Back With A Challenge

It's been a long time, so long that it took me three tries to login.  Yikes!  I've been thinking about my little blog here and meaning to get back for a while now.  It took a friend issuing a challenge on Facebook to lit a fire under my rear.  Thank you, Kari!  Kari's Challenge is to blog her way to her birthday.  I will be joining her for the next 35 days. #35to36

Melissa & Doug Terrific Twenty List and Giveaway

I'm so excited!!!  Melissa and Doug have just released their 2012 Terrific Twenty Holiday Toys List.  Just in time for me to begin my holiday shopping.  A few things from the list have made it on to *my* shopping list!  First, the new tie-dye swirl trunki  really caught my eye.  Babygirl got the Rubi trunki last year, but I'm seriously considering adding the pink swirl to her collection!  We often use her Trunki when we go to visit Grandma and Grandpa, but she also uses it to put toys in and pull them around the house.

Here at Baby Is Boss! we love Melissa and Doug! Babygirl's toybin is already filled with so many wonderful Melissa and Doug toys and puzzles. Babygirl loves the toys because they are fun, while I love the fact that they are educational and high quality.  In addition to the Trunki, Santa's eyeing the bella butterfly tea set for Babygirl.  And possibly the switch and spin magnetic gears toy.  Seriously I just love Melissa and Doug!  This mailbox is just too cute!  From my own childhood, fashionplates like these kept me busy for hours!

The wonderful people at Melissa and Doug are giving away toys from the 2012 Terrific Twenty Holiday Toys list   over on the Melissa and Doug Facebook page. Head on over and check it out! In addition to the giveaway on their facebook page, Melissa and Doug are allowing me to give away one item from the list to a reader!!!  I'll be giving away the Switch and Spin Magnetic Gears Board.   Be sure to enter on the Rafflecopter below.

After you enter here, be sure to stop by my friend Nancy's blog Stuff Mom Loves and enter there as well!  Good Luck!
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I was given a toy and offered one to giveaway to a reader for participating in this campaign.  All thoughts and opinions expressed are my own.
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Wordless Wednesday

Boo At the Zoo!

 

I will not look at you.  I will just try to pick up this pumpkin!

Wordless Wednesday

From our recent trip to NYC @The Children's Zoo in Central Park

WIP Wednesday

Wip Wednesdays:

WIP Wednesdays with Tami's Amis:

I've got two projects I'm currently working on.  The first is a sweater I'm hoping to wear to NYS Sheep and Wool.  I've got just about a month to get it finished!  I've added a few rows since Sunday and am about to bindoff the left side.


The next is my travel project.  This pair of socks lives in the car.  Every so often I add a row, usually while I am waiting for the boys I watch to get out of school.  These should be done soon.

YOP: Sunday Update

 Yay! A Year of Projects update...on a Sunday!  Between being sick and then going on vacation I've been slacking.  Now it's crunch time.  New York Sheep and Wool is just a little over a month away.  I'm still hoping to wear my sweater.  Yes, I'm aware that means I have to *finish* my sweater.  Time to kick it in high gear.

Currently it looks like this:

I do think that if I really focus I will be able to get this done.  

I've also got a pair of socks on the needles as my car project.  Every now and then I can add a few rows while waiting for the boys I watch to get out of school.  It shouldn't be much longer until these become FO's.

We're back from vacation!

Back home and slowly recovering from four funfilled days in New York City!  Hubby's on vacation so in addition to hanging out in NYC for a few days we've been doing lots of running around.  We had a blast in Manhattan!  I've got a few posts planned out in my head, I've just got to grab some time to sit down and write them.  In the meantime here are some shots from NYC:

                                                     view from our hotel the first night

petting the sheep at the zoo

Disney store