WW: Strawberry pickin' pics

This strawberry picking trip last Friday was my first big event out with all three kids. I had help, though... Megan took Aiden and Evie too and the other moms in our group were happy to hold the baby, or keep an eye on Ivey for a minute when needed.

Megan and Evie

Now look closely at these two--they are my favorite.

:-)

WW: My favorite photos from Robert's birth

The ones I love but didn't put in my birth story posts.

This was actually during the most intense part, just a few minutes before Robert was born. I love this one so much!













Jenn did such an amazing job of capturing the love and excitement at our birth. I can't stop looking at these and every time I look I love them more.

WW: Never too early to start reading to your babies

Ivey's favorite to read to her babies is What's Wrong, Little Pookie?

"Ohh, Poopie!" ... "Upset?"

WW: Ivey loves to say CHEESE!

I've gotten into the habit of snapping photos during various stages of my craft projects, so that I can blog about them later if I want to.

Ivey can be in another room totally absorbed in her own activity, but when she hears the camera turn on she comes running because she thinks I want to take her picture.

Cheese! Cheese! CHEE-eese!

It's so cute that I can't help stopping to take about ten pictures of her, every single time.

So in my picture folders there will be a bunch of photos of fabric and needles and thread, and then these.

And then more fabric and stuff. I couldn't just let them sit in my picture folders anymore, I had to share the cute!

WW: Made so far this month

There is just something about working with construction paper and Elmer's glue.

I like to think of Wordless Wednesdays as days with less words. Kind of like the Payless shoe store. We drove by one when I was a kid and I asked my mom how they could afford to run a business giving shoes away. But it turns out you do pay, you just pay less.

I googled and figured out how to sew roses, got in a Valentine's mood, and made this bracelet.

Then I decided to have craft day and make some hearts to hang up like Megan always does. Suzi learned to cut paper hearts (and glued on some I made for her) to make Valentines. This one is for her friend Aiden because his favorite color is blue.

And she got creative and made herself a little bird beak from the scraps.

Ivey mostly made a mess, climbing up on the table and crushing her goldfish crackers (not pictured) with her fat little knees.

But she was really cute doing it. She also enjoys drawing pictures with her "cayns."

And right after it snowed we made chocolate cupcakes from a mix and frosted them with sweet whipped cream. Which the kids mostly licked off and left the cupcakes.

Working in the car and at home, I finally finished these birds for my in-laws. I added a nest and two little eggs, one for Jordan and one for his brother.

And this might be my favorite... A shrug made from a holey cashmere sweater and another red sweater I felted. Both were purchased at the Goodwill clearance center for, I don't know, a couple of bucks total. Roses are fun to make. Post of the process from this one coming soon.

WW: Playing in the freak snow

The date: 1/10/11

Inches of snow: 6

Consecutive snow days in my old school district: 5

Days Jordan got off from work: 2, plus two 2-hour delays

Times this has happened here before: zero, at least during my lifetime!