I hate this part of having a baby.
I just packed up most of Addies 0-3 month clothing. I'm so sad. She can still fit *some* 0-3 month onesies since I use onesie extenders but everything else got packed up except a few dresses that can still fit her. She's now in mostly 3-6 months but can fit 6-9 with a bit of room to grow.
Also, I have realized how much I overbought on clothes for her! Holy Moly! Her 0-3 month clothes took up THREE boxes. Thats just the dresses, shirts, coats, jeans & sleepers. The onesies take up an entire LARGE dresser drawer. I realized she hadn't worn like 3/4 of the clothes! I had *favorites* and she wore those aloooot, the rest just sat there. I'm sooo not buying this much for our next kid.
It's also time to go through Braxtons clothes & get rid of all size 4's. He is now in size 5. *tear*
I bought the Sheepy Pants pattern and knit my first pair of shorties! I looove how they turned out even though there are a couple flaws. I left extra string on the shorties in hopes of knitting small flowers and attaching them to the drawstring but I can't find a good knit flower pattern-just crochet. The headband was also supposed to have a large flower on it but again-no good pattern. It took me 4 days to knit the shorties, 1 day for the hat & headband. (I ADORE this hat!) & I love the self striping yarn. I used acrylic yarn so it's kind of stiff.
I knit this for Addie, it's a size small but it sooo doesn't fit. Maybe because I didn't do a ribbed waistband or maybe because its the acrylic wasn't as stretchy as wool. So I am super bummed she won't get to wear them. I had no clue what else to do with them so I am offering them in a free for shipping Lotto on diaperswappers.com. :)
Now my next project: A juliette skirtie!! :D
So I bought a sewing machine...it's been lots of fun but I definetly had alot of learning to do! I haven't sewn anything in YEARS! I started off with something simple:
Cloth wipes. These were super easy. I used an old receiving blanket and a little bit of scrap cotten fabric, cut them to the same shape, turned and topstitched the edges-Voila! Cloth wipes! They cost practically nothing to make!
Then I moved on to something else.
Soft Shoes. I made these using the Stardust soft shoe pattern (as soon as I figure out how I will come back and link to the pattern.) The 2 purple ones were my "practice." They aren't that great so I used cheap-o fabric for them. Once I got the hang of the pattern I used my good fabrics.
The longies of course AND a pretty decent size scrap! I know I definetly will make a pair of soft shoes with it but I will have left overs so I'm trying to think of what else I could make. She already has an Ella shirt or else I would do make an applique. Hmm..
Addie on Valentines day with her Vday stuffed bear :)
You and your sales! I just gave you $130 last week and then here you are now, tempting me with low sale prices & $10 jeans. I hate you... but I love you. :)
I spent $82 and got all of this:
Talk about some DEALS!
Please, Please, PLEASE...end your sale...or I may be in big trouble. :)
Sorry...but I have to rant. I have to get this out because I'm pretty upset!!
Most of you have read my many rants about my MIL...so you know how crazy she is. ;)
Well, she found out that we got our tax returns back last week...so she immediatly started asking us for money. We told her we didn't have any to spare because we have bills, loans, credit cards to pay off, not to mention we would like to save some to pay for Braxtons upcoming birthday. Well that pissed her off. She starts saying she is a nobody, no one loves her, she needs the money for medical bills, etc, etc. Poor, poor me.
Then she starts complaining that we spend all our money on our "friends" but can't even give her any. We had no clue what she was talking about because, we dont do that. So we told her once again where all the money was going and that we really don't have any to spare so she brought up the cruise that we had planned on taking. My cousin and her husband were going to go with us. Neither of us ever had a REAL honeymoon so we were all going to go on a cruise together-no kids. The only reason MIL even knew about the cruise was b/c she was going to watch the kids. Let me point out that my cousins were going to pay THEIR way, and we were paying our own. It's not like we were taking THEM. Well, they cancelled the cruise b/c they can't afford it this year. So we told her that...she didn't have much else to say about the money but instead started going on about how she never gets to watch the kids but "Kristins family gets to." (her and DH were texting, I took the phone, posing as Josh and said: Kristins mom & grandma get to because they ask, you never ask to and when we used to ask if you wanted you never wanted to." Then I added that nobody gets to watch Addie because she doesn't take a bottle. She said once again that "Kristins family gets to." Siiiigh. Then of course more of the "poor me."
These are some of the texts from her:
"Thanks for paying me back all those times you said you would."
"Hope you have a good life. Dont worry about me, I am nothing."
"Sure could use that money for Meds, I am out."
"I have always been a nobody to you."
"Make sure you spend all that money on your friends. Don't worry that your mom is doing without."
"Humor me, everyone else does."
"And the cruise with your friends. I am nothing."
"I have always been no one to you."
OhMyGosh! I am basically infuriated. She does this ALL the time, and let me say...its not like Josh is mean to her. He was a HUGE mommas boy before he moved out at like 22. He did everything for her! She is....crazy!
Thanks for letting me rant...even if no one actually reads this it feels nice to write it out and get it out of my system.
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