Sunday, November 30, 2008

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Good Girl

This morning, Ellery and my dad (Poppy) were upstairs with my parents dog (Coby). My dad was petting Coby and saying the usual "you're a good dog" while talking to him. Ellery was sitting with him and he turned to her and said, "and you're a good girl, too." Well, Ellery thought about that for a minute and said, "No, I'm not a good girl." Poppy asked her why not? Ellery answered, "because I don't always listen to my Mommy."

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Our ostrich

Grady is an ostrich. His motto..."if I can't see you, you're not there." It's actually kind of embarrassing sometimes. Like when we're at the store and some wonderfully nice Grandpa looks at him smiling and says something about what a handsome young man he is; Grady just turns his head away and looks the other direction. Or I'm at the post office and nice lady says what a cutie-pie; Grady's cue to look away. "If I can't see you, you're not there." Well, we're up here in Alaska right now, Joe's whole family is here at his dad's house, just hanging out and having fun. We've been here for a couple of days and Grady's been doing the head turn a lot. (New people...to him anyway.) Joe's brother Jim (currently referred to as "Silly-uncle-Jimmy), cousin Chris, Pat and I were all chatting about how Grady does the ignoring head turn thing. Well, aunt Karen came up to Grady (who was in his highchair eating) and said good morning, and what do you know...head turn, pause, peek to see if she's still there, head turn, wait, peek, head turn. Big time ignore! The thing is...he doesn't make a big deal about it, just turns away. Doesn't say anything, doesn't cry, just the head turn. My Ostrich.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

This is what I did yesterday in my "free" time...

I made this shirt for Molly. Love it!!! Well, I didn't knit the shirt, that came out of her drawer...I just added the flower to it. I bought the polka dot fabric for a onsie that I sold on etsy and I thought...ooohhh, sunflower. Perfect. The yellow fabric were some scraps that I had in my scrap bin. (See...packrat...comes in handy!)

You see, now that Molly is in kindergarten, I realized that keeping her clothes free of rips/stains/tears/holes/paint is nearly impossible! She is going through the knees of her tights, ripping and staining shirts, and tearing holes in the knees of her pants. I decided that I'm tired of buying nice clothes for her to ruin. Instead I'm sending her to school in jeans pants and t-shirts. But plain won't do, so I'm going to add a little something to the plain shirts you can get from Target. They come in lots of colors, so I'll have a lot to pick and choose.

Anyhoo...because I need more to do, I'm thinking about selling these as well, along with other shapes that I've collected...holiday stuff like Christmas trees and ornaments, 4 leaf clovers, pumpkin and candy corn (a bit late for that!) and your everyday things like butterflies, flowers, and birds. Now I just need to work on some boy stuff! =)