Baby blankets & Invites *pics*

I am trying to get more things done for this baby while I am on break. That includes starting to actually buy things for this baby. 

I was at joanns today and they had new flannel in and they had it half off. I found some I loved. I have been looking all over for nice receiving blankets. I didn’t want blue/brown/green/pastels. I wanted black and white. I wanted them to match the baby blankets I already bought, and I wanted them to coordinate with my carseat (see 2 entries back for that). 

These are what I got. 

 

I am in love with it!

The chevron pattern matches one of my other blankets perfectly actually. 

I just need to serge the edges of them and viola receiving blankets! I paid about 15 for them and will get about 6 blankets. Not bad really.

Here are the existing blankets I have gotten. I am in love with them.

 

(please disregard my gross carpet, no mater how many times I shampoo it and vaccum it it gets gross within a few days.  I am sure the only solution is to just rip it out.)

Here is the blanket my mom and sister made for the baby, had I shared it? I love that it has spiders on it. 

I am quiet pleased with my black and white finds for this baby. I am so over all the gendered crap available for babies. I love black and white, and am pleased not everything is so pastel or brown. 

I bought a couple of sleepers today as well on clearance. I think I have enough now. I am quiet pleased with this. Not that they are black, but at least he will be warm. 

I was talking with my sister tonight about how my grandmother would die, if she knew I was putting black blankets and outfits on my baby. She did not approve of my obsession with black and she let me know it. I loved her and she loved me but this was one thing we didn’t agree on. Of course I would love to have been able for her to meet my babies. She loved babies so… Ahhh one day when we are all in heaven we will meet again… I miss having a grandma sometimes. 

My sister also made me the most beautiful baby lunch invitations. They are so pretty. 

I am not having a shower this time around. They are too much work. I don’t like half of the people I am obligated to invite, and although I need things desperetly, it isn’t worth it. really. 

Instead a few of us are just going to lunch. We will be celebrating the birth of this baby in hopefully the lowest stress way possible. We are going for sushi, and I am pretty excited about it really. 

Tomorrow should be another day. I am hoping to enjoy the quiet at home, Samara is home with me one more day and I love it. The idea of sending her back to school makes me ill really. I am not looking forward too it at all. Only a few more days till her iep meeting, and then we will see where we go from there. 

I means I just love my silly little girl. Life has been so wonderful with her home… We are going for a fun surprise this weekend and I can not wait. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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