Boutique Shoot

I have been working with Libby Loo's Boutique lately taking photos of her products for advertisement.  We got a new batch in this last week of hair accessories and a tutu and so we headed over to my studio with Tiana... my favorite adorable model... for a photo shoot.  These are fun low stress shoots for her because while I need specific photos she doesn't have to be looking at the camera in every one!  She was quite cooperative though with the promise of Halloween candy at the end of it!  Plus she was SO excited to get to keep the tutu! 

Poor girl has been fighting her Asthma again bad and we spend the afternoon at Quick Care.  We have an appointment with her doctor on Monday and then will get a referral to a pediatrician that specializes in Asthma treatment.  We did a little survey at the doctor today and if the scores is 19 or less basically the asthma is not being treated at home as well as it should be... we scored 10 so yeah we need HELP!  Poor little girl is miserable!  She coughed for 5 hours straight.... we are talking not more than literally about a minute without coughing!  We have her on prednisone now which seems to be helping a little bit which is good.  I just hope we can get some help for treating her at home.  We have strict doctor orders that if she gets bad again we have to be in the ER!  So let's cross our fingers that prednisone will get us through this one, she wouldn't do well with a hospital stay.

Weekend sewing!

I had a wonderful weekend crafting all day long, I made 7 shirts... well 8 if you count Kason's shirt that I made on Thursday night!  Last year I got a whole stack of long sleeved shirts for both of my boys when they were on the clearance rack for $2 and under (a couple were $.98!!!!) at Old Navy.  I knew that I would come up with something to jazz them up! 

I happened to ask Keaton if he would want a robot shirt since I saw a cute one here (which by the way has amazing boy ideas).  He was so excited and told me he wanted a blue robot and then he chose Orange for the arms.  He was quite proud of his shirt and told everyone about it at Preschool!  I made a "matching" one for Camden.  I actually have a bib that has robots all over it and I looked at one on the bib that I liked for his.  I love that they coordinate but aren't the same!

Here is Keaton's.  I added some messing stitching along the shoulders.  He loves the eyes that "My Daddy found" he tells everyone!

Camden's shirt. I used floss around the sleeves and a little patch on the bottom... as well as the buttons on the cute little guy!  I decided not to put washers on his for eyes... besides the fact that this little guy is small, I knew that Camden would just pull on them all the time.  You know choking hazard and all, figured it wasn't a great idea!

  

Now here are a bunch of monkeys... aren't they going to look cute on my little monkeys!  My mom has some flannel that is sock monkey (adorable by the way) that she is going to make pajama pants for the kids out of.  So I decided to make matching pajama shirts for the pants that are coming soon.  I wanted to get these done even though the pj pants aren't done yet because Kason is having his second birthday soon and his theme is sock monkey.... these make perfect party shirts!  Besides I had bought the socks to make Kason a shirt and had leftovers to make my kids some too!

Mr. Monkey with a knit pom-pom.

Miss Monkey with a knit flower of course!

I also made these shirts.  LOVE LOVE LOVE them.  I love it when I get an idea and it turns out even better than planned!  There is NO way that these shirts look homemade at all (not that it is a bad thing if they do).  I just love how it looks like I could have bought them at Gap!  I used an old dark grey t-shirt of mine and freeze paper stenciled the three guitars on.  I then used a thick stitch and red thread to stitch it on the shirt.

Did I mention I am in LOVE with these shirts?!??

  

Love this big boy too! (btw we think he has a mild case of Bells Palsy again.... either that or when he is going through a growth spurt, which he has been, we see some muscle weakness on one side... not sure but either way it isn't near as bad this time which is good news)  Also, not sure why his hair looks like I cut the front crooked... I really didn't but in this photo it looks like I gave him a bad haircut, must be those crazy curls!!

Here is Kason's shirt.  I used the socks to make long sleeves on his shirt.  I decided it was to much work for my kids to just wear as pajamas!

Blue and Orange

We enjoyed a BEAUTIFUL day outside today watching an amazing Boise State game!

Papa and Nana showing the kids the jets overhead!

Papa and Nana with their grandkids!



When everyone went down to get snacks Camden enjoyed a seat all to himself!



He was having fun saying "hi" to the camera with no one behind it.

Tiana leaned right out of this photo but it was cute of Camden and Daddy.

There is her cuteness!

Keaton with his crazy hair and his clappers, loving the game!

My amazing little family!

Fall Fun

We have had beautiful weather here this week and have been spending hours upon hours outside.  Our neighbors have a willow tree that has been dropping leaves in our yard which gave us enough leaves to be able to rake some into a pile.  This kept the kids busy for a couple hours yesterday.  Keaton even learned how to rake them back into a pile so that Mommy didn't always have to!

Camden's idea of throwing them in the air is to put them on his head!

Our weekend

You know you have a VERY tired 4 year old when he gets up from his nap and while waiting for Mommy to change a load of laundry, falls asleep in the living room floor!  He had is 4 year old check up that day and those 5 shots wore him out!  He is 3 foot 5.75 inches which is 93rd percentile and almost 40 pounds with is 80th percentile.

I got my new computer in on Thursday!!!!  Yay!!  The box and packing provided lots of entertainment.  The box is now a "house" thanks to Daddy and a sharpie marker and is still being used!  These Tiana turned into her "tutus" and Camden just has to do everything that Tiana is doing right now!  They are best of friends for now!

  

We then went to a Halloween Party on Friday night for some of the kids' friends!  The kids had so much fun!

Stylin' Thing 2!

She LOVED her blue hair!!!

Keaton drew his very first person this last weekend!!!  He said it was Mommy!  He thought that it was SO funny that I had lots of legs and he couldn't make me happy, he thought I should be grumpy!  Hmmm not sure what that says about this poor Mommy but oh well, he thought it was funny!  He then had to give me three colors of hair and made it REALLY big!  I LOVE every little thing about it!



Saturday afternoon I started getting the flu bug that the kids had... needless to say Daddy took Keaton and Tiana to the Lake for a little break!



Love this little coy look!

They came home and we carved pumpkins!  Camden was in the middle of it the entire time!  He even helped me sort seeds out.  Tiana helped quite a bit too, she didn't mind that it was slimy.  Keaton on the other hand took ONE look at the inside and freaked out and left the room!  He didn't like the smell or even the look of it much less how it felt!!  So he watched a football game on the computer and kept us updated on what was happening (he is VERY accurate actually, he understands the game and can give you a play by play).  When it came to the actual carving we told Keaton he could come help which he was all excited to do until he stepped on a little bit of pumpkin guts.... he sat down screaming "ewww get it off get it off" (only on his sock mind you) and then went back to the game.  He had enough!

Camden had to help Mommy carve even.  He kept crawling in my lap saying "elp elp" (help).

All done!  Keaton did pick out the designs!

Sunday this Mommy was seriously sick.  I left the bed long enough to go to the couch... seriously.... all day!  I mustered up enough energy to walk to a couple houses with the kids that evening.  Camden loved trick-or-treating.  He ran up to the door said "tick teat" then "tank oo".  He would put his candy in his pumpkin (which he NEVER let go of) then would run up to us and show us what he got.... and on to the next house!!

 Keaton always led the way with Tiana close behind... that is unless there was anything scary about the house at ALL.  She then would have NOTHING to do with it.  At one point a house that was a couple houses down had some motion detector thing that went off and she ran down the sidewalk the other way crying and yelling "I'm going home, all done that's scary, I am going home".  We had to run and catch her or she would have!!

I am feeling better now thank goodness.  Still just taking it easy though.  I just hope that the bug I got was the same one that the kids already had!