My Christmas Present

On Christmas, I was surprised to find out my sisters and I each received a sewing machine. My son asked what it was. Jay told him it was to sew clothes like the shirt he has on. Wesley responded, "Mommy can make costumes for me!"

I've only tried one time in my life to sew. That was 20 years ago and I failed miserably. My mom got me in a night sewing class. I was so excited. I thought of all the outfits I was going to make. Part of my downfall was that I decided to pick a skirt pattern...with a zipper. What was I thinking? Every night of that sewing class I was sewing, making a mistake, then ripping out the seams to correct out my mistake. Everyone else was making these outfits for their little children while I was barely completing my skirt. I now realize I should have picked something simple like they did. I was too ambitious.

So now, I decided to try again. This time, from my husband's recommendation, I started out with something simple. A pillowcase. And I did it! It's not neat, but I think I did pretty good for my first try. Wesley seems to like it. He's in the first photo. I made it Queen size for him to put his whole body in : ) My next project will be a drawstring sack, then a tote-like bag. My ultimate goal is to hopefully make a costume and a hawaiian shirt for Wes. If you're wondering about the fabric I used, they were having 60% off Christmas patterns. I thought I'd also start with fabric where I won't be bummed if I make a mistake. Erin, now that you have a sewing machine, are you going to make matching outfits for your girls the same way mom did with us? :D

Girls and Stuff

How Wesley Thinks:

Ice melts into water

Ice cream melts into milk

Chocolate melts into Coffee… who knew? : )

Wes and I were at the pharmacy. I was telling him that they would call my name when my medicine was ready for pick up. He asked, "They will call your name 'Mommy'?"

I feel like my son is starting to become a Ladies man. Thanks, Jay for always trying to set him up with a future girlfriend or wife. Already I know about 4 incidences from school.

One girl came up to him and said his name in a sing-song voice, “Hi Wes-LEE” (insert floating hearts)

2) Another was pointing to Wes and telling her sister that was “Willie”

3) And another girl told him he can come over to her house and play… :O

[9:When Jay and Wes went to the class room, one of girls mentioned above, came walking up to Wesley and said, "Hi Wesley, I saw you first"

W Whatever happened to the typical boy, yuck..girls!?! Ok, ok, I have to admit. I did some of that stuff myself when I was in preschool.. following this boy, who wanted play super hero. I'd put on a cape too and tried to do whatever he did and wanted to sit wherever he sat. I also remembering asking a boy (I don't remember if it was the same one) to put my shoe on my foot like Cinderella..tee hee hee.

How Wesley Thinks….

• Wesley was talking about reindeer in the car. Jay started telling him the names, but he stops Jay and says," NO Dad, their names are Hammer, Smokey, Blacky, Bob, and Bryan."
• Wesley asks, "Dad is Big Foot bad?' Jay says,"No he just has big feet." Wesley responds," OH! That’s because he has no socks or jammies on!"
• On the way to pre-school sitting in traffic Wesley said," Hey Dad, we can pull over there and get in our space ship or air plane. Oh I know we can go to the store and get "ROCKET BOOTS" you can have green ones, I can have blue rocket boots. Then we can fly over the cars and go to school!"
• Jay Hann I got this sponge for car washing. Wesley adopted it as his Sponge Bob bath toy! He picked it up in the garage and started singing, SPONGE BOB SQUARE PANTS!!!!

• Daddy, I don’t like quiet time! Quiet time is too fake! (?!? Trying to use big words..)