The Parselmouths and The Remus Lupins

The Fairview Library had a little Harry Potter night last night at the Park. The Parselmouths and Remus Lupins bands played and the kids had a blast! For "kiddy" bands, they rock!
C and Mad hanging back waiting for them to start.
Our friends, Madeline, Michael, and Marah (and mom Allison) came all the way from the 'Couv to dance to the wizard rock with us.
Mad up in front dancing to Remus Lupins.
The front man to The Remus Lupins.

A Birthday Party

Our friend Ruby turned one last week and we went and partied with her.C-man and M blowing bubbles while E looks on.
Mad making a face, we were quick enough to capture it.
The birthday girl with her daddy.
Daddy catching mommy kissing Mad.

Rube with her mama and papa and her birthday cupcake.

skirt pattern

very simple. Take two bandanas or two pieces of fabric about 22" square. fold and fold again. Mad has a 19" waist so I took 19 and divided it by 4 (4.75). so in the corner where both folds are (the center of the fabric), I made sure that the triangle that I cut was over 4.75. (I did 5"). then I took some left over spandex/swimsuit strips, and binded off the top so that it's gathered and stretchy. Oh I also moved one of the squares so that it was a diamond on top of the square.


Korin, if you want some of my poor man's foe, you are more than welcome to it. The colors aren't that pretty, but it gets the job done. :)

wildlife

so this week around the house, we have come across some animals that we normally don't see in the backyard.
yesterday, there was an Oregon Red Spotted Garter snake The stripe down his back was deep green like the grass.
We went to the farmer's market in Gresham and came back to this beetle on the trailer hitch of the trooper. The picture's blury, but the rest were even blurrier. It's hard to tell, but the beetle's wings look like they have glitter on them. He was really beautiful!

The company across the street from my parents were mowing the grass along the road with a weed eater. The guy saw this rabbit jump into the road, and then he couldn't get back up over the curb. The poor bunny. So, hearing the kids in the backyard, brought him over for the kids to look at him. The bunny played dead in my hands, as he was very still and didn't try to jump away. I took him down the road to a field and let him go.

Sewing

I've been sewing more then knitting. I think it's my alone time that I am getting. Sometimes, I just sit there honestly and not sew, but since I'm by myself, it's relaxing. Now I'm not saying that being with the kids isn't nice, it's just nice to have alone time. My version of farbenmix's anna pattern I don't own the pattern so I don't know how off I am, it's based off of what I've seen over at sewing mamas.



A little skirt that I made up for Mad.

Park fun

We have been going to the park at least twice a week, sometimes more, now that the weather is nice. We've been going with friends from MDC. Last week, there were 4 June birthdays so we partied!

We got there early as we had other errands to run, so we chased the ducks. Oh so cute, with thier fuzzy-new-ness.

Mad walking across the bridge with Tania, who Mad has named Nye Nye.

Swinging with our friends, Max and his mom Ellie.
Our park friends, River and Grey.

sunshine fun!

Blurry pic but the only one I have of Cman playing with Mad's wand that goes with her tutu.
Tutu was made from a Mama friend as an exhange for a pair of wool shorties for her daughter.
Mad and our friend Gman. We try and meet at the park once a week.
Mama and Mad at the MDC PDX picnic. Mad wasn't feeling well and spent most of the time on my back in our tie dyed Dream Carrier.
Mad was showing off her pig tails. Which didn't last very long.