A very busy month!

Please read this post bottom to top. Pics posted backwards!

4. And I finally gor ALMOST the 3 generations pic I wanted

with Anne-Sarah, Jenni, &  Ellie--we'll try for one with  Jazzie next time,   10/16/10

3.And a few days after that, on the 16th,baby Jenni grabbed her Zaide Seth's fnger & refused to let go!

2. A few days later, on the 11th, the day my mom would have been 101 hd she lived that long, we went to see Jenni and family, but Jenni, Anne, and Nick's mom had gone to the doctor, so we had some rare time with Jasmine (middle daughter) and her dughter Ellie, at 19 mos. getting some gymnastics tips from mom. 

A bit later Jenni & crew came home & almost immediately got a call from doc's office to go directly to ER--she was apparently quite dehydrated - some breastfeeding difficulties I suspect had to do wth being induced.
So it was off to ER for all of us, where some formula was added and Jenni was allowed to return home.


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Pics, of course, uploaded backwrds. Here's the first family photo with newborn Jenni Fae Hickey, mom Anne-Sarah (our youngest daughter), dad Nick -- a few hours after almost 3 days of induced labor &; little sleep.

Jenni arrived at 10:39 am on Oct. 6,2010, weighing 8 lbs., 8 oz. & 20 " tall.

It's a new year, and a new moon

so I'm just checking in.
I've been working on some jewelry, which will appear on The Creative Block, http://www.siragwatkins.com ; collecting and sorting dolls and doll clothes (mailed the kid clothes before Xmas) for when we finally actually see the grands of doll-playing age (though our youngest daughter, about to be 26, did run off with one doll and some clothes)and also crocheting a few hats, sweaters, scarves, etc. for these dolls; gearing myself up to make some clothes and jewelry for my newest dolls, which are ball-jointed with something like 13 or 14 points of articulation--meaning that girl dolls are finally jointed in as many places as action figures, and much more fun to mess with!; cooking delicious but sometimes odd meals to help Seth get his appetite back so he can finish recovering from pneumonia; and trying to figure out what I'm going to do for 2 January swaps--one is the Queen of Hearts--thought I had it covered, but the pieces refused to work together, so it's back to the drawing board on that--and the other is anything Alice in Wonderland in paperdoll form, so I'm thinking a flamingo--I've always liked them, and a jabberwock seems a little to major to finish in a few weeks. What I wonder, and have for awhile, is why, with all the creativity in my doll groups, do all of them seem to come up with the same themes, or variations on them? I can manage these 2 swaps, but that's it for Lewis Carroll! Last month everyone was on about momijis, & of course Halloween before that, and stars & icicles (I did the peace doll, which was the only alternative) in between.
It's like the Firda thing--you'd think there'd never been another female artist!
But maybe that's dying down a bit now.
Anyway, I'm off to photograph some stuff for my stores and then have another run at these dolls. I hope everyone's year has started out well and will improve as it goes on.

Post-Christmas bliss

Seth was in the hospital with pneumonia for a week right after my last post: he's been home but still pretty wiped out since the 23rd.
We were invited to visit daughters in Tacoma on Christmas day, but he was still too exhausted to be up for that long, I was still stiff from all the driving back & forth to hospital in Xmas shopper traffic. Things seemed a little bleak.

But yesterday the whole Tacoma crew came to visit us, bringing parts of Xmas dinner, gifts---but mostly their company! I was too busy playing with my darling grandbaby & talking to everyone else to even take a photo! Sure made my holiday brighter!