Happy 2nd birthday Christiana!

On this day two years ago I gave birth to you & it was one of the happiest moments in my life.  Being pregnant with you was a joy.  I knew that if being pregnant with you was easy then being your mommy would be easy as well.  Christiana I truly can't believe that 2 years have gone by already,  I don't even want to think about fast forwarding to your teen years, heck or even when you become a wife and mother (yikes!).  I am savoring ever moment of watching you grow into a beautiful girl (you will always be mommy's baby).

I love how each week you are meeting every milestone (and then some), I sometimes laugh because I'm like "Yup that's my little Munchie".  I even sometimes sneak ahead to see what we are in store for. Right now I am really loving that you have become sooo lovie dovie. If I'm sitting down you'll come over and climb into my lap and give me hugs & kisses & say "Momma" while you are doing this. I hope that you will always want to hug and kiss me no matter what age. I know there will come a time when you may think it's not "cool" to show your momma some love, but it will always be cool to me. I know there will also come a time when you will be a "daddy's girl" and that's okay, but know that I will make sure we have our "mommy/daughter" days & nights.

Christiana Faith I am proud to be your mommy!

Happy birthday sweetie peetie!

Love always, Mommy

Dressing like Munchie: Munchie & Mommy moments

Neon shirts with jeans

Rocking our red, white, and blue with same flowers

I started this post sooo long ago, I finally decided to finish it.  Look how young Christiana was!  Anyhoo let's get to another post in her virtual baby book.

Matching with our Chucks!

Our multi-colored skirt & dress

I get dressed to match Munchie.  Like my post title: like daughter, like mommy.  I pick out her clothes, then mine.  Some may think that it's corny, but I LOVE it!  When she gets older, she will look back at these pictures and say "I love that my momma used to dress like me".  I know there will come a time when she'll say, "MOM can you PLEEEASE stop with all the matchy matchy!" or maybe not.  Maybe when she's older she'll want to go shopping together and want to pick out our outfits.  I would absolutely love that!   











the Teems girls wearing red & black



matching flowers



wearing our red and white

denim shirt with khaki pants



Teems girls wearing our pink & denim





Wearing our purple



Rocking our purple again

Rocking our footed jammies

Bubbles, bubbles: Planning for a 2 years celebration

I truly love party planning and for the past 6 months I've been planning for Christiana's 2nd birthday party.  This year we're not going all out, but she will have a simple yet fun party.  We decided that this year, we'll make it a small family style party and that every other year go all out.  I want her to have some sort of party every year until she says she no longer wants one.  :O)

The theme for this year will be bubbles.  That's a pretty easy party to plan, right? I love pinterest and Oopsie Daisy Blog!  I got some really great ideas, especially from Oopsie Daisy.

So here's the rundown of what I have so far.

• Location:  It will be a my mother's house; we'll be able save big time

• Invitations: Like last year I made my own.  I took an idea from another mommy blogger and made my own  I ended up emailing them, I took waaaay too long to mail.

the inspiration
photo credit: mfcreativedesigns.com

my version
 

• Colors: fuschia, purple, light pink

• Outfit: Of course Christiana is going to wear a tutu!  It will have the number 2 instead of the rabbit ears.   This year she will be rocking her tutu with purple rainboots!!!




• Food:
• Mexican.  I was going to make everything, but opted to have it catered.  My co-worker referred someone that was uber cheap!  She will come over an hour early to prepare the food, provide holders for all the food all for less than $150!!  We probably would have been spending that if not more, so why stress myself out!  Sooo we'll be serving beef & chicken tacos, rice, beans, chips, and with all the fixings! 

• Sweets: 
• I will be ordering a bubbled theme cake from Angel Maid bakery.  I'll be going there this week with a picture so they can make it.



photo credit: oopsiedaisy.com

• Also I'll be having a "foods that pop" themed sweets table.  With items such as cake "pops", snap, crackle "pop" rice krispie treats, tootsie "pops", blow "pops", ring "pops", maybe "pop" rocks

• Entertainment:
• Bubble blower
• Kiddie pool filled with bubble solution with hula hoops (for those jumbo bubbles)
• Make your own bubble wand station - pipe cleaners
• Station with different household items for bubble wands
• Bubble wrap cake walk- They jumped on bubble wrap with colored paper underneath. Once the music stopped, the child on the color selected got a sticker! 



photo credit: living locurto.com 



photo credit: blissbloomblog.com

• Goodie bags: I am going to give every child their own bubble wand, that way parents won't have to blow bubbles for them.

That's all for now!

I think that's enough

Fabulous Fashionista: Denim on denim, Leopard sweater, & ankle boots

 



I absolutely love this outfit, and think that Christiana makes this outfit FABULOUS!  I mean she looks cute in everything, but this is one of my favorites.  It's comfy cute!

When I saw this sweater online from Children's place, I thought about buying it in every size because she'll be able to wear it all year round with everything.  I decided not to do it because I wouldn't hear the end of it from daddy Teems, so I just went with getting it a size larger (at least she would be able to grow into it).  Right now it's long enough to be the "perfect over everything" sweater.  I love it!!  Since it's her "perfect over everything" sweater, I had to pair it with my other favorite clothing item...jeans!  I love the denim on denim look!  Oh by the way her denim shirt is from the boys section (they get all the cute button down shirts).  So after I put her in this outfit, I added her cute ankle boots that she finally grew into (I've learned to buy her shoes a size bigger because kids grow sooo fast) and BOOM one of my favorite outfits for her!
Doesn't she look CAAAAUUUUTE!  



Munchie Moments: Little Miss Independent

     In the Teems household we are definitely feeling the "Terrific Two's" (she'll be 2 on the 22nd of this month). Whether it's her massive tantrums or saying "No" to everything (even if it's something she wants); we are getting a taste of it.  I've even been told it goes to 3! Awww man!  Now I will say that she hasn't had many meltdowns, but when she has them they can go on for at least 20 minutes (Christiana can be a bit stubborn). 

 

 

Anyhoo back to my "Little Miss Independent" so here's a brief rundown of what happened last weekend.  She loves Cuties so I give her one and started peeling it for her, and reminded her how to peel it (her TiTi Joy showed her about a month ago).  Weeeell once she got the hang of it, she decided that she didn't want me to finish peeling it.  Why you may ask,  it's because she wanted to do it (by the way she did an excellent job).  She says "No Momma" while moving my hand away.  Here's another rundown on the same day.  Daddy Teems asks her did she want strawberries,  of course she says "no thank you" but he still takes them out (because remember everything is a "No" even if she wants it).  So what does Munchie do? She closes the container and tells him "NO THANK YOU".   How funny is that?  I guess this time she really meant it. 

 

 

 

Oh here's another time (one of many of course) when she wants to be independent.  We live in an apartment complex without an elevator and most times Christiana wants me to pick her up (we live on the 3rd floor - 48 stairs! Yes I counted.) after I pick her up from daycare.  Well lately she has been wanting to walk, I'm very grateful of that because I have my work stuff and purse with me.  So here's where the "Little Miss Independent" really comes in.  Well if she has a hood on and it falls off, she stops, whines, and says "Hood on, hood on" so this slows us down because she cannot resume walking without her hood on.  Don't let me have to use the bathroom because she has a fit if I scoop her up and powerwalk up the stairs; she wants to walk and I'm messing up HER flow.  If she brings one of her little stuffed friends with her she wants to hold them AND walk up the stairs!  Can we say dangerous!  Of course I ask if she wants me to hold her friend so she can walk, she says "No momma, No" but then gets frustrated when her friends falls or she doesn't have the coordination to do both.  Gotta love her determination.  I let her struggle and figure out the best solution; eventually she hands me her stuffed friend.  She says, "Huh momma, huh" or she whines out of frustration and I say "Would you like some help Christiana?" and she says "Help pleeease.".  :O)   

 

Colossians 3:21

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged