DIY Aden + Anais Blanket

I have some very exciting news for you! You know those fabulous Aden + Anais swaddling blankets that you just HAD to have for your baby but only if your random rich relative bought them for you?  Well, Hobby Lobby is now stocking the gauzy fabric that they are made out of in a bunch of different colors for $6.99 a yard!  That translates to about $4 a yard with the 40% off coupon.

This was originally going to be a tutorial, but when I realized the tutorial sounded like this: buy a yard of fabric and then hem the edges...I decided the tutorial was needed not.

I will offer up a few quick pointers, however.  The fabric is 52" wide, so if you want a complete square, then you will want to buy 52" and not a yard.  For your hem, simply iron a thin fold along one edge and then fold it over again and iron it again.  Do the same thing with the opposite side and sew both edges.  Then go back to your iron and fold the remaining edges and then sew those.  Now, granted Hobby Lobby doesn't stock any fun prints, but I think the colors are way cuter than the white Aden + Anais ones.  Have fun!

Oh Lolly

Lila finally figured out that Trader Joe's has free lollipops.  And it only took a few very long seconds of her creepily staring at and standing very closely to the kids who already had lollipops to figure out where they were kept.  She then sucked on it the entire way home and for another 20 minutes on the couch with Dad.  She then proceeded to find me in the kitchen with her chewed up leftover stick to say, "I didn't eat it all."  "You ate it all! Good job!"  "No! I didn't eat it all."  I stared at the chewed up stick.  "Ok...you didn't eat it all..."  "Yeah." And she threw away the stick.  She is either confused about the purpose of the stick, or I am going to find part of a lollipop somewhere in the couch.

Oh yeah, and we have another kid too.  She's pretty cute.

Kitchen Post Number 37

You may remember that our kitchen started out yellow, and then we painted it brown, and then I tried to paint it green but no one would let me, so then I painted it white.  I said I liked it white, but deep down inside...I HATE WHITE WALLS!  There, I said it.  I couldn't stand the white.  So one day I went down in the basement and got what was left of our living room paint and slapped that up on the walls of the kitchen.

Now we finally have a color I can live with.

And our red chairs finally have a home!

Lila Says

Lila: Daddy, do you only drink beer?

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Johnny: Lila, let's talk about the boy you're going to marry.

Lila: (indignantly) Daddy, I'm eating my food!
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Rachel Sneezes
Rachel: What do you say?
Lila: Are you okay, honey?
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Rachel: Lila, guess what?! Ellie is coming over to watch you tonight!
Lila: gasp Elsa is coming?!
Rachel: Umm.........no.
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Lila: I have to close the door to my room so the cats won't tinkle on my bed.

We don't have cats.

Sprinkle Towers

While I was making dinner last night, I noticed Lila going back and forth between the pantry and the dining room.  This is what I discovered she was doing.

It's a little bit better than the towers she was building with food coloring last week.

Jumping Toodeger

Now that Olive is a big six month old she is able to play around with Lila a lot more.  Their new favorite activity is going into the basement and jumping together in/on their various jumping apparati.

Olive's Half Birthday!

Olive is six months old! And it's becoming increasingly more difficult to get her to sit still.

I have no idea how much she weighs or how tall she is because her appointment got pushed back.  Sorry Olive!  Olive loves rolling around and is almost crawling.  She can move backwards pretty easily.  She loves eating her oatmeal, and I guess since she's six months old, we have to start her on baby food.  I hate feeding babies baby food.  Just eat the chicken I made everyone else.

Olive is a really happy and relaxed baby, except when teething gets really bad, then she only wants to be held.  She loves playing in her exersaucer and her JumpeRoo.  We love our little Ollie Boo Boo!