Dressed to Kill

For some reason, this outfit from omie (with the bonnet from mini Katie) reminded me of Oma.  Don't know why, but regardless, she attracted quite the oohs and ahhs from the Co-op goers this morning.  Slept through it all, including the carride in her fancy carseat (thanks auntie Christa and Unkie Bryan).

Laura wanted me to clarify that, yes, we did strap
her in for the drive.  They clashed with her flowers, so I
didn't want to, but Laura won out. It turns out that
Dadda really likes bonnets.  The advantages of having
a Girl vs a boy is that you get to dress the girls up in weird
outfits.

Also, here's the hammock that laura and I and gramma dee built before Sienna was born.  It's based off of a Hushamok design, except we had all the materials as scrap and we could build it for free. It hangs from the ceiling, and has a flat pegboard base (so it doesn't wrap and strangle) with a foam pad and quilted fleece "mattress" over that.  We did all this on a sewing machine, with Dee's help.  We tacoed the sides using various Lindsay plaid scraps because we noticed her rolling around in it and we didn't like that. Currently, we're trying to get her more comfortable in it because she really only wants to sleep on Laura.  That's problematic in the long-term, so we're easing her into this.  Very successful afternoon-she napped in it for a few hours with only three "please pick me up and dance with me" moments (she loves dancing to "world" music, and it usually puts her right back to sleep). Otherwise, since it moves and swings, she can sort of comfort herself by kicking around and making the hammock swing.  she seemed to be catching onto this today.

Here she is in "watch me sleep mode." if we actually wanted to
leave her alone, which we will soon here, we'd swaddle her up
and take out the blanket.