Indecision

Now on to more current topics. First, what could motivate us to update the blog more than pictures of our new baby girl?! So here she is!This first picture is of her at only 5 days old! A mere one hundred and twenty-eight cells (It was the day she moved from the petri dish to my uterus).

If you think she looks bumpy and funny in this picture, you should have seen the others the 3D machine came out with! She was very distorted and had a big lizard grin. We still like to joke about it. She was sucking on her pinky and wiggling around a lot during the ultrasound.

Does this sleepy smile look at all familar? We had decided years ago on the name Rhoda Dawn for our first girl. Rhoda is from seven generations in Kristen's family tree. Dawn is after Basil's mom of course. We love these women so much and would love for our daughter to share their name. As soon as we saw her on the ultrasound we started calling her "Rhodie", but now we are having second thoughts. I've been asking people's advice and I get a lot of "it sounds like rhodadendron" or "Rhodadon, like mastadon." It could just be pregnancy dementia making me so indecisive, but I am very mixed up. Another name we love is Eden Jean and Basil loves Clarrisa Rae. Leave comments on what you think.

My second bit of indecision on baby's quilt. I decided to try aplique and to do a fun design. I got a lot of inspiration from the gorgeous art quilts by Amy Karol at King Pod. I would link if I knew how but you can probably search it or just ask me. It was so much fun to use fabrics I've been saving for something really special; like the green striped Mickey and Mini fabric from a jumper I loved as a baby.

I also really love the lamb first just because of the general symbolism of lambs, second because my baby quilt also had lambs on it, and third because we have a family lulaby with lambs in it.

It is the square on the upper right that I am having problems with. The idea is from a love letter I wrote to Basil while we were dating about if he were a dove and I were a trout. At first I really liked the idea of the bird and the fish on there, but now I am thinking that it really is more of our thing rather than baby's and that maybe I should replace it with something else. I thought about doing a snail with a castle on its back, but the temple on the purple square looks very castle-ish and I like that. I also like the idea of a tree. Tell me what you think. I also might have to replace the upper right hand corner depending on what we decide about that first conundrum.

Anyway, I'm kind of burnt out on the quilt right now and will put off making any decisions about it while I work on another project. Thanks for listening to my ramblings.