FYI: Children's Tylenol Recall

I just wanted to inform you that Tylenol is doing a recall on items sold between April and June 2008 due to a possible bacterial contamination. If you've got Tylenol or children's Tylenol around your house from those dates you need to get rid of it PLUS it's expired and you need to throw it away!

Here's a link to the full product list

Last Minute Projects

I have literally had 9 months worth of projects around the house that I have wanted to finish before this baby is born. I am down to three left to finish! Wahoo! Here are just a few things we've been doing...

Baby's Room:

Although I love yellow, this yellow was really bright and my "cream" in the hallway and throughout the house is more yellow in it's tint than cream. So, the yellow had to go. I LOVE pink (always will ;) and didn't get to do this with Hannah's room when she was born, so now I'm getting it out of my system. It's really pink. Like, glowing in the hallway pink. I wouldn't have it any other way.

Ladybugs. I started with the obsession (although not an obsession anymore) in 6th grade and so I have lots of stuff already to use. I found this crib set on ebay and already had the quilt. It was perfect and since it's discontinued, I literally got the last and only one out there.

The rocker was from craigslist and in almost perfect condition. I can't wait to rock my baby! I didn't have a rocker last time (boooooo!) and now I have two! Yea! I finally got to hang up this quilt that great Grandma made for Hannah. The quilt on the chair is uber cute too and was made by my cousin. When I do purple in the girls room (next house) this quilt will be on the wall. Hand made things are the best!

These banisters were sick.

What in the world did they do to them? Seriously?! Since this is the first thing you see when you walk into our house, I wanted this to go ASAP.

So much cleaner! I was going to do just the pole and not the hand banister, but I couldn't stand the color and the fact that it was STICKY. Gross. Gross. Gross. The first layer I sanded off was just a black film of hand gunk alone. Y'all, take it from me, when you clean your houses don't forget to wipe down the banister.

Also, I had my husband cut with a miter saw (thanks Grandpa!) some wood trim to make it look fancier. I am so glad I went with this rather than the smaller trim because it matches the other trim much better.

I did the upstairs one, too.

Guest bath:

Lime!

I tried to make it work, but this too had to go.

Also, our big huge mirror. It lost it's reflection at the bottom and was so boring.

I would replace it, but it was super glued to the wall and I really didn't want to deal with that mess.

I have been secretly wanting some trim to put around it that they advertise in the back of Better Homes & Gardens but they are silly expensive for some cut wood.

Who is that stud smiling at me?

So, I had hubs cut me some trim and glue it to the mirror. Fan-tastic.

Painted the bath purple (I think my house has every color of the rainbow now) and made a curtain for the window from some fabric I bought at Jo-Ann's.

Earlier, we painted these cabinets, too.

Plus, we had a super great family friend who is a plumber come down and fix our bathroom fixtures. They were old, moldy (I should've taken a pictures of the grossness), and super hard to pull out from the wall. The original plumber told me it was going to cost us about $1,000 to replace two fixtures (another one in our bath) because they had to cut through the walls and replace the piping. What a blessing our friend was to us!

Yea! It's clean AND it works great!

And finally, this bookshelf that's in our guest bedroom.

It's my husbands.

I am not allowed to touch it.

No, really. Not allowed.

It's an organizer's nightmare.

All I want to do when I walk in is touch it.

I feel like a two year old.

SO....

I left the inside untouched but took out the glass and frosted it so you can't see what's inside!

It was my mom's idea.

Ingenious.

I think I can sleep at night now.

In our next house (we move so often that I already know what I am going to do in the next house!), I have envisioned a new paint job and some new bubble glass going into this bookshelf. BTW, this was given to us by a friend in Germany. It's an old army bookshelf that must be about 30 years old. What do you know? Those legs are back in style. I can't wait to give her a true makeover.

Protege

Girls are so much fun. Period!

I have a little protege who sews and irons with me :)

I am diligently working on Christmas gifts trying to get them all done by the end of this month, wrapped, and put away in the closet. We'll see how well that goes!

Grandma sent this iron that looks just like the real thing...

And I have tons of fabric swatches from the upholstery store that are her "project"...

I even found this little real sewing machine 1/2 off at a consignment sale for $5!

Totally worth every penny.

MajorScoop

We're on the six week countdown! Blogging seems to be on the bottom of the list between resting (I mean, um, complaining about my aches and pains) and preparing. I can't sit for long periods of time on the computer because it's so uncomfortable and painful. My google reader just says 1000+ and gave up on counting how many blog entries have gone unread. So, I haven't left the blogging world for forever in case you were wondering...

There's been a lot going on but below is what I've managed to capture on the camera.

Grandma's are seriously lacking in pictures... and nuzzles.

Here's some for you...

We checked out a new playground that comes complete with static cling

(of which it's work to just be up and walking around!).

We do lots of painting...

This is the reality that I don't live by my sister to cut our hair (boooo!) and Hannah getting a haircut with someone else. I feel like a traitor :)

However, she did have a super fun cape of zebra's and monkey's on the front.

Ash, I think you need to invest...

Here is Hannah with her future arranged husband.

They have a ton of fun and play really, really well together.

When Grandpa came to visit (another post for details on why), he brought with them this rocking chair that's been in hubby's family for generations. Grandma calculated it should be at least 87 years old. Hub's aunt restored it and it's gorgeous and it will be of great service while rocking a baby.

After several years, I FINALLY went to my first change of command ceremony.

Daddy/Daughter date!

Hub's had last Friday off from work and decided to put Hannah in the bike trailer and take her to tea time. Is he the BEST dad ever or what? They had a blast.

They put on all kinds of hats...

... and ate scones with their tea. Cuteness.

Oma came to visit! Yea!

I NEEDED a break and some extra sleep!

I didn't clean my kitchen for almost three days.

That's a TRUE vacation.

She also got to come to a dual baby shower that was thrown for me and another friend (who is having twins) at our church.

Great food...

Three babies celebrated with cake (I'm sure they kicked with yumminess)...

... and fun friends!

We felt like we were at our weddings cutting the cake together. Mmm... cake....

The baby (one of ;) honor...

We painted pumpkins on Sunday. We wanted to carve them and make some yummy pumpkin cake thing (can you tell I am pregnant?!) I found with the pulp, but we're just a little too early in the season yet for big pumpkins. I'm afraid we're not going to get to do it and so I was trying to be ahead of the game...

Daddy's pumpkin...

I think Hannah's turned out very creative looking...

Mine...