Death by...potty?

Has anyone actually died from potty training? I'm talking moms, not kids. It's easy enough for them. We're the ones that have to clean up all the messes... Who told that boy he was old enough to wear these?!?!

Hope

I'm watching the coverage of the Chilean miners rescue right now. My thoughts and prayers are with the miners, their families, and all the rescuers right now. May everything go well so these men can go home to their families!

Dustin is a coal miner, so situations like this really hit home. It makes me nervous every time he leaves, but I'm always so grateful to see him come home.

Maycie's car seat

After we found out our baby was a girl last October, I immediately started scoping out all the pink stuff I could find. I love pink. I don't wear a lot of pink, but after living with 2 boys for a few years, all pink and girly became much more appealing. Dustin and I talked about buying a new car seat for this baby, even though we had bought Jayden's thinking we could use it for a girl if we ever needed to. But it just wasn't girly. And I needed girly.

The more I looked at car seats, the less I liked the girly ones. They were so...PINK! Like mushy pink. I like pink. I love pink. But these car seats were too pink. So, I decided I would make a new cover for the car seat we already had.

It took me a while, but I finally found the perfect fabric. It's called Plain Jane by Michael Miller. I picked the aqua and red, and also got some polka dots in the same colors. I've made a canopy for it too, but I don't have any pictures of it.




What do you think? I love it. Much more than I loved any of the pink. I love the colors and that it's girly, but not so girly it would make you puke. That cute baby just makes it even cuter I think.

I just linked up!!!

A floppy hat and airplanes

I recently made Jayden one of these hats from I Am Momma, Hear Me Roar. I LOVE all her little boy tutorials. So fun and so, so easy. The longest part of making this was picking out what fabrics to use. I ended up using 2 of Dustin's old shirts and a tank top from the dollar store. Dustin though it was pretty cool that I could reuse his shirts to make something for Jayden. Heck, I was pretty excited too. There isn't a fabric store around here that carries knits, so it's fun to figure out some ways to use what I have available.

Jayden got to wear his hat when we went to the Sanpete County Fly-In. He is a little obsessed with airplanes, helicopters, and rocketships, so this was a big deal to him. We got to see some cool planes (he's still talking about them), and he even got to sit in the Life Flight plane.



I'm pretty sure he would have sat here all day if we had let him. He just sat there, looking around, happy as could be.


Jayden hadn't ever had cotton candy before, so we got him some. Every kid should have the chance to bury their face in a big sugary puff of delicious, yes? That boy is so fun. I love when we can do things like this with him. :)

Skulls and Cross"bow"nes

(How thrilled do they look in this picture?!!?!)

Jayden and Maycie have both outgrown almost all of their clothes. At the same time. Go figure. I really shouldn't complain about having to get them new clothes, since Jayden has been wearing 18-24 months sizes and Maycie has still been wearing Newborn and 0-3. At 2 1/2 and 6 months, I guess it's acceptable for them to grow a bit.

I got a bunch of shirts at the Dollar Tree recently (T-shirts for a buck? Yes, please.). They had a couple in Jayden's size, so I've been searching my little brain for ways to spice them up. And then, somewhere in a cob-webby corner of my mind, I found it. The great idea I'd been looking for. And then I remembered this post from Crap I've Made. And I felt dumb, cuz I'd had such a great idea and thought it was original. Obviously not original, but very cute. Great minds think alike, right? Right?

Since our kitchen fixes have put a cramp in my craftynesses, I moved the hammer and drill and got to work.

I did do mine a little differently. I sprayed the bleach on lightly so it stayed kinda spotty. And I loved how it turned out:


I couldn't leave Maycie out on this fun, so she got one too. Girly-fied.


With bum ruffles. Not my best ruffles, but I'm not selling it, so I didn't really care. I used brown thread!!! Lazy.


(Ignore my bad pictures. The light in my house is awful for pictures and it's been stormy for days so there isn't even any sunlight to steal!)


See this nasty thing? Attempt #1. FAIL.

I think we like them :)

And no, we don't wear pants in this house, in case you were wondering.