The random things that get accomplished when you are waiting out your pregnancy. I have been cleaning like crazy and keeping up with laundry so my day to day chores have actually decreased. That is also because we have been hiring a house keeper which, why we haven't before is beyond me. We are finally feeling better other than aches and pains, I have canceled church for us until after the baby is born. I can't stand being sick anymore. The baby is due officially in ten days and we had a fake out last Friday, but are still impatiently waiting. Up until the last two weeks I was not swollen to ridiculousness, which now my feet are just comical. I mean who gets stretch marks on their feet? I also now can't sleep, either my back hurts or my hip or my lovely sciatic nerve which is awesome. As I said, impatiently waiting. So here's what I have been doing.
I wanted to make my kids something to remind them they were once babies and that babies don't just cry, eat and poop. Even though, I mean let's be honest those first few weeks they don't do much else. I can pretend though, for the sake of my other kids right? Once upon a time I loved scrapbooking and worked on them constantly. Oddly enough Daniel's scrapbook is complete up to three months. The scrapbook for Alice is still in the planning stages. So with some help with my mom we came up with this idea instead. It may not be amazingly adorable and I refused to be ultra picky about the text and just wrote it out with a marker. But they turned out so cute. I show a few pictures from each child's hospital stay, first visitors, and first few weeks. They took about 30 minutes each, then I laminated them, then took them to be bound. Total cost was $2.41, for the binding. I love them and hope the kids do too.
My other fun craft was these owls. My friend had finished some and told me where to get them so off to the wood store we went. Alice chose the paper for the small owl and chose the orange paint. I was dubious at first but it turned out adorable. The sweetest thing was when it was all done and I said "let's go put it in your room." Alice said "nope, for the baby." Loved it! These were also super easy and took one day from start to finish (mostly just to let the paint dry). If you want your own, we just got them at The Wood Connection up in Murray.
Today for Valentine's Day I was a slight slacker. After Friday I thought we'd have the baby, but since it is still not here, after I dropped Daniel off at preschool Alice and I went and bought balloons, a red table cloth, and hit Papa Murphy's for some heart pizzas for dinner. The kids loved writing out Valentine's for all their cousins (sorry Steph, we'll mail them soon), and they loved receiving them in return. Daniel filled them out for his preschool class with comments like "this one is for so and so even though they don't play with me and so we are not friends." Kids are so funny.
I wanted to make my kids something to remind them they were once babies and that babies don't just cry, eat and poop. Even though, I mean let's be honest those first few weeks they don't do much else. I can pretend though, for the sake of my other kids right? Once upon a time I loved scrapbooking and worked on them constantly. Oddly enough Daniel's scrapbook is complete up to three months. The scrapbook for Alice is still in the planning stages. So with some help with my mom we came up with this idea instead. It may not be amazingly adorable and I refused to be ultra picky about the text and just wrote it out with a marker. But they turned out so cute. I show a few pictures from each child's hospital stay, first visitors, and first few weeks. They took about 30 minutes each, then I laminated them, then took them to be bound. Total cost was $2.41, for the binding. I love them and hope the kids do too.
My other fun craft was these owls. My friend had finished some and told me where to get them so off to the wood store we went. Alice chose the paper for the small owl and chose the orange paint. I was dubious at first but it turned out adorable. The sweetest thing was when it was all done and I said "let's go put it in your room." Alice said "nope, for the baby." Loved it! These were also super easy and took one day from start to finish (mostly just to let the paint dry). If you want your own, we just got them at The Wood Connection up in Murray.
Today for Valentine's Day I was a slight slacker. After Friday I thought we'd have the baby, but since it is still not here, after I dropped Daniel off at preschool Alice and I went and bought balloons, a red table cloth, and hit Papa Murphy's for some heart pizzas for dinner. The kids loved writing out Valentine's for all their cousins (sorry Steph, we'll mail them soon), and they loved receiving them in return. Daniel filled them out for his preschool class with comments like "this one is for so and so even though they don't play with me and so we are not friends." Kids are so funny.
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