Our little Linus loves to read :)

She's been walking around with a blankie while sucking her thumb lately. So cute!

She's really into books :)  

True Blue quilt :)

I got my Folklore True Blue quilt back from the long arm quilter. Yay!  I love it!

Daughter loves it, too :)

16 months!

Daughter is 16 months old! 

She just started saying a new word this morning...

But her favorite word is still "No".  She knows what it means but she doesn't know that she should listen when she hears it. 

Her words are now dada, mama, pop, no, yes, up, puppy, wow, woah, ok, what, e-i-e-i-o (ok, not a word, but ridiculously cute), num num, love, you... and maybe a few more that I can't think of right now.

She's still in mostly 12 month clothes.  She wears 18 month occasionally...

She's very curious.

Loves baths and water.

Won't wear shoes.  If I do manage to get them on her, she won't stand up... if I stand her up she cries and won't move.  She wears slippers everywhere!

Loves bead necklaces!  My cousin lent her one and she wears it almost every day.

Has 6 teeth and 2 more cutting through.

She loves to get into mama's purse when it's left within her reach.

Loves Lefsa!  She had it for the first time on Thanksgiving.

She's our little blessing :)

Venison!

Yum yum yummy yum yum. 

I love venison!

My grandpa got a buck this year and he only want half of the meat. So he gave us the other half!

Mat ground/cut up the meat. 

We still have roasts left over from last year, so this year we just did chops, burger, and stew meat. 

Horizon quilt in the making...

I'm making a new quilt from the Horizon line by Kate Spain and Moda. 

I started with charm packs of Horizon and some bleached white charms.  Sewed them together all around the edges (Jenny Doan's HST method)

 

Then I (by "I", I mean Mat;) cut them diagonally

And I (really, I did this) pressed them open...

 and voila!  Half square triangles! (HST)

There are many different layouts...

We decided on diamonds... But there are still different layouts!

I took a vote and it seems like I'm going with the final layout :)

Such a fun quilt!  I'm totally into HST :)

The hormones are starting to get to me...

I'm moody and bloated.  I forgot all about this!  I'm only on Estrace now... it will get worse as I prepare for the actual transfer and after, adding lupron and Progesterone into the mix... not to mention an oral contraceptive (OC) which last time completely screwed me up.

THis time we're going to ask for a different one, hopefully it will be better.

All this for baby!  How could we resist when the first is this cute :)

And yes, that's a quilt top I finished last night.  The pattern is Cut-Up and the fabric line is Papillon by Moda.  I did it with 5" charm squares, not 10" squares...

It's the same pattern that I made for our twins we lost.   Freedom and Liberty quilts

I'm teaching Daughter to appreciate quilts!

2 years in the family!

We adopted this little cutie two years ago! 

When we adopted her she was tiny!

And now we're going to go back to get a sibling!  Crazy!  A few short years ago we had no idea how or if we would have children.  Embryo adoption is such a blessing!

Good weather for quilting!

Igot a lot done this weekend!  

I pieced my MILs Christmas present (that she requested from a magazine)

Not quilted yet, but it will happen soon enough. 

And I finally got the binding sewn onto the piano runner.

Above is a pre-binding shot... Below with binding.

I'm so excited about all the stitches my new Janome MC 6500 can do!  Fun!

Daughter's first homeschool day at the library!

We went to meet some other homeschoolers in the area, but the librarian set out some crayons so that Daughter and the other toddler there could participate. 

It was great!  They made dream catchers. Daughter colored... And wandered... And colored some more. It's nice that they have a homeschool day program at the library. 

There was only one other family there, with 5 kids. The mom was very nice and said that more families are usually there. I'm looking forward to next month!

No thanks

I went to get Daugter out of her crib this morning. She was standing, smiled, and said quite clearly "no thanks".

She really did want to be picked up.  But it was just totally cute :)

She loves to read :)

It begins!

I start my Estrace tomorrow!  

Our mock transfer and consult is only a month away :)

Nieces birthday!

My nieces birthday was on Saturday. I've been waiting for some pics to post about it.

It was a blast!  Minnie Mouse themed and everything was so cute. My sister went above and beyond with the decorations and Nieces outfit.  So cute!

It's always so much fun to see Daughter and Niece play together.  They're best friends!  Only 3 months apart I think they'll be close for life :)

This is the pillow quilt that I made for Niece for her birthday.  She loves it!  It makes the perfect mattress pad for toddlers.  Just the right size for crib or pack n play. 

Here's a pic of Daughter on hers 

So they're cousin quilts!  What fun :)

My mom bought the fabric for each of the quilts and I made them both for their respective birthdays.  They're minky, so not easy to sew on, but they look awesome and they're well loved :)

Play date with other NEDC babes

This Saturday we got to visit with some friends with twins from NEDC. It was a blast!  Daughter had fun playing with the twins and Mat and I visited with their parents.

We are so lucky that we met each other!  The mom and I have met a couple times before, once with Daughter. This is the first time the whole families got together. 

I'm looking forward to Daughter growing up with EA friends :)