Fat Quarter Bag

I am about seven to ten years behind everyone that we're making these bags....a friend told me you could carry a child around in them they were so big!

We'll Shhhh this one is going to Aunt Kim for her birthday. She would probably like it if I shipped Wade along with it for a few nights anyway. 

Now that I have made one I may have to look through my other fabric and make some more. What a great bag for a college student maybe made out of their school's colors...

Therapy for Banjo or Wade?

Wade and I tried sitting on one side of the gate while Mike had Banjo on the other. Trying to teach Wade to be still and quiet if he wants Banjo to be his friend. We still have a lot of work to do to say the least. 

Snow in two States

When we left Snowmass last week Wade and I said goodbye to the snow or so we thought. We got about 15" at the cabin and enough to shut down the city this week. 

Working from home with a 2 year old is challenging to say the least but I still got some things done and spent a little time outside trying to convince him snow is fun!

I never dreamed when I bought my Explorer in 2002 that I would someday live back in the woods on a gravel driveway but I was sure grateful I had it. 

So here are some images from our trip and subsequent snow day. 

Still crying, didn't like sledding in Snowmass or here at home!

Picture perfect out the kitchen window

It's never too early to establish a good work ethic!

China brothers and the youngest members of the ski club....they got the fleece to prove it!

Wade got to ride the gondola and meet us on the slopes the last day, I think he will change his tune about snow in a year or two and be ready to try skiing!

I've corrupted Max

First Starbuck's Hot Chocolate!

Happy Chinese New Year

2014 is the year of the horse. Max just brought a gift bag with fortune cookies, stickers and a stuffed horse to give to Wade as a CNY gift. They will be traveling with us to ski in Colorado and I hope they do well together. Max is about 18 months older than Wade but they are beginning to interact and play together some. 

Max calls Wade his China brother. I am grateful they will each have a buddy growing up that looks like them and shares their Chinese heritage. 

Growing

Wade can not comfortably nap in the pac n play anymore his head is pressed into the mesh side. So today we let him sleep on the sofa in the barn and used the pnp as makeshift bed rails!  Thankfully the crib still holds him at night!

Who's been playing around my sewing machine?

I sat down to stitch the last row onto Wade's 100 wishes quilt to see a tractor hiding behind the needle.....  My quilt studio is fast becoming a tax office for Mike and a playroom for Wade. Just exactly what I hoped would become of this room when his builder suggested adding 6' to the height of the barn and giving us this extra space. So now as he naps, I sew, and Daddy is downstairs working in a tractor. Pretty nice way to spend a cold Saturday afternoon.