We’ve been house sitting for Nana and Papa. During this time Hennessey broke her first (and thusly second) tooth. The lil’ sucker has also decided to start pulling up by herself! (and now I have to lower her crib mattress). I missed it the first time… Tailynn and I were getting the dogs put away. We leave the room, she’s sitting. We come back, she’s standing at the table. She’s such a little babbler, as well. She likes mamamama, and she’s been trying really hard to imitate noises she hears. I think she’ll be he happiest baby when she can walk, and has those pesky teeth over and done with! Conrats, lil’ H! You are getting so big! Here is one so you can see her teeth (well, one tooth great and one tooth is SORTA there…) and spaghetti night. The girl can slurp a noodle like no other!
Tailynn has gotten to watch a bit more TV than usual (being as we don’t even have local channels hooked up to ours). She loves to watch Nick Jr. and has been learning lots from “preschool on TV.” She can say hello in Chineese. Ni hao (knee-how). So she walks around saying “Ni hao, Hennessey! Ni hao, Mommy! Ni hao, Spirit!” She’ll sing lots of songs from the shows, and repeat the mantras, such as from the Yo Gabba Gabba show…”Don’t bite your friends!” This from the child who, I’m pretty sure, has never purposely hurt anyone in her life!
The other night she wouldn’t let me give her kisses to bed, so I ended up “inveting” a new one. The Vampire Kiss! You open your mouth, “bite” the neck of the receiver, and growl/roar a little. She LOVES it, and demands to have “bampire tisses” before bed and naps. And she likes to give ‘em too. :)
Tailynn has also taken a liking to cowboy boots (which we agreed she could have when she doesn’t need a diaper for night time anymore), and nightgowns. So instead of buying some crappy nightgowns that would likely feel funny or have characters on them (which I don’t like to buy because I’m against using my kid as a billboard), I decided to sew her some myself! I went down to the fabric store, and let T choose her own fabrics. The first two she picked out were brown with dots, and pink bandanna print with horses all over it. The first nightgown turned out okay. I did a lot of seam ripping, and the horses on the front are upside down, but that’s okay. She loves it. It’s also a little long. SO for the second one, the brown with dots, I shortened it up, and made it sleeveless. I used purple binding for the edges, and it’s cute, but I thought it seemed a little shorter than I wanted. Since I decided they were going well, I we picked up two more fabrics, and I got permission to use a third that my mom has had laying around. The third and fourth nightgowns are made out of a pink fabric that has buttons all over it (printed on, not real buttons). These turned out JUST RIGHT! I think the one with the ruffles is my favorite. I leanred many valuable things during the course of this project:
1) I CAN sew by myself. It’s just nice to have someone there to double check your work.
2) Sewing faux fur is a pain in the butt.
3) My sewing machine CAN be jammed. Crap. (it’s going to the repair shop tomorrow, if I’m not going to the airport).
4) Sleeves can be infuriating. But they look darn cute when they turn out right!
5) I like to trace my pattern onto newspaper so I don’t muss up the original. Especially when the size I need is the inside one, and I don’t want to cut all of the other sizes off because I might need them. I ♥ Newspaper!
6) Sewing is actually more therapeutic, after the initial frustrations, than I thought.
Here are some pictures of the nightgowns! 
“My Spirits, Mom!”
Evil Faux Fur.
And lastly, Mommy’s favorite set. Maybe we’ll do the soft green ones next!