Apple Pie

Betty Crocker possessed me and I got all the energy this pregnant lady could muster and made apple pie from scratch. The pie dough actually worked out for me for once. It was flaky and uber yum. But the apples did not quite do what I was plannings on. It all turned out pretty dry but very lovely to behold. At least my sweet and sour chicken (which I made from a sweet and sour pork recipe just pan fried chicken breast instead of deep fried pork) that I made for dinner that night was fabulous! Even if the was pie wasn't up to snuff.

There are still many adventures to be had in cooking and baking for me. I might know how to make it taste or look good but sometimes it doesn't turn out with both. Like my potato soup. If I had bacon or leeks it would have been not as boring as just potatoes and onions but what can you do when all you have is potatoes and onions?

Which brings me to my greatest depressive. The lack of money and ability to have on hand those awesome things that make a meal spectacular.  With being positive for gestational diabetes not only is more money going out for pre-natel cares, but now diabetes office visits, diabetes supplies, and now diabetes medication. Our paycheck is being eaten alive by medical woes that seem to just become worse. If only...And that is what is depressing most of all. If only...
But one happy thing, we did get Bubby payed off today. All of our hospital debt from Bubby is payed off. So there is $120 extra a month that is going to be going to diabetic stuff. :P
Only 10 weeks more of pregnancy, if we last that long that is.

Hopefully next paycheck we can get Bubby a pumpkin to carve for Halloween. We're still working on his costume. Trying to figure out how to make a sonic screwdriver out of things we already have. It's becoming quite hard to figure out what to do, but I'm sure we'll figure something out. We're still really excited for Halloween! I sure if Bubby knew what it was all about he'd be super excited too.

TARDIS Treat Bag

Our wee lil' Doctor has his TARDIS and is all (well almost) ready! Just need a sonic screwdriver now!

This weekend was TARDIS weekend. So, we got up this morning and ran over to my husband's parents house to use their printer to print out awesome police box iron-on slips then! we ate a $5 lil' cesars pizza(It was a high blood sugar kind of day.)...then!  We had naptime....
then! I cut out and sewed our awesome TARDIS together.

It turned out way better then I thought it would and my sewing machine was actually good today and did all that I wanted it to. Most often it will be a pain and mess up everything I'm trying to do.... It has nothing to do with me...it's the machine's fault....really...

If you're interested in the tutorial that I used I'll link it here. I did change it up and added things to it. We figured the add ons that we put in would help with the costume to make it have more of that nerdy awesome factor.

The joy of naptime...

I love this time of day where I get to sit and browse etsy.com or just fooling around on facebook or google+...anything really to keep me away from the evil chores that I have no patience for, while Bubby has a nap.

Lately naps haven't been happening. Too much fun to be had in his bedroom or just the enjoyment of alone time. Who knows? All I know is that he's a character and is pretty independent. Bubby is talking more and more but with that also comes more teeth and trouble. I'm just loving the occasional "MOMMY! MOMMY! MOMMY!....Hi."  that gets yelled out randomly, even when I'm sitting right next to him.

For an update on my etsy shop...I have done some sewing and am almost done with all the fat quarters that I'm turning into flannel burp cloths. I still have six flannel baby blankets to put together but it'll all get done at some point.
My mother-in-law (she's a professional photographer) came over and took pictures of the few projects I already have done. Which was exciting, another step towards hopefully selling something and having the shop look more professional.

But on to other non-etsy related projects. Halloween! yes oh yes, we're nerds and we're going full out this year. hehe!
We are dressing up Bubby as Doctor Who. You have to feel sorry for the poor children who are too young to pick they're own costumes. Poor Bubby, but! he'll totally be the coolest 20 month old at trunk or treat.
Daddy is in charge of making a homemade sonic screwdriver and I have found an awesome tutorial on how to make a tardis trick or treat bag! Oh yeah..super nerds! woo!  I'm even on the look out on etsy.com to find a toddler bow tie to go with his outfit!
Oh my poor children...next year we'll have two to dress up..oh the ideas are endless! I love it!

Step one

Burp rags, burp rags, burp rags!

It seems that there are a never ending array of different burp rags.
But what works?
My three favorites are the all flannel fabric, fleece fabric with a cotton top, and
the cloth diaper rags. I love the bigger square rags that you can get multiple spit ups
with.
My goal is to try and make more variety in fabrics(designs) used to decorate said rags. 
I don't know how well I'll do but I'll try. Always can use more variety in life, right? Even
if it's the cloth you wipe your babies vomit off with.

what I have in the works this week:

 Will be on our etsy store soon for all our Halloween loving moms and babies.