Vivienne Lost Herself to Dance

Vivienne started dancing the moment she could stand. It's funny to catch her doing it but it's hard to get on video. She already has a favorite song and LOVES to watch the music video. Coincidentally the song by Daft Punk is titled  Lose Yourself to Dance. Here is Vivenne and a little bit of Laith having fun dancing.

I Finally Did it!

It took almost 4 years to do so, but I finally posted the baby blankets I have made on Etsy!  I've made these types of blankets for years, all along hoping & wishing that one day I'd get to make some for myself.  I've gifted these blankets to families and friends and love seeing them years later.  I always snatch the blanket up and take a look at my binding, as I continually doubt my sewing skills. Thankfully, each of my carefully plotted stitches have held up to the many washings that baby blankets tend to get. I breathe a sigh of relief and tell myself to allow that feather to my cap...maybe one day. If you know anyone who is looking for a good quality baby blanket, send them over to my shop http://www.etsy.com/shop/CrimsonConfection.

Oktoberfest

I started the month on a craft kick. I decided every craft I had currently going had to be finished and along the way I created myself a few new ones.  I made a new Halloween wreath, using a feather boa and it turned out really fun.  I may just make a Valentine wreath with a pink feather boa. I hacked down my garden, somehow avoided the monstrous spider of 2013, and put up my own homegrown cornstalks on my front porch. We visited the pumpkin patch at Lowe's and found ourselves 3 good lookers that unfortunately rotted long before the eventful carving day. Note to self: get fake pumpkins for the porch during the month and buy the real thing just before carving. I modge podged letter initials for Laith & Vivienne and put together a 'toddler' mobile using vibrant colorful dragonflies and elephants that my boss gifted to the twins from his latest globetrotting trip. Just need to put some hanging ribbons on the mobile and get Bryan to anchor a hook in the ceiling. I also pieced together a new crib-size blanket for Vivienne and gathered fabric to start one for Laith. I loved my adventure into Quilt-land so much, I also found myself piecing together a Christmas table runner, which just needs to be basted together for my first attempt at machine quilting.

Vivienne developed quite the wild personality this past month. After being harassed in some fashion or another by her brother and bursting into incurable tears, I plopped her on the couch and gathered her dollies all around her.  She wrapped her arms around them and gifted me with a beautiful grin. I also braved my first attempt at doing her hair. I pinned her down, made two quick pigtails and put in hair clips. She screamed and hollered like a stuck pig, yet in the end, she preened about the living room brushing her pretty new hairdo. Her most recent trick is "Cheese". No one taught her this, nor did we really say the words when we took pictures. She just up and decided that giving the silliest grin possible was a good cheese for any camera. Now when we whip a camera out, she puts on this fake cheese much to our delight.

Obviously from our last posting, we bought a shiny new car. This shiny new car was cheaper than our first-two-borns. We spent the entire afternoon at the dealership, much to the twins dismay. Luckily this dealer had a kid-friendly room, which truly was kid-friendly. There were toys, books, a TV with kid programming, mini chairs and tables, and secluded in its own space which allowed for our noisy bunch to not really bug anyone...at least the only ones we bothered were the couple who free-loaded the dealer's TV to watch a football game. Once the papers were finally signed and Bryan was able to step into his brand new baby, I got out my cell phone and took pics. I know they're not the best quality, but I also know that Bryan would've always wished he'd thought to do so. You'd think he'd be a little happier in these pics considering we finally got his long awaited for dream...but anyone who really knows our family, knows that Sadler men just can't smile in photos.  Or if they do, it means their eyes will be closed. So these ones will do.

 

 

 

Finally, we finished off Oktoberfest with Bryan's most favorite holiday. He keeps hoping that at least one of these two will love scary movies as much as him, and they can spend the evening scaring the begeebies out of each other, while I (and whoever else can't stand it) spend the evening watching classics like "Charlie Brown and the Great Pumpkin", "Goonies", "Hocus Pocus" and Disney's cartoon version of Ichabod Crane. You'd think with my jump start to October being crafting I would've made some outlandish outfits. Nope. I took the cheaters way out and visited Party City and picked up a couple of cheap costumes. Surprisingly (or maybe just to me) the girl costumes were much more expensive than the boy costumes. I found the cheapest girlie was a ladybug at $15 smackeroos. I started glancing at the boy costumes for a similar price and found none to my liking. The boy costumes were all cheesy-pie. I couldn't let my manly boy be disgraced and so I opted for the pirate. And he wore it in style. In the beginning he loved wearing his hat and carrying his sword but by evening's end he was happy to just roam without his accessories. Vivienne absolutely loved being a ladybug. When I first donned her costume she kind of gave me this Really Mom? look, then I pulled out the wings and her eyes sparkled. She once again preened about the living room showing off her lovely wings. We visited the neighbors and got loaded with plenty of candy for a year and then visited Lowe's to pass out trick-or-treat candy. We also trick-or-treated both grandparents over skype. I think next year, we'll finally have a couple of kiddos who will last an evening of true trick-or-treating.