Joe's Room update...

Well... its s l o w l y coming along... I am just about ready to be done with his room and move on to ours :)  

Here is my progress...

To do list: (Joe's Room)

1. Paint

2. Re upholster headboard

3. Hang Headboard

4. Sew window treatments

5. Hang window treatments

6. Make pillows for bed (one made)

7. Make bed skirt

8. Stain dresser (may have to wait)

9. Paint side tables

10. Artwork - I have painted two out of three peices

11. Bookshelves (buy and hang)

12. Hang other frames

13. Lamps (may have to wait for a while)

14. Hang Artwork

15. Hang Oars

Still have a lot to do but since my last post I finished the artwork, painted side tables, moved a new dresser into his room, hung window treatments, and bought and hung the bookshelves :)  I'd say thats a lot when you have a 9 month old crawling around!

Bookshelves, frame and finished window treatments

Moved in new dresser.  

Painted side tables (they were green)

Finished artwork... still need frames and to hang

I also finally hung up some of our wedding pictures!! (only a year and a half later)

The hallway is now looking beautiful and homey :) 

Happy feast of the Immaculate Conception! 

Hail Mary, full of grace.  The Lord is with thee.  

Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners,

now and at the hour of our death. Amen!

Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree...

Well... it is finally Christmas time Advent, and Christmas is right around the corner.  This may be my favorite time of year... I just love all of the traditions that go with Christmas.  There are so many traditions that are wonderful to share with your family.  One of my FAVORITE traditions is getting and decorating the Christmas tree.

I am a little obnoxious about making sure we get the right tree.  My sister and brother may say I get it from my dad... He is an EXPERT tree picker-out-er and tree decorator.  He taught me it has to be full and have thick branches and bristles.  Then when we get it all set up in our house he taught me to trim the tree so there there are nice  holes to fill with heavy beautiful ornaments.  I would always help my dad hang the lights so I am now an expert :)  In our family we start with the large colored lights.  They go around the center of the tree.  Then white lights go around the outer branches.  And finally its time to hang the ornaments!! 

One thing I love about Christmas trees is that EVERYONE has a different way to decorate their Christmas tree.  Some people do as we do with large colored and white lights.  Some only put white while others only put colored.  Then you have the large colored or the small colored... there are just so so so many ways to decorate a Christmas tree :)  I love seeing Christmas trees in the windows and noticing how each family chooses to decorate their own tree.  I am sure everyone knows that their tree is decorated the right way ;)

Anyway... I guess thats enough ranting about Christmas trees... Here is our tree this year... JUST PERFECT!!

(We couldn't put any lights or ornaments at the bottom of the tree because Joe would love to eat them  :)  And... those are not all real presents.  All of the big boxes are empty but are just there to keep Joseph from crawling under the tree :) )

Monday Morning Laugh

Just in case you need something to make you smile this Monday Morning :)

Have a great week!

ps. in case you were wondering what he is laughing at... Philip was running around with a cape on... 

So Sorry I didn't capture that video as well ;)

Josephs first Turkey Day

Happy Monday!

 I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving Break! 

Joseph enjoyed being cute and eating his first turkey meal!  

Happy Advent!

Just another one of Joseph's firsts... (or mine)

Today Joseph woke up a little early from his nap looking like this...

A little serious...

There's that smile

I guess he slept well :)  The only solution to this awesome bedhead... A BATH!!

Joseph LOVES baths as most babies do and was so excited when he heard the water running.  

Time for a bath!! 

He loves to splash and has lots of toys to play with in the tub.  

I normally try to capture a picture but he is always moving too fast and splashing for it to come out.  

But today he sat still for a moment and I got to capture him in the tub...

Sorry for the bad quality... phone pic

What a sweet baby!!

Then I found out why he sat so still for a moment... 

Thats right... uh huh... we had our first poopy in the tub. 

I think I handled it pretty well... I was calm.  It was small.  He already had soap in his hair. I stood him up.  Washed his body down with clean water and took him out of the tub. 

So for now on this first day of thanksgiving break... I am thankful it was only small ;)

Joseph's Room

I have finally made some progress on Joseph's bedroom.  I am only about halfway done with his room but I thought I would let yall get a sneak peek.  I found a sailboat fabric I loved and so that is where I started.  I then found coordinating fabrics and trim... here they are :)

I then decided I wanted to paint a stripe around his room so I pick up on the colors in the sailboat fabric. 

I did a wide blue stripe and thought the contrast between the wall color and the stripe was too much so I found a darker beige I happened to have a painted a smaller stripe above and below the large stripe.  Here is where I taped off the large stripe.  You can also see what the room looked like before.  

I also recovered the headboard in the blue stripe fabric.  

We still need to actually hand the headboard.  I also want to paint the side tables and get new lamps.  I am going to keep the white bedding.  This will one day be his bed.  

I am also going to make a few pillows for his bed using the sailboat fabric and the red stripe fabric.  

I just finished sewing the window treatments for his room.  I now have to get a wooden rod to place about the window and hang them.  They are right now stuck up with push pins.  

I love the trim I put on them.  You cant really see here.  I will post better pics later when I actually get them hung up.  I also need to work on staining a wooden dresser for his room. 

Its coming... still a lot to do but I have gotten a whole lot done :) 

To do list: (Joe's Room)

1. Paint

2. Re upholster headboard

3. Hang Headboard

4. Sew window treatments

5. Hang window treatments

6. Make pillows for bed

7. Make bed skirt

8. Stain dresser

9. Paint side tables

10. Artwork - I have painted two out of three peices

11. Bookshelves (buy and hang)

12. Hang other frames

13. Lamps

I think that is all... whew!! I really do have A WHOLE LOT to do :) 

Where has the time gone??

Yesterday marked Joseph's 9 month birthday!  

I CANNOT believe that he is nine months old... but he is.  WHERE HAS THE TIME GONE???  

Here are some things that Joseph has been up to in the past month :) 

Joseph had his first real sickness :(  It started out with a cold and then went into a fever that ended in pink eye and an ear infection.  Poor baby.  We had eye drops three times a day and bubble gum medicine.  

He did great!! The hardest part was the fever and pink eye.  

He was so brave during the whole thing and is now MUCH MUCH better!! 

He is crawling around the house and I am having a hard time baby proofing fast enough!! If any mothers out there have baby proofing advice let me know!  He took a three week break crawling while he was sick but now is back in action :)  He is also pulling up... again where has the time gone??

His favorite toys are cars and trucks... figures.  

And he learned to roll them around and make a car noise from his cousin Kolbe :)

He LOVES to play with his daddy.  Daddy is so much fun and so silly!

He now has seven teeth and chews on EVERYTHING! 

He also loves giving us kisses. At least thats what we think he is doing.  

He puts his mouth on our cheeks or arms and blows giving us a "zerbert" or whatever you call them.  

But we think they are sweet kisses :) 

Thats all for now... Joseph is calling me to play with him :) 

Hope you have a wonderful wednesday!