Visible Mending: Death to the Death Star Pants

During the April 2025 General Conference, I did some "visible mending" on a pair of Alexander's pants. I actually turned a hopelessly ruined pair of pants into a pair of shorts and used some of the cut-off part to make patches for a less-ruined pair of pants. 

You can see how awful the ruined pants were at his seventh birthday celebration (2024):

I wasn't sure Alexander would like my handiwork, but he did! He dubbed them his Death Star Pants and wore them a lot, though it took me a while to locate any pictures of him wearing them...first I found many pictures of him wearing his cutoffs.

Here he is wearing the cutoffs at Rachel's graduation:

And here he is wearing his Death Star Pants in September while we were out visiting Rosie:

And here he is wearing the pants again, this time in December:

I sent pictures to my family on April 5, 2025 to show them what I'd been doing during conference.

46 weeks later and he's put knees in these pants again! 

But...you can tell he's grown quite a bit—the hole is a couple inches lower than it was last year! 

These pants might be destined to live out the rest of their life as cutoffs this spring...