QuietBook for nephew's upcoming 2nd birthday

 

Closed, button closure on the right

 Ball moves on the ribbon from the bat up to the sky

 No moveable parts on the eyes page, but on the scoops page the 2 lower scoops have snaps and are removable, but held on with a string.

 The shapes under the flaps are rectangle, triangle, oval and star.

 The flowers have velcro and the 'stems' hold them in the vase.

 The raindrops are movable on the ribbon.  The 'oreos' are held inside the 'cookie jar' by ribbon.

 The crayons don't come out, but they are only attached at the bottom at the crayon box.  The carrots don't come out, but you can water them :)

 And finally, a bead counting rows.

I have all the strings and ribbons so that eventho the parts are removable they can't be lost.  You know how 2yo are... LOL!

Would you like to be Entertained?

A little music from the kids.  Click on the names of the songs to open youtube videos.

Christian:
The Entertainer

Moonlight Sonata Movement #1

Sophie:
Chinese Waterfall

Rock of Ages

WINDY night and a well dressed boy

She tried to go to sleep, got up not too much later, tried to sleep in our bed (which NEVER happens!) but couldn't cuz daddy's snoring was worse than the wind, so she ended up on the sofa around midnight.  She stayed there till about 4am she said. (wish she would have woken me up since I was on another sofa keeping her 'company'.)

Christian hadn't had me take his "dress blues" picture in quite some time so after last week's meeting he asked me to before he took it all off. Current rank: Cadet Chief Master Sergeant, title at the squadron is 1st Sergeant.  The red cord indicates that he is a member of the Cadet Advisory Committee.

Christmas at Rebecca's mom's house

 Piano concert...  mom teaches several of the grandkids and they give a concert on holidays

 It was sooo funny because it was in an American Girl Doll box! LOL

Christmas Morning 2012

I thought I'd go ahead and post Christmas Morning pictures while I'm waiting for the potato casserole to finish baking before we go to mom's.  Apparently we forgot to get Dad in any pics!  OOPS!  Usually I'm the one taking pics and dad is there but I'm not.  This year Sophie took over the camera somewhat.

 Stockings...

 Sophie's going to make a GREAT present giver!  She stuffed my slippersocks into a juice bottle to disguise the shape!!

 I had asked for a new cabinet for storing fabric

 edible arrangement

 Sophie was 'Santa' this year, meaning she is the one who passed out the presents

Just HAD to share the 'leather' boots and purse I just finished

What a PAIN!  But I love them!  The vinyl 'leather' was pretty easy to work with actually... but making shoes in general is a pain.  I lined the purse with some cotton 'hearts' pattern fabric.  It's got fringe to match the boots.  I LOVE them! (don't mind the nightgown she's wearing that I rolled up...)

Christmas presents

A friend wanted to see this year's pile of presents in the fabric 'wrapping' bags.  We don't have our regular tree up because we've recently dealt with fleas and I don't want to risk bringing flea eggs into next Christmas, so we used our Charlie Brown Christmas Tree atop the piano instead.

The kids have no idea what color their presents are tied with.  I do something like this every year, either the same wrapping paper for one kid and a different for another, or the tags will say 'Cutie' and 'Sweetie' instead of their names, or I've even done numbered tags representing each kid.  It's fun, and it keeps them from knowing for sure which are theirs LOL!  Tho, Sophie knows one of these is Christian's cuz it's the biggest and she knew what size box of something he was getting.  *sigh*  oh well... LOL!  She still doesn't know what is hers, cuz daddy has a certain color ribbon too, and there are combined ribbons to represent them all, or just the kids together as well.