Blessing

I can't believe I am just getting to this . . .

Here is Sophie at 3 weeks old when she was given her blessing.  She is wearing a very special dress that Adam's Nana made for Clara when she was born.

Sewing

Last year in Clara's kindergarden class she learned to sew, well, she learned some basic sewing skills.  In fact, last Christmas she asked for a sewing kit.

So when she found out that she was allowed to dress up at school for Halloween she decided that she wanted to sew her costume this year.  I don't have very advanded sewing skills myself, I can wing certain things when I have to.  So we asked Grammy to help with the project.  The three of us went to JoAnn's and picked out the materiel and then Clara and her Grammy went to work.  Clara did end up doing quite a bit of her costume, Grammy helped with a few of the harder things and supervised!  There is a picture of the finished product in my Halloween post.

It's cute to watch Clara with her sewing skills.  Of course she feels like she can do anything, and actually she has surprised me with what she has done.  She sees something that need to be fixed and she gets out her sewing box and goes to work.  She has fixed buttons and rips in stuffed animals, she even made me this amazing pillow for mothers day (I'll post a picture soon, I've just run out of time to take the picture today:)