Sewing Fiend

Eilean has a big figure skating competition coming up at the end of February, so I have costumes to make. She is doing a solo to a Disney Fairies song, and really wants to look like Rani, so I'm working on that one. We faced the disappointment of no light blue two-way stretch fabric and had to settle for white. But she seems to be happy... I hope it turns out nicely for her. She is also doing a program to "Walk Like an Egyptian," which is just the highlight of her life at the moment due to all the cool arm movements :) She would like to pop out of an upright sarcophagus holding a crook and flail in crossed arms, but I believe that a portable cardboard pyramid will grace the ice instead.

Linus has been simply adorable lately, making up for his older brother's continual PMS-ish behavior. Really. Garrison has not been able to control his emotions at all. But it is only a stage, and it gets worse before it gets better, so they say. I don't know HOW MANY TIMES it will get worse followed by better, but I'm going to guess...... seventy times seven. Or something like that.

Loucette is now moving from belly or back to sitting position. She hit that cool milestone just this morning. She has also been pulling up and cruising along the couch, so it won't be long before she lets go. On Sunday, we discovered her first tooth. She's a go-getter, for sure.

John is working, working, working. And serving on committees. And being an all-around great daddy. And killing spiders, shoveling snow, repairing things around the house, replacing batteries, fixing "problems" that I have with the computer, etc. At least once a week one of us says to the other, "Remember when we went to Seattle? Let's do that again," meaning, "NOW!" (Our trip was only a year ago, for our tenth anniversary. Technically, it was our first honeymoon. And the first time we spent more than a few days away from the kids. We did next to nothing. It was amazing.)

And now, back to creating a fairy skating costume.