Gloria and the Crimmis lights

Sean put lights up today. Gloria loves them with all her baby heart.



She sat there looking at them for a long time, periodically sighing a lovely little sigh, and saying "So pretty."

sisters

One of the best things I ever did was have children.

And one of the best things I did regarding having children was have these two fifteen months apart. At the time, everyone thought I was crazy (many still do, no doubt!) but I knew it was going to be awesome.

(Here they are giggling and chattering and discussing things of great import, such as snoring and Adam Young's hair.)

These two kids are inseparable. They are different, in looks and in interests, and in personality. Abby is reserved, but with a bubbly sense of humor beneath the surface. Faith is a person of deep and outspoken passions, and a total goofball. Together they are a set.

I'm so happy to have them.

playing with filters

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Or just regular Gloria.

saturday pictures

Hey look!



It's Abby!



You're going to clean up all that cut paper, right?



Sigh. Ah, here's Gilbert!



And Trixie!



Oh, I got all the fabric! That's red wool twill, white linen, unbleached cotton muslin, light blue check wool flannel, purple check wool twill, and black/grey coating underneath it all.



Faith approves.



The end.

just a wee reminder

Talk Like A Pirate Day is next Sunday, September 19th! Yarr!

Sean, below, showing his pirattitude in 2008 in the tricorn I knitted:

accomplishments

Today I baked bread. Here is the dough, first rise.



Here is Gloria, looking at the dough.



It pleases her!



Here is Bede, in the new "blue yarn shirt" I knit for him.



And the sweater itself.



Time to start the yearly mittens!

you do not require tea?

let's call this an outtake

Without further ado, I give you Sean, playing Rhapsody in Blue on the... the muted Gleeson horn*. Yeah, that's it. With bonus helpless laughter from Sean.



*Gleeson horn built from a fill valve and a steel condiment cup.

it's hot, have you noticed?

Another hot one. I hung four loads of laundry. Halfway through I soaked my head in the pool. Here's what I looked like when I came in.



LOVELY! It made me think of



Bede took my picture. I then spent quite a long time flat on my stomach on the nice cool livingroom floor like a basset hound. They don't call 'em the dog days for nothing.

Bede also wanted me to take *his* picture, so here it is.



He's missing three teeth on top. Poor guy! All he wants for Labor Day is his two, er, three front teeth. And a cold front.

oh no, they got a webcam

bitty baby bitty knitties

I made socks for Gloria's Bitty Baby, Baby Boo. Baby Boo is adored mightily by Gloria and I felt she deserved some handknits.



These are some teensy socks, folks.



I show them to Gloria.



Why, I think she likes them!



Arranging to her satisfaction.



There! Perfect.

wee Glees indeed

Faith made these - me and the Six (plus Mistyfoot) in Sculpey. I love them with a loving love.

outside is best

Bede likes to draw in the dirt, then...


...blow it away.


Gloria likes to take time to stop and eat the flowers.


Abby drawing, as usual.


Faith makes a face like Agent P, on her shirt. Dooby dooby doo bah!


I leave you with a longsuffering Mistyfoot.

Beatrice and the New Hat

Made this for the Trixificate.

pictures

Gilbert and Faith


Faith


Abby


Hi, Bede!


He says hi.


Miss Teafoot


Trixie shares her chocolate with Gilbert

Bede hard at work solving the European financial crisis

(Got a new camera.)