May Excitement

We discovered that Drew enjoys the swings...especially when he's rested and fed.(Naturally)

 

We also went to an aquarium and he was a trooper and really got into it.  

 

Drew loves his bath time.

Graduation Day!!

April 22 was a very eventful day around here.  Andrew finished his MBA at BYU!!  My parents and his parents came, which was really nice.  Drew was a trooper thru the whole thing.  I however look quite tired...I was. :)  We were all so proud of Andrew (and Jamen) and we are so excited to get started with the next stage in life.  

 Really happy about it all. 

Can't Get Enough

Andrew and I just love, love being parents to this CUTE, SWEET boy!!  He's such a calm kid.  Doesn't feel the need to crawl around.  He's content playing by himself, watching others and of course, chewing on anything.  He cracks me up daily.  His latest thing is to play with these plastic buckets we got from my sister.  He loves to "talk" into them. He sleeps pretty well at night unless he is going thru a growth spurt which seem to come around more often than I would have thought.  Lately he's been taking long morning naps and shorter afternoon and evening naps, but since I am posting this to the world I'm sure that will change starting today.   

This video stemmed from one afternoon when I had been feeding him. (at the beginning of March)  I had left his side for a little bit and he tried to grab the papers that were next to him.  From the couch I called him a little stinker and told him no.  He thought that was so funny.  

Drew has learned how fun Andrew is.  He gets excited when he comes home from school and they have a lot of fun together.  

Reading Drew the Ward newsletter.  Drew laid there and listened the whole time.  :)

Drew is actually smiling sometimes when I'm taking his picture.  Maybe he's catching on the concept.  :)

We were given these cute shorts that have suspenders sewn onto them.  Andrew thought it would be fun to take pictures of Drew in them without his shirt.  

The big boy is now 8 months old.  I just can't believe it. 

Crafting

My mom was/is an excellent sewer.  I just couldn't get into it too much.   We made some things together in my early teenage years, and I loved doing that with her.  But I didn't have much interest to carry on myself.  I have discovered that I love to do little sewing projects that don't take too much time.  (However, if I took more time on the projects they might turn out even better.) 

My sister-in-law gave me a darling carseat canopy cover for my baby shower, and I decided that I wanted to see if I could make one to give to a couple of friends.  So, I studied hers and bought enough fabric for mistakes - which was a good thing.  I ended up making two of them.  I didn't take a picture of the second one on a carseat...that's why it looks strange, but I loved the colors.

 I should have rounded the corners, but I was afraid. 

My sister made a cute "tag rag" with ribbons and such.   Drew absolutely loves it.  So I thought with the extra fabric that I had that I would make something similar.  As I searched online, I found a tag ball that was way cute that I wanted to try.  Sewing with that fuzzy fabric is hard, but it turned out.  I'm just glad no one can see the inside.  Next time I won't put as many ribbons on it.  I want to make some more balls without the ribbons, varying in size, since we don't have many here to play with. 

 Honestly, I'm STILL not completely finished with this project.  I just need to drill holes and get a ribbon so that it can be hung next Christmas.  I have time right?!  I saw this on a local tv show and tried it out.  I used my mom's Cricut over the holiday to make the fun numbers.  I was pleased with how it turned out. 

We were in need of a bigger blanket for our growing boy.  I made this for him and tried the rounded corners.  It wasn't too painful, but once again this fabric is so tricky for me to work with.  My embellishment was the zigzag stitch.:)

Thanks for letting me share!

Sitting Tall on His Way to 7 Months

Well, once Drew got good at rolling around the room, he got better at sitting up and now he can actually sit for minutes by himself rather than seconds.  Today, in fact, I think he realized that he would rather be sitting than laying flat.  

Falling backwards seems to hurt more than falling to the side, hence the pillow in the background.

I couldn't help but pull out the camera on this boy.  Lately, he has been doing this cute thing with scrunching up his face and breathing loudly through his nose.  I caught a glimpse of this on video.

Just love this boy!

Not Just a T-shirt

So I was watching a local morning tv show where they had a lady showing how to make "no-sew scarves."  My friends, she made it from a t-shirt.  I watched intently, and wanted to try it desperately.  A friend came over and we attempted the craft.  We had a good time making fun of ourselves for wearing old t-shirts as an accessory.  I was shown how to make little fabric flowers, and I added them onto it.  These flowers really are NOT so perfect...don't look to closely.  I definitely need to practice more, but I felt very crafty and even wore it out on a date with Andrew that night. 

The Big 3-0

 

 

On the 17th of this month, Andrew turned the BIG 3-0!!  Say good-bye to the 20s sweets. This is the most festive we get...I was pretty proud of myself.  I made us all wear party hats through dinner; even the boy.  :)