My Crafty Wife

Hi World its Nate, since Abby has been a little busy to write some posts I thought I would fill in for her . Abby has been a real trooper with the whole pregnancy. Besides being the toughest woman I know she has managed to maintain a positive attitude during the whole thing and still be productive with her crafts. Abby keeps wanting to add things to our baby room but I keep reminding her that if she starts any more projects she might not get them all done before the baby comes. Here are a few things I can proudly say my wife made.

This is the coolest thing! Abby hand painted this picture and poked holes in the branches and put some christmas lights in the back and it's now a night light above the changing table. I didn't even know she could paint!

This is a baby rocker that she got from a guy she works with and she made the giraffe print cover for the parts. She has become quite the seamstress!

Here is one of those baby somethings.... I don't really know what this is for. To me it looks like a neck brace but I haven't seen Abby use it for that yet and who would want an owl themed neck brace. You know what... it kinda looks like this donut I had to sit on when I cracked my tailbone in college, mine was not owl themed. Anyway she made the cover for this thing, it was pink before.

Randine gave us some old window frames and I knocked out the glass and Abby sanded and stained the outside and then put paper in the spots and made and elephant and giraffe out of buttons, the last spot is for the baby's name which is still up in the air.

The above 2 photos are a mobile that Abby made this week. There are 2 giraffes and 2 elephants and 1 owl that she sowed together and stuffed and hung from a wooden frame she pulled from a knitting frame. It's pretty cool.

Yes I actually did somethings in the baby room to! I put some shelves in the closet and got some baskets for organization.

I'm probably the most proud of this. Thanks to the help of a high school student and the use of the woodshop at school I made this changing table! ISN'T IT COOL!!!!!!

Other than that we are basically good to go with the baby stuff. We put the car docks in over the weekend for the car seat and have organized everything we got from the shower. Next up..... BABY.....

Another month down!

I don't know how this keeps happening!!  I really do think about doing better, time just slips right by though!  So it's been another month since I've blogged even though I ended my last blog with a 1/2 promise that I would do better...  My bad.

Well we've got 3 weeks left!  20 Days!  Can't believe that it's already here.  According to all the apps and books, Little Man is officially full term at this point so it could be any day but it could also be up to 5 weeks before he makes his grand entrance!  So at this point I'm still pretty comfortable, mainly just swollen feet by the end of the day.   No Braxton contractions - my mom never really had these either though.  Nathan thinks I'll go early, my mom thinks I'll go late - the 17th to be exact and I'm not really sure I think I'll go pretty close to the 11th (the official due date) - but we will leave it up to Little Man to decide!  Since I've talked to you last Randine and my friend Katie threw us the cutest shower!  It was Owl Themed - which I'm a little obsessed with lately!!

Owl Cupcakes!  Yumm-O

They found this banner on Etsy!  I love it... it may or may not be hanging in that exact same spot still...

 We played Name that Poo - don't worry it was just melted candy bars!

 The folks I work with got me this really cool play pen thing.  It's called a Pea Pod - it totally zips up so they are protected from mosquitos when outside and as they get older becomes their very own tent!

My Aunt Carol made this sock monkey!!  (she also made the blanket over the chair in the pic of the banner above!)  

My cousin MaryAnn drew the card!

So crafty!!

At the end of the shower they all decorated bibs for Little Man

 Aunt Randine is already trying to turn Little Man - so unfair - he is defenseless!

Now that's more like it!!

 Aunt Renelle is leading him down the Star Wars path - this one is inevitable!

My mom made a little owl to go along with the theme!

Grandma Irma made it down from Minnesota and Renelle and Liam (and baby girl Marsh) made it down from North Carolina!!

Liam spent the afternoon with Grandpa Robinson

Wonder if this is what Little Man will look like in 2 years!!

My mom and I :)

Long Time, No Blog

I've been a very, VERY bad blogger this summer!

You're all thinking it.

I'm just going to blame it on this baby growing hobby I've taken up this year. :)

Speaking of baby, I have to say I'm liking this baby growing business.  It's kinda fun!  Currently he is around 3.75 lbs and about 17 inches long at 33 weeks.  Yeah I said 33 weeks - aka 7 weeks left - aka 52 DAYS left!  Yikes we better get a move on the nursery!!  Oh and picking out a name!  Who knew it could be so hard to name a kiddo?!  As many of you know we had a name picked out 100% then we both started to waiver in our confidence of that name, so we're back to a list of names.  Honestly I don't think we will decide until he is born we can't name him Fred if he looks like a Bob! (No these names have not made our list).  Anyways, this is the latest pic I've taken of the bump :)

For the rest of this blog I'm going to update you what we've done basically all summer long in pictures - so much easier/quicker/more entertaining than words ;)

We went to a baby shower for our friends Tim & Kelsie in Wichita

Chuy was quite the overseer while we decorated:)

Tiff did such a great job of decorating for the shower the theme was SO cute!  She also did a great job of keeping a GIANT secret!!  She and Josh are expecting as well!  She was so sneaky asking me questions about what I can/can't eat or do.  Well played Tiff, well played!  :)

PS I HATE this picture!  I look like a whale!  You'd think I was the one who was 31 weeks preggo here not Miss Kelsie!  Mr Parker has since arrived and is 4 weeks old now, this just tells you how far behind I really am with my blogging!!

Miss B and I went to the dog park several times and met some new friends and shared some popsicles...

 Sorry for the blurry pics, she was really enjoying those popsicles :)

She made many of her 'famous' forts - this one was particularly impressive as I put a chair on the bed trying to block her fortress building skills.  She apparently took this as a challenge as she made not one but 2 forts - one on each side of the chair.  

Bravo B, bravo...

Found a GINORMOUS spider (thankfully already dead) on the back porch

Gave you a side by side comparsion to show you just how big the body was.  EWW!

Went to the Pooch Plunge in Eudora and met a new friend Mr. Max (he's a Dane too!!)

 The Husband and I were more interested in Max than B was neither of the were real interested in this whole swimming thing...

 So sweet :)

 While others were busy learning to swim...

Don't be fooled this is NOT Miss B - see below!

 B was clinging to the side for dear life!  She did however fall in right after this picture was taken.  I watched the entire thing happen in slow-mo and still can't figure out quite how it happened.  One second she was cautiously sniffing the water and the next all I saw was her butt as she dove in.  Of course this was deeper part of the pool, so she could touch if she was on her hind legs.  She quickly turned herself around and started clawing her way out of the pool but couldn't quite get out so the Husband jumped to the rescue - what a nice guy!  The look of shear terror and disbelief on her face still makes me chuckle a bit.  As I looked back at her in my own disbelief I didn't act fast enough to get a picture so you'll have to use your imagination!

 This is what became of my 'paradise' one too many times this summer.  I came home one day to the husband 'cleaning' it for me - or so I thought.  In reality,  he was cleaning it to put it away for the season :(  Turns out it was probably a good idea cause I was getting tired of cleaning it myself!

So in a nut shell this is what we've been up to lately.  Hopefully you are all having a great week!  I promise to TRY to be better about blogging during my last 7 weeks of growing this little human!