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! 
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.
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!!!
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 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...)
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.
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! 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!!!!
