Our new baby

Sometime at the beginning of the year I was searching around and came  up with this wonderful idea. It's time to take care of an egg or in our case, a 5 pound bag of cornmeal. Most of us remember this exercise in futility from our Junior high or High school days. I had happened upon a program that even let you print off exercises! We have a Birth Certificate and everything! We planned during the month of January which elements we wanted to include.

Hali began her journey by sitting down and figuring how much of everything she was going to need. Then she figured up her "estimated cost" of how much she though it was going to be. We then went shopping and registered at Target so we could keep track of her needed purchases. She was so under budget I could only snicker at the time. I am glad that she learned this lesson.

One of the points section is planning and creating  your own baby. They get points for originality, point for creating a carrier and in our case she also got points for it's bed and a safe environment.

We set to work creating our little bundle of joy. I have packed away all of my old pantyhose and only had 2 pair of black stockings available. We all LOVE how the baby turned out.

 

Hali cut out her batting and covered the baby so it would be soft. She also cut out batting for the arms, legs and head.

 

After double wrapping the bag of meal we stretched the pantyhose over the body going 2 seperate directions. Hali then filled the head and sewed it closed. 

 

She then filled the arms and legs in and sewed them closed.

 

She used Large goodlie eyes and made a thread nose and mouth. By cutting out 2 colors of light blond and brown yarn, she created a head full of textured hair. She used a glue gun to keep it in place. She then trimmed the yarn giving her baby it's first haircut!

 

She wanted her little one to be properly dressed. Here she created an undershirt for warmth. She did all of her sewing by hand.

 

Meet Jeremiah Daniel Seaholm! He is inside of his carseat, which is attached to Abby's grocery cart! The baby followed Hali around and was much easier to take care of this way.

One of the things that was part of this unit was making sure your child ate. That means that everytime Hali ate, her baby had to come to the table with her also. She was also required to change the  baby and keep a care log.

If Hali should happen to leave the baby because of activities, it was a $.25 per hour cost to her. She also had to get a physician in case of an emergency. Our neighbor Dee filled this position for us.

 

Here is our little sugar bear! Isn't he just precious!