Black Cat in a Bow Tie

So much for making a cat AND a mummy this weekend.  I just barely finished one awkward and horribly misshapen cat.  

 

It was really frustrating making his pattern.  I think I pretty much like how the 2nd one turned out, although his ears fold forward like a scottish fold, and his whiskers point forward too, making him look like a seal or walrus or something.

 

Or maybe he looks like a rodent.  I'm not sure.  If anyone has suggestions about what I should change, let me know please!  For now I guess I'll list him as he is.

4 Days Without Daddy

Sorry about the lack of blogging (again).  Besides my being busy sewing lots of creatures, Jess was gone for 4 days, working in Oklahoma City.  :(  We took him to the airport last Sunday.  But first we got to go pretend we were rich and do some shopping, even if it WAS mostly in the dollar sections.  Ha.  Some of my favorite places:  Joanns, Barnes&Noble, and Target.  Got some really cute books for the kids, including this Frankenstein parody of Madeline, which Neely REALLY loves:

I love this one for it's cute illustrations:

LOTS of fun little Halloween stuff at Target, and a few things from Joanns to help with my creatures.  

Paige also snagged some glow bracelets.

 

Neely chose this black kitty, and she LOVES her.  

 

 Sorry for all the blurry pics, Jess took our camera on his trip and I was using Tyra's camera while he was gone.  It took me a bit to get used to it again.

Don't remember what little thing Caso picked, but look how cute he is in those pajamas I love again.  We've since discovered that they glow.  I wish they came in my size.  

Everyone missed Jess, and I noticed Cason was pretty emotional and even threw a couple of fits, which is VERY rare for him.  He's always so easy.  One of those days he was screaming and crying in the playroom, throwing toys until I had to take a few hostage for a few days as punishment.  It was all because I didn't know what he'd done with his drawing of a ghost, and he couldn't find it anywhere.  Not really something he would normally flip out over.  Then out of nowhere he stopped yelling, and quietly came over to hug my leg.  I started to ask him if he was done throwing a fit and he started sobbing and telling me he missed daddy.  So sweet and sad.  Other than that and a bit of grumpiness on all our parts in the evenings when we were tired, we did okay.  While Paige was at school I did lots of sewing while Caso and Neely played together and decorated for Halloween.  :)

 

 We were all very happy to pick Jess up a few days later though.  We had a nice relaxing weekend with him home, until the kids got sick.  They ended up being the shortest bouts ever though, and I think everyone's back to normal today. 

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.  :)