Good riddance stomach virus

Kathryn got sick with a stomach virus last Saturday morning and was sick until Wednesday : ( I will save everyone the details but will say it was gross. The one good thing is she was incredibly snugly. She was so pitiful and was such a good little patient.

The Easter egg hunt at our church. She had chocolate all over her dress but she enjoyed herself!



Waving her palm for Palm Sunday



Kathryn did SO many cute things in the week before she was sick. Two Sunday nights ago Rob & I were sitting in the floor of Kathryn's room reading her bedroom stories. When Rob finished Kathryn said " hug mommy". She then came & gave me a big hug. Then went & gave daddy a big hug. This continued with hugging me (then rob) from behind & insisting that Rob (then me) hug me & her!! Then she started "kiss mommy". We would have done that all night!

My mom & her fiancé came for a quick trip Friday before last. They bought his (Bill) dogs. The smaller one, Molly, got spooked by Kathryn twirling around in her dress (with the dress hitting Molly in the face) & snipped at her. Kathryn freaked out & once she calmed down she kept pointing at Molly saying "Molly away". Kathryn is fonder of the [world's largest] German Shepard, Rocky. She had a tea party with him, which mostly consisted of her trying to shove a cup in Rocky's mouth.

I was getting ready to go for a quick trip to the grocery store one night two weeks ago & told Kathryn we needed to get her dressed & she said "no". I asked her if she wanted to stay with daddy & she said "yes" (insert hope that this is true!). I, of course, didn't believe her so I asked several more times & finally she said "mommy go" & pointed at the door! I left with her happily playing with random stuff in Rob's office.

On Good Friday afternoon my Mom, Ashley, Will and Thomas came down for Easter. My mom, Rob and I went to Trinity for the Good Friday evening service and it was amazing. I'm so glad we went and will definitely do so in the future.

On Saturday we went to get Kathryn out of bed and there was vomit EVERYWHERE. I just stood there unable to figure out what to do first. Like I said above, I won't provide too many details. Kathryn kept telling us it was yucky!

Kathryn went on an Easter egg hunt with Thomas after lunch and they had a great time! Kathryn collected 95% of the eggs while Thomas went around kicking them and occasionally opening one to eat the treat in it. Then Kathryn sat down with my mom to get help open all her eggs.

Here are the "babies" chilling out before the big egg hunt.



Guess who made Thomas' outfit. I hated that I didn't get pics of Kathryn in hers with Thomas but I wasn't about to bother her with her feeling so bad.











Poor Thomas looks so tired!



Easter morning



Notice where the dog is. It was so adorable, she put the dining chair by the stove. At first I thought nothing of it then I realized she was doing that because when she helps my cook (not at the stove of course) she pulls up one of the kitchen table chairs.



Rob's last day of school EVER is Wednesday!! Three days left! Unfortunately he doesn't have a job yet so we don't know where we will end up. I try not to think about it and if I do I pray that something will work out and that whatever that is we will be at peace with it.

In honor of Rob's graduation I am having a luncheon for him next Saturday at our house. It is just our families coming down minus Ashley, Will and Thomas (they will be on vacation). I'll provide details after the luncheon since Rob reads this : )

I few funny things Kathryn has done/said:
-I made Kathryn a dress with Cinderella's carriage on it. I was asking her if she liked the carriage and she said "no, pumpkin".
-Rob was helping Kathryn clean up her play-doh a few days ago and Kathryn started singing the clean-up song. Rob joined in and so did I. She said "Dot [stop], Daddy," and pointed at me and said, "Mommy," wanting me to sing instead. It cracks us up, she is always telling Rob to stop singing or doing things but most of the time she lets mommy get away with it : )
-A couple of weeks ago Kathryn was looking at herself in the mirrored chest we have by the front door and said "pretty". She definitely knows she's a pretty little baby and I hope she always does! I just love hearing her say it.

Here are a few things I have made for my friend Ruth's daughter, Libby.





Here's a baby gift I made this weekend for my mom to give. I figure it's the least I can do since she has long-term loaned me her machine. I adore how they turned out! They still need to be washed to get my blue lines off but I just wanted to go ahead and share.



Here are a few things I have recently made for Kathryn and my nephew. It has been like a factory in my house. I have sewed so much this week. I appliqued 5 shirts, 4 onesies (well, one was a monogram), 2 bibs, a blanket, made 2 shorts, 2 bloomers and made and appliqued an a-line dress. I have started on a white pique jon jon for my nephew. I am making Kathryn a dress to match for their portraits in June.



The "extra" crab tee is for Libby. Here name is Elizabeth, I didn't just mess up the monogram (like with my mom's napkins!). Libby lives near Ashley and Thomas so when I go in town in June I will have to get their pic in these and I'll share.











I have a few more things I've made to post. I'll share next time. Good night!

Our Cruise

We left on March 17 for our Disney Cruise. We went with Rob's dad, step-mom, and his sister (who lives in Tempe so we don't get to see very often & Kathryn is completely obsessed with). The flight and check-in went surprisingly smoothly.

Getting in a little "Maow" time.



As soon as we got off the plane Kathryn had to have a nap and the rest of us were pretty tired too. We all took a nap. The adult girls headed to the spa while Kathryn was still napping. I had the most amazing massage. The room was almost to the very front of the boat so the view was amazing. While we were there the boys took Miss Kathryn to see The Golden Mickeys. Woody and Jessie were part of the show so Kathryn was quite captivated. On the way to meet up with me Rob and Kathryn meet Cinderella. I hated that I missed so badly that I made sure I was with Kathryn every minute for the rest of the trip!

After meeting Cinderella Kathryn decided she was a princess and must constantly be in princess attire. This gets slightly difficult when I want her to wear something I made. The good news of her wanting to be a princess is when I ask her if she wants to have princess hair, she lets me put bows in. Often after she gets dressed in her "princess dress" she will go look at herself in the mirror on our mirrored chest.

Here is what we woke up to the first morning.



This is "Ham" in Andy's room. It was adorable how you could actually put coins in his "back" and they'd roll out. Kathryn is working from the wrong end here!



Kathryn was very proud of her princess stickers.



Rob and I are going to teach Kathryn's Sunday school class this summer. She was just moved up to the 2 year old class last week and loves it. She hated being in the nursery since she was one of the oldest and they didn't do a whole lot. Once she saw the dress up clothes she was set! I loved seeing her in a classroom setting and seeing how she interacted with her peers. She was quite dominant (& loud). The 2's, 3's and 4's meet in a room for music for about 15 minutes. She sat in the middle of the large circle then got up and started twirling around while pretending to know the songs. When we went back to the classroom and prayed before having a snack she clapped her hands together instead of having "prayer hands". I promise we do pray with her!

Here is an outfit I made for Kathryn for our cruise. That's a bib on the right.



Here are some more clothes I've made recently. Kathryn is going to have lots of shorts like the ones below, they are my absolute favorites!! I love how nice and ironed they look!








The outfits below are some that I am trying to sell. I bought them at the end of the season sale at Jack n Jill last year for half price. Kathryn has entirely too many clothes and I am just trying to get what I paid out of it. All the tags are still on them. Please email me if you'd like one of these outfits.

These first two are sizes 2T and 4T. I paid $30 for each of these. I had planned on Kathryn wearing these with red Sun-Sandals.



I adore this one!! This one was $37 and it is Bailey Boys. I had planned on Kathryn wearing red sandals with this one too.



The dress below is also Bailey Boys and I paid $36. The dress is reversible, the reverse is currently blank so it would perfect for a monogram.

To blog or not to blog.....

My little jet-setter. Enjoying herself on the plane ride to the Disney cruise.


Obviously I am slacking severely in the blogging department!! There are so many things I want to blog about but then I never feel like putting forth the effort of uploading pictures, typing, etc. I know it sounds so lazy.

I have become extremely obsessed with appliquing! Obsessed isn't even a strong enough word. I appliqued the cutest shirt for Thomas. I plan to give it to my sister when she comes down for Easter. It will be a surprise to her and this will prove my belief that my sister (along with most of my family) don't read my blog : )

For Christmas Kathryn got the pink Pottery Barn kitchen set. Yes, the whole set. I was as excited as she was, as you all know I was determined that I Kathryn had to have the set. She got lots of accessories from everyone for her to use in her kitchen. She LOVES all of it. We put it in the sunroom and made the room her playroom. It's perfect (except for the fact that you have to walk through our bedroom to get to it but that's minor). She also got a playhouse tent. Once I get the room cleaned up I will post pictures. Kathryn's little friend Ruby was over last week and asked me how Kathryn got the room so messy in one day!


































Kathryn has started talking so much. She is quite selective as to when she wants to use words that aren't gibberish! She is still obsessed with being a baby and refers to herself as "baby". She also loves using the words "dirty" and "messy". Last Saturday Kathryn went with me to workout (she makes me feel awful leaving her) and when we were in the car leaving she said "Mommy dirty". . . "Mommy bath". Wow, I didn't realize I was so gross : )

Here is a picture of Kathryn smothering, I mean hugging her doll.





















We went on a Disney cruise 3 weeks ago. We had a great time (things could have been a little better if someone had been a little better behaved, sorry baby) and my in-laws booked us for a week on the new Disney boat coming out next year. I have lots to tell about our cruise but will save that for another day since I'm getting tired.

Here is my sweet baby in Andy's Room, in the cruise's kids play area, sitting on Rex. She LOVED the room. I have to say it was super cute.

Kathryn wouldn't play in the sand or ocean with me (she acted like she was scared everytime I tried). She had a great time playing with everyone else though. She was so cute in her little tutu swimsuit playing in the water. After this she took a 3 1/2 hour nap. Poor baby wore herself out.



















Here are some fabrics I am looking to sell. If you are interested please email me. All of them are cotton unless otherwise noted. I payed $5 a yard. I am willing to sell in 1/2 yards.

I'll call these #1 & #2. These are not meant to be paired together, it is just how I took the pic.















These are #3 & #4. These are precious as a top and bottom with the opposite used as a ruffle on the pants and/or top. The outfit below is one I made for Kathryn last year. A friend bought this for her daughter and is going to put a patch over the monogram.



































These are #5 and #6. The one on the left is a raspberry seersucker.















#7















#8. This fabric is so babyish. I had planned on making an a-line dress out of this.















#9. This is an orange seersucker. I am keeping some of this to make Miss Kathryn a little dress.















Here are some pics of things I have made lately. I have made TONS more but these are the only pics I have currently. I am working on taking pics of everything I have ever made. I wish I had had this thought in the beginning. It is a little tough going back now but I'll be glad I did it : )



















Kathryn loves her pig shirt. She keeps saying "oin, oin."