Baby Bean’s First Celebrity Meeting

As I mentioned in a previous post, this past weekend, the Alex (AKA @TheSciFiDaddy), baby Ellie and I made our way to Chicago for the 2012 International Home & Housewares Show.

We had a blast!

I had received an email earlier in the week inviting us to stop by the SodaStream booth to check out their new line in addition to see their special celebrity guest, Jillian Michaels.

We had already planned on stopping by the booth because I was dying to try a SodaStream (yes, up until Saturday, we were SodaStream virgins!).

So, we made our way to the booth, learned how to make a soda using the SodaStream and some other cool stuff before taking a seat to wait for Jillian.

A few minutes later Jillian came out to face the crowd around the booth, pose for pictures and shoot some promos. We couldn’t see much of her (other than her backside which

the Alex didn’t mind) and then we were asked to move to another seat because we were in every shot. Of course, this was not a problem, so we moved. We continued to wait for

a bit as she did more promos until the Alex said he wanted to get moving and check out more stuff. We made our way around to the front of the booth in an attempt to take a picture or two
I no more than snapped this picture, not even knowing what I had actually taken a picture of when I look at Jillian, yes, THE JILLIAN MICHAELS, and here her say I want to see the baby! of Jillian and just as I snapped this picture, everything changed!

Yes!!!
Jillian Michaels was requesting to meet see our little Baby Ellie all snug and wrapped in her Moby strapped to me.
I of course obliged and made my way over to show off our precious little girl.
I mean seriously…..Jillian Michaels!

I walked over to her, I showed off little Miss Ellie.

Thank goodness the Alex was there with me and was paying attention otherwise we wouldn’t have these awesome pictures in which you can see Jillian swoon over the cuteness that is Baby Ellie and one of her and I talking about Ellie.

She couldn’t believe that Ellie was closing in on 3 months, she thought for sure she was just 2 days old. She went on to tell me about her niece who had just had a baby who was already 10lbs which is what our 3 month old Ellie is.

Now, remember that part when I mentioned that Jillian was shooting photos and promos right before this happened?

Well, she did this in the middle of shooting a promo and they had to start over.

I thought that was pretty awesome. She didn’t care if she had to do it again, she just really wanted to see our baby and meet Ellie.

As for the Alex and I, we are still in shock that this happened and think it is pretty damn sweet!

Thank you @JillianMichaels for being awesome and for being the first celebrity our little Ellie got to meet!!

Chicago, Media Events / Press Trips

2012 International Home & Housewares Show

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As many of you know, this past weekend the Alex AKA and I made our way down to Chicago along with Ellie to attend the 2012 International Home and Housewares Show. This was our first year attending and I can guarantee that we will definitely be going back but hope we will be able to attend all 4 days—even though I don’t think 4 days will be enough time to cover the entire show.

2.6 million square feet of space is a lot to cover!

We met some great new people, learned about some great new products and cannot wait to share everything with you!

There was just so much stuff to see.

It was also a weekend of firsts for Baby Ellie. It was her first road trip, first time out of the state, first blog event, first trade show and first celebrity meeting.

Yes, Baby Ellie met her first celebrity.

But that is a whole other post that I promise to share with you before the end of the week!

Right now I need to get to bed because I am still recovering from attending the IAlexA show!

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THE THREE MUSKETEERS – on 3D Blu-ray, Blu-ray & DVD 3/13/12

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Things have been crazy around our house lately, crazy as in super busy! I have barely had a moment to myself let alone the time to watch a movie so I enlisted the help of 13 year old Zack to conduct a review for The Three Musketeers, a movie he had been dying to see!
Here are his thoughts on the film!

Overall I found this movie to be funny and entertaining all at the same time. It was an exciting film filled with some awesome special effects like flying pirate ships attached to giant balloons. This movie had a great star filled cast including Loan Perman from Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Orlando Bloom from Pirates of the Caribbean and I can’t forget the beautiful Milla Jovovich (shhhh…..don’t tell my mom I said that!)

Both my sister, the 11 year old Libby and my little brother, 4 year old Alexander popped in a few times while I was watching it and started to get sucked in as well ( I of course made them leave because, HELLO……it’s rated PG-13!!!!)

This movie also had some cool special features like deleted and extended scenes that were cool to watch, stories from the cast and crew and more!

To sum things up, I enjoyed the movie and I hope you do to!

Here is a clip for you to check it out while I head off to bed before my mom makes me do more work!

Disclaimer: We received a promotional copy of this film for review purposes, all thoughts and opinions are our own.

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Four.

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I don’t even know how it happened.
Some how, 4 years went by in the blink of an eye.
It is hard to believe that 4 years ago I was laying in a hospital bed waiting to me my son.
And now, now he is turning 4.
In four years he has gone from a quiet, itty bitty baby boy and turned into a loud, rambunctious, ball of fire and noise, a big brother and a great kid who is a TON of fun!
Happy 4th Birthday to my little Alexander (even though you aren’t so little any more!)

Love you little man!

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Goodbye Pull-Ups!

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It has been 5 days since Alexander has used a Pull-up!
We couldn’t be happier!!!
This past Saturday I realized we were running low and that’s when I decided we were slapping the plastic liner on his mattress and having him take a nap in his underwear.
Nap time was a success.
When he woke up 1.5 hours later he went to the bathroom right away.
Saturday night we decided he would go to bed for the night in his underwear as well.
He was asleep shortly after 8pm and woke up at 2:30am because he had an accident.
Yes he had an accident, but this was progress….he WOKE UP!!
On Sunday, he successfully napped in underwear once again AND made it from 9pm Sunday until 6:30am on Monday in his underwear with zero accidents!
This has continued since.
Last night, he was so tired he had an itty bitty accident in bed but woke up and ran to the bathroom to take care of everything and then went right back to sleep and made it through the rest of the night.
I am SOOOOOOO happy!!
We are finally done with Pull-ups and we don’t have to buy diapers or wipes for Ellie for quite some time since we stock piled while I was pregnant!
Here’s to some extra money to put in savings for a down payment on a house!!!!