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Evangeline has new-found courage in the swimming department which has developed only since the family reunion in Nashville.  She was really getting brave and started putting her whole head under water in the hotel pool that weekend.  Since then, she's taken a week of swimming classes and has become an emergent doggy-paddler.  I am so amazed and proud of how far she has come in the past week!  She still has a ways to go, but just the fact that she is willing to give it a try without freaking out is huge!  She has become a little fish and is full of "mommy watch this" moments at the pool.  She has gotten really good and holding her breath for an extended period of time and swimming under water.  She prefers swimming under water to doggy paddling.  She also loves jumping off the side of the pool and doing tricks of the board with her Puddle-Jumper on.  

 

"Mommy, can you take a picture of me eating corn so I can put it in a memory book and one day when I have a baby I can show them this picture and tell them that this was the day I started liking corn?  The trick to get me to eat corn is by putting butter on it."

We've been having playdates here and there.  Gotta keep the girl socialized.  This is her friend Harper Richardson.  They're pictured singing Frozen on the karaoke machine.

 

I am coining the term "craft-nesting".  I'm getting a tad worried about all the projects I've told Evangeline I would get to for her this summer.  I know that once the stork drops off our little bundle of joy my moments at the sewing machine or spent with the knitting needles are few and far between.  So I'm putting the pedal to the metal. 

 

This fabric is called something like, Mother Goose and Friends.  This is not the dress I intended to make with this fabric, but desperate times call for desperate measures.  I decided to do one of my old stand-by patterns.  However, I did change it up a little this time...I made the liner longer than the top layer.  When it was finished Evangeline pointed out that it looks like a dress someone would have worn in the old days (big plus for her).  She also approved of the twirl factor.  I'm also thrilled that I finally remembered to sew a tag in this dress!  I always remember after it's too late.  These tags were my grandma Parson's tags. 

 

I'm sure I've said this before, but just I love making things for Evangeline.  It's so worth it.  She always tells me things like, "this is special to me because my mommy made it"....makes my heart smile.  She knows that the things I make her are stitched together with love.