Relaxing Sunday (after a hectic week)
I finished the doll. It looks something like a mummy due to combination of using white/tan yarn and the garter stitch. It’s about a foot tall and needs more stuffing in the abdominal area. Other than that, it’s a pretty good-looking doll. I gave it to Taylor, but she kind of ignored it. Kyle has taken to it well, playing with Isis. I found it in the dirt a few days ago. I guess the kids are still too young to be giving them family heirlooms, but I was glad to see that it was being played with and not ignored.
Taylor has been attempting to take steps on her own. Hasn’t walked yet, but we can see it in her face: She wants to move her legs the way everyone else moves there legs around here. Yesterday, she took ONE step forward with her right leg toward Isis’ crate. She had done that a couple of other times before, id est, from the loveseat to the couch. I’m waiting for BOTH legs to move to call them real “Steps.”
The cold front came last week. We welcomed autumn with open arms and a picnic lunch of peanut butter, apples, and bananas. It got warmer as the days went by, though. The mosquitoes are inviting themselves into the house, and they are being quite the pests. Then the rain came, and we turned the air back on due to the mugginess. But we shut it off at sundown, and I even got cold around the time change.
And because of the time change, the kids were up at 5:30!! This one wanted water then changed his mind. That one wanted his flashlight that we couldn’t find until we turned on the light. And the other one needed a diaper change and some breastmilk before going down for the rest of her beauty sleep.
I almost have the kids’ Halloween costumes done. Ty is going to be a pumkpin, well, Jack O’Lantern. Kyle agreed to be a black cat. I thought those were traditional, wholesome costumes. We thought that we could pull off home-made costumes at the cheap. And it looks like we did! But, jeez, that was a lot of work. It took me three days of focusing on nothing but comstume-making. I mean, I hogged up the dining table to sew, so the kids ate their meals in the backyard and in the living room. Ty didn’t like the change. Anyway, all I have left it to get the green stem of the pumpkin attached to the hat and get some elastic or cord to attach to the cat’s mask.
