Category Archives: EllieIvey

The Party Continues

Ellie’s Birthday happened For Reals with cupcakes at school. It also happened with all of her grandparents the weekend before and AGAIN at Build-a-Bear on Saturday. The Build-a-Bear party was really nice – engaging, sweet and the Party Bears (folks who work there) throw a great party. Even better than I expected.

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That bear’s name is Rosie. She’s getting dressed.

So it’s back to normal.* I’m working on Easter orders and trying to get a couple toys (cats and elephants) back in the shop. I’m also working on a little surprise for y’all!

Has anybody played LittleBigPlanet 1 or 2? Ellie and I started a game in 2, but the levels in the game progressed beyond her gaming experience pretty quickly. Game play is a good fit for us because if she can’t make it, she can just wait for me to get to the next way point and reappear…but for many of the levels (with the grapple especially), she’s waiting for me a lot. I hope that some of the user-created content will more suit her style (which revolves around sticker placement, jumping and dressing our characters like cats).

*famous last words

Army of Cupcakes

Birthday Preparations are underway.

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Cupcakes for school!

They have belly buttons because I decided to make mini cupcakes out of the rest of the batter instead of eating it and opened the oven halfway through baking. Frosting will cover that right up.

A Winter Weather

Michael and Ellie made a little video about our Winter Weather.

Why yes, we DID wear pajamas all day Tuesday. Didn’t you?

PS If you don’t have time for the whole thing, skip to the end to see Ellie driving her pink Jeep that Santa brought.

Little Red Ellie Peg

Ellie Peg

Once upon a time, there was a little Peg named Ellie.

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Mommy Peg loved her little Ellie Peg very much and knit a little cape (from scratch) for her to wear. It had fringe on the bottom but no hood because that would have been too hard to make and the heat index was something crazy like 115° so who wants a hood anyway?

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Since Ellie Peg was almost 2.5, Mommy Peg thought it would be a great idea to take a basket of goodies to Great Gran Peg. Ellie said, “Cookshees?!” And Mommy said “Yes!” So Ellie was all for it. She grabbed the basket and headed for Great Gran Peg’s house.

Wolf!

On the way she met a wolf. A BIG Bad Wolf. The Wolf asked what Ellie Peg was up to. “Cookshees Grit Grit!” said Little Red Ellie Peg (“I’m taking cookies to Great Gran!” for those of you who don’t speak Twoglish).

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The wolf wanted those cookies so he advised Ellie Peg to pick some flowers for Great Gran and then he ran the rest of the way to Great Gran’s house. The Big Bad Wolf hid Great Gran Peg upstairs (Ellie was opposed to the wolf eating Great Gran. Her reasons should be obvious.).

Shhh. He's sleeping.

Then the Wolf hopped into bed, hid under the covers and waited for Little Red Ellie Peg to show up. Ellie Peg noticed right away that there was a Wolf in Great Gran’s bed.

BONK

She didn’t waste any time, but bonked the Wolf on the head with the axe she carried in her back pack. (My kid doesn’t need rescuing.)

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It was very dramatic.

Afterwards, they all had a picnic on Great Gran Peg’s roof.

The End

Librarian

How often do you know exactly what your child will be when she grows up?

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Those are a Build-A-Bear monkey’s glasses.

I just hope she still loves me enough to waive all my late fees.

Movember Blues

She likes her sweater much more than the hat!

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Hooray!

I know that none of these are very good pictures of the finished sweater. The baby photographers for catalogs must spend hours taking pictures hoping for one that actually shows the product to it’s best advantage. I don’t have time for that. So you get what you get.

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It fits with a decent amount of room to grow.

I can only hope that her cuteness distracts you.

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Want to see something that isn’t cute? You know you do.

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Michael’s Moustache!

November is National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month to celebrate, there is a Manly Moustache Movement to raise money for cancer research! November has been renamed Movember (Get it? Because of the MOustaches?), participants started growing manly facial hair on November first and won’t stop until December. To me, this sounds like an excuse to not shave for a month, but Movember raised $700,000 dollars last year. To sponsor Michael’s ‘stache donate to Mo.

Michael’s Moustache’s progress has been immortalized on flickr in case you haven’t seen enough. It’s really starting to look like…something. I am really ready for December.

**Yarn Miracle would like to issue a retraction. November is not Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, September is. I don’t know why they picked November for this moustache thing. I guess they went through all the months and “Movember” sounded the best.**

Sponsor the ‘Stache

Hat Trick

I’ve been knitting! It’s a shame that the recipient doesn’t like hats.

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She can get it off faster than I can grab the camera.

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I had to call in the reserves.

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And we still couldn’t get her to leave it on her head.

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It’s Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino and everything. (Thanks again, Judi!)

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Well, at least I know it fits.

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Maybe she will like her sweater.

Apples

Dish Rag Tag: the Sequel sign-ups are officially closed at 289. Follow Yarn Miracle to stay current on Tag related events including next year’s race.

The last time I looked, sign-ups were at 150! Does that make Dish Rag Tag half-full or half-empty?

Ellie tried a new food yesterday.

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Oh my. Apples are that good?