The Birthday Buddies turn 1 and 12??

Mira is 1!!!!!  I can't believe it.  Time goes by waaay too fast.   Her and Uncle Neil are birthday buddies so we celebrated together.  Grandma Julie made cute, delicious cakes for them.  Mira got her own cake so she could "dive in."  Or she could if she wasn't being so grumpy.

Food time!

Play time!

 Gift time!

 It's his party too so he can cry if he wants too.  Neil claims to be 12.  We went along with it, 'cause he's Neil.

 This was the first time Mira tried sweets.  She had a lick of frosting...and didn't like it.  She didn't even get down to the cake.  Her teeth came in with the enamel already pitted so we are extra-ridiculously-careful with them.

Grandpa Swenson sent money for us to pick out a gift for Mira.  We got her a little table to match her kitchen.  It's just their size.

She's ONE!

I made her dress out of an old tank top of mine the night before but should have taken time to tack it closed!  oops.  This is me trying to get a pic of her the morning of her birthday. As you can tell she doesn't have time to pose for pictures she is on the move!

The reason I've been MIA: a felt playhouse...

68,762 hours later I am (mostly) finished!!!!!!! So my friend Amy H. sent me a few links of things on her "to do" list.  I don't know if I should love her or hate her for it. ;) One of them was a link to this.  I thought it was SO cute, I loved it.  Initially I scoffed at the idea of actually taking on such a huge project with my minimal skills.  I talked about it for days and then finally cuteness won out.  I took some of Jill's ideas and also ideas from playhouses found on etsy.  I am so incredibly slow at crafting. I've been working on it bit by bit over the last month.  I can't work on it with the little ones around.  Too many pins!  I lose them and (painfully) find them later as I'm crawling around.  Do people really use thimbles?  So you don't stab yourself?  I just assumed that's what they're for. You can laugh at me at will. I need me one of those.  Maybe ten.   The playhouse has some interactive parts instead of soley decorative pieces. The mailbox opens but I haven't yet made letters for it.  The flowers in the front planter are removable and have bendy stems.  The apples, tomatoes, lettuce and squash can be picked.(They have velcro.)  The carrots and onions can be "unburied" and the British Robin can be on the nest or birdhouse. I think it's about 42 inches wide, 52 long and 46 tall, give or take.  I wanted it to be big enough for both girls to play in.  The etsy playhouses are made to fit over cardtables which would be really convenient but kinda little for an almost 6 year old.  Mira is getting a kitchen set for her birthday that will go in it. There's probably a big problem with it though.  I'm fairly certain it's not going to hold up to Mira grabbing on to it to steady her walking so I might have to hide it for a while.  We shall see, we shall see. =)  I'm so excited to be doneish.  I kinda want to put some things on the inside walls with stitch witchery like a fireplace and endtable and such but I want to be done more at this point!  I do like working with felt but with all the effort it took I kinda wish I had just applied felt decorations to a really sturdy material background.
I have been in a super crafty mood.  I think it was a good time for a change from my video game junkie mood. ;)