Today was her 4 month birthday and 4 month checkup. It was no surprise to learn that she's perfectly healthy. She smiled at everybody and was declared a "happy baby" by the pediatrician, Dr. Lee.
She is such a sweet baby. Very smiley and charming. She has a way of smiling at people and them looking away like she's bashful. It's adorable. Sometimes she looks at me with an expression like we are sharing some sort of inside joke. I can't help but smile at her whenever I look at her. Lately I've been giving her lots of raspberries on her belly. That definitely makes her giggle. Speaking of which she had graduated to really cracking up. Mathilda in particular can really make her laugh. Watching the two of them together is heartwarming. Mathilda is a sweet and wonderful big sister. She has seemed entirely comfortable with the whole baby thing but she has just recently started sucking her thumb, which is something she never really did before. We're not telling her to stop. I'm assuming it will pass.
She said that her teachers had told the kids that if they didn't take their naps that the leopard-caun was going to tell the Easter Bunny not to come. Pretty weak. It sounds like something I might say in one of my weaker moments.
So I just ripped off the satin baby blanket binding that I had started to sew on to this baby blanket I am making for a friend. I had made several beautiful blankets before for myself. I went to a shmancy fabric store to buy some cute flannels and the selection was kinda limited but I found some adorable pink flannel with bunnies and circles. If I can figure out to upload a photo from my photo, I'll post it. Anyway, I wanted to have different colors or patterns on either side. The store owner suggested I try this supersoft organic cotton for the other. I should have listed to my gut that was telling me, "Hmmm...it's soft and organic but it's stretchy...how well is that gonna work you beginning sewer you." So I asked the owner about working with that material and she says that she hand bastes first before sewing. Hmmm...point of hesitation #2. Again, I suppress it like the good consumer that I am and buy the fabric along with fabric to make a skirt even though I don't have a pattern and I get pretty good instructions on how to wing it.
This project is cursed. First I come up a cute bunny applique that I want to sew onto the organic cotton side. It's stretchy and the applique does some odd crinkling but I can live with. Then I go to sew the sides together and the stretchy material stretches out past the flannel, so I call the store to ask for help and lady tells me, "Hand baste it." Hmph. Okay. I pull it apart and hand baste it again like a good girl. Then I go to sew it together and I get weird wringles on the edges, parts where it folds over. It's not a nice clean edge. I contemplate pulling it apart again and pressing the edges first but decided that I can camouflage that stuff but putting a satin baby blanket binding over it. Good idea, right? Well, I guess when you try to hide crap with more crap, it just makes more crap. The binding wasn't long enough so I had to finagle some pieces together. Echhhh...I'm aggravated. I just pulled off the binding and am just about to call it done and send to my friend so that it doesn't haunt me.
I wish I had a sewing fairy godmother who would tell me how to do this stuff. Poop.
