She shoves her head in his neck and much as possible
I am pretty new to sewing and I sewed my daughter a little felt dragon at her request...or at least tried to. But I'm stuck on how to make the face look like the face of a dragon. Any ideas how I can make this face look like it has more of a snout??
I am currently working on row 3 of the body of this pattern, but I am concerned my stitch count will be off. I am wondering if there isn't a misprint or maybe if I am just being stupid.
It starts with a count of 56 chains. Then after Round 1 I should have 60 stitches as best as I can tell (including the ch3 at the beginning). That means that every round there should be an increase of 4 stitches, right? So then how the heck after 9 rounds would it go from 56 stitches to 124??
An increase of 4sts x9 rows...is only an increase of 36 stitches. So 56 stitches to start, plus the increase of 36 only totals 92 stitches at the end of the 9th round...right?? Or am I totally losing my mind??
Help it make sense! What am I missing here?
I'm guessing this must be a squatting issue; can't imagine what other scenario would fit this description.
We have a baby girl due in July and we have decided to call her Carrie. However, I prefer her to have a longer first name and Carrie would be her nickname. The longer name I have decided on is essentially Carrie Anne, but I want to make it a single first name. I'm not sure what the best spelling would be for this (I refuse to do a hyphen, I hate hyphenated names) What do you guys think? If someone told you this was their name, how would you assume it to be spelled? The options IMO are:
Carrieanne
Carieanne
Carrianne
Carianne
I have always had a hard time with crowds but it has gotten especially bad as an adult, to the point where if me and my husband are going to a store and there are too many cars in the parking lot I instantly start feeling anxious knowing the store will have crowds.
But I can't even really put my finger on WHY they make me anxious. Has anyone else had insights into this? Is it because we feel unsafe? If so, why? Why would crowds automatically mean we aren't safe? Or is it something else? Do we just not know how to act around people or what?
Our 4YO will be having her first overnight stay at her best friend's house next weekend, to practice for when I go into labor with our second child in July. She ADORES this friend and being at her house so I'm sure she will have a good time but I am stuck on how to handle our leaving.
I want to make sure she knows that if she gets too scared or homesick, even in the middle of the night, that we will come get her (we only live like 15 mins away). But I worry if we tell her that it will plant the idea in her head that she SHOULD be scared and then she will end up wanting to come home regardless. But at the same time I don't want to NOT tell her and risk her waking up at their house in the middle of the night upset and thinking she has no choice but to stay there.
How would you guys handle it? Should I say something to her about it or not?
Edit: For those of you saying no sleepovers altogether...you're way too protective IMO. She is going to go out into the world; I can't protect her forever. No sleepovers is completely unrealistic; I'm not raising a bubble kid 😆 I feel confident in my and my husband's teaching of appropriate/inappropriate behavior to her and trust the people we are leaving her with.
I currently have an awesome 4 YO little girl and I have another little girl due in July. I am super nervous about becoming a mom of 2 and feel really overwhelmed every time I think about it. I am wondering what advice anyone can give me about how to manage motherhood with 2 kids!
We live in a townhome community with large open alleys between the buildings that the neighborhood kids all run around and play in. The other kids in our neighborhood are notorious for leaving their toys and belongings out in these areas, enough to where our HOA has actually brought it up in meetings (eyesore etc.).
My husband takes our 4 YO daughter for walks out in these areas almost every day; it's kind of their bonding time. However, they often come back with some old toy they found that was left out. A lot of times the toy is left by the dumpster and clearly meant to be thrown out so I don't usually make a big deal of it; I'll clean it real well and let my daughter keep it.
But the other day my husband brought home an old kid's scooter and my daughter was SO excited to show me it and she adores the thing. But this felt like it was going too far. I told them they had to put it back since it wasn't found by my dumpster and clearly belonged to someone.
My husband is making the argument that it's been out there for MONTHS, and he's never seen another kid riding it, it's not in the greatest shape etc. But I told him it wouldn't have just appeared out of nowhere so some kid obviously rode it to where they found it. I told him it was more the principle of the matter and that I don't want us teaching our daughter to be a "finders keepers" kid; I want her to be the kind of person who if she finds a wallet she turns it in, not keeps it.
He thinks I'm making too big a deal out of it especially since he already told my daughter she could keep it and when I told her she had to put it back she got super upset. Am I out of line here??
My LO is 4 YO and I have noticed recently that compared to some of her friends her age she doesn't really color or draw that well, nor does she really show a lot of interest in coloring or drawing.
I was never much of an art person myself, so it's not really something we take time to do with her. She has coloring books and empty pages to draw on but we very rarely bust them out.
I'm just kind of wondering if this is a mistake. Is drawing and coloring important enough that I should be doing it with her more often? I know that will of course help her learn how to hold a writing utensil and maybe then help her learn to write letters but...isn't that something she will learn once she starts preschool? Or is this a skill I should be working with her more on at home?