The sweet ladies in our ward had a baby shower for Rose this week! I came home with an enormous pile of the cutest pink clothes ever! I’m in girly heaven. All I want to do is admire the row of tiny dresses hanging in the closet and dream about life WITH a sweet little baby girl and life withOUT a big stomach!
But alas, there is another weighty responsibility to take up some of my daydream time: I became the Grandview Ward Primary president today! I received the call last week, and it was made official today. My honest first thought was a panicky “Who, ME? Seriously?” I’ve never been president of anything EVER! No clubs, no young women class, nada. Although I still have no idea how to do this job, I feel much better about it now than I did one week ago. Our ward is very supportive, and now that I’ve been set apart, everything seems much less scary and much more do-able. To me, the biggest vote of confidence is the call itself, because I know where it came from. If He thinks I can do it, then I guess I can!!!
Whew.
Well, I don’t have any cute pictures to post this time, but the pictures I do have are of things I’m excited about… so that’s my excuse for posting the boring pictures! Some people are worried about being dull or pointless with their blogs. While I want to keep mine as entertaining and well-written as I can, its main purpose is to update family and friends on our little life. And as you know, sometimes life is boring, and sometimes it’s not!
The other day I just HAD to see what the crib will look like when Rose comes. So I sewed a super-long tube of pink flannel and crammed our blue crib bumper into it. Voila, boy crib bumper becomes girl crib bumper! I also sewed Rose a blanket with roses on it—it’s in the crib too.
Would you believe me if I told you that this is less than half of the clothes Rose has been given?
The rolly kitchen island-turned baby changing table. It is actually quite perfect—we loved using it with Jay! See all that PINK in those plastic drawers? I moved Jay’s clothes to the closet and put Rose’s clothes by the changing table. It’s still surprising to see PINK peeking out of those drawers. I’m sure I’ll get used to it.
The kid closet. It’s TINY, but I constructed some shelves and drawers. Ugly? yes. Budget-friendly? (a.k.a. free) yes. And I can just close the closet door and keep it hidden. It’ll look better when we get a few more big Huggies boxes in there so it all… “matches.”
Are you tired of these inanimate Jay-less pictures yet? Rose is already doing her sisterly duty and HOGGING the hanging space in the closet! 2 people in our ward gave us boxes of hand-me-down girl clothes, and those plus the shower gifts have given Rose a grand total of 14 dresses!!! I don’t know if I’ve owned 14 dresses in my whole life put together! Luckily there is a variety of sizes, so she should hopefully be able to wear them all before growing out of them!
OK, here’s proof that there are some people in this house too. Jay loves playing with Daddy! Jay is getting so tall and smart. It’s great fun to watch him play and try new things. I never know what he’s going to come up with next. I had to dig out the next set of sizes from his clothes box this week. (yay for more friendly hand-me-downs!) Jay can wear some 2 year old clothes now! I guess he’s only 4 months from being 2, but still—my baby is growing up!
That’s the end of the new stuff. I promise, things will get a lot more exciting around here in about a week or two…
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