Sweet Sleeper

look at those sweet lips!

steamroller

we have a mobile baby! he's rolling all over the room. it's the cutest thing.

for about 3 weeks, he's been really good about rolling from his back to his stomach and would occasionally roll from his stomach to back, but yesterday, he really figured it out. thankfully, steve was home to see it.

i have a quilt that i lay him on to play {which is about 3 feet from the couch}, and soon enough, he was off the quilt & over by the couch.

i just can't believe he's already mobile! he's growing up way tooo fast! and in just a couple months, he'll be crawling! that's sooo crazy to me!

i love watching him learn & grow each day. it has to be one of the most amazing things. i'm so blessed to be able to stay home with him.

freshening up

we moved into our house 3 years ago this past june. it's hard to believed we've lived here that long let alone been married & had a baby all in that time as well! phew! the years really do fly by the older you get. boo.

when we moved in, i started decorating little by little. i really liked a more rustic style of decor. basically, i had mom taste! looking back, i realize my house was decorated just like my moms...and mother in laws! oh geez.

well, listen here. i'm no longer a woman in my 50's. i've liberated myself from candle rings, decorative potpourri, and grubby candles! i, merideth carney, have stepped back into my 20's and am embracing MODERN DECOR!

last christmas (2009) when i was with child, i started nesting hard core. i bought new christmas decorations, all silver and white. our tree is a new tree...a tree that screams "my owners are young hipsters!" {okay, maybe not. but i'd like to think so}

basically, that's what started my love for all things modern. so slowly but surely, i'm replacing things a little bit at a time.

the next thing{s} i would like to purchase are some type prints for my kitchen.

i've found a few on etsy that i think are pretty adorable. i would like to do maybe a set of two or three from the same seller so that they have a similar look to them.

here are two that i really like and think would be appropriate for the kitchen. {plus they're just funny & cute}






or these two which would be great upbeat sayings to see in the morning. {i am NOT a morning person}







whatever i do decide on, i'm planning on putting in a white frame w/ a nice matting around it. i can't wait! i love spicing up the joint with little things here and there!

4 month check up

we had our 4 month check up today.

elliot weighs 15.5 lbs which puts him in the 60% and 25.5 in long which puts him in the 75%.

it's hard to believe that he's already 4 and a half months old. and even harder to believe that we scheduled our 6 month appointment for september 27th. that's RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER!

it makes me sad how fast they grow. before i know it, he's going to be graduating high school. boo.

Sweet Sleeper

since elliot is moderately mobile, as in, he can scoot around and roll over, it's always interesting to see the different positions he ends up in his crib. sometimes we'll lay him vertically at one end of the crib and he'll end up horizontal at the opposite end. i'd love to be able to set up a camera & see how he gets from one side to the other.

one thing that seems to happen quite frequently is his feet hanging between the slats. if we see it, we always move them back into the crib, but it's still pretty cute.

domestic goddess? ... not quite

before i had elliot, my mom started teaching me how to sew. and i fell in love with it.

my first project was making some reusable snack baggies, a diaper wallet and an ouch pouch for my diaper bag. pretty simple. just straight stitches, but i was just learning the ropes & getting used to using a machine.

while working on one of these projects, we came across a problem. my mom stared & stared at it trying to figure out how to make it work while i, being the sewing savant that i am, took one look and told her it was obvious what we needed to do to correct the problem.

{i don't think my mom had ever been so proud of me...and in turn, i was very proud of myself. after all, TRUE domestic goddesses know how to sew, right?}

i thought to myself on the way home from her house, "wow, this may be the one thing i'm super great at!"

i think i'm pretty decent at a lot of different things, but i never really excelled at one thing in particular, and i have always secretly wanted to be a bad-a at one thing, ANYTHING!

{i thought sewing was it.}

fast forward to tonight...here i am, at midnight, sweating, frustrated and wound up all because i can't figure out my problem.

{which i would almost bet my left hand has a simple solution}

i'm sure my mom will take one look at it and state the obvious.

am i a domestic goddess? not quite, but i'm working on it.

{friends}

elliot has made quite a few little friends {mostly girls}. one day, he's going to have his pick of the litter, that's for sure.

one of his friends that he has spent the most time with is genevieve lunn, or GG as we like to call her.



elliot & GG spent a lot of time together, even in utero.



here is the first picture of elliot & GG together! this was one of our first days home after elliot was born.



and here they are together on the 4th of july.

obviously, another one of his good friends is his cousin brooke. they too spent some time together in utero.







here is brookie takin' a snooze on top of elliot.




i have a feeling they are going to be pretty good friends when they grow up.

and of course, his two best friends....




mommy and.....



daddy

he recently made a west coast friend named nathan. they seemed to hit it off right away and even came up with a secret handshake.





my prayer for elliot is that his life is always full of friends {and family} who love and care for him. i know i have been extremely blessed beyond measure to have such a great group of girlfriends that i have grown up with who i love with all of my heart. and on top of that, i have the best family. who could ask for anything more?