Twelve years already

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Apparently I’ve been at this same blog, same name, with varying formats for twelve years. A lot has happened in my life during that time. My relationship with my now-husband was only a few months old when this blog started after I ditched my LiveJournal I had owned for about 8 years. Wow. I have […]

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Baby Margaret – Nine Months Update

This post contains affiliate links. 9 months old Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, our sweet little nugget of a firstborn turned 9 months old! When we took her in to the pediatrician, we were actually headed to my parents for the Christmas holiday. I was a little crestfallen by her stats, but the Pediatrician was great […]

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Baby Margaret – Eight Month Update

Margaret at eight months, taken on November 22, 2017 This post contains affiliate links We started the month by celebrating Halloween with our sweet little girl, her first outside the womb, and since she is too small for trick-or-treating we had fun dolling her up in this sweet Halloween outfit: Her outfit was from Toys […]

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Baby Margaret – Seven Month Update

This post contains affiliate links. I feel like she is just so joyful and ready to leap off the page here! All legs still, sweet girl. Laying on a Aden + Anais muslin swaddle blanket (similar here and here). With Fall in full swing, we had a busy agenda for several weeks as we approached […]

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Baby Margaret – Six Month Update

This post contains affiliate links.     By the time our sweet baby girl turned six months old, we had the travel-and-outings-with-baby routine down.   During that sixth month we did our first long vacation with my family… Similar swimsuit here and here. …to the Outer Banks which you all know is almost a second […]

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Baby Margaret – Five Month Update

This post contains affiliate links. Margaret at 5 months. She’s at a stage where she doesn’t want to stay put – she wants to lunge forward when I do these posed yet candid photos with her for her monthly update pics – I love those stickers – hers are iron-on but here is a sweet […]

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Baby Margaret – Four Month Update

Baby MCVA – July 22, 2017 This post will include affiliate links.   Our sweet girl has reached four months of age at the time of this photo – so July 22, 2017. She loved being propped up on my Boppy nursing pillow at this point, sitting up with some support behind her and playing […]

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Vacation 2018 – Day 2 at The Sea Pines Resort

Well the RBC Heritage weekend has come and gone for about a week, but during our recent family vacation last month we enjoyed a few days on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, and more specifically at The Sea Pines Resort! We arrived right after they had put up the bleachers for the tournament. Baby Margaret […]

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Baby Margaret – Three Month Update

This post has affiliate links. Ahhh there’s our sweet girl. Three whole months at this point, last June 2017. Less than a year ago. It was a beautiful time of day when I took these photos. She was in a playfully mellow mood, learning to wave. The sun was filtering in so nicely through the […]

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Baby Margaret – Two Month update

I cannot get over how absolutely darling she looks in this two month old photo! It’s funny that I’m publishing this post now, which I plan to do with all of her other month updates – just to have them preserved here and I can also print them to put in her baby book. I […]

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