Enjoying the Magic

The wardrobe continues to amaze me. Asher gets so excited about playing with my stuff. Yesterday morning as River took one of his awesome morning naps and before playgroup we had some making of some art projects as he calls them. He is so good using the markers and I have been way impressed with his scissor and drawing skills.

Still trying to organize things, but it is great to close the doors when we are done for the day.

Butterflies

Asher had a great time at playgroup yesterday dressing up as an insect. we were at meadowbrook park in the rain and the kids loved it.

I think he is well on his way to being a very creative with dress up play and I hope to start adding a costume trunk to our play things, garage saling fun hats and glasses, masks and what not.

River Photo Shoot

I got a little one on one time with R this afternoon and we did what most mother/son's do on these types of days... porch play with the camera.

This little chunk is weighing in at 18 lbs.

You can see the rest in an album here. There was plenty of cuteness and I can't be sure I am posting the best as I am doing this with now fussy baby on my lap.

Go Cubbies

A quick picture of the boys in there way cool hats.

Birthday Crowns

A couple weeks later, we have a post. I was fortunate enough to be given a couple of dual naptimes at the beginning of may to make some crowns for some special people. I have seen a lot around with wool felt and now understand how easy that would have been to use. I think I have ironed out the kinks though and plan on making a bunch more of these for little ones special days.

I was happy to be able to use cute prints and attempted covering the elastic on the first crown, this wasn't worth the hassel so the pattern has been modified. A strip of super thick interfacing and two layers of flannel inside did the trick to keep them up right and the second two i made were reversible.

Asher was a very willing model and still loves everything birthday party related.

The Whole Family

I believe this is the first photo of us as a family of four. I took a couple a week or so ago, but they are dark and are yet to be lightened. We just happened to find ourselves all together at Carle Park with a friend close to snap a photo. Oh what a great day it was, it is so nice to have spring here in full force.

Papa and his boys, I love these three together and I am shocked that all are looking at the camera. way to go boys.

and asher enjoying some painting on the porch after a morning coloring our bodies with the face crayons. These are great days.

Long Awaited

On Friday I dragged the whole family on an afternoon car ride hoping with all hopes that it wouldn't be a disapointing waste of time. For the past 7 months I have looked at Craig's List religiously (for me, which means when I remember) for a wardrobe/cabinet/storage unit for our dining room that I can keep crafty art supplies in, so creating can be back in my daily life. I found one back in November that I though we could refinish and would be beautiful, but that was in the kitchen remodel days and well, we couldn't fit anything else in our house. I looked in Arthur and couldn't find exactly what I wanted and the price tag of a custom piece wasn't to inspiring. Patiently I waited, and it was worth the wait. We borrowed the Dawsey's truck, hauled our kids an hour north of here to Ashkum, met with this dude Dan who had inherited this piece from his grandmother who I believe came by the piece out of a barn and it is residing in my living room after some help moving it from a neighbor. (thanks drew!)

It matches our dining room table and chairs as perfectly as any pine piece could and looks great with the green walls. It is the first 16 inch deep wardrobe I have ever seen listed and I am so happy that it is ours and will be for a lifetime to come.

Oh, and what is that inside? Why yes that is my new sewing machine. See, as I got a used piece of furniture and about a fifth of the price I was thinking I would need to spend, I had a little reserve bond money for this Janome on sale at Sew Sassy, I got to sew with it for the first time today... let's call that my mother's day gift. This sweety has 50 stitches, I can make anything now.

the shelves are filling quickly and A asked me several times today to play with my toys (stuff stored in the wardrobe) we water colored and cut construction paper and glued pom poms to paper. I love our little art closet.
Happy Mom's day to all you out there.

Three Months

If I wait any longer to play catch up with the blog, I may never post again so here we are today (I'll catch up some other time when time allows) River is almost 3 months! I can hardly believe it has been so long yet so happy to be moving onto these fun stages. He is holding his head up like a champ, smiling a ton and having some great belly laughs. Oh and can you see how cute he is getting? (look familiar?)

He's a happy one just like his big brother... wants to smile and laugh and make faces. It is going to be so much fun in our house with two happy little boys.

And he is a chunk. At 11 weeks he weighed in at 15 pounds, 9 oz and has grown to 24.5 inches. My back gets sore quick holding this little (really not so much) man.

I sure do love him and his hair is soo soft and finally his head feels firm enough so that I can rub all that soft hair.