Busy Birthday

This afternoon I looked out the window and saw my mom's car parked in the driveway. When I went downstairs Pop and Zoe were hanging out in the kitchen. I found my mom out in the woods pulling vines. We have BEAUTIFUL weather here today (60°!) so I thought it would be the perfect day to hang my new clothesline (for diapers, mostly).

Peanut napped in her carseat while everyone worked in the yard:

Benjamin finally got around to raking some of the leaves that have been sitting since November:

And Zoe and I hung the clothesline. We used the rusty old flagpole and the two telephone poles in the yard. Ha! :)

At some point my mom did this to poor Lily:
Mom got Lily the cutest little pink pearl bracelet. I'll try to post pictures of it later.

Birthday Girl

Lily is 3 months old today! She seems to be taking it pretty seriously. I, however, am not. :)

Nothing Much

We had kind of a lazy day today. The weather was beautiful (50°!), so I thought we'd spend a lot of time outside but we never really got around to it. We went out to Isaac's for lunch and then walked over to Border's for a bit. Then Peanut and I took a nice nap and Benjamin took a picture of Lily being snoogily. :)
(She's been a paci girl for the last week or so.)

Tonight I finished the diaper bag I was working on. I think every time I make something it fails. I don't know whether it just doesn't turn out as well as I had hoped or whether I just screw up the dimensions horribly. Anyway, Benjamin isn't much of a fan of this one:
I think the straps are too wide and the purple pocket just isn't quite right. Ugh.

A Little Bit of Everything

Oh man, sorry again for the lack of updates. This time I kind of know what's kept us busy. Josh has been working on painting our entry/stairway/upstairs hall this week. We're painting it the same "Lotus Flower" light yellow that we have in the living room. Partly because I like the color, and partly because we had about 3 gallons of it leftover in the basement. Also. I have a million little projects started that have kept me away from the computer. I'm making a diaper bag in a really great Alexander Henry print that I hope to finish this weekend. Yesterday at Joann's I picked up a great vintage felt baby booties pattern, so that will be next. Only I'm also working on (finally) making a blankie for Lily. I've made Meg at least 4 blankies, and have been told I should/could make them to sell, but it is so much harder making one for my own baby for some reason. I thought Lily would be a pink and pastel girly, but I'm having some serious doubts about that. So I started a purple, yellow, and green blankie for her that just still didn't seem right. So I think I've finally figured it out and I'll be making her a red, white, and black blankie instead. Yeah, she's funky like that. :)

And now for some pictures...

Here's a pretty good picture of what we wake up to every morning:

Somehow she ended up looking kind of tiny compared to her cradle, which is definitely not the case. My mom said Zoe slept in the cradle until she was 6 months old. I seriously doubt Lily will fit in it that long.

Today is Friday, so we went to market for lunch with Anna. Lily wore the knit hat that Dayna made her before she was born. It fits perfectly now and is just so cute on her. :)
Also, please note the face. She loves her carseat when she's already sleeping, but not so much when she's awake. Taking her for drives is not an option for calming this baby.

And this was her when I sat down to write this:
Since then she's done a good amount of fussing and is now falling asleep in my left arm as I type with my right.

Also- random side-note: my hair is falling out in clumps. Ugh.

Where does the time go???

Sorry, everyone, for my lack of real updates lately. I've been trying to at least post pictures lately, but I think it's clear that most of the recent posts have been kind of hurried. We've been busy but I'm not sure with what. Lily will be 3 months old on Sunday :O and she is growing and changing at such a freakish pace it's just mind boggling. And I have to say that this is definitely my favorite baby age. Lily is just all sweetness and fun (with a few of her trademark tragic episodes thrown in here and there to remind us that she's still just an itty bitty).

She seems to love bathtime more all the time. During her bath today she was kicking and splashing so much that I thought I may have to move bathtime from the kitchen sink to the bathroom (more room to splash without worry of flailing into things). Anyway, I'll try this weekend to get Benjamin to get a video of bathtime so we can post it.

Her new playmat is getting a lot of use. I have a diaper changing station set up on the floor near where the playmat is and she stares at it excitedly while I change her diaper. And we're now cloth diapering full time (finally!) and I love, love, love it. Benjamin thinks I'm nuts, and I guess I probably am. It's really like a hobby for me and I'm not sure whether I should admit that publicly or not. I've bought tons of different diapers to try, and have actually already sold some online (and made a profit). Benjamin tells people I'm becoming a diaper broker. :)

I'll try to post pics of the girly later if I get a chance.

Exhausted Lily

We put Lily in her Jumparoo for the first time today. I think it was more fun for us than it was for her. :)

We had a pretty warm day today, so this afternoon Benjamin took Lily out for a walk in what's left of the snow.
When they got back she was sound asleep. (Benjamin looks hilarious in this picture!)

And she's still sleeping. :)

The Joys of Diapering