Tassel Hassel

Do y'all remember my adventures in tasseling from last year? well....they're baaaack!

Every other year St Jude's (Geoff's Mom's school) has a Holiday Bazaar where people sell their craftings and such for the holidays, 2 years ago I had a lot of plates and platters but seeing as I still haven't found a kiln in Fayetteville- or time to paint for that matter- this year I knew I had to do something that I could whip out at home... so tassels and hairbows it is!

I tell you what, getting to make these 2 by themselves were a struggle. Got Grant in his bed to nap, got Carter fed and content, got out all of teh supplies and played around to see what I wanted to do, got the glue gun heated up, all just in time for grant to decide he didn't want to nap and come out of his room. Then its trying to get them cranked out without Grant getting too curious about the hot glue gum or the scissors or the rolls and rolls of ribbon.... sigh....

Brotherly Love

Be still my heart. Here is a precious moment that they shared yesterday...

...Grant showing Carter the tricks of the trade...

one word: COLIC

I'm going to stop starting every entry with an excuse or apology for not blogging in forever, I know you all know how long its been, and I hope you all know why it has been so long, I'm going to start letting it go and not make myself feel guilty for it starting........ now!


so our life for the past 2 weeks has been filled with one word: colic!
I know it technically just means a gassy baby but in real life it means a baby who is not quiet and peaceful unless you are holding/rocking/snuggling with him and even then its not always a sure thing. In real life it means sleeping in a recliner with him on your chest. In real life it means that you often have occurrences when 2 people in your house are crying at the same time when 2 people are about to lose it (the combinations of that one changes).

Geoff had all of last week off in between rocking his Army French test (one of the highest 2 scores) and the start of PsyOp training this week so we took the leave and enjoyed ourselves. We headed to Atlanta for 2 days to have a little "us" time, Grandma and Grandad babysat while we snuck away for a movie in the afternoon and a Melting Pot dinner at night! Then over the weekend we headed to Durham, had family pictures taken by Shannon, Geoff went to the UNC vs. GT game and then we headed out to dinner with 2 Army friends while mom babysat! we are so thankful for people who love us and our kids enough to give us some time without them! :o)

here are some happy sleeping baby shots because they seem extra precious now-a-days and lets be honest, nobody wants to see screaming babies

One Month!

We can hardly believe it's been one month since Carter joined our family!

We're Here, We're Here

so everyone warned me but now I guess I know its true, two kids is a lot more to handle than just one and I'm sorry that the blog has taken a back seat~ we've been busy (but happy) over the past couple weeks and heres a snapshot of whats been going on

-MiMi (my mom's mom) came for a quick visit and to help with taking both kids to the doctors

-we scored big on cheap Elon vs Duke football tickets and had a huge group of family and friends go (too bad Elon didn't score quite so big)

-Grant renewed his love for fireworks

-Grant started preschool in Fayetteville!

-DAGNY (future daughter-in-law) TURNED ONE

-we visited Fayettevilles Greek festival and Grant got really into the dancing and clapping

-Carter grew out of newborn diapers and is now size 1

-Grant got a big boy haircut (hint to parents, holding the iPhone for kids to play on is a great way of having them sit still)

-we walked in a 9/11 rememberance walk sponsored by Operation Homefront

-we've daydreamed about next week! Geoff finally gets to take his paternity leave and gets the whole week off! YAY! we're planning a wonderfully glorious nothing=planned staycation (minus a wonderfully glorious kinda-planned day trip to the beach)

One Month Ago

Thanks to Grant and the iPhone, I have a great time capsule memory of what life was like a month ago today! Stocking up on toiletries for the hospital bag at Target...

and as I write this post, this is the face thats starring up at me! AMAZING!

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