How Did I Miss This?

Somehow, these pics were never shared. Look at how proud she is.

Game Time

Due to recent events (1. many commented that I have twins; 2. hubby not being able to tell which kid climbed into our bed at night; 3. my mom made a bet with a friend to see which kid's picture was on the blog and LOST), I have decided it's game time again. Can you pick out the Boy from these?

Gift Opening Excitment

These were obviously from a couple of days ago. The gift opening was pretty exciting. Both kids had some really over the top reactions.

The Boy handing out one of the first gifts to be opened.


"It's a train! Open the box! Faster! Open! Santa brought a train!"


A short video of the excited pair opening some of their gifts. For the record, I didn't get them either of those gifts. I thought we narrowly escaped the whole Barbie thing but we didn't. Oh well.


After all the gifts had been opened, the Girl posed for a "victory" picture. There were more, but this was all she could carry. Hubby and I didn't really get the kids anything this year because they just have too much stuff. Somehow, they still ended up with 7 or 8 gifts each to open.


The Boy was much more sensible. He is wearing his new Christmas outfit and playing with his new train and animals. He saved the rest for later.


Then the Girl turned into our photographer. Here is her version of "daddy and his gifts".

New Girlfriend

Someone has a new girlfriend! Check out their shared interest.


Big sister insists on chaperoning. I think she's up to something...


Ah... she wants to see her own boyfriend.

Concert Part 2

Okay, the video was too long and it was too painful for an unskilled imovie user to edit it so I am not putting up the last one. To request a copy on CD, please send a self address envelop to La Casa De Langlangcreations. You will receive your order within a year or two. (No, really, just email me and I will send you a copy on CD.)


Oh, seeing his big sister perform totally puts the Boy in concert mode. Here is his version of his favorite Christmas carol. I love how he sings with so so so much gusto! Hey!

Merry Christmas!

I was going to edit these videos before I put them here. Then I realize it's going to take way too much time. I won't be done until Christmas 2010. So, here they are in their original form.



There are a couple others but they are too big to put on here. Maybe I will do them tomorrow.

On Demand Sewing

The Girl performed at her school wide Christmas concert last week. The concert was at 5:45. In the morning when she went to class, she saw that her friends were wearing pink dresses. So she requested at 1pm that I turn her white dress into a pink dress with lots of flowers on it. I convinced her to nap and got working.

Here is what we had to work with.


The most obvious thing was to add a pink sash.


Then I got working on the flowers. I have a lot of fabric at home but not a lot of trims. I had to make some flowers. The easiest thing to work with was felt. Luckily, I had a couple pieces of red and pink felt left from other projects. The first flower I made was this red one. I wanted some bright colours to make it more Christmas-y and less Easter-y.


I really liked how the first flower turned out. So I got thinking about what she can wear with the dress. The dress comes with a silver shrug which I was sure she was not going to want to wear. Then I remember how much I love seeing little girls wear capelets. I had some fleece left from Halloween so I made her a quick capelet and embellished it with more pink flowers.


Here is a closer look at the flowers.


The Girl had doubts when she saw the look I created. I had to convince her that she had quite enough flowers on her outfit and that I would be sure to remember to buy her a pink dress next time. Despite all this doubt, she was quite happy once she put the dress on.


Here is the complete outfit.


Here are some pictures to give you a sneak peak of the concert.








Stay tuned. Details of the concern will be here tomorrow.