We love to visit Gramma Mom!!

We just love my grandmother! She's such an awesome lady! She's 86 now, and just the sweetest gramma ever! My kids call her "Gramma Mom" cause being that I lived with her, my mom, AND my great-grandmother growing up, we had "Mommy, Mom and Nanny" LOL! So to me she's still "Mom"! My gramma is the one person who I think has had some of the most influence on my life and taught me the most.
She always had these amazing gardens full of food and
she would make all our meals and canned, froze, made homemade grape juice and jelly every year and more! I learned to cook from her (Much to my family's happiness! ha ha) I also learned to sew, crochet, knit (badly ew) and lots more from her.
One year for my birthday, she made my fav dinner, my fav kind of cake, and then she had knitted an ENTIRE outfit for my fav baby dollie! All in PINK! LOL! I was very into pink!
Well, even though she can't do a lot of those things anymore due to her glaucoma and age, she still is just a sweet and loving person, and I love her to pieces! I'm so glad my kids get to have her in their lives! They love visiting her, talking to her, reading to her and coloring with her. They also LOVE her little shih tzu dog, Muffin. Yes, it's a boy and she named the poor thing Muffin! Could by why he's such a little stinker! LOL! Julianna has a BLAST racing and chasing with him! She especially loved running up and down the ramp, rolling the ball down it for Muffin and riding her little 4 wheel
wheeler down it! Jenna played baseball with her Uncle JP, my youngest brother who is 19 now! AND She learned to ride her bike in the grass at Grammy's house!!! They have these awesome hills, and she learned to ride down them just like I used to as a kid! LOL! We had a great time! We also had a great time visiting with my mother (Grammy, to the kids!) when she got home from work! I am pretty sure that both Gramma Mom and Muffin had to take nice LOOOOOOONG Naps all day the next day from all the excitement of our visit! LOL!!!

I love to Sew!

Well, if you havent' figured it out yet, I LOVE sewing! Especially for my adorable kiddies! I still am amazed at how much I save when they're little making them clothes! And with Julianna being one size in height and another in weight, it's so much easier to make clothes that fit, than buying and trying to alter them! Plus it helps that she LOVES picking out her own fabric and wearing what I make her! LOL! She's so stinking cute!


I also had another great "excuse" to do some sewing today! My friend's Daughter's Roommate had a brand new little baby girl today!! She's adorable! So I got to make some little baby gifts up for Brittany!!! I hope she likes them !

Julianna and her stylish outfit for Grammas!

Ok, so you know how I am, and I just can't seem to help myself! I LOVE making the kids' clothes!! And it's so handy for me that I really pretty much NEED to for Julianna! With her being so tiny, it's cheaper and easier to just make her clothes so they FIT her scrawny butt! Well, she has SO much fun picking out what she wants me to use and embellish with! LOL! Quite the little fashion queen she is! So I got all this nice light denim to make little jeans for her with, and then she found
this really cute jungle print ruffle at Wal*mart!!

Now I'd gotten this same jungle print in a really nice, soft fleece last year and used it for various projects and she just loved how soft and cuddly it was and loved all the cute animals on it! So you can just imagine the happy little shriek that went thru Wal*mart when she saw it there in the fabric department! LOL!!!!

So we're off to visit Grammy and Gradma Mom tomorrow, so of course she wanted her new jeans to wear! So then, being the obsessed seamstress that I am......I HAD to make her a matching top to go with her new jeans! So I found the SAME print in a nice cotton, and picked a really cute little dress top pattern and whipped it up! Course, I HATE, and I do mean HATE doing buttonholes and buttons, so I used good 'ol Velcro (or do we have to say Hook and Loop tape?) For the back opening! LOL! She likes it anyway, cause it's easier for her to do "All by herself!" or as she says, loudly and with feeling "NOOOO MEEEE DO!!!!!!"

Well, I will try to get some great pictures of her WEARING her new outfit tomorrow! They always look so much cuter when there's an adorable little kid in them! LOL!!!!

And she does it again!

Well, she's done it again! Last nite, wiggly tooth number two came out!! Jazzy was so excited that the tooth fairy had come, and took her note and pictures she colored for her, and left a certificate and letter and $2! So last nite before bed, she decided that she'd give that second wiggle little tooth a try!

So first she tried the old tried & true "String-around-the-tooth" trick.....and one little tug and whoooooop! Down it went, and off came the string! So she got it the rest of the way out all by herself!! She was so excited!

So then she colored more pictures and her and Jenna worked on yet another letter for the poor overworked tooth fairy! LOL! SO this morning, someone was thrilled to discover a new game "Go Fish" card game, and another dollar! Plus another note of course! So now when we go off to Jenna's eye dr appointment, we have to make a little trip to the dollar store for a certain young lady to spend her whopping $4!!! LOL!!!!

Jasmine lost her 1st tooth!

Today was a big day!! Today Jasmine and the other kids all had a trip to the dentist! Julianna had her very 1st dentist appointment! All of the kids did GREAT! And not a single cavity for all four kids! Definitely a successful visit! And now Julianna isn't scared of the dentist and has healthy little toofies!

Then we found out more good news! Jenna FINALLY has
teeth moving and will soon have her very first loose tooth! This was a huge concern for her, as she is the last one in her class to have not lost a tooth at all. She's been trying to wiggle her teeth, but all to no avail! LOL!

To add insult to injury, we also found out something exciting for Jasmine - she has two loose teeth! And we didn't even know it! One is REALLY REALLY loose.......so loose in fact, that she had that little sucker out by bedtime! And she did it 100% all by herself! I was very impressed! She is of course, on cloud nine,and super proud of herself!

And since Mama wasn't expecting her to have one so soon (she's only 5!) I had to book it to my sewing room and have her pick out fabric to make her special tooth fairy pillow for bedtime! LOL! She picked out a pretty blue fabric with all different color flying zebra's all over it! LOL! So cute! So she's happy and has her little tooth all ready for the tooth fairy!