Andrew is 3 Months Old!

Andrew was 3 months old on Monday, Nov. 9th. We usually go to Olan Mills for their free "New Baby" package, but this time, they said it was going to cost $6 for a session fee. We have never paid anything with any of the other 3 kids. I decided I didn't want to pay $6 for 11 pictures and went to Wal-Mart's Picture Me studio and paid $8 for 30 pictures instead!




I did want a few of the other poses, but they are so expensive! So I took a few (more like 40 pictures) at home!


I wanted Andrew to wear this outfit home from the hospital, but I couldn't find the pants (a whole box got mislabeled as 3-6 months).

I couldn't get him to stop looking at Emily and look at the camera! But it's a cute shot anyway!

When I turned him so you could see the little bear on his back pocket, he was getting tired and didn't want to hold up his head!

So tired!

He wasn't in a very smiley mood!

I decided to get some shots of the other kids while I had the backdrop out.

Sarah

Emily

Willliam

Emily took a picture of some stuffed animals.

William wanted a picture of his doll.

He wanted in on the picture, too!

Emily wanted Andrew to wear one of her outgrown dresses as "his Civil War dress". The picture makes it look like he was protesting wearing a dress (see him pulling at the front), but he actually just wanted to eat and sleep and was fussing about anything else!

I Sewed a Sling

I had seen a pattern for a sling that I thought would be easy to make and to use, but I never got around to making it. I had 2 coordinating fabrics that I didn't think I'd use for anything because they were kind of bizare prints, BUT I misplaced them! So I just decided to just pick out a different fabric! It only took about 1/2 an hour once I just sat down and did it!

My sling is reversible (both sides are the same)

I'm glad I can sew, because the lady who posted the pattern sells reversible slings for $63.

Closer view

With Andrew laying down.

Can You Tell Me How to Get to....

Sesame Street??!!

Here is the whole gang:

William as Big Bird

Emily as Cookie Monster

Andrew as Twiddlebug

Sarah as Elmo

We went trick or treating downtown with my mom and sister.

It was raining!

Getting candy

Another cute picture of Andrew

Sarah's school had a Fall Harvest Night

Carving a pumpkin

Mommy did most of the work!

My shirt really does look like a pumpkin lit up!

All finished

Here is our friendly pumpkin!

They had games in the classrooms.

You can't really see it in this little picture, but Sarah's teacher has the pumpkin I tatted pinned to her shirt.

If you click on the picture to make it bigger, you can see a glimpse of orange on her shirt!

matching numbers

Trick or Treating at Wal-Mart

Candy!!









Family shot at the costume party

Dan is "A guy named Murray"- an 'extra' in a scene from Sesame Street. "A green anything puppet dressed in a button up shirt and glasses"

I am Praire Dawn based on this picture:

Big Bird playing

Andrew and Peter in their costumes.

Peter is Frank the Pug from Men in Black

After the party, we went trick or treating "Uptown". This is what Sarah called trick or treating in Rachel's neighborhood!

Photo-Op's

This is a collection of pictures I've taken over the last few days that I thought were cute:

Emily with Grandpa and their kitties.

The cat playing with the mouse!

Mission Accomplished

Sarah's school has a rule that they may not have snacks with more than 6 g of sugar in them so I decided that I would tat each student a pumpkin or a bat for their Halloween party. I started by making 2 bats, but didn't have a size thread that I really wanted to use. So I switched to pumpkins. The pattern that I had written (and will be in my new book) was made using split rings. It was taking quite awhile to get a pumpkin done, so I designed a new pattern! (So now there will be 2 pumpkin patterns in the new book!)






Split ring pumpkin (I did 2 of these)




















Pumpkin using chains (I did 25 of these)

I decided to attach the pumpkins to a bookmark to make it easier to handle.

I put the pumpkins in little zippy baggies and attached the bags to the bookmarks with double sided tape. (so they could take the pumpkins out if they wanted)

All finished!

Halloweens Past

With it being the time for the annual costume party my brother and sister and I have been having for 9 years, I decided to show pictures of our costumes for past Halloweens. The first year, I was Tigger, the next I was Snow White. The 3rd, I was a pirate. I have pictures of them somewhere, but we didn't have a digital camera, so I'm not sure where they are!

Okay, I got a picture of me as a pirate!

Halloween 2003

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(Dan was working)

Halloween 2004
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Sarah is Pooh and I am Piglet (which I designed the pattern for)

















Halloween 2005
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Raggedy Ann and Andy

Halloween 2006

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The girls are cows and Dan & I are the farmers.

Halloween 2007

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Dan is a farmer again. The girls are ducks and I am an egg (I was 8 months pregnant!)

Side view to show the duck better!

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I designed the duck and egg costumes.

Halloween 2008

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Ghostbuster theme!

Halloween Portrait

Here is the latest picture of all the kids together.