Tam Fix for the week

Here are two videos of our little one grooving around the family room.

Cheerio treats:

Crawling after a phone charger:

Kiddo is finally crawling!

Yeah! Tam has finally moving and grooving around the living room. He started with just rolling everywhere. In just the past two days, he has figured out how to actually crawl! Most of the time it is more "army crawl" style with belly on the floor, but he has done belly up too.

Oh it is too cute! Now Brian and I totally tease him, like a little puppy. We'll place a trail of cheerios across the floor and laugh as he crawl/rolls around to collect them all. Better than cable television! And he makes great sound effects as well...still lots of raspberries, clicks, snaps, squeals, and ba-ba-ba-ba or ma-ma-ma or ya-ya-ya-ya. He is definitely a talker.

Failed booties

So not all of my craft projects turn out great...

I tried two new bootie patterns this week to try to whip of cute shoes for Goober.

After pulling out some great fun fabrics, I was excited to give the first pattern a go. The first problem was trying to get Goober to hold still long enough to trace his feet to get a size. I estimated. Bad idea. The instructions were simple enough and the pattern was fairly straight-forward. The end result was quite a bit too big. They ended up looking more like big pillows on his feet held there by elastic at the ankles. Too funny! Maybe he'll grow into them by his first birthday.

I began try number two the following night. More fun fabrics and anther cute, simple pattern. These were more boot-like then slippers, and used a tie rather than elastic. Again, I attempted to get a size of Kiddo's feet. Smart me, I traced a foot while he was sleeping. Armed with a better idea for size, I was more confident this one would work. Sigh. No deal. This time the booties were wide enough, but not long enough. His little toes were shoved into the the pointy little end. Well, maybe we'll keep them for the next baby.

I haven't decided if I'm up for try number three with yet another pattern. Maybe I'll give this a try this weekend, if I get all of my lessons for school done. Or, I'll abandon the idea and try a pair of pants tutorial I found instead.

At least they were fast failures!