After Isabelle eats I tell her to wipe her face and her mouth. She will do this sometimes. But most of the time she wipes the table. She’s just following my example. She feels me wipe her face and hands but she sees me wipe the table. My little copycat.

Go read cute baby #6, still hates carrots.

This man: this wonderful father, husband, provider, my best friend, is turning thirty three today. Alan has the whole week off so I may be taking a blogging break. I leave you with pictures of Isabelle rolling in tanbark at the park yesterday.

Ok not really. She fell down so I laughed and took pictures. She wasn’t hurt otherwise of course there would be no pictures or laughing. But see she was fine so you get to share in the funniness. Enjoy the rest of your week everyone!

First of all, thank you all for the well wishes for Alan’s birthday! It’s so sweet that people we’ve never met are wishing him a happy birthday.

And now for what was supposed to be a short post but isn’t turning out to be that:

You know, I was trying to keep away. I was. I wasn’t going to go on my computer at all the rest of the week. But its siren call kept beckoning and I found myself reading blogs yesterday. And then I was compelled to draw a new banner. The warm weather was screaming at me to change it. It’s silly to see us ice skating when it’s been warm and we’re out in skirts and dresses…well not Alan because he doesn’t like wearing skirts or dresses. (that I know of. Just kidding honey. I know he doesn’t like wearing skirts or dresses. We’ve known each other so long I’m sure I’ve actually asked if he secretly liked dressing as a woman, probably after watching some movie about a guy who wanted to be a woman. And I digress. What was I saying?)

So I asked Alan what I should draw for the new banner. He said something about green hills I think. I can’t remember exactly and he’s asleep right now. I don’t want to run into the bedroom and wake him up just to ask. But anyhoo I am going off subject again, this is what I came up with: us laying on a blanket in the grass.

Ok now I am going to TRY to stay away from this addictive machine the rest of the week. No blog reading today. Try to stay away from email even. (Gasp! Is that possible?) Just post this and I’m gone.

I will catch up with our past week in another post. There’s been lots of sewing going on. In the meantime here is Isabelle’s latest skirt. I wanted to show this first because I added some new pictures to the tiered skirt tutorial.

Hmmm…at this moment I’m thinking I don’t know when I’ll be back to posting because my hands have been hurting. Yes, right now I am typing and they hurt. And I can’t blame it on my computer since I’ve been fairly successful this past week on keeping away from it. I’ve barely kept up with my blog reading and I’ve only snuck in an email here and there. I have Isabelle’s monthly recap to do and dresses and skirts to show but with the pain right now I don’t feel like doing anything for another week. But yet here I am typing away. But like I said, it can’t be the computer. Maybe it’s all the sewing I’ve been doing…

Isabelle turned eighteen months old on Alan’s birthday. That’s a year and a half old!! I can’t think of much to recap right this moment except for her favorite noise, “no”. She doesn’t say no as in no. She says it as a sound. No, no, no as she’s playing, no no no as she’s trying to drag us off to see something. No no no as she opens and slams close a drawer. I don’t like no. I think she should start saying yes yes yes.

So since I cannot think of anything to recap and I’ve typed more than I wanted with the pain in my hands here are some pictures instead. Yes more more pictures of Isabelle since me and Alan like looking back in our archives at how big she’s gotten.

Sweet kisses:

Blinding flash photography:

Monthly family picture:

Read month seventeen.