One more Moore

So much to be thankful for...

 

Charlie Winslow Moore

8 lbs 2 oz. 21" long

Born Wednesday, November 25th @ 10:03 p.m.

We are all doing well & will post more on Monday. Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

xo

You know what it means...

Every 5 minutes, for the past 3+ hours. It's time.

We are heading in, keeping fingers crossed all will be well.

Wish us luck!

What's missing from this picture?

The baby quilt is done, we are just missing THE BABY!  Why must I always be late?  I wish I would have taken some better pictures of the quilt but you get the jist of it. I ended up doing a white border around it and then binded it with that green/white fabric. The quilt kind of reminds me of the scrap quilt I made over the Summer- all crazy and stuff. I think I used 10 different fabrics- which were then cut into 2 1/2 " strips & sewn together in sets of 3. They were then cut into squares which were, I think, 4 1/2" x 4 1/2". Some parts of the top drive me a bit crazy. I laid them all out before sewing but the crazyness of the top made me miss some pieces that I really wished I would have changed around, but oh well. I'm happy enough with it.  I love pulling new quilts out of the dryer when they are all wrinkled & soft and squishy. Pure satisfaction. Oh the back of the quilt.... I didn't have enough of the blue, so the back is mostly blue, with a strip of pieced together fabrics and then the red. I actually really like the back.  

Anyway- thanks for all the name advice/help. A few of you nailed the name that we are more than likely going with (you smarty pants!) and I am feeling better about it. I kind of started packing a hospital bag, which is good because I've been having pretty steady contractions this evening, so let's keep our fingers crossed for a baby soon! I can't wait for you all to meet him!

xo

Nesting & Naming

 I think I'm nesting. Monday turned out to be a day of nearly 10 loads of laundry,  (and for the record, I will jump for joy when the day comes that I don't have to pay $2.50 per load of laundry), washing & setting up the co-sleeper and washing the car seat & all the baby clothes. I'm still recovering. Does anyone have any good suggestions on drawer organizers? The baby clothes are so small folded in that dresser and when the piles start to inevitably topple over it's going to be a mess in there. Let me know. Still no hospital bag packed, BUT major progress on the quilt. The entire top is done and just needs to be put together & binded. Huzzah! Still working on the to-do list but the tree is decorated and just a handful of things need to be done. This book has been on my night stand for months. We bought it when we were pregnant with Henry. I was pouring over this book on the delivery bed while laboring with Kate. For any new readers to this space, we really struggled with naming Kate and changed her name a month after she was born (by the way it still has not been legally changed....all the paperwork was recently sent back to us because I left one of the squares on the form blank....lame!)The back of the book has a little workbook page where you can write down all the names you like. We have names from when we were naming Henry and of course Kate. I even have some contraction times written down on this page from Kate's delivery. We have a name picked out for this little one, but I get a little panicky and start feeling unsure about it but have sworn to myself that we will not repeat what happened with Kate. I wish names weren't so difficult. I really want something that goes with Henry & Kate but I realize they won't always spend their lives together & it doesn't really matter. I'm just not 100% and that feeling sucks rotten donut holes. I just don't know what to do. Added to the to-do list: Pick a name for the baby (we are rapidly running out of time!) Maybe it's time for a new book. Maybe it's not the very best name book after all. 

Suggestions? I'll take 'em!

I really shouldn't...

 Hospital bag packed? Nope. Co-sleeper set up? Nah. Baby clothes washed? Fughettabout it. Car seat installed? um...No. I decided at 9:00 last night to start a quilt for the baby. With less than a week until my due-date I'm feeling like I should only be required to do things that fall into the 'fun' category.  I'm not really sure what I'm doing here but  baby quilts are small and I'm confident that I'll have this thing finished in no time at all. I may not have a hospital bag packed, but I will have a cute baby blanket. That's all that really matters. Hospital bag, schmospital bag. 

Saturday Love

A sure sign of a good night of sleep (which is very welcome after a week full of massive ear infections & teething for this little one.) 

Happy weekend. 

The Christmas tree is going up. 

Oh no you didn't. 

Oh yes, we did.

Apples of the littlest variety

Crab apples. They are so small. I spotted them at the market and had to get a dozen. I love miniature things (i.e., cake stands, individual s&p shakers, etc.,)  and thought they'd be perfect dipped in caramel. Like a bite-sized caramel apple. Yum. So today we dipped. By we, I mean I. I don't think I've ever eaten a crab apple. I hope they are delicious.  We have some Thanksgiving projects on the agenda. Any good ideas for kids? Henry asked to make these again (and holy cow-look how little Ms. Kate has grown!) How about a turkey hat? Will they think I am racist against turkeys? I do like to eat them on Thanksgiving (I thought that whole thread was so lame by the way)

Happy Thursday!

Lisa Love

I am so thrilled to announce that I have decided to open the blog up for sponsorships AND that the very first sponsor here at One More Moore is the incredibly lovely and talented Lisa Leonard of Lisa Leonard Designs. Lisa has been making the most gorgeous hand-stamped jewelry for well.. ages. I am the very proud owner of Lisa's beautiful work and am completely in love with my initial necklace (see look how prepared i am, I even have a charm for the new little one!) The quality is wonderful and she has an amazing selection of jewelry so be sure to check her out (and what a perfect gift for the holidays- it should be on all your wish-lists!!) You can read more about Lisa on her blog.  Thanks, Lisa!

If you are interested in becoming a sponsor or have an etsy shop that you'd like to promote, email me and I'll send you the deets! I'll be adding more sponsors this week so stay tuned!

Racist?

Hmmm....the 2nd time someone who reads this blog thinks so... did you see the comments over at ohdeedoh?  Really ??? Can't a girl just throw a teepee party? I thought teepees would be cool (and it was the idea of a 4 year-old anyway.) Sheesh. Now I apparently hate  Native Americans.

Ohdeedoh!!

psst...hey remember Henry's teepee party? Well, the lovely folks at Ohdeedoh are kicking off "Kids Party Month" and have featured Henry's part-ay. You can read all about it here, and be sure to check back- I can't wait to see all their great party ideas!

It's been a crazy few days- will be back next week more regularly.

Have a lovely weekend!

Today in the courtyard...

Because I haven't taken any pictures of this growing belly since July.

Because this is our month.

Because next month I'm sure I'll have forgotten how uncomfortable I once was.

Because I love these flowers that keep falling from the trees.

Because these are the only shoes that are comfortable, and I want to remember them. 

Because I'm so excited to meet our newest little one.

Because I can't wait to witness one more duckling enjoy life as much as these two do.

(and they are so excited to meet him, too!)

Happy November! It's gonna be a good one. 

I can just feel it.

A perfectly wonderful Halloween

Chris took some friends to the airport this morning and called to say he was stopping on the way home to take the children out for breakfast. I had costumes to make, costumes that I swore up & down I would not be finishing at the eleventh hour. The day was mine (and much needed!) The boys decided to carve pumpkins when they got home and there was the inevitable overheard conversation about the 'puking pumpkin' from the patio which minutes later caused Henry to run into the house in a frenzy "I need the bag of pumpkin guts!!!"  The costumes were finished a few hours ahead of time, phew, so... what were the little ducklings you ask? I introduce you to R2D2:Henry is totally into robots right now. He'd been swaying back & forth between being Wall-e and R2d2, and in the end, R2D2 won. I was glad, R2D2 seemed so much more doable than Wall-e. And Kate, well, she went as a grumpy garden gnome (and played the part oh so well)She has been sick and grumpy for the last few days and there was no way in h-e-double-hockey-sticks that hat was staying on for longer than 2.5 seconds. Last minute I decided to not use the previous flowers I posted about, but ones that were much bigger, which I ended up liking a lot more. And a little basket for gathering her treats. Too bad I forgot it and left it at home. Boo on that. Good thing we had a perfectly good gnome hat that was not being used.  So there you have it, R2D2 & Grumpy Garden Gnome:I'm quite partial to them. They were troopers in their costumes. Henry loved the tights. I think next year we'll just send him out in tights & a turtleneck. He'd be happy as a clam.  After the trunk-or-treat at church we drove though some local neighborhoods and Henry got out a few time to trick-or-treat.

 I love this image so much:The little R2 silhouette, and those skinny little legs, oh I love this boy. 

Happy Halloween!

Costuming

I feel like I've been hit by a freight train. I've been sick since Saturday. Oy oy oy. Body aches, sore throat, sniffles, it's been a killer.  I'm so behind on Halloween costumes. Kate's blue felt dress had to be made twice. 18 mo's/ 2T- they are similar...or so I thought. The 2T was gigantic and so the entire dress had to be remade. I'm glad though, the smaller version is such a better fit on her. Anyway- I've never made real people clothes out of felt before, have you? Probably not, I mean why would you make real people clothes out of craft felt?? I'm very excited about Kate's costume. It's going to be adorable (and a little bit hilarious.) Henry, well he keeps changing his mind. I'm going to have to just pick one and run with it. We'll be on the hunt tomorrow for costume parts (which has been a challenge thus far.)

Cough, cough.

I'm tired and going to bed.

Halloween Trick-or-Treat Sacks

Each bag is approx 5 1/2" x 3". I have (7) packages available (50 bags per package.)

You can find them here in the shoppe.

Home sweet home

We made it, oh yes we made it. We are home and getting the very last few Halloween decorations out. It's a good thing I hadn't started Henrys' yet as he has completely changed his mind as to what he wants to be. Phew, that was close. I've got just over a week to crank out two costumes, which I have a feeling are going to keep me very busy. I went to Joann this evening for some supplies and the lady at the cutting table told me I looked very tired (and when is that baby coming out??) Thanks for that. Guess what? I'm beyond tired, lady! I was going through the Halloween bins and realized I have a lot of these vintage trick-or-treat bags. So many, that I'm sure I'll never use all of them so I'm going to put them in the shoppe on Thursday. I think I have around 5 or 6 packages and each package has 50 treat bags (bags are in original packaging) I know we are getting awfully close to Halloween so I'll make sure they ship out the same day they are ordered vis first class mail. Oh, and they'll be $10 for a package of 50. I think they are pretty swell!

We are getting a kick out of this commercial. Wait for it...