Bargain Shopping Weekend

If you know me at all you know I am a bargain shopper. Chris was out of town all weekend and Brooke decided to get up bright & early Saturday morning. I decided to gargage saleing. Tiburon is the subdivision down from us and they were having a community gargage sale. I found Brooke a few toys and stuffed animals and then I got a house of lady with a little girl. She and I were talking and she asked me if I knew anything about the Reruns are Fun sale. I told her yes and that it just past a few weeks ago she told me she had tons of smocked dresses in her attic if I wanted to look at them.....ummm yeah. Now I am not sure if the Smocked dresses are a Southern thing, my June baby friends can tell me. Smocked dresses are very big here in Louisiana...that along with a big bow to match. I ask this because I have friend that is from Ohio and she has a 1 year old...she said that she could not go anywhere at home and find dresses like that. She had never even seen them until she moved here. Anyway, I got her a Thanksgiving, Her next Birthday dress, Her Easter dress and 2 that were just cute. These dresses range from 50.00-80.00 a piece and I paid......(Drumroll)......10.00 a piece. She had some really cute ones...probably thousands of dollars worth. I also was a hunt this weekend for some lightweight cotton pants for daycare and some t-shirts for Brooke...she has went thru a growth spurt recently and everything looks like a half shirt. I got her the cutest pair of boots at the Childrens Place outlet in the Boardwalk sooo cute. I have included pics of all and some of my little monkey climbing in and out of the stroller. I swear she has No Fear.









We have a climber!! We climb on anything and everything.




My Bargain Boots from Childrens Place 5.99

Thanksgiving

Birthday Dress

Easter 2009 Dress

Tinkerbell

I just loved this one

The Whole Loot

Sunday at the Duckpond

Yesterday I decided to take Brooke to the Duckpond Park. Chris went to play golf and we went to feed the ducks and play. We got there at 10AM but the ducks must have been full (I actally think they stay full as many people feed them) but they ate very little and Brooke just stared at them. She did have fun on the swings and the slide but of course her favorite things was riding in her car and climbing on the stairs to the slide....we LOVE to climb. Last night Chris and I was hanging pictures and had the 4 step ladder out and she wanted to climb and we kept telling her No-No!! I am sure in her mind she was thinking "Why was ok earlier today and not now" but we moved past it and entertained her with something else less dangerous. I have included LOTS of pictures from yesterday...one of her eating strawberry fruit snacks from Target...they might as well be gold as much as Brooke likes them...she cries and gives me the package when she is done...she loves loves them...so glad they are only 1.50 a box. I love it when I find something she likes. Oh, one more thing I made Barb's chicken salad Thursday night for my lunch and Brooke ate 2 bowls and then started licking the bowl after she was done. Last night I gave her some on crackers (because we would not eat what I cooked her) and she would take a bite them go Mmmmm and then take another bite and Mmmmmm so cute.

Oh Fearless One

Saturday was our friends little girls birthday. Samantha was turning 2 and her Mom had her party at Critter Company. It's a really neat place for a party. It is a pet store and they have a party room. They bring in all kind of different animals for the kids to see and pet etc. The first animal they brought out was an Armadillo...all the kids were scared of it except for my child and she walks over in the middle of all the kids and picks it up and starts walking off with it....after I picked my jaw up off the floor I chased after her...as did the lady that was talking about it. So, she takes the armadillo from Brooke and holds it so Brooke can check it out. In my amazement of the situation, I forgot to take a picture but I think my friend Robin may have snagged one. They also had a Bearded Dragon that they put on Brooke's head like a hat...she was not scared of it either. And last they brought out a puppy, most of the kids liked it...by this time Brooke had entertained herself playing under the table, so the lady who has now named my child "Oh Fearless One" brought the puppy to her to pet. We had ice cream and cupcakes and got a fish and in fishbowl as a party favor...so now we are on a misson for a name for our new fish.



Why, Yes...that is a Bearded Dragon on her head!!



Sweet Puppy!!


My Future is so bright...I got to wear Shades.

Picture Day

Friday was Fall picture day at Brooke's daycare so even though it is still 90 degrees outside...we dressed for fall for a brief time Friday morning. I can't wait to get them back and see how they turn out. She looked so cute in her hot pink dress...I had her bow made to match, it turned out a little bigger than I thought but was still cute.

Mommy look what I learned to do

Not to much new....really loving the weather. Our high has been in the mid 80s the last few days and every day gets a hotter but its still better than 90-100. Because of the cooler weather we have been spending a lot more time outside in evenings playing ball or ridin on our toys. Brooke got a 4-wheeler from my Aunt & Uncle for her birthday and she is just now getting the hang of holding the button down to get it to go. In the video she almost hits our dog Fatboy and then she laughs when he jumps over the front of it...I got tickled too.