Elise's Projects

We have been busy making things at our house, and here are a couple that are for our girl. We painted a scripture bag for her with her name, and her handprint made into a sunbeam:

And we did an iron on t-shirt with Buddy the dinosaur.



She decided she needed to wear all blue, since the t-shirt with Buddy was blue. She has also decided that we need to make more shirts, with Tiny, Shiny, Don, and the other Pteranodons on them. We have a coloring book and some iron on crayons that get the basic shape, which we outline with a black fabric pen. I am glad they came out the way she wanted....and am sure we'll be trying this technique with many more projects soon!

And of course, here is her Valentine's Day skirt and shirt which I made for her. I appliqued the heart on the shirt, and experimented with the skirt to make it patch work looking. She loves them, and I am amazed at how tall she looks in the long skirt!


And I wanted to share some of the fun things my girl has said lately.
Elise and I were running errands the other day, and we went by Logan's job site for a quick look and to say hello. We pulled up as they were pouring concrete with a pump truck. I explained to Elise that this was Daddy's work. She exclaimed, "It is just like on Bob the builder!! And Daddy's friends are just like the trucks on the movie!" I was a bit surprised by this, since she has only seen one Bob the Builder movie, and it was several months ago, but she has the memory of an elephant, it seems! And it was kind of cute!
The other funny thing she said was a couple weeks ago on a Friday. Every Friday, at the State Office Building, there is an organ recital during lunch time. Logan and I decided it would be fun to take Elise. As we were getting ready to go, I told her we were going downtown to hear the organ. She got really excited and said, "Where Grandma Sue and Papa live!!!" I had to explain that they live in OREGON, which is farther away than a drive downtown, and that instead we'd be hearing a musical instrument that was similar to a piano. She was a bit bummed out, but agreed that an organ might be cool too. She ended up really enjoying it, especially because they had some Disney tunes included in their repertoire.
All in all, fun is in the air with my girl! She's been doing lots of art projects all by herself too, and I'll try to put the pictures of these creations up tomorrow!
In the meantime, we hope you all have a wonderful day today!

Oh, and the last funny. As I was making her PB&J for lunch today, she went to the shelf, picked a movie, came over to me in the kitchen, and said, "One of our passengers will have a hard time eating lunch without this," and gave me the dvd. It was Dinosaur Train of course! Hooray for learning about Archeopteryx today!