Who Needs Toys?

When you have a house full of things like pots and pans, boxes of food within reach, cabinets full of towels and toilet paper to raid.

Elsa found the angel food cake pan.

She had fun rolling it around

and watching it spin on the floor.

On Saturday, Rhaevyn and I had a date. It was filled with grocery shopping, trying on fancy dresses , dessert first and then lunch. We started at JC Penney where she tried on pretty, poofy dresses. Then we shared a parfait at TCBY, ate tacos at Taco Bell, went to Target and Winco Foods. We ended our date at Jo-Ann's. We had so much fun and couldn't believe how fast the time went on our date. By the end, though, Rhaevyn was laughing and joking that her "dogs" were tired and sore.

While at Jo-Ann's, Rhaevyn helped me pick out some fabric to make some bibs. I had looked at Target for bibs, but the ones I liked were $6.99 for three. We are down to two bibs here at home, and one of them is almost out the door. I decided since I had several coupons for Jo-Ann's to just make my own. I ended up making six for the price of the three at Target.

I have experimented with bibs before. I made several before I was pregnant with Myles. I used elastic around the neck because I really detest bibs with Velcro. They always seem to get stuck on something and that something gets shredded when the Velcro is dislodged from it.

So, I decided to use the bibs I had as templates and then go with a snap instead of elastic this time around. Here are the finished products.I made them out of flannel and reversible.

I bought some really nice snaps.

Here is Elsa modeling one of them.








They aren't perfect by any means, but I love them.

Rhaevyn also helped me pick out some ribbon at Jo-Ann's.

The girls and I decorated these notebooks with the ribbon.

I think they turned out so cute.

They are our mother/daughter journals where we can write things to each other.

Myles dancing with Rhaevyn.

He is such a good sport.

This week Myles was singing the song "I am a child of God" to me.

He got to the part where it says "...has given me an earthly home with parents kind and dear" but instead said "with parents kind of dear." I had to laugh.

Elsa almost took her very first step the other day without holding onto anything.

She is getting good at letting go of things and standing while supporting herself.

She is also moving onto finger foods.....sort of.

We've had a couple of choking incidents, which scare the jakers out of me.

I should be used to it by now because Rhaevyn, Aeva and Myles were all pretty big chokers.

There's nothing like a choking child to get your adrenaline flowing!

She loves to drink water out of a cup.

If one of us is holding her and drinking water, she will spit out her

binky and lean forward to try to drink from the cup.

Well, I am off.

I am listening to Myles and Elsa see who can be the loudest.

Which translates to mean I am thankful that I can hear my noisy children and that I have healthy children who love to hear the sounds of their voices :)

Oh happy day, oh happy day!