Pettiskirt

I saw this pettiskirt online the other day. I fell in love with it. I wanted one for Claire and Ella, but there is no way I was going to spend that much money on one. I started googling tutorials for them. I decided I was going to attempt making them one. I had to order the Nylon Chiffon online. I have been waiting a week for it. It arrived today, and I started the process of making the skirt. . I'll have to let you know how it turns out. If only my belly wasn't so big, I could stand to sit and sew for a longer period of time.

I know its been forever since I have updated our blog. I can't really say I have a good excuse, but I am going to blame it on the baby. Mark says I blame everything on the baby. But when you get this far along in pregnancy it takes lots of extra effort to do stuff. We have 6 weeks left, and my belly is big. In fact it is big enough that people feel the need to comment on how big it is where ever I go. I'll just say I know my belly is big, I don't like being told HOW big it is.

Easter was fun with Claire. She didn't really understand the concept of the Easter Bunny. I tried to explain it to her, I talked it up and let her choose her own easter basket. She Picked a green bucket with bunnies on it, because it fit best on her head. Then proceeded to wear it on her head through the rest of the store. Which worked out great because she couldn't see me putting the things to fill her basket in the cart. :) I forgot my camera on Easter sunday. :( My SIL Heather took these pics and put them on facebook. I stole them. Thanks Heather. Claire loved running around putting eggs in the basket, as long as she didn't have to carry the basket. She also felt the need to wear both the bunny ears, the easter bunny brought, and the bunny mask Grandma and Grandpa got her. She loves them so much that she will randomly wear them for the day and tell me "Claire bunny".

Claire has decided she is a princess and will wear only dresses. Apparently princesses don't wear pants. It took an hour of crying the other day and me promising her levi's were "princess leggings" to get her to wear them. I am going to have to make sure she always has at least one dress clean. I have been sewing most of her dresses. Which means I take her to the fabric store and let her pick out the material her "princess" dress will be made out of. She then loves to sit on the table and watch over the sewing machine as I make her dress. Then she will immediately want to try it on. This is my favorite part as she smiles the biggest grin ever and says "Mama look at me LOOK AT ME!" I then tell her she is a beautiful princess and she will twirl around the room. Most of the time she twirls until she is too dizzy and tips over. I will sew her a hundred dresses just for that moment. It is a good thing she doesn't care that they are all the same dress made out of different material. I only have one pattern. Plus my sewing skills, while improving, are not at a very high level.

Our little Ella Jane will be arriving soon. I am so excited for her to get here. I feel like time is going slower. While I know 6 more weeks isn't that much longer, it feels like it is going to take forever to get here. We have her room ready. I sewed her some cute sheets and crib skirt to match her rug. I often just peek in there. We had a doctors appointment last week, and everything is going good. She is growing and developing right on schedule. While I am hopeful she will want to make her appearance a little early, not too early mind you, she will probably arrive the last week in May. I think we are ready for her to arrive. But we will probably be going to the store on the way home from the hospital to get a few things we have forgotten we needed. May can't get here soon enough.

crazy hair

You know it was a good nights sleep when she wakes up with hair like this.

I know, I know its been way too long since I update our blog. I'm such a slacker I didn't even put up a christmas update. I have thought about it regularly. Once in a while I'll log in with the intent to update, but then decide I didn't really want to. So let me give you a quick update on what has been going on.

Christmas came and was so fun. Mark and I were so excited to see how Claire would react this year. Mark and I were both up in bed around 6 am. Its like we were little again. He went and got Claire out of bed at the first peep she made. He brought her in with us. She snuggled up next to me. I told her it was Christmas and that Santa had come. I didn't think she would really understand, but I was wrong. As soon as I said that she jumped up she said "SANTA!! PRESENTS COME ON! LETS GO! DADDY PEAS PRESENTS" It was so fun to see her opening presents and loving them. We went to my parents for a christmas breakfast. Claire and her two cousins spent the the morning fighting over each others presents. We then headed over to Mark's parents house were we spent the rest of the day. It was so nice to be with family. For the next week every morning Claire would ask "Santa come? Presents?" It was hard to explain that chistmas only happens once a year. It was so cute.

Shorty after christmas I became sick. I got a nasty virus that was going around. I got so bad that I went in to the doctor who told me that because I was pregnant I couldn't have any of the medications. He told me to "be tough". I then spent the next 3 weeks trying to recover. Claire came down with the same thing shortly after I did, we took her in and got her on meds and she made a quick recovery. I'm glad she didn't have to suffer through it.

Claire is talking more and more every day. I have to watch what I say because she copies everything. The other day we were in the car and I was following Mark who was in front of us. I starting telling him to "GO GO FAST GO" then I hear a little copycat in the back seat start yelling "GOOOO DADDY GOOO FAST" Now when we drive in the car, I am constantly being told by Claire to "go fast mommy go go go"

We had our big ultrasound on Jan. 25th. Everything looks healthy. It was so fun to see her. I came home and compared the 3d pictures of her to Claires. They are definately going to look like sisters. The pictures were so similar I almost think they might look like twins. We have decided on a name. We had been going back and forth on it, when one day I asked Claire who was in my tummy her reply was " baby Ella" that decided it for us. Her name will be Ella Jane Hansen. I have entered the nesting stage and can't wait to decorate her room. I used pink for Claire, I wanted to give Ella her own unique room so we are going to use purples for her room. Mark thinks I am little crazy but puts up with it. Its a good thing he loves me a lot. We are counting down the time till little Ella comes. I can hardly wait.

Its a....

We found out today that we are having a GIRL!

Mark has been so certain that we were having a boy that we having been calling him Samuel. I don't think that will work anymore. It is probably just because we found a boys name we both loved that we are having another girl.

I am excited for Claire to have a little sister so close in age. I am hoping she will be excited when the baby comes. Now we just have to figure out a name for her. We are both liking Emily. But Emily mean rival. Is it setting my girls up to be rivals if we name her that?

Claire refers to herself as Princess Claire and these are her clothes of choice.

Claire is 2!!!

My little Claire turned 2 on the 7th. So I thought I would post some of my favorite pictures of her over the last year.

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Happy Birthday my favorite 2 year old! Love Love Love you.