I Cannot Convey my Love for Margo Faye

I know I am her mom and I am biased, but our Margo Faye has been a SUPER STAR during the past six months where she has faced so many difficult changes.  We have had some tough moments, but they were few and far between.  Mostly, Margo has been a bright ray of sunshine in what has been one of the toughest transitions of our lives!

First of all, to say that she is a great big sister is an understatement.  She is sweet to David and loves to help, yet understands there are boundaries to how much she can be involved.  She loves to show him his toys, "read" him stories and help feed him his bottle.  She especially loves helping mama, by retrieving a fresh burp cloth, fetching him a toy or putting his clothes away.

Since January, Margo has gone to two new schools, become a big sister and has moved--wow!  I bet a lot of two year olds would really be acting out.  Margo, on the other hand, has seemed to take it all in stride and actually has embraced the changes better than mommy and daddy have--kids are amazing! 

We worked really hard to make the move exciting and make her new playroom special with a new play kitchen and extra cubby shelves.  Cary and I only had two days and David with us to get their rooms set-up, along with the playroom and we did it!  Not to mention, we put a sand table on the back patio to replace her playset.  When she came in and discovered her new house, she was beyond thrilled and still says she likes her new house more, but misses her old playset.  We spend lots of time on the patio, sans mosquitos--yahoo!

So... here is six months in pictures, in no particular order, to show off my beautiful hearted and incredibly resilient little girl!  She makes the long days tolerable with her silly antics and never surprises me with the hilarious things that come out of her mouth.  She still loves to sing and dance, is over Elmo and has moved on to Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, and is smart as a whip.  She knows most of her letters, recognizes her name and has an incredible vocabulary and ability to reason.  She is polite, energetic as heck, , loves dresses, is affectionate and still has a sweet innocence about her that makes my world go round.  Any mom would be madly in love with such an amazing little girl!

Our 1st visit to the park, post-David!

Playing with beans, holy mess!

Our last lunch out before David!

Jumping in puddles!

Playing in GiGi's rocks.

Just being cute in her fave silky PJs.

Loving her big sister gift from Aunt Vicki!

Pinterest Project #1

A love affair with lollipops!

A last playdate with Carter, sigh...

1st Visit to the Georgetown park!

Our 1st lunch date in the new town!

Feeding Cookie play-doh noodles!

1st Popsicle

Pinterest Project #2

Trampoline Park!

One of our last walks in the old hood!

Just like mommy!

Last playdate with Lily... sigh #2

Hanging under the old oak trees--I miss them!

Cute dress #1

Cute dress #2

One of many playdates with Lucas!

Cute dress #3

1st ponytail!

1st dress-up with her own imagination!

Cute dress #4

1st day of new Georgetown school!

Pool time!

Popsicles with Daddy!

Cute dress #5

Cute dress #6
 

Lots of photos , lots of 1st and my oh' my how she has grown in six months!  Brings tears to my eyes, slow down time!

Navy and Green on David's Scene

It is funny how you do things so differently the second time around, or at least I did.  David's room was easy and a lot of fun for me to put together.  Before I even knew I was having a boy, I spotted this sweet little wall hanging at a lovely store in Rice Village, Olivine.  It was only $20 and I fell in love with it, but did not get it at the time.  The literal day I found out it was a boy, I called them and put the last one on hold, then ran and picked it up on my lunch break.

Why elephants?  Not because they happen to be trendy right now, but because Cary loves them and always has.  He has a really neat little collection of elephants that he has been adding to over the years and I most certainly did not want to do a football theme, his other love.  This was Cary's boy, so I wanted it to reflect his personality in some special way.

So, my main goal was to coordinate the chair, aqua ottoman (I intentionally bought incase our 2nd was a boy) and furniture from Margo's room.  I also knew this time that I did not want to spend a fortune on bedding as I was not too impressed with Serena and Lily for Margo.  I was so happy that Pottery Barn Kids came out with basics that almost mirror Serena and Lily.  I am definitely more happy with the bumper and skirt, but am not crazy about the way the sheets fit or their softness.

Nonetheless, I started out wanting to do green and aqua to coordinate the ottoman and the elephant picture.  After showing friends some inspiration, I ended up leaning more towards navy and aqua, which I just couldn't seem to make work and settled on navy and green with aqua accents.  What resulted was my inspiration board which evolved a lot.  I returned the pillow because the colors were not right, picked a different mobile and decal, and got polka dotted sheets.

As with Margo's nursery, I went to ETSY for the decorative items and I love love love the mobile and pictures I found.  The toy bag was an inexpensive find on Amazon after I almost spent a small fortune on a basket at Restoration Hardware.  I bought the white hooks in my original inspiration design from Anthropologie, but returned them when my mother-in-law found some neat wooden ones that provided great contrast.  I purchased an identical bookshelf from PBK that Margo has and reused a Restoration Hardware lamp that was in our guest room.  I also purchased a wall decal with a big letter D and David's name but it does not work in the layout of our new house, so will probably never get used.


His crib in our old house when it was all perfect and bright!



David loves his room!

Crib in the new house, a bit more lived in.

I spent very little time on putting this together and I think it came out great!  I think I might even like it more than I did Margo's nursery.  So I present to you...David''s nursery.  I hope he loves it as much as I do.  One thing is for sure, he loves looking at his mobile and the contrast of the elephant pictures.