Happiness. This photo will make you smile.

Here's a picture that I took last weekend.  I was just looking at one of the photo challenges I like from The Paper Mama and saw that the week's theme is  happiness. I knew I had to submit this photo.

Buddy and I visited my grandma last Sunday and, as we always do, had a great time. The two of them were looking at photo albums together and I snapped this shot.

It's such a special photo, and it is bringing tears to my eyes because it's so beautiful.

Happiness

I love how happy they are together. I love how they are touching hands and smiling as they enjoy looking at the pictures, with her calling out people and him pointing to those people.

They are 97 years apart.

They are two of my favorite people in the world.

I am so happy they are able to get to know each other. And I am so happy that Buddy brings so much joy to my grandma.  And vice versa - he adores spending time with her.

P.52 photo challenge: week 17.

This week's theme is green.  Usually Buddy is my subject, and he does have some green shirts I could have him wear, but....

1) visitors might want some variety
2) that's not what comes to mind when I think of green (nature and sports come to mind)

Before I had the wonderful pleasure of taking photos of my baby boy, I spent a lot of time taking photos of nature and sports (ie, baseball).  So for this week, I'm going with good ol' baseball.

I like how the lush green field brings a nice pop of color to the game.  And, it was a big week for White Sox baseball.  Paul Konerko hit his 400th home run and Phil Humber pitched a perfect game.

So - in honor of those two baseball accomplishments, this week's photo is of Paulie and Humber. Taken by me at a game this week.

Phil Humber and Paul Konerko

Congrats to both!

Online sale at myhabit.com. Colette Kids!

I love Colette Kids.  I did a whole post about their adorable shirts a few weeks ago.  Well, today on My Habit, there is a sale on Colette Kids.

(For those unfamiliar with My Habit, it's the exclusive sale site for Amazon).  So - it makes your buying easy as can be if you've ever bought on Amazon (who hasn't!).  Just enter your Amazon log-in and shop away. Plus, you get free Amazon shipping!

So go. Now. Hurry. The t-shirts are $9 and $14 (comes with a bandana)* and they are going fast.

*Some shirts are sold only with bandana

I personally have no interest in the bandana - but it would help keep Buddy's shirts drool free. And he does love wearing his cowboy hat and riding on his rocking horse.  So, on second thought - perhaps a wonderful accessory for in the house.

Anyways, purchased three shirts for Buddy:

Panda

Frog 

Seal

Super cute tees. Love them! Enjoy.

Free printables that are super cute.

Just came across some adorable printables featuring from the website Q.A. Design.  These downloadables feature different states and countries and there are a ton to choose from.  And they are colorful, fun and free! Take a look at some:

California

Wisconsin

Nevada

Aren't they so cute?  I just printed this one for my desk at work:

Illinois

And it would be really cute to frame a bunch for your house. You could do a collection of states you've lived in or locations you've visited, etc.

Thank you to Jenna at Q.A. Designs to offer these for free.  After I found these printables, I took a look around the rest of her site and saw that she has a blog design business.  Very talented - nice work and at a very reasonable price.  Take a trip on over to her site. Maybe searching for sesame street should use some of her services!

Ok - time to go. Evening snack time beckons. Out of Joe-Joe's, out of ice cream - looks like Cocoa Pebbles it is!

Top ten in google search results.

Another milestone for the site.  I'm appearing on the FIRST page of a google search!  Organically! In the top ten results!

And the search was NOT me typing in "searching for sesame street".  Nor was it me trying out different words and phrases, hoping to show up.  It was a wonderful random person looking for new shopping websites.   Below, a re-creation.

Slowly but surely, traffic continues, comments increase and now - appearing in google search results NOT only when (I'm) typing 'searching for sesame street blog'. Yea! Thank you for stopping by - keep on visiting please!