Nooooooo!

Aaaargh! So, last night, I put all of the kids' clothes out for church, so we could get ready fast. Then, it turns out Payge's dress doesn't fit her! Neither do ANY of her dresses in her drawer, so I had to run to the basement and go thru Chayce's old dresses. A week-long growth spurt put my baby in size 12 month clothes! I even had to go get jammies from the basement this evening, all of a sudden, her toes were curling in the bottoms of her creepers. Aaack! So, the baby doesn't get to wear her dress, but Chayce wore hers. Oh, well. Maybe I'll find a baby girl in need and hand it over.

Extra Fabric

I was thinking that it'd be very cute to have my girl's in matching outfits for church on Sunday. Unfortunately, I didn't have a pattern for a baby dress, so I decided to make due. (In answer to a question on a prior post, I DID have a pattern for Chayce's dress). I went online and looked at all the free patterns, looked at some of Payge's current clothing (because she's almost 8 months, but wears anything from 6 months to 18 months depending on the brand) and tinkered around til I got this:



I'll be putting a white turtle neck under it since it's SO COLD here now (I think it was 60 degrees today). {wink, wink}

Finally.

See this dress? I finally...after thinking about it for a very long time...made it. I told myself that if I didn't start using that sewing machine of mine, I'd have no reason to keep it around. Well, I'm not one to get rid of perfectly good items, so it inspired me to make the dress I'd been ho-humming about. I saw it in my head, even imagined my Chayce in a swirly, fall-colored dress, but then I'd do something else. Now she's spinning around the room, and I couldn't be happier.

Pumpkin Carving

Chayce did such a good job cleaning out the pumpkins!

Daddy helped (a lot).

The crew.

Yucky hands. eeeew

Zach hard at work.

Ha! So, I just realized that I didn't take photos of the finished products...and it's been 2 days, so they are a bit more...uhhh...mushy.

Halloween, the never-ending saga.

Photo explanation: After lunch, Chayce came running to me and said, "There's room right here for some candy, after I filled up on my lunch!" Yes, she's still in her jammies, and I made the stipulation that anyone not dressed for the day doesn't get any Halloween candy, so she ran off to remedy that. She had actually opened her jammies and showed me where there was room for candy, but I made her do them up for the photo. ;)
Zach's eyes after removing most of the turtle paint. He looks cool, doesn't he?
A wonderful member of our ward is a very talented balloon shaper. He does it as a side job, but also came to the ward Halloween party. This is the flower bracelet he made Chayce. He made Zach a cute turtle, but the photo didn't turn out, and I couldn't try again--because it popped!
More of my fancy face painting artwork. I had to hold her head in my lap to get her to stay still, and even then, there are more smudges than I'd like BUT, the overall result was beautiful with her ballerina costume.

A few funnies

First, let me state that I am an independent with a mixed range of support on each side. I really don't favor one party at the moment. Right now, for me, there is no perfect party.



This commercial made me laugh so hard--each time I watched it. Maybe because our house is set up the same way, with a spot the kids can run around and around, and I've had times when I've tried to visit while the kids chase each other--who knows, but I laughed, and I'm sure you will, too.

Payge Montage

Concern

Cheesin' it--toothless.

Curiosity

Wrinkle nose

Happy Baby!