AJ's Antics

I hope you all have a wonderful happy and healthy 2009. I already have great plans and expectations...let's hope they come true!

The last quilt of the year! The instructions for this quilt are on my blog if you would like to make one too!! There were about 5 of us who started making this quilt with me and I think Helen is the only one also finished...I'll blog her quilt here too when I get a photo. This quilt will be in the mail soon to DH's Nanna.

I hung my RR quilt yesterday...I had to re-arrange the whole wall but they all fit! And I even have one more space for the 2009 EB Doll Quilt Swap! Finished Size: 37 1/2" x 35" (95.5cms x 89cms)

I now offically have a foetus. At this stage all your baby's major organs have formed. The baby's head is still large and measures almost half the total crown to rump length. From this stage onwards the organs will mostly be growing in size and developing so that life outside the womb will eventually be possible. Although your baby has moved on to a new phase of development, the healthy diet and lifestyle you have followed in your pregnancy is still important. I'm still well and healthy and not tired any more...could have something to do with the amount of sleep I'm getting...I love being on holidays! I'm still eating oranges and weetbix! I am not normally a breakfast person...but getting up at 9am everyday suits me and therefore I have breakfast! Weight: 63kg (still!)

The lovely Adds sent me some Christmas fabric from her extensive stash...so what's a girl to do but use it of course...I finished stitching the binding down at lunch time today and it sits perfectly on our table ready for lunch tomorrow! MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!

I have finally put together the last block and started stitching it down today....It is massive but was fun to do! I loved picking the colours and had DH's approval for the final choices...overall very happy with how it turned out...now to finish stitching it....hopefully before the new year!

Everything is still good!! I'm loving oranges at the moment and have to have one before bed...strange! A few people have asked how we came up with Russell as a nickname for baby...rest assured it is only a nickname!! As I work with children, so good some not so good, it rules out a lot of name that I like because of associations to one child or another...especially boys! DH working in a predominately male work force also gives us the problem of 'no not that name I know 3 of them' and then there was also DH's response to a few names I mentioned...'nope to poofy it has to be manly' Add to the fact that we have been at this TTC business for a few years, we've had quite a few 'name conversations' As it goes...DH wanted Russell for a boy....me...'no way!!' Older brother had a friend with a younger brother called Russell and he of course got 'Russell the love muscle' which unfortunately is immediately what my family says when the name Russ...