Getting ready for Halloween is a big deal at our house. Since my hubby likes to start decorating a month early, he had to carve a second round of our 6+ front porch pumpkins. Round 1 met with a moldy death a week before Halloween. A lot of work but also a lot of yummy pumpkin seeds. We have also been very busy boo'ing our neighbors and making several trips to the pumpkin patch for birthday parties and school field trips.

My favorite Halloween event so far was that we FINALLY went on the Beyond Bizarre Portland Walking Tour. I have been dying to go on this for years. It's a grownup ghost walk where we strolled around downtown Portland and our guide Donna (part tour guide, part stand up comic) told us stories about the buildings and Portland's haunted history.

Do you know how to stay safe in a storm? How baseball bats are made? Or that the largest diamond in the galaxy is 2,500 miles across? My son Alex does and he is happy to share his secret. It's not Google! You can find these and hundreds of other fun facts compiled into two super handy and entertaining Time Life Books called That's Incredible and Big Book Of How.

If you have elementary school aged kids, your kids will love these books. Kind of like encyclopedias...  but cool and fascinating (even for mom)! They're very engaging and have come in really handy for school reports and science projects for my 3rd grader. He's become quite the know-it-all and I've had to confiscate these books a few times to get him to go to bed or eat dinner.

A few years back I tackled organizing my daughters closet by mimicking what works... clothing racks at the store. You know how they have those clothing dividers that separate newborn clothes from 0-3 months, 3-6 months, 6-12 months and so on? I found some, organized a whole years worth of close all ready for my daughter to grow into in her closet and of course blogged about it.

Back then, I could only find one brand of what I would call cute. It was hard to find but I was on a mission. It's my thing and the vision behind my blog. Take an everyday baby necessity and find a hipper version. There is always a cooler one out there. You just have to dig.

I have a huge crush on Petunia Pickle Bottom. So much so that I ordered an extra Petunia Pickle Bottom Diaper Bag for a very lucky Posh*Little Blog reader in an upcoming giveaway (stay tuned in the upcoming weeks for details or sign up for blog alerts via email).

It's been my diaper bag brand for 2 of my 4 babies. First I had a Boxy Backpack and now I'm sporting the Petunia Pickle Bottom Cake Society Satchel. They're gorgeous diaper bags and are pretty much guaranteed to get compliments on every outing.

I haven't been able to conquer crib sleeping just yet. That's mostly because the crib located in the guest bedroom which as seen a lot of activity since my baby was born. Our parade of family and friends has supposedly come to end and so I am excited to now start working on getting my 7 month old Hadley sleeping in her crib. I need to get more than 2 hours of sleep at a time and so it's beyond time.

When it comes to sleep, I'm willing to try anything.