A friend of mine is due with her first child, a girl, 2 days after me (she is dying to know what I am having!) and she needed a little bunting for the little peanut’s (that’s what they call the baby) room. I happily obliged to make her one and I hope she likes the way it turned out!

School starts tomorrow and I wish I had more of the house clean before this new chapter begins, but whatever… the show must go on! I will officially have a kindergartener! Eeks!!!

This space is about to enter a whole new dimension now that our home is about to turn into a homeschool zone. I can’t wait to see how this all turns out and document and share our journey with you all here. Thanks for always being so interested (and sending encouragements) in our little part of the world!

Sometimes some apple pie and ice cream are necessary to get through the day! School starts next week for us and we are ready as we’ll ever be. I have two weeks worth of lesson plans mapped out, projects, and activities ready, so here we go…

This week’s learned and links…

– Soulie now says little short phrases like, “Papi, there you!” and “I poo poo!”

– True is filling her older sister role well. She is definitely bossy!

– Brave has been more sensitive lately and I need to be more intentional in giving her more love touches.

– I can get quite obsessive about the strangest things. Now, it’s ankle boots.

– The girls’ closets are way too full. I need to purge yet again.

– Nighttime brings out the pregnancy waddle.

– This verse is hard to apply. In all things, I must count it all joy! Even when things are super frustrating. Lord, help me!

What was going on in your life and heart this week?

This whole picture session first started out awry. It was after church and Soulie was pretty cranky (see first picture), True and Brave were complaining, and Ben was kinda hangry (hungry + angry, which is a word made by the BFF). Eventually, everyone gave me several minutes of cooperation and we snapped some photos. After which, we hopped in the car and headed home and all the girls knocked out within the first few minutes. If you ever think my girls are always so cooperative for photos, they aren’t. They’re real kids after all.

Ben and True were being little hams together in the back, they are both so similar, Ben relates so much better to True than I do. It is so interesting to watch each child’s differences and how you really do have to deal with each child differently. Each of them is very special and I can’t wait to get this fourth one in the mix!

I really need to do some reorganization of closets in a major way. I am bad at putting away summer clothes in the winter and winter clothes in the summer and since we live in Southern California, don’t all the seasons seem to blend together anyways?! Rachel got hers organized earlier this week and I probably should do the same, but my nesting fire burned out long ago and now I am in survival mode with three kids. I also took a nice long break from buying any vintage clothes for the girls, since our closets are jammed packed, but lately I have succumbed to adding more to our collection because some dresses are too pretty to resist!

Once again, my only vintage are my shoes, which I love (thanks Stacy for finding them for me!). I actually pulled my black maxi skirt up into a tube dress, my mama bought me this crop top from H&M and I just put that on top. The top is a random print of safety pins, but I love it so much! I also got bored putting my hair up all the time, so now I leave it down, but I need a hair cut in a bad way. Time to make an appointment with the stylist sister.

on me: dress, target. crop top, h&m. shoes, vintage via marie’s vintage. bracelet, vintage.

on true: dress, misha lulu. shoes, salt-waters c/o tea. hair bow, h&m.

on brave: dress, vintage. shoes, salt-waters.

on soul: dress, vintage c/o little reader vintage. leather booties, handmade by me a long time ago (see here).

I have mentioned Misha Lulu here many times before as it is one of our most favorite children clothing brands, and Misha Lulu has big news as her fall line includes a collaboration she did with Sanrio for Hello Kitty! True’s dress is from that line and I have seen the rest and it is pretty wonderful. I am not all too keen on cartoon characters all up on children’s clothing, but this collaboration is too pretty and has such a handmade feel that I really couldn’t resist some pieces. I am sure you will be seeing my girls sporting more of it in the coming weeks in this space. Misha Lulu has such a whimsical, vintage feel that it is no wonder that Hello Kitty really wanted to be part of that Misha Lulu world. There are even coats this fall season that are just A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E!

Pretty things on my etsy favorites list (buy them, so I won’t be tempted) : black and green, red bird wrap, sunny cotton day dress, alice floral skirt, cream mocs, and woven flats

The weekend is upon us (ours will be pretty packed with parties) and I will be back later with my Friday recaps! Don’t forget to head over to Rachel’s later to see what pretty things they wore to celebrate her birthday over at the Red Velvet shop.

Please excuse my extreme tardiness in announcing the winners for this $50 gift certificate to Joyess and this party in the box from Lola’s Girl. Here are the winners…

If you are one of the lucky ladies, please email me so I can get you in touch with my sponsor. And thank you everyone else for entering, there will be more coming soon!

Don’t forget to check out Joyess blog and shop, which is now fully stocked, and Lola’s Girl blog! If you are interested in being a sponsor for September, do shoot me an email.

I am so late in sharing this as this came out in March, but I am honored to be featured as one of the blogs to read from around the world in Germany’s Luna Magazine.

The magazine has lots of pretty eye candy (too bad I can’t understand it, though I do know what my part says cause I answered questions for them), so if you happen to be in Germany, you should pick up a copy!

My little girls are over at Hart & Sew today. To find out a little bit more about their sweet clothes or hear me gush more about loving vintage, check it out here.

I am kinda slow on the posting this week as I have been busy prepping everything to start school next week. Yikes! So nervous! I will officially have a kindergartener, who I will be responsible in teaching because I am homeschooling. There will be a whole new learning curve for this next couple months, especially once little babycakies arrives.

Oh and I am glad you all loved the pictures of the baby shower because I am in love with it all too! I love looking at the pictures and watching the video to relive the fun I had all over again. I feel so blessed!

p.s. danni’s baby shower recap here.