Not Everyone's Mama

I forgot that I scrapped a new layout the other day.  This is a self portrait of my little man and me that we took after his Christmas concert last year.

I love how it came out!  I swear making a layout like this versus one of my messy, something everywhere all over the page layouts takes me so much longer.  But I really love this one!  He’s my mini me.  See those cheeks.  Those are mama’s.  And that nose, and the mouth, and the eyes – minus the eye liner.  ROFL  He’s my child who looks like me.  The girls, not so much.  LOL

For this layout I used –

Call of Nature by Joe Designs

Old Edges 2 by me

Soft Wash PSP Script for the photo effect, by me

We took the kids to the pool last night.  First time this summer for Alyce and me.  I usually hate going during the day because the older kids are obnoxious.  I’m always worried one of my little ones will get hurt.  Pato says I’m overprotective.  I say I’ve seen kids get bonked on the head from the older kids taking a running leap off the side and over the heads of the kids in the pool. 

Last night it was just us and another lady with 3 girls.  The kids had a blast.  Alyce is a little fish.  My goodness.  No fear.  Which of course makes me nervous, because a good dose of fear keeps us safe right?  ROFL  Ok, maybe a little overprotective.  Just a tad.  I always think it’s funny how different Alyce and Katiana’s personalities are in some ways.  Alyce is always willing to try something new, jump right in so to say.  I was trying to get Kat’s water wings on her and Alyce saw the pool and just took off towards it.  I had to run and grab her, and sit her in the chair, blocking her from getting out while I got Kat’s wings on.  (Pato was in the bathroom washing off the baby inner tube in the shower.  LOL)  Alyce got mad and was trying to escape through the hole between the arm of the chair and the chair.  She really had no fear. 

Katiana on the other hand spent the first 5 minutes whining about how she didn’t want to get in the water before she stuck a toe in.  She finally got in and started paddling her little bootie around.  And Jordan, he loves to swim.  We’d live at the pool if he had his way.  Unfortunately, mom won’t take all 3 kids to the pool by herself.  I’m scared something will happen to one of the girls while I have the other one and someone will go under.  So, pool time is reserved for when daddy’s here to help.  Poor deprived children.  )

I also sat down and made my sister’s baby shower invitation yesterday.  I ended up using bits and pieces from different Jofia kits.  I started out with Sweet Lullaby, then added some from Diamond Rain, Beautiful Day, and Spring Birds.  It came out really pretty, but I need to edit out the name and address before I show you guys how it came out.  I am also thinking I need to change the color of the font so you can read it better.  It looks fine on the screen, but when you print it out, it’s not as contrasting as I want it to be.  I’m waiting for my sister to look at it before I make final changes.

I think when the shower is finished, she’ll need a truck rental to get home.   Not sounding greedy.  LOL  She’s the baby of our family, so I’m sure we’ll all spoil her.  Plus, we really only do showers for the first baby in our family, so using that logic, it’s the last shower we will have for awhile.  My brothers’ wives and I have all had showers for ours, obviously. 

Using that logic too, I probably won’t get a shower for this one.  But, I’m so in trouble if it’s a boy.  I got rid of all of Jordan’s baby stuff when I got a divorce because I wasn’t planning on having anymore.  Boy how that changed huh?  If we have another girl, I’m set for life, but I have NOTHING for a boy.  I was thinking as soon as we find out what we are having, we need to pull all of the itty bitty baby clothes out of storage and see if I have any sleepers in neutral colors.  Which, if I remember right, we don’t have a lot of.  I loved dressing my girls in pink.  Pink pink pink everywhere.  LOL

Alrighty, Alyce is being awfully quiet, so I’m going to sign off and go see what she’s getting into.  LOL

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