Friday Favorites - The Time Capsule Part 2 of 3

  

Continuing on with Baby's Time Capsule.

Tin #2 is full of some of our favorite outfits that Sophia wore in her first and second years. 

There is the dress from our first family photo, her first Mother's Day, first Father's Day, and a cute sailor suit onesie that was a gift from friends in California.

There is a Santa union suit that was too small, but I managed to stuff her into it for a quick photo op (I know, the things we do for a photo!) as well as the Christmas pajamas (a white union suit and hat with candy canes) from her first Christmas.  I'm using the term union suit which I think now may be called a one-piece pajama - long sleeves, long legs, and zips all the way up the front.  

 The tin also contains her christening gown, bonnet, bib, shoes, and the knitted blanket my Mum made from wool that is so fine, it's like lace.  My sister sent the christening gown from Nordstrom in San Francisco.  I reached out to her to ask if she could look for something that was cool (as in not hot).  Everything I saw on Saipan was heavy satin with elaborate detailing.  Sophia would have been suffocating.  The dress my sister found was such fine cotton, it was just beautiful.  I took it to a seamstress and had her cut it vertically up the back, hem it, and then attach thin ribbons so that I could just slip her arms into it, tie it, and not have to lift it over her head.

Also in the tin is the black unitard that she wore for her second Halloween.  My Mum sewed a tail onto it and made ears to attach to a headband.

I dug around for the best photos I could find showing the outfits.

Mother's Day 1994, pink and white dress

Christmas 1994 pajamas (a white union suit and hat with candy canes)

Halloween 1995

And that is Tin #2.  Tin #3 coming next week.