Tea Wallet

I made a cute little tea wallet for my mother-in-law, she always carries her own tea and sweetner in her purses.  It turned out very cute and I like it.  The tutorial is here.

Box of Toys

Scout makes me smile.  Princess has learned that if she puts him in his birthday box and covers him with toys then it takes him a while to get out and he doesn't try to get at whatever she has in her hands.

 It takes him even longer if you give him a balloon to play with.

This is his expression he gets on his face when he is excited... he loves playing with the balloon and he makes this face a lot.

Traveling

We have been doing some weekend traveling lately to prepare for our move.  It has been a little rough on the kids, but they are dealing pretty well.  We manage to have fun no matter what we do.  The big kids laughed when they saw Munchkin in the van this week. 

It is amazing the positions in which my children can sleep.

Munchkins bike

Munchkin has been riding the bike with training wheels very well, so I thought it might be time to have her try the bike without training wheels.  She could ride it for about 10 feet before she decided it was too scary and she might try another day. 

She is almost there but is not quite confident enough.  We will try again later in the summer.

Strawberry Jam

We went and picked strawberries this year.  They are ready REALLY early due to the mild winter.  We made 4 batches of Jam so far... I am doubting if it will last until spring. 
Buddy thought it helped to mash the berries if he used his head.

Scout's 1st Birthday

Scout is One!
That year seemed to go by very fast.
We had a party at home for him with just our family, it was a fun day to celebrate our little boy.

 He did not like his cupcake at all.  It was fun for us to watch, but I think he licked the frosting and then then played with it for a little while before we just took it away from him.

The presents that we game him, measuring spoons, measuring cups, a can of tennis balls and a cardboard box.

I think he liked the cardboard box the best.

Mermaids in the park

The park where the Easter Egg hunt was held also had a Mermaid. I couldn't even find the boys to add to the picture.

Quilt #5 Beach Shack

I finished another mini quilt.  This is another paper piecing. This one gave me lots of challenges and I was way too friendly with my seam ripper.  The little life preserver in the border is made up of 21 pieces.  I like how it turned out in the end, but it took me a lot longer than I planned. 

It is machine quilted, and I used temporary spray adhesive to assemble it and I really like how that prevents movement and stretching.    After looking at the pictures, I realized the tail on the kite is a little long, and flipped up so I need to trim it.  It is just ribbon tacked on, so I can easily trim it.  The clothesline and the doorknob are embroidered and along with the kite tail adds some dimension to it.

Easter 2012

We had a great Easter.  We had an Easter egg hunt at church and then another one at home with Daddy doing his best to hide the eggs.   I didn't get much pictures.  Daddy had the big kids and I got to watch this one shake the 2 eggs he found.  He was cute to watch.

We did get one good picture taken at church on Easter morning...

This was the 1st version of that attempt... not so good.

Easter Eggs

My kids really like hard boiled eggs....
We colored eggs in the morning, they ate all of them (a dozen) at lunch time.  Daddy never even got to see them.

Into everything

Scout is into everything. Especially electronic stuff, he sees us with it and wants to play too.

 His big sister let him play bowling on the Nook.

Scout on the move

About 2 weeks before his 1st Birthday Scout has decided that he doesn't need help.   He can go up AND DOWN the stairs without any help.  He escaped one day when I was putting away laundry and I found him downstairs.  I didn't see him in action, but apparently he got down without any help.  (Prior to this he would sit at the top of the steps and whine/cry until someone carried him down the steps.)   Now I have seen him successfully go down and it makes my life a little easier knowing that he is competent.
He stops at the top, slowly turns around and goes down backwards... He is a smart little boy.

 Safe at the bottom!

He may not have any desire to learn to walk in the near future, but I am OK with that, he can go downstairs by himself. 

Basketball Bag

Buddy is disgruntled sometimes that I always make stuff for the girls and not as much for him.  This week he finally got something that he LOVES. 

I took an old flat basketball and turned it into the coolest bag he has ever seen.  He even willingly smiled and let me take a picture. 

The directions are here on instructables

Baby Carrier

I carry Scout in my Ergo carrier everywhere... I rarely ever use the stroller and I love that he is happy back there.  However my little one needed a carrier for her baby.   I found a pattern here   It was simple but next time I would use normal straps instead of ribbon, they don't stay put and slide way too easily after a few hours I just added safety pins so they wouldn't move.

She can wear it on the front or on the back.   She usually likes it on her back so she can still play.

Just because

Just because he is so cute.