Dip Dip

Pizza dipped in milk anyone?

Claire's verdict "mmmm thats good"

some of her other favorites:

grilled cheese in apple juice

french fries in milk

Toast in Milk

and any type of sandwich in milk.

Spaghetti in milk (this one really grosses me out, because she will drink the saucy milk afterwards)

Tree hugger Claire

We planted 3 trees this weekend. Claire was so excited. She has official claimed them as her trees "CLAIRE'S TREE". After Mark planted them I was in charge of watering them. I had Claire help me. She watched me water the first one then said "Let me try that". I handed over the watering can. She loved watering the trees. She has asked to water them every day since. She also tells the trees bye when we leave. She is so funny.

I finished it.

I finished her skirt. I have to say I understand why they are selling for $80. Its not a very hard sewing project, but tedious and time consuming. I figured a few things out in the making this skirt that would have made the process easier, and faster. I will put those to use when I start making Ella's. Claire was so excited. She wore it to church on sunday. We had stake conference out in Ogden. The whole drive there Claire kept saying "look at me, beautiful dress." She is such a princess. It was hard to get a good picture of her. We had conference at the tabernacle which is next door to the Ogden Temple. She was so excited about the water fountain I couldn't get her to hold still long enough to get a decent picture. But the one of her running is super cute.

Pettiskirt

I saw this pettiskirt online the other day. I fell in love with it. I wanted one for Claire and Ella, but there is no way I was going to spend that much money on one. I started googling tutorials for them. I decided I was going to attempt making them one. I had to order the Nylon Chiffon online. I have been waiting a week for it. It arrived today, and I started the process of making the skirt. . I'll have to let you know how it turns out. If only my belly wasn't so big, I could stand to sit and sew for a longer period of time.

I know its been forever since I have updated our blog. I can't really say I have a good excuse, but I am going to blame it on the baby. Mark says I blame everything on the baby. But when you get this far along in pregnancy it takes lots of extra effort to do stuff. We have 6 weeks left, and my belly is big. In fact it is big enough that people feel the need to comment on how big it is where ever I go. I'll just say I know my belly is big, I don't like being told HOW big it is.

Easter was fun with Claire. She didn't really understand the concept of the Easter Bunny. I tried to explain it to her, I talked it up and let her choose her own easter basket. She Picked a green bucket with bunnies on it, because it fit best on her head. Then proceeded to wear it on her head through the rest of the store. Which worked out great because she couldn't see me putting the things to fill her basket in the cart. :) I forgot my camera on Easter sunday. :( My SIL Heather took these pics and put them on facebook. I stole them. Thanks Heather. Claire loved running around putting eggs in the basket, as long as she didn't have to carry the basket. She also felt the need to wear both the bunny ears, the easter bunny brought, and the bunny mask Grandma and Grandpa got her. She loves them so much that she will randomly wear them for the day and tell me "Claire bunny".

Claire has decided she is a princess and will wear only dresses. Apparently princesses don't wear pants. It took an hour of crying the other day and me promising her levi's were "princess leggings" to get her to wear them. I am going to have to make sure she always has at least one dress clean. I have been sewing most of her dresses. Which means I take her to the fabric store and let her pick out the material her "princess" dress will be made out of. She then loves to sit on the table and watch over the sewing machine as I make her dress. Then she will immediately want to try it on. This is my favorite part as she smiles the biggest grin ever and says "Mama look at me LOOK AT ME!" I then tell her she is a beautiful princess and she will twirl around the room. Most of the time she twirls until she is too dizzy and tips over. I will sew her a hundred dresses just for that moment. It is a good thing she doesn't care that they are all the same dress made out of different material. I only have one pattern. Plus my sewing skills, while improving, are not at a very high level.

Our little Ella Jane will be arriving soon. I am so excited for her to get here. I feel like time is going slower. While I know 6 more weeks isn't that much longer, it feels like it is going to take forever to get here. We have her room ready. I sewed her some cute sheets and crib skirt to match her rug. I often just peek in there. We had a doctors appointment last week, and everything is going good. She is growing and developing right on schedule. While I am hopeful she will want to make her appearance a little early, not too early mind you, she will probably arrive the last week in May. I think we are ready for her to arrive. But we will probably be going to the store on the way home from the hospital to get a few things we have forgotten we needed. May can't get here soon enough.