Skirt!

Yesterday I had a severe fit of domesticity. I did dishes, folded laundry, made dinner (yummy burgers & homemade buns), got bread started and made cinnamon rolls. And sewed Doodle a skirt. I used the Oliver+s Lazy Days skirt pattern (free here - look in the sidebar for the link). It was quick, easy and fun. Did I mention easy? I'm totally going to make more of these skirts for her. And, maybe, me. Anyways, here's the skirt:

Yes, okay, I know. Striped shirt not matching the skirt or the single striped sock. She's got her own kind of fashion going. It'll catch on soon. Really.

But the skirt! Isn't it cute? Super easy, good for spinning, and it's got a cute little ribbon at the bottom that makes it look like it was more work than it was. Hooray for home-sewn stuff looking good!

Yeah, over-exposed. I know. But she wanted to show me UPCLOSE. That happens. Point being: cute skirt. That I made with minor help and hand-holding by J (when stressing about the "this says it's only supposed to be 7/8", and this seam here is a full inch!" hyperventilating drama I'm capable of. Thanks J for tolerating me.)

Yay skirt! Next project: Doodle pants?

Easter-y fun

Here are some photos of our Easter. I didn't get any good ones of our busy, busy Saturday, but took a bunch on our much more mellow Sunday at home.

Grandma Sabrina made these awesome Easter gifts, all knitted! The basket/nest looks very realistic. So cool! Doodle loves them. (Bonus: the hatching chick also fits in some of the larger plastic eggs we have, so Doodle can make it hatch out of lots of things).

See? She loves it!

We started letting Doodle take pictures with the camera. This is J after the 8th photo in a row that Doodle took of him.

J and Doodle dyeing eggs.

The finished product (yes, we only dyed 7). Doodle working on opening a plastic egg found in the yard.

Life...

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A good (but crazy) busy

This weekend was fun, but nuts.

On Saturday we:
1) Went to the climbing gym for J's bouldering competition. The morning session was just him and FunEllen, so it was mellow. Doodle ran around and tried climbing while I watched J and FunEllen climb for a little bit. I left early to drop Doodle off with friends, then frantically put on makeup to prepare for...

2) the drive down to SLC to perform (bellydance) at Meeting of the Tribes. Stopped at the Aquarius Fish Market where I stocked up on much-needed yummy fish after getting the most delicious cinnamon belgian waffle from a hole-in-the-wall café run by a couple of Belgians. Sooooo yummy. Ate, danced, then came home. The performance went pretty well, I think, though I think we're all glad we have a month or so to polish it before our next show.

3) Meanwhile J, Doodle and one of our small friends went out to Baby Animal Days. Doodle rode a horse and looked at cute animals, and J climbed the greased pole. Blech. At least he got $3 off the pole - enough to pay for Doodle's admission to the bounce house.

4) We rendezvoused, ate dinner, then went back to the climbing gym to watch the finals. J didn't make it into the top three for the advanced climbers, so we just watched the finals while Doodle ran around, swinging on ropes, applauding FunEllen and generally enjoying lots of space to run and jump and climb. We stuck around until the comp was done, then J tried out some of the routes the finalists climbed. Finally got home at 10:30pm. LONG DAY.

Sunday we:
1) dyed eggs, then hunted for plastic eggs in the front yard. Doodle loved it all.

2) went to Caffe Ibis for coffee/hot chocolate. Nice mellow morning (which J needed, as he was sore from all that climbing).

3) got Doodle to nap after a crying fit because we didn't go to the library. You see, when running errands around town we will often stop at the library followed by the coffee shop or vice versa. So after hot chocolate, Doodle assumed we'd be going to the library, and was very sad when we didn't. Yep, that's my girl - bookworm through and through.

4) Post-nap we went to our friends' house for an Easter/post-baby-blessing dinner. Had fun hanging out, watching the kids play, and holding their 2 week old baby boy. Friends enjoyed asking Doodle where mama's baby is - her answer: "In UTERUS!!!" (yelled very enthusiastically). Good fun.

Thanks FunEllen, StrangeFam, Duffys, climbers and bellydance girls for a fun but exhausting weekend!

Second trimester

I'm officially in the second trimester of pregnancy now. Woohoo!

Only ~27 more weeks to go...

(dang, that seems like forever.)

What we've been up to

Here's a pile of cute Doodle pictures from the past few weeks.


Little bellydancer eating chocolate. Stripey girl dancing to her singing birthday card. Yes, her b-day was in December. She *loves* singing cards.


Yesterday J climbed this tree in our backyard to hack off some dead branches. Doodle insisted on joining him. I'd better get used to this - she's only going to climb higher from here on.


Play hard, sleep hard.


She may be cute, but she's still fierce. Beware!

I heart Melissa

Yesterday we had our first appointment with our beloved midwife, Melissa. We chatted about how I've been feeling (pretty great as long as I eat), what I've been craving (the fattiest processed meat imaginable), and how we feel about this pregnancy (woohoo! Baby!!!).

We got to hear the wombling's heartbeat! It made this whole pregnancy thing feel a little more real to hear the little person's heartbeat in there.

It was really great to chat with Melissa again. After Doodle's birth I missed our regular meetings with her. She's just really really awesome.

As of today, I'm twelve weeks pregnant. Almost done with the first trimester!