*Little Me, The Queen Bee: January 2011

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Danish death traps & the winner is...

Hi friends!

Hope you all are having a fab weekend thus far!

DR, Mr. Baby & I have been in Philadelphia since Thursday .

(DR just for the weekend, the babers & I 'til Wednesday)

DR is here for a course & was put up in a pretty swank hotel
so I stayed in the city with him Friday night
& Mr. Baby had his first over night stay away from us.

He stayed with his Grandy & The Colonel (my parents)
It was Restaurant Week so we had dinner
at one of the participating restaurants- Tweed

It was so cold outside that we didn't wander far

for after dinner drinks & parked ourselves

next door at Finn McCools Ale House for a while.

We had the most fabulous time!

All the while, I got photo updates on all the

fun Mr. Baby was having with my parents.

We made it all the way back to the hotel, were about to

walk in but the entrance we got to had been locked
so we had to go to the main entrance.

In the process of turning around & hurrying due to

the frigid temps I twisted my ankle & rolled right out

of my Danskos!!

Now, I am no stranger to falling off/out of my clogs,
I have actually done it numerous times

& apparently so have nearly all of my Dansko wearing friends

but this time was a doozy..

After hobbling around yesterday trying miserably to be a

tough guy, I went to the ER

aaaaaaand it's broken!

They splinted it & gave me crutches
HA, as if! (I do not crutch well)

I have to go to an Ortho Dr Mon AM to get a stinkin' boot.

Fun trip home to see the fam eh??

Bah..

I will be destroying both pair of my
"Danish death traps"
ASAP

ON A MUCH MORE EXCITING NOTE....

WE'VE GOT A WINNER FOR MY LILLY GIVEAWAY!
Congrats to Jaime AKA
Fried Pink Tomato!

Thank you all so, much for entering
& for being such fun blog friends!

Bee good!
xox

Monday, January 17, 2011

Fun in the Boom Boom Room!

I hope everyone had fun watching

The Golden Globes last night!

I knew that my favorite baby bathtub,

The Tummy Tub was going to be

featured in the Boom Boom Room.

(the pre-show swag suite with all

sorts of fab kiddie stuff)

I came across the rest of the super sweet stuff

that was being given out &

thought I'd share it with my bloggie friends.

Hope everyone had a nice 3 day weekend

(if you were lucky enough to have one)

DON'T FORGE TO ENTER MY

LILLY GIVEAWAY!!

Bee Good

xox

Sunday, January 16, 2011

8 months & the best toy EVER

8 months.. that's a long time.

I mean- that's almost an entire pregnancy

& nearly a whole school year!

Mister Baby turned 8 months old this past Thursday.
I. can. not. believe it.

He is the most perfect little man.

He makes me laugh every single day,

is the most loving little guy

I am so proud to be his Momma!

(event though he is growing up much too fast for my liking)

*He's started crawling.

(He hasn't so much got a defined crawling gait per se

but he's mastered getting from point A to point B.)

*He loves to stand up, hold on to things & bounce

*He likes to pat you on the back if you pick him up

*He claps & waves

*He's got his 2 bottom teethies

*He says mama & dada

(obv without knowing what either mean but still...)

He has a new very favorite toy too!!
it's the Fisher Price Little Superstar Sing-Along Stage.

I looked EVERYWHERE for this toy before Christmas,

only to be told that it's been discontinued.

Came across one yesterday,

couldn't believe my EYES

& snapped it up immediately!

It's now officially Mr. Baby's "go to" toy!

Pretty sure it'd be mine too if I were him.

Lights, a mirror, fun sounds & an audience!?!

C'moooon, it's the best!!

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Don't forget about my Lilly Giveaway!!

You've got until Friday to enter

(& to tell all of your friends to enter)

BEE GOOD!

xox

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Fuh-reezing! Gone to Carolina in my mind....

Ok...

It is much too cold outside.

Everyone here keeps saying

"it never snows like this in Memphis."

Well folks, it's snowed every year I've lived here sooo...

not quite sure what you're talking about.

Don't get me wrong, Mondays snow day was fun-

I would just prefer the weather not to be so

bone chillingly cold!!

(Memphis weather 1/12/11)

I may sound like every other irritated Southerner

who has been wishing for their

"beach weather" or "tanning time"

ever since the day after Halloween

BUT

I really have no right to be this whiny about the weather.

It's nothing compared to winters where I grew up,

in the suburbs of Philadelphia.

I used to be a cold weather warrior,

a virtual bad ass of "brrrrrr"!

I would spend my weekends chipping ice off of

horses frozen water buckets for heavens sake!

I'd never think twice about wearing 2 (or 3) pairs of socks at once

& I would go ice skating OUTSIDE (gasp!) for fun!

Nasty weather, whether it's cold or unbearably hot,

(FYI- Memphis gets both of those categories of "nasty")

always makes me wish I were back in Charleston

I miss every single thing about The Holy City.

The weather, beach, palmetto trees, pluff mud,

bridges, lighthouses, sweetgrass baskets, Shem Creek,
my friends....

(For all of you fact checkers, yes it did snow there recently

but it's an extremely rare occurrence.)

My fingers (& toes) are crossed that after our
5 years in Memphis

for DR's Residency we might just be lucky enough

to return to The Lowcountry.

That would certainly make this displaced Yankee
extremely happy

& phrases like: "below zero temperatures,"

"winter weather advisory" & "freeze warning,"

will be foreign to my vocabulary!!

Sigh....

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DON'T FORGET TO ENTER

MY FAB LILLY GIVEAWAY!!!

SPREAD THE WORD!!

Bee good!

xox

Wink, wink, nudge, nudge... It's giveaway time!!

Hi friendsies!

Did everyone in have super fun SNOW DAY (s)?!
Mister Baby, Hairy Winston & I sure did!

Yay!

Since my 2011 New Years resolution was
to blog more often,

I thought, how better to start off on the right foot

than to host a giveaway!

The giveaway is pretty fabulous

(of course it is!)

BEE HOLD....
(ha!)

Lilly Pulitzer "Wink" eau de parfum

&
Limited edition wristlet

Here's how to enter:

Follow Little Me, The Queen Bee

or mention that you already do

for ONE entry.

(this one is mandatory to enter)

For additional entries-

*Grab my Little Me The Queen Bee button

& post it on your blog

(over on the right side bar)

for ONE entry

*Post or blog about this giveaway on your own blog

for ONE entry

*Tweet &/or Facebook this giveaway

for ONE entry each

(if you tweet and fbook that'll getcha' 2 entries)

You have the potential for FIVE FABULOUS entries!

This giveaway will close Friday, January 21st at midnight CST.

Winner will be announced soon thereafter.

SPREAD THE WORD

GOOD LUCK!!

Bee Good

xox

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Resloution realization...

I, ~~state your name~~ Queen Bee, hereby declare

that my New Years resolution for the year 2011 is:

To blog more often

For the majority of time since the

arrival of my darling Mister Baby

I have been MIA.

Sooooo...

In order to get thing started & for me to

regain my blogging mojo, I think it's about time for

A GIVEAWAY!

Stay tuned!
More to come on this soon, I promise!

Bee good!

xox

Sunday, January 2, 2011

The stereotypical representation of Baby New Year is as a male baby wearing nothing more than a diaper, a top hat and a sash across his torso that shows the year he is representing. Sometimes he is holding an hourglass or is otherwise associated with one. Often, he is not a complete newborn but is slightly older, because he is frequently shown standing on his own, barely walking, or having a small amount of head hair

J.C. Leyendecker's December 28, 1907 cover of The Saturday Evening Post depicting a stork and Baby New Year.The myth associated with him is that he is a baby at the beginning of his year, but Baby New Year quickly grows up until he is an elderly bearded man like Father Time at the end of his year.

At this point, he hands over his duties to the next Baby New Year.

In addition to being a mythical figure, the Baby New Year is sometimes a real person. The first baby born in any village or city in a certain year may be honored by being labeled as the official Baby New Year for that year. The official Baby New Year can be male or female, even though the mythical Baby New Year is nearly always male. Attempts to name an official Baby New Year for an entire country have sometimes been made, but generally there are multiple contenders and no single Baby New Year can be confirmed.

(information courtesy of Wikipedia)