Dream Catchaz

My seester has now opened her etsy shop!  Go buy one of her pretty dream catchers, or message her for a custom one!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/EclecticSanctuary

Batty in Polkadots

I made a new polkadot version of batty.  I'm going to try and get a black cat and a mummy in there by tonight or at least this weekend.  I'll stop being annoying and posting every time I make something new for Halloween though, so if you care to check every so often, have a looksee at my shop:

www.etsy.com/shop/CloudySkiesCreations

Batty

I may never sell him, since I have to charge a bit to make the hours spent sewing him worth it, but it won't hurt to try.  So I give you....my first Etsy listing:

Batty

and my second:

Girly Ghostie

Old Man Jacobs

 Yesterday Jess turned 30.  So weird.  He went in to work at 5 am, AND I happened to know his coworkers were planning on a breakfast for him, so the kids and I slept in and he went to work.  He came home at lunch to pick us up though, and we went to Arby's. 

 We ate and gave him all the drawings the kids worked on the day before.

He was pleased.

His coworkers also got him a giftcard for dinner at a steakhouse, so we got to have quite a dinner date last night.  My dad and Trudi babysat, and the older two ended up spending the night.  So we didn't give him his last gift from the kids until they came home today.  

 

It's a book of poems and their illustrations by the kids, with a little help from me.  My favorite might be this one written by Paige:  

"You're the bomb, 

you are the bomb.  

Can't believe, 

you ARE the bomb."  

Obviously Cason did the illustrations for that one.  :)

Happy birthday(yesterday) Jess.  You're the best dad and husband around.  We can't imagine life without you.  Love you so much.

Popcorn Girl and a Mummy Tortoise

Wednesday morning I did my volunteer time in Paige's class.  I was helping a few kids that needed a little extra help writing sentences.  Last time I helped kids out in the hall and Paige was sad she didn't see me much.  This time she was glad I stayed in the classroom.  She kept coming over to tell me something or give me a hug.  When I was leaving she asked me "How come you never pick me?"  Haha.  I told her Mrs. Arnold ASSIGNS me a job, I don't just come in there and pick the kids I like the best."  :)

Then I took the other two to storytime with Veronica and Aivree, and we saw Nicole and her littler girls there too.  Cason was happy to see Delaney, and went to sit up front with them.  (We were the slackers walking in right when it was about to start and had to sit in back.)  It was Neely's first time if I remember right.  If she did ever go it was as a newborn. She liked it, but was a little shy.  She stayed right up against me, being all stoic.  She DID shake her eggs to the music though.  :)

After we picked Paige up we met Veronica again, at the park this time.  The big girls don't get to see each other as often now that they're in Kindergarten, so we got them together.  Veronica taught the kids about Spiderswing.

 

 

Lily and Cason did some "cartwheels".  :)

 On Thursday Jess had his mom pick him up in the morning on her way to work so he could get there early and get some stuff done.  I got all 3 kids ready and we all took Paige to school without Jess's help, for the first time.  It actually wasn't too bad dropping her off.  The hard part was getting myself and them all ready, making Paige's lunch, and making breakfast for three kids who all really wanted something ELSE for breakfast and happened to be a bit cranky that morning.  (Paige wasn't actually, she's never cranky on a school morning, but she DID wish I made a different breakfast)  

After we dropped her off I went to see her popcorn word board, because she told me they got her school picture on her little popcorn now.  :)

Her tiny little face looks so cute on that gigantic board.

 

Then Caso and Neely and I went home.  They played out front for a bit.  Caso was drawing letters and numbers with chalk and said "Mama I made a D!"  Neely was coming over to check it out in this picture, and telling him "I WIKE a d, Cason!" even though he'd already moved on to his next letter, an E with a little something extra.  Ha.

When we picked Paige up we came home and started working on some birthday gifts for daddy.  Cason kicked things off with a picture of "Daddy and me running to hug".

That boy's a real perfectionist with his drawings lately.  He made many attempts that he was pretty angry at for being "SOOOO STINKY!" which usually meant the head wasn't as circular as he liked or the eyes were uneven or something.  

This is one of the reject piles.

There were more on the floor.

He also drew daddy as a bomberman, with all his bombs.  He ended up cutting the bombs off this picture and telling me he was going to use them to make a bomb game.  So he drew another one for daddy, with more colorful bombs.  A rainbow of bombs.

This is unrelated to Jess's birthday, but he also brought me this picture of Sammy(our tortoise) as a mummy for Halloween.  He asked when we can go outside to give it to Sammy.  I'm dreading that because even if we catch Sammy when he's out and about, Caso's most likely going to have his feelings hurt when he sees the lack of a reaction Sammy's likely to give.  Ha.

I love how the animal mummies only have bandages on their heads.  :)

He Knows What He Is

As I said, Caso was singing while drawing his Bombermen on the sidewalk last night.  So I got some video.

While I'm posting videos, here's one of naughty Neely.  She's been telling us "Le' me go" all the time.  Usually she says it thinking she's funny, but sometimes it's when she's feisty and we're making her hold still, like to change a diaper or brush her teeth.  She'll say "Le'me GO daaaad" or "Le'me GO moooom." 

Richard Simmons Skeleton Craft

I made a second bat.  The only thing I did differently was add some wire to his wings to make them sort of poseable.  (I was also more careful to sew his head on straighter, the last one leaned a little to the side.)

I was sewing him in bed the other night with Neely, who was watching Kiki's Delivery Service, and Paige, who was reading her first Magic Treehouse book to me.  Mrs. Arnold recommended it for her, so Jess got it on the Kindle for her to try.  She really liked it.  She read the first 3 chapters to me out loud, and did so well, and only needed help with a couple of words.  I noticed she even tries to use different tones, depending on what the characters are saying, which I thought was impressive. 

I also started a mummy, and have it about half made.  Caso's pretty excited about that one.  He keeps asking me when I'll work on it again.  He also started drawing mummies for all of us. 

Even a Gia mummy.

He's still spending LOTS and LOTS of time drawing lately, and I love it.  Today it's only 9:30 and he's already done lots of robots...

  ....and this one of "the guys in the boat who were scared of the storm and then Jesus made it go away so they weren't scared any more."

He also drewlots more bombermen on the sidewalk last night, while singing a song he made up, but I got video of that, which I'll try to post later.  :)

Jess had flag football practice last night, so while he was gone we played outside, went for a little walk, and then did a little skeleton craft I saw in a magazine.  Just Q-tips, cottonballs, and glue.  We did paint on eyes and a mouth at the end though.  

Caso's was cute.

Paige's was too, and then she got creative and added crazy polkadotted cottonball hair.  :)  It reminds me a bit of Richard Simmons.