Hope you all are having a great day. I was surprised with this:

I was at the kitchen counter when I heard a rolling noise. I turned around to see Isabelle pulling a little wagon. Inside was a box of chocolates, an orchid, and a bamboo plant.

The box of chocolates was a big hit with Isabelle. I let her choose one piece then I closed it and put the box on the kitchen counter. Well she is so tall now she can reach up there without a chair. So what did she do? She helped herself to some chocolate of course.

She sat there holding it in the palm of her hand, taking tiny little bites out of it.

And making this face saying, “cheese! cheese!” (She wanted her picture taken)

When she was done taking her tiny bites I told her to put the rest down. But she wouldn’t let go of it. It just sat there melting in her hand.

It finally melted away into a flat messy blob. That’s when she decided to put it down. All she managed to do was smear chocolate all over a plate. So we had to wash it all away.

Ok off I go. Alan’s up now so he’s going to bring me to a fabric store!!

Actual photos to come. I’m trying to sort them out. Well pictures of Isabelle I should say. Not of me because I’m too busy behind the camera. Maybe I can sort that out tomorrow.

I saw this tutorial for superhero capes but put it out of my mind. I didn’t think I’d be sewing a superhero cape for a few years. But Isabelle surprised me the other day with her superhero antics. So I immediately went looking for it. It gives you the basic idea for the cape and how to do the appliqués.

But don’t just wing the neck area like I did. That’s how you end up with two superhero capes (which isn’t a bad thing for a big kid like me). I screwed up the first cape using my real red fabric. What happened was, I didn’t quite understand how to do the neck area. I thought, it’s just a cape. How hard can it be? Well that resulted in a cape that wouldn’t fit around Isabelle’s neck.

I didn’t want to waste more red fabric without testing it on muslin. And the second time, I was smart. I measured her neck. What an improvement. It actually fit around her neck.

I was about to make her another one when Alan said, why don’t you put an “I” on it for Isabelle. I didn’t have any felt or fusible web so I thought I’d test yellow fabric out on the screwed up cape. It worked but it’s a little puckered.

But before I could even start on a new cape, Isabelle noticed the “I” on the red fabric. She went gaga over it, yelling, “super baby! super baby!”. So instead of cutting new red fabric I cut more of the neckline away. It was a pain to turn the fabric but it worked, it fit around her neck. Yeah…blah blah blah. You want to see the pictures right? Here they are:

Mild mannered baby…

with a secret identity! It’s SUPER BABY!!

She leaps tall buildings in a single bound.

Or ummm errr steps.

Up, up, and away!!

Hee hee!

Sorry. No pictures of me in my super cape. I couldn’t find it this morning. I was sort of bummed that I didn’t know where it was. It’s not as fun running around yelling “Super Mama!” without the cape. And when I did find it, Isabelle wanted to play with SUPER DOG!!!

Oh and how we photographed Isabelle flying.

Oh my gawd, I’m just kidding. Do not throw your baby. It was actually done through Photoshop, of course!

It was at that exact moment that I realized I say, “damn it” too much.

And I said “damn it” a whole bunch today. We had three power outages in our area. 100 degree weather. No AC. No fans. Hot damn! Hope it’ll stay on tomorrow.

Go to cute baby #17, super baby.

Isabelle turned another month older last week. We forgot to take a family picture. Again. So we took it late. AGAIN.

I just asked Alan, “when do you want to stop taking monthly family pictures”. But I don’t think we’ll ever stop. I like looking back and seeing the changes in Isabelle. In fact the pictures on Flickr aren’t complete. Maybe I’ll go back and add the rest from her first year on there…