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My lil guy is now 8 months….I can hardly take it it! Last week I went through his stuff and packed away all the 6 month sizes as well as receiving blankets and some hooded towels….I can hardly believe it….the rate at which babies grow.
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I was perfectly fine packing away those baby clothes into storage totes the first three times, packing them up the fourth time into the goodwill box was quite another story. I’m tearing up about in now…
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Pretty soon you will blink and she will be two! I can’t even begin to tell you how quickly the time flies with little ones. Enjoy every second.
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Buckeroomama, a friend of mine made a quilt without cutting the clothes! She sewed each piece in it’s entirety onto a block and then put the blocks together. I’m considering doing that with some of my favorite outfits for each of the boys rather than give them away or stuff them in storage for eons.
And I get the same ache every single time I pack away all the teensy weensy stuff. I’m really looking forward to yanking it all out again.
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Buckeroomama and Joanie - A friend of ours made a quilt for one outfit from every size. She sewed the onesie in its entirety onto a square and used that as the centerpiece. The pattern and other colors were all chosen around that onesie. I’ve been thinking about doing that with the onesie Charlotte came home from the hospital in.
Its just, well, the onesie she came home from the hospital in is sacred around here and I have trouble with the idea of sewing it at all.
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hahahahhaha. i like the last paragraph
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ha, love the last paragraph! it goes by so fast. it seems like just yesterday my daughter was 4 months.
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I feel your pain. While Junior hasn’t nearly outgrown anything yet, I feel the sadness, already. When we brought him home, he was 7.5 pounds and for some reason he got lost in his sized Newborn clothing. It all said 5-8 pounds and his 7.5 pounds was LOST. Swimming in miles and miles of clothing it seemed. That is.. until yesterday. I noticed yesterday that now he’s getting to big for them. He’s filling the length nicely, however, the width is still overabundant. He’s a tall and lean boy. On one hand I can’t wait for him to get into the next size up, that way he has more cloths (long story) to wear, but I love his little newborn sized clothing. It’s precious.
Long story: our family births BIG babies, so we didn’t think he’d even fit into newborn cloths, so we failed to purchase them. We only have about 10 or so things that fit him so he’s often in the same thing he wore just a couple days before. We then realized, once he was born and COULDN’T wear 0-3m cloths, that we’d have to pick up some Newborn items. Those were still too big. THankfully it’s all working out, now and he’s getting up there. Much to my distaste.
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i did this over the weekend, too! well, i’m just on my first round of growing-out-of-onesies, but i was so surprised that it made me sad.
it’s just a bunch of stained cotton! but still. i cried.
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Oh goodness, I had no idea that such random moments existed! <3, thanks for sharing, hey. :)
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LOL!! Hilarious!
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I don’t get so weepy over the clothes any more. I think the Mt. Everest pile of laundry I’ve done over the years has squished that corner of my heart.
Sad, huh? ;)
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I detest the task of keeping my children in clothes that fit them. Ugh. I thought two kids was bad, now there are three and the littlest one is in the throes of the outgrow-a-new-outfit-every-day stage. If only I had that many cute clothes, seriously…
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I did the EXACT SAME THING!!!!! And I kept all her clothes for over a year. At about 6 months I went through them and cried when I picked up the newborn clothes, smelling them, trying to remember her small little body.
Then…at 15 months I went back through the clothes because a friend of mine found out she is having a baby girl, and I couldn’t even remember which ones I had cried over. So I saved out a few of my favorite outfits and packed up the rest and gave them all away the next day. I felt sorta guilty! And as I was driving away I almost wanted to turn around and ask for them back!
Ah, the longings of a mother’s heart are not always rational or easy to understand. :)
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Oh this post hit home for me. I actually take *photos* of my kids’ clothes! (nuts! I know!) I was sad to pack them up after my first, but I knew I’d re-use them for my second (because I was pretty dang sure I’d have another boy, and I did!) Packing them up this second time is killing me. Curiously heartbreaking. My Mom is a quilter, so I’m saving my VERY favorites for a quilt that we’ll make ‘one of these days….‘
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Aww… and I bet they still have that baby smell too, which has got to make it even harder! Have you thought about making a quilt or something out of them to preserve them for other uses, something she can have when she gets older? I’ve always wanted to do something like that - I just have to learn how.
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By Buckeroomama on November 30, 2009
Someone once suggested that I make a quilt out of the outgrown clothes… A great idea, but somehow I couldn’t bring myself to cut into those wonderful little onesies.