New Church Knickers

When packing for our trip to WA, I had to dig out long pants out of storage since we've been wearing nothing but shorts for a while now.  Still, it hadn't been THAT long, so I didn't even think that Henry might have grown out of them.  Well, apparently he's had a growth spurt and all of his pants were "high waters" in WA.  Oops.
So, I pull out my "Nowhere Man" pants pattern from Shwin & Shwin and made Henry some new church pants (the only time that we need to wear long pants).  They took a few hours to make (I think I could shave off a significant amount of time next time) but I think they turned out so cute.  And they actually fit!  I'd done everything but hemmed them before trying them on Henry, thank goodness it worked out.  I love the details of the tabs, buttons and contrasting pocket fabric.
If I didn't already have a couple of half finished projects in the works, I'd make another pair... with the brown corduroy I've got in my stash or the houndstooth suiting fabric...

My Baby Turned 2!

Before we left on our vacation to WA, we had a combined birthday party for Henry and two other friends who have their birthdays the same week.  Here are all the photos I got from the day...my battery died!  So, once again, I didn't get photos of everyone or any of the opening of presents.  Oh well, I give up.  It was a fun little party with lots of swimming in pools, sliding down slip n slides and squirting each other with water guns.  I wish I had gotten on video the joy on Henry's face as we sang "Happy Birthday" to him and as he opened presents.  He's such a sweet little guy, we love him!