Smile!

Isabelle is starting to smile at me all the time. I love it. The funniest smile is the one where you only see gums. Alekisio gets so happy when she smiles at him. Right now Isabelle has a cold, it was a gift from Sio. She's so congested that she's fussy and can't sleep well. Every time I call and ask the nurse about something they tell me to come in. Like last week I called because at the hospital they said 100.4 was a fever and hers was 100.1 and she was spitting up alot of mucus. Of course when I showed up it was nothing again. I wasn't worried about her being sick I just needed to know what I could do at home for her. It's a nightmare to drag them both to the doctor during Sio's naptime. Especially when Aisea takes the stroller in the house and doesn't put it back in the car! Anyway I had Isabelle's blessing gown made and it's beautiful.

My mom got the idea from someone to make a blessing gown out of her wedding dress. She sent me the arms and the sheer overlay with the lace on it. I met a very talented lady at a craft fair that makes the cutest baby items. I looked at her blog and saw that she made some really pretty blessing gowns so I contacted her and she agreed to make it. Her name is Angie and she's fabulous! I thought the lace was too big for a baby dress and couldn't imagine a dress that I would like coming out of it. Mom sent me a pattern so I met Angie at a fabric store and she looked at the pattern. Right away she had ideas about adding the lace to the bodice, using the sheer overlay and lace on top of the skirt, and cutting the sleeves and using the cuffs from my mom's dress as the lace on the arm. She also hand stitched beads onto the lace which updated it by making it more like an heirloom dress. She's actually a member of the church and her husband is deployed overseas right now so with four kids I'm ecstatic that she was able to do it. I'm so excited for her to wear it and for it to become our families heirloom blessing gown. I'm waiting until the first week in June to bless her because the smallest size the pattern came in was 13 lbs. It might still be a little big on her but she'll look like a princess!

If you want to visit her blog and use her links to see her baby items here it is http://amkstitches.blogspot.com