30 August 2009 - 11:13finally knitting!

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.