Chloe's Nursery

 

I thought long and hard about how I wanted our baby's nursery to feel. I decided on simple, elegant, and heavenly--oh, and gender neutral. Dustin and I (let's be honest. It was mostly Dustin.) spent a weekend this Summer building and installing the custom wainscot, I painted the room a shade of gray named "anonymous" and we went from there. After Chloe was born, we were able to add a few light pink touches.  It's probably my favorite room in our home--which is good--means I spend hours upon hours each day and night rocking our baby in there.

 

Here is Chloe's crib quilt I finished at last! This "easy" quilting pattern turned out to be a real doozie.

 

Now she just needs to age a tad so she can sleep in there.

Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen.

Today is Chloe's official due date, holy cow. Time is going by fast. It's hard to believe our baby is almost 6 weeks old.

 

 

 Here are some pictures I snapped of her this afternoon on my phone:

 

Chloe is about 6 1/2 pounds now and is 20 inches long and definitely has blue eyes. She sleeps all day long but usually stays awake in the mornings for a couple of hours. She goes through about 8-9 newborn diapers each day and eats well. She's doing well with tummy-time and is tracking objects and people. She also seems to have a fairly mild temperament, so far! She lets out a cute little cry about once every three days or so.

Chloe loves taking warm baths, sleeping against our chests, and being swaddled up tight. She's been my easiest newborn. I love how tiny she still is and am really soaking in the time I have with her while she's still so snuggly and small. It's nice that we got a few extra weeks to get to know each other.

The End of Month 10

 So, we did everything that everyone else did for Halloween-carved pumpkins, ate soup, asked strangers for candy.

Jack was Captain Hook, Lillie was a jellyfish, and Chloe was a baby skeleton.

 

 

Chloe and I stayed home and passed out candy to the cute kids in the neighborhood. All 15 of them. We also gave the teenagers super intense glares while dropping in a single piece of off-brand candy into their bags.

 

And to be brief in closing, Lillie has taken up another hobby. It's called "sewing." This is the dress she fashioned up to wear to church made entirely out of Afghanistan's. I mean afghans.