Baby Einstein Discovery Kit

Connor received the Baby Einstein Wild Animal Safari Kit this week. We had so much fun looking at the cards and he was so cute and excited watching the video!

Learning about tigers and giraffes 🙂
Each kit includes 3 products — a DVD, a music CD and a colorful Book or Discovery Cards — that work together to take your baby and you on amazing journeys of discovery every day. Open up a new Discovery Kit and open the worlds of music, nature, animals, and art to your baby.

Discovery Kit Level 2: Explore

Feature Show – Plus Two “Mini-Shows”

Baby’s First Concert Hall – A Music-Only Experience

A Parent’s Journey Inside The WILD ANIMAL SAFARI DISCOVERY KIT

“Oh boy! Colors and shapes oh my!”
Oh our exploration………

Thank you Baby Einstein we LOVED our discovery kit 🙂

The new Discovery Kits encourage parents to take what they and their little one have seen on screen, in the book or on the Discovery Cards, or listened to on the CD and apply it to baby’s everyday life. They were created to grow with babies and are organized in a way that offers three distinct levels of discovery:

Level 1: Experience

Parent and child will listen to the joyous sounds and cherished works of Beethoven. See how music celebrates the sounds of different instruments. Together, they will experience a world of enchanting sights and sounds and make new discoveries with Baby Beethoven.

· Baby Mozart™ Discovery Kit includes a DVD, Book, Music CD and Parents’ Guide.

Parent and child will discover the joy of classical music together and listen to Mozart’s popular works – including “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” – delightfully reorchestrated for little ears. They’ll look at real-life images and enchanting puppet shows bringing a symphony of sights and sounds together as they share new discoveries with Baby Mozart.

Level 2: Explore

 
· Wild Animal Safari Discovery Kit includes a DVD, Discovery Cards, Music CD and Parents’ Guide.

Parents can take their little explorer on an exotic musical expedition to meet wild animals from across the globe. Together, they’ll journey to the jungle, savanna, desert and forest on a wild, wonderful voyage of discovery with Wild Animal Safari.

· Animals Around Me Discovery Kit includes a DVD, Discovery Cards, Music CD and Parents’ Guide.

Parent and child set off on a fun-filled “field trip” to discover animals found at the park, on the farm, and in their own backyard – whether furry or feathered, winged or wiggly, bumpy or cuddly, they’ll explore the Animals.

Level 3: Expression

· World of Colors Discovery Kit includes a DVD, Book, Music CD and Parents’ Guide.

Parent and child share a rainbow of sights and sounds and discover the wonders of color together! They’ll join puppet host “Vincent Van Goat” as he creates six Van Gogh masterpieces exploring red, green, blue, yellow, orange and purple with World of Colors.

· World of Words Discovery Kit includes a DVD, Book, Music CD and Parents’ Guide.

Parent and child join playful puppet host Bard the Dragon on an exciting adventure using everyday words, such as flower, cat, and moon, plus beautiful scenery from nature with World of Words.

The first six Discovery Kits are available for purchase November 23, 2010 and three additional Discovery Kits will be available in early 2011. The Baby Einstein Discovery Kits have a U.S. suggested retail price of $19.99.

For more information about the Baby Einstein Discovery Kits and other Baby Einstein products, visit http://www.babyeinstein.com/

Back to Blonde

Here is a blonde hair pic ya’ll have been asking for. I like it alright….I am hoping it will fade out a little bit because right now it’s sort of reddish blonde. What do you think?

This has GOT to be the busiest month ever!  I feel like I barely have time to breath between stuff I need to get done at home, for family, friends, and getting ready to travel with Connor on an airplane is making me nervous.  I really hope I don’t have any problems getting breastmilk through security, I mean they can’t make me dump that out right?  
Anyways……….

I am LOVING the O.P.I. holiday line.  I love all things sparkly and bling!  Here I am wearing the “Extra-va-ganza!” color 🙂

Look who loves to “clap clap” ya’ll!
I hope everyone’s having a great week!
xoxo – Becky

God is Good

Terence’s buddy let me us borrow his fancy camera lens this past weekend.  We took some family pictures to try and get a shot for our Christmas cards.  Here are some of the ones we took!
 

 So thankful to the Lord for my beautiful family 🙂

Terence and I have grown this past year and I love my husband now more than ever, Connor has filled our lives in ways we never knew could be filled…..thank you Jesus for your faithfulness to us!

 Total H.A.M.
Terence and I just finished watching The Good Wife from Netflix.  It’s a really good show and I would recommend it to anyone.  We don’t get to the movie theater very often anymore so we rent a lot of TV show seasons on DVD.  The only TV show I am really wanting to watch right now is Dexter…I keep hearing about the current season and it makes me so anxious to see it! 
9 more days and I’ll be home in Arkansas….counting down the days…………….
In other news….I have dyed my hair back to blonde, not sure how it looks or if I’ll keep it around…but for now I guess it is okay……

Weekend with Friends

I had the lovely pleasure of meeting Jessica and her family this past weekend.  Jessica lives in Tulsa and is also a friend of Megan’s who I met last weekend!  I feel so blessed to have met TWO sweet gals over the past couple weeks!  Jessica and Kyle were so precious, they have two baby girls named Lucy and Penny.  I think Connor found a new girlfriend in Penny 🙂
 Here we are at Starbucks….a.k.a the best place on Earth!
I love how Jessica asked “So, do you work at Starbucks because you sure do know a lot about it?”
ha..ha…ha..
 This is the door to my Mom’s classroom
Can you tell she is a proud Nana???
 Above is our 2010 Christmas card
OWLS=Perfect 🙂
 Connor caught in action, he’s into EVERYTHING right now!

Saturday I met up with my friend Amber and her son Kylon.  We had some yummy Mexican food with her friends and then went to Sam Moon where I got some flashing Christmas earrings!  Of course we also got our Starbucks fix too!  We went to WalMart to get cookie dough to bake that afternoon.  WalMart is a zoo right now….and I don’t want to go back for a long long time! 

 Here we are with our dough…..Amber’s gingerbread cookies turned out perfect.  My sugar cookies on the other hand looked like blobs of melted mess on a sheet pan!  I think it was the cookie dough because it certainly wasn’t the baker 😛  Thanks Amber for having me and Connor over and we look forward to many other “projects” together.  We want to modge podge something…..have any of you ever modge podged???

Red Velvet Cake Balls
Ingredients

◦1 (18.25 ounce) package cake mix


◦1 (16 ounce) container prepared cake frosting


◦6 ounces of chocolate flavored confectioners coating disks or bar (available in white chocolate, dark or milk)

Prepare the cake mix according to the directions on the box. When cake is finished baking allow to cool for 30 minutes. Crumble the cake into a large bowl using a stand mixer or a hand mixer. Add the frosting and mix until well combined. Place the bowl in the refrigerator for at least 3 hours or overnight.

Line a baking tray with wax paper. Use a melon baller as a scooper to form balls with the cake mixture. Place on wax paper. Once you have used all of the cake mixture, place the baking tray in the freezer for 1 hour. Melt the chocolate in a glass bowl of the microwave, stirring every 5-10 seconds until smooth.
Remove the balls from the freezer. Using one toothpick, pick up the balls one at a time and dip in the chocolate. Use a second toothpick to slide the ball off the first toothpick onto the wax paper lined baking tray.

Side note: Sometimes I use a bit of vegetable oil to thin my chocolate so it doesn’t get clumpy.  I also let the balls refrigerate overnight before dipping.

Happy Cake ball making 🙂

What’s in my camera bag?

A bunch of you have asked me what kind of camera I use and how I get my pictures to look the way I do.  I’ve had a couple previous posts on how to edit photos using Light Room or Photoshop.  I love to play around with photos.  So here are the deets……..
 Nikon D80
 Nikon 50mm 1.4
For portraits
 Nikon 24-120
 Tokina 11-16
Wide angle lens
 Nikon Flash

My current wish list:

Posing Guide

Christmas Flashback Contest

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Winner is selected next Friday, Dec. 10th
To Enter:
(1) Guess which one is me in any of the above pictures & which one is Bonnie -the more correct guesses the more entries!!!

-or just comment…I don’t care!-

(2) Extra entry for Tweeting about the Christmas Twinkie contest 🙂
(Yes-the prize will probably include some sort of Starbucks 🙂