Creating items for gifting

I've decided recently to make more of the items I sew easily giftable. I'm excited to see what happens with my shop in the next few months with my new listings. Below are a few examples.

Staying at home

I've been full-time at home for a month now and I'm loving it! Our life is so much more balanced now and we're all happier. I'm actually sleeping, riding my bike again, and spending a lot of time with my favorite people: Robert and Peter!

As predicted though, I'm bored as anything. Not! Does he look boring?

Try watching him as he stealthily "re-organizes" everything in the house. Daddy's boxers go in the garbage, Mommy's hairbrush in the laundry bin, Peter's toys into the wine rack and his ball into the toilet, etc. Pete takes his job very seriously too. He rarely takes a break, and when I ask him too (aka nap time) he protests vigorously.

Celebrating two years of marriage tomorrow! Couldn't be happier than with my little family.

Celebrating his birthday with his first steps

Happy Birthday to me

Another generation of terrible sleepers?

Peter's transition to the floor bed, and move back into our room for the summer (since Mary is here) has revealed that he might have gotten his sleeping patterns from yours truly. I have found him asleep in different parts of the room including beside his bed, in the middle of the floor, half-on and half-off the bed in a kneeling position and half-on half-off the bed with one leg and one arm on, the others off. Just the other night when I went to move him completely onto the bed, I thought he woke up because he moved into a sitting next to the bed. He didn't, he was still completely asleep. 


He also laughs in his sleep - something I have been known to do - and which, I have been told repeatedly, is pretty creepy. 

Here's to a lifetime of creeping people out while you sleep, Peter! Can't wait to tell you all the stories of your crazy aunts and uncles...

Watch out - she's extra crazy in her sleep!

They're asleep here...creepy right?

Since our SC trip:

Peter doesn't talk or say words any more - he just yells, 

Is convinced he can walk,

and continues to boss Mary around shamelessly, and can't get enough of her. She is incredibly patient and funny with him!!

He has also started to sleep again, occasionally.

This was his makeshift bed at the beach - he had a cold so we had to prop him up

We miss everyone like crazy!! Thanks for a great trip.

Overheard at work today...

"One baby is just an accessory, two babies means a lifestyle change!"

American daycare at its best? Or perhaps just a highly sedated child. It has to be one or the other to say that one baby didn't change your life at all. They for sure don't have an almost-one year old who is daily growing in cuteness and mischief making. A process that seems to have been accelerated by our recent trip to South Carolina... (more on that later this week).

I wouldn't change in Peter for "an accessory" for the world though. Sure I don't love squeezing myself into the 6inch space we left on the back seat so I can play peak-a-boo with a stuffed giraffe for 2.5 hours, or the cracker crumbs that are on every flat space in the apartment right now because Peter found a cracker he had rejected earlier and began crawling with it. But I love the kisses and hugs, watching him falling asleep, watching him learn to walk and get smarter on a daily basis, seeing everyone ooo and ahh over him etc. etc. etc.

Either way - I don't think Peter agrees with that choice of wording

An accessory? Really? That's the best you could come up with?

No more crib

One big change we've made in the house since starting to implement Montessori ideas has been getting rid of Peter's crib. He really disliked it anyways and was trying to figure out how to climb out of it - so we figured we might as well try the Montessori method and get a floor bed. We took a friend's suggestion and bought a toddler bed and cut off the legs. It hasn't been a seamless transition, he's had some rough nights, but overall Peter has been a lot happier - which makes us much happier too!

He still doesn't like waking up though - which I understand. It doesn't matter how much he's slept, or if he wakes up in my arms or in his bed - he is CRANKY. But he gets over it quickly.