Don’t you just love when you’re out window shopping and you stumble upon the most perfect thing to buy???  I took a trip to Long Beach Island (NJ) this past week to visit family and while doing some shopping in town, I found the most adorable miniature hot air balloons!  They immediately caught my eye because my oldest daughter, who is now 4, is completely and utterly in love with hot air balloons.  I’m not sure why exactly, but I think it may have started with one of her favorite stories, “Curious George and the Hot Air Balloon”.  It’s a story she has loved ever since she was able to sit on the couch and listen to my husband and me read to her.  She is amazed by hot air balloons!  So I was filled with that “happy shopper” feeling when I saw this little hot air balloon hanging in the window.  It was the perfect size – about a foot tall, and it had these beautiful pastel colored stripes going up and down, and a tiny basket hanging below.  It was indeed the PERFECT decoration to hang in a little girl’s room.  And I loved it so much that I bought two of them so that my little one could have one for her room also.  So for me, the hard part will be waiting until Christmas to give these beautiful little gifts to my sweetie peas.  I just love, love, love them and can’t wait to hang them in their rooms!  And with that, I had to post a few pictures to show you, and include them as “A Few of My Favorite Things”.