Sibling Books

You know those items that you never knew you wanted or needed but once you have them you are hooked!? Enter The Big Sibling Book: Baby's First Year According to ME. A Journal, by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. I now know that I wanted and needed them! Fab friends gifted us with these treasures (Thank you Jamie, Aaron, and McKenna!) and picked up one for each new big sibling in the house, Rowan and Evangeline.  

What's so great about the book? A lot!

• Colorful cover art and journal pages.
• Places for the children to draw and express themselves through artwork.
• Check boxes for (funny options) quick responses and answers.
• Stickers to tell stories and express milestones. 
• Questions for the children to answer in short answer and sentence form.
• Interview pages where Mommy and Daddy can dig deeper into their minds to express their feelings and bigger concepts. 
• Documenting who Eva and Rowan are now.
• The smiles it bring to their faces whenever we work on their journal.
• The focus it brings to our Mommy and me time together as we prepare for the new baby.
• The focus it will bring to our Mommy and me time together through the beginning days and first year of having baby at home. 

I'm not a paid spokesperson for this product. But, I do recommend it! If you or someone you know is expecting and there are future big siblings in the picture this is a great addition to the family!

Where We Started

Alan started this blog 'back in the day'. It was before:

• twitter #'s were used,
• facebook groups were popular,
• instagram pics were posted.

Blogging then was some fancy stuff! Ruddys.blogspot's purpose was to get news and photos out all at once to friends and family:

• of where we were, 
• who our children were,
• and what we were all doing.  

We weren't Ballston Babes just yet but it did include All Things Rudnick Family. Have you been with us since then? Do you remember where we started? How we got here? And what's happened since?
Now it's our turn to wonder what's to come.... stay tuned for April 9th!

What a Year

What a year.  What a year - to not capture on the blog. How many moments I missed writing about. How many events that blessed our days, our months, our year have passed by.

My last post was almost a year ago.  Then, I shared about our days. They were cold, sunny, happy and sad. The same can be said for this past year...but are days also remained blessed.

We've had summer days,

work days,

play days,

traveling days,

first-day-of-school days,

spooky days,

thankful days,

anticipated days,

coffee-filled days,

New Year days,

winter days,

and now we are living in expectant days,


so, it's time dust off the dusty blogger.com site and let the blogging (re)begin!