mustache power

check out what he's wearing below that awesome smile and the chocolate mustache... ;-)

captain crackers

yar! check out me new shorts, matey or i'll make ye walk the plank.

make that messy baby a smock!

check it out - a baby smock! seriously one of the simplest things i've made (and that's saying a lot since i try to pick simple things). cole kept pulling this fabric out of my tub of many fabrics, so i figured i had to do something fun for him with it.

one piece of fabric, some bias tape and voila - mega adorable and theoretically handy for finger painting or playdoughing or whatnot. in reality it's probably tidier to just do those sorts of things sans clothes and head into the tub but the smock is too cute to pass up.

pattern from amy karol's terrifically easy-to-follow bend the rules sewing. she of the lovely crafty blog angry chicken. wicked japanese seersucker pirate/octopus/whale fabric found amidst a random destash pile at the buy the yard 2 event earlier this spring and bought for a song.

the hardest part was getting a photo of it, and none of them really turned out well. they were all blurry and overly light and cluttery but oh well... it was fun. cole found his favourite rubber boots, brought them over to me and proceeded to squeak all over the house in them once they were on, which drives him into fits of giggles. he walks oddly in them, kind of like they're filled with cement. and they make his feet reek like rubber and smelly foot smell. which adds to the smell of yogurt that he'd rubbed into his hair at breakfast. and as usual in the morning before naptime he has a blast going around pulling all his toys out and putting on a show with his hats. you can get a bit of a fix on the chaos:

and have you tried to get a baby to sit still when you really want a photo of something in particular:

cole and his silly playsuit...

last fall i made cole a rather silly playsuit in a size so large he only recently grew into it. so what better to do than to dress him in an embarrassing homemade outfit, take him to the public park and photograph it for posterity?

lucky for me, this was the day he felt like sticking his tongue out from morning 'till night a few weeks back. ;-)

cole's new shorts...

check 'em out! details over here at my other blog hudsonny, you know, cause i have so much spare time that i had to have two blogs.