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January 31 by Kelly Anne

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👶🏽Do you have a child under 12-months-old?👶🏽
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👩🏼‍🍼If you do - then you need to be utilizing BABY PLAY STATIONS! What are they? Play stations are several preplanned areas for your infant to engage with toys.
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⏰The goal is to make each play area interesting, so your child can stay there for 5-10 minutes and play on their own. Luckily - babies are easily entertained 🥰
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🌈At first, the time spent at these stations can be only a few minutes (especially if they include tummy time) but as your child gets older, they can build up to 10-minutes in each station. And if you have three play stations that means YOU get 30 minutes of coffee time. 🙌🏼👏🏼

Just set a timer for 10 minutes and move your child to a new play station when the timer goes off.
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✨SIMPLE PLAY STATION IDEAS:
- Board books propped open for your child to view
- A tummy time pillow with toys on the floor in front
- A small mirror on the floor with toys in front of it
- An ice cube on a tray, for them to bat around
- Scarves hanging from an activity gym, for them to bat at
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🧸My Activities for Infant's eBook has over 120 simple ideas to create Baby Play Stations in your home! How would you utilize 30 extra minutes every day? Would you drink coffee? Fold laundry? Scroll on your phone?
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→Let me know, below, and I'll choose one person to receive a FREE copy of my Activities for Infants eBook.←

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Play is one of the most important ways babies learn about the world around them.⁠⁠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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🧸Play helps our babies build new muscles, explore language, and figure out everything that's going on around them. Play is so important in a child's development because it helps build up their muscles that they'll need to eventually crawl and walk and run! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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👶🏽👶🏼If you're wondering how to play with your infant, ⁠⁠my Activities for Infants eBook has the easiest list of age-appropriate activities that you can try every month. Each activity supports your child exactly where they are. I developed it alongside our son during his first year of life and have loved using it with our twins, Isla and Orion. We have several printed, like the one pictured, and we leave them around the house, with babysitters, and give them as baby gifts! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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💰Have I mentioned they're also super affordable? At only $17, you can have a book full of simple play ideas for your baby, in minutes. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Happy Monday Sheflie! This week we're playing with

Happy Monday Sheflie! This week we're playing with SHAPES from my toddler curriculum. Even though this unit is *ideal* for 17 and 18-month-olds, it's so fun to dive into a topic with Lachlan and explore it further. Just because he knows the basics of something doesn't mean there's not a lot to learn still! We will read books, talk about colors, notice shapes indoors and outdoors in nature, and even watch the videos I created specifically for my toddler curriculum (and are available to you as well after you purchase it). ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Even if you don't feel qualified to be your child's teacher, I'm here to tell you that YOU ARE! You've got this. What's holding you back? Let me know in the comments or DM me and let me know because I would love to help you feel more confident in guiding your child! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The many faces of our 6-month-old Mac Pack 💛 We

The many faces of our 6-month-old Mac Pack 💛 We've come a long way since Mother's Day 2019. I wish I could go back and give that version of me a huge hug and say, it's going to be SO GOOD. But going through Hell in order to get *here* was very much worth it. I couldn't imagine my life any other way. Sending big hugs to all the moms out there, whether you have a baby to snuggle or are still waiting for your baby to arrive. 💛 #MothersDay2021 #LachlanJamesMcLellan #OrionWalkerMcLellan #IslaFischerMcLellan

Mother's Day is hard, y'all. If you have a friend

Mother's Day is hard, y'all. If you have a friend that's struggled with miscarriage or pregnancy loss, please know that this weekend is exceptionally challenging for them. When you become pregnant, everyone calls you mom. But after losing a baby - you're no longer a mom in their eyes, and it hurts so much to lose that title abruptly. So what can you do? Acknowledge them. Text them tomorrow and let them know. you're thinking of them. The same goes for friends who have tough relationships with their mothers. Or those who no longer have their mom here. The worst thing you can do is ignore them on a day that should be celebrating them. (I promise they're already thinking about it. You're not going to remind them of something painful if you're honoring them in the process)!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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And if you are in the throes of heartbreak, waiting for a baby to be in your arms, please know I am here to talk. That feeling is still exceptionally fresh for us and I'm not sure if it will ever go away, so I'm sending extra big hugs to you, mommas. Especially my amazing friends who have recently been through a loss (you know who you are 💛 ). PC: @tulaqphoto ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I’m Kelly and I’m a former teacher, a wife to my husband, Jamie, and mom to a two-year-old and six-month-old twins. I’m also mom to #HopeJaneMcLellan, in heaven 💛 Our journey to parenting has been a winding one, but we are so grateful for how much it taught us and how close it brought Jamie and I.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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On Instagram, you can expect a daily dose of my favorite ways to make it to bedtime but I also talk about the grief of miscarriage and pregnancy loss, activities for teachers and parents, and I recently published three vocabulary workbooks for middle schoolers! (Which you can order on Amazon 😊️)⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I believe in spreading kindness, going to therapy, finding joy wherever you can, and drinking red wine. I'd love to know more about you! If you had to sum up yourself in 3 emojis, what would they be?⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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