Lotte Lu and Brother Too: Spring

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Monday, April 25, 2011

Easter Recap

We had such a wonderful weekend! I loved all the family time and I loved celebrating Lotte's first Easter as a big girl walking!

On Friday we bought our new table and chairs/bench! After we set it all up in the dining room we died eggs. We used the box the table came in on the floor. I figured it would be a messy experience.

On Saturday we had my family over for deserts. I made cookies earlier in the week and each of the women in our family brought a pie or cake. Here was my springy set up.

I used the free printable from The Pink Ink Doodle in my blue frame, and I basically copied Sweet Sugar Belle for my cookies. They turned out better than I expected, but if you look at her amazing work you will never be 100% pleased with yours. This picture doesn't show all my mini cookies, but there were 70 minis and 3.5 dozen regular cookies. I had a blast decorating them. My family really enjoyed eating them!

That's my mom admiring them in the background!

On Sunday morning we got up early to have breakfast, hunt eggs and get ready for church.

Little girl's breakfast...Bunny shaped toast, her name Easter egg, plain yogurt with her special holiday topping (bunny pastel marshmallows). The most fun was the pink milk with a silly straw!

Here she is hunting eggs in the living room because it has been raining for a week!

The Easter Bunny hid their baskets in the bathroom! Silly Bunny!

Last year I convinced my husband to allow me to order Lotte a Pottery Barn basket. But it was too late and they were out of the ones that I wanted. So I found this basket at Michael's for $13.00. A friend at work has an embroidery machine and was nice enough to put her name on it for me.

I found a matching basket this year for Brother! It was 50% off when I bought it.

Things were a little different this year and we couldn't have Easter Dinner at my aunt's house like normal so we had brunch up at the country club.

Lotte and one of her favorite cousins.

LOVE this picture

Here is a picture of her full dress. So perfect.

And just so you know...Brother was there too!

After brunch we spent time with my husband's family and we came home much earlier than normal. We just hung out the four of us all evening. It was a perfect weekend. I hope everyone's was as nice as ours!

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Easter Goodies for a Healthier Eater

I have been a busy busy little ~~Easter Bunny~~ Mommy.

But first I have a confession to make...I am completely NUTz about what my daughter eats. She has had some weird weight issues since she was 3 months old. She was VERY little her first year of life (less than the 5th percentile). She weaned herself from nursing at 11 months and the doctor requested we put her on formula until she was 15 months. During that time frame she went from the 5th percentile to the 75 percentile. She isn't FAT or OVERWEIGHT, but she is a bit bigger than she should be for her height. We went through a big ordeal with the doctor about 3 months ago where we had to keep a food log of her everyday diet. The doctor looked at it and I quote, "Wow, she wouldn't have a better diet if June Cleaver where her mother." We want our daughter to be getting as much nutrition from her food as she needs, and we don't want her filling up on the things she doesn't need to grow the right way.

That's not to say that she has NEVER had a treat. But the poor little thing has only had chocolate twice in her 21 month old life (once without my permission). Her first processed sugary treat was literally her birthday cake. She cried when we took it away!

I do this because I want to give her the best start I can. I want her to have a healthy relationship with food because it is delicious and nutritious, not because it is covered in sugar to make it taste awesome.

Enough rant, this brings me to my dilemma. Holidays and events are difficult to buy for.

Every Easter basket and plastic egg is usually filled with m&ms or peanut butter eggs. What do you do if you don't feed your child jelly beans?

Well here is what I am doing this year.

Some of the eggs won't be eggs. I found these Capri Suns that are 100% juice. So I wrapped a ribbon around for a fun find!

I also have put several small toys in her eggs. I love these little stuffed animals. She has a few horses already, but she will love these additions.

For the treats I used a technique I have seen all over the blogworld. You take two pieces of wax paper and sew it together (leaving a filling hole), fill it with goodies and then finish sewing it up! Super easy. Not only does it keep the snacks from getting wet from dew or popping out in the grass, but because they are sewn together I can monitor how fast Little Lotte is snacking on her snacks.

They fit nicely in the regular sized plastic eggs.

The various treats I have sewn up are...
Animal Crackers
Annie's Bunnies (like goldfish crackers only organic and bunny shaped :)
Annie's Bunnies Fruit Snacks
Gerber Melt Aways
Raisins (I bought mini boxes and they will fit into large eggs)

This is just some of her haul!

So there are my healthier Easter goody ideas for you. Sorry such a long post!

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Saturday, April 16, 2011

Lotte's Ruffle Chickie Shirt

So there is still a week until Easter and if you are like me then you still have 100 things to do or that you want to do. Here is one thing checked off my list!

A local photographer offered a mini-session at her studio for spring. It was a GREAT deal...and the background was a cute little wooden dock with a duck pond and BABY DUCKIES!!! So I had to have a cute outfit for Lotte to wear.

I had to go with the chick/duckie theme...so here is what I came up with!

Amy at Positively Splendid made THIS adorable egg shirt! Lately I've been obsessed with ruffles and so I decided on a variation of this for our photo shoot!

Amy's tutorial is very well done and I'm going to ship you over there if you need to learn how to make and assemble the ruffles. I did make my ruffles a little "rufflier", so my stripes were a little longer.

Here are my ruffles. I alternated solid yellow with a patterned yellow.

I used my biggest egg shaped cookie cutter as a stencil.

I didn't have any interfacing on hand, so I sewed my ruffles onto felt.

I just did a lot of pinning to make sure there wasn't any movement.

I used orange ric rac for legs. They were pinned under the ruffles before I started sewing.

I left them dangly, but you could hot glue the on.

Finally, I sewed on some button eyes and a felt beak.

Here is the finished product coupled with a cute yellow tutu!

I love this girl!

And everyone loves a tutu bottom!

Here is one last look at the close up! It was fabulous for pictures...the photographer loved it, and so did the duckies! Thanks Amy for the inspiration!