Early Birthday

My birthday is Wednesday but Mark has been saying for the last month or so that he knew what he was geting me for my birthday, and it was something I hadnt thought of before and I was going to LOVE it.
Well He was right. He gave it to me today, he was going to wait but when he came home he saw that I needed it. He got me a rotary razor blade and a 2 sided cutting matt. HORAY! This may not mean much to a lot of you, but it makes cutting out patterns and fabric so much FASTER and way easier. I was just starting ot cut out the other costume I need to make for City of Joseph when he walked in. I think I did the whole thing, cutting and sewing and everything in about an hour and a half. THAT IS CRAZY FAST. Thank you Mark!

# 8 on my 100 things about me

For the City of Joseph there is a scene where we portray statues. The statue that Lydia and I are portraying is the one of the mother and the father with the child walking between them. So far we dont have a father for the statue, Mark can't do it. But they wanted all the statues to have teh same color of costumes so the bought 150 yards of fabric and gave us pictures and fabric and said, "Make it look like this". The dress was simple enough I figured I could just make it instead of searching through books to find a pattern that kinda looked like it. And when I was done I had some extra fabric so I made a working hat: (with out a pattern)


This is the dress that Lydia is going to wear. I used one fo her dresses as the pattern.
And I made bloomers: (these I did have a pattern)
This is the top of my dress. I had a t shirt pattern that I used a couple years ago so I used that to get teh right angles for the sleeves and collar, but I had to make it fitted, so I had to cut the pattern at slightly different angles in different spots so I could add darts to make the boddice fitted

The picture has the statue in puffed sleeves, My pattern was for regular sleeves
so I learned on line how to make a puff sleeve pattern.
And this is my new pattern for my puffy sleeves.
Sorry, no model for this picture. When I tried it on Mark wasnt home. And if you know me very well you know that I wont just put on a dress unless I need to, and I didnt need to put it on to take a picture of it.

So since I didnt have a pattern to tell me where to put the darts, I pinned the bodice pices together and put it on (ouch, careful not to get poked) and I pinned the darts in place, then took it off and sewed it.

If we take pictures in our statue poses I'll post the "live" statue and the picture of teh real statue, so you can see.

I still have a few more yards of fabric, and so I'm going to make a couple aprons as well. They are needed for a "work" scene.

OOPS. I just realized that I was suppose to get my costume from the place I take tap, and we didnt have class this week due to Spring Break, and the show opens on Thursday next week. Which means rehearsal on Saturday is suppose to be full dress. I guess I'm not quite done with my sewing yet. Oh well.

nakey nakey

This morning when Mark got Lydia out of bed he said HI Nakey, (which is what we say when she is just in a diaper) Did you know your mom put you to be nakey? I said No I didnt, I put her in her PJ's. As you can see, these are her PJ's:






And this is how we found her, she loves to be nakey:

Can we say "Trouble"

words words words

Well probably not many of you have noticed, but I use to have a section on the side of all the words Lydia says. I deleted it because in the last few days she has added so many new words I can't even remember them all. She is starting to say a lot of things. You have to pay attention cause sometimes it just sounds like gibberish till you realize what she is pointing at or doing, or playing with and you realize she is saying the word. And her words change. Thank you use to be day doo, but now it is Tay su. It is a little closer. She never ceases to amaze me at how quickly she learns. A month ago she could only say about 10 words, like uh-oh, ok, ya, mom, dad, and a few others, but now she is comming up with new one every day or just repeating what we say. She will be ready to give a talk in church by the time we move back to MO :)

Fold your arms

So Lydia is really good when it comes time for prayers. We say Lydia it's time for prayers, fold yoru arms, and sometimes we dont even get as far as the fold your arms part, and she is already folding her arms walking toward us.
Last night she was helping Daddy with the prayers. She was trying to say the same thing he was in the prayer. Then today after church she was trying to pray all by her self, I wanted to get a picture but she didnt do it long enough. She folded her arms and bowed her head and started to "pray" Then she paused took a few steps and squated, and continued to pray. Nothing fills my heart with as much joy as watching Lydia trying to pray. It was so fun.
And wish me luck, tonight I just put her to bed and I didnt give her pacifier to her. It's been about 10 mins and she is in there talking. If she is up for an hour I'll bring it to her. But She is content and tired, so we are gonna try it.

That's my girl!

Lydia found my tap shoes in the kitchen last night. she said "SES!" and grabbed them and tried to put them on. It took quite a while bu tonce she got them on she was still in the kitchen and she knew that they were my tap shoes and she tried to tap dance, but they were too big, they fell off. But she triedn 2 more times before she gve up and went into the living room.

She knows you can't tap dance on carpet, so she didnt try to dance in the living room she just still wanted to wear them. She played with my shoes for about 10 mins. It was so cute.

Dentist BLECK

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I have needed ot get a LOT of work done on my teeth, and I have lost count the number of times I have been to the dentist since October. Several cavaties, all wisdom teeth pulled, and a root canal. Well today I finished the last of my fillings, and they took the impression for my crown, I have a temp on right now.

So if you havent been to the dentist lately Now when they work on your teeth they put on a rubber dam to isolate your teeth. Well getting numb and putting the dam on are my least favorite part. The picture above is the rubber dam. The metel thing clamps to a tooth, and there are tiny holes that they put the teeth through. It makes it water proof so all that nasty tasteing stuff the put on your teeth dosent get in your mouth. I actually prefer it, it's jsut a pain to put on.

So as they were clamping the metel thing around my tooth (after I had been numbed) but the inside of my gums still had ALL feeling, so you can imagine how bad that hurt. So he took it off and gave me another shot...and it was in the area that wasnt numb yet, so it still hurt.

They waited for a while to let it get numb, then they checked it, and it still wasnt numb, so they decided to do my impression for my crown first. They didnt numb me for that but said if it hurt they could. I was fine till they got to the back area of my gums, that was too sensitive, so they numbed me again, that was probably the MOST painfull shot, It's STILL tender, but they gave me the shot in the same spot that my wisdom tooth was, and that tissue has not completly healed yet.

So they did all that work and got the impression, the whole thing took about 45 mins. Then they checked my gums again to see if they were num yet, adn guess what, they werent, so they gave me ANOTHER shot, and waited for a min or two. Still not totally numb. So he went ahead and put the dam on, and that hurt. HE said that it will hurt a little but the preasure should numb it. My tooth was numb, but my gums NEVER did get numb. It was tollerable, then the started ADJUSTING the clamp and it was making tears form. It hurt so BAD. The assistant noticed and had him give me more numbing crap. so I got 2 or 3 more shots directly on the gum was was hurting. it tasted terriable but ti FINALLY started getting numb. After 5 sets of shots I was finally numb. (and with every set there are 2-4 shots.)

So when I was FINALLY done I sat up and was a little tipsy, and I felt my face and almost my ENTIRE left side is numb. From right infront of my ear, clear up to my temple, down to my cheekbone and straight to my bottem lip and all the way across my bottem lip, and down to my jaw line. I've been done for an hour and I'm still totally numb everywhere. plus my tooth that needs teh crown is still sore. :( I really like my dentist he does a great job, I'm just glad I only have to go back ONE MORE TIME. HORAY!!! :)