Craft Fair Fun

Well, it's finally O-V-E-R! Thank goodness, it's been such a long two weeks getting ready for it. I spent every second that Logan was asleep sewing or bowing and I am tired. Definitely am ready for a little break (though, I've done some sewing since for Logan). We did fairly well at the show, I sold about 1/4 of my stock and handed out over 150 business cards so we're calling it a great success.

My friend, Patty, helped me set up on Friday night. She was a life saver as Mike had to work and I had Logan--it would have been near impossible to do it on my own without some help because L requires so much attention. Patty also helped out on Saturday morning because Mike had a paper to write and needed to be in the library that morning. It's so wonderful to have such a great friend SO near! We actually live closer to each other here than we did in Miami. Here's our spread on Saturday morning:

Logan modeled some of our products for the first part of the morning and actually several people came to the booth after seeing her with her appliqued shirt. (doesn't she look like a red head in this outfit?)
Here are some closeup shots of the products:

Bows, bows and MORE bows!

Fun to be one tutu set with the appliqued cupcake bootie:
So what have Logan and I been up to now that we're not elbow deep in sewing projects? Well, for starters, we've been tearing up some paper towels:
It's our new favorite thing to do. Don't you want to join us? Logan has also been modeling some more of my onesies as we do errands around town, like this one (along with the bow).

These ruffle butt onesies were actually the star of the show this weekend. Several people said they'd be getting them for Christmas through our website (which you can go to from the link on the right side of the blog now).
Logan has also been pulling up like CRAZY this last week. She'll pull up on just about anything that she can reach. I've actually, on a couple of occasions, had to grab her to stop her from pulling up on the toilet (because after she pulls up on something, she usually proceeds to taste it...not so cool when it's the toilet). Speaking of tasting...yesterday, I walked in to our bathroom to get Logan (who had crawled in there) and found her sucking on a bar of soap...nice...at least I didn't have to scold her with, "that's dirty!" like I do five million other times a day, right? Here are a few pulling up pictures:

And the whole tasting what she pulls up on thing:

Have a great Monday!!

Happy Halloween!

In trying to recover from both my sickness and Logan's little bout with it, and in catching our breath after the crazy weekend-I've neglected to post pictures from Logan's first Halloween! After Mike started working at Starbucks a couple of years ago, we immediately knew that our first baby's first halloween would be as:

A baby barista!

We saw the apron a couple of years back (you can only get it through someone who works there) and thought it was such a great, unique costume and she could be just like daddy for a day.

This was the bow I made for her. Isn't that coffee cup topper just adorable?!

We spent the morning with Mike at work where he showed his little barista off to anyone who took notice. She helped him with maybe one order before deciding that it was more fun to chew on a coffee sleeve.

She also decided she prefers bows to hats.

Then Logan and I came home, took a nap and had to do a quick change when something happened that required that we launder her costume for use later in the evening. Good thing I had this one up my sleeve:

I found this fun halloween print a while back and got a yard of it not really knowing what I wanted to do with it. Then I found a great A-Line pattern that I wanted to try but didn't know what to try it on and realized that I also had this great halloween ribbon and topper that pretty much matched the fabric spot on and so I used the A-line pattern for the dress, made the bow, and voila! Had a ready made quick change when Logan destroyed her costume.

Playing on the porch while we waited for her costume to dry so we could go back out.

Showing off the whole ensemble.

When Mike got home we had a quick meal and then got Logan back in her costume and headed out to the mall where they had some stuff going on. We only caught the tail end of it. We didn't feel like it would be fair to trick or treat and take candy away from kids who would actually enjoy it this year so we pretty much just walked around and looked at other costumes.

And she's back!

Ready to take your order.

Would you like to try a pumpkin spice latte tonight?

I would! Yummo!

Then we came home, changed into our halloween jammies, watched some TV and crashed for the night!

9 months old

It's that time of the month again! We've hit the 9 month mark today and, as someone reminded me, Logan is now a whole pregnancy old. :) Those 9 months seemed a heck of a lot longer that these 9 months--it seems like time is just flying. Once we got past those first pesky months where she was only sleeping a few hours a night things started to go much quicker.

Logan is a very happy baby today.

Once again, her photo shoot proved to be difficult. We couldn't quite capture her face on without her doing something else.

She says, "Mommy made my outfit today, from the bow to the onesie." I learned to applique this month and have been going to town with it! It's so relaxing for me and I have so much fun creating clothing for her that costs way too much money if bought directly from someone else.

Here she is flapping her "wings" excitedly.

ANYWAY! Logan, you are NINE months old today! What have you been up to this month?!?!

- You got not one but TWO teeth this month! After months of agony, your first tooth finally popped through and then the second one (right next to it) popped in about two days later. No more toothless, gummy grinning.

- You have started to eat some table foods this month. So far you've tried spaghetti, pancakes, a little bit of chicken, and some bread. Your favorite BY FAR is pancakes. Whenever I eat them for breakfast you make all kinds of noise until you get to taste.

- You started officially crawling. You are no longer just scooting along, you're full blown crawling around now. You can get places pretty quickly, too! I'll leave you in the living room for a minute or two to go get something from the kitchen and before I know it you're right behind me. You especially love it when people get down on the floor and crawl with you.

- You haven't really taken to any new toys this month. Instead, you're full blown crazy about books! I have all of your books on the bottom shelf of daddy's bookcase and your favorite thing to do is crawl over there and pull out all of the books. Then you like to look through the books at their pictures. You also love being read to, you really will sit still in mommy or daddy's lap for as long as we'll read to you.

- You're using your sign language a little more this month to get what you want. You know how to sign for more, you've signed once or twice for thank you, you point to some of the things you want and you can shake your head no if you don't want something...or if you do....or for anything pretty much.

- You haven't learned any new words this month but are getting really good at imitating the different sounds that you hear. When we say "bye bye" to you, you respond with a loud "b", when we talk about your rubber duck you say "d" when we say something is yummy you say "mmm" and so on.

- You love to laugh at yourself! If you do something that we think is funny, you'll proceed to do it 50,000 more times and laugh harder and harder at yourself each time you do it.

- You think daddy lives in the phone. When he calls from work or on his way home from school I'll put him on speaker phone so that you can hear him and now any time my phone rings you say "dada." It's very sweet.

- You have started to really pull up on things lately. I think you enjoy the challenge of it because you'll work really hard to get up and the reward just isn't enough for you because you get a look of satisfaction and then disappointment and you sit down. You find more entertainment with getting yourself into tight spaces and then finding a way out. For example, today you crawled UNDER your walker and it took you a few minutes to figure out how to duck your head under so you could get back out but as soon as you were out you laughed and did it again.

- You started to clap this month! Out of nowhere you just started to put your hands together and you clap when anything makes you happy now.

- You went to your first football game and LOVED it this month! You yelled and cheered when everyone else did and watched the game very intently.

And that's about all I can think of right now. We love having you in our lives and can't wait to watch you grow more and more! Here's your comparison shots:

And your 1 month vs. 9 month shot:

I "said" no!

Logan has learned to say "no." Though, she doesn't really know the difference between how to answer for no and how to answer for yes, it's pretty entertaining to watch.

Everybody Clap Your Hands

Logan surprised us last night when she, out of nowhere, started to clap her hands in response to us doing something she liked. At first, I thought that maybe she had done it on accident, but she kept doing it over and over. I know it seems like something so little, but to see developments like this is so much fun as her parents. She also learned how to give high fives, but she's still a little hesitant to do that (as you'll see in the video).

Now, she's clapping her hands all the time. She claps them when she's happy, she claps them when someone else claps, she claps things together, she claps when she sees people on tv clapping and, most importantly, now she's able to clap along with the Little Einsteins to help Rocket fly! (it's her favorite tv show and to get the rocket they fly to go the characters clap their hands)

Reunited!

Ana and Patty are my best friends from high school. We did everything together when we all lived in Miami. We played in the orchestra together, took all of our trips together and even got up at 5:30am every Thursday to go to breakfast together before we headed to our first class of the morning (which was also together). Patty went off to Furman for college and Ana and I stayed together at Florida State where we did everything short of rooming together. Now I live 5 minutes away from Patty but we're missing Ana (who we keep trying to convince to move here but we haven't gotten very far with that one). They were both in my wedding, Ana and I drove up together to good old South Carolina for Patty's wedding and now we're waiting for Ana to get married in February! We haven't all been together since Patty's wedding, but Ana drove up this weekend so we could all hang out. It's been so much fun to be all together, again!

This picture is so fun on so many levels but mostly because it shows us all in our different life stages: Patty being pregnant with baby girl Tolbert, Ana engaged and getting married in February and me, the new mommy!

This is a better picture of Logan (though the quality is poor because we had to use the iphone):

We went out to dinner last night with Patty and then headed to Chapel Hill for the UNC vs. FSU game. What a GREAT game! We actually considered leaving after the first quarter because we felt like it was going to be a blowout and we didn't want to keep Logan up so far past her bedtime to get crushed to death. We are SO glad that we ended up staying, though, and getting to see the Seminoles bring such a great comeback.

Logan had such a great time at the game. She screamed along with everyone when they screamed and looked around confusedly when everyone stopped yelling. Though this caused her to cheer for the wrong team, it was still a lot of fun to watch. We had a hard time getting a good picture with her because she was so intrigued by everything going on around us.

Finally got one of all of us looking at the camera, again, poor quality because it was on the iphone instead of our normal camera (our batteries died on our way to the game).
Logan spent the entire second half in the moby cuddled up to me. It was the best! She is such a sweet little baby.

Let me out!

This afternoon I was out on the deck working on a project while Logan sat inside with Mike. After a couple of seconds, she realized where I was and wanted to join me! What she didn't realize was that I was not within reach, that there actually was a glass door separating us.

Hey mom, let me out of here!

I'm making you laugh, this is fun.

Enough, already! Let me OUT!

Logan has been doing some very fun things lately. One of our favorite new developments is her ability to "drink" out of her teacups. She makes a fun slurping noise when she puts it to her mouth. We're not quite sure where she learned that as neither Mike or I slurp when we drink, but it's adorable! I'd also like to mention that the shirt she's wearing is my first attempt at doing applique work and I love the way it turned out, I can't wait to do more projects like that in the future!