This afghan was supposed to be to keep at our house for Zach when he visits us and spends the night, but it’s too special to not be with him every day. If you look close, you can see lots of things represented in this Zachghan. It is all scrap yarn. His first sleepsack yarn, rows that represent Christmas, his family, Halloween, July 4, etc. It was fun to make and he loves it.
Peek-a-boo…..I see you!!!!
When Danielle was pregnant with little Mr. Zachary, all six of us (Corey, Danielle, Mark, myself, Keith and Justin) were at Hobby Lobby and we all picked out yarn for a blanket for this little fetus. It’s not the colors you would normally expect for a one-year old, but who wants to be normal? He grew out of his baby blanket I crocheted for him, so this is his next blanket made with the yarn picked out with love before he was even born. Here he is chillin’ – watching tv……….
…….and at bedtime in his playpen during an overnight visit……..
Isaiah continues to thrive. He is up to 5 lbs. 4 oz. Look how big he is!!! Here he is in a bear hat that we donated………..
Here is his big-boy set that we made for him. We are so happy for Isaiah and his family that he will soon be home.
Double pride – that’s what I feel about my kids – my sons – my boys. I’m always proud of them. I’ll start with Corey. Since he was born second, I’ll let him go first in my pride post………..
Corey is building a cnc router. He has researched the hell out of it and is a genius to build something like this. It is being put together in his basement with the fabricating being done at his workplace. Here he is in his basement beaming with pride (it runs in the family)…..
I’m equally proud of Keith. He ran his second half-marathon (he says it’s his last – he wants to focus on improving on his 5k’s). He completed the Chicago Half Marathon on September 11, 2011. It was a glorious beautiful day (especially since I was NOT running the half marathon – 13.1 miles). He crossed the finish line smiling and waving……….
Is this funny? Keith seemed to think so (so did I). He was fixing my laptop and for shock value, he said “look Mom!”……..
Dunebrook……..what can I say about Dunebrook……..we are happy to help them – we are happy to help all that we do help and wish we could help more. We cut back on our full-term sets as it just got to be too much. For the hospitals, we went back to doing only preemie sets as that was our original vision with TeamZachMcD – Zach was a preemie and we wanted to do something for the other preemie families. We will continue to do full-term for Dunebrook and Stepping Stone and will continue making chemo hats.
That being said, here is our latest delivery to Dunebrook………..
Our delivery to Memorial Hospital in South Bend, Indiana was small – they only needed Halloween as they have others who also donate and they had enough at the present time. Here are their Halloween sets…….
This is our delivery to SJRMC. It’s a big one because it is for NICU and Pediatrics. As always, we hope they enjoy.
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Molly is our favorite princess. She knows she is a princess and wears it well. She went to live with Keith and Justin when Keith moved out. Keith took this picture of her – she’s a sixteen year old beauty. Her mommy abandoned her when she was two weeks old and we took her in. I’m glad we did (thanks Mark!!!).
