Just so you know I'm not totally incompetent.

At least when it comes to making homemade patterns and sewing things from them. Of course, pants are much easier, much more forgiving, and I've made several pairs of pants in my life. But still, I think it is a bit of an accomplishment to have done it with a pattern I made and to have done it in less than one naptime. (Measuring things in naptimes is becoming my new favorite thing.) The most difficult part of the process was stealing the elastic for the waistband from another pair of pants. Plus, Oliver makes them look sooo good, don't you think? And so what if the legs are about 3 inches too long? He could grow 3 inches in 2 weeks, right?