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Cotton Babies are giving away FREE diapers!

Check out this contest for free diapers through Cotton Babies!!! We love bumgenius!
http://clothdiapers.blogspot.com/2010/09/free-cloth-diaper-week-grand-finale.html

Lenci is 5 years old and Eden is 4 months old!

I cannot believe it, but Lenci just turned 5 years old and Eden is today 4 months old! Wow! Time seems to be flying by! Five years old is monumental! Some of my greatest memories happened at that age! Sorry I haven't posted in a while! Getting ready for this years school and all has me super busy... well, along with the 5 busy blessings God has graced us with! ;) Here are a few updated pics of our family as of late!

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
James 1:17

Welcome, Eden Grace!!!

I have been very distracted from blogging as of late, trying to prepare for the arrival of our 5th baby!!! Well, we were delighted to welcome HER into the world on April 25th at 3:17pm at our birth center! Baby's name is Eden Grace and she is just the sweetest! We brought her home the day she was born by 7pm, which is one of the things that I love about going to the birth center! As many of you know, we don't find out the gender of our babies, so it's always exciting to find out at the end, and for some reason we were all thinking girl, all of us except our 3 year old son, Asher! :) We decided to wait to tell the kids what we had until we got home so we could show them their new sister in person! Everyone is just enamoured by little Eden, including big brother Titus, who I was a trifle worried about, considering that they are days away from being 16 months apart! :) I don't think he knew she was even real until a few hours after we got her home and she started opening her eyes and stuff, and then Titus started saying "Hiiiiiiiii" to her in the sweetest voice, followed by LOTS of sweet kisses!!! I must say I am relieved, because I wasn't sure how he would take it, being that he is the youngest, and everyone has always doted on him! :) I have noticed that his vocabulary has grown by a few words since Eden has come home, and he has really been playing more with the others as opposed to grabbing anything that he can reach! :) Things are busy here, and we have taken a few days off from doing school, but we will resume next week, and I plan on using a chart to motivate Zoe to stay on task so that we can really get through the end of the school year with a good attitude! :)
I am using cloth diapers this time from the beginning, besides the first few days of disposables during the mecomium! :) I am loving the little bitty cloth diapers! They're so cute, and we're saving soooo much using these in this stage since they poo and pee TONS at the beginning! :)
Here are a few pictures of our sweet girl and of the whole gang! :) The first two are at the birth center, the next is with all the kids when Eden is 2 days old, and the last ones are of Eden at 1 week old! I had fun playing photographer in the tutu my sister made and the baby nest I crocheted! :) I hope to be better at updating the blog, but I can't promise that this blog will be one of my top priorities! :) Maybe I can just try to update with pictures occasionally! We'll see! Anyway, blessings to you all! Off to feed our new little sweetums! :)

Baby Cozy Giveaway!

Yay! So, I am super excited to be a part of a drawing!!! My friend Jessica is giving away one of my baby cozy's that I crochet! :) You should go to her blog and check it out!!! It's thelowefamilynews.blogspot.com (sorry, can't figure out how to link it)! :) If you would like to purchase something from me, just email me at heartstringsbymaia@gmail.com and I will let you know prices! I am currently working on getting an etsy set up! That will make things much easier in the future! Here are a few pictures of the things I have made and can make for you! ;)




These pictures are of my son, Titus, when he was 4 weeks old (light green cozy) and 6 weeks old (in the brown cozy)! He loved them soooo much and would fall asleep so easily when he was so tiny! :) They can be used as photography props or for you at home with your children. I don't think I ever put him in his bed in one unless he had one of those things under him to keep him from rolling over, but I know I would let him sleep in it when he was in the swing alot! So, just let me know and I'll get to posting more things that I have made. To name a few, I have made hats for kids and adults, scarves, mittens, baby clothes, baby booties, Christmas ornaments, dolls, stuffed animals, baby blankes, diaper bags, rag rugs and much more! ;) Thanks for coming by! :)