This trailer was used to pick up a pretty awesome craigslist purchase, which I will show you when we have it all set up in our backyard. Yes, another yard project. I got Ben to help me out with this one. Actually, it was his idea. It's going to be so awesome. I said that already. I can't wait to show you.
Let me point out Jude's arm to you. He got his cast off and graduated to a brace, and it was the sweetest thing. The doctor asked him if he wanted a brace on his arm, and told him he could be done with the cast. Jude seemed a little concerned, and I didn't understand why, but I told him a brace was pretty much the same thing as the splint he'd had before. His eyes brightened and he said, "Oh, okay!"
Later he told me, "Mom, I thought he was talking about a bracelet. And I really didn't want to wear a bracelet." Instead, the brace reminds him of Batman or Black Panther, which is never a bad thing for a six year old boy (whereas a bracelet truly is).
Oh dear, this darling little Clementine. She is the cutest thing, and is at the funniest age. Ben and the kids and I just watch her all day long and laugh. It's so hard to put an almost two year old into words. One thing she is very excited about right now is babies, either real life ones, where she is always concerned when they do not have their blankets covering them, or their pacifiers in their mouths. She is very helpful in that regard. She is less than helpful, though, when she discovers them napping. She does not understand how precious that nap time is to the babies and their mothers. I try to explain that to her, but she just can't resist squeezing the still little feet, or kissing the cheeks, or checking the eyelids and see if they really are closed. Well, they aren't anymore, Clementine.
She also loves baby dolls. Her favorite activity is finding a doll and saying, "Baby! Baby!" and wrapping it in a blanket, or better yet, asking me to, over and over and over and over again. She also likes to pretend to read books to them, which is so very sweet, or point out the world to them, like we do for her. How can a child not yet two already know how to pretend? I'll never understand that.
Of course you know where this is going, right? Naturally, for her second birthday, I plan to knit her a baby doll. Cause that's what I do. Lego Guy for Jude, baby doll for Clementine. Apparently, I just can't get away from my nature, which is to try to make everything if I possibly can. I'm glad my children like the toys I make for them, actually, they love them, even the ones that don't turn out quite as good as the others. I know the feeling, since growing up my aunts would gift me with quilts or cross stitched items or hand sewn toys, and they were all more special to me than the store bought things, even if they weren't quite perfect. It made them all the more endearing because I knew you couldn't just buy something like it at the store. My children must get the love of handmade items from me, just like I must get the constant desire to make things from my relatives.
Well I will keep you updated on my projects as soon as I have something to show you!
