since becoming a mother, i've definitely learned some lessons about taking care of a baby. before our little guy arrived, i thought i knew all about taking care of babies - i did a lot of babysitting when i was younger. i learned quickly that it's way different when it's your own baby! motherhood is hard and fun and tiring and joyful and the list goes on! but most of all, motherhood is a work in progress and definitely has a learning curve ;) so to either humor you or maybe these will help you in some ways, here's my latest lessons learned:

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my sister came into town the beginning of this month and we loved having her here! she gave colsen plenty of aunty cuddles and kisses :) while she was here, we visited the st. louis botanical garden. it was gorgeous and we barely even saw half of it! we (unfortunately) picked the worst time to go and the hottest day too so we didn't last long walking around in the heat right in the middle of the day... poor colsen was sweating so much! i didn't want him to get sunburned or dehydrated, so we left only seeing about half of the gardens.

we were sad to say goodbye to aunty steph, but luckily we'll be moving back home to utah next week and colsen will get double the kisses and cuddles from both of my sisters ;)

while my mom was here for colsen's birth, she brought along some ingredients for us to make our own baby soap! i knew that i wanted to keep things as clean and organic as i could for our little boy and this was such a simple task to make our own soap. the great thing is that you can use this as face soap as well! when we use it, he smells sooo good and it's comforting knowing exactly what ingredients i am putting on his precious (and incredibly soft!) baby skin :)

 Natural Baby Soap