Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Day 108 - More 18 Month Clothes



Here's another batch of clothes from DD#4 as she's moving up a size.

I'm giving 3 sleepers to a cousin with a baby 6 months behind DD#4. Another outfit is a little hard to part with. It has embroidery of some birds and says "birdie" on it. We received it when DD#2 was a baby and her nickname is Birdie. *sniff*

It's been so hard to find stuff lately, the baby clothes have been a relief!

Katie

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Day 107 - Laundry Finds



I have had a big stack of stained clothing in my laundry rooms for months waiting for some extra attention. I finally gave these my super stain treatment and about half come out clean and the other half I am not going to try anymore. If I haven't needed it for months, I don't need it now.

1. Stained onesie (terrible blue dye in a detergent from Amazon!)
2. Stained PJ shirt
3. Stained white shirt
4 & 5. pants & shorts that match the stained pj shirt
6. Stained pink shirt
7. Paint on Red sparkle shirt
8. Stained white infant sweater (terrible blue dye in a detergent from Amazon!)
9. Purple "fancy" outfit with faint stains
10. Heavy sweater DD#2 really likes but it takes forever to dry and I don't like it laying out for 3 days. Just slipping this one out. Shhhh.
11. Stained skirt
12. Tiny stain on a onesie that's too small by now.
13. Stained blue shirt
14 to 17. Washcloths - the girls got new ones for Valentine's Day
18 to 20. Kid tights with holes
21 & 22. Old socks of mine - look at those holes in the heels! When we first got married I never threw socks away. I would just save the "good" socks for when I was going somewhere and might remove my shoes. I remember being really embarrassed once at a mommy group when one of the toddlers came over and poked her finger right in the hole on the heel of my sock. Naturally it called attention and I was embarrassed and sad that I couldn't afford new socks. I'm pretty sure I called my mom and cried because it's like a family joke now that I always get socks as gifts.
23 & 24. Other old socks of mine.
25 & 26. These are ruffled socks I bought thinking they'd fit one of the girls, but they're actually adult size. Why would an adult wear ankle ruffle sock?

Katie

Monday, February 27, 2012

Day 106 - Larger Items & Misc.

I've been collecting photos of big stuff as it's been leaving the last month of two. The pile of stuff next to my bed just gets too big if I collect this big stuff for long. I also have a few random items in here that I just snapped quick photos of when I didn't have time to gather a full 26.

First up: Comforter and pillow sham. The older girls got new quilts for Christmas so we don't need to keep the old comforters.
An excellent crib/toddler bed mattress cover. I have another one that does the job and folds flatter in the drawer.

Ah, the Barbeque! I was so excited to FINALLY haul this down to my brother in Portland. Our neighbor gave it to DH last fall who took it thinking it was a big improvement on our exisiting grill. When it came time to take one of the two to my brother, DH opted to keep the familiar one. As we struggled to get the thing into our Suburban I suggested to DH that he remember this moment the next time someone offered him a hand-me-down of these proportions. He did not appreciate my suggestion or its timing.

DH really wants me to have less mugs in the cupboard. I have already gotten rid of several! My mom has several mugs in this style (famous art from various art museums depicted on mugs) so I sent this one home with her.

I bought this little table in my single days, when I shared a 3 bedroom apartment with a couple of girlfriends. My tiny bedroom needed a desk and this narrow table did the trick. Thanks to Judy, one of my Facebook friends, for taking this out of my house.

These are wooden frames to hang on the wall. I was planning to donate them after last year's garage sale but my mom asked me to hang on to them for a project she had in mind for my daughters' room. I asked her a couple months back if I could bring them to her and get them out of my house. She had no idea what I was talking about or what idea she had had in mind. Hm.

Baby rocker/vibrating chair with hanging barnyard animals.

Baby sound & light bar that all my girls enjoyed. I just got tired of trying to find a space for it in our playroom.

Another table. I got this as a hand-me-down from my friend, Angie. We used it in our office for a couple years and as a sofa table for a couple more. Thanks to Megan, another Facebook friend, who was willing to take it.

If you're counting we're up to 16 items. I'm kinda cheating here and calling this toy 10 pieces because well, it's 10 pieces. I didn't count the odd pieces hanging from the baby toys futher up this post, so I feel justified in including these ones. We have 3 shape sorting toys and it was really hard to decide which to part with! I finally settled on this one.


Katie

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Day 105 - More Baby Clothes


Some of these are brand new! The kid just grows too fast to get her into everything.

1. Totally cute jacket
2. Black leggings
3. Striped leggings
4. Black leggings
5. Pink butterfly shirt
6. Black silver star shirt
Note that Items 1-6 all still have tags. Just kills me!
7 & 8. Cute outfit that's actually DD#4s LAST size, but I kept putting her in it
9 & 10. I picked up this lime/pink Puma outfit at a thrift store myself which is pretty unusual and made it special.
11 & 12. Stripey pants outfit. I love this one! I am keeping the matching stripey hoodie because it'll still fit for awhile and I just love it!
13 to 17. Shirts
18 & 19. White patent leather shoes with pink patent leather trim. Loved these on DD#3 but wrong season for DD#4 and she didn't wear them once. I kept them for 2 years for no reason!
20 & 21. Dresses
22 to 24. 3 piece pajama set

I must've miscounted today. Whoops! I'll get 28 items another day this week to catch up.

Katie
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Saturday, February 25, 2012

Day 104 - Baby Clothes


Here are some of DD#4's clothes now that she's moving up another size. I love to empty thes bins!

11 onesies
5 - 2piece outfits
4 skirts
1 ruffle-bum pants

Katie

Friday, February 24, 2012

Day 103 - Kid Bits & Pieces



Some kid stuff that has been accumulating in my little box for just this purpose. I had to lock my bedroom door this evening to snap this photo!

1. Leaky bottle of bubbles
2. Box beads came in
3. Tiny princess notebook
4. Piggy toy destroyed
5. Straw that's clogged or something
6. Mickey eraser
7 & 8. Paper doll party favors that the girls enjoyed until I got tired of them fighting over them
9 & 10. Dried out erasers
11. Dalmation pin
12. No break crayon without a crayon inside
13. comb
14. Press-on nails, a stocking stuffer error that I keep picking up everywhere
15. Tinkerbell notebook
16. paper bug wings
17. dried up glitter glue
18 & 19. pipe cleaner bug legs
20. Cinderella shoe
21. another paper bug piece
22. market lid
23. another paper bug piece
24 & 25. Cinderella arm puffs - what do you call those anyway?
26. Cinderella headband

Katie

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Day 102 - Office Ppaers & Books


I made another pass at the office this week.

1. 2010 calendar that was still hanging on the wall
2. 2011 calendar
3 & 4. Mail that's been hanging around since September
5 to 9. Old handouts
10. Bulletin board
11 & 12. Leaf art projects
13. Something kid-made with Perler beads
14. Kid-made bookmark
15 & 16. Party favors
17. Elmo's 12 Days of Christmas book
18 to 25. Books on European history - a favorite topic
26. Color Wonder marker

Katie