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September 03, 2008

It's decidedly not early September-like here today. It's raining and when I ventured out with the boys to the bank and post office this morning, it was only in the upper 50's. I can remember having half days when I was teaching due to the heat sometimes this late in the year! I'm not certain that I'm this ready for fall yet.

There's a baby shower in Houston for one of my cousins this weekend. Id love to go, but 800 miles and two kids age two and under will make getting there impossible. I dropped the small tote bag in the mail this morning for her filled with all kinds of hand made stuff and a small toy I picked up. The bag included this tiny hat, the two "girly" burp cloths, and the changing pad pictured below.

The changing pad is very simple. I stacked a piece of fleece with a piece of flannel right sides together and cut a large rectangle, around 15 by 24 inches, I think. Then I rounded the corners and machine stitched it leaving a large enough gap for turning. Finally, I turned the pad right side out and top stitched it.

As an aside, I started this post yesterday and was unable to finish it until now. The first thing that happened was the router for our house went down. Before I could think about rebooting it, the baby was awake way too early and needed rocking back to sleep. Then we had a weird electrical thing happen here that caused a 15 or 20 minute brown out, ultimately resulting in the loss of our cable, and therefore, our internet access. The brown out was actually quite exciting; first a fire truck came down our street, then two KCP&L bucket trucks did, one of which parked across the street from us. If you've ever known a two year old boy, you know how cool that was at our house! The cable guys had to visit the whole neighborhood today. At our house they had to replace the whole line, but we're back up and running.

Michelle is going to love it! Looks great!