See that kid? Evil. Pure evil.

A couple of weeks ago, I gave him my cell phone to keep him quiet in a church meeting. It was on silent and locked. All of a sudden, I heard beeping. Loud beeping. The kind of beeping that would indicated someone has called 911 on your phone (don’t ask how I knew but your hint is “Keller”). I jumped up, ran for the hall, and spent the next 5 minutes trying to convince the 911 operator that there was not an actual emergency, I’m just a crappy parent. Yes, I know someone called 911 from this same number less than 2 weeks ago. Stop rubbing it in. I have a lot of kids.

So, we were at a tee ball game Tuesday night. My sister in law gave Bennett her phone to play with. “Watch out. He calls 911.” So she turned the power off. Safe, right? Wrong. About 5 minutes later we hear…

“911 what’s your emergency?”

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Supplies

• Cloth diapers. I usually use the Gerber birdseye prefolds (be sure they’re prefolds…trust me on this one). They’re about $11 for a 6-pack at Target.
• Fabric. You’ll need a piece at least 15″ X 6″. You could get 3 burp cloths out of one fat quarter.
• Thread to match your fabric.
• Bobbin wound with white thread.

Cut a 6″ strip of fabric.

Place your fabric right side up and put the diaper on top of it, lining up top edges. Make sure there’s some fabric showing on each side of the diaper.

Sew the diaper to the fabric, just inside of the serged/finished edge of the diaper.

Trim your fabric so there’s about 1/2″ beyond the diaper on both edges.

Open the fabric and diaper and press. I like to press it flat and then fold the fabric up onto the diaper and crease the seam nicely.

Fold under about 1/4″ on the top/long edge of fabric. Press.

Fold under the 1/2″ overhang on both sides and press.

Pin. Use A LOT of pins. You don’t want anything slipping.

Top stitch, very close to the edge. I’m not sure where the line is between edge stitching and top stitching, but this could be it. You’re going to want to top stitch the bottom (where you originally sewed the diaper to the fabric) last.

See why we used a white bobbin? Think how ugly this would have looked with a black bobbin!

You’re done! Now go make a onesie to match!

If you want to make the kind with a strip of fabric down the middle, here’s a great tute for them. You can easily leave the ribbon off and just top stitch the edges, if you want them to be more “manly”.

***For personal use only***

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2 homemade dinner rolls, in Keller’s top drawer.

Last time I made rolls?

Easter.

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I can put up with a lot of things. I can deal with the letters home from school. I can tolerate the insane amount of news coverage. I can even manage to handle people wearing masks.

I cannot, however, tolerate Smaland being closed. Do you know how much it sucks to haul ALL of my kids through IKEA? I may as well stay home.

XOXOXO

Char

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I was at a meeting Saturday night in the only car big enough to hold all of us. Apparently BC forgot how to make sandwiches and/or Ramen, so he ordered Chinese food to be delivered. The kids each got a sesame chicken kids meal. BC finished up his Singapore noodles and sent the kids up to put their jammies on. Whilst he was cleaning up, he decided to sample some (hint: maybe a lot) of Campbell’s food. He then put the food in the fridge.

Fast forward to yesterday after church. The kids get out their leftovers. Campbell opens his and sees a big puddle of sauce and very little chicken. He gets a hilariously sad/confused/mad look on his face and yells…”HEY! MINE MELTED!”

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Stay away. We have it.

Macy hasn’t been to school yet this week. Campbell barfed all over BC’s truck. Bennett’s going through diapers like they’re going out of style.

Only Keller has escaped unscathed.

We’re driving each other nuts.

On the bright side, we did come up with a new family rule….”TAPE IS NOT A TOY”.

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