Dalton's Room

We've been working on getting everything ready for baby Dalton's arrival. I've been doing a lot of sewing the past month! It's funny because until I did Addie's quilt, I had really never sewed at all. I've come to really enjoy it, at least the simple stuff that I've done. I still wouldn't attempt anything with a pattern anytime soon :)

Jed and our friend Jordan painted one of the walls a soft blue and I love how it turned out.

I mod-podged fabric to some wooden letters for his name above his crib.

His crib quilt i made

I fell in love with this argyle fabric from Hobby Lobby. I liked the colors and the patterns.

His quilt took much less time than Addie's did since it was so much smaller. I actually did ALL the sewing and hand stitching on it by myself :) Dawn finished the edges for me though, because she's cool like that.

 I wanted his room to be simple, cute and clean looking

We got a new crib after ours was recalled. I was fine with it because I preferred brown over white for a boy's room, especially with the fabrics I used.

My mom made some covers for my rocking chair and I think it turned out great! Thanks mom!

I made a pillow :) I've never made one before, and I just winged it, but it was actually very easy.

It definitely adds some comfort and back support for me in my rocker.

 I also made a Valance....also a first for me. 

Yes this whole room was basically me playing with a sewing machine trying to see what I could do myself.

I made the bed skirt too, which looks just like the valance.

Addie posing for me while I took pictures. 

Here's some close ups of the quilt. It's kind of hard to see the hand stitching that I did on it, but I followed the white lines of the argyle. It makes the pattern pop a little more and I like how it turned out. I didn't want to have stitches running across the pattern of the fabric. 

I still need to find a few things for the walls and a lamp and a couple of little things, but other than that we're done! Can't wait for him to get here and snuggle him in the other cozy blanket I made him :)

February Fun (and a little January)

February has flown by. I always forget that it's a shorter month. Maybe it's because half this month was spent with Addie or I being sick, but I can't believe that it's almost MARCH. March has seemed sooo far away and now it's almost here! I'm having a baby in March! Ah! Crazy....

On to what we've been up to lately....

 Addie (with my help) made a Valentine mailbox for her preschool party. 

She loooved making it and then kept asking when the party was.

I guess we should have done it 1 day instead of 4 days beforehand :)

 Scored some pink boxes for Addie's shelves randomly at Harmons for 1.50 each. Sweet! I'd been searching for some for months and couldn't find any that weren't ridiculously expensive or fit in the space.

You say it's your birthday....

 It was apparently Yoda's birthday (for like 3 days) 

She put Aurora's party hat on him, sang to him and fed him cake.

 Did a little Valentine baking....not as much as I'd originally planned.

Addie built Jed a bike

 Yes, those 2, 24-pks, cupcake rug, dish towel and ladle are indeed a bike.

SEE?

 He's a good sport.

Addie's Preschool Valentine Party

Addie's preschool party was a lot of fun. I volunteered to help out and I couldn't believe how many fun things her teacher had planned for the kids to do. It was a busy 2 hours! They did 2 different painting crafts, made Valentine headbands, had cake and juice, played games and then exchanged Valentines.

Addie had a great time, even though she had started feeling under the weather. 

 Within 24 hours of that, she got SO much worse. Poor kid was miserably sick. 

She crawled up onto uncle Ian's lap at 5pm and went to sleep. 

 We spent the rest of Valentine's weekend staying in and trying to get her feeling better. She felt better Tuesday, then ended up with an ear infection which made her feel terrible for a few more days. I was lucky enough to catch her cold and spent all of the following week feeling sick too ;) 

We're all on the mend now and ready to be done with sickness for the season! 

We've got a baby coming, no time for that nonsense. 

We got to play with our good 'ole friends last Friday evening.

 Loved catching up with Van and Lori and letting these monkeys on my bed play :)

Thanks for coming to see us while you were here guys!

In totally out of order news...Addie had her first preschool field trip the last week of January.

They go somewhere each month and this time was ice skating. She was SO excited!

 Jed took his lunch from work and came with because um, let's face it, 8+ months pregnant on ice skates probably wouldn't be the best idea. Especially when I saw how tricky it was for the kids to skate! 

 That was the only time Addie was holding his hand and the wall....the rest the time he and other parents had to either just skate bending down with her in front of him (ouch) or...

 Yes, that's super dad. Ice skating while holding her. 

(sorry the pictures aren't great, taken through glass) 

Addie had a lot of fun and was glad her daddy came to play!

Insomniac Brain Dump

I'm so behind on blogging. So why not catch up at 4 am right? Oh, right...because that's what a crazy person would do. Well...call me crazy or maybe just pregnant, but here I am at 4:20am and I've been wide.awake. since 2:45 when Addie came into our room for (insert random 3-year-old reason here). I was already tossing and turning and not sleeping much anyway between head congestion and my baby in my belly who thinks he's a gymnast. He really is a wild little mover in there. He's breach so he's got a little more wiggle room and he sure uses it. It's quite the show to watch my belly going crazy in the evenings with his movements.Him being breach, and apparently big, also means his head is just above my belly button. You can see/feel his head and it's no wonder that even though I'm on the strongest antacid there is, I'm getting reflux in the middle of the night. Anyway, I digress....I was supposed to be catching up right? Oh, well I can't find the cable to my camera to actually do a full update with photos of Addie's first preschool field trip, Valentine's party and other events. I'm frankly too lazy to even download what I've got on my phone at the moment. So those will be coming soon....I hope.

Meanwhile, I'm just going to dump my brain with some word vomit and hope that it helps me be able to sleep. For peeps who normally skip through my rambling to see pictures, sorry, just skip this post and wait for the next one :)

• My baby is coming in less than 5 weeks now. I feel prepared in some ways and completely unprepared in others. His room is pretty much done and put together. I've got diapers and wipes to last a month and clothes washed and in his drawers and closet. Jed's aunt Teri even made me some cute boy burp cloths. At the same time, my brain keeps having mini-panic attacks about all the tiny details left to be done. There are a lot more factors to consider the second time around. This time I'm stressing about Addie and how/where she'll be for my 3-day hospital stay and  how she'll cope with me being in the hospital and getting a baby brother. I know she, as well as all of us, will have an adjustment period and I'm trying to not set any expectations and just roll with it. The issue there is that I like to have things planned out and prepared...but there really isn't a way to plan for a small child's reaction to her center-of-the-universe lifestyle being altered by a baby. Oh, plus my hospital decided they're holding a conference the day I was supposed to deliver, so that entire day got bumped. When I say bumped, I mean nobody called me to reschedule or anything, even though we've had the date booked for a month. So by the time I found out, which was yesterday, everything that week is already booked except for 6pm the night before. I'm not thrilled, but what else do I do? Hey, maybe I'll randomly go into labor and get him early ;) Riiiight.....
• That whole "nesting" thing? Well I think I had that like two months ago, but right now I can't seem to motivate myself to do much of anything. It's an issue. Good thing I'm OCD enough that everything is pretty much done already even though I've got over a month to go :)
• I've gained 10lbs in the past month....uh scary. All of a sudden my weight shot up and it's frightening me. I only ever gained under 20lbs total with Addie, but I also couldn't eat sugar lol. I know some has to do with my legs swelling from my varicose veins...let's just go with that and not think anymore about it.
• Jed is doing a really strict diet. I am not. I am pregnant and "can't" diet. He's trying to get a little healthier and lose some weight. I personally think it's unfair for him to get thinner as I get more huge. Oh and I totally feel guilty for eating real food in front of him even though he tells me not to. Needless to say, the mini Reeses peanut butter eggs are "hidden" in the freezer to ease his pain.....plus I like them better frozen. 
• Addie has had a cold since last Wednesday. Just when I thought she was better on Tuesday, she woke up crying in the middle of the night with ear pain. Sure enough the poor little thing has an ear infection. Wednesday was a long day for us at both my doctor and hers. She seems to be getting better at least, now I just hope that the cold she gave me doesn't get too bad.
• The last issue weighing heavy on my mind and heart: my Grandpa isn't doing well. He had a stroke last Friday night and he hasn't recovered. He got moved to the ICU last night and it isn't looking very good. He lives in California so I can't go and see him and it breaks my heart. My mom and aunt are leaving in the morning to go be with him. I was looking forward to him meeting baby Dalton. Dalton is my grandpa's middle name and his mother's maiden name and he was SO excited when my mom told him that's what we're naming our baby. It saddens me to think about them possibly not meeting, at least maybe not here on Earth. 

I believe that sums up most of what has been occupying my thoughts this week. There are many more random and trivial thoughts I'm sure, but I should stop babbling and maybe attempt an hour or two of sleep. Now I'm wondering where that camera cable is....