My Favorite Shabby Apple Dress + $10 Off

Shabby Apple is one of my favorite dress shops these days. They make cute, modest, affordable dresses and I love that I never have to add a cardigan to make them "work."

Shabby Apple just released a new line of called the Sidesaddle collection. I'm in love! My favorite dress right now would have to be the Side Saddle dress itself -it's so whimsical and feminine. I love it! (Just give me a few months to push this baby out and it's all mine.)



Right now, in honor of Halloween, you can get $10 off any orange or black dress at Shabby Apple when you enter code TREAT at checkout!


Listen up, bloggers: You can get a free $10 gift card to Shabby Apple for writing a post about your favorite dress! Simply add the Shabby Apple button to your blog, write your post and then email jlebaron{at}shabbyapple{dot}com with your link!

23 Week Belly Pic

It's about time, no?

{Click HERE to see my 21 week pic with Emme}

Pregnancy Statistics
How far along? 23w2d (21w2d in this picture)
Gender: Boy
Current Cravings: Nothing. Not even junk. (Which is so unlike me.) But yet I'm hungry all the time.
Weight gain: +7 lbs
Best moment this week: Staying up late one night and it made me so tired I slept all through the night without having to get up and go to the bathroom! Bliss. Oh, and having to add THIS to my wardrobe. About 6 weeks earlier than last time around. Ugh, not so blissful.
Belly button in or out: In
Labor signs: Zilch
What I miss: Sleeping on my stomach
What I'm looking forward to: Getting the nursery set up (which means swapping Emme's crib furniture into the new nursery and getting her a big-girl bed).

Once the morning sickness finally left, I've been feeling so good. I'm just itching to clean-clean-clean. Probably because nothing got cleaned for like 3 months while I laid on the couch. So there is much to do.

Emme is going to be the sweetest big sister, I can already tell. She talks about the "baby brover" in mama's tummy all the time. We've already discussed how she wants to give baby brother her crib when he comes so she can have a big girl bed, and also how she's going to give baby brother her diapers when he comes so she can have her (my little) pony panties. What a sweetheart.

We bought a chair for the nursery a few weeks ago and it's set up in Emme's room while we get the nursery next door ready for it. Every morning when I get her out of the crib she points to brother's chair and talks about it. She calls it pretty and wants to sit on it all the time.

Perhaps the funniest part of Emme's association with brother is where exactly he is inside mama right now. If I ask her to point to baby brother, she walks over and pokes my boob. Um, not quite, but my family thinks it's hilarious! My neighbor pointed out that right now, those are still bigger than my stomach, so maybe it's confusing to her? Lets hope she gets the hang of it as baby brother grows!

Tigers Hit

Emme and I decided to take advantage of the nice weather this week and head to the zoo for a morning. The temperature was perfect and the crowds were nonexistent (since all the kids are back in school now). Yay!

We got to do a few of the things we never do at the zoo in the summer (because it's just too crowded), like sit on the wooden horses. Who knew they were so exciting?



Emme was super excited about the giraffe's for some reason. She even requested a picture by them. (No joke.)


All summer long the tiger's have been MIA when we go to the zoo. Either they're cleaning the cages or the tigers are sleeping way up in the woods because of the heat. When we stopped by today, BOTH tigers were in their pool, splashing and playing with each other. It was so neat!

At one point, the tigers were playfully swatting at each other with their paws.

This is Emme being very disturbed that the "tigers hit." Because at our house, hitting = timeout. It was very upsetting, and she talked about it the whole rest of the day, ha ha.

We've also never ridden the train before, so we decided to go for a ride today. Emme had a blast, as she loves trains and cars. I couldn't even get her to look at the camera -- there was too much else to see.
And of course, no zoo visit would be complete without mom sitting in the shade on a bench while Emme splashes in the water-ball-thingy.

Golfing & TV's

We attended the annual PMBA Golf Tournament again this year. It's always fun to get to catch up with Chris's friends/study buddies from MBA school. The men get to golf all day and the wives join for dinner and a short program with prizes. Such fun!

{Seth & Sarah & baby #3}

{Chris & Annalisa & baby #2}

{Collin & Jacci}

{Andy & Janeal}

I don't want to say this was the highlight of the evening -- because we all know how much I love to chat it up with the ladies -- but Chris won the grand prize in the raffle that night.

A new TV! We've been watching TV in our bedroom on a tiny little 12-incher because it's never a priority to pimp out your own bedroom when you've got kiddos on the way. Chris was so excited about it that he ripped it open and set it up in our bedroom that very night, and we stayed up til almost midnight watching TV on our glorious screen. Wohoo. Can't wait for next year's tournament!

You Know You're A Mom When...

You know you're a mom when you've caught warm puke from your child's mouth in the palm of your hands.

And then you praise yourself for being such a good catch!

Yup, that happened this day.


And also this day, we woke up from our nap in a pile of said puke. Too bad mom wasn't there to catch it that time! Poor little thing.

Cheese!

That is all.

Melanie Rice Photography Portrait Session Giveaway!

Chris's cousin, Melanie Rice, is hosting a photography session giveaway on her blog! It runs now through Saturday at 10 PM. Go HERE to enter.


Melanie did Emme's 6-month photo shoot, and I just loved how the photos turned out. She is so talented! And her newborn sessions are absolutely to die for!