Birthdays and other stuffs

September is a big birthday month. Today is Nanny's and tomorrow is Ryan's. Later this month, my sister Valerie and I turn one year older. Crazy stuff!

Look what I made nanny. It's a pincushion!

From Projects

From Projects

And, while I am talking about Nanny, she, Boppa and my grandmother have been teaching me how to garden. I didn't kill much this year! haha...as a matter of fact, look at this:

From september 2008

Not bad! It looks even prettier today because the roses have bloomed some more. I am improving...last year I killed everything in that box but some phlox.

Oh, and tomorrow we are having a garage sale along with a couple other families. If you want, come buy stuff or just come visit! You can see miss monkey doing stuff like this:

From september 2008

WEARING HER MONKEY BACKPACK AND DRINKING SOME STARBUCKS GREEN TEA FRAP.

You can go home now, Murphy.

So, guess what? I was driving home from kali when some dude's freaking exhaust pipe fell off his car. I couldn't miss it because of cars around me. After I realized that something was wrong, I got off the interstate, made it to a gas station and this is what I saw:

From september 2008

I had forgotten to leave the carseat with Mike but fortunately Donnie was nearby and was able to help me out. Plus it was dark and I was glad to have someone I knew because I just didn't feel like getting robbed or something. :/

From september 2008

So, now I have a donut on the car and a tire with about 6 holes in it in the trunk.

An exciting morning so far...

So yeah, fun morning today. When I woke up and went to get Autumn for her diaper change I went in and found her like this (you can see more pics of her after clicking on this one):

Quasimodo Effect

How did this happen, you ask? Well I had told her the night before to stop throwing her food on the floor and she just wouldn't listen. So I had to smack some...

No no. Apparently she got bitten by a mosquito right on her eyelid while we were outside in the yard late yesterday afternoon. But the doctor is pretty sure she's going to be just fine after a little benadryl and some hydrocortizone cream. Thankfully it hasn't been hurting her or anything as she's been acting perfectly normal all day so far.

But man, it was just about the most pitiful thing I've seen in quite some time. Poor little quasimodo...

Grodiness

Apparently Autumn has been watching her Aunt Lauren or Uncle Ryan eating sometime recently because she seems to be following in their footsteps as far as table manners go...

I would advise you to not listen to the horrible sounds too loudly if you're about to eat.

More Shameless Self Promotion

So, I've been learning to sew for the last, um, 6 or so months. I started pretty small--baby leg warmers, an apron, stuff like that. Well, about a month or so ago, I was looking at some fabric online and ran across this yoga monkey fabric and absolutely had to buy it for Andi's daughter Sophia (andi owns a yoga studio). I got it in my head that I would make something for Sophia's birthday which was the 14th so I got a "sew easy" pattern and asked Nanny to teach me to read it. HA. HA. IT WAS SO HARD. lol. I might have bit off more than I could chew but Nanny is an awesome teacher so I not only finished it, but I am pretty impressed with myself.

Now--gaze upon my first real sewing project, the glorious result of 4 days of long hours of staring at an incomprehensible (sew easy, my foot) pattern, sewing, doing it wrong, picking it apart, sewing again, having to make up a section because the pattern's version looked stupid, learning to make button loops off the internet, and so on. Ta da!






Yay! I am hoping to get a photo of Sophia in the outfit soon...Andi just told me that Sophia wore the outfit to her birthday party and I AM SO EXCITED about that!

Here's my second brag...I made Autumn a dress! I took a smocking class at a shop called Lace Cottage back in May. After practicing a little, I got started on a little bishop dress. Here it is after I finished smocking it and Nanny started showing me how to assemble it:


And here it is on Autumn today! It's a little big but that's definitely better than a little small, right?


Next I am going to work on something a little less traditional for her...a smocked dress made from electric blue houndstooth...it is super soft!

15 months old!

Not much exciting--just Autumn's pre-bedtime, post bath roam.

More Adventures of Autumn

Autumn and I went to Costco a couple of weeks ago (where she spent the entire trip saying "ay-o!" to everyone and looking baffled if the person ignored her). Mike really likes the churros there so I got him one to have with his lunch. When we got home, I put the churro on the hall table so I could bring the groceries the rest of the way into the kitchen. I heard Autumn rustling around which is no big deal. She likes boxes and there wasn't anything she could damage or could damage her so whatever. She's quiet. Well. This is what I found when I went for the next box:


As I think everyone knows, I'm training in kali again. A friend of ours named Michelle takes care of Autumn until Mike gets home and then it is pretty much papa-monkey time until I get home around 7:30 twice a week. One Thursday I came home to this funny sight:


What is with this kid and boxes?


This is my sewing box. She likes to sit on it. And push it around. And play with the latches.


After crawling all over it, Autumn pushed the sewing box over to where her crayons and paper were. She set herself up like this all on her own. Stop growing up, baby girl!