Christmas Quilt

 

I've always wanted a cozy Christmas quilt, so I decided to get ahead of all the holiday rush and get my quilt done early.  I used a layer cake of Cherry Christmas fabric, by Aneela Hoey, for the zig zags, and then Kona solid white for the background. The back and binding are also Cherry Christmas fabrics.  I machine stitched the binding on, and it actually turned out better that I expected.  I'm not as pleased with the front of my quilt, however, and wish that I had used all gray fabric for that last zig zag, instead of gray and white.  But, I have a Christmas quilt, and within minutes of it coming out of the wash, Tom and the kids were using it on the couch, so I guess I'll call it a success!

Pumpkin picking and carving

Sean Ryan - 7 Months

 

Time is going by so fast, and Sean is growing and changing every day it seems!  He has two teeth now, and is sitting, crawling, and pulling up to standing all by himself.  Really in just the last two weeks he started crawling all over the house.  He is so curious, and just loves to explore.  I love seeing how his personaility is so unique and different from Julia's.  When Julia was a baby, she wanted constant interaction with us, and we could rarely just let her play on the floor by herself.  Sean, however, is happy just playing by himself or with Julia for a really long time, unless he's hungry or tired.  He loves crawling into all the rooms in our house to explore, and I'll never forget the first time he crawled into the kitchen to follow me.  He got this look of wonder, like, "woah...what is all this?!".  He also really likes homemade purees, whereas Julia really didn't start eating good amounts of solid food until she was about 10 months old.  I love seeing Sean and Julia start to play more together, it's so precious and priceless!  It's such a blessing to be able to stay home with them, I hope I never take it for granted.