A few great giveaways...

Doodlebug Bows Giveaway
First of all, I want to encourage everyone with a little girl or who knowns someone with a little girl to enter this giveaway!  My friend Emily @ Doodlebug Bows is my official bow person.  We have bought lots of Calla-bows from her, and I can't wait to buy my next fall clippies -a pumpkin and a turkey!  The prices are all reasonable (which encourages me even more!) and they are great quality and very cute. 

So, Doodlebug has a great giveaway, which at this point has low entries so far & lots of ways to enter, so that means great odds!!!  She is giving away one of her adorable hand-made costumes (I'm hoping I win the ladybug, something Calla can use for dress-up any time of year!), a $40 value, and has paired up with an awesome photographer, Clear Creek Images, who is giving away a mini photo shoot.  Check out the giveaway by clicking this link:  Doodlebug Bows Awesome Giveaway!

The Baby Store Plus Giveaways
There are several giveaways I'm entering at the Baby Store Plus.  I already blogged about one that is for a Medela pump.  Still hoping to win that one!  I already won one of their giveaways last week for a Medela gift set and gift card to the Baby Store Plus and received it in the mail soon after. 

* The first giveaway is Phase 2 of the one I already won.  It is for an Easy Expression Pumping Bustier.  Any of you nursing or someday nursing mommmies would love to win this one - it has low entries and great odds of winning.  Check it out here:  http://thebabystoreplus.blogspot.com/2010/09/phase-2-blog-hop-with-easy-expression.html

*The next one is for an Undercover Mama nursing shirt, which looks like something I'd love!  It makes any shirt a nursing shirt!  Check it out here: http://thebabystoreplus.blogspot.com/2010/09/undercover-mama-makes-any-shirt-nursing.html#comment-form

Survey Junkie Review & Giveaways

The last giveaway I'm hoping to win (for the moment!) is at the Survey Junkie's site.  They are giving away a Medela Pump in Style Advanced.  Can you tell I'm preparing for a little someone to bless my life soon?!? 

Check out the giveaway here:  Win a Medela Pump in Style Advanced Pump

Check out Medela here:  Medela Rocks!  

Medela Giveaways @ The Baby Store Plus

Now I don't usually post about other people's giveaways, but I'm super excited about this one and hoping that I have a shot at winning!  The Baby Store Plus is having an awesome giveaway event for the month of September, called "Breastfeeding is Best for All Babies," where they are giving away several breastfeeding items - a Medela Pump in Style Breastpump, a Medela Giftset & Giftcard to the Baby Store Plus, as well as other accessories.  Now that baby number two is on its way, I'm starting to think about nursing and stuff we will need.  I encourage all you mommies and mommy-to-be's to enter the giveaways, because there are lots of ways to earn entries.  I have to tell you that I have won LOTS of stuff from entering blog giveaways.   I haven't entered any in a while, been too busy, but this is worth it!  Checkout this event at this link: The Baby Store Plus Breastfeeding Event

So part of entering is me telling you why I think that "Breastfeeding is Best for All Babies."  I am a little uncomfortable with saying, "all babies," because I have heard of lots of situations where it was best not to breastfeed. I am just thankful that the Lord gave me 9 months of nursing Calla.  It was not easy.  Especially the first month.  We struggled.  I cried.  A lot.  Calla had to be supplemented.  But with a supporting husband and Mom and church friends, Calla and I were able to figure it out.  I think it was best for us, primarily for the special Mommy/Baby time we got together, as it was a role that only I could fill, and I think I really got to know Calla during those months.  Also, the cost - it's free!  When I finally had to start giving her formula, it was about $75 a month or so, depending on coupons.  Calla never got sick while nursing - I'm sure from the benefit of my immunities.  I have friends who couldn't breastfeed and spend every few hours hooked up to a pump.  Not fun. But I admire their resolve!   I hope that with the new little baby, I can have a good pump, so that even if I can't nurse, my baby can still benefit! 

To enter the giveaways:
1) Medela Pump in Style Giveaway
2) Medela Breast Care Pack & $20 gift card to The Baby Store Plus

                   

My Little Lemon - 14 Weeks

We have a lemon!  Our little growing baby is now the size of a lemon.  It was a peach last week, and I guess a lemon is bigger then a peach?  Maybe I buy big peaches and small lemons.  Anyways, it is now about 3 1/2 inches.  Big events in the life of the baby this week: growing hair and a roof of the mouth.  I am officially in my second trimester!  It goes by more quickly with your second, I think! 

Berp and Ernie

Calla has been watching Sesame Street every morning with Mommy.  She learned Elmo right away, and started getting excited and saying his name every time she would see him anywhere.  Well, she has Sesame Street characters on her diapers, and since the day she discovered this, she started replacing the previously-used word "diaper" with "Elmo."  She surprised me this week when she named two of the other characters on the diaper.  Bert and Ernie!  Except she is overusing what speech therapists would call the "final p."  This means she is putting the "p" sound at the end of a lot of words.  So, "Bert" sounds like "Berp," which I don't think I am going to encourage her to change for a while!  Too cute! 

13 Weeks

Today, the little person growing inside me has reached the size of a little peach.  How fitting for my little Georgia peach!  The baby is hard at work, this week making little bones and vocal cords.*  The baby already has fingerprints, veins, and if it is a girl, she has more than 2 million eggs in her ovaries!**  I am feeling so much better this week - I actually cleaned and did dishes yesterday, talk about progress!

*http://www.whattoexpect.com/pregnancy/week-by-week/week-13.aspx

**http://www.babycenter.com/6_your-pregnancy-13-weeks_1102.bc

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