Second hand books

I have always loved second hand books due in part to my literary loving mother (thanks Stacy!) so I'm planning to pass that down to Hadley. We found some classic Golden Books at a garage sale yesterday along with a few good board books, so her library is continuing to grow!
**At our baby shower, everyone was asked to bring a book and write a note in the front so that definitely helped start her collection. She really has amassed quite the children's library at her current 13 months though with over 40 cherished pieces and growing. :)
Much love for books and reading!!

Baby Proof

I've been working for 2+ hours to babyproof our kitchen cabinets and it's been a fight... and the cabinets are winning. :(
One and a half cabinets are marginally babyproofed so I think I'm going to say this has been a big fail so far. Boo!
UPDATE- Jim finished up the rest of the cabinets in about 20 minutes... I am just not great with tools (yet).

lobster necklace

We went to a wedding in Detroit Lakes this last weekend and I wore the cutest necklace... yup a LOBSTER necklace! :)
I'm still chasing around our little crawler which is great but she's definitely a little whirlwind tossing stuff everywhere! I thought it was tough to balance my time before she was this mobile but now I'm chasing her around to make sure she doesn't break anything, hurt herself or stick a finger in an outlet... oh the joys of having a little toddler!!

My birthday

I've had a fun day of chasing around my new crawler!
My parents gifted me an amazing travertine patio dining table and 6 chairs with a cantilever umbrella!! Amazing! :)
Jim worked half the day which was nice since he got to be home with us for a few extra hours. He surprised me with a Mickey cookie/sandwich cutter that he had bought at Epcot for me!! So cute. What a great birthday :)

she's CRAWLING!!!

Hadley began crawling on her knees on Sunday and its been amazing to watch her get more confident. I just watched her chase the dogs out of the room so we're definitely going to be chasing after her very soon! She also has 7 teeth now; pretty amazing since she only had 2 teeth on her first birthday 3ish weeks ago!
In other news, my friend Janell is officially on her way to the hospital to deliver their little boy!! So exciting :) We had her shower {http://babyrenneberg.blogspot.com/2012/02/janell.html?m=1} AND she's been ready for him to arrive for the last month so we're all anxious to greet him! Now off to check out cookiesbydesign baskets for new babies... that was my favorite new baby gift once Hadley was born-- just so dang cute! ;)

Princess Diana exhibit at Mall of America

Today, Hadley and I met {auntie}Peggy and {gramma}Norma for lunch and browsing for home accents for Peggy's house at Ikea. Afterwards we went to Mall of America and visited the Princess Diana traveling exhibit of her beautiful gowns including her phenomenal wedding dress! We also got to go to JCrew since Hadley was being such a good girl :) and I got a new dress, cardigan and lucky lobster necklace(!!) to wear to Jim's friend's wedding in Detroit Lakes{WAY up north MN} next weekend. Hadley and I also went to a birthday BBQ for a friend/acquaintance tonight and Jim is at a bachelor party so now it's just us girls tonight well unless you count Cooper but an 8 pound male maltipoo doesn't really count right? ;)

Happy Easter Monday! He is Risen :)

We had a great Easter weekend with both of our families. Hippity hop hop :)
Next year it will be great for Hadley to be able to run around and find eggs instead of being carried around everywhere haha she got the princess treatment again this Easter!