorable little number for her girly. She requested a “rose” colored hat. Not sure this is exactly the color she had in mind, but I loved it! The pattern can be found
here for the hat and
here for attached flower.
Then at the close of the shower, we just gathered around and prayed for Tosha, the baby, the delivery, her hubby, and her other 2 little people and their transition to a family of 5!
All in all, a great evening with the ladies. We cannot wait to meet the little miss and hear what name you guys have settled on. :)
After I told Owen it was Grandma’s new car, with NO prompting from me he said “goodbye purple van.” I was floored. I had no idea he remembered that my mom drove a purple van. Let along that he could put that together in a sentence. That van has been in our family a long time, 15 years to be exact. But you've never seen a more clean mini van. I still remember sitting in the garage in the van when they first came home with it. It has carted my stuff to move into my dorm at ISU, and then into my apartment in Normal, and then my apartment in Champaign, and then my house in Indiana. It will be sad to say goodbye to the van that our family has taken on many vacations to Michigan. 
I also hope we can take care of our van as long as my parents took care of theirs. And if anyone needs a purple mini van, let me know. They're selling it! It has 185,000 miles on it and has a "modest" oil leak. :)
Welcome to Pinned It, Did It Monday! Each week I try to look through my pins on Pinterest and actually DO a few of them. This week has been filled with tons of cute crafting for 2 baby showers I have this week, but those pictures will have to wait! So this week is my “bathroom edition.” I’ve wanted to try these 2 pins for awhile!
Thanks to my mom and genetics, I have terribly dry heels. It doesn’t matter if it’s winter or summer, they are always dry! So I was excited to see if this pin worked. 
For the next one, I saw this picture and the caption said cheap teeth whitening. I’ve definitely bought commercial teeth whiteners in the past, so I wanted to try this. The short version is that you gargle with 1/2 mouthwash, 1/2 hydrogen peroxide. Then you brush with a toothpaste, baking soda, and water combo.
When that got boring, we got out a “new” toy that Sam hadn’t seen and Owen hasn’t played with in a long time. This brought quite a long time of chasing each other through the tunnel. They were pretty hilarious to watch!
Then we took a break for some music styling's by Owen and Sam on the piano:I think it was safe to say I wore both boys out. (Notice the helicopter in his hand. “UP” is one of his favorite words!)
Since we had made quite the mess, after naptime we did a few “games” to try and teach these boys about cleaning up. At this rate, they’ll be dusting and vacuuming for me in a few weeks. ;) Here they are cleaning the table:
Another great with Sambo, Sammy boy, Super Sam. C&R – any other fun nicknames you have for him? :) See you next week!
My sweet little girl is 4 months old. 1/3 of her first year is done. How in world did that happen? This month is one of my favorites! She’s still little, but is not just watching the world anymore, she wants to participate! 
She nurses about 6-8 times throughout a 24 hour period, which again is textbook. She’s usually a one side nurser, so we just switch back and forth for each feeding. She’s definitely nursing less since she started taking a paci! Yay for my boob not being used her only soothing tool. The nurse prac we saw at her 4 month well baby didn’t even mention food yet and I’m not in any hurry to start like I was with Owen. I’m just enjoying breastfeeding and not thinking about which fruit/veggie she needs to be eating. Maybe in month 5 or 6 we’ll start thinking about this. 
