More updates . . .

I was intending to follow up my last post with a more doll centric update, but then both kids got sick. Tiny (who is actually completely average in size but seems tiny to us) was terrifying in that way babies get when they're snotty, and the Giant had so much fluid build up in his ear that it actually burst his ear drum! So this is going to be a fairly rushed update, with pretty bad photos, before anybody wakes up.

All the local shops cut back on their shelf space for the Shopkins Happy Places stuff. Which meant getting every set for any building would've meant travelling to various shopping centres trying to find them, instead of just going to two shops. Before the kids, I probably still would've collected them and made seeking out every set into an adventure but now it just seemed way too hard, so I stopped getting them. I was going to get the Disney ones when they came out, but when I finally saw them I just didn't like them that much.

I was also getting a lot of LOL surprise dolls for a while too but simply put, the recent releases have just been too expensive. As it was I would only buy them if they were on special for fifteen dollars or less. But the confetti dolls were over twenty dollars and the newest ones are nearly thirty dollars! Which is bloody ridiculous for what they are.

I did get a second Maru and Friends mini pal, Jamie, for my birthday. But I haven't really done anything with her yet. I really like her but I'm not a huge fan of her dress. The fabric it's made from is lovely but the actual cut of the dress is simplistic in the wrong way. It doesn't (to me) look classic or cute, it looks like it's been made from the pattern of a generic, two dollar shop, doll dress.

I've also somehow amassed a little collection of 18 inch dolls. About a year ago I got two Journey Girls. Then more recently I got an Our Generation Rafael and rewigged him as a girl. I'm not overly happy with her wig, it looked a lot darker on EBay, but that's what you get buying stuff on EBay. Still deciding whether to get a new wig or just put up with this one. 

There's another girl coming as well. I don't know much about this new girl's brand, but they're often on EBay and Aliexpress under titles like " Handmade American Girl Doll". They're not American Girls. They're not even really knock offs, since they look nearly nothing like them. To me they look much younger than most 18 inch dolls, they're just the same size, with adorable little chipmunk faces.

I'm also considering, maybe, getting one of these girls from Target.

 They're about the same price as the Our Generation dolls and have pretty generic faces but they're sweet looking.

I also got the Our Generation kitchen set. I want to customise it for my Kish dolls but when I bought it I'd forgotten that my supplier of Mr Super Clear has closed down, so the first step is going to be finding somewhere, preferably in Melbourne, that sells that.

I think that's about it. So here's a picture of a dapper little skeleton boy. (Who loves Halloween more than anything.)

Babies and stuff

So this happened four weeks ago . . .

Normally I'd probably delete that picture, because I look like a nineteen year old boy. But knowing I have less than five pictures of myself with the Giant Baby, I don't want to delete any pictures with this one.

 I've heard rumours that being pregnant improves ADHD. Something to do with estrogen. I'd like to officially say that is a crock. I've always done things a little bit at a time because I don't have the focus to do things all at once. I even take a break halfway through washing the dishes. Sewing takes ages because I tend to take a two minute break for every six inches of sewing, or basting, or pinning. But while I was pregnant this stopped working. Because I would take my wander off break like normal but I'd completely forget to go back to whatever it was I'd been doing. As an example of how bad this got - I've been reading other people's blogs this whole time but I got to the point that I could only focus on a paragraph at a time. But I couldn't focus for long enough to comment on anything. I'd leave things open in tabs to comment on "later", put it off for a week, then have no idea why all those tabs open. It might have been funny if it wasn't so frustrating.

 Now I'm feeling more like myself again. I have my brain back but I'm too tired to get anything done yet. The Giant Baby is having a little bit of trouble adjusting, which isn't surprising since he is a bit spoilt. He loves his baby sister and is always asking to hug her, kiss her, hold her, pat her, but he's angry with me because he's not getting as much attention as he used to. And his dad has spoiled him even more than usual lately to the point where I could just about put them both on EBay.

The new baby is lovely. Of course she is. She's four weeks old. All she does is eat and sleep. She's healthy as a horse and thankfully she's built on Rachael scale, not Giant scale. (She's only just now hit the size the Giant Baby was when he was born, and she actually still weighs a little bit less)

I'm pretty sure this post is kind of disjointed and rambling but I'm going to post it anyway.