I'm too sexy for my pj's (and a giveaway)

Presenting Miss Eliza Rose wearing the freshest of Spring Fashion as made by her mummy:

Me: Matilda, move please.
Matilda: no
Me: Honey, you are right in the way!
Matilda: Ping! (directed at the baby)
Me: MATILDA! Please just move back a tad.
Matilda: It's fine ma, take the picture.

Sometimes it is easier to say nothing at all- especially when dealing with Miss 4 1/2.
But she was right, the picture is OK.
Green is groovy.

Orange is so Summer '09.

Look Ma, I am doing Salute the Sun.

Watch me now, look the Downward Dog.

Yep the seven month old can do yoga better than her father- not better than me 'cos I am super flexible.

Always have been.

In fact when I was about six our family doctor suggested my mum put me in the circus.
I am assuming it was because of the flexibility not because he thought I was a freak or hideous or anything. I don't have a superfluous arm or even a third nipple.
Mmnn.

Evidently, not only do the pj's feel nice to wear, they taste nice to nibble on too. Bonus.

On reflection I have decided that these red and cream jimmyjammies just don't suit her colouring.
Her skin tone looks way better in white........anyway because of this I am going to offer these pj's in my very first GIVEAWAY.

Yes indeedy dandy.

I have read other lovely blogs where kind hearted souls (like the lovely Amber) have offered up something special and I would love to jump on the bandwagon.

So I guess I will set the date for the giveaway as September 21st and will choose the person who has the best funny baby story to be the winner :)

Yay, fun and excitement to look forward to.
And next week is swapping week.
And Raina has started my socks.
Gosh, I could just jump up and down with joy, except I can't because my trainer came last night and thrashed me......

Comments

[jade]

yes they are georgous...and the envy of any mum and bub! dont know about a funny baby story but i know Indi can make you laugh in person with her gigantic woman farts.
yes she is my beautiful trumpet bum.

Hmmm...this year we have discovered toilet humour and anything that is associated with bottoms and the things that come out of them is hilarious in a home with two little boys. sorry!

Beth, i do love reading this. :)

[Laila]

Hmm... I think babyhood is still a little too close for me to really remember all the funny moments - if you know what I mean.
One incident that always makes me giggle though is this one: Eva was about 2 1/2, Ansel just a baby - I was trying to claim a little bit of time and sanity by having a shower (!). Me: "Eva, what are you doing?" Eva: "I am painting Ansel blue." - And she was.....

Gorgeous PJ's or lounge outfits for Miss Eliza.
With love...

[h&b]

I am super flexible too - did you know it is genetic ? My kids have got the gene, and we can all tease super-UNflexible dad :p

*Love* your jammies - they are *gorgeous*.

And we recently did the driveway too.
You forgot to mention arse-scratching.

[Tracy]

Hello! Just found your wonderful place here via Raina of Raining Sheep. The post is the sweetest...your little one doing Downward Dog is tugging at my heartstrings! Those her little pj's are so pretty--love the fabrics. So nice to meet you...I look forward to stopping by here again. Happy weekend :o)

[Laura Gunn]

Is the giveaway starting sept 21st or ending? I totally want those PJ's.

[Carla]

So glad to have found your blog! I discovered you through LizzyHouse and you are a great inspiration to a mom like me with little to zip sewing experience (more like zip). These jammies are adorable...

My daughter, Dessa, is 14 months. She adores music more than anything. About 1 in 5 times when she is sleeping in her car seat she will all of a sudden just pop her eyes open and start dancing...a back and forth sway with this massive grin on her face. I mean there's no stretching and yawning to wake up phase...just sleep zombie to dancing maven. It cracks us up every time!

[Jean]

Our 4 year old granddaughter told me the other day that her 7 month old brother was in the other room playing with chocolate that her brother had given him. When I went to look - you guessed it... he was "playing" with his messy diaper!

These jammies are unbelieveable!

[MaryMo]

You're daughter is lovely!
When my daughter was 6 weeks old, (she is 5 1/2 months now) we were in our last breast feeding meeting at the hospital where they weigh before and after eating so you know how much milk your babe is getting etc. Anywho, there was about 20 women all nursing in a big circle and chatting, so the room was rather noisy. Well, my little dear started pooping and it was so loud and long that it silenced the entire room! I turned red and she was relieved!
I promise if we win the pj's she won't get them messy! lol! ;)
Cheers!

[Barbara York]

What a sweet baby you have and I love the one where she is doing the doggie down walk. My little grandson had to have a cast on his foot at 6 months but he was still able to crawl and climb all over dragging it behind him. I think seeing him do that was the funniest thing for him. Hope I win, I have a new dark haired grand daughter that would look great in that red.

[Angela]

Hi! Really cute PJ'S... I have a friend due Christmas day and they would be a perfect gift for her!!! Good Luck to everyone!

About a week after I had my second child, nearly my entire family was at our house for a visit. I had my breast pump in our living room neatly tucked under a cabinet. I soon realized my *just-turned-2-year-old* had it out and was demonstrating it's proper usage. She then proceeded to tell everyone that it was a breast "hump" and that her mom uses it to "hump" her "oobies".

[Lana]

love these P jammies
my favorite story is when my neice couldn't remember my new born son's name (his name is Chase) so she was trying to tell everyone all about him and decided his name was ...running!
too cute.

[Lana]

love these P jammies
my favorite story is when my neice couldn't remember my new born son's name (his name is Chase) so she was trying to tell everyone all about him and decided his name was ...running!
too cute.

[Lana]

love these P jammies
my favorite story is when my neice couldn't remember my new born son's name (his name is Chase) so she was trying to tell everyone all about him and decided his name was ...running!
too cute.

[kim]

I love these pj's! I am expecting #3 in 3 months and to win a pair would be great. What pattern did you use?

[jade]

i just had a picture moment when i turned around and saw my two boys standing around the toilet doing a wee together. It looked so funny, they were so serious, it was like they were standing around a campfire...had to tell you, i wish i had a camera!

[harmony linehan]

I walk out to the living room and find Mason (my 2 yr old)had peed on the floor.
Mom: "Mason why did you pee on the floor you haven't had an accident for a long time."
Mason: "Betuz (because) of Da (the) Mr. Tato Head"
Mom: "What?" "Mr. Potato Head made you pee your pants?"
Mason:"Uh-huh, Oliiider in the Bfroom"
At this point I'm thinking man my kid is a liar...
Mom:"Ok whatever stay here I will go get a towel"
I go into the bathroom and glance at the toilet only to find a baby Mr. Potato Head floating in the toilet obviously Oliver(my 1 yr old) had been up to no good the toliet is his hobby right now.
This is where I run to get the camera poor Mason still standing in his own pee. I get it I wouldn't want to pee on Mr. Potato Head either.
And all before 8:00 a.m!

[Emily]

My story is more about my husband than my daughter. She was only a few days old and it was time to change a diaper, so I kindly suggested that he change it (to get some practice). So he got all prepared and opened the diaper and just as he did she started to go...number 2! It shot about 3 feet over the edge of the changing station. And my husbands response was to jump out of the way and yell. I couldn't do anything because I was laughing so hard. Then when it all calmed down and we recovered from the shock he started to clean her up and she did it again!! Luckily this time my husband was able to think fast and throw a diaper over her. Needless to say he was much more careful to have a backup diaper when he changed her in the future.

[caroline]

I've recently come to the conclusion that giveaways are the best thing EVER! And, there just happens to be our baby girl cousin, almost ready to come out to meet the world. Might make her birth a little easier if she knew these were waiting for her!

Seems everyone is sharing poo stories, so I will too. When my youngest was just a couple of weeks old, I had her laying on my bed to change her diaper whilst I was sitting in front of her. You know where this is going right? Keep in mind, she is my third child. I should know proper protocol.

Anyway. The diaper came off. Her bottom opened like the gunwale on the side of a ship. And I got BLASTED. Fortunately, it was not a direct hit, as I'm sure my mouth was gaping open in shock and surprise. Rather, I took the hit mostly in my hair and shoulder. The wall behind me, however, did not fare so well. All told, her projectile flew about 6 or 7 feet, with a radius of about the same. Great power comes from tiny creatures!

[marymary]

Well, I can think of lots of funny stories, but they all involve things my kids said, and if they're saying things, maybe they don't count as babies anymore. Here's a baby story:

When my firstborn (a comedienne from birth) was just a few months old, she figured out she could make us laugh with this wacky face where she'd open her mouth wide and round her lips into a little circle. I remember sitting on the couch trying to nurse her -- she'd get latched on, nurse for a moment, then pull off and make the face to see if she could get me to laugh. I'd crack up, she'd smile victoriously, then after a moment we'd calm down and I'd get her latched on again, and then after a moment it would start all over. The more she did it and the more it was evident it was intentional comedy, the more I'd crack up. Sometimes it took forever to feed that kid.

[Melissa]

I don't know if this is my funniest baby story *ever*, but it is the most recent.

Sadie Jane, our ten-month-old, loves to make interesting sounds. Tongue clicks, hand smacks, raspberries-- she's into all that. She doesn't have any real words yet, but she's got a new sound that sounds very word-like, and she says it in response to anything anyone says to her.

So right now at our house, every conversation ends with her saying: uh-oh!

ME: "Daddy's home!"
HER: "Uh-oh!"

ME: "Dinner time!"
HER: "Uh-oh!"

ME: "Look who has come to see you!"
HER: "Uh-oh!"

Yeah, people think I lack social skills and am passing that on to my baby. It's great.

[karen]

The pjs are so cute.

Wow you have garnered an amazing amount of 'bathroom' humour"! I just had to add my son Matthew's exploit(s) visiting Grandma when he was 2 1/2. It still makes me howl.

Grandma was looking after Matt while we were away for a few days. She was really keen and had made all kinds of preparations.

Every night I phoned to see how things were going and the first night she went on about all the fun they had had and mentionned she was going to toiet train Matthew and we should be sure to act surprised and pleased. (My mom used to swear we 3 sisters were toilet trained at just over a year ... obviously I don't remember this but you gotta believe your mother)

The second night when I called she said everything was fine but not a lot of detail. The third night she said she'd fill me in when I got home and the fourth night she said that she was coping.

This is what happened when I got home. My mother was close to frantic that Matt had not had a bowel movement. She could smell poop more and more in his room and she had found him with poopy hands but no poop. She had taken the crib apart and washed all his clothes, the bedding and even the curtains but the poop smell continued to get worse.

I gave Matt a big hug and asked him if he had a poo and he said yes and I asked where it was and he took me by the hand upstairs to his room and pointed under the twin bed. We moved the bed out from the wall and he went over to the heat register which had been covered by the bed and he took off the grate and it was full of poo!!!! Really full.

I asked him why the poo was in there and he told me that he was saving them for me. I asked why he did not tell Grandma when she had asked him and he said to me with the straightest face and a most indignant tone "That would have ruined the surprise!!!"

Apparently my mom in her toilet training had told Matt that it would be a great surprise if he pooed in the potty and could show us his new skill when we got home. Matthew thought the pink potty was not good enough (being pink and because you could see it right there) so he wanted to find a better bigger surprise factor. Boy did he succeed!!! What a mind at 2 1/2.

You had to see my mom's face when we opened up the heat register.

We never discussed toilet training again.

[karen]

The pjs are so cute.

Wow you have garnered an amazing amount of 'bathroom' humour"! I just had to add my son Matthew's exploit(s) visiting Grandma when he was 2 1/2. It still makes me howl.

Grandma was looking after Matt while we were away for a few days. She was really keen and had made all kinds of preparations.

Every night I phoned to see how things were going and the first night she went on about all the fun they had had and mentionned she was going to toiet train Matthew and we should be sure to act surprised and pleased. (My mom used to swear we 3 sisters were toilet trained at just over a year ... obviously I don't remember this but you gotta believe your mother)

The second night when I called she said everything was fine but not a lot of detail. The third night she said she'd fill me in when I got home and the fourth night she said that she was coping.

This is what happened when I got home. My mother was close to frantic that Matt had not had a bowel movement. She could smell poop more and more in his room and she had found him with poopy hands but no poop. She had taken the crib apart and washed all his clothes, the bedding and even the curtains but the poop smell continued to get worse.

I gave Matt a big hug and asked him if he had a poo and he said yes and I asked where it was and he took me by the hand upstairs to his room and pointed under the twin bed. We moved the bed out from the wall and he went over to the heat register which had been covered by the bed and he took off the grate and it was full of poo!!!! Really full.

I asked him why the poo was in there and he told me that he was saving them for me. I asked why he did not tell Grandma when she had asked him and he said to me with the straightest face and a most indignant tone "That would have ruined the surprise!!!"

Apparently my mom in her toilet training had told Matt that it would be a great surprise if he pooed in the potty and could show us his new skill when we got home. Matthew thought the pink potty was not good enough (being pink and because you could see it right there) so he wanted to find a better bigger surprise factor. Boy did he succeed!!! What a mind at 2 1/2.

You had to see my mom's face when we opened up the heat register.

We never discussed toilet training again.

[MommyK]

Those are so cute. I made those too from the new Little Stitches book. Mine don't look as good as yours! Yours look so professional. Jealous!

My little one is only 10 months... so no talking yet. I have a feeling that when she does start talking that I am going to have to wear ear plugs... I don't think she is ever going to stop. She points at everything and demands it now I can only imagine when she is talking. I didn't teach her that either it was her grandmothers!

Love the blog too BTW!

[amylouwho]

Amy Butler baby PJ's??!!! I'm in heaven. All my favorite things in one place!

When my baby girl was about 2 months old I would let her nap on the couch (under close supervision of course!). She was a spitter so when she woke up and I saw the couch was all wet, I thought, "well that's weird?! It doesn't look like spit up and if that's drool - WOW! That's a lot!" I was telling my husband what happened and scratched my head all the way to the changing table. When I started to unsnap he pj's, well, Woah! that explains it! I had forgotten to put a new diaper on the last time I changed her! oops! I blame it on sleep deprivation. And boy am I lucky it was just wet.

[Tricia]

What great stories, I am not sure mine holds up but my daughter would love these pjs, so I may as well try! We are in the process of teaching my daughter different body parts. Being only 15 months this is taking longer than initially expected. At the time we were working on ears. We would ask her where her ears where and then show her ours. While doing this she usually sits on my lap facing me. After showing her my ears she quickly takes hold of them looks at me and bangs her head onto mine, as though she was head-butting me. She, and I, thought this was hilarious until she banged so hard that she suddenly stopped, looked at me, and gave me this face like... "hey Mom, what did you do that for?" I haven't laughed so hard in quite a while.