The tooth fairy visited Kylan last night. Yesterday we went to the Dentist to get a tooth pulled and came out with the toothless wonder :) We knew we had to pull the baby tooth, but when I was told that really it would be good to pull 6, I was shocked! The x-rays were the selling point, you could totally see all the permanent teeth coming up and the reason we went was that his bottom front permanent tooth was coming in behind the baby tooth. It wasn't even close enough to push the baby one out, and it was pushing against the one next to it also. So for the sake of some straight teeth, we just bit the bullet! haha It won't be long and the teeth will be coming into place, so for now, we just call him our little gummer :)
Here he is, showing off :)
Travel Pillows
I have been working on some travel pillows for our road trips coming up. I will spare you with the pictures, they're just the U shaped ones. But they are turning out great and now the kids (and I) won't have floppy heads while we're driving across America :) We'll be going to Houston, twice in the next two weeks. Driving home from California. Then probably to and from Wyoming later in the summer. And if we do Caleb's eye surgery then we'll have to go back to Houston for a three month check-up. So we will be getting some good use out of those babies! Yikes! That will be a lot of mileage :)
Ruffled blanket
My friend is about to have her fourth girl. I decided to be a nice person and help her girls, 12, 10, and 8 years old make something for their Mom and new sister. I helped them tie her a quilt. It didn't really take very long to do and they caught on fairly quickly. It turned out cute, but the best part about it was the what I found online. I had bought a remnant of pink satin, my friend likes the satiny blankets and I wanted part of it to be satin. So now I needed to find out how to incorporate it into the quilt. I had never made my own binding for a blanket before, so I didn't want to foul it up. Then I came across this awesome blog that gave a tutorial that was perfect! It's called Notes from the patch and whenever I try a link on here it never works so I will try to copy and paste.
http://patches.typepad.com/notes_from_the_patch/2009/11/tutorial-tuesday-2-satin-ruffles-or-how-to-tame-the-fabric-from-hell.html
It gives you the step by step instructions and it turned out fabulous! I didn't go out and buy the ruffler, but I might have to now, after making this blanket and seeing how cute it turned out, I would love to see one that had perfect ruffles :)
This is my attempt at serging, I don't have a serger, so I just did what she suggested. Hopefully the blanket won't fall apart ;)
Here's the finished project! I hope she'll love it! I'm really excited to give it to her!
On a side note, I have never really been that much of a "girly girl" But now I think I can say I am a member of the club. If you can make a ruffle for a blanket and love it, you must be pretty girly :) I guess deep down I really am! haha
3 comments:
james I am impressed by the domesticity. That blanket is great!! Neck pillows are awesome. I needed some for a few trips we were taking but they were so expensive so I took your route, I made them myself. They were pretty easy and we got some good use out of them. Good luck on that eye surgery, never fun for your kids to have surgery but I can attest,it's also not fun to go through life with really crappy vision. he'll do great!
I hope the eye surgery option turns out to be a good choice and all goes well. And, Jaimie...What a beautiful blanket! Tracy will love it! :)
Beautiful blanket!
That is a TON of traveling!
Wow! On the teeth. Holy cow! He's tough and the tooth fairy is broke.
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