Dry Skin

   Froggie had her share of rashes/irritations while in the harness. These were all easily remedied by a bath, baby powder and letting her cool off. Recently, though, we have been battling something different.
     Froggie has been sporadically developing blotchy red patches on her legs. They seem rough, like dry skin, and don't seem to bother her. We use an oatmeal based baby wash and lotion on her and the problem seems to persist. Does anyone have any recommendations for dealing with tough to get rid of dry skin?

Some of the spots

Sometimes there's 1 other times it covers her leg, exzema? 

Concerns

     Well Froggie's right leg is cause for concern once again. I had mentioned at our last clinical check that I had heard/felt a popping but was unsure whether it was her hip or her knee. After Froggie's doctor moved her all around and attempted to aggravate the joint to make the noise he decided that it was most likely her knee. 

     Froggie has been VERY interested in her feet and has been holding on to them and pulling them up towards her mouth and also pulling them out to the side similar to how the harness holds them. However, today while at work, Froggie had her harness off since she was the only baby awake. While she was out of her harness this afternoon she began playing with her feet, which is not abnormal, but she started twisting her leg oddly. It does not appear to be comfortable to me but she doesn't seem to care at all. She's able to do it with her harness on as well, though not to the extent that she does when it's off. 

     Some of Froggie's habits are making me wonder if she's going to need further treatment...

Saturday Craftiness

     I didn't finish all of my intended craftiness for the day due to a variety of reasons; limited nap time, needing to feed myself, visiting family from out of town, etc. I did get some done though and I love what came out of today's "me" time.
     I'll be checking some more things off my to do list tomorrow but there never seems to be enough hours in the day to get everything done that I'd like to. Here are some pictures of what that pile of stuff in the last post has begun to turn into:

Pillowcase dress with lace

Camo (blue) and pink pillowcase dress

Short and long baby legs

     There is one more dress and two more  pair of baby legs coming as well as a new (bigger) pair of crochet baby legs once I get to that.

     We went out to dinner tonight and Froggie got sucked in to the Pittsburgh Penguins game. She loved the game and started to fuss when it was time to go. My big boy got a sucker out of a crane machine and though we normally don't let him have them but I figured it was time to let him try. He loved it but anyone close to him came away sticky.

Froggie watching hockey.

Big bother enjoying his sucker.

Let The Crafting Begin! (Baby Legs tutorial)

     It is absolutely beautiful outside. However, I'm sitting here in front of my computer and earlier I was sitting in front of a sewing machine. This is partially because both, yes I said BOTH, of my children are napping at the same time and I'm getting some craftiness out of my system.
     Like I said in an earlier post leggings are a must have, they also cost more than I would like to spend on them. That being said I had pinned a couple tutorials while wasting time on Pinterest and figured now was as good a time as any to give it a shot.
     The original tutorial was from the blog  My Sister's Suitcase but I adapted it a little. So here is my version:

      Start with women's knee length socks. I got this 3 pack on a clearance rack for $3.50 but I've also seen bloggers post that they get theirs at their local dollar store.

     Unlike the other tutorials I chose to cut my socks a little differently. I opted to cut them off at the ankle and cutting a shorter cuff rather than cutting out the toe and heel as the tutorial suggested. My daughter is only 3 months old so she doesn't need the extra length that the longer cuff and longer leg provide.

     Fold the cuff in half and line it up with the rough edge of the leg. I chose to pin them because I set up all 3 pair before I pulled out the sewing machine but if you're doing one and going straight from cutting to sewing pins may not be necessary. I also opted not to make the cuff more narrow as directed in the tutorial from My Sisters Suitcase. This decision was made for 2 reasons, I pinned everything before I got the sewing machine out which made that step hard and I didn't actually think the cuffs needed to be made any more narrow than the leg since our other leggings and baby legs don't have a significantly narrow cuff. Now it's time to sew and you have a brand spanking new pair of baby legs (or 3)!

Froggie's new baby legs!

Hoppy Friday!

    Let the weekend begin! The weather in our neck of the woods has been beautiful for the past few days and typically our luck would run out once the weekend arrived but this weekend is expected to be beautiful as well.
     It has become my Friday tradition to take pictures of Froggie to document her being another week older. Today she is 13 weeks old! Rather than her normal snapshot on the couch I decided to set up shop outside in the sun. I love her smiles and she even decided she wanted to show off her harness.

13 weeks old & showing off her harness.

     I FINALLY finished a legging! I altered the pattern a few times but was happy with my end product. The pattern was supposed to be for a 3-6 month old and it fit Froggie but seemed a little snug. I'll probably alter the pattern to make a larger size so that I can put them over the Velcro on her ankles so that she wont have to wear leggings that go clear to her diaper.

Rainbow legging!

Unfinished business

     Being a beginner when it comes to crochet means that the task of creating leggings for Froggie took longer than the pattern indicated 30 minutes. The fact that I also don't typically have an uninterrupted 30 minutes may also have something to do with that.
     While I may not have a completed set of leggings or even a single completed legging to report I figured I'd post my progress just to document that I did work on my project for today.

I'll be sure to post a picture when they're actually done as well. As an added bonus here is my smiling Froggie, the picture is from yesterday at daycare before we went to the zoo. 

Happy Froggie!

Leggings

     Leggings are a MUST HAVE! Froggie went one day without them and her poor little thighs were rubbed red and looked really sore. It was difficult to find leggings locally and we lucked out that our local kids consignment store had a few in their inventory that we bought out.
     That being said, my task for today is to try to crochet a pair of leggings! I taught myself to crochet while I was pregnant and I figure I might as well put my "new" skills to use since I also have a stock pile of yarn. Here is what they should look like:

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