Trouble...already.

First, you hear the snack wrapper & look around the corner. No biggie, just a little darling taking care of hunger. But then you hear "crunch, crunch" & maniacal baby giggling. This leads to worry... and the grabbing of the camera.


Partners in crime, already. And what, might you ask are those little snacks? Well, they are animal crackers, of course! Not the sweet ones, oh, no. We are definite fans of the ORIGINAL animal cracker. To be purchased here. Sing along while you eat!

I WON!

Just the other day I was telling Stephen that I enter all these drawings on blogs, and I never win...well, I won! My talented friend Dominoe had a give-away--hand made cards by her! I can't wait to make someone's day with one of these. And...yes, the photo is sideways. I cannot figure out why it flips every time I upload it. It's supposed to be landscape, it's landscape in the file, but then it flips when published on the blog. I've tried it twice. Any ideas?

I Want a Flushie!

Ewww, gross, a what? No, Chayce has a new way of asking to hit the new Sonic burger in town during their Happy Hour (when SLUSHIES are half-price). "I want a flushie!" Then, the clincher:
"What do you want to eat with your 'flushie', dear?" "A booger!" (She meant burger, but it came out booger. Made me hungry.)

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.