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"Hey Mom, this is a pretty cool chair you got me.  It's got this big tray to play with stuff on.  I like the comfy back support..."

"What!?!  I'm going to get food.  That is totally awesome.  I'm so excited I can hardly sit still.  I can't wait to get food..."

"Oh, it's just rice cereal."

I was really just trying to think of a new way to show off pictures of Chicklet.  She likes to talk a lot.  Well, at least Chiquita likes it when mom talks for Chicklet.  So far the two girls have had conversations about Rudolph being the best reindeer, iCarly being the best show ever, and not messing with the hair.  They also sing the Poopies in the Pants song, our favorite.

We have introduced foods to Chicklet.  It started with a little applesauce.  She was watching me eat, so I thought that I would share with her.  Can you say grub?  Since then, she has gotten rice cereal, applesauce, bananas, and cantaloupe.  I finally bought real baby food the other day, so the veggies are on their way.  With the exception of the rice cereal, everything else has just been what is already in the kitchen.


Note: the cool stockings in the background.  I love our stockings.  Everyone always asks where we got them.  They are these from PotteryBarnKids.  We bought them a few years ago and had to add Chicklet's this year.  Hers is slightly different, but both the girls were able to have ice skaters that way.  

It's That Time of Year

It's that time of year when all of us mothers get to go through our house and completely redecorate it.  In a festive holiday theme of course.  We've got our stockings hung on the fireplace and a few decorations here and there.  But most of all, we have our tree up.  I actually put it up the Saturday after Thanksgiving.  It's been loaded up with presents underneath and Thomas the Train is running his route around the tree.

I suppose I could of taken a better picture of it.  But, you know, whatever.  This thing is completely loaded down.  I don't think that I could find room for another decoration.  It's all silver/white and blue.  The red and gold decorations stayed packed up.  Next year I might get a smaller tree to put by the fireplace and that one can be red and gold and have all the kiddy decorations on it.  It has to go over there to match the stockings. 

I love this tree.  It was the prettiest one at the shop.  There are little pine cones and flocking.  Two types actually.  The stuff that looks like snow and GLITTER!!!  How awesome is a tree that comes with glitter.  We are such girls in our house.  DH says that it is going to make a mess, but hey, I like sweeping the floors. And a real tree would make a much bigger mess.  We didn't go real partly because I think fake trees are prettier, easier to decorate and I have allergy issues.  We have a couple of pine table top arrangements and I've noticed the increase in stuffy nosed days.  It stinks being allergic to Christmas.

Here's one of my favorite ornaments and the only one on the tree that isn't silver or blue.  It took me a couple of days to get all the ornaments on.  At first our tree was decorated by a couple of teenagers that were visiting.  They just put anything up anywhere.  It looked nice, but not symmetrical enough for my taste.  So, the other night I took everything off and put it back up.  This is of course after categorizing all the ornaments by size and color.  Starting with the largest of ornaments and making my way down to the smallest.  It's just absolutely perfect. 

I really am going to have issues when the kids are older.

Bottle Cap Trivet

Here is some more of my new found skill of crochet.  I made a tea trivet.  Too bad I don't have a tea pot to put on it.  Too bad I don't drink tea often.  Why did I make this?  'Cause it's cool and you have to drink beer in order to make it.  Ok, DH drank beer because I was pregnant at the time and I just stole the bottle caps from the beer bottles.  I think there is an orange soda cap in there somewhere.  Why did I make this???

Making this is pretty basic and I stuck to my usual MO of only half following the directions.  If you look at the pattern, there is a very tricky step when you have several stitches all on your hook at once.  Then it magically doesn't.  I decided I didn't want to follow this step and it's the bottom of the trivet, so who is going to be looking at it?  No one.  I just decreased the stitches and was still able to easily put the bottle cap inside my little crochet circle, so it all worked out in the end.

The only thing I would of done differently is use more colors.  Even though I have several small balls of left over sock yarn, I only have two of light-weight sock yarn.  The medium weight is just too heavy for this project.  One day I may come back to this project.  Maybe add some circles so that I can use it in the kitchen.  Or make matching coasters for the tea cups that I don't use.  Why did I make this?

I know why I made it.  For the BattleStar Galactica game that I am playing.  One of the missions was to make something by reducing, reusing or recycling.  I reused bottle caps and made them into a tea trivet.  It's all in good fun.