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

Make Way for Baby

Officially FULL TERM (37weeks), officially "any day now", NOT officially ready!

Its amazing how little I have done to get ready for this little guy in comparison to the first time around. Maybe its that my hands are full with grant, maybe its because I learned that as long as you have some diapers and a place to sleep you can fudge everything else for a while, but as of this past weekend I'm trying to "get ready" as best I can.

Here are pictures of the little guy's rocket room, just have to more some of the non-baby boxes out, finish a canvas quote/painting and mom is making some cute curtains. I sorted and washed Grant's hand-me-downs and then started getting a hospital bag together.

The most exciting baby purchase so far has been a new car seat/carrier cover. Since we got our stroller travel system with the intent of using it for more than one, and without knowing what Grant was, we got the neutral which happen to be black and purplish blue. Well thanks to an etsy seller it is now black and grey with a fun Michael Miller guitar fabric... it'll go great with our new stroller (Joovy Caboose) that has a platform on back for Grant to sit/stand on! Our orange -per Geoff's request- STEAL on ebay for about half of the retail price, brand new. woowhooo

Flying High

Grant and I had a special treat today as we trekked out to middle of nowhere Fort Bragg and watched Geoff jump out of a plane. Grant was VERY excited when I told him we were going to see Daddy jump out of a plane with a parachute and all day long everything that he played with needed "a parachute so it can fall" but it was so neat to see him in such awe of Geoff!

Here are my favorite before, during and after shots~ for the rest http://picasaweb.google.com/laurabchilds/Jump#

Friends and their Wee Ones

We were spoiled to get to spend a little time with friends and their kiddos over our vacay.
Nadia and Pat brought Natalie up to the lake so we could meet her, we're so happy that former Army friends call NE PA home so we can see them... (p.s. former Army, not former friends)

Then by co-inky-dink we stayed in Gaithersburg for a night to break up the drive home and Rory brought Dagny to meet Mom, Grant and I for dinner. We had a great time watching the kiddos not eat and spend their evening playing with eachother and running a muck!

Home Again Home Again Jigity Jig

We've said goodbye to this....

and are back home in Fayetteville!

We had a great, relaxing time but are happy to be home with Geoff and starting the last minute preperations for the family addition, (eviction date is Aug 12 if he doesn't come before then) so much to do, so little time!

http://picasaweb.google.com/laurabchilds/July4th#

PA Sightings

We're having a blast in PA, what I thought was going to be a cool down has just turned into an escape since we traded the 90 degree NC weather for, well, 90 degree PA weather but atleast we're missing out on all this 3 digit stuff thats been hitting the east coast.

Highlights from the weekend:

1) Daddy coming to the airport and having the weekend with him

2) Grant yelling FIREWORKS everytime he saw one go off.... 45 times in a row

3) Having a brown bear do a little dance by our car and then running across the street in front of us

4) Having Diane to commiserate with (she's due 2 weeks before me), seeing Marina Sophie and John was pretty cool too

5) Getting to meet Natalie and hang out with Nadia and Patrick, YAY for Army friends!

MIA @ LongPond

This is where we'll be for the next 2 weeks... Geoff comes for the long weekend tomorrow and we're excited to be doing a whole lot of NOTHING (well, you know besides skipping rocks, floating on our backs, searching for frogs, taking walks, and hopefully learning to swim!)