the giant among us...

First smile caught on camera, smiling away at 7 weeks :)

2 months old to the day... little cutie.... I mean GIANT cutie.... I knew we would have a big boy when I delivered a 8 pound 2 oz, 22 inch long baby, but how big, I didn't expect GIANT big! We went for Tanner's 2 month checkup this morning and found out he is in the 95 percentile for weight and is off the chart for height!!!! For those of you not yet familiar with child lingo, that means out of 100 babies Tanner would weigh more than 95 of them and out of 100 babies Tanner would be taller than them all, hehe :)

Anyways, while my little giant is snoozing I should be taking advantage and getting some stitching done. Philly Folk is racing up on me! Yesterday I managed to finish three little girl skirts that I had started the day I went into labor. My goal is to get those onto the website sometime this week. And go blueberry picking.... and tend to the garden..... mmmmm I love the tastes of summer!

seeing blurry

I just finished up this top and Tanner is still sleeping so I had big plans of getting it onto my site and into my etsy shop..... that is until I got back inside and started seeing blurry.... blurry pictures that is. We are amidst a rolling and rumbling thunderstorm but by moving the right way I was able to dash between raindrops and get some outside photographs taken. But I'm still learning how to use my big boy camera and I zoomed it on the timer and apparently it doesn't autofocus on a zoomed timer. Or if it does I haven't learned that trick yet. So all that dashing between raindrops for nothing. Well ok I did get to catch some kick ass lightning bolts and feel the earth shake during a few of the rumbles. But nothing that I had planned :) So now this top will sit until I get another chance at a photo op.

well he's here!

I've been a bad blogger but this time I have the cutest little excuse.... meet Tanner Michael!

He arrived May 18th at 2:27 am, after an amazingly short and sweet natural labor.... 2 hours of labor and 15 minutes of pushing, this little guy came out, full head of hair and all!

So we've been busy enjoying this new life, enjoying summer. We even went to our first festival a couple of weeks ago- Clearwater on the Hudson River.

I vended this one- the perfect festival to break in the little guy, low key and family oriented. He did amazing!

Well I'm making this post short and sweet, off to tend to the babe. I feel like I have so much to share so hopefully I'll find some time to post regularly again. Even though I've been neglecting Magnolia Skies on the web, I've been busily stitching the past couple months for the festival season. Next up, Philadelphia Folk Fest in August. In the meantime I'm hoping to get some eco pieces on the site..... lots of ideas!