Holy cow, it's 2011!

Where did the last 18 months go? I can't believe my little man is already 1 1/2 years old. And we are talking about adding a #2 to our little family. I couldn't have imagined how much would go on in my life in 2010. I'm so excited to start a new year and see how mj grows.
He's still on his boycott. We've started bribing him with mini m&ms. He gets 1 for pee and 2 for poo. He gets so excited when he goes and he knows he's going to get a treat. But he gets very frustrated when he sits on his potty and doesn't get anything. I don't know that I love this new idea but it's worth a shot. Especially since my little turkey could have been potty trained 2 months ago had he not decided to be too busy to take a seat.
Christmas was wonderful! I'll try and post some pictures soon. MJ got a train table and some things to play with on it. We tried to keep Christmas pretty simple this year but he still got way too many toys. His favorites are his new zhu zhu pets. We found them for $4 at walmart 2 days after Christmas so we got him some with a gift card (and some to give him for Easter). He lines them up and presses their backs at the same time to race them. Beautiful. He's so smart and it amazes me daily.
Lately I've been a little obsessed with finding mj a waldorf inspired doll. They are wonderful and I really appreciate the waldorf idea as well as the fact that these are handmade dolls. I must have looked at close to 200 dolls before almost deciding against getting him one altogether. It's very overwhelming trying to choose a doll for your son when the cheaper ($60) dolls are just not anywhere near the quality of the more expensive ones ($120+). I kept going back to the dolls made by Dragonfly's Hollow. The dolls are gorgeous and a friend has one so I trust the quality. The problem is that she doesn't do customs right now and her dolls are incredibly hard to obtain. You have to get on etsy just at the right time and put the doll in your cart. Then you have to sign into paypal and pay for the doll before it's yours. To make it more unlikely, there were only 2 boys in the whole upload. I'm all for MJ having a girl baby doll (in fact, he already has one) but I'm not going to spend that much money on a doll that he might feel uncomfortable with later, not to mention how Dad would have felt about that.
She uploaded a little red head, Chandler, as her first boy. I had him in my cart and messed up the first time I put in my paypal password. I missed him! I wasn't really expecting to get one of her dolls and I had already decided who would make a custom for me after (even though the quality isn't as good and I wouldn't have been near as pleased). She uploaded a beautiful brunette boy, Phoenix, and I somehow was able to snag him! Seriously, people try for MONTHS without any luck getting one of her dolls. And here I was on my very first upload and I got one.
I've shown mj a few pictures of him and he seems to be really excited. I'm hoping he gets here early next week.
All of that doll talk leads me to my next obsession. I love making things. I've been doing some bath salts and sugar scrubs for people and I love using it myself. I've also made some lip balm, wool dryer balls (more info on a later post), and some things from cloth. I think I need to make some doll things now.
It would be way more fun to be able to make doll dresses, hats, aprons, skirts... but it's a boy so I'm going to be making pants and tshirts. I also want to make some little shoes for the guy. My goal is to have some matching pjs for mj and phoenix by the end of next weekend. This weekend I think I'll make mj a sling for his baby. I wear him a lot and I think he'll enjoy being able to wear his baby. The doll is 15" tall so I'll have to make sure I make it big enough to fit him.

Here are some links to some things I want to make soon:
A t-shirt grocery bag

pants from a t-shirt

Footie shoes for Phoenix

There are more things that I know I'll want to do but those are the ones I'm thinking of for now.

And gdiapers (have I not done a blog about them yet...yikes!) is even sending me some tiny Gs so Michael can diaper his little dude. So excited and wonderful of them!

Both boys are feeling pukey and I'm about to fall asleep at the computer so I'd better go join them in bed.