Hi. I fell off the face of the {blogging} planet again. Sorry, not sorry. I didn’t mean to, really. But the Cotten house has been SLIGHTLY busy over the last two weeks. Mr. Cotten and I have been trading off parental duties – as in we have been literally handing off Dorothy to each other at the high school weight…
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Eight Months | BUMPdate
How Far Along? 32 weeks. Baby Stats: C2 is the size of a squash, or about 4 pounds. She’s also about 16.6 inches long! Weight Gain: 20 pounds (up 5 pounds since last month). Comparatively, at 33 weeks with Dorothy I was up 30 pounds. So… I’ll take it. Symptoms: I’m plain exhausted. But, I also have a 2.5 year old. I think those things have…
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Our Belle
One of our favorite places in the entire world is Saint Martin-Sint Maarten. Mr. Cotten and I stumbled upon the beautiful half-French, half-Dutch island in the Caribbean when planning our (five year) belated honeymoon, and decided to embrace an adventure to a completely unfamiliar part of the world. We blindly felt our way around the island on that first trip, not knowing what…
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The Friday 5
| one | I cannot thank you all enough for your sweet comments about C2’s nursery… and her name! I’ll do a more detailed post next week about how we decided on Frances Belle, but to answer the vast majority of questions: Yes, Frances is a family name. She will be named after my late grandmother, Virginia Frances. No, Belle is…
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Cinderella Nursery Tour + $150 Minted Giveaway!
It’s a big day here on the blog! Our littlest princess is scheduled to arrive in shortly over eight weeks, and her nursery is officially finished. I’m so excited to share it with you! Last summer, I started Operation Big Girl Room. When we moved to this house, I didn’t put much thought into poor Dorothy’s new room. I simply painted the…
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