Visit with Brian & Sandi

Keith's brother & his wife stopped by for a visit Saturday afternoon.  Parker somehow suckered them into reading the "bike book" with him.  If they have to read this book every time they come over, we might not see much of them in the future.

Seriously, kid?!?!

Baby Girl has been making it progressively harder for me to sleep at night.  As a general rule, I do my best sleeping in the morning after Keith leaves & I can commander the entire bed.  But, today she wouldn't stand for it.  So, shortly after Keith left for work (at 5:30, crazy boy), I gave up and got out of bed with big plans for what I'd get done before Parker woke up two hours later.

No more than 20 minutes later, I hear the pitter-pat of little feet running through my kitchen.  Seriously!?!?

So, what's a good Mom to do?  I have no idea... but what I did was walk him back to bed and tell him to stay there until Mama was ready for him to be awake.  I'm pretty sure he's not sleeping, and his room will be wrecked when I go in, but at least he's quiet for the moment.

Happy Father's Day Keith!

For Father's Day, Keith decided he wanted to visit the NW Train Museum in Snoqualmie.  The Museum isn't too impressive, but they have an hour-long train ride from Snoqualmie to North Bend to Snoqualmie Falls and back to Snoqualmie.

Parker LOVED seeing all the "choo choos".  Parker got a train book for his birthday from my brother, so he knows all about trains and their sounds, so he was pretty excited to ride one.

While we were waiting for the ride to start, Parker got to drive his own train.

Playing with Daddy's GPS:

Keith & Parker both had a great time.

Parker especially loved seeing the falls.  He kept signing "water" and "more" over & over again.

After the train ride, we had Keith's folks & the Needs over for lunch. 

Somehow Denise got stuck reading the kids Parker's "bike book" (we never actually read that book, just look for the bikes & Goldbug).  Fortunately, she was rescued from reading the entire book by cake & ice cream.

The Needs got Keith's Dad the ladder golf game, so they all played for a while in the back yard.  Keith is the undisputed horseshoe champion of the Kruger family, but apparently ladder golf is not his gifting.

Happy Father's Day Daddy!

First Views of the Nursery

I've finally made it to the fabric store & started on several of my projects for the baby's room, so I can finally post a few photos of the nursery.  We're still a long way from finished, but it's a start.

This dresser was a hand-me-down from a friend of my Mom's many years ago.  It's pretty beat up, but with a couple coats of paint and new drawer pulls, it's looking better.

My invisible wallpaper painting: 

If you come over, just pretend you can see it & say it's pretty.

We've swapped cribs with my parents, so they have Parker's brown crib, and we have this white one.  It goes better with the room.

This window seat was nearly my undoing...

These are the times when I really miss my Mom.  I could have really used her help on this project.  Or, more realistically, I would have loved to dump the entire mess in her lap & let her fix it.  It should have been an easy project: cut 6 rectangles, sew 12 straight seams, done in an hour.  However, for whatever reason, it took two days, seeing how I had to pull out EVERY SINGLE seam at least once, mostly because EVERY SINGLE piece had been cut incorrectly.  Some because the fabric was hard to cut correctly, some because I was an idiot & forgot seam allowances, and some just because it's hard to measure something longer than your measuring tape. (and did I mention my emergency trip to the fabric store Wednesday night since I bought half as much piping as I needed? grr...)

Whatever it was, I very nearly threw the sewing machine out the window.  As it is, the stupid thing is finally done....  And I don't like it.  I think it looks like something you'd find in a hospital room.  Keith seems to think that I'm being melodramatic, so we'll keep it for now, but it has marred my joy for sewing at the moment.

This was yesterday's project, I needed an easy win.  I still have one more wet bag to make, but this one turned out much cuter than the window seat.

I finished the pelmet this week as well:

The chandelier will look cuter when it's hanging, but that's Keith's project for the weekend.  Pregnant girls don't belong on ladders.

I had originally planned to buy a chandelier at the Goodwill for this project, but then remembered this lamp I got from my Aunt.  I have a feeling that Joanie probably wouldn't appreciate what I did to her beautiful (and probably expensive, Joanie had great taste) brass lamp, but at least this way it's being used.  And I think it's cute.

These baskets are probably my most successful project so far.  After weeks of shopping in every store I could imagine, I gave up on finding ANYTHING in purple or grey, so I bought a bunch of wire baskets at the Goodwill (I think the large basket came out of someones refrigerator) and spray painted them myself.  The color came out perfect.

Now that the room is set-up, I've also organized baby girl's clothes by size.

Just in-case you're wondering:

Yes, that is the entirety of her 0-3 wardrobe.  If my memory serves my right, that's about enough for two days.  I've had several friends promise us baby girl clothes, but until then, she might be going naked.

This is the last, big project that remains:

I have a feeling that it might just stay like that.  I'm not so concerned about the time & effort required to re-cover it, but I've already feel like I've "invested" a fortune at JoAnn's Fabric as it is, I'm not sure I can justify much more.  I'm sure baby girl won't mind a blue & green rocking chair.

Bike! Bike!

As I'm sure you've heard, Parker is obsessed with bikes.

Saturday morning, he & Daddy spent some time chasing/pushing each other around on Parker's bikes.

I have two very silly little boys in my home.

31 weeks, 3 Days

Baby Girl & I went in for a check-up on Friday.  She's growing right on schedule.  According to the ultrasound, I am currently 31 weeks and 3 days, puting the due-date at August 7th.

She is currently 3 lbs, 13oz, and in the 31% for size (approximately).  According to Dr. Joki, he expects that she'll be slightly smaller than Parker was at birth.  He also says that he won't let me go over due (he seems to think that 4 hours of pushing was too long).  Of course, he also says that he can give a little Pitocen without making the labor horrible...we'll see, I'm withholding judgement at the moment.

But anyway, Baby Girl is doing well...and she's still a girl, we double-checked just to be sure.  I really don't want to re-paint the nursery.

Beach Day

The sun was actually out today, so we spent the morning wandering along the Edmonds waterfront.  Parker loved seeing all the boats & birds (plus the occasional "bike!")

It was actually warmer out than these photos would imply.  Mr. Opinionated refused to wear any coat but this one.