Thursday, January 14, 2010

Ginger and her Crib.

My baby girl is getting close to 8 months old now. In the past two weeks, she has gotten her first two teeth, sat up, pulled up, and I swear she's think about taking a step! I can't leave this squirmy wormy ANYWHERE for more than a second. We have all tile and wood on our bottom floor, which means we spend a lot of time upstairs, and she spends time downstairs divided between her high chair, exersaucer, and playpen. Nonetheless she still has a few bruises from those instances where she might not have been completely supervised...good thing babies are made of mostly cartilage, right?

Ginger is a happy baby and loves to watch Lilly & Owen at work. They like her too most of the time. They get a little frustrated when she tries to grab at books or toys they are playing with - 2 year olds aren't known for their sharing nature...


I put Baby Ginger in a swing outside for the first time last week. She absolutely loved it. That's great because it means we can be outside more.



So I'm almost done with Ginger's room now. What can I say, I'm not one of those mommies who had the nursery completed months before birth.

We have a 3 bedroom house, which means that Ginger's room was our guest room, and is still our guest room on occasion. Please don't tell her when she's older, that we're sleeping her in our bedroom closet when we have company at the moment.

I was glad to get to do a girly room since we had to go neutral with Lilly & Owen. The paint had to stay tan colored, since this will probably be Owen's room once the twins split. I think I managed to get enough pink in there to offset the tan walls though.


This dresser was Paul's as a boy..except it wasn't pink then. Paul re-did it and did an excellent job! We hadn't planned on using the original brass hardware that was on it, but with a coat of white paint, they turned out perfect.


Satisfied client.






Pop-up trundle aka guest bed.



Bad picture but got an adorable table and chairs set. Lots of tea parties going on here!




Sunday, January 3, 2010

Santa Came! Santa Came!

OK, so this is really late, but had to get the Christmas Pictures in here. We had a great Christmas holiday and this year was truly special. It's the first year the twins really understood much of anything. We went to get Lilly & Owen on Christmas morning and watching them walk down the stairs and see the scene downstairs was priceless...Owen started saying "santa came! santa came!" Of course I'm pretty sure they would have been happy with just one little present and a candy cane, so needless to say they were overwhelmed.

Because I always manage to post pictures in the exact opposite order that I want them, here is Christmas morning in reverse...





Who cares about awesome new tricycles that Santa brought us...there's a LEAF PILE!


Lilly in her princesessness


Candyland!


Santa brought Owen underwear because he really wants him to be a big boy.
Can you tell he's excited?


Buzz and Woody!

I totally got gypped...




Making cookies for Santa