Stumble Upon

I have discovered stumbleupon.com. You check off your interests and you are showed random sites on the internet that should interest you. This is excellent for my recipe box but not so excellent for my awesome time wasting skills.  Through stumbling I have found tons of sweet recipes and a few other random things. Anyways, I stumbled upon this quote today and I really liked it so I thought I would share:

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

-Diane Ackerman

My Eater

Addi will eat anything.  Really. My Dad said he is unsure that she has taste buds.  I am starting to wonder the same thing! Lemons, pickles, sauerkraut and other gross things are among her favorites. One time she refused an avocado.  I thought well this is the first food she does not like.  Not true, the next time she had it she ate it all up.
The dear child has strep and needed some antibiotics.  I picked some up from the antibiotics from the pharmacy and gave her some when we got home.  Addi thought it was lovely and wanted more.  Then the pharmacy called and said they forgot to mix the flavoring into it. He said it is really awful without any flavor and my baby would probably not drink it so I should come back and get some more. Obviously this disgusting medicine is no problem for this child.
Today I cut up a water melon for her.  Addi loved it.  She ate a quarter of a giant watermelon.

Hopefully she will continue to love all food as she grows up.  Me, on the other hand, I am becoming more picky as I get older.  Pickles, celery, fresh bananas, mushrooms, all mushy textured things, artichokes, cilantro, scallops and Swiss cheese are just a few of the foods that I find gross. Butter on the other hand is my new favorite thing (bad).  Have you smelled butter lately.  Spectacular.  Odd, I know.

Blankets!

My aunt and uncle are having twins!  A boy and a girl.  I am so excited to see these little ones once they are born.  I was surfing through the craft blogs (something I often do when I am supposed to be doing homework).  I found this blanket.  I fell in love.  It looked so snuggly so I decided this was the project for the twins.  To make this blanket you get four pieces of flannel and pin it all together.  The web site suggested to use safety pins.  I thought this was super lame and so I used straight pins.  Thinking I was going to save a whole lot of time I used straight pins to pin the four layers together.  Bad plan.  The next step involves sewing diagonal lines 1/2 inch apart of the entire blanket.  I got poked a million times during this sewing process.  My legs, arms and fingers were covered in pin pricks.  After sewing (which takes more hours than I want to count) you have to cut three of the four layers of fabric in between the sewn lines.  I was amazed that I did not nick the top piece of fabric during the cutting process.  I did not want to even think about how to repair that.  After sewing and cutting you sew the binding on.  This was a new experience for me.  Usually when I make blankets I just fold the bottom fabric up and make a border.  It took me some time to get it figured out but I decided I really like how binding looks.  Then you toss it in the washing machine and then the dryer.  This is to make the cut pieces of material fray and make the snuglyness.  This sounds lame but I seriously could not wait to pull them out of the dryer.  Oh the softness.  I love these blankets.  I am considering making a large, Kaitlyn sized one but it may take me three years to get it all sewn.  Well now I must get these shipped out. 

No shoes, no shirt, no problem

Summer baby clothes are adorable.  The ultimate adorableness is the sandals.  I think they are so cute in summer clothes and sandals.  Sadly my baby refuses to wear sandals (any shoes or socks for that matter) and would prefer to not wear any clothes.  Usually I insist she wears clothes, although when she is with Dad she often runs around with only a diaper.  I finally got these sandals on her (she likes to crunch her toes up, making things difficult).  She crawled out of her room, into the kitchen and decided that was long enough to have them on.

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Oh maybe some day she will like shoes, hats, glasses and bows!