Camera Pictures

Kyle went out of town over the weekend, he asked me to send him a picture of the boy. I had already laid him down to go to bed, but heard him talking so I went in and found him doing this. Every night I hear him standing then plopping down, then talking to himself, then laughing, then he will cry for a minute, then he is back to jabbering, standing, plopping, well you get the idea. It usually takes him 20 minutes to fall asleep at night. He wasn't to happy when I left after taking this picture. He thought I went in to rescue him. His new trick is throwing his beloved bear and blankie over the crib and then he will cry because he can't get them.

The above is a picture from my 16 mile run on Saturday with Bub and Megan Gifford. It is so beautiful every morning we run.

Picture of Sand Hollow on one of the 22 mile bike rides Kyle has taken me on. I don't know why the scenery seems so pretty to me these days. Every time we are out and about it gets prettier and prettier. Maybe my eye sight is going bad? haha

The above pic is our shadows while we were running the Sand Hollow hill. Kyle on his bike, and Gus being pushed by me in the stroller. That isn't Gus' huge head floating above the stroller, when we went to Robert's that day they gave him a balloon so I tied it to his stroller to keep him entertained.

Some random pictures from my camera phone. I would upload a lot more but it is taking forever!

Bum

Gus has the cutest butt for "such a dainty kid" as Aunt Larae called him. His new trick is standing in the tub without the help from me. It scares me to death I just know he is going to fall and hurt himself one of these days. He pulls himself up and just falls back like it is no big deal to slam his little bum on the tub floor.

Aunt Larae

Kyle's Great Aunt Larae came to visit Gus and me today. She is such a lovely lady, and is so inspiring. One of my most favorite people to talk to and visit. She was here for over an hour and it felt like only ten minutes. Gus loved her instantly, well once he fully woke up from his nap!

Slime

Slime! The one thing I wanted as a kid, but my mom would never buy for me. As Kyle said "my mom would never buy it for us because she said we would put it on the walls and make grease marks" So Gus' friends/cousins came over the other night to play which gave me the perfect opportunity to make one of my pins off of pinterest!

All you do is dissolve one teaspoon of borax in one cup of water, set that aside. Then pour 1 full bottle of Elmer's school glue into a bowl, and add a little water and food coloring. Once the borax is dissolved pour into the glue mixture and knead. It will start to clump up and that is when you take it out of the bowl and need on the counter until you have your desired consistency!

Teddy

I started noticing a couple of weeks ago that Gus always woke up with his blanket and bear by him. I have two stuffed animals in his crib an expensive rhino I bought at Anthropologie and this brown teddy bear I got from Meridee Gibson at my baby shower. I really wanted him to like the rhino, but he loves the teddy bear.

The blanket is another story. I made this boy soooo many cute blankets, blankets with silky on the opposite side, blankets with flannel, all types of blankets. Guess what blanket he LOVES the most, yep the cheap Walmart blanket. It already has a hole in it. I am slightly mad he doesn't like my rhino or my blankets. I keep thinking back to when I was pregnant. I just wanted the boy to come November 2nd or 3rd, but no HE decided to come the 12th. Same story with the rhino and Walmart blanket, he is the boss and will decide EVERYTHING! Silly boy:)

He reminds me so much of Michael from Peter Pan with his teddy bear. I usually only let him have his blanket and bear in his crib, but I brought them out to show Kyle and to record his reaction to it. So I left it out all evening, I would come and check on him and one minute he would be by his toys with the bear, then the next minute he was on the opposite side of the room with his bear. Everywhere he went the bear went also.

Jets Jets Jets

Kyle bought Gus his first Jets jersey. It was like Christmas when he got the mail and the jersey was in it. Kyle is so proud! Kyle has a Jets jersey he wears on Sunday game days, so now Gus can be just like his daddy.

Projects

Kyle and I have a little bit of a problem, we get really attached to t shirts. So we started making a pile of shirts to make into a quilt. The pile grew and grew and grew and by the time I got to it we had enough t shirts for a king sized quilt. Some of the shirts are from our trip to Europe in 2005 so they are pretty old!

I made the below quilt in February, and just finished it last month. The plan was to hand quilt it, but after just 20 minutes and only two inches of quilting done I decided I would just pay for it to get quilted. My neighbor has a fancy quilting machine so I took it to her. I love how it turned out!

My photo collage wall was the brain child of our fabulous friends the Funderburks. It is still a work in progress but I am loving how it is coming together. I made the B with yarn and a wood B. I think I am going to make a smaller pendant banner, well not smaller just smaller pendants with more patterns and texture to them.