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Ivy Van Dusen

Hi! I am super excited to be teaming up with the cutest book company called Language Lizard for today's post! Lately I have been posting a lot of parenting tips + tricks, and different activities I've been doing with Jack on my Instagram account and they have been huge hits! I'd really like to post about more parenting and child activities (because let's be honest, that is what most of my life is now! :) So, here we go!

Jack is a HUGE fan of books. Before he was born I bought a lot of books because I thought they were just too cute to pass up, and I remember thinking, "is he actually ever going to read all of these?" Little did I know, he was going to love them and want so many!





Language Lizard caught my eye because their books are classic stories you've likely heard of before, but each book is written in English and another language too! Obviously Jack is too young to fully understand, but I think it will be awesome to read him these books and show him the other languages as he grows and learns! So many studies have been done about how beneficial it can be for children to be bilingual and I think helping younger kids become more familiar with other languages can be so helpful as well.

I think these books are awesome for any English-speaking native child, but I also think they would be AMAZING for kids who are native to other language and are trying to learn English!

These stories are so cute and I look forward to reading them to Jack (and any other babies I have) for years to come. If you are a mama (or aunt, uncle, grandparent, etc), you need to check them out! You can use this link code GIFTDEAL at checkout for a 10% discount on Language Lizard gift certificates!

Happy reading!

xo
1/29/2019 No sweet note{s}
Since Kody and I are from different states, we switch off going to the others' parents for Christmas and Thanksgiving every year. This year we went to Idaho for Christmas to stay with Kody's sister and then we went and visited my family in Arizona for Christmas! Kody got three weeks off from school so it was a nice, long break that we were able to spend in the warm Arizona sun. My brother got back from his 2-year church mission in July so it was so fun to all be together for Christmas for the first time in a while. We had a blast!

bye, snow!

Me & Jack went out to lunch with my mom a bunch of times and it was sooo fun. I loved just hanging out with her and being able to eat outside a lot as well :)


We went on a BUNCH of hikes. It is one of our favorite things to do when we are down there.


Making little gingerbread houses at my grandmas house one night. Jack loved it!

Kody and I even got to go on a nice date night while my parents and brothers watched Jack. We went to P.F Changs and Sugar Bowl and walked around downtown Scottsdale. It was a perfect night with just the two of us.

Lots of walks!


My family has a couple of quads that are so much fun to go to the desert with!





Jack and nanny :)



Jack got his very own vaccuum cleaner for Christmas!

Kody and my brothers in the hot tub

One night we went to Barro's pizza for dinner and there was a little kids area right by our table. While we were talking I looked over and saw Jack sitting at his own little table, pretending to drink out of  a little cup! It was so cute, I had to take a picture.

Nothing better than sleepy snuggles with my boy!






Girls night + Jack with my cute mama!




Jack sitting by his first desert campfire.




xo
1/08/2019 No sweet note{s}
Playing Jack's new favorite game, "horsey"

He had no interest in Santa whatsoever. Just wanted to get down and run around.

He LOVED the tree though!

First snowy Sunday of the year!

Snuggly always 

Jack's first time playing in the snow! He was so confused and intrigued by it at first and just stood there staring at it all.







One night we sat around the table (Jack at his high chair) and made our own graham cracker houses. Kody's gingerbread creation. It was going to be a big, beautiful gingerbread church but he was overzealous and it fell down.

My little house right before it collapsed!

Santa baby!

Trying to get a workout in while Jack ran around.

On our way to go see the Christmas lights!


xo
1/08/2019 No sweet note{s}
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