I'm Second Best

It's time to begin preparations for Julie's formal 2-year-old portrait. Usually I go to Sears for pictures, but the 2-year-old shot is important. My grandmother had all 6 of her kids sit for formal portraits (hand colored prints, very pretty), and out of that, her 24 grandkids had formal 2-year-old portraits, too (except for step-grandkids who came into the family post-2nd-birthday). Now the next generation, my kids' generation, her great-grandkids, are having their official 2-year-old portraits done, too. It's a cool tradition.

Anyway, most of the boys have worn the same outfit that my youngest uncle wore in his picture: black velveteen short romper-type suit with a pintucked white shirt. I had Caleb's portrait taken in that outfit and the photographer put him with some antique-looking toys for a really nice effect. To have consistency among the moods of all of my kids' portraits, I made Audrey a floral dress with a gingham pinafore for her picture. Her pictures look great next to Caleb's.

So now I'm working on Julie's dress. Audrey's was red, Julie's will be blue. Same pattern of dress and pinafore. Because I bought the fabric when I didn't have the pattern with me, I bought WAAAAAAY too much. Enough, in fact, for Julie's dress, a dress for Audrey, and matching dresses for their new Cabbage Patch Dolls they got for Christmas. I think I'll even have fabric left over after that. I went a tad overboard, but the fabric was $1.00/yard. Hard to go wrong with too much.

Anyway, Audrey came into the dining room yesterday where I have all my sewing stuff set up. She looked at me and said that it was cool that I could make almost anything. "Like dc, except he can make everything. You can make almost everything. So between the 2 of you, you can make everything."

How's that, dc? Your granddaughter thinks you can make anything!

P.S. Julie has pink eye. Good thing I filled Audrey's prescription from before Christmas. We did an in-home diagnoses (Steve is a doctor, after all) and put the gook in her eyes. She loves getting medicine, but wasn't so sure about this nastiness Mommy was putting in her eyes. But she fought less than Audrey.