Clean diapers, footprints, butter, hairstyles, and teeth.

This post is full of random recent pictures that really have no common thread.  Except that I took them all. 

Last week my diapers were very smelly (even “clean!”) so I washed them, stripped them, and dried the inserts in the dryer.  I sorted all the bits for stuffing, then I just had to take a picture.

And even better – all stuffed and ready to wear!

James and I finally got around to picking up his 6 month footprint plate that I painted a couple of weeks ago.

I like how it turned out.  Now I need to get all the feet back up on the wall in the kids’ room, along with their other miscellaneous wall hangings.  It’s just hard when the only time that’s good for that kind of work is when the kids are asleep but obviously I can’t do that when they’re asleep.  :)

This is the picture that really makes the post random:

It’s homemade butter!  On Friday I had some heavy cream, skimmed off the raw milk, that I didn’t have a plan for.  So I put it (about 1 1/2 cups, maybe a little more) in my Kitchenaid mixer.  I attached the whisk thing, then let it go to town for about 20 minutes or so.  I squeezed all the buttermilk out of the butter using some cheesecloth, then stuck it in the fridge.  I used the buttermilk in pancakes that night.  :)  I find it very cool that you get yellow butter from white cream.  Raw milk is just the coolest stuff.

Joanna can really rock a side ponytail. 

I like putting Natalie’s hair up in a ponytail with a clip for her bangs.

It never lasts though.

I also think this is super cute!  A side ponytail in the front that has her bangs in it!

Today in church I gave Joanna French braided pig tails!  This was after she’d run around in them all day, so they’re scraggly.

 

They were so cute, and brought back memories of high school.  I wore my hair like this a lot for marching band.  It fit well under the hat.

Today James’ second tooth came in, and I managed to take a picture of his two little teeth!

Those little things have been causing him all kinds of trouble.  Maybe he’ll have a little break now?  Ha!

It’s very cute to watch him feel them in his mouth.  He’s always got his tongue or his lip on them, investigating.

My mom told me it was a sign of intelligence when a baby gets his first two teeth in the same week.

I have this feeling she was making it up though.  :)