Your weekley Chisholm update

Kenn bought me a new camera for my birthday so I have lots of pictures to post. Thurs night I went out with my friend aimey’s mother to the craft store. Way back in August Mrs.Robin said she’d love to make a quilt for Brandon, so I picked out a pattern and we were supposed to go to pick out fabric… it just took me this long to do so! We went and picked the fabric out, and now I’m even more excited! Mrs.Robin is an awesome quilter, she’s made several that I’ve gotten to see. She isn’t planning on starting Brandon’s until after the new year but once its done I’ll be sure to post it on here. The theme is Rubber Ducks b/c “duck” was one of brandons first words and I thought it was pretty gender friendly so we can pass it down. I even came up with the idea of making the soap bubbles out of my wedding dress. So I brought my dress to the fabric store and we kinda flopped it down on the cutting counter and we just cut a piece right there in the store. (the sales people were looking at me like we were insane) That brings me to my next project for Mrs.Robin!

My SIL found this website where they turn your wedding dress into a hanging quilt, and I thought it was just the neatest thing. Here’s the link: http://www.thepatchworkbear.com/Wedding+Dress+Quilt
So my mother and I are taking both of our wedding dress’s and Mrs.Robin is going to make one quilt out of the two of them in the spring. (That has a lot more planning we need to do first) They also have bears you can get made out of your children’s clothing so after Lisa and I are done our felt projects (we started our cupcakes last Tuesday) we are going to make the bears ourselves out of the kids baby clothing. She said she made one out of that pattern in the past, and I think it looks like something we can do.

One of Brandon’s new obsessions is the Christmas lights (which I mentioned before) so every time we drive at night he gets VERY excited as we drive past peoples houses, and he says “ohhh” and then “more” immediately after. So Kenn came up with the great idea to go see the 34th st lights in Hamden last week. It was pretty neat, although I was shocked that it was only one block. I think we’re going to go back with my mom and walk it.

Sat morning was $1.00 day at the Baltimore museums so we met up with our friends John & Jody and took Brandon. He Loved the dinosaurs dirt excavation area. He didn’t want to leave! He had one or two things he clung to on each floor. But when we got to the children's area on the 3rd floor, that’s where he was in his element. They had a small toddler area where they had a “fish tank” themed area with large plush building blocks. So he kept stacking them and knocking them over. Then we went to the water area where he got to play in the fountain with the boats. Then we went over to the play boating area where he was “fishing” with a magnetic fishing pole. He loved it all. We’ll have to take him back and go straight to the 3rd floor next time. I’ll post pictures later.

Sat night we went and had dinner with the Miller Family, and then Kenn and Chris went to a show while Courtney, Delaney, Brandon and I went to the Sandy Point Light display. We had a good time, Brandon had his first candy cane (given to him by Santa at the entrance). Sunday we did the normal thing !

Oh sat night we had an “exciting night”
So last June (some may remember) my cat Mocha got out at night and was missing for 3 nights. I went door to door and handed out poster's, called all the animal hospitals and went to animal control. my next door neighbor saw something black go under her shed so my husband went over and we found him.So you'd think that would stop him from wanting to go outside...NO.He tries to go out when the dogs go out the back door at night. Not every time we open the door but he sits right next to it and watches us. Maybe 1x every other week he actually runs out, we grab him and he comes back in.
Well sat night i came home, saw him at 9pmish. i went to bed at 11:30 and i realized he wasn’t in the house. (he has a nightly routine). I had let the dogs out a couple times and gotten firewood twice out the back door so he had a couple of options, and since he's black he easily gets out and I don't see him.So i didn't go to bed till after 1am. I went outside and looked around the house, then Kenn came home from a show and he looked. no success. Kenn put out food on the back porch and Sunday Am thought ti looked like it had been eaten. We looked again Sunday. (BTW it had been snowing off and on these two days) Sunday night we were getting ready for bed again and kenn put the food out, then he went back downstairs like 10 mins later and guess who’s eating on the porch? So today I went out and bought a cat harness and he’s going to wear a bell at all times so I can hear him walk past me. Darn animals know how to stress you out. Last time he did this i lost my wedding rings, so im secretley hoping now i'll find mine haha.