Dinner Time

Lately Z has seemed to be taking some interest in our food while we are eating. While sitting on my lap she has tried to steal my plate and my fork. She has gazed longingly at her Auntie's chocolate chip cookie a la mode. No worries, little one, for solid foods are only a few short months away for you. ::Sniff!:: For now I guess she'll have to satiate her cravings by licking her Bumbo.

Make your Own Baby Wrap AKA Fauxby

So my friend Heather and I decided to go in on the fabric together and make ourselves some baby wraps. =] I thought I would share here how simple it is and how awesome and comfy the wraps turn out!

-First you need to buy 6 yards of fabric. This seems like a TON and looks totally overwhelming, but you need it. If you're small you can get away with 5 yards. The fabric needs to have some stretch to it. The best we could find at our local fabric store was 95% cotton, 5% spandex - but from what I've heard 97/3 is even better. Our 6 yards totaled about $50, and I had a 50% off coupon, so it came to about $25.

-The width of the fabric is twice as wide as you need for your wrap, so you need to cut it in half lengthwise. (So our wraps cost us each about $12.) Honestly you don't even need to know how to cut a straight line - for if this were the case, I'd be in trouble! The fabric is already folded in half lengthwise, so I just layed it on my bed with the fold on the right, (since I'm right handed) kept the fabric steady with my left hand and just slid my scissor blade inbetween the two layers of fabric and cut all along the edge. Easy peasy.

-The fabric we purchased does not fray in the wash. Therefore this wrap requires NO SEWING. I love sewing. But Z loves to be held. So it was awesome that this wrap literally had one step to making it! One popular brand of wrap (rhymes with what I call this wrap and starts with an 'M'... ;P) has tapered ends so that when you tie it the knot isn't as bulky. I didn't taper my ends but it would be easy enough to do if you so desired.

-Then you just put it on and enjoy grocery shopping, cleaning the house, going for a walk, etc etc etc, hands-free while snuggling your baby!

Here is a video I found on youtube on how to wrap your wrap and put your baby into it! (This isn't me.)

3 Months!

Z turned 3 months on the 16th! How in the world are you already 1/4 of a year old, my little lovebug?

3 month stuff:

-She weighs 12ish lbs and is 24 inches long.

-As you can tell from the pictures, she loves books! (Probably because her daddy read to her when she was in the womb?? =]) She honestly will sit there content and look at the pictures while being read to.

-She has gotten too big to sleep in the cradle my dad made for me when I was a baby. =[ So now she's back in the play yard until we have room to set her crib up. But it's kind of nice. The play yard is high enough, since it's pushed right up against my side of the bed, that I don't have to get out of bed to pick her up.

-Also, she's become a thumb sucker at night. Before she was born, Ben & I decided that we wanted to try to avoid a pacifier. (Not that we have anything against pacis, or people who use them! lol) Honestly a few times when she had fussy days I thought about giving in and picking one up. But it's cool now to know she can self-soothe. Even if she does wake me up in the night with her excessively loud sucking. =P

Giveaway Winners!

Good morning!

I just used a random # generator at random.org to draw the giveaway winners!

Giveaway#1: Comment #15... Sara!

Giveaway#2: Comment #11... Lisa!

Giveaway#3: Comment #3...Joes_wife! (I had to draw a new winner because the previous winner hadn't responded.)

Congrats to all the winners! I'll be emailing you and getting your CJ's products out in the mail asap!