Parenting In Plaid.

I'm a plaid wearing, Jesus praising, no fucks giving, boo-boo kissing working mama to a little girl named Adalynn, running on caffeine, chaos and cuss words. Bear with me now, I'm new to this whole motherhood thing.

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Happy (late post) Halloween!!

Birdie was a unicorn and I was a 20 minute cat, because that's how little time I spent on this costume. As you can tell. There were a few trick-or-treat and trunk-or-treat things happening around town, but Covid so, ya, we didn't partake. Instead we went to my bosses house who Birdie just absolutely looooves and had a little Halloween get together with the LTs who also came and their two year old son. It was cute. Captain J put together the cutest candy apple bar and the kids just snacked and played and handed out little cups of candy to masked trick-or-treaters while we watched OSU lose to Texas (hahaha) and two minutes of Alabama spanking MS State (Roll Tide Roll!!). They wouldn't let me watch the whole game because they said there was no point in watching a shut out game. Whatever. Cry babies.

All in all it was a sweet Halloween and the kiddos had fun!

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Birdie is so beautiful! Please bless the world with another one!

Awww that's very sweet of you to say, thank you. One day 😊

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Catching the leaves changing colors before winter sneaks in.

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This child.

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Natural bridge.

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She got it from her Mama.

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When you live in nature's playground. I just love Virginia.

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Channeling her inner Anne of Green Gables.

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Adventures with lieutenant Matias.

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BE ST

FRI ENDS

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Her bestie C, back in Santa Barbara has the other piece of the heart.

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So fresh.

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The first time we brought Birdie to Virginia, we took her to this park in Roanoke, in a beautiful old brick homes, giant trees, Southwest neighborhood that I declared I would one day live in. Guess who lives up the street from that park now, four years later.

I will miss my country home with it's quiet windy roads and miles of trees and rows of little white wooden Baptist Churches, but this house, is just perfect. Brick, two stories, two bedrooms and bathroom, hardwood floor, chandelier in the dining room, basement, front yard and backyard. It's in a quite neighborhood with kids for Birdie to play with, a vintage used bookstore, tucked away in a corner coffee shop and a built in the 1930s movie theater, just a mile away.

I picked up the keys today and drove away from our new house smiling and crying because wow, just wow.

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Genetics are wild.

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Hey, when Birdie was a baby what was your reasons for delaying giving real food? And did she drop bottles before she had real food ?

We wanted her breastfed as long as possible for health, growth and developmental benefits. We did baby led weaning and still nursed 2x a day, then went to 1x, then weaned her completely somewhere around 2.5 years? I'll be honest though, a big reason for delaying solids was also because I had severe PPD. I was convinced that she would choke and die. It was terrible. I can't remember if she was using a bottle at all when she was moving to solids. She didn't use them all too much, but perhaps.

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Attention parents!!!

Fall outfits have hit the stores 🙌🏻😂

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Double the cars, double the kid snacks and toys monopolizing the back. We put the car seat in the back of the new car, who Birdie has named Rainbowy, so I can have a break from being the child chauffeur. Hallelujah!

Also, super annoying, I just took mine to get detailed. Then checked the weather. That was a waste of $30.