Josiah woke up at 11pm last night, so I was thinking: "Oh great, it's going to be one of THOSE nights," but I staggered back to bed after feeding him (the pacifier was NOT cutting it) and next thing I knew my alarm clock was going off at 6am. !!! Seven hours of uninterrupted sleep is like GOLD to me. Thanks, little dude!
At long last (seriously - a year and 7 months!) my enormous king-sized quilt is done. I sent it out to be quilted, and the binding is really not done well (crooked sewing lines and such), but at this point I don't care - it's DONE!
As you can see, the quilt is quite colorful, and the rest of my bedroom is... not. We have dark wood furniture and basic greyish/beigeish walls. I am totally clueless when it comes to decorating - can you help? Matt and I agree that we're not up for painting right now, with the baby and all, but we can definitely handle some accessorizing, maybe some new lamps? We do not have a single picture or anything hanging on the walls. We used to have a fairly large picture over the headboard, but we moved it to the guest bedroom where it fit better.
Just to give you an idea of the layout, this picture is taking facing the door, which you can barely see on the far left edge of the photo. on the right side of the photo is a large dresser with mirror, and on the right side of that dresser we have a chair in the corner. Straight in front of the bed is a sliding glass door which is the only window in the room.
I welcome your ideas...
Chewing on Dad's hands
Chewing on (I mean, playing in) the Jumperoo
and going to Springfield Cardinals games!
As you can see, I've been putting Josiah to work! When he's not writing up legal opinions, he's spending most of his time smiling and flashing his baby blues at all the ladies in both of my offices - the Airport and the Law Department. I think they're going to start keeping a tally to make sure he visits them equally!
When I was a City Hall visiting my fellow city attorneys, I stopped in at the Public Works department where a couple of particularly baby-crazy attorneys were finishing up a meeting. I knew they would never forgive me if they didn't get to see Josiah, so I wanted to see if I could catch them at the end of their meeting before I went home. (It was my day off.) The receptionist went in to tell them I was there (apparently not recognizing me in my casual day-off clothes, ponytail, and no make-up) and announced to the room (of mostly men) that "a lady with a new baby is here." Both of the attorneys knew I was going to be there so they immediately knew it was me, but before they could say anything, one of the guys blurted out: "I hope she's not here to see me!"
Umm... yeah. I got a pretty good laugh out of that. I mean, if you think random women might be showing up at your office with a baby in tow (presumably to inform you it's yours), then I think you might want to re-evaluate some things in your life!
Josiah had a really nice time visiting Great-Grandma and Grandpa last weekend. He put on quite a show with his mad tummy-time skillz and crazy kicking action in the bouncy chair. (He loves to make the toys swing wildly over his head. I think this child will like roller coasters!)
I don't get out to visit my grandparents as often as I should, especially considering they live just about a hour's drive away from me (as opposed to the 4 hour' drive from my hometown when I was growing up). It was so sweet to see my grandparents ooh and aah over Josiah - I really need to take advantage of it while I still can. (Sad thought, but true.)
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