Well, it isn’t much yet. But they say more is coming. I decided to head out a shovel a bit while Hannah took her morning nap. Of course little Miss Abby decided to join me BTW, Jamey just happened to have an “unexpected” meeting out of town all week. He found out yesterday (approximately 5 hours before the snow started falling). I’m thinking this smells a little fishy!

Here’s Abby playing in the little bit of snow that we have Enjoy!

Great Grandma Alexander makes Raggedy Anns for first birthdays. Abby got hers nearly 2 years ago.

One day Grandma and I were chatting about dolls and she said that she would give me a copy of her pattern since it is no longer in print. EXCELLENT I thought! This Christmas, when I opened my presents, there it was! She even made it a little envelope like all other patterns.

Now, I hadn’t actually opened the pattern to look at it until this week! I decided to make Marlei a Raggedy Ann for her second birthday. WOW! Was I blown away! Grandma copied everything for me and even made the pattern pieces on tissue paper! It was awesome!

Making Raggedy Ann was a bit tougher or maybe more time consuming than I expected. Her arms were mighty tiny to stuff. Her legs are really three pieces… and sewing that black shoe on wasn’t the easiest thing I’d ever done. The hair ended up super cute – possibly the part that was the most rewarding but it was time consuming as well. I think the embroidery turned out okay. I need to learn to do the eyes a bit better. The dress was pretty straight forward but then the apron came back to bite me

All in all a very rewarding project. I can’t wait to make another now that I have one under my belt!

And here she is!

The scene: Abby was upstairs on the potty. Hannah was downstairs. I grabbed Hannah to go upstairs and get ready for naps. I walk into the bathroom to check on Abby and I see this:

The conversation goes something like this:

Me: What’s on your face??
Abby: without hesitation Nothing.
Me: silent pause
Abby: My chap stick is red.

So I ran to get the camera so I could get a picture of this:

However, I left Hannah upstairs with the artist so when I got back… I also got a picture of this! Fortunately she just use lotion on Hannah.

Abby was invited to Brooke’s 4th Birthday! It was our first experience at a party with 13 little kids!! It was at McDonald’s. She was such a big girl (most of the time). She walked right in the room and put on her party hat. They colored and played with tops. They had ice cream and and a beautiful Dora, strawberry cake that Brooke’s mom Kris made. To wrap it up they all watched Brooke open her presents and then had a fun time in the playland. This is when the “not so big girl” part happened. I pretty much had to drag her out by her feet. It was so embarrassing But, I guess it is what I expected. We were well past nap time and she was loaded with sugar. All in all it was a fun time! Happy 4th Birthday Brooke!!

Well, it is a shame that I didn’t have our camera here. I really feel like they turned out just beautiful this year!! (pic taken with J’s iPhone)