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A BLEUBIRD GIVEAWAY - CLOSED.

today's giveaway is from lime ricki swimwear, a small collection of women's and men's conservative swimsuits, trunks and boardies. just in time for summer! today lime ricki is giving away a $100 gift card to one lucky bleubird reader. for a chance to win please visit the lime ricki website and comment below. it's that simple folks! (feel free to visit their facebook page as well.) this is an international giveaway so everyone can enter. good luck and i will choose a random winner on monday. good luck.

terms: all entrants must provide a valid email address and first name along with your comment entry. please avoid putting your contact information directly into your comment, winners could be posted publicly. once the giveaway has ended and winners are chosen, they are contacted and put in touch with the sponsor. bleubird does not handle nor distribute giveaway items at any time. giveaway items are directly distributed to the winners by the sponsors themselves. if a winner fails to claim their prize within 10 days, they forfeit their winnings and another winner is chosen and contacted via email. all winners are chosen randomly.

BOY & BANANA BREAD.

top: recent purchases made for baby boy. i have not done much shopping for him yet. this pregnancy has been a bit strange, i haven't really felt pregnant up until this past couple of weeks. but this belly is getting bigger and the waddle is starting to set in, so it's time to start picking out some things for our little man who will be here before we know it. birdie and i went to a local boutique the other day and picked up these handmade guatemalan booties and some muslin blankets for him. i forgot how much fun this 'buying things for baby' stuff is.

bottom: yet another food picture. i just can't help myself. this time it's the banana bread from trader joes that i cannot stop eating. i make a great, from scratch, banana bread but this is almost just as good and it's already made. whoop!!

footnote: we are this close to having a name for this baby boy. our middle name is a done deal. now we are just deciding between our two first name candidates. tough stuff.

A MORNING JUST SHE & ME.

1. tea kettle.
2. breakfast for two.
3. sink bath for one.
4. potato crusted fish, blackberries, hummus and falafel chips for lunch.
5. a nap time snack of honey goat cheese, pita crackers, apple butter and sparkling lemonade... 
6. ...while flipping through the beautiful audrey grace lookbook.

it's been pretty quiet around here these days. aubrey was out of town for a couple and so it was just the little birdie and i, here alone, in this oddly still and mellow house. the morning time is my favorite. the bright and early streams of light shining through every window. waking up fresh and rested. birds chirping, dogs sun bathing, hens clucking and the smug cat snoozing on the chair in the corner. neighbors getting into their cars and heading to work, mama's running down the street behind jogging strollers and the delivery trucks making their rounds. the blond bed headed little girl who is sweet as honey and likes to cuddle on the couch after a long night of sleep and missing her mama. i prepared some maple and brown sugar oatmeal for breakfast with a side of sliced bananas. birdie calls them "ma-nas." as you can imagine or as you may have experienced yourself, mixing oatmeal and almost two-year-olds is an icky sticky mess. nothing that a quick splash in the kitchen sink can't handle. after a good toweling off and some fresh clean clothes we went out to do the morning chores. just like every morning we fed the pups, watered the garden and plucked those thieving caterpillars off of our dill. i need to come up with a plan to deter them. we tended to our chickens and watered our potted plants. birdie splashed in her buckets and said hello to the squirrels.

the heat and the mosquitoes and need for another change of clothes for gemma bird brought us back into the cool house. we listened to records, we colored on paper. before i knew it, it was time to prepare her little lunch. she ate, we laughed, i tucked her in for her nap.

a good morning, just she and me. and while she slept, i snacked and did some things that i don't often get a chance to do like flip through a magazine and doing a bit of reading from a new book while resting on the couch and enjoying this rare quietude.

MATERNITY STYLE / 24 WEEKS.

my littlest (for the time being) hopped into my photos this time around and i am so happy she did. i'm twenty four weeks and counting. it's kind of crazy to think that in just two short weeks, i will be 25 weeks tomorrow, that i will be in my third trimester. this pregnancy is flying by.

this is what i have been living in most days. long, flowing skirts with stretchy, elastic waistlines. i search the racks at the thrift stores and have been lucky to find one or two new-to-me skirts almost every time. 

what i'm wearing / sweatshirt, h&m. tank, lilla p. skirt, vintage. handmade handbag, elf. handmade shoes, elf. sunglasses, rayban.

what birdie's wearing / dress, vintage. high tops, converse.

get the look / cute skirt number one. two and three. this one right here is only five bucks! my handmade shoes. my handmade bag (it's my very favorite!) and here's a similar dress for a little lady.