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Baby’s First Christmas Toys

Baby

11 Dec

This post is sponsored by buybuy BABY. Thanks for supporting brands that I really love and that make this little blog of mine possible!

I can’t even believe it’s already almost Christmas. It feels like I was just pregnant and waiting for Layla to be born. Now, here we are about to celebrate her first Christmas. It honestly seems like a dream. This year, we have the best gift of all, our little baby girl. And she deserves the best Christmas ever! I teamed up with buybuy BABY to get some toys for Lay now that she’s sitting up and actually playing with her toys. 

We had a few toys for her already, but I was excited to go and check out buybuy BABY’s selection and grab our baby girl some cool toys to play with! I like visiting in-store when we are toy shopping so we can actually see the toys. We did a combination of in-store and online shopping because I enjoy reading reviews before buying things. We opened most of them so that we could get some pictures for this blog post, but I can’t wait for her to open the rest on Christmas morning! We love toys that keep her drawn in with bright lights and music, but also ones that are educational too. I will link all the toys at the end of this blog post for you guys. 

She loves the BeatBelle and so do we! It really is so cute and keeps her entertained for awhile. The toy dances and sings over 100 songs about colors, counting, and the alphabet. There is a microphone feature where you can record and it sings back to you. This is probably one of Layla’s favorite toys! 

The Laugh and Learn Puppy teaches parts of the body and introduces a ton of words to baby. Layla loves picking this up and chewing on it too, haha. Unicorn Rock + Glow is a fun toy she likes to stare at with the pretty lights and music. It also moves up and down and she thinks it’s quite funny!

Layla has loved using her Explore and More table for the past month or so. She loves her jumperoo, but this table is great because she can just stand her turn herself around to all the different activities. It grows with baby too and they can use it with chairs to color and play.  

I am excited to see what other toys Layla gets for Christmas and how she will play with them more and more as she grows. As a minimalist, I didn’t want many toys, but we soon realized that we were cycling out the same toys over and over and we needed to add a few more to the collection. Make sure to check out buybuy BABY if you’re on the search for toys this season!

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Talk soon friends,

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dutch baby pancake 😍 very easy to throw in the dutch baby pancake 😍 very easy to throw in the oven, do some chores and in 25 min breakfast is done! 

ingredients:
1 cup flour 
1 cup milk 
6TBS butter 
6 eggs 
1tsp vanilla 
1TBS honey 
dash of salt 

directions: 
Preheat oven to 425, put butter in cast iron and put in oven until it melts. meanwhile, mix remaining ingredients in a bowl. Add batter to skillet when oven is preheated and let cook 25-30min. Top with powdered sugar, maple syrup and berries 🫐 
Have you ever made a Dutch baby before?!
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Although I’m a full believer in using the resour Although I’m a full believer in using the resources you have and working with what you got, of course I dream of selling our little >1 acre homestead for a life in the country 💭💭💭 Someday🥰

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This is such an easy way to make sourdough pasta! This is such an easy way to make sourdough pasta! No fancy pasta attachment required. 

INGREDIENTS: 
-3 cups of flour (I used freshly milled white wheat)
-1 cup starter (discard is fine) 
-4 eggs 

DIRECTIONS:
1. Place everything in mixer and until dough smooths out. Or create a well with flour, add eggs and starter and mix on the counter. 
2. Let dough ferment for at least 30 min. 
3. Divide into 8ish sections, dust counter with lots of flour, then roll as thin as possible. 
4. Use a pizza cutter to cut pieces as desired. Make sure to be using lots of flour so nothing sticks! 
5. Lay on a cooling rack or hang to dry for at least 30 min. 
6. Boil water, add salt and once boiling cooking for 6-7 minutes. 

We enjoyed this pasta in a tomato pesto chicken alfredo, it was so good! 
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Once you’ve had these sourdough cinnamon rolls, Once you’ve had these sourdough cinnamon rolls, you will nottttt go back 🙌🏼 An absolute delight. Recipe coming to my blog & YouTube channel soon 😍 
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Halfway along-ish and we chose a name for our litt Halfway along-ish and we chose a name for our little guy while in Arizona! 

Jaxson Jeremy 🥰  middle name after my dear cousin who passed last year. 
We can’t wait to meet you bud💙
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