Crazy Days and Crazy Hair

We've had Augie for a week now. She's already getting bigger! It gets insane in here during the day between the puppy, the toddler, and sir snorts a lot. I got a little overwhelmed today for a bit but I put everyone (including myself) on a five minute time out in our respective rooms.Things ran much smoother after that. These rainy days are killer. No walk for Augie and no running time for Riley = two very hyper young ones. I have my "what were we thinking" moments, but it'll all be worth it. Riley and the rest of us will have a great companion for many years to come.

My girl.

This is Augies favorite spot. She'll be disapointed when she grows out of it! The bowls, on the other hand, she'll have to grow in to :).

My Anual Post...

Well... One year later. I'm still working on Riley's quilt. It is a bit farther than in this picture. It is all basted together just waiting for the long process of quilting and binding. Perhaps this time next year I can post the finished product ;). I've been keeping myself busy with other projects. I took up knit and crochet and LOVE it. In the last few days I've also dusted off my art supplies. I didn't realize how much I missed it. I'm a bit rusty, but I'm having fun.

I saw a cool project online using watercolors and masking fluid. Doesn't Steven make an uber cool subject?

The finished product.

Today I decided to pay homage to my favorite old cowboy boots. I ran out of pencil (charcole) before I was close to finishing and my sharpener has run away from me. Guess I'll be making a trip to the store in the morning.

My newest project...

I've decided to make a quilt from Riley's old clothes. Some of them have already been given away but I kept my favorites. One day Tyler saw a bag I was going to take to Good Will and got very sentimental. He came up with the quilt idea and I've gone with it. It was really hard for me to reduce her clothes to rags. There were a few things that I just couldn't cut into. Her first swimsuit, her birthday dress, her hospital shirt... The biggest sewing project I've done in the last ten years was Pinky's brain surgery. Wish me luck!

The Kitchen So Far

With Tyler on leave this week we decided to get started on taking down the wallpaper in this house. It was pealing really bad in the kitchen. We thought the pealing might mean it would be easier to take down. We were wrong. Not only was the paper tough to remove, but we found MOLD on one small wall. Yuck! Luckily it was only between the ratty old paper and hideous blue paint. Not in the wall. Tyler and I went to battle armed with Bleach and scrub brushes and were able to remove it. As of last night the wall paper is gone and so is the blue paint. And it only took three coats of primer! Now all we have left is to paint. It was slow going since we only worked while Riley was sleeping, but the finish line is so close. I can't wait to have my kitchen back to normal.

This little one has been a trooper. She hates being blocked out of the kitchen, but she loves getting to eat in the living room.

Evansville Children's Museum

Because our kitchen is in shambles Tyler took Riley and I out to Red Robin on Thursday. It was the perfect place to take Riley. Red the mascot was there and she was obsessed! We think she liked him so much because he looks like her giant Fred Bird doll. A few of the other little ones were scared of "Red" and started crying. Riley offered one her paci and shushed another. She's too funny sometimes. She looked like such a big girl sitting at the table eating her grilled cheese and when we left she made sure to say "Bye-bye" to every person we passed.

We also go to go to Evansville's Children's Museum. It was so much fun! Everywhere we went there were things Riley could really get her hands on and play with. Her very favorite was the rice pit.

Dad's favorite was the Quack factory where they had the giant slide and ball shooters.

Mom didn't quite stick the landing on that one.

Riley LOVED the dinosaur area. There was even a pit where you could uncover dinosaur skeletons.

How does it do that?! Riley was so well behaved while we were there (except when it was time to go).

At the end of the day Tyler surprised Riley and I with a membership. Now we can go all the time! What a guy!