Charlotte turned two months on December 6th… and I’m just getting around to posting this photo. It’s kind of flat compared to the other ones, but you can still see how big she’s getting! She’s holding up her head, jabbering our ears off, and we even had our first giggle! Sigh.
PS Merry Christmas Eve everyone!
I’m not going to lie, I kind of chuckle to myself when people tell me how lucky I am that my children sit for pictures. I’m here to dispel the rumors… my kids don’t.
My kids, just like everyone else’s kids don’t sit for pictures very well. Sophie will say, “Cheese!” really loudly while looking the other direction at something else. Charlotte? Well Charlotte is two and half months old (I know! Picture coming soon, I promise!) and just sort of slumps there… looking at nothing in particular. Thanksgiving was such a good example of this that I had to share.
As I mentioned (and shamelessly bragged about) here, I made Charlotte and Sophie matching Thanksgiving outfits because, let’s face it, I have a few precious holidays before the two of them will refuse to wear anything remotely matching or similar to each other, especially if it’s something I made. Gotta take advantage of it now. The dresses themselves turned out really well, I love the fabric and I love that they are so comfy and casual. Charlotte has already outgrown hers but Sophie’s got some time before hers won’t fit anymore.
Anyway, on Thanksgiving Day we didn’t have to be anywhere until later on in the afternoon so we put Sophie down for her nap at her usual time and Charlotte faded in and out of consciousness that whole time. Well our Bean decided that Thanksgiving was going to be the day that she took an EXTRA long nap so we ended up having to wake her up in a hurry so we wouldn’t be late. I wanted to take a few quick shots of the girls in their little dresses, but we were in such a rush to get to our family’s celebration that I ended up only being able to take about a dozen shots. The result? These are the best four:
I call this one “Dazed and Confused”
“The Great Escape” and “The Young and Slightly Restless and Lumpy”
“The Armpit Disaster”
And the “You Distract Mom While I Make For the Cookie Jar”
Yep. Seriously, these were the four best photos. Mostly because they also the worst which made them funny. Sigh. Now I know that nap + fast photo attempt = mega fail. The good news is that despite their inability to cooperate, they both looked really cute and that’s all I could ask for. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving spending time with our family and so even though the photos will always be awkward and weird, the memories will always be sweet. Can I get an “awwww”?
I hope all of you had a great Thanksgiving! Get excited for Christmas… it’s coming up soon!!!
Psst- Anyone else notice that weird design in the blanket in the second photo? Anyone? Kind of creeps me out. It’s like when that kid in the Sixth Sense says “I see dead people” except it’s “I see weird, Celtic-Looking-ghost-designs”. Cue haunted music…
As anybody with children knows, taking care of kids is messy, messy business. Literally. I feel like I live in a constant state of disorder, dirty clothes and amazingly beautiful chaos. My apartment is never completely clean, and when I finally get it to a state of all-most guest worthy cleanliness… my oldest daughter wakes up from her nap hell-bent on making sure it falls back into a state of grime and baby toys within half an hour.
Welcome to my life.
One way I have improved bringing order to chaos is wrangling in all of the girly hair accessories that we have strewn about. Sophie’s new favorite game is playing “hair” where she puts all the little clips and bows we own in mommy’s hair and taking them out again and then repeating the whole process over and over again. But now we have such an easy way of putting them all away in an orderly fashion that her second favorite game is now “clean up”, the sequel to “hair”.
To accomplish this, all I used was a stapler, a small canvas (purchased from Michaels ages ago) and ribbon from my scrap bin. This means that anyone could do this project without spending more than 10 beans. Here’s out it worked out:
I simply took my canvas and laid out a bunch ribbons over the top of it to figure out how I wanted to everything placed. Then I simply stapled the ends of the ribbon to the back of the canvas.
The wood on the canvas is so flimsy that I was able to use just your regular run-of-the-mill stapler and it worked just fine. Though the back looked pretty hideous, the front ended up looking nice and neat and put together.
Eventually I want to hang this canvas up on a photo wall in the girls’ room. So I chose soft teals, and yellows so that it would compliment the colors already in the room. Obviously you can pick whatever colors you wish, and if you’re planning on just using this to store the hair bows/clips and hiding it away in a drawer when it’s not being used then you could even use less showy materials like twine, rubber bands or yarn. Whatever you have lying around. I chose to make it look a little prettier so it would become a piece of artwork all on its own.
Here it is all stapled down. The thin outer string is great for small little clips, whereas the thick inner ribbon is better for hair bows, and large flower clips. Doesn’t look too shabby for a project that really cost me nothing out-of-pocket considering I already had all the materials for it on hand.
Here it is with a very small collection of hair clips. At this point it has over a dozen different hair accessories and sits on the dresser in the girls’ room. Once I finally put up all of the girls’ artwork then this will hang on the wall alongside everything else. I’ll be sure to post a picture once that happens! Until then, it’s just work overtime carrying all the lovely things that adorn my girls’ head. Did you know that someone asked me the other day how old my “son” was? Literally, pointed right at Sophie and asked how old “he” was. Seriously? Never leaving the house without a bow in her hair again.
What small projects have you all been working on? Any awesome ideas on how to wrangle up all kinds of baby clutter? Do tell! I’m always up for some new ideas to try!
Greetings!
I know that I’ve really not been all that great at updating lately, so I apologize. I’m not going to lie, going from one to two babies is definitely a task. Might be harder than going from zero to one… but it’s close. I just wanted to post a little update on how we are doing here at The Bean House, and talk about some upcoming posts I have brewing… as soon as I get a chance to upload some photos.
Charlotte is doing really well! We just went to her two month appointment (2 month photo to follow soon-ish) and she’s measuring around 24 inches long and 11 pounds! She’s growing like a weed, which makes sense since she demands to eat every two hours. I think we’re finally coming out of the darkness of the “newborn phase”. She’s starting to sleep almost completely through the night. She’ll go down to bed around 7:30-ish and won’t wake up again until four or five. Then, after a diaper change and feeding, she goes back down to bed until around eight. I’m going to be really sad when she starts teething and starts waking up every couple of hours again. Le sigh.
Sophie is also being a champion. She’s learned her colors (sort of) and we’re working on counting too! Thus far she counts like so, “One, Two, Four, Seven, Nine, Ten”. Then she breaks into a fit of laughter and clapping and her monumental accomplishment at “counting all the way to ten”. Her favorite game is counting the ornaments on the Christmas tree. She’s talking in sentences now too, which is pretty amazing. I can’t believe how fast she’s growing up.
Soon to come on the blog we have:
And loads more. So stay tuned! Hopefully this weekend I’ll get a chance to punch out a couple of these topics and will get going on posting them. Until then, I hope everyone is have a wonderful December! Christmas is almost here!!! Get excited 
