Homemade Halloween Costumes

So every year I have made the Kid's Halloween Costumes. With the exception of Little D's Transformer costume which Big J made. So this year I did the same.

First Little A. She is a Cowgirl this year. I made her dress and belt. Found the hat at the fair (the tiara lights up) I didn't let her turn it on cause it is blinding if you look at the lights. I found the Boots at the Boot Barn. I was hoping to find purple ones but I'm glad I was able to find white. In all her pictures I made her say "YEE HAW!" I wanted her to have a little pony on a stick but I didn't have time to go to the toy store, Oh well, she'll never know the difference. Here is a picture of her best YEE HAW!



Now Little C's costume was by far the funest to make and cutest! I made this one from the hat right down to the shoes! I even made the clown. He He. Little C made a super cute clown. Too bad he fell asleep so soon at the Trunk-or-Treat. And it just so happens that one of the things that I am worst at is sewing on buttons. They never seem to stay. I just can't figure them out. They seem so simple too. But his three big buttons fell off by the end of the night. So here he is in his best clown smile, Little C the Clown!



Now This is Little D's best Jedi Pose. He has a super cool light saber that pops up with a push of a button and it makes sounds and has lights. Unfortunalty I didn't make his costume though. My sister Samurai Mom loaned it to us. (Who was Sarah Palin for Halloween.)

Crafty

So lately there has been no shortage of things that I want to make but there seems to be a shortage of Time, Energy, and Motivation. I have however, been able to do a few things for Halloween. The first is something that we had done 2 years ago. We all got a pumpkin and decorated it. But 2 years ago Little A was too young and now we have Little C. So we made 2 more. Here they are...


The other project I did was with baby food jars. I was getting quite a collection built up and I almost started to throw them away when I came a cross an idea to make Jack-O-Lantern tea candle holders out of them. All you do is modpodge the tissue paper over the jar and then draw a face. You could also use streamers but I couldn't find any when I was getting supplies. Then I put a fake tea candle that I found at Costco (in a pack of 28 with extra batteries. But I don't remember how much) in each one and lined the sidewalk. I plan to put them out on Halloween. I also used them to decorate my trunk at the Trunk-or-Treat.



I hope to have more crafts to show you later.

"Four Eyes"

Let me start off with saying what I learned through this ordeal. I learned that there are two types of eye Doctors (if you will), Ophthalmologist and Optometrists. Ophthalmologists are actually Doctors and have studied the eye and medical treatment of the eye. Optometrists call themselves "Doctors" although they can only give you a prescription for glasses or contact lenses. I had no idea! I'm so glad that I knew enough to know that the Optometrist that I had seen didn't know what he was talking about.

So this all started in July. One day I was talking to Little A from across the room and realized that her left eye was turning in. This had never happened before. It was like it happened over night. Immediately I knew it was Lazy eye. So I made her an appointment with the "eye doctor". When we went in to the little room they examine you in we sat down and I told him what had happened. He asked her to look at him and she did. He then had her cover her right eye and look at a big picture of an airplane projected on the wall. He asked her what it was and she said a plane. He then told me that she was far sided and needed glasses. (which I already knew since Big J had this when he was a kid) I said, "Well, she has lazy eye right?" And He said, "Even if it was you don't have to catch Lazy eye until they are eight." Right then I thought even if that were true, which its not, wouldn't it be better to catch it when they are 3? I asked him if we should patch the good eye at all, (again something that Big J had to do) and he said,"No one does that anymore." Now as he is saying this he is writing a prescription for Little A. The rest happened so fast I had no time to process what had just happened. He handed me the paper told me that a lady out in the other room would help me pick out frames and showed me out. I sat for a second and thought this can't be right. So I told the lady that I would come back later.

After leaving there I knew I had to get another opinion. I mean he didn't even put those huge funny goggle things on her to see what her prescription should be. He just wrote me one. I guess he thought that he could guess. I told Big J what had happened and he agreed. So I started asking around to see where I should take her, as I was doing this I learned that she should see an ophthalmologist. I also learned that the vision plan that we had wouldn't cover another exam. (Even though they shouldn't have counted the first since it was hardly an exam.) But since it was her eyes I was willing to pay for an exam. Then someone told me that I should take her to the pediatrician and that they can give me a referral so that it would be covered through medical instead. So I did and she said that it was Strabismus (Lazy eye) and that I could go to a specialist.

When we were able to get into the Ophthalmologist (two months later) I felt much better and he confirmed that the optometrist that I went to before didn't know what he was talking about. He was a cute little old asian man with the oldest office ever. When you walked in you could tell when he probably started his practice. Everything was 70's. At first I was like great, another old office with crapy care. But After talking to him I realy liked him. He was so funny talking about the "Eye Doctors" And how all his friends had sold out. So that the Optometrist would referr them when they came across someone that needed an Ophthalmologist. He said that he would never do that and that he didn't care about the money. After seeing his office it all made sense. I mean there was not one computer in the whole place. The secratary was useing a typewriter! Big J made the comment later that they better hope that there wouldn't be a fire.

Anyway..... about 3 months later here are her glasses! Little A could tell you that we tried on almost every frame in Bakersfield trying to find ones that fit her small face. But we finally did and they are here. She has to wear these all the time and we have to patch her stronger eye for 2 hrs a day to strengthen the weaker one. Hopefully she after doing this her eye will no longer turn in.

Here are my 2 "Four Eyes" Being silly for the camera. It helps that Little D has glasses. I think that if he didn't it would be alot harder to get her to wear them.

P.S. This is by far my longest post! And I forgive you if you didn't finish. Although you wouldn't know that I forgive you if you don't get to the bottom!

For These Things I Am Blessed

When I started this post I must say that it was a whole bunch of complaining. Mostly about how Big J has been gone and wont be back for what seems like forever. How I now have to get up in the mornings and get Little D out to school and how I miss, on the off chance that the kids slept in, sleeping in. That my house is always messy and cluttered and I hate that there is 15 yr old carpet in here. And there is never enough storage space.

But then I stopped and thought, Why am I complaining? I'm blessed that I have a good Husband who works hard for us and even though he hates to be away, he goes because he wants to provide for us. I'm blessed that I have a nice warm bed and a roof over my children's heads. I'm blessed to have things to clutter up my house and that my children have toys and food to eat.

Certainly in these times when people are loosing there houses and are trying to make their rent I am blessed that Big J has a good job. I am grateful that my family is healthy and that we have our needs met. So from now on I hope to complain less and just to make do with what I am blessed with.

Finally! I did it!

Well after months of procrastination I've finally done it. I've put my nursing covers on Etsy! I know! I thought that it would never happen. You can take a look at my nursing covers and some super cute baby shoes and bonnets at MissMossMadness.

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Welcome!

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