march

curtains for audrey. 

i had found this pin on pinterest and thought it was such a simple but cute idea for curtains in a little girl's room.  i recently bought audrey a yellow comforter from target.  not big on disney princesses and other themed rooms, i thought yellow would be a good replacement for the green accents i've been moving into the nursery.  a few botanical flower and butterfly prints and wall mounted bookshelves will follow someday, in the future.

maybe my mom or my sister can shed some light on where this shelf came from.  i can remember it since forever.

this buffet used to sit in my inlaw's dining room, then michael's dorm room, then our closet in our first apartment, then our guestroom and now audrey's room.  it needs some love don't you think?  i'm thinking a few coats of white paint and replacing the knobs with an anthropologie cutie.  that foxy lamp is moving to the nursery. 

meanwhile, in babyland... this is the nursery so far.  yes xenia, we decided to keep the bed for now and shoved it to the side.  :)  the colors will be aqua, orange and green but for now it's just a mess.  the old green curtains from audrey's room are on the dresser and everything is quite empty.  it's a work in progress but at least there is progress!

baby boy jammies.  my heart is exploding!

this morning

audrey's favorite thing to do first thing in the morning is to eat her cereal in front of the space heater.  every morning.  i remember doing the same thing as a kid.  our rented ranch house was at the bottom of a valley and didn't receive a lot of sunlight in the mornings.  sometimes we would dress for school in front of our heater.  my mom still owns that same heater and it sits in her living room.  i sat in front of it one morning when i visited last june.  of course living in southern california with a high of 83 degrees today, a space heater isn't really needed.  i turn it on the lowest heat and take my time busying myself in the kitchen as i make my toast and listening to the familiar hum.  like mother like daughter i suppose :)

cereal is funny business.  

i bought this coffee cup planter at ross the other day (love ROSS and HOME GOODS!) and it gave me an ache in my heart for my sister.  it's just the sort of thing i'd see sitting in her apartment.  if you're reading this valerie... it's too heavy to ship so i'm keeping it! hee hee! check your local ross!

 apparently ross had a monopoly of coffee cup planters, and now so do i.

here are my puffy pregnant feet and a hint of baby boy tummy.  i'm currently in an argument with myself about the nursery.  rational wife jenny agrees with rational husband michael that we should wait to tackle converting the guestroom into a nursery until a few months after baby boy is born.  he'll be sleeping in the bassinet in our room for awhile and out of town family members will need a place to stay after he comes.  BUT hormonal pregnant nesting jenny wants to rip every last piece of furniture out of that room and fill it with woodland stuffed animals, baby quilts, adorable printed curtains, accents of aqua and orange and let the out of town family members sleep on the air mattress in the the living room.  with a tasteful and private folding room divider of course.

 speaking of nurseries, here are my new nasturtium, hollyhock, foxglove and wildflower mix babies.  i just dumped the seeds in the pots in mass and figure i'll thin them out later.  grow babies, grow!

bird.

tuesday breakfast

sourdough bread with raspberry jam, blueberries and veggie sausage.  coffee for me, chocolate milk for audrey.

no hummingbird, sorry.  they move too fast.

chip in one of my favorite coffee mugs = :(

succulent cuttings i collected from my grandmother's garden while i was in oregon. so glad they're doing well.

most of the veggie garden is rotting in ye olde wheelbarrow cemetery.

i said most.

plundered!

chalky chalk chalk

audrey's latest craze is sidewalk chalk. once outside, she runs to her little chalk tub & walks around marking her lines across the cement in true stylish fashion. i admit this post is very lucy romero, but chalk is easy to clean up & i'm not quite ready for this yet.

i'm proud to admit that this doesn't happen very often. she's learning chalk doesn't taste very good and chalk biting is growing rarer.

yeah, not too good.

i love baby squats. a terribly efficient & adorable way of exploring & chalking. the pincher grasp is pretty irresistible too. she's basically irresistible all around.

bright eyes & lollipops

my baby girl is one year old! first official piece of candy on her first birthday :)

pear paired with a walk

off she goes!

mmmmm so good

need more pears!

my little music enthusiast

helping mama

i love watching audrey as she discovers a new world outside, choosing what to look at and where to go next. i can't wait to buy her a mini watering can and gardening tools to use in her own patch of ground. that may be a little while off though :)

sunflower seedlings!

hello little guys!

checking the future corn patch for weeds

an evening with audrey

every night the hour before audrey goes to bed she gets really energized and clumbsy. i thought i'd document a portion of her adventures.

act one:

le ballet avec la poussette de bébé

act two:

paused

act three:

the monster from behind the stroller

act four:

foiled!

act five:

bedtime :)

sleepy

audrey slept a three hour stretch today, very unusual for this spunky 10 1/2 month old. grandma eubs calls them "grow days." :) tooth number seven is peaking out of it's pink slumber and and this excited mama is planning for a birthday barbeque in april.

playground

*wave*

"i could go for a swing..."

"i don't want to leave!"