Sew Excited

So for those of you that read the Michigan blog, you might be asking, "Well what did she do with herself for four days without the girls?" The first day I slept in and was a little awestruck with the fact that no one came to wake me and say they were hungry and there were no stinky diapers to be changed. So I lounged around for a bit and then got bored and remembered I had thought of a project that I was going to attempt for this special weekend. Here it is.

I made cradle bedding. The bedding I had was a little outdated. I had looked on the internet and there were some sets for about $50 that were pretty cute, but the ones that were selling for $300 were a lot cuter. I am not saying I would classify this one for as much, but I am just thrilled with how it turned out.

Just some silly random photos

We had our first snow fall the second weekend of October. Sydney was thrilled at the prospect of catching snowflakes on her tongue and building a snowman. Eleanor was not as happy.

A couple of those run away squash that get left on the vine too long. Eleanor volunteered to cook dinner that night.

Uncle Andy was kind enough to style Eleanor's hair while in Michigan.

These next pictures were taken in the middle of September, and while it was not warm enough to play in the water, Sydney wanted to pretend swim.

Again, it was not really warm enough to swim, hence Eleanor is sporting pants under the swimsuit. It has been mentioned she looks like Steve from Multiplicity.

Michigan

The reason I did not make the trip. Am I pregnant or is that a basketball under my shirt? The family eating at Bob Evan's, which they did at least once a day.

Even Aunt Megan, who is stationed in Alaska made it out for the wedding. Cute dress, by the way. Alexis and Sydney, the best of cousins. Eleanor with Uncle Steve and Aunt Vic, the parents of the groom- Jeff. Uncle Dale and Aunt Beth with daughters Jordan and newly married Jessica. A four generation shot of GG Craig, G Lee, Uncle Matt and Cousin Caleb. The girls with the " pretty lady", Jamie. Eleanor having a spot of tea with Great Grandma Romeo. Sydney with her favorite man for the weekend, Great Grandpa Romeo. Zach's family is from Michigan, the greater Detroit area to be exact. It is not too often that the long trek is made to see the Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles and cousins, but since there was a wedding his family made it a priority to go. The wedding was Oct 4 and that puts me right at the beginning of my ninth month of pregnancy. So Zach boldly went where few men are willing to go and that is on a transcontinental trip with the two girls SOLO. Well he did meet up with his parents and brother and sister-in-law in Las Vegas so he didn't have to do layovers, connections and six hours of fly time completely by himself. But even with that said he had one accident to deal with on the way there and one pukey kid to deal with on the way back. He vows he will never do that, travel with the girls being a single parent, again. Overall, they had a great time in Michigan, buying all sorts of Detroit Tiger paraphernalia, and also were able to spend some quality time with the family.

EleaNOr

Well it has happened. As of yesterday, my very vocal, very head-strong child has learned the word NO. Enough said.

First Day of School!

So we decided to enroll Sydney in a couple of hours of preschool just to give her some classroom experience. She has been wanting to go for a while now and every time we drive by her future elementary school she will proudly state, "That's my school." So her first day was very reminiscent of that in Finding Nemo. She wakes up before the alarm goes off and comes straight to mom's room to make sure that today is the day. We had packed all our necessary items the night before. So we were ready to go. She kept asking me, "Okay, when we get to school you are just going drop me off? And say good bye at the door?" Now these may seem like questions of apprehension, but really she expressing her complete independence of not needing me to stay...at all. And I didn't. Okay I did, but only just long enough to get a couple photos of the BIG day.

She just walked in and made herself comfortable at a learning table. She actually wanted to play in the kitchen, but it was closed for the week because the kids were not cleaning up properly.

This is her being ever so studious as the teacher goes over the letters on her name card to learn name recognition. And she was just as happy to see me back as she was to be dropped off in the beginning. So that made me feel loved. There's nothing better than getting the great loud "Mommy!" when you walk into the room. The response as to what she did at school that day, "We had popcorn for a snack." So it is all worth it.