Projects, Poses, and Post-its

According to my mother, I've been very boring recently. Here's why. Usually, September and October are two of my favorite months of the year. It's FALL! My favorite season. However, living in the desert, we don't have fall. We have insanely hot and then happy weather. But no in between. No leaves changing colors, no crisp morning air, no hot chocolate drinking, no sweatshirt wearing! And I'm bummed about this. I miss all of those things. So I decided that I would just have to bring fall to my house myself. So, as I was searching for a new project, I saw a really cute placemat design that I thought would be perfect. I know what you're thinking, placemats?, really? But I felt like it would really bring in the colors of fall into my home. I went to JoAnn's and scoured the fabric until I found (what I felt to be) the perfect colors of fall. Then I set to work. Here's what I came up with....

Ta Da! My beautiful fall placemat. It took longer than I thought it would... and was kind of a bigger headache than I had wanted, but I got them done!

A couple of shots of my hard work. I actually made myself a set of 8 placemats... but only four will fit on our table for now!

Another one of my placemats. They're no where near perfect, but they'll do!

For those of you who know my son... you know what a ham he is. He tends to be very dramatic-- but that allows me to get some pretty classic pictures. So, here are some shots of some poses I got him in yesterday.

Here he is, singing a cantata for us. (He has a very good falsetto...)

Oh my! What a scandal!

My goofy Bubs! Look at how big he's getting!!!

This next little section is all about Post-its. I was trying to talk to my sister on Google chat and Bubs kept climbing up on my leg and crying at me. So, I was trying to find things to distract him so I could keep talking to Sara. Well, I saw some sticky notes and a brilliant thought came to me. And this is what it was....

Yep, I totally stuck one right on his forehead!! I am such a great Mom, eh? This actually turned out to be quite a fun game. It became a game of peek-a-boo... with a bright yellow post it. :)


Here he is taking the post it off his face for the Peek-a-boo part!

Umm.... can we say stinking HILARIOUS!! Kodak moments like this don't come very often. Good thing I keep my camera handy at all times! If only the post it had said "kick me" on it....


Oh man, this kid totally cracks me up!

This is his most recent favorite pose. He likes to give me little back scratches when I'm sitting down. Well, actually, he's clawing at me, trying to get me to hold him. But I prefer to think of it as little back scratches saying, "Hey Mom, you're the best! Thanks for all of the hard work you do and your patience dealing with me everyday when I scream in your face." Yep, that's exactly what he's saying when I feel those little nail digging into my back on a daily basis....