puzzles and crazy hair and sewing

it has been reallllly hot this week so we've been mostly staying indoors (we did go swimming once this week, which i failed to photograph). that means lots of books and puzzles, which are piper's favorite activities anyway (besides chasing the cat around...another post on that subject coming soon probably) . piper is getting really good at puzzles. like the farm one in the picture, she can do it all by herself. yeah, impressive, i know.
if you will notice, in these pictures piper looks like a mad scientist. this is what her hair looks like when we take her pigtails out. have i even posted a picture of her with pigtails recently? I can't remember. well it is dang cute.

i made piper a skirt today. it is pretty cute...especially considering i didn't use a pattern and she wasn't around to measure because she was napping. and i am not very good at sewing. anyway, it turned out pretty good. i'm trying to become less afraid of my sewing machine because there are so many things i want to make! i'll post a picture of her wearing it soon.