Flower plates and holiday dresses

I love that at three my daughter knows that she would really prefer to only eat off dishware that features flowers. She likes pink ( and sometimes purple but is also open to patterns and black and gray), things that sparkle, Wearing dresses, not wearing pants, and when I asked her what she wanted for Christmas she told me ' a pink lawn mower'. Last week she informed me that though she liked her bread she was 'not impressed' with her eggs. She builds really great block towers and screams her head off when her younger sister knocks them over. All in all I am pretty impressed with her as a kiddo ( my other daughters as well I just happen to be thinking about Kiki right now)

I was lucky to finish the girls holiday dresses early last week. They had a birthday party to go to and it might be the only chance for dressing up this year. Mia's was done first and Kiki's really only came about because she wanted to wear Mia's (Mia did not want to share). I will say its one of my favorites that I have made. Also I was lucky enough to run into a friend that owns a serger and does not use it much! She has let me borrow it for the time being. I was entirely to unaware of how wonderful a serger is. I made a pair of leggings in maybe 15 minutes, as well as a cute black and white striped dress that Kiki loves ( it only took an hour!) All in all the morning it took me to figure out the threading and only two basic stitches was more than worth it. 

Unfortunately I also realized Christmas  is in only a week! For some reason I was under the impression it was still two weeks from now. That leaves me with a longish list of little things to finish up, Christmas lights to go see with Portland friends, and a cookie and cocoa party with some of the kiddos friends. It is hard to believe all of that ( as well as wrapping all the presents will happen within the next week!

But for now I should go, I need to make gingerbread dough, a spice cake and three little cloth bugs to go inside three little cloth apples.