I'll be sharing some ways we've been getting organized for baby this week, including Free Printables (hooray for last minute nesting energy!) and a review of the awesome book "Organizing You" by Shannon Upton. With baby arriving soon, the first thing we've had to consider is where Isia & Billy will go. When we left our city tribe behind a year ago I wasn't sure how long it would take build one up here in the woods. Not to replace our city one- you can never replace friends- but to complement it. And now, a year and a month later, we have four beautiful families close by that are graciously awaiting the phone-call to take care of our little ones. There aren't words for what a blessing it is, to know not only are they willing to... but they want to. We've been surrounded by so many people who enjoy our kids- who are far from perfect, just as we all are- as much as we do. To make sure the kids were ready to head out, I had their suitcase packed long before my own hospital bag. I also revamped the old babysitter sheet I had created years ago with this new one. 

I three-hole punched the new babysitter sheet and put in the middle of our three-prong folder baby-sitter folder. I love three-prong folders and actually keep one for each kid (more on that another time). On the baby-sitter folder, I wrote the kids' full names, our house phone number and address on the outside cover for easy reference. Then I fastened the babysitter sheet, along with medical consent forms for long trips away, on the interior prongs. I usually tuck a note with any other information that might be needed in the inside pocket, but everything else stays put so it's ready when we need it. 

Here's the printables in case you want to create a babysitter folder, or revamp one that you already have too!

For one kid: Babysitter Folder Printable

For two kids: Babysitter Folder Printable

For three kids: Babysitter Folder Printable

It's so easy to look at a series of photographs and think that a project happened in the span of a day, or two, or maybe even a week. Not with these pictures. The time period between coloring the initial butterfly sheets (that I created & am including for you!), to making them into stickers, to including them in an artwork was one month... perhaps even two. This is a great project to do incrementally, to pull out on rainy days or according to attention span, and the results speak for themselves!

Sticker Glue Recipe

Here are the Ravelry notes to the last vest I made. The only modification here was to cast on size 9 needles. It's intended for a quickly-growing little guy, and I wanted to give him room to grow into it before this fall/winter. The grey is a wool blend that's washable, which makes it perfect for spitting-up babies and non-knitting mamas. And the buttons were a combination of what I had, and a quick errand to the fabric store. I really wanted teal buttons- his mama loves teal- but I couldn't find the right shade. So grey & white it is!

I'm currently finishing up the top and straps for the little creature in my belly's vest, so I'll be sharing that next. Which means we'll have a vest for Isia and a vest for baby. Billy David might need to be next!