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Precious Memories Precious Memories With . . .Priceless Memories ReflectionsRemember When Somewhere In TimeStolen Moments The Roaring TwentiesThe Story Of Me The Story Of UsThe Way It Was The Way We WereThe Wonder Years Then And NowThis Is My Life Through The YearsTimes To Remember Travel Back In TimeTreasured Memories Treasures Of YesterdayTribute What Memories Are Made Of

Memories are like keepsakes, always treasured.

The past, the present, for the future.

Travel through the pages of time.

We do not remember days, we remember memories.

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Chapter 2

It’s All Relative

aDOptION

A Dream Come True A New BeginningAdoption Day Can We Keep Him?Chosen And Loved DestinyLove At First Sight Loving Hearts Embrace YouMy Adoption Story My Greatest GiftThe Greatest Gift You Grew In My Heart

Adoption is a gift of love.

Adoption is when a child grew in its mommy’s heart instead of her tummy.

Our family tree has a new branch.

Straight from heaven up above,Here is a baby for us to love.

When they placed you in my arms, you fell into my heart.

You grew not under my heart but in it.

BaBY

A Baby Is A Bundle Of Joy A Baby’s Love Is Best Of AllA Blessing From Heaven A Bundle Of Joy

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A Chip Off The Old Block A Few Of My Favorite ThingsA Gift From God Above A Labor Of LoveA Lullaby Moment A New Face At Our PlaceA Picture Of Love A Precious Gift From GodA Star Is Born A Time To Be BornA Whole New World Absolutely AdorableAbsolutely Beautiful Action FigureAdorable Ah, Sweet Mystery Of LifeAin’t I Cute Along Came (Name)Ain’t She Sweet! All Wrapped Up!American Made An OriginalAnd The Story Begins And Then There Was YouAnd Then There Were Three Angel EyesAt First Sight Automatic SprinklerBabe In Arms Baby & MeBaby Babble Baby BluesBaby Bubbles Baby CakesBaby Days Baby FaceBaby Fresh Baby LoveBaby Milestones Baby Of MineBaby Oh Baby! Baby On The MoveBaby Steps Baby You Can Drive My CarBaby’s Day Out Bald Is BeautifulBald Is Neat Bare NecessitiesBeautiful Beautiful DreamBecause Of You Believe In Miracles!Bikini Baby Blanket BabyBlessing From Above Bonding For Our First TimeBorn In The USA Born To Be Wild!Born To Cause Trouble Bottoms Up!Bouncing Baby Boy Boy/Girl Meets World!Bringing Up Baby Bubble BabiesBundle Of Joy Bundle Of LoveButterfly Kisses Catching A Few Zzzzzzzz’sCaution: Baby Zone Celebrating New LifeCherish Every Moment Climbing New HeightsColor Me Perfect Cootchie, Cootchie, CooCould It Be A Miracle? Cry BabyCute Cute But Dangerous

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Cute Is My Middle Name Cute KidCute-N-Cuddly Cutie PatootieDaddy’s Little Dividend Danger Zone—UFO’sDiaper Disaster Diaper DutyDiapers By Gucci Discover Wildlife! Have KidsDon’t Make Me Call Grandma! Down For The CountDreamland Express Earth AngelEvery Baby Needs A Lap Every Life Is PreciousEverything Changes Fairy Tales Do Come True!First Born First ImpressionsFunny Face Fuss BucketGeneration Gap Gift Of LoveGifts To Celebrate Got Milk?Handle With Care Happy Go LuckyHe/She Leaks Head’s UpHear Comes The Tears Heaven SentHello Little One Helping HandsHere I Am! Here I Am! Gotta Love Me!His/Her Name Is Wonderful I Have ArrivedI Got You Babe I Know I Am A HandfulI Will Always Love You I Wish For You . . .I’m Awake! Let’s Play! I’m Just Plain CuteI’m Special I’m The Only One Like Me!I’m Too Sexy For My Diaper In A Class Of His/Her OwnIn The Beginning Incredible YouInto Everything Introducing (Name)Irresistible It’s A Grand World To BeholdIt’s A Small Small World Little SweetheartLook At That Face Look How PreciousLook Up Angel Look What I Can DoLook What The Stork Brought Love At First SightLove My Little Miracle Magical MilestonesMake Room For (Name) Me And My Big IdeasMemories Of You & Me Midnight Giggles And GrinsMiles To Go Before I Sleep Milk, It Does A Baby GoodMilk Monster More Precious Than GoldMore Than Wonderful My Handsome Baby Boy!My Little Ray Of Sunshine My MasterpieceMy Priceless Treasure My Work Of Art

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Natural Beauty New ArrivalNo Greater Love Oh Glorious NightOh, Baby Oh Boy!On The Go On The MoveOnly You Our New ArrivalOur New Love Our Rising StarOur Special Delivery Our StoryOurs Patience Is A VirtuePerfection Personality PlusPrecious Love Precious TreasuresPresenting (Name) Pretty As A PicturePrince Charming Pure PerfectionRay Of Sunshine Ready For ActionReady Or Not, Here I Come See What I Can DoSent From Above Shake That BootieShake, Rattle And Roll She’s A SuperstarShowers Of Blessings Simply IrresistibleSmall Wonder So BigSo This Is Love Something To Talk AboutSpecial Delivery Spit HappensSplendid Surprise Star Light, Star BrightStar Dust Stolen MomentsSweet Baby Sweet Baby FaceSweet Beginnings Sweet Blessings From AboveSweet Cheeks Sweet DreamsSweetie Pie Tales From The CribTemptations Of Tots Ten Little ToesTen Tiny Toes The Arrival Of (Name)The Cutest Little Baby Face The Gift Of LoveThe Many Faces Of (Name) The Many Moods Of (Name)The Miracle Of Life The Most Precious GiftThe Perfect Day The Perfect PictureThe Queen Of Hearts The Story Of MeThe Wonder Of It All The Wonder YearsThe Young And The Restless There’s A Kind Of HushThere’s A New Kid In Town Today Love Has A NameTogether We Are Three Too Cute For Words

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Waaaah! Welcome Little One!Welcome To The World! What A Busy Body!What A Celebration Of Life What A Day!What A Face What A Wonderful WorldWhat Is All The Fuss About? When I Get Big I’ll Get EvenWhen We First Met When You Wish Upon A StarWhere’s My Hair! Whining And DiningWho’s Spoilin’ Who? Yep, Ten Toes!Yes Sir, That’s My Baby You Are My SunshineYou Are So Beautiful! You Are So Beautiful To MeYou Bet I’m Cute You Light Up My LifeYoung And Restless You’re One In A Million

(Name) has a PhD in cuteness.

(Name) makes my heart melt with just a smile.

A baby girl . . . one of the most beautiful miracles in life, one of the greatest joys we can ever know, and one of the reasons why there is a little extra sunshine, laughter and happiness in your world today.

A baby is a bit of stardust blown from the hand of God! (gold glitter pen on black)

A baby is a blank check, made payable to the human race. —Barbara Christine Seifert

A baby is a blessing, a gift of heaven above,A precious little angel, to cherish and to love.

* * *

A baby is a gift from heaven above,Bringing joy down to earth, filling hearts with love.

* * *

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A baby is cuddles and tickles on toes,The sweet scent of powder, a kiss on the nose!

A baby is teddy bears, rattles, powder and pins,Bottles at midnight, giggles and grins.

They grow up so fast, in the blink of an eye,They’re sitting up and on their feet, then they’re biking by.

A baby is your baby forever and a day,Even if they’re gone, they’re in your heart to stay.

A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

A baby is born with a need to be loved, and never outgrows it. —Frank A. Clark

A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on. —Carl Sandburg

A baby is sunshine, is moonbeams and more . . .Brightening your world like never before.

* * *

A baby is teddy bears, rattles, power and pins,A meal at midnight . . . giggles and grins.

A baby is the greatest gift that life can ever send!

A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankrolls smaller, homes happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.

A baby’s got to do what a baby’s got to do!

A baby’s laughter is music to a mother’s heart!

A new branch on the family tree.

A brand new little baby boy,To fill our lives and hearts with joy!

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* * *

A bundle of love to call our own,Has come into our hearts and home.

A button nose, cherry lips and ten tiny toes.

A good example of minority rule is a baby in the household.

A new baby is like the beginning of all things . . . wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.—Eda J. LeShan

A new little someone sent from above,Full of sweetness and wonder, bundled in love.

A precious new baby has come from above to live in your hearts . . . to fill you with love.

A snuggly, cuddly, cute baby boy/girl!

A star danced on the night you were born.

A sweet new blossom of humanity.

A sweet new little baby girl, to bring happiness into our world!

All because two people fell in love.

And I’m A Swingin’ (baby in baby swing)

Babies are a blessing from Heaven.

Babies are a link between angels and man.

Babies are always more trouble than you thought and more wonderful than you ever dreamed.—Charles Osgood

Babies are blessings sent from above,They fill our hearts with lots of love.

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Babies are bundles from heaven.

Babies are God’s opinion that the world should go on. —Carl Sandburg

Babies are life’s most precious gifts.

Babies are little angels from above.

Babies are proof that the best things do come in small packages.

Babies are such a nice way to start people.—Don Herold

Babies fill the home with love.

Babies touch the world with love.

Baby: Handy way of disposing of unwanted cash and filling up free time, while cutting down on unnecessary sleep, curtailing a demanding social life, and curing a neurotic obsession with personal hygiene.

Baby face, you’ve got the cutest little baby face.—Art Mooney

Baby’s have a way of changing our hearts and lives forever.

Big things come in small packages.

Can’t smile without you! (baby smile, no teeth, crying baby)

Careful . . . I drool at a moments notice.

Children are one third of our population and all of our future.

Dimples, giggles, cuddles divine,All come together, sweetness combined.

Don’t let the diapers fool you; I’m the boss around here!

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Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. —Charles Dickens

Every child begins the world again.

Extra! Extra! Read all about it!

Families with babies and families without are so sorry for each other. —Ed Howe

Fresh and clean and smelling sweet.

Fresh as a rose in the morning dew,Soft as a butterfly’s kiss,

More precious than I ever imagined,I’m sweet on you.

Getting in the swing of things. (baby swing)

Giggles and curls, ribbons and bows,She’s just so adorable from her head to her toes!

God has truly blessed us with a precious gift from above.

Good night moon, good night air,Good night noises everywhere.

—Margaret Wise Brown

Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child.—Tina Brown

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.—Bill Cosby

He/She will fill our lives with sunshine and our hearts with love.

Hug and kisses,Stars for wishes.

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Hush little baby, don’t you cry.

I am a child of God. (Christening)

I believe that each personality is complete at conception and comes in the soul of every child.—Taylor Hartman

I coo and poo, that’s all I do.

I couldn’t be more lovable if I tried.

I love these little people. And it is not a slight thing when they, who so fresh from God, love us.—Charles Dickens

I loved you the first moment I saw you!

I made a wish and you came true.

I should be in a commercial for cute.

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

I wonder if these come in any other flavors. (baby sucking on toes or fingers)

I’m as lucky as can be,The world’s greatest Dad/Mom

Belongs to me.

I’m just a baby, what’s your excuse?

I’m the baby. Gotta love me!

In the beginning we all start out small.

Introducing the world’s most beautiful baby.

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Is this the baby you’ve been telling me about for 9 months?

It is not a slight thing when those so fresh from God love us. —Charles Dickens

It sometimes happens, even in the best of families, that a baby is born. This is not necessarily cause for alarm. The important thing is to keep your wits about you and borrow some money.

—Elinor Goulding Smith

It was the tiniest thing I ever decided to put my whole life into. —Terri Guillemets

It’s the little blessings that help us seeJust how lovely life can be.

It’s the little things in life that matter.

It’s the little things that bring the greatest joy. Personalize a card by adding: Enjoy the little things.

Life’s most precious gifts are tied with heartstrings.

Little one . . . I hold your small life in the palm of my hand. With your sweet breath on my face I will hold you forever and a day and I will watch you sleep . . . and know that you are mine.

Look out world, here I come!

Look what we found in the cabbage patch.

Love is . . . a new addition to the family.

Love makes little things grow.

Love touched our very heartWith tenderness anew,

The day we held your little hand,And cast our eyes on you.

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Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking round outside your body.

—Elizabeth Stone

Miles of Smiles (car seat or steering wheel toy)

Mom and Dad say I’m very musically inclined.I love to pound and drum on everything I can find!

A toy or a bucket, the best are pots and pans!When I grow up I’ll be the best drummer in the band.

Moments worth remembering.

My heart bursts with happiness. (looking at baby the first time)

More milk please! (in black spotted letters)

No earthly joys could bring more pleasure,Than a little girl/boy to love and treasure.

Now the thing about having a baby, and I can’t be the first person to have noticed this, is that thereafter you have it.—Jean Kerr

One little baby, many happy hearts.

On the day you were born, all doubt was erased from my mind. My search was finally over . . . you were the angel I’d been longing to find.

Our family just grew by two feet!

Our Little Sweetie (candy stickers)

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one. —Leo J. Burke

Precious moments with (Name).

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Reach for the stars and don’t worry about falling, Mom and Dad will catch you!

Seven pound baby melts 200 pound man.

She will fill our lives with sunshine . . . and our hearts with love!

Simple pleasures are life’s greatest treasures.

So cool, just gotta wear shades.

Sometimes the smallest packages give us the biggest love.

Sometimes when you’re sleeping, peaceful in your rest,I crave to hold your body and cradle your head to my breast.I never would have dreamed I was a mother waiting to be.All because of you, sweet child, brought out the love in me.

Special things come in small packages.

Straight from Heaven up above here is a baby for us to love.

Ten tiny fingers and ten tiny toesAll lined up in sweet little rows.

* * *

Ten tiny little fingers that always want to play,That never stops exploring the wonder of today.Ten tiny little fingers that from the very start,

Will reach out for tomorrow yet always hold your heart.

Thank heaven for little girls/boys!

Thank you for the sunshine you’ve brought into my life.

The angels from above, looked down and joy unfurled as God so tenderly gave to us our little baby girl.

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The angels gazed upon us and smiled with abundant joyAs God so tenderly gave to us our little baby boy.

The art of being a parent is to sleep when the baby isn’t looking.

The cleaning and scrubbing will wait till tomorrow,For children grow up, as I’ve learned to my sorrow,

So quiet down cobwebs, dust, go to sleep.I’m rocking my baby, and babies don’t keep.

-Ruth Hulburt Hamilton

The Duke/Duchess of dirty diapers.

The family welcomes a new star to their galaxy of love.

The first time, ever I saw your face.

The King of Kool (crowns and castles)

The most precious gifts are those that are small.

The most wonderful sound our hearts can hear is the sound of a newborn baby.

There are no mistakes, only lessons.

Things to do . . . love you, kiss you, hug you. And then love you some more!

Two perfect ears and ten little toes,All fingers accounted for, one adorable button nose.

I’ve looked at you all over and checked out all the parts,And you, my handsome prince, have stolen away my heart!

We have increased the size of our house by two feet!

We’ve been blessed. A new baby and dear friends like you to share our joy. Thank You.

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Welcome to the world, baby girl/boy.

Welcome to the world, little one.

What a difference a day makes.

What a difference you’ve made in my life.

What a life . . . eating . . . sleeping . . . playing . . . and being cute.

What did they do before me?

What was life before you came along?

What’s sweeter than cookies? Why a sweet new baby of course.

When I count my blessings I count you twice.

When they placed you in my arms, you slipped into my heart.

When you were growing in my tummy, I never dreamed you’d be an angel sent from Heaven for your daddy and me. Although you are so tiny and precious as can be, you’ve changed us completely and made us a family.

Will it be a hunting buddy or a shopping pal?

With a face like this, life will be smooth sailing!

With every little baby’s birth,A bit of stardust falls to earth.

* * *

You are my star in the Heavens, shining so bright.You are my candle in the darkness, giving me light.

You are my princess, my love, my babe born on this day.My heart is your home, where you’ll always stay.

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You are cut from a pattern I love.

You are so sweet and tiny and new,Everything is so perfect about you.

—Thena Smith

You are the sunshine of my life.

You are the wind beneath my wings.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have for instance.—Franklin P. Jones

You fill our days with hugs and kisses.

Your precious baby, so tiny and new,Is a miracle of love, from God to you.

You’re so precious to me . . . cute as can be . . . baby of mine. —From Dumbo

You’ve got the cutest little baby face.

BaBY FaCtS

A newborn has feet that are one third of their adult foot length.

At birth, a baby’s brain is 10 percent of her total baby weight. (an adult’s is 2%)

At birth babies have the natural movement for swimming.

Between birth and age two, an infant will quadruple in size.

By age one, they are nearly half their adult size.

Human babies are the only primates to smile at their parents.

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With in 45 hours of birth, a newborn knows her own mother by her smell. (Blindfolded in a room with other babies, a mother can identify her own child by scent alone.)

Bath

A Bubbly Personality A Day At The SpaA Flood Of Fun A Splashing Good TimeAll Washed Up All WetBaby Yourself Bare Bottoms Welcome HereBath & Body Works Bathing BeautyBlowing Bubbles Bubble BabeBubble Trouble Bubbles Bubbles EverywhereBubbles Of Fun Caution: This Is A Fog Area!Clean As A Whistle Good Clean FunH2Oh! Just Add WaterJust The Bare Facts Please! Let’s Make WavesLittle Mermaid Luv The TubMakin’ Waves Making A Big SplashPamper Yourself (diaper shot) Scrubbing BubblesSlippery When Wet Soap OperaSqueaky Clean Tiny BubblesTowel Man Tub TimeTurban Swami (hair in a towel) Tubs Of FunWarning! Slippery When Wet! Wash DayWater Baby Water BugWater Whimsy Wet N’ Wild

Bear hugs and back scrubs welcome here.

Bubbles in the bath and bubbles on your head,How about some bubbles on your body, instead?I know washing your body is really quite a bore,

But you’ll just have to trust me,That’s what the bubbles are for.

Bubbling over with laugher.

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Did you say “Bath time” or “Playtime”?

Rub-a-dub-dub,Three kids in a tub.

Singin’ in the bathtub, happy once again.

Splish splash!Time for bath!

You love the water so!But please explain, little one,Why I’m wet from head to toe!

Splish splash I was taking a bath.

Watchin’ all your troubles go swimmin’ down the drain.

Ya Little Squirt (spray bottle, squirt gun, garden hose)

CraWLING

Baby In Motion Baby On The Loose!Bottoms Up! Crawling AlongCreepy Crawler Get Movin’Getting Mobile Going, Going, GoneHere Comes Trouble Lil’ ExplorerOn The Move Poetry In MotionPractice Makes Perfect Ready For ActionStaying Grounded The Little Engine That Could

I think I can, I think I can, I can!

Watch out, Mom and Dad, I’m mobile.

FIrStS

First Things First I Did It!

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Life Is Full Of Firsts Look What I Can Do!Milestones Practice Makes PerfectRookie The First Time Around

If at first you don’t succeed . . .

There’s a first time for everything.

GrOW / GrOWING

Am I Big Enough Yet? Getting Bigger Inch By InchGrowth Chart Growing Like A WeedGrowing Pain Home GrownI’m A Big Kid Now It’s A Small Small WorldJust Yesterday Look Whose Growing Up!Measuring Up Monumental MilestonesOff The Charts Oh How They GrowReady Or Not, Here I Grow! Short & Small, Big & TallSizing Up You Grow Girl

All things grow with love.

Growing by leaps and bounds. (trampoline, jumping, frogs, doorway jumper)

In the beginning we all start out small.

Measuring up to all expectations.

Watch out world . . . here I grow again!

You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.—Irish Proverb

Nap tIMe

All Tuckered Out And To All A Good Night

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And We Bid You Goodnight As You SleepBeautiful Dreamer Bed HeadCatching A Few Winks CatnapConked Out Dancing With The StarsDo Not Disturb Down For The CountDream A Little Dream Dream TeamDreaming Sweet Baby DreamsDreamlandDream Weaver Early To Bed, Early To RiseGoing Undercover Good Night MoonHeavenly Peace Hush-A-Bye BabyMr. Sandman Night OwlNighty Night Quiet MomentsRecharging Rock-A-Bye-BabyShhhhh SiestaSleeping Angel Sleeping BeautySleeping Like A Baby Sleepy TimeSleepyhead SnuggleSugarplum Dreamers Sweet DreamsSweet Serenity This Little PauseTranquility

Close your little sleepy eyes.

If I’m not sleeping, nobody’s sleeping!

If only she/he were sleeping instead of just recharging!

One who sleeps with a blankie is comforted with love.

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one. —Leo J. Burke Personalize a card by adding: Best of luck with your new addition. If

you need a nap I’m just a phone call away!

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.

When in doubt, take a nap.

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NUDe

As Free As A Bird Bare BottomBare Your Soul Barely CoveredBirthday Suit Centerfold MaterialNaked Again Naturalist In The BuffPose Nude? You Bet! Show & TellThe Bare Essentials The Bare NecessitiesThe Bottom Line The Little StreakerThe Nude Kid On The Block

Is it cold in here or is it just me?

rOLLING OVer

(Name) Is On A Roll Flipped OutI’m On A Roll Now It’ll Make Your Head SpinJust Roll With It Baby Over And Over AgainRock-N-Roll Rolling Through LifeRoly-Poly Unstoppable

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.

SMILeS aND GIGGLeS

A Laugh Is A Smile That BurstBehind The SmileGiggles And Grins It’s More Than Your SmileMiles Of Smiles Totally Tickled

A smile happens in a flash, but its memory can last a lifetime.

A smile is a curve that sets things straight.

A smile is the light in the window of your soul.

It’s the smile that keeps me out of trouble.

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The smile of a child is like a song from God.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about and that was the beginning of fairies.—J. M. Barrie

SOLID FOODS

A Tasty Treat DinnertimeFood Critic Food FightFood Frenzy Good Stuff!Highchair Adventures Milk! It Does A Baby GoodName That Food Today’s SpecialUh Oh, Spaghetti-O! What’s Cooking?Yum! Yum! Give Me Some!

A sittin’ and a slurpin’ and a spittin’ and a thinkin’. (watermelon)

Dinnertime just got more interesting. (bib, first solid food, feeding himself, first spaghetti)

Finding your mouth takes practice. Hang in there. (picture with more food outside than inside)

Food fight and mommy lost.

Give me something good to eat.

It’s hard to be neat When you’re learning to eat!

Recipe: Frosting plus baby equals mess.

This is one messy baby face.

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StaNDING / pULLING Up

A Balancing Act A Real Stand Up GuyI Stand Out/Up In A Crowd Look At MePulling Up Reaching New HeightsReady For Action Stand StrongStand Tall Standing ProudStanding Room Only Standing SoloSteady Does It Taking A StandVertical What’s Up Baby?

Will the real (Name) please stand up?

What goes up must come down.

StrOLLer

A Quiet Stroll Cruisin’I’m Outta Here Roll With It, BabyStrollin’ Along Takin’ A Stroll

teeth / teethING

A Pool Of Drool A Snap Of The GapLoose Tooth My First Tooth’Ol Toothless Pearly WhitesThe Ruthless, The Toothless Those Precious Pearly WhitesTooth Tales Toothless And Lovin’ It!Toothless Beauty Toothless Wonder

Getting your first toothWas really quite exciting!

But for never having teeth before,How do you know so much about biting?

Ouch!

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I’m not sloppy; I just don’t have any teeth!

So that’s what teeth are for!

WaLKING

A Step In The Right DirectionA Walk To RememberAnd He’s Off! Baby In MotionBaby On The Loose! Catch Me If You CanCruisin’ Every Little StepFirst Steps FootprintsGet Movin’ Gimme Three StepsGo Go Go! Goin’ PlacesI Walk The Line I’m Walking On SunshineLittle By Little, One Walks FarLook Mom! No Hands!Look Who’s Walking Making TracksOn The Go On The MoveOne Small Step For Man . . . One Step At A TimeOne Step Beyond Pitter PatterReady Or Not, Here I Come Ready, Set, Walk!So Big Step By StepStep By Tiny Step Stepping Out In StyleSweetness In Motion The Young And The RestlessToddler Two Step Up And RunningWalk This Way Watch Me GoWhich Way Did He Go? You’ll Never Walk Alone

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance . . .—Friedrich Nietzsche

Help! I’ve fallen and can’t get up.

Making tracks, no turning back.

One foot in front of the other.

Small steps make for big adventures.

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The journey begins with a single step.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with just one step.

The pitter-patter of little feet.

These feet were made for walking.

Upward Mobility (climbing stairs)

You walked funny too, when you were my age.

You’ve come a long way baby.

tWINS / MULtIpLeS

2 By 2 2 Hot 2 Handle2 Is Always Better Than 1 2 Is Better Than 1A Double Blessing A Thriving ThreesomeAll My Babies Army Of TwoBaby Bonanza Copy CatsDangerous Duo Denim DuoDiaper Duo Double DutyDouble Exposure Double TakeDouble Trouble Double UpDouble Vision Double WammyDoubly Blessed Dynamic DuoIt Takes Two Just The Two Of UsMe And My Wombmate OutnumberedPaired Up Seeing DoubleSplit Personality Terrific TripletsThe Gang’s All Here The More The MerrierThe Triplets Of (Your Town) The Twins EffectThey Came 2 By 2 Three DimensionalThree Of A Kind Three Times The CharmThree’s Company Thrice BlessedTriple Trouble Twice As FunTwice As Many Kisses Twice As Much Cuddles

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Twice As Much Love Twice As Much SpecialTwice As Nice Twice BlessedTwice The Fun Twin SistersTwo At A Time Two By TwoTwo Can Play That Game Two CuteTwo For One Two Is Better Than OneTwo Of A Kind Two Peas In A PodTwo-rrific Two’s CompanyWhat A Pair! Who’s WhoWombmates

3 times the work = 3 times the love.

A joy that is shared, is a joy made double.—American Proverb

Adventures are more fun with two.

All babies are terrific, but my babies are “two”rrific.

And then there were 2. (3, 4, 5,).

Count your blessings two by two.

Double, double,Toil and trouble.

Double your pleasure, double your fun.

Experience wildlife . . . have twins.

Happiness is being the mother of twins.

I may be a twin, but I’m one of a kind!

It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins.—Chinese Proverb

It’s double the giggles and double the grins . . .And double the trouble if you’re blessed with twins.