Preschooler Art

Here's what I really intended to share when I logged on this morning. Many of you have seen this first one, but a few months ago, Aidan sat down with a piece of paper and a pen and drew this.

As he drew, he told me that the one on the right is Daddy, and the one on the left is Aidan. I was pretty impressed. I'm not sure what the normal three-year-old can draw, but this was more than I expected. Like a good Mommy, I saved it...but apparently not in a safe enough place. It has gotten a little crinkled.

Aidan hasn't asked for crayons in a while, and I haven't thought to give them to him. A couple days ago, he asked for the crayons. This is what he drew.

There's a lot that's done in white crayon that I can't distinguish, but that is clearly a little dinosaur/dragon on the left side of the page. And there's an airplane flying overhead! And he told me that's a little black arrow pointing to the airplane. I mean, I know he's my child and I'm biased, but wow. I didn't really expect his drawings to be distinguishable for another couple of years. Silly me.

Win some boots!

Okay, so I know that it's entirely too hot here most of the year to even consider wearing a pair of Ugg boots, but come on, who can resist a shot at some free boots? Not me. And maybe it's cooler longer where you are, and you should enter to try to keep this Louisiana gal from winning. Click on over to Whooga Ugg Boots if you'd like a shot at winning a pair.

Recovered Chair

Allow me to introduce you to my $3 yard sale find.

I've been needing a chair to use at my sewing machine, instead of always keeping one of my dining chairs up there, and when I saw this chair, I knew it was the one. I'm always willing to open a can of spray paint for a cause, this one would've been to make the chair match the orange and white room that it would be living in, but I was thrilled that I found a chair already painted white, with the perfect amount of distressing already done. All I needed to do is be rid of this yucky hydrangea fabric.

I love a hydrangea as much as the next girl, but not in my Tennessee room. Excuse me, John's Tennessee room. I set to work removing that dirty fabric. What did I find underneath? This.

It's too bad I wasn't planning on using this chair downstairs somewhere, because this fabric totally goes with my Americana obsession...and it's in perfect condition. I couldn't bring myself to remove it. I might want to peel off the orange and white and use it like that someday. Next, I cut a piece of foam in the shape of the chair bottom. Lucky for me, I already had the foam, leftover from making cushions to go underneath the kids' car seats to prevent them forming indentions in my seats like they have in John's car. Anyway, there was no rocket science involved here. I just laid that bad boy out on the foam and cut around it.

Next up, the fabric. I found this orange and white gingham at a local fabric warehouse for $5. I cut out a square just a little bigger than the chair seat then went to town with the staple gun.

When I finished stapling, I went back around with the scissors and trimmed all the wacky edges that were sticking out toward the middle. Put the seat back on the chair and ta-da!

The $8 sewing chair that doesn't clash with my husband's football motif. Love it.

My Etsy

Just a quick update. I've finally added a few new things to my Etsy shop. You can get to it here or through the link on the right side of my page. Hopefully this will be a more regular occurrence in the future. Hopefully.

Also, if anybody knows anything about making banners and would like to help me out with mine for my shop, that would be sweet.

Me too!

This is equal opportunity blogging. I had to put up a new video of Neely, too.

The Daddy Song

Lyrics and motions courtesy of Auntie Stephanie.

My 200th Post!

I've finally been harassed enough that I'm updating my blog. It's only been a week, people. Get a grip!

Last Wednesday, Aidan, Neely, and I drove over to Fort Worth to visit Auntie Stephanie and Uncle Pants. It's a little crazy having three kids under three all together, and trying to coordinate their schedules to be able to leave the house at all, but we had a great time. The highlights of our week were the neighborhood pool, shopping in Grapevine, dinner at Esparza's, and checking out all the fish and taxidermy at Cabela's. Oh, and learning "The Daddy Song." I'll have to try and get that one on video for later.

Anyway, as usual, I had so much fun that I hardly bothered to pick up my camera. I think Stef has some pictures from the pool, and one awesome one of herself at Cabela's, and I'm hoping she'll share them with me soon. I only took five pictures. Three of them aren't that great, and one of them I cannot share. This one, however, I managed to accidentally censor, so here you go.


Aren't they a bunch of cuties?