Breaking in the Crib

Every so often I get to watch Maggie's girls for a day.  We usually play in the living room, drag all Cliff's toys out, and repeatedly find it necessary to be warned about how mad Uncle Zac will be if we touch his electronics (and yes....this does go for me too).   

Eventually my sweet babies get tuckered out, and I'm happy to say, Clifford's crib works like a charm.  

My pretty Penelope girl loves it.  

I just love you Pia girl. 

Nothin like a red complexion

While staring at this wonderful little pea today I realized that she is my uncle Doug.  

Exhibit A

Penny Pea you will be a little bruiser.  I just know it. 

They are here!

Say hello to the newest additions to my family......

Emily Kate, August 9th

Alexander James, August 23rd

and Penelope Jane, also August 23rd.  

That's 3, count em, 3 babies (bringing me up to 11 nieces and 10 nephews) just this month.  Lucky aren't I?  They are all beautiful.  Now if I just lived close enough to the first 2 to kiss them as much as I want then I'd really be set.  

Life. Is. Good. 

I love you sisters. 

Sew great!

Awhile back I wrote a blog about how I just decide I know how to do things and use my stubborness and my ram-iness to make up for my lack of know-how.  In that blog I sewed a baby quilt for Miss Ollie.  I decide to make another baby quilt for Penelope.  I decided, after asking for and receiving good advice, to do things a little different this time.  I picked out Penny Pea's fabric and am just loving how cute it is.  

I sewed my squares into strips first, then sewed my strips into my top.  It was a little less straight than Ollie's quilt (when I started in the center) so I sewed strips together and put on a border to square it up.  I added a layer of batting and a flannel back, then my cousin Ellen taught me how to do binding.  The next step was hand stitching the binding on the back.  This is my finished quilt...

It turned out so stinking good I can hardly believe I made it.  I actually felt bad that Ollie's was not as good.  So what do you do in that situation.  You do Ollie's over.  Which is exactly what I did.  This was Ollie O's after I put my new skills to the test.

I love them both!  My best friend also announced that she is expecting, so I will be whippin out a blanket for her bean too.  It is my new project and I am pumped! It is gonna be adorable.  

I have been feeling inspired by all of it....and I my have gone a little etsy fabric crazy but just look at these fabrics I've got coming.

Exciting right?  Oh how I love them.  Now I just gotta start having kids of my own so I can keep them :)