Lucky Us!

Jerel and I sure got some cute kids!  It makes it even more fun to make things for them.  Sewing for Zay is a bit trickier because so many handmade things are girly, but occasionally I come up with something suitable.  This was the first pair of jeans he wore a hole through.  I thought it was adorably little boyish, but as the hole grew rapidly I figured I better fix it up.  So here's the before & after.  You can't see it in the pictures, but the whales are sewn on with a decorative contrasting stitch in red.  Jeans with a hole + $3.88 walmart shirt:

And here's what I did for Eliza today.  A couple of my old shirts from the short-and-wide-shirts-are-in-style period of several years ago turned into a ruffly skirt, matching diaper cover, and coordinating hair clips:

(By the way, I had several pictures where she had her cute little smile, but I thought her odd expression in this one was darling!)

Week 6

It looks like this week they did some more work on the bonus floor, but no major changes.

Week #3-5

Week three brought the floor in the garage.  

Week four brought the beginnings of a home!  Most exciting week so far.  We took the kids inside and traded off between keeping them from falling to their death and looking around the house.

Week five.  Um, so this house is TALL!  This shows the garage floor, then the main floor, then the bedrooms floor.  Looking out the windows of the bedrooms floor makes me sick with fear.  I'm sure this won't be a problem once there are actual windows there, but man, it's high!  And there's still one more floor to be added.  We showed the kids where each of their bedrooms were, their bathroom, etc.  They had a lot of fun going through the house.  We also looked through a couple of other houses in the neighborhood that are under construction--some of them are just enormous!

Here are our cuties checking out the new pad.

And here's the view from the back.  The home is on a slope so that from the front the garage floor is at ground level, but from the back the main floor is at ground level.  Ours is the one on the left.  Can you see in the foreground the space squared off for the house that will be behind us?  Notice it's as wide as both our house and the house next to us--huge!  I hope they'll be nice neighbors and not think they're too cool for people like us who just have a tiny little 3200 square foot home...