nine weeks

We have nine - that's right, nine - weeks left until summer break. Oh my. Feelings of joy mixed with fear. One thing we plan on doing this summer is participating in The Great Sunflower Project. You can read details at the link, but basically you plant sunflowers in your yard and record how many bees you see (or don't see) visiting them each day during a 15 minute period. I am totally alarmed by the disappearance of honeybees and want to help, of course, but I would be lying if I didn't say that mainly I find the idea of locking my kids out in the backyard for at least 15 minutes wildly appealing. 15 minutes of quiet and helping the environment? Done!

baby announcements

The baby finally took a rare good nap on Friday afternoon - not while being held by me - and I had a chance to print out her baby announcements with my gocco machine (the most favorite craft thing I have ever purchased. Thank you e-bay).

I do realize that at some point I will need to address this baby-sleeping business. Wren is so cute and little that I never seem put her down, day or night, but now I kind of am realizing that there are some things that actually need to get done around the house during the day that require more than one free arm. You'd think I'd be more of a pro at figuring this out by now with my fourth baby! Nope, not so much.

adorable hair...

Did any of you get the spring Tea catalog? The clothes were adorable, but the hairstyles were what I loved most of all... especially those pig-tail balls!

nursery

Finally getting our simple little nursery put together was a collective effort. The six year old loves taping things to doors (currently on her bedroom door she has affixed a cover of Sports Illustrated from the Olympics, a couple of school projects, and a big list of who can and cannot come into her room to play) so it was only fitting that I would find this on the door to the baby's room a couple of weeks ago. Eath is a great place, Wren!





Melissa sent this dress and I think her embroidered "W" is so sweet.



It took me awhile to figure out what to put on the wall above the crib. We live in California - not really in an area prone to earthquakes, but my new-mother hormones keep me up at night worrying about random dangerous risks around the house so in the end I just used japanese masking tape to hang a bunch of old prints I found on etsy (I bought the whole lot of them for under $10).





The big kids love this page. Can you guess why?



I especially like this one. Angling bunnies? What's not to love about that?







Sister dolls made by Aunt Courtney from great Black Apple pattern. Adorable.





I found the Flensted viking ship mobile on ebay. Flensted is a really neat Danish company - their designs are magical. And can you see the picture the six year old painted of me on the wall? I love it. Especially that I'm not shown scolding her in it. Ha, ha. Just kidding. I never scold my children!



(I can't resist posting another picture of the baby, wearing the cutest little hat that my friend Jen made - check out her shop. So cute.)