We Be Looming

Here's a few  examples of the Rainbow Loom creations that I Riley and I have made over the past 4 weeks. I've excluded all of the bracelets because there are too many of those to count!

We also made Olaf and next up is Elsa from Frozen followed by the Care Bears!

Rubber Band Bracelet Craze!

The rubber band bracelet craze has hit our house in full effect!  Ri has been making them at school and has been begging us for a loom.  She's been visiting the kindergarten class (yes, between her visiting kindergarten and Jacob sitting on the potty and us just purchasing his first pack of Pull-Ups, it's almost too much for this momma to handle) so that she can make bracelets with the school age kids, plus her phonics teacher is covering for the kindergarten teacher while she's on maternity leave and she's the rainbow loom master!  I bought Riley a Rainbow Loom but plan on holding on to it until after her surgery because I figure that will be a great activity for her while she is recovering (she's been dropping several hints that the bracelets would be so much easier with the loom) so in the meantime we have been YouTubing videos on how to make them with a fork.  Even Marc is getting involved in making them, they are quite addictive, I spent an hour and a half making a chevron pattern bracelet on Saturday.  And the best part of this craze, she will sit quietly for at least an hour working on these bracelets!

The bracelet Daddy made!

What's going to work?  Team Work!  Jacob likes to be the administrator of the rubber bands

My fork chevron bracelet, it would probably be easier with an adult fork but I use one of the kids' forks so no one loses an eye ball when the fight breaks out

Even Jacob likes to try to make some bracelets, I figure it's good for his fine motor skills so I let him pretend as long as nothing goes in the mouth.  Notice the monkeys on the table, we've almost successfully gotten the pacifier out of his mouth when he's awake, instead he totes around Beans the Monkey (need to get a backup and a little monkey he call "ooh ah ah!"

I'm Bringing Home A Baby Bumble Bee

Anyone in Girl Scouts remembers that song, Riley has been singing this song non-stop with me.  Friday I went to get Riley from Day Care and she ran up to me and said "Mommy I make bumble bee."  I had no idea what she was talking about until her teacher told her we had to give me my Mother's Day present. Riley insisted on handing me the present herself and carrying it out to the car, it was so cute the pride that she had in giving me my present, except that she told me again that it was a Bumble Bee (I had still had no idea what was in store for me though), we need to work on the surprise factor.  We went out into the car and Riley had me open my present, sure enough, inside was a Bumble Bee, an abstract Bumble Bee but it is most definitely going to work with me and will be front and center on my desk!  Riley even called Marc over when he got home from work to show him her handy work.

Project Runway

We're T -6 days until Riley gets her casts off, we couldn't be happier but we realized it would pose a sleeping problem. We have tons of sleep sacks but lots of nights we get Riley ready for bed prior to her last bottle and so we put her in her bouncy seat or swing before going to bed so we've been putting footie sleepers on her so we can strap her in. Well, we won't be able to do that when she's in her brace. It's incredibly hard to find footless, infant sleepers, I've scoured the Bay Area in search of these. babyGap has a few but it's a long way until Friends and Family and Carter's comes out with like one a season for girls (for some reason there seems to be more boy footless sleepers). I found a super cute Carter's one this week at Macy's for $8 but all they had were newborn and big sizes, I went with the big size since we're almost out of newborn clothes but that didn't help me for next week or in a few weeks when I think she will finally be out of newborn clothes. We have a few footie sleepers in Newborn and a few 3-6 months that we got as gifts, I've decided to take it upon myself to make footless sleepers for Riley. Now I am no domestic Goddess, I don't iron and certainly don't sew (not even buttons) so I'm sure you can only imagine the look on Marc's face when he came home one night from work and I had one of Riley's sleepers de-constructed and I was taking off the feet and then sewing cuffs on it. This is the finished product up here of my first one, it took me about 4 days to do it. I'm hoping as I perfect the process it will go quicker.

Daddy put Riley in her new footless sleeper tonight, here she is modeling it. It kind of came out as capris since I forgot I had already cut both legs and cut one again, so I had to cut the other and it came out more as a capri sleeper, perfect for summer, right? I mean I did it on purpose! Again, I am no domestic Goddess but they work! (PS - Notice Riley got her cast signed! Auntie Ralsto signed it for her last weekend!)