Heres Looking At You Kid!

House Full of Love

We have been so blessed to have so many friends and family come to help welcome Carter to the world and help me around the house for the past two weeks, although this recovery has been a million times easier than with Grant I learned just how much of a help they had been when I was feeding Carter this morning. While he was eatting I realised that I had to use the bathroom too, looked over and saw Grant dangerously close to having an accident himself in the living room... it has been nice having extra hands around for all of lifes little not-so-funs such as potty training, making meals, laundry and cleaning up. A HUGE heartfelt thanks to everyone, we are so blessed!

Deja Vu with tears

I feel like it was just yesterday when I wrote this post about Grant and now I could write it word for word again about Carter, this is all going WAY TOO FAST!

so I had to say goodbye to the cute "I really am a NEW newborn" umbillical cord stump, shed a few tears and prepare to take on the world as a mommy to two wonderful and beautiful boys!

Carter is Here!

Carter Douglas Childs was born August 12th at 8:40am.

His bilirubin levels were really high (jaundice) so he had a date with the tanning bed for 24 hours before we got to come home for good. Now everyone is happy, well don't ask Geoff and I at 3am when I can't feed fast enough, and healthy and enjoying our new "normal".

Ice Cream Dream

Its no secret that one of my all time fav-o-rite meals out is Jason's Deli Chicken Salad on a crossiant.... yummmmm.... just typing it gets me hungry. and when you get to watch Grant get to have his very own free ice cream cone at every visit to Jason's, its no wonder why I'm a regular!

Tie Onesies

If you are following hand-made fashions for baby boys in the crafting blogosphere (since I know SO many of you all are) you already know that tie applique onesies are all the rage... and for those of you who don't, now you know!

While going though Grant's handmedowns I came across all of his little-bitty onesies that we got in newborn sizes when we didn't know that he was a he. Well know that we know that baby number two is almost here and that he is in fact a he, the thought of putting him in yellow and green just seemed a bit strange so I gathered some fabric scraps (thanks to mom's quilt stash) and added some ties to them thanks to these tutorials:

http://www.crapivemade.com/2009/03/appliqued-tie-onesie.html
and
http://craftingtillmidnight.blogspot.com/2010/04/tie-onesie-applique-tutorial-using.html