March update … a little late. :-)

Okay, first off, look at my baby!!!  Wait, where’s the baby?!!!  When did he turn into a little boy!  Wow.  I just stare and stare at this picture wondering when he started to look so big!

Can you spot the gap in L’s teeth?  I pulled her first tooth out.  It gave me chills.  I can still feel it … urgh.  She got over it much faster than I did, and she’s already begging me to pull the one next to it …

I should probably say a word about Molly.  I’d begged C for a dog since we got married.  He finally said yes.  I rushed out and got this little girl from the next town over’s shelter (a kill shelter).  Over the next three days, I realized I’d neglected to ask myself if I was ready (or had the time for) taking care of a new dog and all that goes with it.  In the end, the answer was no.  I took her to the local shelter (a no-kill shelter) and sponsored her for adoption.  I’m not saying we’ll never have a dog … just not any time soon.

Remember those hobby horses I made the kids for Christmas?  And C had to help J walk his around the house?  Well, he’s figured out to hold on to the mane and do it himself.  It makes him very happy.  (Note, he doesn’t have a pacifier in this picture – we were doing well getting rid of it until he started teething again!)

Here is a late “Happy St. Patrick’s Day!”  You’ll note that S is wearing a dress.  She is always begging to wear a dress lately. 

I made chocolate chip cookies this month.  Usually I talk myself into making oatmeal-chocolate chip cookies, so I can fool myself into thinking they are healthier.  This time I just went straight for my old “best ever” choc chip cookies.  Yes, the recipe is as good as ever.  Good thing I had a bunch of people to give these away to.

Both J and S were more than willing to help me “dispose” of the cookies.  But L took one bite and declared them yucky.  They had chocolate in them, and for that they could not be forgiven.  In fact, when I went to put the next batch in the oven, she asked me, “You’re not making more of them, are you?!”  My poor child!

But she’s awful cute, so I’ll keep her!

I owed my sister a favor, so I made my niece a Snow White dress, like I’d made for S.  I’m finding it’s getting easier to sew the more I do it, and I’m getting better.  See that little point at the bottom of the bodice, where the yellow line ends?  In S’s dress, there’s no point.  I couldn’t figure out how to do it until after I’d finished it up and I was lying in bed wondering what on earth they were thinking.  THEN I figured it out.  So it was nice to have a second chance and see if I could do it right.   (L is just about the same size as my niece, so I kept trying the dress on her to see if it fit.)

And finally, my girly-girl.  She went to a friend’s birthday party, and they all came home with super hero capes.  She declared herself to be “a princess bat woman” and then added the cowboy hat later.