Project Girlification - Part 1

We have a lot of baby clothes. I would even say that we have a plethora of baby clothes. After the boys were born I was convinced that we were going to have another set of twins and would rue the day we got rid of any of our doubles of baby things. The number of onsies is pretty ridiculous.


But as you can see from this lovely picture of our little one, my preparations were for naught.

So, we haven't bought too many clothes for this baby girl, because we do have so, so many. I separated out the gender neutral things and now I'm trying to girly up some of the other things. We started by dyeing a batch of blue clothes purple.


Before: Blue Clothes


After: Very purple clothes

I wish I hadn't left them in for so long, but my experience with dyeing in the past has always been to leave them in longer for better color. But, sadly, not this time. I still like the deep purple, it's just a little intense.

I did a second batch, and these spent much less time in the dye. I prefer these. Especially the striped purple onsie on the right. It's awesome.



Below is one of the boy's little jumper. The color is neutral enough, but the blue airplane seemed pretty boyish.



So, I covered it up with a red felt heart. I really, really like it, despite my less than stellar ability to sew straight lines.



The boys have requested that we do a pink batch next. I'm also going to make some little skirts to go over onsies. Dressing girls is a lot of fun, by the way.

Quotes

Ben: Mom! (Calling from upstairs)
Katie: What?
Ben: I need help building the coolest robot ever!!

Ben: (while walking towards the bathroom) Here I come bathroom.

(While I was writing down something funny that he had said on a pad of paper)
Sam: What are you doing? Wasting all the things so I can't draw anymore?

(I had told the boys we couldn't go out and play until all the toys in the hallway were cleaned up. A few minutes later Sam showed me what he had done. There were several "foot steps" carved out of the toys)
Sam: Mom, I'm ready to go and I have a plan. The place where toys are you step in the place where no toys are!

Ben: With the power to do nothing I could do nothing. But with the power to shoot, I can shoot! Boom! Boom! Boom!

a little bedtime reading

I went into the boys room the other night to check on them and found Sam like this:






He just loves learning about the human body. According to Zach, he was trying to get Sam to put the book away before bed, but Sam said, "but Dad, how will I learn which bones are in my hand?" Apparently that logic was just too much for Zach to overcome.

A Halloween Review

Greetings All! Back in September we were rooting around one of our local stores that already had Halloween costumes on display. Days before they had both planned on going as characters from Star Wars (Luke Skywalker and Boba Fett). Then Ben saw a skeleton costume and Sam saw a bee costume. And that was that.


Ben jumping on the couch with wax Dracula teeth in. (Thanks, Mom!)

A few days before Halloween we made ghost shaped cupcakes for a Halloween party the boys wanted to throw. In reality two of my friends just asked me to babysit their kids on the same day, but we seized the opportunity to have a two-part Halloween party. So, we made the cupcakes at part one (which I don't have pictures of).


Ghost shaped (really, I promise) cupcakes with chocolate frosting and Halloween sprinkles.


Above mentioned cupcakes being devoured.

At part two of the event we made a scientist laboratory (which is one of Ben and Sam's favorite games). They were making a potion that would kill people. Pretty horrible, really, but all in the name of science.


Ben, Sam and Lucy working hard on their potion.
(on a side note, Sam says he loves Lucy and wants to marry her. Sadly, she has promised her heart to another boy in the neighborhood. Sam is taking the news like a gentleman and a scholar, by weeping openly when asked about it.)


They had a blast. And then Sam and Lucy dumped their potion all over their little kid plastic chairs. I was really glad about that.

On Halloween we carved our pumpkins. The boys didn't really like the feel of the pumpkin guts (I guess they take after me in that), so I let them use my dish-washing gloves. Zach thought it was silly, but the boys did kinda help after that.


All of them kept pulling out the guts and talking about "their braains!" Sometimes it feels like my life is a perpetual boys scout camp.

We didn't get a picture of the finished pumpkins. Sorry. They were cool.

We got some long, black, thermal underwear for the boys costumes and I sewed felt shapes onto them for the bee stripes and the skeleton bones. Very, very simple. I hope they boys always pick costumes this easy.


Buzzy Buzz and Skelley Skel
Those are the names they gave their costumes. They are so awesome.

We went to a ward chili event (where the boys had corn bread and pumpkin pie) and then had "Trunk or Treating" afterwards. It was completely awesome.

Then we went home and ate candy for several consecutive meals.


The End.