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 What We Love: Bloomz Bows & Headbands   Hey loves, life with our 6 week old and our now 2 year old (Cash's birthday was yesterday and was so fun & special...more on that later) has been such a blast! I have a full update on life with two coming soon, per your requests!  TOday i wanted to share all about these cute dainty bows you guys have been asking about on instagram and facebook (link to my accounts are on the right hand side).  Bloomz has the cutest dainty headbands for you baby girls evvver ! I basically put these on her almost every day the first month, now they are getting a little more snug and we may need to move up a size, but man are these cute and perfect for newbies!  Check out all of our styled looks below over the past 6 weeks of little Laylas life.. my favorite so far has been the gold pinwheel headband. And be sure to check out Bloomz shop ! If youd like to see me post on anything in particular, write it in the comments below, i would love to hear from y

Layla Sienna Armstrong: Birth Story June 4 2015, 7.4 oz, 18.5 inches long Wednesday morning June 3rd (at 38 weeks, 6 days pregnant), the day before Layla was born I had a membrane sweep around 9am. The dr had said I was now 2 cm and ripe as well as 60% effaced and baby was at -1 station.  I knew a sweep worked with my son so I had high hopes that this would throw me into labor if my body and our sweet girl were both ready.  I had been having 'bloody show', cramping on and off and tons of braxton hicks for several days as you can see in my pregnancy updates.  After my sweep I left the dr's office and had a lot of cramping right away. Throughout the day my cramps with braxton hicks continued on and off. It basically felt like the days previous, just like regular menstrual cramps, there was no pattern to them or anything of that sort.  I went about my day as i usually would but paid close attention to how my body was feeling.  My son and i went to the park to play for a couple