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The whole month of March was dedicated to this...an ABC quiet book! Something I've been wanting to make for a long time. It was fun to have help from Tay and my mother in law also made the cover (last picture) which turned out awesome. My sister, Amber also made one with me and we had lots of fun figuring out what we wanted for each letter. 

A: Animals (finger puppets :)   

B: Buckle                            C: Clock (hands move) 

D: Dolls (lots of fun matching outfits to snap on the dolls)

E: Eggs (snap the matching color/texture with each egg)

F: Flowers (button on the petals)

 G: Gumballs (velcro gumballs)

H: Hands (put your hands inside)

I: Ice cream (snap on the flavors)

J: Jewels (match the shape of jewel and velcro on)

K: Kite (braid the tail)              L: Laces (lace the shoe)

M: Mailbox (write a note and put the flag up and down)

 N: Numbers (velcro on and count or put any combo on :)

O: Ocean (move the fish back and forth)

P: Picnic (take off the basket, open, and set up the blanket and dishes)

Q: Quilt (weave in and out and button)  R: Robot (move the arms/legs)

S: Seasons (snap on the season...I put on some of each one below...

                              T: Train (hook/unhook and move around the cars)

U: Umbrella (move the raindrops up and down)  V: Vest (button vest)

W: Wheels (rotate wheels around)            X: X marks the spot...

...you can take off the map and lace from each landmark following the key (landmarks can be rotated)

Y: Yummy (eat the fruits and veggies in the bowl and enjoy...notice the tribute to our alma mater)

Z: Zippers (have fun zipping and unzipping)

Outside case and front and back inside covers. Case made by Debbie and Taylor (a big thanks to them!). The tongue of the frog rolls in and out (has 2011 C. W. written on it). C. W. for Cami Weight :) Back cover has upper and lower case alphabet in pockets and can put them on the velcro to spell things or sing the ABC's. 

...and there it is...walah! A lot of work but I hope my children someday all enjoy it.

Matchy Matchy

 Christine and Garrett and their little baby boy Thomas came out for his baby blessing and it was so fun to see them together. It gave me a little bit of a foreshadowing of what it will be like with baby boy #2.

 Look how cute they are in their baby matching pjs. We had to work hard to keep Bridger from wrestling Thomas. 

He gave him the sweetest kiss when he was all sad. Hopefully he will be nice and sweet with his own little baby brother. :)

Happy Ten Month Bridger and Happy 7 month to me

Being 7 months pregnant now, I have been having a hard time staying up on things. The only things I have been doing is spending time with Tay and Bridger and crafting a lot (my way of nesting :). Hopefully soon I will put up more posts, but for now I wanted to share these...

I can't believe how much Bridger is growing up and along the way he has just given us so much joy and makes us laugh daily. He is one spunky fun boy and has so much personality! As you can see from the following pictures he has many fun faces to share. Thanks again to our awesome friend photographer Alyssa Vincent

This is one of Bridger's favorite faces to make as he also makes the sound "Oh". He probably does is 50 times a day. He is very interested in everything around him.

This picture was after we took him off of the rocking chair, as you can see from below he loved it and was very content to just rock and rock...

Ok so these will be the last naked boy pictures of Bridger since he will be turning one soon, but we had to do it one more time while he was still a little baby because... well he is so darn cute naked! :)

He loves to clap and dances so cute. We will have to be better at posting video too. 

He was having a blast

Good job Bridger, making sure you're all modest. 

Once again, his favorite face!

He does this cute cheesy smile all the time...especially to strangers like he's trying to make a new friend. It's the funniest thing.

I love this one. So cute...look at those pretty eyes!

We love you Bridger and can't wait to have you share your fun personality and love with your little baby brother! 

Saved the best for last. Just tasted the trunk. I love it.

Happy 9 months!

Bridger is such a joy and I can't believe how much he has grown and developed in the last few months. He crawls all over the place now and climbs up on anything he can reach. He loves it too and is getting to be such a strong little guy.

He also has two teeth on the bottom! Here he is sticking his tongue out because he loves to feel his teeth. more pics of his cute teethy smile to come :)

Bridger is also so good at giving "kisses" and gives us many a day. Tay and I can't get enough of them and Bridger will go back and forth between us and give us all the kisses we want.

Having fun with family and friends! (Cousin Brady above, Girlfriend Charlotte below)

What a little stud!

Tried his first and only (so far) piece of candy and as you can see he loved it. (Don't worry I only gave him a couple of tastes)

Loves making different faces now and mimicks really well

Gets into everything...such an adventurer

Loves going on walks but not so much playing in the snow just yet...

He went from doing this all the time (peeking at us when we came to get him from a nap) to now standing up and holding onto the side with a big smile on his face, waiting for us to come and get him. Sometimes Tay and I race to see who can get him first from a nap because it's so fun to see his big smiling face!

Being silly and having fun are some of Bridger's favorite things to do. He is such a happy boy and always has such a big smile on his face. We love you B-ridge!

Can't stop at one...

As we were changing Bridger, he got into his q-tips on the changing table... it was so cute, we let him go all out

Look at that cute chubba! I just want to eat him!

Such a good sharer!

Now we use q-tips to entertain him often :)