a little tote bag for a little man

Back in December, just ten days after he became a big brother, Hayden suddenly decided one Sunday morning that the tote bag he always took to church was too childish. He was pretty insistent that he could just carry his Bible, activity books, and writing tools in his arms, but I somehow convinced him to keep using the old tote bag with the promise of a new one soon.

He didn’t know this, but when the mother of a newborn uses the word “soon,” she might mean “in six weeks.”

Last week I bought four feet of royal blue nylon webbing at JoAnn Fabric to match some canvas-like fabric I already had on hand. And on Saturday night while the kids were getting their baths, I sewed up a little blue tote bag.

Hayden told us that the Phillies wallet and Angry Birds watch we gave him for Christmas made him feel “like a man” (he’s six!), so hopefully this little blue tote bag also makes him feel like a little man.