Things Are Not Always As They Seem

I was talking with a friend the other day. She was telling me that it's funny, she feels like she is cool, and hip, and cute and not really any different than she did 10 years ago. Then she will catch a reflection of herself in a store window or something and think "Oh shoot, I do look like a 34-year-old mother of five." (which isn't a really bad thing). This does seem to be the way life goes.

I was with my kids at a friends house the other day. We were eating lunch and the kids were playing. The little girls were putting play make-up on eachother. One of the four-year-olds wanted to put some on Kali. She did a decent job for a four-year-old. But then Kali got into the makeup and added some touches of her own. When she came out of the bedroom we were all saying, "Wow Kali, you look so pretty." Kali loved it and would smile at each of the mothers.




When we were ready to leave I took Kali into the bathroom to see how she looked. This was her response when she looked in the mirror.



Kind of how I feel sometimes!

Bye-Bye Binky

Kalia has been an angel baby. She hardly ever cries and when she does it is for a very short amount of time. She is also my only baby that has ever taken a pacifier. The doctor said that I should get rid of the pacifier when she turned one. Of course I didn't do that. Now she is almost two and is very attached to her binky. I had promised myself that I would get rid of the binky as soon as school was out, but then I just couldn't do it. We tried telling her that she could only have it at nap time, but that didn't work. She would just cry for it, or climb up and get it. I finally decided TODAY WAS THE DAY!

When she got up this morning I took her through the house and we tried to find all of her binky's. We put them into a ziplock bag. I told her that she is a big girl now and we were going to throw them away. She started to bawl - you know, to the point where she can't catch her breath. I felt so horrible. Here I am, one of the people she loves and trusts the very most, and I was taking her favorite thing in the whole world and throwing it away. It was extremely difficult and I felt like such a horrible person doing it.

However, she calmed down after about 15 minutes and has been fine for the rest of the day, only asking a few times for the binky - I remind her that they are gone, and she moves on to something else. She did cry for a bit when I laid her down for her nap, but not for long. Hopefully she will forget her beloved binkies soon.

Spring Fling

I was one of the mom's incharge of face painting at the Spring Fling today. I wanted to practice a bit last night so I sat Matt down first to paint his face. Kalia loved watching. As soon as Matt's face was done she climbed up in the chair. I hadn't planned on painting her face because I never imagined she would sit still long enough. She insisted. I told her to shut her eyes. She was so sweet and cute. She loved the butterfly. Bronson has a spider web, Mike is a tiger/lion and Matt is a bird.

Thank goodness we finally had decent weather today!! Yeah!!

and sew it goes . . . .

When I was in Jr. High I sewed a dress for Heather that I just loved. Ever since then I have hoped that some day I would have a little girl who I could sew dresses for. (Sewing for boys just isn't the same).

Over the past year I have had a lot of fun sewing dresses and skirts and even a quiet book for Kalia. I couldn't find all the pictures, but here are a few.

This is the first dress I sewed. It wasn't supposed to look like a hawaiian muu muu, but Lucky said I made a cute muu-muu. This is one of my favorites. I took a couple different patterns that I had and put them together. The dress pattern from above I used for the shirt, but then used elastic thread to do the gathers. I love the elastic thread.

I made the pattern up for this shirt and I love it. I was so sad when she outgrew it. Hopefully Melia (Heather's baby) will enjoy wearing it.

This dress was made using a charm pack. I loved all the different materials. When you tell Kali to smile for a photo, this is what you get.

When you say, "say cheese" you get this.

One Sunday Loren had to get Kali dressed for church because she was taking a nap when it started. He brought her to sacrament meeting wearing this dress. Because it is homemade it does not have a tag - this was much too difficult for Loren. The rick-rack at the top was under her armpit and the armpit hole was in the front and back - which made her chest show. Then the bow that ties in the back was tied on her side under her arm. I couldn't believe it!