Baby prep

We practiced diapering our little baby

Ray Ray.

I am in the process of making this cute baby boy a cute baby quilt. When i saw the train fabric i had to buy it. It's funny because i don't have a theme for his room or anything like that but i just loved this fabric. If all goes as planned this week I'll have a finished picture next week. I love my days off of work. I usually just sew all day. It's fun. Part time is the best :)

All the baby quilt.


And there is the finished product of my other quilt. This is the first time i machine quilted anything so it was a new experience. I learned a lot from it and I'm determined to get better at it. For this quilt i just did a really simple diagonal line pattern for the quilting and it kicked my butt. However I'm getting a bit more daring in what I'm planning for the baby quilt so hopefully it will turn out well. Time will tell.

So we're getting prepared for baby slowly but surely. We also bought baby wipes at Costco yesterday. Our house is slowly being overrun with baby stuff. Who knew a baby needed so many things?! We still have plenty of time to finish prepping though. In the next month i hope to show pictures of a painted put together baby's room. We'll see how that goes, maybe within the next 2 months :) But soon things will be together.

chopped

Here's hoping i can style it well. I really like it though. And killing two birds with one stone there's me and baby at week 23.

Hair change?

Could i pull this off? Be honest i don't want to chop inches off my hair and have it look horrible :)

Weekend feats

Made some burp rags today. Used a really simple pattern found here.

Also, we had our new oven delivered. The door on our old one, which was 20 years old and original to the house, broke during some Christmas baking. We held out as long as we could since the oven still functioned fine but we figured we should buy a new one since we'll have a little one around soon. Thanks severance from my old company!

This is from last weekend but I meant to blog it. These are a bunch of my friends from freshman year. We got together for breakfast last Saturday to reminisce and because Molly was in town from DC for her brother's wedding. So fun to get together every few years and see what's new.

20 etc

Stayed home several days this week. The puppy loved laying in the sun!

Finally finished the front of the quilt I've had cut out since July 2009. Thanks to my grandma for her awesome sewing machine that made this possible.

And we're halfway there. Yay! Although with how i feel now i think i may be in a wheelchair by the time we double this 20 weeks but that's the price I'll have to pay for a cute little boy.

Also, went kind of crazy at walmart yesterday when i was buying batting for my quilt. Found a bunch of flannel on clearance. And it was cute little boy stuff. I couldn't stop myself. I'll post pictures later mom :)

It's a boy!!!

We had our ultrasound today. Found out baby is a boy! We're so excited to have him. And he was wiggling, kicking and punching all over during the ultrasound. Apparently he likes his space! He's cute! Can't wait to meet him in several months.

Rabbit Baby

"People born in the Year of the Rabbit are articulate, talented, and ambitious. They are virtuous, reserved, and have excellent taste. Rabbit people are admired, trusted, and are often financially lucky. They are fond of gossip but are tactful and generally kind. Rabbit people seldom lose their temper. They are clever at business and being conscientious, never back out of a contract. They would make good gamblers for they have the uncanny gift of choosing the right thing. However, they seldom gamble, as they are conservative and wise."

Well Feb 3rd was the beginning of Chinese new year. It was also the first day i was able to feel the baby and know it was the baby and not gas :) David says it's perfect that this little rabbit baby made its presence known on Chinese new year. Hopefully the baby will have all those rabbit qualities they seem like pretty good ones.