Diapers Diapers Diapers

One of these days no one in my house will wear diapers. Or maybe they'll be in diapers so long they'll just put mom and dad in them when they finally all potty train. Oh well.

Emma, though, has brand-spanking-new Chloe Toes diapers! All her roly poly bottomness is now contained in these diapers that I made from Catherine's diaper pattern. I had some that I made before, but between the time I cut them out and finished them up she grew. It's not that it took that long to sew, I just kept putting it off. Once you get going, you can do a diaper bag full in no time. Just so you know, they are sandwich PUL (no chance of the poly touching) on the outside and white alova suedecloth on the inside, bound with white FOE. Yes, we do like colorful things here, but I just love white diapers. I use a microfiber towel in the pocket between to soak things up. I am hoping that we may be able to make it through the night in one of these - the cloth diapers that have been using didn't have the same stay-dry feel that the suedecloth has and I had a wiggly wet one a couple of times a night. One step closer to not using any paper dipes at all.

B-day present is on its way

Did I tell my sister I had a blog? I made this towel for her little boy who turned 5 a few weeks ago (bad aunt - I must get presents and cards out on time, especially for the children!)

Anyway, easy peasy camouflage towel for the little boy who had an army man birthday party. Hope he likes it! (and Kim, in case you're keeping up with things here, don't tell him until it gets there!) By the way, the writing is straight, I must have been at a funky angle.

Boys of Summer

Just a couple of pictures of the boys. I've been playing with the settings on the digital camera so the pictures are just going to get better! I love to get the kids up high so they are in front of the sky. Jeremiah is 4 and James is 7.

You can't tell it from these pics, but all of the kids have blue eyes. Other people are so amazed by this. "You all have blue eyes?" Yes, the recessive gene is now the dominant gene!

Crocodile Rock and little Baby Rosebud

Some June sewing accomplished - Matching outfits for the girly girls. It's the cutest crocodile print (click on any picture to see the details better), originally bought for the boys, but I found a coordinating dot print in my stash and had to do the girls first. Baby Emma is wearing an outfit that I made from fabric my grandmother sent. She is near the end of life, and last year sent me all the rest of her fabric saying "I'm not sewing anything anymore". So here for GG is Emma's Rosebud seersucker outfit. Top is the assymetrical ruffled dress from Ottobre 3/06, bloomers are from Elizabeth Lee Designs #303. The other girls outfits I made up on my own. Abby's is a swingy top styled similarly to the baby top, with pants I drafted myself, from a pair of bg sister's pants so they'd be loose and comfy. Maggie's halter dress is just a trapezoid in front and a rectangle in back, ties and binding the armholes is aqua FOE, the back is elasticized before sewing to the front. All in all, the matching outfits took about 2 hours total, from cutting to wearing. Got to do more of that!

I have 2 more outfits for Emma cut out of the same. I love those little bloomers because they fit so well over her little cloth diapered bottom. Speaking of cloth diapers, I am in the process of making Chloe Toes pocket diapers for Emma. I cut out a bunch in April, sewed them late May, and she already grew out of them. Oh, well, they will be in great shape for another baby! So I have more cut out and on the assembly line now. Until they are done, Emma is wearing the diapers I made for Abby last year from the Ottobre diaper pattern, 3/05. They's still fit Abby, but she decided she was done with diapers before her birthday in February. I'm not complaining! Oh yeah, the blanket Emma is laying on was made by my husband's secretary - isn't it darling?