How many times has she said sucker since I uttered it oh so quietly? Ummm…I think 3 times. Whenever I relay that story she jubilantly yells it with arms raised.

Go read silly parent #34, crazy hairstyle.

I can remember when Isabelle was just this little bundle of baby who just lay there. And now she plays and imagines. It blows my mind. I know we all did it. I know other kids do it but it still amazes me.

She got these little toy camping people for her birthday. Alan put them in their sleeping bags and she put her finger to her lips, said “shhhh”, and then lay down next to them to pretend sleep. And tonight she made me kiss them as they were sleeping in their sleeping bags.

She also got a little tea set. We sit there pretending to eat cake and drink tea. We stir our milk and sugar in and make chomping noises as we’re eating. Yum, yum, yum!

And sometimes we wear hats. I’m sure you’ve seen a picture or two of Isabelle with this bucket on her head. Well lately she LOVES wearing it. On Saturday she didn’t want to take it off. Not even when we went out to eat. We sat in the outside dining area of the restaurant and there she was in her little bucket, people commenting how they liked her “hat”. She didn’t even want to take it off though it was warm and her little head was getting all sweaty.

And, oh no, just her wearing a hat isn’t enough. She wants everyone to wear hats! Maybe that’s why the other night I came to a silly realization as I was videotaping her dancing around. She was wearing a onesie but had made me dress her in her shoes, pants, a dress, and a hat. I was thinking how cute and silly she was being. That’s when I noticed, that while I was thinking about how silly she was wearing her hat, I was wearing this big ass sombrero on my head. God knows how long I had it on. Yes we must all wear hats!!

I’ve been meaning to write about how I tried Simplicity 3750 again. Still needs work. I understood the suggestions on how to alter it or I thought I did. But I’ve never made alterations before so changing the pattern didn’t go as expected. When I changed the pieces they no longer lined up properly for sewing, weird angles and whatnot. So I tinkered and tinkered on muslin and then just gave up. I was itching to work with my real fabric and foolishly was determined to wear it to Isabelle’s birthday party. So that’s how I ended up with this.

It’s an improvement from the muslin but could be better. Ahhh so goes the way of most rushed projects.

And now onto something else completely different. More silly “hat” wearing. Plus daddy shoe wearing.

Ha ha ha!