My sewing project

Krista and I have been getting together on Fridays for the last few weeks to sew. It is a really fun time to hang out, chat, and work on some sewing projects we've had stored in the closet for a while :) This past Friday I made a shopping cart cover for Eli to sit in when I go to the grocery store. I was getting pretty sick of carrying him around in the Baby Bjorn-he's getting heavy! I wasn't sure if he was ready to sit in the cart or not, but Edgar and I headed to the store tonight and tried it out. It worked great! Eli sat up in it so well-he's probably been ready to do that for a while :) I added some loops to the pattern so that I could attach some toys to it for Eli to play with, and they kept him occupied for the quick trip.

The cover was fairly frustrating to make...I am not very good at reading patterns apparently...To begin with, I cut the fabric 'backwards'...the part where he is sitting was suppose to be gray, and the part over the handle was suppose to be the baseballs. I was pretty mad when I realized I had cut it out wrong, but went ahead with it anyway. I kept screwing things up, but it finally came out right. Hopefully I will never have to make another one...unless someone asks me to, and then I probably will :) I made notes in the pattern so I won't make the same mistakes again, so I am counting on it not being as hard next time.

After we got home from the store I made a cake. Now I know, I know, Father's Day was last week, but we are going to celebrate tomorrow, so I made a cake. I'm not completely sure why I posted this picture-it's a pretty simple cake...and I'm terrible at writing on cakes, but oh well. That's what I did tonight, so I thought I'd share.

This video is Eli performing his latest trick. He's such a cutie! (It's especially funny when he tries to keep doing it after I stop 'helping' him. Didn't catch that on video though...)