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Andrew... Are there enough photos in the new posts???

Hudson eating

Admittedly, this video is kinda lame. It's a few months old when Hudson was first eating without gagging and throwing up. yay. Halfway through Jack comes in and wants me to feed him too. I sound like a dork, but at least you can see how cute Hudson is. :)

New crafts

I've been working on a quiet book. I got the idea and some templates from Homemade by Jill. She also has some links to other quiet books. Some of the pages I've done are for the baby when he's a bit older and some are for the big boys.

Weaving

They can write a letter and put it in the mailbox. The flap of the mailbox works.

Apparently I only bought 4 snaps and I have 5 apples. I'll have to go back and get more. The original ideas had velcro. I think velcro can be noisy in church. I did snaps, BUT... they're kind of hard to operate. I think the baby will have to have super strong finger, SO... I think I'll go back to velcro.

I also made some singed flower clips for my hair. I made some a while ago, but due to popular demand I spent 4 hours yesterday showing 5 ladies in my neighborhood how to do it too. It's not hard. I'm sure there's a tutorial somewhere on the internet. Basically I use my measuring cups to make the circles. The bottom of my cups is smaller than the top, so I trace the bottom of each size and the top of each size out of taffeta and some out of chiffon. Cut out and singe the edges over a candle. It works best if you are a few inches from the flame. I use a tea light in a glass votive. This part takes practice as you will catch a few on fire. Sew a button through all the layers to hold it together then glue a clip on the back or glue it to a headband.

L O V E

I was trying to think of something cute and creative to do for Brian for Valentine's Day. I saw this idea on a craft website where they had taken a deck of playing cards and put cute paper on the front and the back and then on EVERY card they'd printed out something they like about that person and glued it to the card. They then punched 2 holes in each card and had rings that held it together. So, 50 things they like about them. I thought, "Wow... what a cute idea. I just need to think of 50 things."
I got to 20 and then drew a blank. As a matter of fact, I think it made me think of more things I didn't like than I liked. For example, I thought... "Ooh I can say that I like how he does the dishes. Ouch... except he doesn't do the dishes." Another problem is some things cover more than one thing. Like, "I like that your handy." Could I then separately list that I like that he can fix the dishwasher, frame a room, hang drywall, fix the car, etc.? When it finally came to things like, "I like how your socks match." I abandoned this idea. Don't get me wrong, I love Brian and I'm sure I love at least 50 things about him. It's just hard to enumerate them.
In my defense, for my thirtieth birthday Anne gave me a card where she listed 30 things she liked about me. She admitted that it was really hard at the end to think of things... and look how great I am.

Valentines

So they kids wanted to make their own valentines this year. OK. We found a cute rocket one on FamilyFun.com and just needed to buy LifeSavers in the rolls. I have been busy helping Brian get the room (a separate post) ready for Coleman to visit and I waited until Wedneday to go to Costco to find LifeSavers. No luck. Jack chose instead: Fruit by the Foot. I was thinking that we could still rescue the rocket idea.
As I was at home yesterday trying to wrap the Fruit by the Foot to look rocket-like, Tristan is looking at me like, "Mom... it's not working. Give up." Oh wait... I think he said that.
So last night we went at 6:30pm to the grocery store to find boxed Valentine cards to tape the Fruit by the Foot to. Yeah... they had 2 kinds left: Rainbow Dora and Eco Friends Recycling Valentines.
My boys both addressed 27 valentines with talking water bottles and recycling trash cans on the front. : )