Busy Little Sewer

Whew! This last weekend has been really productive. We played musical furniture between our house and my parent house. We got the bunk beds set up in Lowe's room and moved everything else around in the office/sewing room/guest room and got the baby's room all set up...furniture wise.

Here's a picture of Lowe's big boy bed! The quilt ended up looking awesome if I can say so myself. Lowe really likes it and has actually slept in his bed for the last 3 nights! He's only gotten out of it once last night because he wanted to watch the baseball game with daddy. Pretty good huh? We've got the pack and play set up still because he won't take his naps in the bunk bed...at least he still takes them in the pack and play!

I got the set of three blankets finished for the nursery, the three pillowcases and the bedskirt!!! I also have the quilt top done but since I'm not done done with the quilt, a picture of that will have to wait until later!

The pillowcases and blanket set are from sew4home.com and the bed skirt is from aloadofcraft.blogspot.com. I love how other people can come up with this stuff so I can make it!!!

Here's a close up of the pillows...the striped black and pindot green are from the Robert Kaufman Pimatex Basics collection (that's the one I picked out for the nursery...) and the light blue just matches the collection so I got it from Joanns.

Here's a close up of the three blankets. The one on the left is the "Baby Bear Blanket"...it has flannel on the back and a decorative stitch around the edge. The middle one is the "Mama Bear Blanket" and it's got minky dot on the back and jumbo ric rac around the edge. Jumbo ric rac is now just about my favorite embellishment...and the blanket on the right is the "Papa Bear Blanket" and it's just two cotton fabrics with a bound edge. All the blanket tops and the binding are from the Robert Kaufman fabric collection.

Here's about the best close up I could get of the bedskirt...it's pleated with cobalt blue fabric from Joanns that matches the striped fabric from the RK collection. I had to fussy cut that striped one to get the stripes to run up and down. I also had to cut a bunch of ties from that same striped fabric for the bumper pads I've got in the works and those were fussy cut also! I almost didn't have enough fabric since the stripes ended up running the opposite way than I thought they would have! But it all worked out!

So yeah to getting things done! I can't wait to finish the quilt and make the bumper pads. I've ended up with a lot of extra fabric from the collection so I'm super excited to make some other smaller items like burp cloths, binky straps, maybe a nursing cover or carseat canopy...we'll see how ambitious I get!

Catch up...

wow...so i've been a really bad blogger...here are some pictures from Easter!!! Lowe really liked dying the eggs. he did spill one of the dyes...one out of 12 is good though in my opinion!

Lowe had this obsession with Tyler's guitar that i know i've mentioned before but here's another cute picture of him playing it.

I started a new job and it's been great so far. I'm working in a Level III NICU again and it's sooo nice to be back with the little tiny and sick babies...only a nicu nurse would understand why (in a sick kind of nursing way) it makes me so happy to be doing that!!!

In between chasing down Lowe and working 3 nights a week, i've decided to make everything for the new baby's nursery: quilt, 3 blankets, bumper pads, bed skirt, pillowcases for throw pillows, some storage bins, wall art to spell his name out, burp cloths, binky straps, etc. So here's a picture of all the supplies before:

So far, i've gotten two of the simple blankets done and two of the pillowcases. i'll get pictures of those up as soon as i take them! i also finished a twin/full size football quilt for lowe with matching throw pillows and a normal sized pillowcase for his big boy bed. we're doing the furniture musical chairs this weekend so he'll have his big boy bed by saturday!!! so we'll see if he actually sleeps in his big boy bed or if we'll have to set up the pack and play...no more crib after friday night, i want to get him out of it and not associate it with being his by the time we acutally put baby #2 in there...we'll see how that goes!

so lowe and i made this super adorable father's day gift. i got the idea from another blog (which i can't for the life of me remember which one) and lowe had fun helping me make it. now tyler's got something awesome to put at his desk at work! yeah to fathers!!! especially mine and lowes'!!!

28 Days

So I've heard that a habit can be formed in 28 days...I used to write daily in my journal between the ages of either 12 or 14 up until the night before I got married. So it was either a span of 5 or 7 years. I've been married for 6.5 years and have not started journaling again and every time I think about it, I get kind of sad. I've had so many wonderful times and we've started a family with little Lowe and have another one on the way. I really feel like I need to start writing in a journal daily again to try and retain the memories of the every day things that happen that will bring a smile to my face when read at a later time. So I've decided to start a private blog for my daily journal writing. This is an idea I stole from a friend but I think it'll be better than the way I used to do it: actually writing in a spiral notebook!!! This way, I can write in it at home and at work since I'm there at the end of the normal person day a few times a week. Also, since the computer is so easy to get to multiple times a day, this means that I can write in my journal more than once a day if the occasion arises. For example, when Lowe does something hilarious that I want to remember, I can zip over to my computer and blog it down instead of trying to remember it until the end of the day (which we all know is hard enough to do when you don't have a pregnant memory...)

I know there are things out there you can buy too to help you write in a journal so it's not just your daily musings...anyone out there have any good "Journaling Questions"?

So here goes to my 28 day challenge...starting today and going through June 3rd (I hope) I will be attempting to write in my journal daily! If anyone else wants to join me, let me know and we can try to keep each other encouraged!!!

PS: here's a quick little preview of the big boy quilt I'm working on for Lowe. I wanted to get it done before we found out what we're having but I don't think that's going to happen...we find out on the 19th and there's still a few borders to sew on and the layering and quilting left to do!!!

In The Blink of an Eye

April has been so full of fun that it seems like it should be over already but it's not!

I just had to post this picture because Lowe loves to mess with Tyler's guitar...he runs around asking to play "daddy's tard". We try to correct him and tell him it's a gui-tar with no 'D' but he just looks at us like 'right' and than repeats 'tard' back to us, so obviously we're the wrong ones!

Lowe turned 2 on the 14th. Hard to imagine he's been here with us that long! Or, as any parent of an overly active, strong-willed, independent 2 year old knows...it's hard to imagine he's only been with us that long! Aunt Lindsey, Uncle Dave and Cousin Sophie outdid them selves with his present (which Lindsey found at a garage sale for 10 bucks...I've never found anything at a garage sale before). Lowe jumped right on it and rode it around like he'd been driving his whole life.

We spent a week back in Virginia visiting with Tyler's brother, wife and neice. It was sooo much fun. We ran around almost every day seeing everything we could despite the weather being cold, windy and wet 5 of the 7 days. Lowe loved being able to run around and look at everything. Here's my favorite picture from the batch:

We told him to try to push over the Washington Monument but this picture makes it look like he's doing something else...and I laugh like crazy each time I see it...ahahahaha.

Lowe really liked the WWII Memorial too. He sat there for a while watching the fountains (and trying to get the ducks to come closer to him...he loves those ducks)

We went to Mt Vernon also. Here's Lowe next to some huge tree whose roots looked totally fake!

We had a blast in Virginia and the plane trips weren't too bad with both of us being there to try to contain the force of the universe who's name is Lowe. He did sleep on most of 2 of the 4 planes. We made sure we traveled back on the day before he turned two so we wouldn't have to pay for a seat for him! We'll probably be driving everywhere now (Minnesota and Virginia being the exceptions...) just because it costs sooo much less!

And hopefully we find out in about 4-5 weeks whether there'll be another little boy or girl Goodrich joining us in October...can't wait!!!

12 Weeks and 5 Days

That's right...we're expecting our second baby in October!!! Every time we ask Lowe if he wants a baby brother or a baby sister he says no to both...oh boy!!!!

3 Funny Lowe Stories

1. Lowe has been riding in his car seat on the side seat instead of the middle seat. We were stopped at a light the other day and he wanted me to roll the window down. So I started to roll it down only to notice he was lifting up his stuffed bear to the opening window while saying "Teddy Grahm go outside." Needless to say I rolled it back up very quickly!

2. I was not feeling too well the other day and ended up being sick to my stomach, as I was still sitting on the bathroom floor, Lowe came in and asked "What are you doing mommy?" I told him I was being sick, he gave me this little concerned look, patted me on the back, flushed the toilet for me and walked back out of the bathroom.

3. Lowe loves to read and watch movies and just randomly sometimes he'll just say things. We were driving home and Tyler said "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" to which Lowe responded "Will be enough room?" Tyler and I were both really surprised! Silly little Lowe sure knows his books! He than proceeded to say random letters and numbers while pointing out the window.

Fun With Friends

Lowe is getting to be quite a handful...he's been flirting with The Terrible Twos since he was about a year old and is now in the full blown stage! He is trying and testing us at every turn...but apparently it's only me and Tyler since he's a little angel for Grandma...darn children!!!

I made some Valentine's Day sugar cookies yesterday, I know, I know, it's wasn't even February yet!!! but I don't care...Lowe and his daddy helped to clean up. Lowe liked the frosting.

Lowe and I went with our friends Jillanne and Claire to the Phoenix Zoo today. It was such nice weather outside and there were hardly any other people there! Yeah to being able to go to places in the middle of the week!!! They had lots of fun looking at all the animals that were out. They even got to play with some (fake) farm animals! Lowe liked riding the horse.

Last week, Lowe had Claire and his cousin Sophie over for a playgroup. They had lots of fun until Lowe accidentally caught Sophie's hand in the back door! A few kisses and sorry's later and everything was back to fun times. Here's Lowe stealing, um wait, I mean sharing Claire's fruitsnacks...

Lowe likes to run around and flush our toilets and always says pee pee in the potty and poopy pants and stuff like that so I got him a little toilet seat from the store the other day. He really likes to sit on it but hasn't actually done the deed in the toilet yet...he just likes to kick his legs, play with the toilet paper, etc...just not actually go!!! At least he's willing to climb on and off I guess.

So that's what we've been up to for the last week or so...nothing too exciting but still fun.