Another Project: Baby Quilt

I just finished another project a few weeks ago.  Sam's baby quilt!  Well, technically it started out as Jack's quilt but then I never finished it...the top just needed the borders but alas, it never happened.  And then I had 2 more kids, but they were girls.  I knew with Sam I might never get this chance again for one of my baby boys.   So, after almost 6 years in the making (most of the time just sitting in the closet), the quilt:

 

 Now I am on a painting kick.  I am antiquing the orange-ish cabinet in the kitchen.  Then I will finish painting the cabinet in the front room.  And then the hotel needs to be painted/stained.  And I want to paint the front entryway.  And my bedroom...I think I will be done with painting for a while after that...

Projects

A few projects at our house this year (that I haven't posted about yet):

Pots painted by the kids for Sage's bday:


Planter boxes for the garden that never got planted this year (I made 5 of them): 

Toy kitchen I made while Joel and the older 2 visited his parents:

 

A little flower box for the front entryway: 
 

Our first pic hanging up in the house.  The horseshoes my dad made and the kids hang their backpacks on them.  I love my shutters...
 

Sneak peak of the hotel that Jack has wanted forever.  FOREVER.  It is not done yet (obviously) but it is playable.  The kids love it.  I must admit - it is really awesome.

 

And the fence!  I can't believe I haven't posted a pic before!  It has taken every Saturday for 6 - 7 months of our lives.  I think this deserves a whole new post for itself...

 

Too Much

That seems to have been Charlotte's punch line lately, "Too much."   If we give her a drink that is too full, she says it and makes me drink it down.  The funny thing is when she sees my cup and wants some she drinks it and tells me it was "Too much."  The same when she sees some of Sam's snacks and wants to eat some.  The same when she sees Geni dog drinking out of the blow-up pool outside.  It totally makes me smile.  She cracks me up.

More things about her:

*Charly loves to wear her swimsuit.  She has worn it all summer - day and night. 

*She has this adorable frown that she uses when she it not happy or not getting what she wants.  It is not a stick-out-your-bottom-lip-pouty frown, but more of a perfect line drawn frowny face frown.  (If that makes any sense)

*We are almost done with our hotel (playhouse) outside.  But it is totally usable.  Man, that girl zooms down the slide.  She didn't like it at first but has totally figured how to land on her feet.  She is so proud that she doesn't hurt her "bum-bums".

*Charlotte loves to be a big kid.  Lately she has been calling herself a "bigger girl" when she learns how to do more and more things independently, things she couldn't do as a "big girl".  :)  Gotta love it.

First Day of Preschool

Today is Sage and Charlotte's first day of preschool.  Charly is just doing a home preschool with 4 other kids from church.  Sage on the other hand is going to a legit school....

I got all choked up after dropping her off.  She is growing up so fast.  She is so big!  I am going to miss her so much.  I love having her home.  But she is soooo ready for this.  She said she was excited to go but she was probably going to be shy.  When I picked her up she said that she was shy in the beginning but it was better later.  And can I tell you how much I love having a girl report on her day rather than my boy?  Seriously - I LOVE getting the details.

Charly was so excited to go to "a little bit of home preschool".  She was super excited to get ready and to wear her backpack.  Man, that girl is a joy.

Oh, let me add that the girls meticulously picked out their outfits and hairstyles...

 

 

 

Just Because He is That Cute.

Really.  Could you get any cuter? 

Sam is going to be 9 months on Sunday.  NINE MONTHS!  Thought I would go ahead and take a picture of him because my monthly pic of him hasn't been all that regular...

Sam is the master scoocher and can get on top of/over anything.  He will eat anything and now feeds himself.  I no longer spoon feed him anything at all.  He is still super smiley and happy but he does not cry.  At all.  He just jumps straight into this pterodachtyl/velociraptor scream.  It is a pretty intense screech.   He loves me very much and always likes to be with me, but I would say Charlotte and Sage make him laugh the most.  Hysterical laughing.  It is pretty fabulous.  That's it for now!