Ze Dress...

This is my first ever sewn piece of clothing. It wasn't hard...until I got to the buttons. Holy moly. There won't be any buttons in my house for a VERY long time. I have a special button hole sewing machine foot and it likes to get stuck and put 5,000 stitches in the wrong place. One of them took me three times and ripping out that many stitches is no fun. The rest of it was easy though.



Also, here is the next installment in a long line of ridiculous hats I can make for my daughter...



And because I felt bad for making Kate 500 new things and nothing for Dash, a new hat is in the works for him... Hopefully I can finish it up tonight.

Happy Thursday everyone, my little girl is 3 months old today, someone PLEASE tell me how that happened so I can stop it from happening in the future...

10 on Thursday...

1. Miss Candi had her sweet little bundle of joy yesterday and I'm so freaking happy for them.

2. Dash is a complete mushball and I LOVE it.

3. He says "I missed you" and "Oh mommy" and "I love you" on a regular basis. Usually while hugging you.

4. Two nights ago, he hugged his frog while we were going to bed and said "you're my FAVORITE." to the frog, and then he looked at me and said very seriously "not Daddy's favorite" while shaking his head. John often snuggles his frog and says "no, you're MY favorite" and I guess it rubbed off on Dash. Don't touch the Dashman's frog.

5. Kate's putting on weight like a madwoman. She gets a new roll of baby fat every week it seems. So freaking cute. I love the baby stage way more than the newborn stage.

6. I'm sick of this freaking crappy weather.

7. I'm getting a new laptop at work. Yay! Who knew all it took was multiple bluescreens to convince your boss that your laptop sucked?

8. We're going to St. Louis in November to meet up with some internet friends and I can't wait. We've been online buddies for 3 years now and it's about time we met face to face. I can't wait to visit my old haunts while we're there, too.

9. I made Kate a dress and it turned out well. It also cost me $4.99... I'll post a pic this weekend, I need to sew on two buttons and hem the bottom. The basic construction went well though.

10. I made Kate another hat. Forgive the crappy flash, it was evening and I was too lazy to get my speedlight...

Foto Friday...

Sorry, babygirl, I had to have at least ONE picture in the hat I made you. Just one.



Sorry I chopped your hair off, Mr. Dixon. I had the best intentions.

2 Months

Sigh. How did that happen?



2 Months



1 Month

2 Month Checkup

Kate had her 2 month checkup today, she's 11lbs 12oz and 23 1/2 inches long. 75th percentile for both height and weight.

She also had her shots and shockingly wasn't too happy. Three shots and one oral medicine. We also gave Dash a flu vaccine, and I'm still on the fence about it. The determining factor was The Little Gym, it's really the only time he's around other kids. They had the nasal vaccine instead of the shot, so we got that, and I didn't realize at the time that the nasal one is the live vaccine. So I hope he doesn't have any problem with that. As much as I hate getting him shots I feel a lot better about a dead vaccine than a live one. The shot is dead. Boo. Oh, well. Too late now. Hopefully he'll be fine. Kate's too young to get one and I doubt John and I will. Dash is the one who licks toys and stuff. :)

8.5 Weeks...

And for comparison...

2 weeks...

Foto Friday...

Kate smiling at her Daddy...





Dash being a cheeseball...





I was playing with the white balance setting on this one, and it's way off, but I still like it. And I'm pretty sure he was about to whack me with that frog behind his head...



Happy Friday everyone!! Thank GOODNESS It's Friday!!!