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The princess is turning five this weekend! I am excited and sad at the same time. It feels like yesterday I was pregnant…oh wait…I was pregnant yesterday and still am today. But, it feels like I just had her. I remember anxiously and nervously driving her home from the hospital and taking her to church for the first time. Our struggles to perfect breastfeeding and holding our breath to see if she would say mama or dada first. (FYI, I won that!) Cosleeping, waiting for her to take her first steps and running instead, her silly “pirate” face and the her love affair with all things Wiggles. I just can’t believe how 5 years can seem so long and yet so short. She has been the light of my life and my constant reminder of how amazing God is to handpick and create this child for me to love and care for. Being pregnant again now only makes my feelings on this that much more mushy.
Here are a few of her pictures from her big five year portrait sessions. Somone hold me…time is going by too quickly!
Also, it must be some kind of record since I sewed the pants and appliqued the shirt yesterday and had pics taken the same day. I had made these pants (exactly) once before and in a matter of months she outgrew them. So, like any rational pregnant woman I cried about it and made a new pair.
It has been a fun week around here. The little princess can’t seem to catch a break recently. She gets over the pneumonia and bronchitis only to run through poison ivy at her grandparents house. It started out on Sunday and we saw a few bumps by her knee, then it was a few on her armpit then by yesterday it had covered her whole armpit, her forearm, elbow and up her thigh. Getting a 4 year old covered in calamine lotion and telling her not to scratch is not an easy feat. I am convinced that catching a greased pig would have been easier. So, showers twice a day and a few doses of steroids and doctors orders not to let her outside to sweat is even a harder challenge. So, the best solution we have come up with is to stay in the air conditioned house and try and keep her bumps covered. The armpit needs to be out and the leg needs to stay covered and it 100 degrees to mama made clothes seem to be in order.
So, I opened up my stash and started searching and found this Alexander Henry Kleo fabric and went to town on some light weight pants for her. I finished them up really fast and decided to use the scraps to applique a top for her. We used a well loved Gymboree top that had a few stains I couldn’t get out and just covered them up with some carefully placed flowers.
She helped me figure out where the flowers should go so she is convinced she made it, who am I to argue?
A little heat and bond, stabilizer and we were ready to applique. Love my satin stich and I went to town and was pleased how fast I was finished. I asked her to model for me and the result was my future America’s Next Top Model contestant!
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Total sweetness.
