Happy Valentine's Day

A few weeks ago, Emilia and I took Leo for a walk.

While sipping our tea at Starbucks I mentioned that I wanted to do this photo shoot that I had seen on Pinterest.  Very wise Emilia said, let's call Cindy and see if she can do it right now!

We walked to Cindy's and laughed because we had no idea what kind of diaper Leo was wearing or if it would be clean! We had nothing with us to keep him happy besides us and the Ergo.

I'm pretty happy with the results!

The crazy part was after the photo shoot when we realized we would need to remove the lipstick!

And red lipstick is not easy to remove.

And Savannah is the type of mom who notices every mark on her kid.

And she doesn't use any crappy lotion on him either.

Oh boy, that was funny!

In our favor, Savannah and Spencer were sick while we did this 

and I guess too sick to notice some faded lipstick on Leo.

(Because this was all a secret valentine for them!)

Wool Longies

I have yet to tackle knitting some wool longies. I just don't feel that I'm that good of a knitter. But the next best thing is repurposing a wool sweater into wool pants or diaper covers. The wool is a natural fiber that breaths and it also repels moisture (aka: pee).

The good news:

I have a shelf full of wool sweaters!

I've been collecting wool sweaters for a couple of years with the intention of making a wool sweater quilt. I've found the sweaters at Red, White and Blue, Goodwill bins and garage sales.

Using the sweaters now give me something to be on the hunt for in the upcoming garage sale season.

YAY!

Today's sewing project was easy and quick. I cut the arms off the wool sweater, making sure they were the same length, cut the seam a little and sew them together. The first pair were a tad short waisted so I decided not to make a casing for the elastic. I got some 2" wide elastic and sewed that to the top as a finished waistband. The second pair were a little longer waisted so I made a casing for the elastic. I love both of them! The dark pair are thinner and soft and the light pair are thick and cozy. I also made Leo another wool diaper cover.

So without further ado....

here is my handsome model showing off the comfy wool longies 

I made him today.

This light gray pair is much roomier for Leo's diaper butt:

It's difficult to see, but I added one of these adorable "made with love by grandma" tags.

Saturday

We got to babysit Ryker today!Which gave us many photo ops!

 He has one tooth now and eats baby food!

 Grandpa Mario can always get the babies to sleep.

 Leoben and Ryker

Lots of fun times ahead for these boys!

 

 

 Leo in his new exersaucer.

 Ryker looking pretty tired after our walk.

 Cleo came to visit too.

Love this crazy hair picture!

He seriously has a big butt!

Leo's Stats

One week from being a big 4 month old

and

He weighs 19.5 pounds

Has two teeth

found his voice

(aka...screams)

grabs my face

and

loves to chew on Sophie

Cousins

These two are going to have such fun growing up together. 

Can't wait for the new baby's arrival in about a month. 

Three babies in 8 months! 

Love the photo bomb, Mario!

This one is the best!

Post Christmas Fun

He sat up on his own and rolled over today!

 Hmmm...chocolate covered gummy bear....don't mind if I do

We snatched it away just in time!

Someone should have snatched this away from me.

Too many chocolates!

Have you ever seen such a mammoth box of chocolates?

Little Monster

This has got to be one of the cutest outfits that Leoben has received (thank you Kelly!) so we were thrilled when he grew into it and we had to take lots of photos!

Chunkey Monkey

He's now over 18 pounds, beginning to laugh and watches everyone around him. 

Every time I change his diaper I'm still amazed at those chubby legs!

He really does love me.

 I've neglected my blog for so long and my camera now has over 400 pictures on it. I misplaced the camera for awhile and panicked, thinking I'd lost all of those pictures. It's time to load them onto the computer and do something with them!

On Thanksgiving I got serious about finding the camera and offered $10 to whomever found it. If it wasn't found that day I was going to buy a new one on Black Friday. Emilia was the winner.

Oh, you want to know where the camera was? In my car the whole time.

It also seems weird to post such old pictures of Leo. He is so tiny here and as of today he weighs a whopping 17.2 pounds.

This one cracks me up.

 These photos are from a photo shoot we did with my friend Cindy from
Garage Studio Photography.

Leo is snuggled into a wool sack I knit for him just before he was born.

Beautiful.

It is the most amazing process to watch my daughter become a mother. It began with watching her give birth, which was nothing like I expected it to be. She really did have a difficult labor and I was in awe of her strength. Now that she's been mothering Leoben for 12 weeks I am in more awe of her. She is calm, loving and strong in her convictions. She researches everything and makes informed decisions about his care. Everything she does it seems that she has a confidence that I feel like took me years and years and a few children to have. I'm incredibly proud of the mother she is. Leo is a lucky boy to have her looking out for him.