For my three-year-old nephews and niece (Alex, Alex, and Ezra), I made owl pillows, using this blog post as inspiration. This was my first foray into pattern making and it was fun!
They’re backed with very soft Minky.
All three kids have had fun snuggling with their owls, which can also function as travel pillows. Here’s some pillows in action!
For Selah, because I heard that she liked to write, I made her a journal/composition book cover, using this tutorial. I made a couple changes – I used ribbon to tie it closed instead of the button/hair tie and I added a pocket on the front to put a pencil in. I remember being very excited to have a journal with an attached pen when I was about Selah’s age so I figured she would like that!
She has already been very busy drawing and writing in it!
For those of you who read this blog for pictures of Ellie, be warned – there are a lot of posts coming up related to the sewing that I did for Christmas and not much else! So be prepared for the onslaught.
Also, be on the lookout for some fun Alaskan adventures!
Merry Christmas!
We love you all!
From Nik, Laura, and Eliana
We love you very much Jonas!
(At the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, July 2010)
and force her to give me all her money.
I have to admit that it’s a lot more fun to fold laundry when you have a cute, smiley baby to keep you company.
Almost makes me not really mind doing laundry.
Even if it’s that baby’s fault that I have to do laundry every day.
On Wednesday , I went to the elementary school where I taught last year. I wanted all my co-workers to meet Ellie. So I went at the beginning of the lunch hour so that I could see everyone as they cycled through for their lunch break. It was so great to see everyone again and of course, Ellie charmed them all! 🙂
As I was leaving, I was standing in the hallway talking to my friend Tara, the chorus/music teacher at the school. She also went to Houghton and we overlapped there by about a year or two. So imagine our surprise last year, when I ended up at her school, about 13 years after we went to college together!
Here are the two of us at the year-end party in June:
She was standing in the hallway waiting for her next class, of first graders. Before they came, a 3rd grade class came by, including two of my students from last year! They were so excited to be the first to meet Ellie! (I’m planning on going back next week so they can all meet her.) As the first grade class arrived, they were very excited to see a baby in the hallway. So Tara told them that if they were very quiet, they could each look at the baby as they went into the classroom. Their little faces were so precious as they looked at Ellie, who was sleeping in her little warm bear outfit (from “Auntie” Julie) and looking mighty adorable, if I do say so myself. There were lots of exclamations of “so cute!” and then one little boy said, “I like those cheeks!”
So do I, so do I!
Salmon and Souvlaki 