8 Months (1 day late)

I'm cute.

And I'm gonna getcha!

Got ya!

I love pasta!

In the past couple months Isaac has grown so much and learned so much! He loves solid food now! Some of his favorites are pasta with spaghetti sauce (which is ironic since tomato of any kind made me super sick while i was pregnant), eggs, pancakes, any fruit, rice, green beans and cream of wheat with fruit. He really loves food.

He is also starting to get mobile. He does a little army crawling and quite a bit of rolling these days. He is trying to pull himself up on everything and has succeeded without help once on the bathtub (terrified me as i was laying his towel out!). He gets on his hands and knees with his belly off the ground but only in his crib (weird huh?). All of his new found mobility hasn't really made things easier, it just makes him more capable to get to me for me to hold him. I do not have an independent little boy. And holding him constantly is killing my back, he is HEAVY.

The past couple weeks have been really really hard. I think I've had more days with tears (from me and him) than days without. He has just been so clingy and never wants to be on his own any more even for 5 minutes and it's wearing on me. So after 2 weeks of that he pinched his finger and was holding his breath while working up his scream (you know what I'm talking about) and I saw that he had cut a tooth! So that explains the super clingyness (i hope) and maybe it will get a little better after he cuts the second tooth which seems to be any day now if I can judge from the amount of drool he has. Despite the clingyness he has been quite the trooper with the teething. I didn't even realize that was what was going on until I saw the tooth.

At least he's cute to make up for the pain that he is a lot of the time! Happy 8 months little guy!

The quilt I'm letting my sister in law "have" :)

Front

Back

I had so much fun working on this quilt. I used this tutorial on Moda and it was fun and easy to make. I did a lot of chain piecing in the early stages of the quilt because you sew 144 pieces together several times before you're ready to organize your top and piece the rows. For my second border I just pieced the leftover pieces of fabric at their 2.5" width. I didn't bother cutting them down to 1.5" pieces. It was simply more efficient to do it the other way. I also didn't sew full ovals before piecing them together. I simply arranged the quilt then piece the quarter ovals into rows and the the rows into the quilt top. So much faster.

I used Stitch by Betz White for Robert Kaufman and I fell in love with about every fabric in that line. I love the colors and the designs.

My friend Amy gave me the idea for quilting it. I started quilting inside a square then every 2" throughout the rest of the quilt. It was easy and fast and I love how it turned out. This was a really fun quilt to do and I'm finding it hard to part with this one. I told my sister in law that I will just have to enjoy it every time I'm at her house.

Happy Birthday/Christmas Carolyn!

stitch oval with borders

I got the borders on this quilt top Friday. I love the scrappy border, I think it adds a lot to the quilt. This quilt was easy and surprisingly fast to make. I did lots of chain piecing in the first stages of this quilt and I've decided I love it!

My goal is to get the back pieced and the quilt basted today. Sundays are usually kind of crazy around here but the back is really simple and the basting shouldn't take that long so I'm hoping. I can't wait to get this quilt quilted and bound. My friend Amy gave me a fantastic idea for the quilting and I'm excited to get to it. my goal is to have it quilted and bound by this Thursday so I can bring it to show at our modern quilt guild meeting. If the little man gives me some good naps I should totally be able to get it done. fingers crossed...

it's amazing...

It's amazing that i can put Isaac down for bed thinking "how have i done 7.5 months of this?" and "i don't think i can make it through another day!" Then he wakes up the next day gives me a big grin with wide eyes ready to explore and learn and i think "ok i can handle one more day i guess." This is motherhood!

7 Months and Michigan

This is the only picture I have of the day he turned 7 months. He was getting sick and when he woke up that morning he had boogers all over his face. The next day we flew to Michigan to visit my family. The plane rides went better than expected. We had a lot of fun visiting family, most of which Isaac had never met before. He loves all of his family.

Great Grandma Gloria

Playing with Grandma, Pop pop and Uncle Joel

Wearing Pop Pop's hat.

Playing with cousins Ian and Lexie (they loved him and were so excited to watch his poopy diaper be changed lol)

Great Aunt Becky

Uncle John

Daddy Cuddles

Uncle Joel

Great Grandma Jackie

Playing the Piano at Jackie's

Uncle Ethan

It was nice to get back and see everyone. Thanks mom and dad for watching him twice so we could go out! We hope you can all see him again soon!

2 days 2 quilts

Baby Quilt #1

Baby Quilt #2



These quilts will be going to twin girls due in the next few months.

I made these simple baby quilts this week for a friend of a friend who just immigrated to the US and then found out she is having twin girls. Talk about a shock, huh?

I had a lot of fun making these quilts. They are super simple so I was able to get them made start to finish in two days, one Monday the other Tuesday. I felt so accomplished after finishing them. It was fun to make something cute and girly. Since having Isaac I've been drawn to little boy fabrics and haven't looked twice at the girly stuff. Looking through my stash (which is embarrassingly small to begin with) I realized that I have no girly fabric. No pinks or purples whatsoever and not really any girly prints either. But I did have the yard of the yellow flower fabric which I think is adorable; I've been wanting to make something with it for a while but the scale is so large I didn't really want to cut it up. I thought about an apron but then my brother made me an apron for Christmas so this was the perfect opportunity to use this fabric. I had the orange jelly roll quilt top laying around for more than 6 months not quite sure what to do with it and it was perfect for the other quilt.

I dropped the quilts off to my friend today (she'll be delivering them to the mom next week). I'm so thankful that I am developing a talent that I can use to help others. It's fun to quilt for yourself but in my opinion it's more fun to quilt for someone else. I hope the baby girls love their quilts.

Socks!

My husband got me this book for my Dec 23 birthday last month. I put that book on my wish list a year or so ago but I was actually scared to get it because I've never done any knitting other than a pretty simple Afghan. Even though I was scared to get it I was also excited to learn something new. So I got to work while we were in Denver over Christmas break. I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to knit a basic sock. I finished my first sock on the drive home from Denver and then needed to make the second. Amy had a one week one thing challenge and it was just what I needed to get that sock made.

Here are my completed socks! (I have no idea how to take a lovely picture of socks so forgive me.) They both fit great and I'm loving them. I hope to never buy socks again. These are just the basic pattern, nothing fancy yet. Now that I have the basic sock down I need to dive into some of the beautiful patterns in the book. Hopefully I'll be able to show a picture of a more intricate pair of socks in a month or so.