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    I am a stay at home mom/full time business owner. We (my husband and I) run a business out of our home, all while juggling our 3 year old Baron. It works, however, it does get a little crazy at times and I have had several moments of telling customers to please excuse the screaming child that wants anything and everything. Some days I am shocked that we were able to do what we are doing and still provide but I thank God for each and every day that we are able to continue this.

    A friend of mine opened my eyes to blogging (Thank you Kristi!). I thought it was a great idea to document the day in the life of our little miracle all while allowing far away family and friends to peer into our lives and see the progress with Baron. It literally opened another chapter in my life and created a new hobby of tweaking and fine tuning my little baby that was created.

    With the creation of the blog, and me trolling other sites for more information on how to make my blog better, I kept noticing these amazing pictures that others were posting on their sites. The clarity was unreal. That in turn, started another chapter about photography. I bought my first DSLR camera and started to duplicate what others were creating until I could stand on my own.

    My husband is my biggest supporter of all. I can't imagine not being able to run my crazy ideas by him. He gives me the biggest push to continue to use my creative side and not be afraid to go there. I love him for that.

05-17-2012

Batter Up

Baron has his first Baseball game a week and a half ago. He looked so stinkin’ cute in his uniform. I still can’t believe that he’s started baseball. He has had several practices before the first game and I wasn’t really holding out much hope. He’s on a team of 5-6 year olds and he just turned 4, one of the youngest. We showed up to the first practice to see a father throwing pop flys to his son and he was catching it. I would be lucky if Baron would keep his glove on long enough to actually attempt to catch the ball. On one occasion, the kids were lined up across from each other throwing the ball back and forth. Baron not really paying attention, knowing the ball was coming but not hard, had his glove up near his chest in preparation for the incoming ball. He didn’t realize that you actually have to move the glove to catch the ball. So, instead of trying to catch the ball or even dodging from it so he doesn’t get hit, gets hit, square in the face. Poor kid, he was fine but a little socked that it would do such a thing. Don’t get me started on batting…he swings the bat like he’s going to make the ball mad for hitting it. Drives me insane to watch BUT I know this is just the beginning and I know that he will get better. He has to…

So the first game rolls around and Baron is somewhat excited. It just happened to fall on a pretty hot day with record temps and they’re game was at 1.30pm, right in the middle of nap time. We arrive and they are all warming up and Baron does too. Since this is technically t-ball, they only play two innings (phew) where everyone gets to bat each time. Our team was up first and Baron was batting 4th. They pitch 5 balls to them and then if they can’t hit that, then the tee is brought out. Each time Baron stepped up to the plate I was praying he would hit the ball and thankfully both times he did. Hooray! Once it was time for our team to take the field, Baron was placed right behind the pitcher and did pretty well when he was actually not playing in dirt. When a ball was hit in his area, he ran to it and threw it to first. Job well done.

Overall it’s pretty cute to watch them play. Is he in a little over his head, yes, but he enjoys it and that’s what counts. 

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05-09-2012

Guns Guns Guns

CJ was down a few weeks ago and stayed for the weekend. It was nice and Baron was happy that someone besides us was here to entertain him. He kept asking if CJ was going to sleepover. Really cute. Anyway, CJ had bought a few new guns and wanted to try them out. So he and Rob scouted a good place to shoot and proceeded to set up while Baron and I moved a little father away to watch. Baron was thrilled. I mean how could he not when guns are involved and he loves his guns.

I don’t think he expected them to be so loud and to actually shoot bullets instead of the Nerf dart coming out but he was definitely curious. Each time they shot, Baron would hold his ears and flinch and when they were finished heading down the hill to check out what they hit with the target, Baron was barreling down the hill right after them. On the first time down the hill, his body was going so fast his legs couldn’t keep up and he bit it hard, flying forward with his legs swooping over his head. It was seriously the funniest thing and I WISH I had gotten that on video. He got right up, brushed himself off and continued down the hill. We were all cracking up and he didn’t have the slightest clue what was so funny. All he wanted to see was where the bullets when into the target.

 

 

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05-09-2012

Zoo Field Trip

A few weeks ago, Baron had his end of the year field trip to the zoo. He was pretty excited and even more since he was able to go two days. Rob took him with the T/TH class and I went with the M/W/F class. The T/TH class is only 5 kids, pretty easy to manage while the MWF class has 13 kids. It was a little crazy. We arrived early and Baron played in the water fountain with a few other kids. I was just waiting for Baron to fall right into the fountain but thankfully he didn’t. Once everyone arrived, we headed in and started walking around. Trying to keep up with the kids was no small feat. They would take off in every direction running from here to there. Baron is now on this kick where he likes to run ahead of everyone which in turn causes me to be one of those mothers that is screaming over everyone telling him to slow down and wait for the group.

His best friend, Brock is in this class and when these two are fired up they can be a handful. It’s cute to watch them but when you’re supposed to be following the teacher and paying attention it wasn’t working out so well. Finally they settled down after awhile but it was exhausting. After the majority of the class left, Baron and I stayed around with Brock and his family to see a litte more but by that time both kids were worn out and crabby. It was time to go. Needless to say, Baron had a blast and even better because he took a good 3 1/2 hour nap when we got home.

 

Baron and Brock – Best Buddies

Stan and Marie – Brock’s Awesome Grandparents
Josh, Brock and Baron
Brock, Luke, and Baron
Mrs. Lee’s M/W/F Class
Baron and this map. Geez how long we had to keep this map. It want everywhere with him.

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05-02-2012

Holy Bubbles Batman!

This was one of Baron’s birthday gifts from Ama and PaPa Louderman. Honestly, when I first looked at it, I thought this looks like something that is going to take forever and be such a pain. But…it really wasn’t! They gave all the listed ingredients and all we had to do it follow the 5 step directions. Super easy and Baron was able to help every step of the way.

We got outside after mixing the ingredients together and proceeded to start making our homemade super big bubbles. Took us awhile to figure out how to exactly do it properly but once we did, we were able to lay out some monsters. Baron was doing his usual jumping up and down with excitement until he realized how fun it would be to pop them. So I would start getting one going and Baron would swoop in and pop it. Yes, it did get annoying after a while. I wanted to see how long we could actually get one. The book said it would be easily possible to get some over 12 ft. I think we might have come close a few times but nothing that big. Pretty cool and honestly, I think I liked it more than Baron;)

 

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05-02-2012

Easter 2012

Playing catch up with the blog so hoping that I can get the rest caught up this week.

Easter was held in Rochester as it always is and everyone was able to make it. The weather was awesome, seriously this would have been really great if it were warm enough to be in the pool. Eggs were hidden all over the back yard and Rob and I were on the pool watch just to make sure that no one wanted to run across the pool cover like last time. The kids scattered collecting and gathering as many eggs they could find. Baron did pretty good although I noticed at times he would miss his basket completely and then come around again to collect the same egg twice. He was excited to open up the eggs and eat all the candy. We still have the majority of it here uneaten. There was a ton.

Since Baron’s birthday always falls around Easter, we sang him happy birthday and he once again was able to open presents. No wonder why he thinks that the birthday parties go on and on.

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