Felt Baby Doll Diaper Pattern

Before baby came, my daughter started to show more interest in her baby dolls. We had started buying things for the baby and she wanted some diapers for her dolls to wear. Well, instead of using real diapers which would have probably been shredded to pieces after a while, I whipped up some felt diapers for her to have. She liked these better because "they are prettier" than real baby diapers :)

I made them a size to fit a variety of dolls/animals. You can see them on Curious George, an American Girl doll,

and an Itty Bitty baby doll. They are really quick, simple, and cheap to make and you don't even have to sew to make them.

Start by gathering your supplies:
-Print out the pattern here (I suggest printing on cardstock paper)

-Felt (I used the $.25 pieces from the craft store)
-Scissors
-Velcro (I used 3/4 inch, but you can use whatever size you like. If you have some that is too big, you can always cut it to fit as well).
-If not sewing it on, get some glue. I suggest fabric glue, but you could even hot glue it probably.



Fold your piece of felt in half and place the pattern on the fold.

Cut out pattern. Place wrong side up like this.

Grab your velcro and place them in the spots marked below. You can sew them or glue them in place. I put 4"of the soft part of the velcro in the middle and 1" of the  scratchy part on the edges.

Now let your little one start diapering dolls and stuffed animals.

Wanna offer a giveaway?

I get quite a few emails from people who want to offer a giveaway on Happy Together. So, to be able to handle this in an efficient way, I'm starting a Giveaway Day here on Happy Together.

It will begin on the 15th of every month and end on the last day of the month (or earlier if giveaway host desires). There will be a main post on this site with links to the Giveaway Day site where readers can enter the specific ones they like.

If you are interested in being a part of the very first Giveaway Day on September 15th, send me an email at jessicafediw@yahoo.com :) You can find more details in the link in the top bar called Giveaway Day/Reviews.

Sister Sister Dresses

There's a little myth (or maybe not such a myth) that is said about those who have babies while in flight school (my hubby is training for the Coast Guard). It's that you will have a girl.

Some say this happens because of the stress.

Some say it's because the way the plane has you sitting near things, it kills the little boy sperms.

Well, whatever it is, I haven't met a person here that is in flight school who had a baby boy. It's been all girls. So, another Coastie family that we are friends with down the street just had themselves a little girl.

I made the  baby and the big sis a set of dresses using the Let Freedom Ring Tutorial. I also made two little rosette hair clips. Some of you have made your own Let Freedom Ring dresses lately as well. Here are a few that people shared in the Flickr group or emailed me:

via Keeper of Thy Home

Grown Up Version by andimac1 on flickr

via lht33 on flickr

Baby Business

I guess it's been a while, huh? I can't believe my newest little one is already 3 weeks old. Time is flying. The complete opposite of what it felt like with my first.

I was blessed to have my mom come down for 2.5 weeks and help us out. She was so awesome with taking care of my oldest. It allowed me to fully focus on the newborn and get things down like breastfeeding and all (which is going extremely well!!! I'm very happy with it :).

The big sis is completely in love with little sis, in a fact a little too much! lol That's actually the biggest thing we are dealing with. She wants to be all over the baby all of the time. But, to me, that's easier to deal with than her regressing somehow or resenting the baby.

So, how about how the little came into the world? Well, we had a wonderful morning at church, went out to lunch, and then I took a nap with my oldest. I woke up and got out of bed. By the time I hit the hallway I had a big gush of stuff come all out. I was pretty sure my water broke, but I had to make sure (you know smell it and all). Definitely wasn't urine.

I decided to see if it kept coming out for a bit to make sure. Well, it did, so I called my hubby and told him we would need to take our daughter to our friends house and go to the hospital (the doctor had told me to go to the hospital if my water broke or contractions were 5-7 minutes apart).

We got to the hospital a few hours after the initial "water breaking". Unfortunately, they said the fluid was not showing up as amniotic fluid, so we were sent home. I was only dilated 4 cm and not having any real contractions yet. My friend told us to go out to eat by ourselves so we could have dinner together.

We went to Panera's and then I had another big gush of fluid come on out there. Lovely. Just lovely. Then I actually started having real contractions. I was up all night as they went from 20 minutes apart to 5 minutes apart. We dropped my daughter off at my friends again, at 5 in the morning, and headed to the hospital.

Guess what? This time we got to stay! I was at 6 cm and everything was moving along really well. I am not a pain person, so I got an epidural which allowed me to get a quick nap since I wasn't able to sleep all night with the contractions (I had really bad back pain with them).

Everything went super well. It took a little longer to push her out than my first, but this baby was almost 2 pounds bigger than my first!

Everyone that worked with us was amazing and I was really happy the way everything went. Poor baby did end up breaking her clavicle during delivery, but it wasn't a big deal and healed real quick.

And that is it. The big girl starts school next week, so I'll probably be around a bit more then :)

Well Look Who's Arrived :)

Guess what???? Baby is here :) We will be home soon and then I'll be taking a little blog break while we adjust to our new family life. Everything went great and this little girl is just perfect. I just can't stop looking at her! The princess is loving having a little sister and daddy is loving having another daughter. I'll be back with the whole story and everything soon! Talk with you all later :)