When your mom owns a store called catching fireflies, you know it’s only a matter of time before she dresses you up as one for Halloween.   I know there are not many years left where I’ll be able to influence Lolo’s costume selection for Halloween so I took advantage of dressing her up as one of our ‘mascots’ this year.  I took a stroll through Michaels for some inspiration and found almost everything .

Miss Marlo has never met a spray bottle she didn’t love so I was quite certain she would have a happy time playing with these pretty primary colors. You most likely already have a few of the ingredients you need to create a colorful sidewalk in your kitchen already.  You could use food coloring to color your concoction or for a more stain friendly option choose washable tempera paints.  I picked up my spray containers at .

Since our lil’ Lolo is almost on her way to being two I thought we could take a shot at dying Easter eggs with her this year. After perusing piles of egg decorating ideas on Pinterest, I decided that the shaving cream method would probably would be the most fun. (classic rookie mom choice, right?) Well, I was definitely right when it came to the fun factor.  She got right into the mix and also .

When it came to deciding on a costume for Lolo’s second Halloween, I wanted something fairly easy to make that was comfortable & cozy and it had to be cute (of course). After perusing high and low for inspiration on pinterest, I decided on a kitty cat for all the above reasons and because she is super curious about EVERYTHING plus she is currently copying most things Steve and I do. The cool thing about this costume is you can use .

Well, look at who is one already!  Lots of things are changing so fast but one constant that remains is Lolo’s cuteness… and I can’t get enough of it.  We celebrated this fun milestone diy style and wanted to share a bit about our happy-happy party. Pinterest might not have been around when I got married, but I’m mighty pleased that I can glean some great ideas from it for lil’ Lolo.  These cupcake toppers caught .

I’ve slowly been working on some fun DIY nursery projects over the past few months to make Lolo’s nursery a wonderland of whimsy.  There is no particular theme for her room but I will say pennants, posies and pom poms are well represented. The first project was dressing up our curtains.  I liked the look of our office curtains so I snatched up some butter colored ones and added pink pom poms to girly them .