It's Done!!!

Alex's quilt is finally finished. It deffinetly took longer than expected, and had many frusterating moments, but it was worth it.

After I told Alex it was done, he got SO excited, started jumping up and down, and said "I love you so much, Mommy!. Thank you!" Who knew a 3 year old would be so excited about a quilt. lol

Here it is in review.


All my peices cut and ready to sew together.


Getting out my sewing machine manuel because my tension was all screwed up.


My peices starting to take shape.


Look! Blocks!


Putting what I had together, and realizing it was way to small.


Adding a border, and a border...


Sewing it together...wrong...


Sewing it together RIGHT!


Two more borders, and sewing it all together.


All together, and tied!


Close up.


The backing. It took a while to find something that would work. I finally found this from a quilt I made years ago for a friend.


On Alex's bed at last! With a pillowcase my Mom made for me when I was young, and a blanket his Grandma Melo had made for him when he was born.


Now all I need is a bedskirt...lol

Rori-bean's 6 month appointment

Aurora had her 6 month appointment today. She is doing great! She was 6.9kilos (15.2lbs), so she is staying in her curve. She is babbling like crazy, even saying ba ba ba and ma ma ma which is unexpected at her age. She is CRAWLING now!! Ack. You have to watch her closely, if she wants something she will find a way to get it. lol. Alex really has to watch his Cars around her, she LOVES them.

She just started sitting up better, she can hold herself up for a good 5 seconds before losing balance. The Doctor said she looks great, happy and healthy. She also said not to worry about feeding Rori cereal. Rori has no interest what-so-ever. So Dr. Moreck said it was okay to go with just baby food for now.

Here are some pictures from the park the other day. My little Sunshine and my little man too.

Site seeing in Yokohama

For our long Labor Day weekend, we decided to do some site seeing! We debated where to go for a while, and settled on Yokohama. So we packed up the kids, slapped on some sunscreen and headed out. It sure was nice to be touristy for a change. We only got lost twice...maybe 3 times, but we made it there whole and had a great time. Yokohama is very peaceful and not to crowded, so we just enjoyed wandering around taking pictures, and people watching.

First arriving in Yokohama, note the crabby Alex look.



The kidlets and I.


Yokohama Landmark tower. 970ft tall! Houses the worlds second fastest elevator, 41ft per second. No way I was going on that thing! lol.


Very large old school boat.



Neat orininal railroad bridge.


Very large faris wheel.


Stopping for dinner.


Super yummy Ramen!



The view of the "port" as we were leaving.


And one last one from the base of the giant faris wheel. We were going to ride it, but at $7 a person we changed our minds.


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No sweeter sound

There is no sweeter sound than a baby's laugter. Well...maybe siblings laughing together...you decide.

To infinity and BEYOND!

Since Alex got his new "big boy" bed I've been redecorating his room. I decided to go with a space theme. I saw these "wall stickers" on-line and thought they were to cute to pass up. Once I got them in the mail, I found out they weren't "stickers" as claimed but wallpaper. They claim to be easily removable though, so I put them up anyhow. We shall see how "removable" they are. But until then they are SOOOOOOO cute!!







After I got them up, I couldn't help but dig out my old glow in the dark stars for Alex. He had oodles of fun putting them up, and I even spelled out his name and put it on the ceiling for him. He thinks they are so cool. Every night when we turn out his lights he says "It's my name!!!" lol