Apparently we had a warm day or two this winter

The 17th and 18th of this month were quite warm days. The 17th Savannah and I built a pretty good sized snowman in the backyard. Unfortunately we didn't have time to finish the detail work. She convinced me the snowman at least had to have a carrot nose before we could go in for the evening.

The next afternoon when she looked out she was sure that a bunny had eaten the nose! They sang a song about that at play school earlier this year. I finally convinced her to go out and look on the ground for it. The whole snowman was a lot smaller as it had melted quite a bit that day. Pretty soon she let me know that a bunny named Savannah had eaten the carrot and handed me the stem end of it! :D

Then she tried to fix the snowman, but just ended up with a head on the ground. So then I got her some buttons for the face and helped her put the hat and scarf on.

This one kind of shows how small the head actually is.

This one shows you the surprised look on his face!

If we had made it on the 18th I'm sure he'd still be standing as a solid iceman. We are still hoping for Spring, sometime soon.

Is it Easter yet?

Someone here sure wishes it was! The minute we were done opening presents on the last day of three Christmases we had this past December she said, "Yay! Now the Easter Bunny can bring me chocolates!"

Today we had a fun day which ended with her buying some things at Build-A-Bear for her Kitty. Kitty ended up getting bunny slippers a ballet type dress and these bunny ears. The sunglasses are ones that Gramma Susan bought in Mexico last year. They are too small for Savannah now, but they fit Kitty perfectly. Tonight you get pictures of Savannah all dressed in ears and sunglasses. What a goof. Maybe tomorrow I'll post a picture of Kitty. Or maybe not, she's not as cute as this bunny!

Giant Flashy Billboard????

Does anyone else out there have children with giant flashing billboards over their heads that say "GIVE ME STUFF?" What kind of stuff, you ask? Anything and everything!!!

While delivering papers Savannah has made an elderly friend that likes to give her presents. Some for me as well! The first thing was a stuffed toy. Then at Christmas we got two bags of gifts! Now she is wanting to give her some more stuffed animals from her collection.

Also delivering papers she has been given money to buy ice cream with (more normal since tips are always appreciated!), bandaids for a scrapped knee while just a block from home. That lady is a nurse and did a great job of bandaging her up. Ugly bandaid on the bottom, Princess one over top! :D

Then while on our recent trip to Walt Disney World twice she was given big Mickey balloons. First one, then two more. Mind you, these are $20 each balloons. (We have since passed these balloons on to friends as they are not airplane friendly!) Then walking into the Magic Kingdom people gave us a stroller to have! It sure was nice. Came in very handy for the long afternoons of walking. Not that Savannah needs a stroller, but it's great for hauling around all the stuff we needed. Savannah loved it too, she always jumped on for a ride.

Yesterday, while at the Toronto airport (while in a 6 hour wait for the next plane) a cleaning lady gave Savannah a bottle of orange juice, because "She is just so cute!"

I think we are in for years more of "getting stuff!" After all she IS "just so cute!"

Snorkelling!

Tonight was an exciting night at the swimming pool. Savannah is super excited that her ears don't have tubes again because that means she can put her head under the water.

We let her take her snorkel gear to the pool to practice for our next vacation. She loves swimming with goggles, so we thought she'd like this even more. We were right. For awhile Rick pulled her around the pool while she floated. After the hot tub to warm up, she and Mummy went down the water slide, our usual 5 times.

After that we were in the hot tub a short time before she wanted to go back to the big pool. She kept getting her snorkel tube under the water, so I helped her keep it out and floated her around the pool again. After going around once I noticed she was relaxing more, so I let go of one of her hands. She didn't panic, so I switched hands. Still okay. Slowly I let go with both hands without her knowing. Success!

I took her hands and floated her around the pool another time. I mostly only held one hand at a time. Then in the shallow part we tried no hands again. This time Daddy saw it! After that, she didn't want me to hold her hands anymore. She had a hard time moving anywhere, but she did manage to get around a bit. I walked beside her and made sure she kept her snorkel tube above water. Of course I had to pull her out a time or two and help her clear out the tube, but on the whole she did great!

Our little fish is growing up. Pretty soon she'll be off to her own school! :D

Mum's Christmas Quilt

Some time ago I was going through things in my craft room and found a bunch of handkerchiefs that came from my Gramma's house. I decided they were too special and pretty to just leave laying in a drawer for the rest of my life. So, after some pondering, I decided to make my Mum a quilt out of them.

First I sewed them onto squares of white sheet material.

This is a close-up of the embroidered monogram of one of my Grampa's handkerchiefs.

As there were only 10 handkerchiefs and the quilt was going to have 12 squares, I had to figure out what to put in two more squares. My Gramma LOVED Lillies, so a Lily was a natural choice. First I drew a Lily on paper using this photo of one of my own Lillies to copy from.

I cut out the petals for patterns and then used them to applique orange material pieces onto my background material. Here is the pattern after I sewed the material onto the background.

Without the paper.

This is the finished Lily after I embroidered around each petal, made a stem, leaves, pistil and stamens.

This is what I wrote in the other square.

One of the handkerchiefs.

Finished quilt laying on our bed.

The finished quilt, hung in a doorway at Mum's for this photo.

A Little Christmas Fun!

These are a few photos of Savannah's play school Christmas concert day and one of a plate of goodies we gave to friends.

More quilts

These are a couple more quilts I did last summer. One for a boy I baby sit. The other for a friend's little boy.