Going Batty!

Since this was our first week of "back to school", I got a little time to sew (yippee!!!).  Just wanted to share a little bat I whipped up with some scrap fabric I received from a friend in the mail a while ago.

I'm thinking about putting together a tutorial for this little guy.  He's cute - if I do say so myself!

I don't know, though.  It seems that every pattern I do I look at the final and think that there is something I want to change about it.

Spunky sure likes him, though.  As a matter of fact, Sunshine and Sprout are quite fond of him too.

(photo taken before I embroidered his face)

One day not long after finishing up the bat, Sunshine walked up to me and said "Where's the kitty?".    "What kitty?" I ask. (We don't have cats, just one great big dog).  "The kitty with wings!" she says.
It finally dawned on me - she thinks that BAT means CAT (with wings).
Toddlers are so funny :)

Have a great weekend!
:) Caren

Button, Button, Who's Got the Button?

I've been so crazy busy with my little ones this summer.  Anyone else out there like me?  Well, I haven't been able to do much sewing, but I did get to subliminally pass my love of sewing on to my toddlers this week with button games.

We put buttons in our toes.  It was great fun, so we continued it to our hands.

Then Sprout woke up from his nap, and he was so excited about the buttons that he climbed onto the table to get at them!  (For safety I use a bucket of super big plastic buttons for these play times - Sprout puts them in his mouth).

It was a great opportunity to teach things like colors, shapes, sharing, and asking for help.

 Calisthenics: reach, stretch, climb!

 Sunshine pretended the buttons were flowers, so we were "sniffing" them.

Can Sprout look any happier?  I tell ya, these little ones are so easy to please (sometimes).  

And I thank God who gives me days of peace like this one, when my kids have fun playing together.  Often they are at odds and its so nice to have a break in the storm.  

Now that the summer is coming to an end I may just have time to get some sewing done!  In the next week or two, my Spunky is going off to 1st grade and Sprout is going to early intervention school (to help him develop his speech/language skills).  And I'll have this little Sunshine all to myself for a couple of hours!

So what are your plans for this fall?  Got any fun projects going?

Cheers!

:) Caren