Minted Inspiration Boards - Fun Project

i am here board by Aisha. See more modern birth announcements

Minted.com is currently having a contest for birth announcement inspiration boards. I had so much fun creating this one. I'm a huge fan of the website. I've used them the past few years for my Happy New Year card for 2012 and I recently created a birth announcement/happy new year card this past January. I love their designs and have had wonderful experience with their customer service.
Hopefully you enjoy this board as much as I did creating it.
wish me luck....

2 months and smiling

Kai turned 2 months today and I finally got him smiling on camera. He's been smiling the last few weeks, especially when he sees Mila. Of course I tried all morning to get him to smile but Mila would dive in and give him a kiss so each video ends with her big bundle of hair. Here I finally got him smiling after I changed him. He's such a sweet boy and I know he's going to be patient, loving and kind to his sister.

Daddy Prince

I kept Mila home today from school since she's had a tough few weeks of sleep and woke up with a runny, stuffy nose. I decided to let her watch a movie to get her a relax (yeah right, Mila sit still) and we decided to watch The Princess and the Frog. We just wrapped a whole weekend of Princess Partying so I figured, why not, let's bring on the Princess love. Mila surprisingly sat through the entire movie and had a ton of questions along the way. She really wanted to see Tiana and not the frog Tiana, and was ecstatic at the end when the frogs kissed and turned into a Prince and Princess. This was all fine and dandy until Mila started asking questions of where her Prince was. The conversation lead into how I found my Prince (Daddy) and that one day she would find her own Prince. She was content with that answer for about a minute until she wanted to see pictures from our wedding. We have a little paper book of photos from our wedding but today I asked Mila if she wanted to see our wedding video. Delighted, Mila sat down to watch pictures and video from our wedding. Here are some of the quotes from our conversation. I had to write them all down as we were talking since they were so cute!

"Oh Mom, you look so beautiful" (especially since these days I'm usually wearing sweat pants that Mila disapproves of me wearing)
"I like you Mama Bride"
"Who was watching Kai and me while you were at the wedding?"
"Where are your shoes?"
"Can I have your dress and sparkly necklace?"
"You and Daddy were dancing, did he twirl you?"
"I like your dance moves, everyone is twirling"

"Mom, your earrings are so sparkly, can I have them?" Boohoo, this lead to another conversation of why I don't have my earrings anymore. I had to explain someone came into our house and stole them and how sad I've been and how people do mean things.
Mila looking puzzled "well Mom, didn't you have your name on your earrings?" "They didn't take my earrings" Oh no Mila, you were smart and kept your earrings on...  "We can buy you some more jewels" "Mom, do you cry about your jewels?" Oh Mila, I cry about them all the time. "Does Daddy cry, Gogo cry?" Yes, Mila everyone is sad about my jewels.. "Dora cries when the swipper takes things too".

As Fab was leaving tonight she calls out "Goodnight Daddy Prince!"

Just melts my heart...


And to wrap it up, she had to try on my wedding shoes!

A week of Pictures

Rainbow colors

Not sure who gave us this onesie but it makes me laugh

Her Starbucks outfit WOW

smiles

In my effort to take a picture a day of the kids, I think I'm off to a good start. I'm hoping I can continue this for a year... mostly because I feel time is flying by and my memory isn't as good as it used to be. I don't want to forget some of these amazing moments I have with my kids... even on the days when I want to pull my hair out and scream... at the end of the day I feel so blessed to have such fun, loving and excited little ones in our house.

Princess Dance

Mila and her friends dancing at the princess party... so sweet to see them together!

Princess Party

OMG! One of Mila's classmates from school had a princess tea birthday party at this special place in Beverly Hills called Oliva's Tea House.  It is every little girls dream house and every parents worst nightmare... there were more princess costumes, chotchkies, princess dolls, and pink than I could ever imagine. Mila and her friends had so much fun dressing up, getting their hair, nails and make up done and having a fashion show. They then enjoyed lemonade tea and dessert. It was cute to see Mila interact with her friends and enjoy some time with them, so I was happy we went. The girls were in heaven and had so much fun, which was all that mattered... even though I still have daggers from some of the stuff that was hanging on the walls there!

Legos

The past few weeks, Mila's really been into her Legos.  We were so excited she is finally enjoying some of her xmas gifts. We think her interest in them has come about after playing with them at school.  Fab and I were shocked to see Mila's first creation and both asked each other if we did it for her. After realizing neither of us helped build her creation, we laughed and gave her all the credit. Here is one of her first creations.  So cool to see her little mind in action.