My craftiest creation yet...

Hellllooooo

Bentley Charles!

 Born at 10:08am on May 23rd, weighing in at 6lbs 12 oz. and 19 1/4".

 Here is big brother Jack giving B his first head squish of many to come meeting baby B for the first time...

 Precious.

 Just for fun, the picture on the left is Jack and on the right is Bentley... brothers much??

  I LOVE THESE BOYS.

And now I would like to think I'm caught up blogging... but this little B is now 3 months old.  What's a momma to do?  :)

Cookie baking with the boyz

This is Jack and his cousin, Will. 

They are BFF's. 

And, naturally, BFF's bake cookies together.

This is cookie baking 2 and 3 year old style. 

Will was the 'scooper' and Jack handed me the full scoop for proper cookie placement.

Although while I stepped back to take these pictures, Jack busted out his mad baking skillz and showed those oatmeal raisin dough balls who was boss.

These pictures make my heart happy.

Those boys.  Love 'em.

My little love, Mr. Jack

This blog didn't exist when Jack was born, but we can pretend, right?! 

Jack Warren was born at 4:19pm on March 27, 2009 weighing in at 8lbs 6oz.

A boy and his daddy {sigh}.

Jack is named after my Grandpa Jack and my other Grandpa Waldo Warren.  I couldn't name a kid Waldo, just couldn't... even my own grandpa didn't like his name!  So Warren it is. Was? Whatever.

 

Preggers

Nooooo sillys, not right now... I was previously preggers.  I'm just starting from the beginning.  I'm a little late on a 'wheeee new baby!' post, so I thought I would back it up even further. Here I am on the night before I gave birth to each boy. 

Are you seeing a difference there?  Uh, look at my face! With Jack, I gained FIFTY {ugly} el b's.  With Bentley, I gained 20 {oh look, it's a BAAABY in there} pounds.  I totally attribute that to a paleo/primal diet.  More on that later. I just wanted to share this little tidbit because I find it funny and/or frightening.

Next up... my 'it's a boy' {named JACK} post.  Approximately 2 1/2 years later.  So what??!

Bubbles!

The other day I heard some serious giggling coming from the bathroom where Chris was giving Jack his bath...

this is what I saw-

This guy loves his daddy!

Coffee Table Love

So, you might be aware of my LOVE for paint and using it to turn our ugly furniture into something I can live with and dare I say, like! 

Well, we have a C.H.E.A.P coffee table that, yes, serves it's purpose, blah blah blah... boring.  I decided to do a little perk me up on the ugly thing that involved 1 yard of fabric, 1 foam cushion and some leftover black paint and primer from this table and chairs project. 

The fabric was on clearance at fabric.com, so that was only $6.  The foam is ridiculously expensive, but of course I never buy anything from JoAnne's unless it's on sale or I have a coupon, so with my 50% off coupon I think it was around $15. 

So for just over $20, we have a new-ish coffee table that I actually like!  Yippie! 

BEFORE PICS (you must admit, UGLY!)

AFTER PICS... better?

Wait, wanna see the before again?

And the whole room...

I love it!  I do wish the stripes were lengthwise, but that would have required buying more than 1 yard and I was on a budget.  Otherwise, why not just buy a whole new table? 

I found a tray at Goodwill for 2$ that I will be using for drinks as soon as I...

wait for it...

wait for it...

paint it.

Haha, not kidding.

A bib for the boy

This is my most recent project for little man... this bib is totally pratical and we use it every day.  He even likes it because it's a little smaller than the store bought ones and I guess must be more comfortable. 

And, hello, he sure looks cute in it!

This is him posing for the picture... I have to tell him to show me his teeth and then he does this  :)

I used oilcloth so it can be wiped off after meals... and those are snaps on the front so you can fold the pocket down to clean out all the gooey bits. 

Mmmmmm gooey bits. 

More posing.

And the bib in action...

Wow!  Look at it catch the flying oatmeal and blueberries!