furniture and equipment

We had a busy weekend. Eve's new furniture came and we moved her to the front bedroom. It was sooooo weird for me when I said goodnight to her last night. Putting her in a bed and not a crib signified that she is no longer a baby. She's my little girl. Oh, and she loves her bed. She did really well. She whined a bit after we closed the door the first night (but she sometimes does that in the crib), but tonight just talked away until she fell asleep. We've got bedrails up, and I put her two pillows at the bottom of the bed rails in case she migrates. But, I love having her books in her headboard. I am now able to climb into her bed and read to her (instead of in our bed). She loves her new room. Tonight she wanted to get into bed before we finished singing her nightly lullaby. She couldn't wait.



We bought a really cool piece of art for over this dresser. It should get here in 2-3 weeks. We'll also have to slowly add her artwork. We plan to make a collage of framed family and friends' pictures in B and W for another wall.

Jim plans to build a changing table top for the dresser. Once that is done, we will move out her changing table and put her toy chest in its place.

Here you can see the tie-backs that I made from the excess quilt material. We bought light-blocking curtains because this room gets strong afternoon sun. I think I might also add more fabric details to the curtains, but haven't figured out what yet.

Oh, yeah. And here's the quilt. You can see a close up of some of the fabrics below. I am not quite done. The center of the quilt has interlocking diamonds of the dark brown floral. For the majority of the quilt, I quilted the layers by "stitching in the ditch" which means I quilted along the seams of the triangles. For the center blocks, I am trying (for the second time ever) free motion quilting. Instead of a straight stitch, you move the fabric all around and can quilt in any direction. I have decided to outline the flowers in this center section to make them pop out a bit. That's the part that I still have to finish. You can see below how some are done and others are not.


Here is Eve in her gait trainer! She is not terribly thrilled with it, but actually walked a few feet today. I only kept her in it for about 4 minutes because I wanted it to be a positive experience. We gave her TONS of praise, and I think she just needs to get over her fear of it.

Here's the new stander. It looks different from the other one. All the support is in the front and it actually rotates up and down to get her in it. You can position it so that she is lying down Superman-style, strap her in, and crank it to an upright position.

Here's the indicator for the angle. This stander makes her work harder. So we are back to 20 minute sessions and will work our way up again. Oh, and she loves it. I think she was in it 3 times today.


Hope you had a nice weekend!