The Fabric Store

Swoon.... I love a trip to the fabric store.  I love it EVEN more than I love a trip to Gap or Gymboree.  Does that mean I am cured?  Or does that merely mean I have transferred my addiction from one outlet to another?

Anyways, Adam is still pretty helpless right now, but I needed to go to the fabric store to buy materials for the tutus I am making for a ballet class, so my in-laws kindly agreed to come over and babysit all of my babies (husband included) while I went to the store.  While I was there, I picked up a gorgeous book, I can't wait to dive into it!  Check it out, right up my alley, don't you think? Beside the book are some fabrics I picked up today also.

The book comes with 4 patterns that can make 23 different projects by altering pieces. Here is a link to the book on Amazon.

And now for some random pictures...

This is Badger wearing a neck pillow that the girls placed on her. She doesn't look impressed does she?

And here is Laina reading to Evelyn this morning in their matching footie jammies and matching messy hair.

A Home Day

Well, we spent the day at home today with my husband resting up from his surgery. He is super sore and everytime he moves he feels immense pain. The prescription painkillers made him feel nauseous (which is never good with an emet wife!) and he didn't want to take them anymore after the first time.

I just concentrated on keeping the kids out of his hair, and managed to get my sewing/ crafting room better organized (which was desperately needed!) and that was about it! Late this afternoon I took the girls for a walk up to the cute little village that is 5 minutes away from where we live. We hit up Starbucks for a coffee for Adam and got him some magazines to keep him entertained. Some photos from the walk, notice that Laina always has to put her hat on sideways... she thinks it looks "cooler" that way. Also, her long giraffe like legs must be on the grow again because now size 7 pants look like she is waiting for a flood!

Oh, and we couldn't leave home without her DSi... she wanted to take pictures of the neighborhood like mommy!

Evelyn is giving two thumbs up here... not because she wanted to though.... because I shoved a pair of her big sister's gloves on here to keep her little hands warm!  Also, this is one of my many strollers (seriously, I have had more strollers than I can count).  This is a Fisher Price Sit and Stand, and it is by far superior in sturdiness to the other brands of sit and stands I have come across.  They don't make these anymore, so I had to hunt this one down off of Craigslist!

Tell me what y'all think of the bigger photos?  Do you like them better or does it just take longer to load etc?

Adam

I am sitting here just waiting.... waiting and trying not to freak out.  So to take my mind off of it, I will do my daily post.  My husband Adam was undergoing hernia surgery today and it has been over three hours since his surgery started and I haven't heard anything.  I am sure he is fine, it is such a common and routine surgery and he is young and healthy, but I can't help worrying.  I am a born worrier!

Adam and I met in January of 2001, actually as of yesterday, we met exactly 10 years ago.  Right from the start, he has been my best friend and constant companion.  I know lots of people who enjoy having time apart from their spouses, but not me.  I would be perfectly happy to spend 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with mine.  He is just so easy-going and kind, and he makes me laugh; we have the same bizarre sense of humor.  We aren't mushy or sentimental people so for me to even talk this kindly of him is unusual.  You would just have to hear the story of how we became engaged to fully realize how un-romantic we are (remind me to tell that sometime... it is a funny story!)  But it doesn't change the fact that I love him very much and it hurts me to know he is going through pain right now.

Evie and Mylie and I took a little walk earlier to try and make time pass quicker, and that is where my pictures are from today.  The sun was shining a bit, but the ground was still wet from an earlier rainfall.  I have my "mommy googles" (I just heard that phrase today and I think it is great! So true that we look at our children with our mommy googles on and see them as perfect) on and it was difficult to pick which pictures I liked best so there are quite a few.  Sorry about that!

Send lots of healing vibes Adam's way please!

Fashion Show Fun (or not)

Today was a much better day.  Everyone here was feeling quite a bit better and I actually got dressed!  I also got a very generous and adorable big bag of clothes for Evelyn from Miss T.!  There were some brands in there that you may not be familiar with but that I love so I thought we would do a little fashion show!

It was actually a bit of a disaster for many reasons, but here they are anyways.  I decided to try adjusting the settings on my camera and placing Evelyn in front of our sliding glass door in an attempt to not use my flash.  The results were not good, but it was a learning experience.  I tried to set up a backdrop so you wouldn't have to see random crap in the background, but that backfired also because Evelyn thought it was too much fun to duck behind the backdrop whenever I was ready with my camera!  The big girls also decided it was a good idea to make a fort behind it so it looks messed up most of the time.  Oh, and Evelyn's hair is beyond messy.  But anyways...

I am not sure where this dress is from but it is tooooo cute!  She looks like a little flamenco dancer!

This dress is from Tea, and if you haven't tried Tea before, you should!!

A made-in-Canada company! Peekaboo Beans is awesome quality, really thick, stretchy yoga and active clothing for kids.  The cuteness factor is extremely high on these.  I have owned clothes by this company before and they just wash and wear so well.  The maxi skirt is from Peekaboo Beans and the top is from Gap Treehouse.  She really didn't cooperate with this outfit.

And another from Peekaboo Beans, these yoga capris are to-die-for cute!

M'kay, that's it for us today!

More of the Same

I wish I had something interesting and different to say here today, but it has just been more of the same for us.  I was too sick to take care of my kids today so my mom came over to help out, and it became apparent over the course of the day that Mylie is sick again too.

Here's hoping that tomorrow is a better, healthier day!

Mylie got dressed up in ballet gear in a small burst of energy but then proceeded to sleep and lay around still dressed up.  She is missing her Jazz dance class today, but she did sit up for a few minutes and play Dora lego with Evelyn.

Back to Business

Today was an end to the nice holiday from the routine.  Both big girls went back to school today, and it was back to dance and skating too.  Tuesday's are my craziest day of the week and today was made even more chaotic by the fact that I didn't sleep even for a minute last night.  So as I am writing this, I have been up for approximately 37 hours.  Not a big deal for many people I am sure, but for someone who loves to sleep as much as I do ( I love it a lot!  So much so, that to my embarrassment, Laina regularly draws pictures of me flat out on my bed and even has been known to tell people that my two favorite things are Gymboree and my bed.... which is not strictly true... they are in my top five maybe... but my husband and my kids are definitely my two favorite things.  Wow, this has turned into quite the tangent.  I think I could probably dedicate a whole post to my favorite things!)

Anyways, the reason I didn't sleep was because my "Christmas Cold" turned ugly.  My ears got more and more sore as yesterday went on, until nighttime when I tried to go to sleep, the pressure was finally too much and my eardrum ruptured.  I've never had that happen before and it was extremely painful.  It bled from inside my ear for most of the night and I couldn't really lay down and hence did not sleep.  If you aren't squeamish, the last picture I post tonight will be a visual of what I looked like this morning before I cleaned myself up.  I did go to the doctor this morning for a prescription and he said my hearing should return in that ear within the next 6 weeks.  Hopefully!  Although I am not going to lie, I do somewhat enjoy hearing my children on a lower volume setting.

Needless to say, I really wasn't on top of my game today, and I didn't come up with great pictures.  But here they are anyways, it was Laina at skating lessons tonight.

I love this one because she is concentrating so hard on trying to do her jump that she has her tongue stuck out through her lips!



Another of the same.  The rink is a pretty grungy place, in fact it was pretty grungy even back when I used to figure skate there!



This one I get a kick out of because look at the girl behind Laina.  I caught her in mid air, lol!

And finally, if you don't want to see my gross ear, turn back now! 



Mylie's Birth Day

In honor of Mylie's 4th birthday today, I am going to share some old and new pictures with you.  When I was pregnant with Mylie, she was due on January 5th, and I had decided early on that I was going to try for the New Year's baby.  Every year, the local paper prints a picture of the first baby born in the New Year at the hospital in our town, and local businesses cough up cash and prizes.  If I had to go through labor and delivery a second time, I decided that I wanted to make it worthwhile by winning some prizes (oh, and getting a healthy second girlie was a nice prize too).

Unfortunately, Mylie had other plans.  As much as I walked, squatted and drank raspberry leaf tea, she wasn't budging on New Year's.  She waited two more days and on January 3rd, I started feeling mild labor pains around noon.  Adam was in the school portion of his apprenticeship at the time, so I called him and just let him know things were happening but that I thought I would be alright while he finished out his day at school.  We got to the hospital around 3:30pm and Mylie graced us with her presence at 6:30pm.  She weighed 8 pounds 7 ounces and was 21 inches long and was just perfect in every way.

Now, if I had any pride whatsoever, I wouldn't share this picture with you.  But since I don't, here you go.  Some of my visitors took this picture after she was born, but no one in the room bothered to tell me something that must have been glaringly obvious.  This wasn't even minutes after the birth or anything.  It was a least a couple hours later.  Anyone want to guess what I am talking about?

And here is Laina meeting her new sister.

And a closeup of my little cutie.

So here she is 4 years later.  Mylie is my sweet, good-natured little girl, who is generally always happy, but who knows how to hold her own against her big sister.  She is tough, fearless and full of fun.

In the birthday tutu I made her, a Gap Starry Night top, and Bei Capell iStudio hair band.



Here are some others from the day.  We went for a visit with my in-laws and for a little nature walk.

Evelyn in Gap Treehouse:



Love her eyes in this one: