Here is some fun from a Phoenix Zoo Trip with our SPB friends – we went to see the Dino In The Desert exhibit; plus the lions were putting on a show of their own!
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Wordless Wednesday: Sun-Kissed Summer
Sweet Peas are out and about and having all kinds of fun this summer – these are adorable – thank you to all the families who shared their enchanting images…and now I am off to enjoy the summer sun with our Sweet Peas and today’s birthday boy – Happy 5th Birthday, Charger!
Charger as a toddler – how time flies!!
Phoenix Children’s Museum
Sea LIfe Aquarium – Phoenix
WW: Sweet Peas and Their Guys
In honor of Father’s Day, we asked for students and readers to send in images of their Sweet Peas with the men in their lives…be that their Bradley® Dad, grandpa, uncle, family-in-love…here are the amazing images we received. The love that shines through all of these is palpable and heart-warming – enjoy <3
Do you have a favorite Sweet Pea + guy moment? Tell us about it!
WW: The REAL American Idols
In honor of Armed Forces Day (5/17), we want to feature the men and women who serve in our nation’s military. These images that capture family time for the Real American Idols: the people who are willing to put their live on the line to protect our Constitution and our freedoms, and the spouses and children who love them and live life without them while they are out on duty. See more Sweet Peas over on the SPB blog.
Navy wife and daughter from our Fall 2010 class
Navy dad and daughter from our Fall 2010 series – welcoming daddy home after his first underway away
USMC Veteran+Daddy and his family – Winter 2013-14 SPB students
USMC Veteran+Daddy and his family – Winter 2013-14 SPB Students
WW: May Days
What a fun theme to tie in our Mother’s Day Tea Party. It was so much fun to pull this event together. We got to spend the afternoon visiting with one of our alumni families.
The theme here was supposed to be breastfeeding today – moved everything over to the SPB Blog so we could showcase the Tea Party here. Head over there to see beautiful mamas and babies normalizing breastfeeding.
Otter and Charger doing some reading together – not tea party, just something we did in May 🙂
Step 1: Set out the Tea Party for the Sweet Peas – metal cups and saucers to really drink out of, and play cupcakes to do imaginative play with between courses.
Favors for all the mamas – bud vases with a red rose, personalized with their names in the theme of pink and green.
Final table setting – serving ware, homemade yummy lemonades and orange-mint water infusion, table accents built with mama gifts, and all thing Sweet Pea safe in the front!
Otter taking in the Tea Party table – she was beyond excited and ready to get into everything before guests arrived!!
Favor table: trying to use pink+green theme for containers: butterfly blow-outs, rubber duckies, bubbles, finger puppets, flower rings and moustache rings.
Sweet Pea – Table for 2
Photo area props and picnic tables with imaginative play stations: 1) Make your own cupcake 2) Tea party cups and desserts
First course: Tea sandwiches: Salmon-Cucumber-Dill, Egg-Mayo, and Cucumber-Dill. The fresh dill from our herb garden made these sandwiches pop with flavor!
Second course: Scones: homemade gluten-free basic, homemade gluten-free peach, and cranberry-orange from Whole Foods. Although I tried to channel Mrs. Padmore, I felt like my scones ended up more first-season Daisy in appearance. My critics loved the flavor and they disappeared! Served with butter, clotted cream, and organic strawberry jam. I am now officially addicted to clotted cream.
Third course: Sweets – these beauties are from Gluten-Free Creations Bakery. Oh My Yum.
Third course: Sweets – we served a double chocolate chip cake and the GF cupcakes. Sweet finish to a sweet afternoon!
Our guests for our first Sweet Pea Tea! On the table were a couple more crafts for our toddler guests – make your own hat and make your own jewelry. This Sweet Pea was a little young to partake – he sure did enjoy the cheese and strawberries, though!!
Otter trying her hand at making her own cupcakes for imaginative play. We had some left over pipe cleaners with pom poms glued on the ends from the play cupcakes we made – Otter and Charger had fun playing with those.
Picture time – Otter wanted everyone to wear hats – except her, of course!
Puma has a turn with the hat!
Sweet Pea and Puma
Otter strikes a fairy pose
Tea Party after-party – those after-parties always have their own stories!!
Otter set her own private table – on the taller table you can see another mama-favor. Packets of Sweet Pea Seeds tied into their place setting napkin. The packet claimed these to be good container seeds…we need to plant ours – will see what happens!!
Oh the joy of being two – everything is awesome!
Otter has accomplished her mission – hats for everyone! We set up a little tea party on the picnic table and got to do what I had hoped – spread a little magic and marvel into the day. Otter had fun serving us tea from the carafe, clinking tea cups, and we all had a laugh as we tried to drink with our pinkies in the air!
Babywearing: Kiss To Build A Dream On
This is our last love-month-theme…a reminder that when you wear your Sweet Pea, one of the safety checks is that they are “close enough to kiss” <3 Read more about safe babywearing HERE from The School of Babywearing™.
What you will see in today’s images:
- A mama making the transition from one Sweet Pea to two
- A mama’s progression to different carriers
- A wrap carrier or two
- A soft-structured carrier
Babywearing can pretty much be done with any size infant or toddler, in pretty much any setting – enjoy! Keep scrolling down to see who won our first contest!!
Here is one of our lovely Cassandra and T:
Thank you to everyone who sent submissions for our first contest! Random.Org did our selection for us. Each featured image was numbered in the order it was received…and our winner is….
Kendra Campbell – Congratulations!
Please email me at sweetpeafamilies@gmail.com to claim your prize 🙂
Wordless Wednesday: Winter Reads
This is a hard post to do because I am so painfully aware of copyright infringement! I want to share these books with you and images out of the pages to illustrate why we love them. At the same time, if any of the authors and/or illustrators see these images and want them taken down, please let me know and I will do so.
Here are some of our favorite books in our Christmas book basket. We just put them away so we can enjoy a fresh read of them again at the next holiday season. Some are illustrated versions of songs that we like to sing, others are heartwarming stories of the Christmas tradition and the Christmas season. And, thanks to one of our SPB families, we have a picture of a Sweet Pea enjoying his reads…mama says there is not a book he doesn’t love…that’s what we like to hear!!
What is your favorite story of the winter season?
Wordless Wednesday: Family Stories
Here are some images that I feel epitomize our family, plus a lovely alumni student/reader share. Thank you, J, for your generosity!
An SPB alumni family
Classic: Bruss is proud as punch and ready for a Proud Papa picture, I can’t take my eyes off the baby!!
Meeting Night Owl for the first time – she did then, and still loves, holding babies
Puma meets Charger for the first time; Night Owl isn’t sure what to make of things yet – it’s first time being “big”
Puma is holding Charger while Daddy and Night Owl get a good look at our newest family member of 2009.
Wide awake and enjoying our newest family member after our home birth…
And Coach Bruss, sans endorphins, is wiped out – snuggling with Charger this time.
Summer 2012
Halloween 2013
Wordless Wednesday: Fall Fun on SPF
Cassandra and I have been busy with our littles! The fall is such a perfect blend of sunshine and cooler weather…here is what we have been up to with our Sweet Peas:
Pumpkin Patch
Enjoying the last of the berries
Fires at the beach
The #kookaburra at National Geographic Kids’ Club
Night Owl was my big helper at the gala fundraiser set up to benefit Dignity Healthcare Hospitals in the East Valley (AZ) – Chandler Regional and Mercy Gilbert.
Checking out pioneer life at the Chuck Wagon Cook Off at Tumbleweed Ranch last weekend.
Happy Halloween 2013
So our #wordlesswednesday is a day behind…just in time to wish you Happy Halloween! We are on a little stay-cation this week, sans nanny…so we are a little behind on all things internet as we enjoy our children.
Picture from our trip to Bass Pro Shop – Otter didn’t know what to make of the big cut-outs!!
Scenes from our little stay-cation:
- Kiddos checking out the antique buggy decked out for fall
- Changer indulged Puma in some face painting – we can’t decide if he is The Hulk, A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, or Franken-face
Our family project – Halloween treats for family, friends and students
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We simplified the instructions – no inking for us!!
