Meredith's Quilt

Yay! I finally finished it! I finished the top last April but was too big and pregnant to get on the floor to pin it together and then quilt it. I managed to get a few hours to myself last week and I was able to quilt most of it and today just finished up the few mistakes I made in the binding. I loved this design, it was a lot of fun to work with. I want to make another but I think I will use the pattern for three colors. Unfortunately, I can't get the lighting right in any of my rooms so the colors look dull.

Look Who's 11 Months Old Today!

Getting so tall!

During her 10th month, Meredith finally figured out how to do a normal crawl, go up and down the stairs quickly (though coming down is still iffy), learned to walk around the furniture and acquired one more new tooth on top with another trying to come in. Meredith has also perfected her screeching. I'm not sure how to break a child of this. I am totally up for suggestions. I swear I can feel a little bit of my hearing disappear forever every time she does this. Today at church she stood on her own for a few brief seconds several times. I put her up against the wall at church which is covered in scratchy fabric. She didn't like resting her hands on it so she would keep puling her hands off which left her standing and she didn't know it :) She loves to eat anything we'll give her.

We have pictures of all the other kids asleep in the high chair. Meredith does not fall asleep in her high chair. BUT the other day she was tired enough she fell asleep in her bouncer so I had to grab a photo.

Friday morning was hard for whatever reason for Meredith. I couldn't put her down without her screaming. I tried pulling her pj's off to see if she was too hot. That worked for about a minute and then the screaming started again. A friend came over to use the sewing machine and I needed to put Meredith down so I could rethread it. She was totally content to pull all the diapers off her changing table and she wasn't screaming anymore so I let her. She then got a hold of some batting and starting shredding it. I was saving it for another baby quilt but the no screaming was worth letting her tear it apart. Some days you just have to choose your battles :) 

New Clothes for Meredith

I don't have the time to sit and work on quilts like I'd like to. When I quilt I like to have a good 4 or 5 hours to just sit and work on a quilt. Yah, I don't have that right now with Meredith :)


I was just itching to sew something so I decided to make a dress for Meredith. The pattern comes with a pants pattern too and since it is still cold around here I thought that would be good under the dress. I'm finally done. Took me longer than I thought but the outfit turned out pretty cute! Now if'she'd just leave a a bow in her hair it would be perfect :)

I have fabric for two more dresses and another pair of pants. Need to get on them :) 

What??

Really? What the heck? It's been snowing for 3 hours straight now! 

Ten Months Old!

Meredith is now 10 months old. She has 4 teeth, which are hilarious right now as one upper tooth came in way before the other. She's doing more real crawling but still prefers to just pull herself around. Meredith can now pull herself up on things to stand. She especially loves standing at the piano and making noise with the keys. I'm finding it harder to get anything done as she follows me all over and tries to get into things :) Her favorite thing is to come over and stand by me while I'm using my laptop and try to either push the on/off button or pull the cord out. Such a stinker!

This and That

Elizabeth had her second recital a few weeks ago. She played a song called "Skating". She is really loving her piano lessons and her teacher Ms. Kristine. I love that she loves it!

Meredith is now pulling herself up on everything she possibly can.  

Unfortunately, the kitchen chairs are not so stable. Yesterday she pulled one over on herself while on the tile. Luckily her diapered butt landed first then her head so it wasn't as bad as it could have been. Still scared us both pretty good.

This last Friday was gorgeous out and it just so happened my brother was in town. So we all went to the zoo! It's been a looong time since I've taken the kids, we hadn't seen any of the changes yet. They redid the monkey enclosure and added lions to Africa. It was all pretty neat, and fun to see new stuff! Was also very nice to spend the day with my brother.

Getting tall!

Meredith liked the orangutans.

That Didn't Take Long

Meredith started yesterday trying to pull herself up on things. She just figured it out :) Of course, it helped to have the sax case there to help her up.