Another Project Under My Belt

I've completed yet another crafty thing this week. I'm really getting into my "creations". This is Clara's time out chair. I really love boutique type decor, but it's all way out of my budget, so I'm trying to make all these cute things myself. I really don't like princess or Dora decor, or primary or pastel stuff, which is pretty much all you can find in stores in my price range. So, Clara's just gonna have to put up with my creations until she can inform me of how lame my stuff is.




This is just a cheap unfinished wooden chair from Michael's. I painted one coat of sage green, then two coats of ivory. Then I sanded the whole thing and put the flowers and fairy on. (They're called Wallies and are just pieces of wallpaper cut out and they come in an overpriced package of about 25 pieces. Of course, I only used 5, so you'll have to check back to see what I do with 20 more overpriced pieces of wallpaper.) You just soak them in water and slap 'em on. Then I painted "Tempus Fugit" with a paint pen. It's latin for "time flies". I saw it on a time out chair in an online boutique and thought it was really cute. Now I just need to seal it with an acrylic sealer. Total cost was around $20. (I bought the chair and Wallies with 50% off coupons)

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And in Clara news-

-I just figured out she's been saying "help please" for who knows how long. The sweet thing has been asking for help and no one has understood her. It sounds an awful lot like her word for apples, "ahpoose", so I just figured she was practicing her words, I guess.

-Oh, and here's something obnoxious we taught her, "please". It's all fun and games until she says "up, up, up, up, up, up" or "bite, bite, bite, bite, bite", to which we reply "no, no, no, no, no". Then she pulls out the big guns and says "peas?" How can we say no when she asked politely without prompting? The answer is, we can't. We've found that it's not humanly possible.

-She was reading her animal sounds book and lifted a flap that says "oink" in big letters. She said oink and then sat there quiet for a few seconds. Then she pointed at the word and started saying her alphabet. I believe this was the first time she understood that words are made up of letters. Now she's been picking up all of her books and "reads" them by saying her alphabet while turning the pages.

-She loves saying her alphabet and can say long strings of letters. She goes around saying them all day. Numbers are a different story. She just doesn't get it yet.

-She loves to say "Shoooo-eee" when I'm changing her diaper. She says it over and over until she shortens it to "Schweeee".

-Speaking of poop, I have no idea what's wrong with this child's bowels. I completely cut out dairy this week and I'm still getting the nastiest diapers. Yesterday and today, she produced 4 of 'em! I guess I'm just going to fall back on the old standby and chalk it up to teething. She seems to feel just fine so I don't know what else it could be.

And that's all I can think of right now. I'll leave you with this picture of Minnie Mouse reading to Clara.