Iris’ balance bike came with a hard plastic bicycle seat. She complained about its oochiness from the very  beginning, and it was preventing her from enjoying the bike as much as she might with a comfy seat. After lots of searching, I determined there was nothing I could buy that would make the seat better, and there was no soft seat sold in the right size. So I decided to sew a soft shearling seat cover. Her bicycle seat is now the envy of all the girls in the neighborhood. Iris loves it!

The sweater pants I sewed for Iris nearly a year ago are getting mighty short. Yesterday I sewed Iris a new pair of pants from a sweater I’ve gotten bored of. It was a nice pink silk Ann Taylor sweater. Because I wanted the legs to be long enough, I had to go above the length of the arms to get enough length for Iris’ legs. This made it so that I have some fancy stitching on the front and back of the pants from the sweater’s shoulder seam.

Last Tuesday, I made Iris a soft-structured buckle carrier for Dolly.

It has a big hibou (owl) pocket on the back. She loves it.

Today she took Dolly on our walk to the river.

Before we left I told her, “Remember, Iris, if you carry Dolly in her carrier, I won’t be able to carry you.”

She was okay with that.

She does everything with Dolly on her back— just like she would if Dolly wasn’t there.

Just like I did when she was tiny.

The first time she wore Dolly in the carrier,

she asked me to play music so she could dance around the room and put Dolly to sleep.

Then she swept the kitchen a bit with her Iris-sized broom. She especially swept under the table.

On the walk home today, Dolly woke up.

Then Iris wanted the carrier buckled around her waist, off her shoulders, like I wear mine when she’s not in it.

She wanted help Dolly learn to walk.

My little girl is a sweet, sweet Dolly momma.