Together at Last and Night Owls Nursery

Sorry it's taken awhile (I'm pretty sure every blog post from now on could start out like that...) but Miss Abigail did FINALLY come home on Tuesday July 6th. Those 2 days and 2 nights were some of longest of my life. I've never cried so much. I just kept thinking of her in there with strangers taking care of her because I couldn't leave her brother all the time. It's so much better having them together! If twins were meant to be separated they wouldn't come together.

Here's Oliver coming home with us on July 4th. It was so bitter-sweet because we were leaving Abigail at the same time. Look at that sad empty car seat next to him.

I wanted to show off a few of the projects my mom and I worked on while I was on bed rest.

I fell in love with these quilts at a very cute, very overpriced children's retailer- let's call them "Crockery Shed" so I won't get sued for copyright infringement or something:-) if you want to see the originals go to this link. I recommend never looking at their website if you want to be happy with other cheaper options, everything is way too cute! I was not willing to spend that much money but I had my heart set on them. Because I have an awesome mom she agreed to take them on for the twins baby quilts from her. Since this is much more involved than her normal quilts I helped as much as I could. I hand quilted almost one entire quilt by myself. All together we figure it took us 4 weeks of bed rest to make both quilts start to finish.

They only sell the girl version so we had to be more creative to make the boy version. I LOVE them! Notice the rick rack, coordinating backs, and the corduroy trunks on the trees.

One of the little girl birds. I taught myself 3 new embroidery stitches to do the beak and feet.

Now that I had a theme my sister Alyn crocheted these darling night owl hats. I can't wait for them to fit! Until then they are decorations. I did splurge and buy the sheet from "Crockery Shed". Target happened to have a boy owl sheet as well- how lucky!

I'd like you to meet Abby and Olly the owls! Again copied from "Crockery Shed's" expensive version. I made the pattern myself and had most of the pieces cut out when I went into labor. So this is what my mom worked on while I was in labor and finished them a few days later. How nice is that?! Charlotte points to them and says, "cute". My mom says they are very cute in an ugly kind of way. Owls are supposed to be quirky right?

Pockets on the back so miscellaneous items including future teeth for the tooth fairy can be stowed.

Abby and Olly the owls with the real Abby and Olly for their first 1 week picture! We're so glad to have them home!