Rosy Revolver is having a giveaway!  Check it out here: necklace givaway.  JJ is super sweet and does gorgeous work.  I highly recommend her jewelry.

I finished my cowl a few weeks ago and have been working on an Ulmus shawl.  I love knitting triangles, and am really enjoying working on it.  It’s slow going, mostly because I don’t have very much time to knit, but slow and steady wins the race…..right?  It’s a great pattern.  The stitch pattern is really easy.  I did take a break from it last night though.  I knit a slug!

He was so much fun to knit.  Okay…he was actually supposed to be a snail, but I was really tired and I was hurrying to finish him before I had to go to bed, and I completely goofed the shell.  I know exactly what I did wrong, and I’m planning to start a snail as soon as I get done typing this.  It turned out for the best anyway.  I think he looks great as a slug.  The shell would have hidden his lovely stripes.  Sorry if he looks a bit fuzzy in the picture.  These were taken very quickly (it was raining) with my iPhone.

Speaking of rain, it’s been raining for 2 weeks now.  I am so tired of it.

Time to go knit a snail.

Seriously I do.  It’s an addiction really.  Anyway, I found some super cute baby teethers that I just had to share:

*all photos are taken from little sapling toys or ecoayris etsy listings*

From little sapling toys:

bludgeoning toy!

From ecoayris:

I bought the Triceratops and Bat teethers.  I’m seriously thinking about picking up the skull one too.

Oh yes….I finally started knitting again!  After about an 8 month hiatus (8 months of artsy fartsy angst), this is the first real productive knitting I have done since before Jacob was born.  I decided to start out practical and ignore the desire to knit a gorgeous lace triangular shawl.  So, I’m knitting another Stacked Eyelet Cowl.  My first one is one of my very favorite knitted items.  It got more wear than anything else last winter.  No matter how much I enjoy knitting fancy lace scarves and shawls, the only things that get any real wear are my fingerless gloves and my cowl.  A cowl is just so much more practical than trying to wrap a scarf or shawl around your neck and keep it there.  These days most of my knitting is done at night by a booklight while I lay in bed with Jacob.  He sleeps with us and refuses to sleep unless I am laying next to him.  Its fine with me.  I either read or knit, and it gives me a couple of hours of me time.

On the baby front, we cut two teeth last week and started eating sweet potatoes.  Yes….two teeth in one week.  Ouch.  Thankfully he’s started sleeping better.  He hasn’t been sleeping well for a couple of months now, and it must have been the teething.  They (the elusive they) say that teething symptoms can start 2 months before the teeth cut through and I think we were definitely seeing some of that.  Also we bumped his bedtime up by a lot.  He used to sleep in his swing in the evenings until I went to bed.  The older he’s gotten, the less he wanted to do that.  One day it hit us that, omg he isn’t going to sleep until I go to bed!  So now, we get in bed early and he falls right asleep.  It’s made for a much happier baby.

Thank God for camera phones.  Who has time to download pictures off a camera?!

That’s about all the time I have.  Another poopie diaper calls my name.  Seriously, I guess sweet potatoes = mega poops.

So good job with the blogging lately, huh?  Well, I’m still around.  Turns out a baby is very time consuming.  Also, we just bought and moved into a new house.  And….its seems Jacob might be teething.  Yeah….we are masochists.

Remember all that silversmithing stuff….yeah….I’ll get to it one day.  Although this is giving me time to build up an awesome stone stash.  Before Jacob was born, I remember thinking that my maternity leave would be the perfect time to learn to silversmith.  Go on, laugh at me, you know you want to.  Ah…first time parents.  I haven’t had the time, but even if I did, I doubt operating a torch in my sleep deprived state would be safe.

I love being a mother though.  Everyday is a new adventure.  I am lucky enough to be able to take Jacob to work with me, so I don’t miss anything.  He giggles, laughs, kicks, smiles, and loves me completely.  He is totally a momma’s boy.  I’m enjoying it because I know before long momma will have cooties and everything will be no girls allowed.  I never knew I could love someone so completely.