My little gnome's birthday eve.

Dear Oliver,

You will always be my baby Ollie.  You love to dance by shaking your little behind from side to side as far and as fast as your hips will take you.  Your smile is ever present and contagious.  You have your daddy wrapped around your little finger.  The sound of your laughter brightens everyone [...]

December 31st, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: crafty, life, nature table | One comment

Handmade birthday

Despite not feeling well, Aidan is beginning to anticipate his birthday.  I’ve started working on his birthday crown and his name banner in small fits and starts.  The boys will be sharing the birthday banner that I made.  I don’t feel like I was able to talk much about Oliver’s mama-made gifts, so I thought [...]

January 17th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: crafty, life | 2 comments

My New Year’s baby

Yes, this post is about Oliver.  We’re starting it with a photo of big brother helping Daddy cut baby Ollie’s umbilical cord.  The time stamp on the original photo shows 3:30AM on Janurary 2nd.  This is 3.5 hours after Oliver was born in our bathtub.  Yes, Aidan stayed up!  He was so incredibly excited about [...]

January 13th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: crafty, life | 2 comments