My Projects Lately!

I've been working on a wide variety of projects lately! Here are some pictures!

I made the car seat girly!

I made the crib skirt and had enough to make a quilt to go with it! The back of the quilt is just the purple dot material.

 

 

These are two blankets that I made for gifts!

 

 A few of the burp rags!

33 Weeks and Counting!

Porter's Big Boy Bed/ Guest Room!

I've been wanting to get a big bed before the baby is born so that when people come and stay they have a room AND bed they can stay in. Even though we probably shouldn't have, we finally got one! I need to change the curtains still and find some wall hangings, but those will have to wait for now! Porter does great at nap time in it. He fell out of it twice the second night so we put kid rails up. He is still waking up every night and won't go to sleep again unless he comes to bed with us. Great timing with the new baby about to come!!!

Our Very Own Easter Egg Hunt!

After our sad egg hunt at the grocery store I decided we would do one here! We just hid eggs all over the main level and they had fun trying to find them! Porter really did get some eggs, the empty bucket was after he dumped them all out on the couch! They had much more fun at home so next year we'll just do our own again!!!

Egg Dying.....

I don't know if the boys have done it before (I just asked and they said they haven't).... I tried to get it done while Porter was taking a nap, but we didn't finish before he woke up. We let him come down and decorate a few eggs. He ended it with dumping the blue dye. It resulted in one of his hands and a foot colored blue! They had fun and want to do it again sometime!!! Maybe I'll have to make it a yearly occurrence for a change!!!

The Crappy Egg Hunt.....

So last weekend we went to an Easter Egg Hunt at a local grocery store. We went early and beat the crowd. We decided to go inside and walk around and were in there maybe 10-15 minutes. We came out to a line of people. We waited and got to where we were up next. There was a sign there that said there's a limit of 3 eggs per kid!!! WHAT?! I think this maybe the first egg hunt we've taken them too and they can only get 3 eggs...... They were ok about it, until they opened the eggs and they were crappy prizes inside! Oh well, we tried right?! 


Tomorrow we told the boys we'll do an Easter egg hunt at home with some of their candy. Maybe it'll make up for the one that wasn't so fun last week!!!

A Note To Self.....

I have reached the point in this pregnancy where I'm going to remind myself this is the last baby and I don't ever want to do this again!!! You can skip this post if you want, it's just for me :)!   I need to remember that I spent about six months not being able to eat much at all. I did lose weight instead of gain, but most of the time when I ate I had to choke it down. I have suffered from heart palpitations, horrible heartburn, being light headed and spending almost six months laying on the couch. The pelvic problem that I had with Porter, it wasn't a fluke. My bones move too far apart and it causes tons of pain. This time it also caused ripping pains in my stomach that while occurring prevent me from moving at all or they get worse.  Emotionally and mentally I have been a wreck! I have begun to have crazy panic attacks mostly in the middle of the night (never happened before), can't sleep without having to get up to pee, can't sleep just because. I'm forgetful, clumsy, and sometimes just seem to plain space out. 


I love my kids. I'm thankful for the chance to be a mom, but I've reached my limit! I am going to try and reclaim me in the next year or two and just be happy to be me! However it does bring emotions too that I'm reaching the end of our baby days. Getting rid of everything from the boys brought tears as I let them go. I'm down to almost nothing, but the outfits they came home in and a few odds and ends.


I still have things to do to get ready for our little girl, but hopefully I will get them done before she gets here!

Another Porter Moment.....

He looks so innocent doesn't he? Well he is very clever and into everything! He is always one step ahead and does things that I would never think of. The other day I locked our bedroom door to keep him out. I had gone upstairs to get something in the boys closet and I heard our door open. Then I heard Porter exclaim, "I did it, I did it!!!" He was so proud of himself. He unlocked our door and got in there. How, you may ask?! Well....... there was a nightlight plugged in and he pulled it out, and used one of the tongs to put in the slit and turn! I only know because he was holding the nightlight up against him and I can only imagine that's how it went down! Perfect solution, problem solved! Oh boy........

This Little Guy......

has been so funny lately! While I was gone with my parents last week I was telling him to stop doing something in the car. He started shaking his fist at me and then said, " punch.....your.....face!" I couldn't help but laugh because he'd never said it before and I have no idea where he's heard that. Today we were picking Dave up from work and he got mad at Cole. He started screaming at Cole, told him punch your face and then said, " break....your....nose!" I again couldn't help but laugh. This time the other boys were in the car with me and they couldn't hold it in either! I think we're in for a ride with this one!!!