November Update...

Yesterday I made myself do all the baby laundry including diapers. It only came out to two loads because everything is so tiny but it felt like a big step. A big step I never got to take with Isabella because I a.) was putting it off because having an actually baby is really hard to imagine and b.) was put on bed rest 6 weeks before my due date. Well here we are right around that 6 weeks before due date time and I figured I should learn from my mistakes and just get everything ready. Maybe sometime this weekend I will even put the little bassinet together. That sure seems like an invitation for a baby to come early and I just don't know if I am ready for that. As far as we know everything is going smoothly health wise for mama and baby. I have been to the doctor every week for the past two months and we've been keeping a very close eye on everything from protein spilling, to amniotic fluid levels which can be kind of roller coaster but I know it is all what is best for both of us. If I have learned anything from these last two month is not to get worked up over things too soon. Its funny because I really didn't get the magnitude of what was happening last time until it was all over and I could stop and think about it. Wish me luck on staying sane and healthy these last few weeks of my pregnancy.





While I've been busy getting baby clothes folded and put away Bella is also busy:


This is what else we have been up to:

(this was not staged at all.. doesn't she look happy?)





extra goodness:
both my baby kitties caught in the act of loving on eachother like they really were baby kittens... awwwww....

Getting Ready For Christmas.... Early For Once

So during SewMamaSew's big scrap busters month I favorite-d a bunch of tutorials to get back to, but this one was calling my name loudly!



I used the technique found here to make these stockings. We will see how functional they will be this year. The interfacing leaves almost no stretch at all. This was truly a "scrap buster" project. I wish I would have photographed the insides and backs because they are all different. I think I am falling in love with patch work. Especially wasn't-bought-specifically-to-put-together patchwork, you know, the use-what-you-already-have-and-make-it-work kind of patchwork. It feels so fitting for me! I'm on to matching napkins and possibly place mats, because I wasn't counting and got a little square happy. I think I ended up having close to twice as many as I needed for the stocking. Oops.

Two Dollar Sudoku Book For All Ages

Bella likes to color in my sudoku book... whenever I leave it where she can get to it. For the past few weeks she would just make little marks inside the empty boxes. Just like mama. Now she has moved on to drawing lines from the same numbers. Ex. all the 4 are connected with one squiggly two year old line.

Quote of the day[in a very high pitch voice]: "My birthday is not coming up anymore! My Bubby my Zeidy not coming my birthday" and "Your birthday coming up now. Eat cake and ICE CREAM"!

Love this girl. More and more and more and more everyday.

Our Happy Halloween

Bella and I had a great Halloween day. Somehow it started to unravel and by the time we were ready to go trick or treating. She was too tired and cranky by 6:30pm. [I realized later when we got home she was finally cutting one of her two year old molars.] We made it to only one house and didn't even get a picture of her in her cute bumble bee costume. During the DAY we had fun eating roasted pumpkin seeds, watching The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, eating pumpkin soup, pumpkin muffins, and making the coolest-to-a-2-year-old fort and hung out with our jack-o-lanterns in the dark and read our spooky books.


Ok, so mama didn't exactly fit IN the fort, but I was still there!

This is Mr. Pumpkin, named by Bella. Please note the awesome face Bella drew!

On a side-note-related-to-Halloween I wanted to post a picture of myself at 31 weeks.. you know before I explode. Because thats what it feels like!