My bag is finished!

I finally finished quilting my diaper bag! Well, I should say my mom finished it. I only did a few things with it here and there. She's the real genius so she knew exactly how to put it together.
I love it so much! Here's the finished product.


Here is one side of it - there are two pockets.



Here's the other side of it - one big pocket.



Here's the inside with a pocket on both sides.

And here is me and my mommy with the masterpiece! :)

First taste of cereal

We fed Kenadie her first cereal on Saturday. Bule wished it was Coca Pebbles cereal and not rice cereal! She took the spoon pretty well but wasn't sure about the taste and wasn't quite sure how to swallow it. She got most of it on her face, of course! We'll keep trying every once in a while and see how she does.

Helmet, or no Helmet? That is the question.

So, I have a nurse from the Utah County Health Department's Welcome Baby program come to my house every month. She just checks on Kenadie and makes sure she's developing well. Last month she was here and she looked at Kenadie's head and told me it was really flat and that I should look into getting a helmet for her to round it out. I was thinking, HECK NO! My child will not wear one of those things (Jonna, I know Jenzy wore one; nothing against him!) . I tell her, ok, thanks for the info. I'm not saying I wouldn't get a helmet for Kenadie if she absolutely needed it, I'm just saying, I'd rather her not look like a mini football player. I knew Kenadie's 4 month well check-up was coming up so I was just going to ask her doctor and see what he thought. We went last week and he looked at it and mentioned it was kind of flat but on a scale of 1-10 it was 2 and no helmet required. Thank goodness!

She's crafty...

...or not so much.

I do not have one ounce of craftiness in my bones. But my mom sure does!

We went to Logan a few weeks ago to pick up my brother from school. On our way up there, we had to stop at a quilt shop in Brigham City. She loves to quilt and makes the most beautiful quilts for us. It's amazing what she can do. Anyway, as we were looking around the shop, I spotted a really cute quilted changing pad and wipes holder thing. See, I don't even know the right lingo for this kind of stuff; I call it a thing. It has two pockets - one to hold the changing pad (that was quilted) and one to hold the wipes, then it folds up. Then I saw a quilted bag (like a diaper bag) in the same material. I LOVED them both and got really excited. Somehow, I got the urge to make them and asked my mom to help me. She was kind enough to buy all the material for it and there was A LOT of material; I think there were seven or more different patterns. I had no idea quilting can be so expensive. Maybe I'm not crafty because things cost so much and I don't like to spend money. Or it could be that I don't have the patience. Or both. Back to the story. Last Friday, I went to her house and we started our "thing" and bag quilting project. We cut out some of the material and had to sew them together. Now, I don't sew. I think I've used a sewing machine once in my life when I felt the urge to make a pillow when I was younger. So when I sat at the sewing machine, I was very intimidated by it. Then my mom shows me what to do and it makes me feel even more intimidated because she sews all the time and can do it with her eyes closed. I could not sew straight and my mom had to un-pick a few spots and re-sew it. Fun stuff. So here we are cutting and sewing away. This is part of the inside and part of the outside of the bag. We aren't done yet, but should be in the next week or two. I can only go to her house once a week and can't work all day cuz of sweet little Kenadie (did you catch the sarcasm there? She's not so sweet when I want to put her down and work.). So when we have the finished product, I'll do another post. They will be super cute!!