A Day of Learning!

Today I finished my first ever quilt. I decided that for me I wanted to make something special for my little baby boy. SO, about 3 months ago I went to Joann Fabric's for some fabric. But I had no idea what to get that wasn't too girly. Now, Rob has an eye for these kinds of things.
Rob picked out blues, grey and I found stars and dragon flies. Then I learned dragon flies are more of a girl bug...funny right? So, we went from there. I began learning how to get the right square sizes-since my sewing is not skilled enough to do anything more fancy than squares yet. I learned how to make the top part of the quilt. Then the ladies at joann's came up with putting cozy flannel on the bottom. That way I didn't have to worry about the batting and stuff.
Once, we both got the low down on how to get all the cutting, sewing pieces together, we went home to start! In that time we have moved and I have been mentally blocked by not knowing how to connect the two sides together. I mean I knew I needed the edge stuff and my sewing machine but much more than that I was stumped. Until, my friend told me how to do it. So today I finished my first quilt!
A long with a quilt I decided to make some dark curtains for the babies room. Mostly because both rob and I have been instructed my our classes that the baby will not know the difference between dark and light-which means he'll have a hard time learning to sleep at night if there is a lot of light coming into his room at night. Which with our luck there is...Our next door neighbor has decided he needs a 6 foot lamp light that stays on all night in his back yard in order to keep watch or something. Well, this is bad for us because the light shines directly into the little guys room. So, I figured out that if I made some denim curtains it would keep out the light. So far it is a success. And don't worry I added some baby charm to the mix with cute lizzard, frog, turtle and grasshopper fabric...it turned out cute. I am one excited mama!
Now the only things we have left before the baby comes are possibly getting a breastfeeding pillow, the stork visit(aka filling out medical forms before the due date that way the hospital doesn't have to bother the in pain mama and the worried dad) and packing the hospital bag. I don't know how early you should pack a bag but its on the list this week to first figure out what we need to take and what we want to bring with...Its amazing how time has gone...It feels just like yesterday when we found out about being pregnant. Oh but I can't wait to hold the little guy...I think he is going to be very much like his dad...