A minibook for my little boy, using the wonderful album I received as
AMM DT. Here’s
the full album.

Here’s another layout with the wonderful SEI papers.

I am starting this new album of “advice from mommy” here’s the first LO
for it.

journaling reads:
There’s nothing you can’t do.

Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Ever. If you know what you want to
do, if you feel passionate about something, go after it. Give it all you
have.

If you get it on your first try, you were lucky. Most people aren’t. If
you really want something, you have to work for it. Sometimes you have
to work very hard. Other times, it might feel like you will never
achieve it. But, my son, it’s still worth trying.

Be unstoppable.

Because, along the way, you will discover marvelous things. You will
learn. You will grow. You will find your own limits and you will stretch
yourself. And life is all about expanding and discovering. Maybe you
will never reach the end goal you’ve set for yourself but you will have
achieved so much along the way that it will be worth it.

Don’t let others’ negativity or weakness get in your way. Believe in
yourself. Give it all you have.

Spread your wings and soar.

Here is the January calendar I made with A2Z papers I received as being
a part of AMM DT. These calendars are the brilliant idea of another one
of our DT members, Kimmi. Aren’t they the best?

Here is one of my layouts with A2Z papers I received as being a part of
AMM DT.

Here’s the first minibook I made with the Hambly papers I received as
being on AMM DT. It’s a gratitude journal.

I was lucky enough to receive some wonderful Hambly products for being
on AMM DT. This is a two layered LO.

The journaling is on the bottom and says:

To the naked eye, this looks like a toy. A little dinosaur.

But, to me, it’s so much more than that.

When the doctor first told us that he was concerned about how little you
spoke, I didn’t really feel as worried as he seemed to. Six months
later, when you were still not putting two words together, we agreed to
get you evaluated, just in case.

There were many things the evaluator said but one of them stuck with me
much more than others. She asked me if you had any imaginative play. Did
you use any objects and have them interact with each other. Did you feed
a baby doll? Did you make the farm animals talk to each other?

We had to admit, you didn’t.

Sometimes, you’d make your dinosaurs roar. But that was the extent of
your imaginative play. That’s when I officially started getting worried.
Maybe there really was something wrong with you. Maybe it wasn’t all
going to be okay.

That evaluation brought on another and the next thing we knew, you were
in speech therapy. The word explosion took a while to come and the
articulation still isn’t there, but a few weeks after therapy started, I
was sitting on the couch and saw you feeding your dinosaur. You gave it
a spoon of food. You named them the Mommy dinosaur and the Baby
dinosaur. Next thing I know, your toys were interacting with each other.
Not only did you have imaginative play, your whole world became
imaginative play.

That’s the moment I knew we were going to be okay. I knew that your
speech may take a while longer and maybe you’d need more therapy for the
articulation, but there really was nothing wrong with you. You are just
taking longer to express yourself than other little boys your age seem
to. And that’s perfectly fine, my little one.

Your plastic dinosaurs are spread all over our house. To visitors, they
are colorful toys. To me, they are reminders that everything will be all
right.