Play Mats

As if I don't have a million things to do to get ready to move to AK (like purge, purge, purge this house) I recently found myself at the fabric store looking for fabric to make a play mat for Lil Bit. My friend C has one (given to her by a friend of hers) and I fell in love with it the moment I saw it and thought, I can do that! And why stop at one? I'll make two: one for a friend who's expecting and one for myself, er, I mean Lil Bit. lol.

What is a play mat, you ask? Just a fancy place for babies to do tummy time. It has a front and back with a layer of batting in the middle to provide a tiny bit of cushion and it makes it just thick enough so that the babies don't end up with it bunched up in their mouth, which is what happens when you put them down on blankets.

So, I picked out some coordinating fabrics and went to work. I'm soooooo happy at how they turned out!

This is the front of Bit's


I had her name embroidered on it.

This is the back.

With an "m".

I had some left over fabric, so I made some burp cloths too.
There's terry cloth on the back.


This is the one I made for my friend in Arkansas who is having a boy this summer.

The front!

I intended to have his name embroidered on this side, but I messed up the order.

The back.

With his name.

...and burp cloths.

Inspected by this little gal.
She approves.

So, what do you think?

UPDATE: Lil Bit's cranial vault measurements have improved by 5mm since we started PT! So instead of there being a 12mm difference between the right and left sides, there's only a 7mm difference. Yahoo!!!! And she's getting stronger everyday.

A FUNNY:

We had our overseas medical screening yesterday for our move to Alaska, which is considered overseas. When we go to the hospital and have to wait around a lot, we let Boo watch "Jack's Big Music Show" on our iPod. Yesterday was no different. He was still watching the show when we got back to the car. On our way to our next appt, he kept saying, "I need help." And I told him he'd have to wait because I was driving. We arrived at our destination and met up with B-man. Boo starting asking for help again. So, B-man took the iPod from him to see what the problem was and immediately started laughing. Turns out, the little guy had managed to change it off of Jack and was instead jammin' to Bon Jovi's WANTED Dead or Alive. Can't you just picture him in his car seat with the headphones on listening to Bon Jovi as he looked out the window? We got a good laugh out of that one.