18 March 2011

A day filled with utter chaos! First we met up with some good friends at the zoo. We finally got to try out our awesome double stroller (we've gone on a couple walks, but this was it's big public debut!)

Kaylee refused to get out of the stroller most of the day, she gets very overwhelmed when there is a lot going on. But this was one of the rare out-of-stroller moments when we were in the aquarium.

Benjamin spent most of the trip like this, which was just fine by me:

Then after the hour drive home and no nap, we had gymnastics.

17 March 2011

Happy St. Patrick's Day from my little munchkins!!

Today we went to the library where Kaylee loves to play on their touchscreen computers. Here she's following what Ernie does.

Then we went to the park for the first time this year. Kaylee had a great time on the slides, until some other kids came around and she got real shy. (And yes, her boots are on the wrong feet, but she put them on herself and that's the way she wanted them!)

And Ben was having a bit of a difficult time figuring out just what wind is. He kept trying to catch his breath when he got a big blast of wind in his face. But he got held tight by Mama, so he wasn't fussy at all.

16 March 2011

Kaylee just loves dressing up like a dinosaur! This is her being a big helper and letting the dogs in.

Baby Ben in his swing. He doesn't spend nearly as much time in there as Kaylee did when she was little, but he sure does love watching his mobile!

Trips to Walmart always seem to produce clothing for the kids. Today Kaylee got some Elmo jammies and Ben got a dinosaur onesie.

15 March 2011

Kaylee and her best friend, Hannah, at our moms' group playdate.

14 March 2011

Naps for the older child are becoming less and less frequent. We're lucky if she takes 2 naps a week. Even though she won't nap, she has an hour and a half of "quiet time" in her room, which is never very quiet. During nap time today she decided to rearrange furniture and pulled her bed over to her dresser so she could get the stuff on top of the dresser.

She also managed to get a bunch of scratches on her face, she couldn't quite articulate where these came from.

13 March 2011

Kaylee's yogurt came with seeds to grow chives in the yogurt cup so after a messy yogurt lunch, we planted some seeds. And Kaylee dressed up as a dinosaur all day!

12 March 2011

Daddy returned in the wee hours of the night from a 2 day business trip. Kaylee was very excited to see him in the morning and even more excited with the new toy airplane he brought with him:

Benjamin has discovered his legs and they never stop moving!!

11 March 2011

Friday is the most favorite day of the week for my little princess. Friday is "Nimnasnas", which translated from Kaylee speak is gymnastics!! Today's pictures are from our post-gymnastics drive-thru dinner.

Kaylee Bea, our little milkaholic:

Baby Ben, finally big enough to sit in the high chair while we eat dinner, sort of!

365 Project - 10 March 2011

I've decided to put this blog to good use again! My knitting is on the back burner right now while I adjust to life with 2 kids. So, I'll be using this blog for sharing my kids with my friends and family. Starting today I will take at least one pictures of my daily life (mostly the kids). Once a week (or whenever I can manage it) I will post the pictures along with a little blurb. The 365 project has been around for a long time and I've never been inspired to take part, but looking at Ben and then Kaylee is a daily reminder of just how quick time passes. I am not a fantastic photographer and I don't have a great camera, but the subjects will make up for any artistic absence!

If you choose to follow me on this photo adventure be sure to bookmark this page or add it to your blog reader of choice.

Today's photo submission:

My 2 and a half year old daughter, Kaylee. Today she wanted to dress herself. In case you can't tell, she's wearing a Tinkerbell nightgown with pink leggings, monkey rainboots, a sweatshirt that is 2 sizes too small for her, and a panda hat. And yes we left the house like this to go to storytime at the library and to go shopping at the grocery store.

A serger for a greener world!

I have not posted on my blog in a very long time, but I am posting today to enter a contest being held by the sew mama sew blog. They want to know how winning a serger would make my life better. I'm not going to only answer that question, but I will try to convince them that a serger will make everyone's lives better since it will help my family and my friend's families become greener, more environmentally responsible people.

First of all, it would make my life better cause I would have a serger, just owning a serger would make my life better (you can tell you're an over the top crafter when just owning the equipment makes your life better!) I would make clothes for my little one (I live in a small town and our only affordable clothing option is Walmart, their clothes are fine, but sometimes I just want my daughter to wear something other than Walmart clothing!) Here's my first tie in to how my winning a serger would make the world a better place. For those times when I do not want my daughter wearing Walmart clothes, I can go downstairs to my fabric stash, or drive a mile down the road to one of 2 quilt shops, pick out some fabric, and sew something cute with my new serger. The environmental impact of me driving 2 miles round trip (or not at all if I have something in my stash) is far less than me driving 110 miles round trip to the nearest city to buy an outfit!

On to the other environmental benefits of me owning a serger. I am already a cloth napkin/towel/diaper user. I made my own napkins with the old fold over the seam twice and sew method. Far too tedious! When people come over and say they love my cloth napkins, I'd love to have a few sets on hand to hand out to people. For a few bucks I could make multiple sets, but not with my sewing machine! I'd need a serger to whip out napkins fast enough to keep up with the demand that is sure to follow once the word gets out that I give free napkins to friends and family. I have not made my own towels, I have store bought ones. I hate having store bought items when I can make them instead. My store bought towels are ugly bar towels. I could buy some beautiful beach towels at the end of the season and serge them to make some gorgeous kitchen rags/towels. Oh, I guess that's not going to help the environment much to make new towels but it will make me happier when I'm doing kitchen chores. And the same goes for cloth diapers. Right now I use prefolds with plastic or handknit covers. I'd love a stash of fitted diapers but just can't seem to afford them. If I had a serger I could take my current prefolds and turn them into fitted diapers in no time! No more strain on the environment by producing more cotton and no strain on my wallet!

And last but not least, I am a knitting podcaster. Our podcast is huge! Like 300 people listen to each of our broadcasts. Oh, I guess that's not as much as some other podcasts that get millions of listeners or some other knitting podcasts that get thousands of listeners, but it's huge in my mind! If I win, I will gush about how great Sew Mama Sew is and therefore win over a loyal following of 300 crafty people.

I hope I've convinced the beautiful, talented, and bright selection committee of my worthiness for a serger. If not, will a set of cloth napkins do the trick? (Of course, I'll need that serger first!)