Tutu attempt #1

I just love having my own personal doll to dress up!  I made Rachel a 4th of July tutu last night and she just loves it! 

New Dress

Here is a dress I sewed this weekend for Rachel. It cost 1.50 to make and I did it with out a pattern or anything. Yep, I am cool. :)

Rachel is so funny, she keeps asking me, "can you make me a pink dress with purple flowers on it now? She loves her new dress. 

"I Spilled"

So I just wanted to put this on here because I thought it was cute and didn't want to forget it, but a warning, it is about throw up.
So, this weekend, Kent had a really high fever. He hadn't eaten anything all day and it was lunch time. I gave him a string cheese to try for lunch and after he started eating it, Rachel informed me that Kent was throwing up. I looked at Kent and he told me, "I 'pilled." (spilled.) He had thrown up on himself which was super sad, but I thought it was super cute that he was telling me that he "spilled." That was his explanation of what was happening to him. Poor kid was so miserable this weekend, but through it all he was still pretty cute. I will be so glad when we are all 100% better!

Stranded

So we have been stranded at home all week because my kids both came down with the dreaded hand, foot, and mouth disease. I remember having it as a teenager and I can't think of many more illnesses that made me feel more miserable. Sure the flu is more intense, but it doesn't last as long. I remember having a hard time eating anything and walking was painful, and that is not even to mention the painful sores on the hands too that mad everything else painful to do as well. When I saw a canker sore in Kent's mouth I felt sad for him (he would cry after every bite but he still wanted to eat it) but when I also saw the spots on his feet and then his hands, I felt just awful and seriously wanted to cry. I felt so sad for my little kiddo. I immediately checked Rachel and she also had the sores. It made me want to bawl to a) think of them having to deal with the pain that I remember from it and b) thinking of having to deal with sick and in pain kiddos for the next week or so with out even being able to get out of the house. And to top it off, Jacob has never had it and it would be really bad if he had to miss a whole week of class because of it, so we are keeping him from the kids as much as possible.

The kids actually haven't been as bad as I feared. I'm going a little stir crazy, but they seem to be doing all right. They haven't complained about the sores on their hands and feet much at all, even though I can see them (and they actually have hen all up their legs and on their bottoms too). They have complained about their mouths hurting though. We've been trying to feed them easy to eat things and we bought popcicles and pudding and watermelon and juice for them as well. Kent wants to eat even though it hurts and has been asking me to feed it to him (which is really weird for Mr. Independent) (seriously this is the kid that if I help him get off the potty, he will climb back on just so he can get off in his own). Rachel on the other hand would rather not eat, an she usually takes about an hour at every meal, but has been taking two, because she is hungry but doesn't want to eat it. 

Because we were going to be stranded at home all week, I thought we needed to open a can of pumpkin to help us get through it (why yes, I am a comfort eater, and to me pumpkin=comfort). I have made pumpkin yeast bread (which is excellent for sandwhiches or toast), pumpkin cream cheese, and baked pumpkin oatmeal. Mmm...and my Rachel girl loves pumpkin things almost as much as her mama, which mean she has had something that she will actually eat without a fuss. 

She has been requesting bread or toast at almost every meal. I love it. Anytime I tell her I'm making something with pumpkin in it she gets super excited. It's a good thing my kids like pumpkin or they would go hungry from the month of September til January and then intermittently through out the year. Anyway, I'm glad that my kids don't seem to be as sick with this as I was as a teenager, and I'm glad that my kids like pumpkin. That is all.

I sewed a shirt!!

I sewed my first ever shirt. And it took me two days. Because after I finished it the first time, I hated it. And my house has exploded because the kids have been wild with only partial attention from me. And I sewed a shirt. And it is a maternity shirt. And I am cool. And it only cost $1.50. And it has tons and tons and tons of wowies. And I'm happy because I don't even need to wear a tank top underneath it. And I'm going to sew more things. And I really wish I could take a sewing class because I have no idea what I am doing. And I sew crazy. And I'm excited because I sewed a shirt.