Coming home from hospital
Originally uploaded by wavybrains.
This is the only picture I have of Tavy in her coming home outfit due to a three way camera FAIL. It was a tie-dye onesie with matching hat and booties. Of course, we were expecting a late august/early September baby instead of the early FALL baby we got, so she wore it over a sleeper as to not turn into a tiny Popsicle. I was so exhausted and ready to be home that that first day was kinda of a picture taking black hole.
However, in a funny twist of fate, Tavy LOVES tie-dye and has a collection of t-shirts that she would happily wear at the expense of everything else in her wardrobe (even pants!). I still have this little set (somewhere . . . BAD Mama for not wrapping it in tissue paper and preserving it, but somewhere), but unlike his/her sister Flipper/Junior will have wardrobe OPTIONS.
Today was tie-dye day at Tavy's school, and OMG was she ever excited. On Friday when we bought two tiny undershirts for Flippy (hmmm. Maybe that nickname would work?), we talked about how we be making our OWN tie-dye shirts at school. And she talked about that all weekend, and she woke up this morning super excited.
She was all "LET ME AT THE SQUEEZE BOTTLES AND OUT OF MY WAY, LADY," as soon as she saw the area set up, and now we have a large ziploc baggie filled with: a shirt for Tavy, two tiny undershirts for Junior, and a really really tiny undershirt for Baby-Baby. I'm hoping that Junior shares Tavy's love of PURPLE! as that is the dominating color. SHAKE! SHAKE! SHAKE! So much fun!
I had forgotten how much I love tie-dye and how I love the Christmas present aspect of it--you do it, hoping the results will be spectacular, but you still have to wait and percolate and then rinse and dry and THEN you finally get to admire your creation. Later this week, we'll unveil what the future fashion designer created, but for right now, I just get to smile wistfully thinking of one tie-dyed baby turned big girl with purple thumbs and dreaming of the next little Rasta baby.
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