More About Clothes

Anyone want to see what I've been doing with my time? I made my daughter a dress. I was having a really hard time finding anything cute for a brand new baby (and she's not brand new anymore, so there is a lot more now that could work for her), and so I decided to make one myself. One of my friends, who came to my baby shower, got me a beautiful jumper, and I made a dress based on the pattern of the one she gave me. (One advantage of making a dress myself is that it doesn't cost me anything ... at least not right now. I have lots of little bits of leftover fabric from previous sewing projects, and they're just the perfect sizes to make baby clothes with. It made it so I felt less risky trying to experiment!) It's not perfect, since the button holes look ridiculous, and the angle of the seam on the shoulder is kind of skewonky, but otherwise I think it turned out great. It was my first sewing project in about three years. (I don't think making curtains and mending torn clothing really counts.)

Anyway, Ben and I found the shirt at a store, and it looked cute, but was way too big in the sleeves (as you can note in the first picture), so I adjusted them, as you can see in the second picture. I still think they're a little long, but I also decided the dress is too big for Hannah right now anyway, so she'll probably grow into it. (Kind of defeats the point of making it, but at least I had fun!)

Cute Clothes

Actually, I maybe should have said "Cute Daughter" since these pictures really are an excuse just to put pictures of Hannah up on the internet. I decided to add some more to the blog today since Ben won't be getting home as soon as I thought he would, and this will fill otherwise lonely time.

The picture on the left I took just now. One of my good friends, Emily, got Hannah this dress, and I thought I'd show everyone how cute it is:



And then, just to compare and see how much she's grown in the last month, take a look at the adjacent picture, of Hannah wearing an outfit her Great Grandma Jensen got her. (She already weighs about nine and a half pounds, and she was only five and a half when she was born. She's getting big far too quickly!)

And here's Hannah in the two dresses my Mom made. The white one was her baby blessing dress, and it was also mine. The pink one Mom started for my sister, Linda, and then finished it for Hannah. Isn't it beautiful?

And here are just a couple of more I decided to add for fun:

All very cute clothes, huh? (But of course, that's not really the thing I want you to look at...!)

Tickle Tickle

I started tickling Hannah, and she started making lots of noises. After a few seconds I decided she was laughing. It's pretty cute, but near the end of the video she quit making noises, and before we started the video, she was laughing a whole lot more. I think it's because the game might have worn off. She'd been "laughing" over and over again for about four or five minutes, and she may have just gotten tired of it by the time we decided to try and capture it on video. She seems most ticklesh in the spot Stevie is! (This was yesterday at around eleven o'clock at night.)




Ben started taking pictures before we decided to make a video, so here, also, are some of the pictures we took of Hannah while I was tickling her. Isn't she absolutely adorable?



Also, if you're interested in finding out how Hannah sleeps, you should take a look at these pictures. I have never seen anyone who sleeps as soundly as she does, and in all the positions and places she does! She falls asleep with her mouth full, and she'll fall asleep in the middle of talking to us and refuses to wake up until she's good and ready, no matter what we do!






And lastly, here's Ben talking to her, which he often does when he gets home from school, or just before bedtime: