And at 1 am the next night?

I was sewing....with these girls.....until 1 am. A couple months ago, our friend Amy wowed us with a diaper bag she had made. Determined to follow in her footsteps, we finally finished our bags (and for some, their blankets) after a long night of sewing, eating, and telling some not so pc jokes (that was me, I'm sorry, my internal censorship weakens the later it gets and next thing you know....word vomit). I love how each bag perfectly reflects the personality and style of each girl. Lovely girls who I'm going to miss :( More then I like the bag, I enjoyed the fun we had making it!

what do you look like at 3 am?

Because this is how I looked, 3 am, last night. And this is how Aubrey looked.
And how Mickey looked.Aubrey has been waking up in the middle of the night the past two nights not crying, but screaming. I'm more then okay with letting her cry it out, but after 45 LOUD minutes, I gave up. I knew what she wanted, her favorite blanket and Mickey, which she always throws out of her crib during tantrums and then panics when she can't get them back, and she wanted to play. So I gave her a bag of hair clips and let her go to town, on Mickey first, then herself, and then me. We did this for a full hour, from about 2 am to 3 am.

Don't tell Aubrey this, or Zach for the matter, but a small part of me has enjoyed our middle of the night playdates these past 2 days. It's calm and quiet, I have no other responsibilities to attend to but to just play with her. When she was not sleeping through the night yet as an infant, I sometimes felt this same way, it was nice just being me and her in our own little world. Of course, that was only because I had no other children to deal with during the day. I know that this is a special time that won't happen again. So to any of my future children, I will not be feeling warm and fuzzy about middle of the night play dates, be warned!f

Finally, sleepy eyes. Mickey, favorite blanket, life is good. I'll keep my camera handy for tomorrow night's party! Just kidding, Aubs, I'm kidding, please sleep tonight.

PS. Remember this hat? The first picture was taken almost a year ago. How time flies by!

Oh Baby!

I helped to host a baby shower this weekend for a dear friend of mine Elise, who, as you can tell from the pictures, is having a girl. Another one of our friends took care of the food for the shower, so I got to focus my energy on the decor and favors, which is my favorite part! Making food for large groups of people is honestly terrifying for me, since I don't really have much practice preparing food for small groups either. Small as in Zach and I. I had a lot of fun with the hot pink, black and white colors.

I can never claim anything I do as an original idea. With the internet and especially blogs, ideas are everywhere for the copying. These little tags were on a blog of a friend of a friend (in this interconnected little blog web, chances are any blog is going to be a friend of a friend, or at least a friend of a friend of a friend!). But the silhouette on the tags is my dear little girl, so there's at least one original part to them!

Thanks Elise for having a baby so we could have a party! Very thoughtful of you!