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  • Hands down I had an awesome weekend. We didn't go anywhere but we did have lots of fun. Starting on Saturday when I went thrifting. That's right, Sciarrino and I were back up to our old tricks. I thawed some of my milk, left Tutu with Bj and headed out early. I didn't have any huge scores, but I did get some fun things, like this Mulder action figure and these games:
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    Most of my weekend haul was from an immigrant's estate sale, and everything had Russian price tags. I even got an atlas in Russian:
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    I got a few knitting books, including this one, and some older pamphlets, this is my favorite sweater from those:
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    I did end up getting a "come home quick" text message, after Tuesday refused the bottle. We had given her one before to see how she would do, but she has never had to miss a feeding (that's right my max time away from her before had been about 1.5 hours). When I got home she smiled crazy at me like she was saying, "hey you came back!" And then she was too distracted to eat. I didn't want to waste the pumped milk so I heated it and had Bj try again. He fed her, and she stared at me the whole time and chugged it down no problem, funny little girl.

    Saturday night Ethan and Sciarrino came over and we did a classic BBQ and game night. Sunday I spent the whole day with Sarah, scrapbooking. It so deserves it's own post, if for no other reason than I got pages done and this post is already going to be picture heavy. It was really fun though, and Bj got in most of our new windows while I was doing that – so a very productive day.

    Sunday my mom and Bill were home from a southwestern vacation so grandma came over to hang out with Tuesday 🙂 We went for a nice long walk, it was great, I love my neighborhood more and more the warmer it gets out. We went over to my mom's for a BBQ in the evening. I had my little brother hold Tuesday:
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    Which was pretty cute, though not as cute as this:
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    Tuesday's first swim!

    (Let me take this opportunity to say that while yes, I am wearing my maternity swim suit – I am not expecting again! Yes, I did get a congratulations this weekend on expecting again – yikes. The sad thing is I thought I was doing really well eating better. I'm at 139.4, I was 134 when I got back from Hawaii in January last year (damn chocolate covered macadamia nuts), and 124 right before I got pregnant. So, I'm working on it! I also have this bad habit of sticking out my stomach when I hold Tuesday, and I'm sure the bad posture doesn't help)

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    She loved the pool. I knew she would. She kept pushing herself up out of her little seat and kicking her micro sized legs.
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    I think this is going to be a very fun summer.
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    She as totally cracking us up.
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    I should say I'm not really sure when babies are supposed to go in
    pools, but luckily this is my mom's pool and I know it is very clean
    and doesn't have too many chemicals.
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    Awe Tuesday loves grandma! I think I'll wait a while before taking her to a public pool. Tuesday would have stayed in here all night, but she started shivering, so we got her out. I got her back into some knitwear and she chilled in her vintage pram while we ate:
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    Last night was a whole other story. She did not want to sleep – at all. I think maybe it's because she took a nap yesterday while we walked, and another micro one when we got to my mom's. So maybe 1.5 hours of sleep during the day total? She ate so many times I lost count, and by 7:30 I just had Bj bring her to me in bed so I could nurse her lying down, I was so exhausted. Bj was so cute he said, "Tuesday you have to remember to thank you mom for all this milky some day." She's napping again now, hopefully it won't be a vicious cycle, but she looks too peaceful to wake up. She may just be going through a growth spurt, I don't know. But I hope I get some more sleep tonight!

  • Are these two little peanuts:
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    Karen's beautiful twin (fraternal) girls. On the left is Kourtney, on the right Kathryn.
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    Tuesday and I spent yesterday over there "helping out" I use that term loosely, though I did bring food. My almost, but not quite 12 pounder is such a big bright eyed baby now! I notice all the little things she does, but seeing her next to these babies really showed me how much she's changed. She was about the same size as Kathryn when she was newborn.
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    That's Kathryn, Karen and I think that she and Tuesday might be bestest friends soon, as they seem to have similar personalities.
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    Little Kourtney is just mellow, mellow, mellow. This is the first picture of her with her (so pretty almost purple) eyes open.
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    Seeing Karen in that newest part of motherhood made me so happy. She has a wonderful fun spirit, and I know she is going to be (and IS being) a great mother. Snuggling with Tuesday and letting her nurse as long as she wanted tonight until her sucks were little flutters I'm just amazed with Karen and her girls. At only 18 days old we even loaded up our strollers and went out for a walk. I feel so lucky to know so many amazing women who are having or have just had babies. Lucky Tuesday to have so many little friends so soon.
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    Now Chloe we're just waiting on you, come out, come out!

  • Seam allowance that is. When I calculate quilt stuff or any kind of sewing thing it seems the math and I never really get along. A few weekends ago Sciarrino came over so we could have one of our good old craft days (yeah!) and I worked on a project you might remember me blogging about a while ago… if you read my blog in April 2006, oh the shame of my half finished project pile!
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    I laid out all of the triangles for placement (pattern is from Denyse Schmidt Quilts – Flock of Triangles). My little Sparkle Pants took her longest nap ever in the swing in an attempt to get me to focus on this project:
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    A valiant effort. I did get it all laid out and into neat little piles ready to be sewn by row.
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    I figured I could tackle the rows like one a day or something (I have 24 I think). But I got stuck at how to even put two of them together. I have made a quilt with triangles before, but it was so long ago that I don't really remember the details. I finally figured it out (and in case any one has the same trouble on flickr I explained it in one, two, three pictures). As soon as I had one row together I knew I had a problem. The freaking thing wasn't long enough – UGH. Now, it's not like I didn't have enough fabric for this queen sized quilt (hopefully this will go on our bed). Oh no, when I ordered it I thought I would need like 11 yards for the front. I don't know how I got there (even though I found all of my notes on the matter), but I did double check that I had the right amount of triangles for the length and width I wanted when I picked this project back up. And it sure looked gigantic all laid out on my floor. But no. There is like NO WAY I'm laying this thing back out again, I mean Tuesday is pretty much done with naps, so it would be almost impossible. So I'm going to sew up the rows as they are, leaving off the very end half triangles. Then I'll lay those all out and add a triangle to one side or the other, and then put the half triangles on. And after all that I still will have to sew the rows together, which might end up quite tricky since I'm dealing with bias. Me thinks I will not be quilting this myself. 🙂

    Is it any wonder then that I've decided to start a new sewing project?
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    With circles (which I've never done) and a pattern I'm making up myself? It's sure to be a success. Hopefully I won't be blogging about it in 2012.

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