TGIF

Nothing terrible has happened so far this week! Yay! True, the baby has been sick, but even that has not been as dreadful as I had feared her first illness would be. It was a pretty mild cold, and although she was uncomfortable some of the time, she slept through most of it (except that first night.. poor M) and the saline drops helped so much more than I expected them to. I did kind of feel terrible about it last night. Can you imagine being held down by the two people you love the most in the world, who have only ever done NICE things for you, while one of them drops water up your nose and the other uses that HORRIBLE thing to suck it out again? Evelyn normally really likes the suctiony bulb thing used in her mouth, but nose? No. Bad. STOP.

I just transferred a bunch of photos from the camera and really enjoyed looking through them. We have gotten a bit lazy with the transferring of pictures and it has been quite a while since the last time we've done it. In short, we have been like Other People instead of Obsessive Picture Taking People. My mom called me with a sad story yesterday. My dad wanted to have a picture of Evelyn at work, so he went through the stack of photos that they have of the baby and picked out a really cute one from one of our photo shoot sessions. We have turned the sunroom/guest room bed into an occasional staging area for pseudo-studio photos, and occasionally we.. oh, never mind. We're hopeless, I know. We have not yet taken a picture of anything she has produced in her diaper so maybe we are still redeemable? Anyway. They were at lunch, so he set it aside in a napkin, but he forgot to take it with him when they left... and it got thrown away. Poor baby. Her grandparents carelessly allowed her photo to be tossed into the trash at Wendy's. ;) Not that I would give them a hard time about it or anything.

I have spent my free time in the last few days making diapers. I finally found a free pattern that I could follow that is super cute and easy! I made two a while back using mayna's tutorial but my basic template (that I drew myself) was off, so they don't fit her quite right, and I got lazy and so I never got around to fine-tuning the template to try again. The two I made are getting too small anyway, so it would have required a whole new template anyway. I have learned so much about sewing this year! I still have a lot to learn, but I have figured out quite a lot of stuff during this diaper business. I don't really know if I'm doing things the accepted way but it's looking better and better, which is neat. It's a quick pattern, though I have changed enough of it that it's not AS fast as it was. The original pattern expected you to use a pin to close it, and.. no, so I had to add velcro. And elastic to the back because I think it's worth some effort to keep the poo in. But they're really, really cute. No, really. Look.

I am pretty excited because I could actually imagine using these regularly, and making enough of them to actually make a difference in our stash. Diapers are expensive--cheaper than disposables in the long run (for most people) but it's still pretty pricey, especially if you get into it and can only buy new instead of used. I am really enjoying the sewing process--or rather, having sewed things that I actually use. Anyway, the second picture has the diaper I made this afternoon, and I am totally in love with the ruffled edges on the legs--I sewed that differently than the other ones I've made. It's adorable... if I do say so myself.

Random note: do you realize that you save five dollars per year for every bill you pay online instead of mailing in a check with a stamp? Considering that I pay at least six bills online monthly, that's thirty bucks a year! Or, one month of cable service. Free! I have been doing it for convenience but it's pretty neat how occasionally, convenient is cheaper. That's pretty unique.