finally

There's a tooth poking through!  That's my assurance that this fussiness will come to an end soon.  It's one of the one year molars, and I'm sure she's getting the other three, too, though they haven't made an appearance yet....but the fact that one finally started coming through tells me that this WILL pass...eventually.

I'm so tired of having a fussy girl.  She's always been so happy until lately.  She still has her moments (usually when we go somewhere--she's pretty happy when we're out and about but mostly she's fussy.

Unless she's bothering something she shouldn't.  Then she's perfectly happy!  Like today when she got into Rachel's paints.  Twice!  FYI--Washable paint doesn't come out of carpeting as easily as one would think.  I now know from experience.)

My husband gave me a wonderful gift today--a whole afternoon to myself!  He took the girls hiking.  It took an hour to get there and an hour to get back, plus the hiking time (Rachel hiked 2 miles all by herself up a "mountain!"--we don't really have mountains in our state, but this was actually called a mountain), so I had quite a nice chunk of time, at home, BY MYSELF!  I don't remember the last time I was in the house by myself.  I actually asked him to take them somewhere because I needed to sew, and I didn't know how in the world I would do it with them (actually, Rebecca) around.  Rachel asked me a month or so ago to make her a Snow White cape because she wants to be Snow White for halloween.  She has the rest of the costume already, but wanted a cape to go with it.  We went to the craft store a few weeks ago and she helped me choose the pattern and material, and I finally got around to making it today while they were gone.

Here they are on their hike....

Rachel at the top

Cute Rebecca

My girls!

I'm not thrilled with the results of the cape, because the directions on the pattern were wrong, and the material was hard to work with, but she loves it and wore it all evening after she got home, so that's what counts.  It's actually a Little Red Riding Hood cape, so she can be either Snow White or Little Red Riding Hood.  She played both.  Next she wants me to make her an Alice In Wonderland costume (there's a pattern for that in the same package as the cape pattern, which is what made her think of it).  I don't think I'll be sewing again anytime soon, though I did enjoy it.  It had been years since I had the sewing machine out.  But it's just too difficult with our little mischief maker around.     

So here she is with her newest obsession--wearing her sister's "gack gack" (back pack).  She can't put it on by herself so she walks around carrying it saying, "gack gack, gack gack," until you put it on her.  Then she tries really hard to take it off, but can't, so she either falls over or ends up fussing.

She looks so funny...

But it was so big that I gave her a smaller one that we have.

She wears it around all the time (notice all of the drool??  Definitely teething....)