Photo dump from my phone!

The photos I have taken with my phone over the past month or so!

 Helping me with laundry.

 Bath time!

 Reaching the bathroom counter.

 Sunglasses

 Just hanging.

 View of rainstorm from Zelda's bedroom.

 Pushing around her hamper.

 Us.

 Covered in yogurt.

 Her most beloved toy. Mr. Carrot

 =)

 Watching Yo Gabba Gabba.

 Punk rock baby.

 Mr.Carrot

Mr. Carrot goes everywhere.

He is also a great pillow.

Liz's Christmas Shawl

Yes... I said Christmas, as in Christmas 2010. I am a horrible sister-in-law as she just received it yesterday. Here are a couple photos of my modeling it.

Also, I found my camera!!! The photos below were taken before I unearthed my camera yesterday. So I promise better photos in the near future. :)

Too long!

I haven't posted in quite awhile. I still can't find my camera. I'm sure I put it somewhere that I thought would be a great idea so I would find it really fast when we were moving... I've been taking lots of pictures and video with my cell phone which isn't the best quality. But what totally got me to write a post was another blog post I read Pacing the Panic Room. It really hits home for me. It's a long post, but I really connect with not wanting your little girl to be a princess. And to ever think that she can get by in life on her looks, or to be so concerned about what she looks like. I haven't read the book Cinderella Ate My Daughter, I plan on it, but I did hear a lengthy interview with the author on NPR. If I can help it, I don't buy pink things (clothing excluded). I try to stay gender neutral so that it can be passed down no matter what we have next. I'm not anti-dolls, it's just something to think about and find where I am on the anti-princess scale and adjust my parenting accordingly!

Here's a couple of videos from my phone over the past 2 weeks. The waving one is from a couple of days ago. And she hides behind this chair at least 2 times every day, she thinks it's hilarious!

Custom Order!

I did a custom order for some very special people recently. I think they all turned out really great and I had a ton of fun making them! The shirts range in size from 2T to kids 8. 

Holy crap!

I can't believe it has been almost a month since I last blogged. I am disappointed in myself!

We went to Chicago for a wedding and then the last two weeks have been spent packing, moving and then un-packing. While we aren't finished unpacking we have made a good dent. We went from a three bedroom down to a two bedroom and decided not to get rid of anything until we moved in and saw what wasn't going to work. So far the only things on the chopping block are the day bed with trundle and a drawing desk. Although we did take a car load of clothes, old games and puzzles and a couple of baby items that didn't work out for us, and donated them at the Salvation Army before we moved. We are going through a couple of bookshelves worth of books to see what we have already read and don't want to keep and take those to half price books. That, however, isn't really getting rid of anything since we plan on buying more books!

Since I last posted Zelda has really been hitting some big achievements. She is now a crawling champ! And pulls herself up on everything and walks around perimeters, from coffee tables to walls! The following list she has done, but not consistently - waves, says something resembling 'hi', gives kisses, laughs like a monkey, pinches, bites, booty dances and can stand with no hands for maybe 3 seconds.

I haven't been taking any pictures the last 3 weeks, but I'll give you what I have! (OK so it ended up being a big photo dump of Chicago photos)

Jon and Zelda on the plane!

My new tattoo - on our 1 year wedding anniversary (Jon's nickname is Chainsaw and the skull is from 40k)

In Chicago, pulling up on everything!

Mastering the art of standing and pooping!

At our friends wedding.

The happy couple.

Cousins playing! They did so great together.

More playing.

And more standing.

Zelda helping Regan put the shapes in the correct spaces.

Regan is a ham!

My sister-in-law, Liz, me and the cousins (Regan, Riley and Zelda)

Baby dress

It took me just over 2 months to knit, but I finished it! And I have a week to spare before the wedding we are going to next Friday (in Chicago, for one of my high school best friends and the guy that introduced Jon and I). While I think the final product is the bees knees, I am not in love with the pattern. I think it would have been a lot easier if knit from the bottom up and not having to do a provisional cast on. The writer of the pattern did explain that she did it that way for better fitting purposes. The other part of the pattern that really bothered me was picking up the stitches of the sleeves to make the ribbing. I don't remember the exact stitch count, but it was something like pick up 47 stitches when there was only maybe 30 stitches and I had to pull 17 stitches from other areas around the sleeve. That part took me forever, and caused the sleeves to roll (which I was able to get to lay flat in blocking). Below are some photos of the dress. I appliquéd one of my hedgehog designs to the corner of the dress as well! So cute!

It's almost Friday...

I'm a day early and a week late. My parents came to town to visit with Zelda so I was really busy and wasn't able to post last week. I'm sure there are some people that are curious about what was up with Zelda and her being sick. Her analysis came back clean, but when the doctor called to tell us to discontinue medicine and make sure no other symptoms had come up, I informed her that Zelda had a fever that started at about 11pm the night before. So back to the doctor we went. They re-ran her blood work and another urine test. This time everything came back fine. The doctor decided that it was just teething. She had a fever for 3 days getting as high as 102.1 then when it went away she got a pink/red rash all over her chest, back and little of her neck! We (being my family and I - not the doctors) concluded that she actually had Roseola. She had all the symptoms and after reading up on it and finding there was no medication for it, that it would clear up on its own, we didn't take her back to the doctor. And about 2 days later we were back to normal! She was sick in some of the photos and her eyes look a little red.

Zelda's pool float! She loves chewing on her toy.

This is what a lot of her pictures look like now. She's quick!

Opa and Zelda!

Hanging out at the pool.

Getting ready to go in the water.

In the middle of a super funny laugh she does. I'll try and get it on video.

Walking around the coffee table. Trying to find trouble!