Flower Power

Once again I've been busy in the nursery! The fabric flowers are finally all sewn and on the walls. It was quite a project, but I'm in love with how they turned out. Our little garden is really coming along.

KJ put up some more shelves a few weeks ago.

I also made some art! I had this idea to wright out the lyrics to one of my favorite songs in the shape of a flower. I'm really happy with how it turned out. (Bonus points if you know which song it is! "Plant a seed. Plant a flower. Plant a rose...")

I also made a monogram of an A out of fun colored buttons (a Pinterest idea).

In other news, my baby shower is this Saturday and I'm really looking forward to it! I've been registry stalking (I'm horrible, I know) and so far we'll be getting some pretty nice things. There's still lots to buy, though. I hope we'll get some last minuet shoppers on Saturday morning. Don't get me wrong, I'll be grateful for anything that we get, it would just be nice to at least get the necessities taken care of. And come on, who doesn't love getting presents!

KJ got a new job! I'm so proud of him!! He's been over worked, and quite frankly under paid, for a while now at his current job. He finally got fed up enough to start looking a few weeks ago, and this new job just fell into his lap. He went for an interview and the company immediately loved him and offered him the job that day. It's exactly what he's been wanting to do and will be a great step ahead in his career. The only down side is that it's going to be a much longer commute for him. He'll be traveling an hour and 15mins one way, as opposed to the just 15min commute he has now. As long as everything goes well, a move will definitely be in our future in the next two years. The fact that his pay check has almost doubled, though... That kind of makes up for it! Maybe being a SAHM is in my future yet!!

Here's my 7 month bump pic taken on April 15. April showers and all that. She sure is growing in there!

Lots of Love,
KJsbabe

My Obsession

I'd would like to share with you my new obsession... Cloth diapers! I have been going crazy over cloth diapers in a last month or so. I'm constantly either lurking on the CD'ing board on The Bump or scouring eBay for my next purchase. I'm completely addicted! I've even had dreams about the CD's I want to buy... It's bordering on obsessive! They're just so darn cute and I keep finding awesome deals that I just can't pass up. I admit it... I have a problem. I'm thinking of joining a 12 step program (just kidding!).

Here's my lovely stash so far: (pictures are just a sampling)

First we have the newborn stash. I have 15 Green Mountain Diaper NB Workhorses, 12 GMD NB prefolds, 12 GMD small prefolds, 5 Cotten doublers, 2 XS Thirsties wraps, and 8 small wraps (Thirsties, Bummis, and other random brands). I found a good tutorial on how to turn a prefold into a fitted (like the workhorses), so that's my plan with the 24 GMD prefolds.

Next, we have the size one stash: 7 Thirsties Fab Fitteds, 8 Thirsties Duo Diapers, 5 Thirsties Duo wraps, and one Thirsties medium wrap.

And last, we have the one size stash: 5 BumGenius 4.0s, 3 BG Flip covers with 12 inserts, 2 Kawii's, and 2 random eBay OS.

After I convert my prefolds to fitteds, my NB stash should be complete. I need to get some more fitteds for my size one stash, a few more OS diapers, some snappies, and wet bags. Fun fun!!

Lots of love,
KJsbabe



PS Here are some bump pics!

This one is our 6 month pic taken on March 18 (24w and V-Day!!)

These two are from 26w on April 1. The trees in our front yard were blooming and I couldn't resist a bump pic with them!