Liv's Nursery

Zac has been gently suggesting that maybe the kitchen table is not the best place for my sewing machine. I, on the other hand, am reluctant to pack it away with so many projects this close to being finished. So I've been hard at work wrapping up the last touches on the crafts for Liv's room so I can finally post some pictures before she grows up on me and requires a complete room redo...

I think the wallflowers were a nice final addition. Just a bit to fill up an empty corner while the subtle color keeps them from making the space too busy.


Liv's shelves - complete with baby pictures of Mom, Dad, Kian and Liv. The outfit that both she and I came home from the hospital in and a couple of tiny owl touches. The birdhouses still need to be painted - white? yellow? wallpapers with the pink patterned paper? (at least this project won't require a sewing machine)

For some reason, I have proven incapable of making the tissue paper poms that were intended to go in this vase. I had a *kit* and I thought I was a relatively crafty person. These pinwheels were a cute, free alternative.

To hold hair bows and stuff and add a bit more of the bird fabric I love after her bumpers get retired.

Mr. & Mrs. Owl Bookends. Mrs. Owl got a bit rounder with her last pregnancy. Oh well, can't expect perfection when you don't actually use a pattern. I think it add a bit of charm to the couple.

A birthday card from my father-in-law that I saved for a couple years till I had a little girl's room to put it in. Plus Kian & Liv's porcelain baby shoes (as this is one of the few shelves in the house high enough to keep them safe.)

The crib side of the room as it is now.

And what it looked like with the tree decals. I really liked them for about 4 days till they started to slowly slide down the wall. What do you think... leave it blank, paint them on this time, paint them but in a softer brown, add in leaves and pink flowers...

And a bit of homemade fun that did turn out well. I love how these spin with the slightest breeze. So simple & cheap to make too.

A close up of the bedding and my happy girl. It's been a labor of love and I hope it shows how truly loved you are.

Kian-isms

At school they were playing the song Who let the dogs out. Kian replied, "My Mommy." He went on to tell them all about Porter, Molly and Missy. Missy, aka Nimbus, our male dog who Kian has officially renamed. Even poor Missy, er Nimbus, now responds to him new name.

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Kian is more interested in doctors then any kid I know. He constantly asks, "Doctor says?" We have used this to our advantage for those important points in life. I brought him with me to Liv's doctor's appointment a couple month's ago so that "Doctor" could tell him he could no longer unbuckle his seat belt while we're driving around. The seat belt has remained safely in place ever since. Zac had "Doctor" explain to him that poop goes in the potty at his last appointment. Ever since Kian has been potty trained.

He *loves* to go to the doctor's office. He even sat nicely and watched as the drew blood for another round of allergy tests last week, said thank you when the were finished, and has asked to go back for another blood test. For the last year if you ask him what he wants to be when he grows up he will tell you a doctor.

I asked yesterday, he told me he wants to be Bob the Builder. I guess the 529 plan is sufficiently funded.

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On the way home from school the other day Kian explained to me "the horses are all in my fields. Yeah, because we all just share the horses." If only you were right my socialist little one.

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Kian's classmate Ashlyn has decided that they are getting married. She told him this was the plan and is very possessive if a teacher tries to give him a hug or another classmate gives him too much attention. Kian seems to have taken the new fact that he is marrying Ashlyn as merely a statement of fact.

On the way to school we were discussing that his teacher won't be there this week. "Why." Because she is on her honeymoon. "Why." Because she got married. "Why." Because when people fall in love sometimes they get married. Like Mommy & Daddy fell in love and we got married.

"YOU'RE MARRIED????" said with complete and total disbelief and possibly a bit of disgust. Yes, buddy, your mommy & daddy are married. I know you thought this was something only three year olds do.