well, i'm glad that i didn't miss it! my blog will be 4 years old on the 30th! sorry for all of the radio silence lately. now that i'm home and taking care of the nut i'm also freelancing for work on the side. between the two and doing little things for the production company, there's no time to blog. right now i have 20 minutes before i have to wake up the sleepy peanut and i doubt that i will even finish this entry in the time alloted. i always sit down to post an entry and something happens! i either lose track of my thoughts or we have some sort of meltdown here. it's a tough job this whole mothering business. thank god it's so rewarding.
morning surfing
i have my first post baby FO to show and wow do i feel letdown by the fact that it has taken me 6 months to complete something. of course, i'm still making miters so i guess it's not a complete loss. i just look at a few other moms out there in blogland and i'm depressed that i can't find more time for knitting like they do. it's one of the few stress-free activities that i have left to me and i can't even knit one row on a miter most days! the good news is (and i always try to find the good news lately) that i make it out of the house almost everyday and exercise with the peanut. we have a jogging stroller and i have a short route picked out through prospect park that i speed walk with her. i love it and it's really keeping me in some sort of shape.
so anyway, the FO. yep, i finally finished miss dashwood. it's still a bit big on her but by the time it cools off here it should fit. dude, it's been in the 80s (approx 30°C) with high humidity here lately. i can't believe that i'm running the air con right now.
a bit drooly
i decided to use some ribbon instead of a tied knit chinstrap. i also installed some pearl snaps on it. i love it. full details on ravelry.
love the earflaps
the earflaps are particulary cute. keep those wee ears nice and toasty. sorry for the almost identical pics. she's not a good model. moves too fast.
i'm still working on miters. i have 14 done and one more color to knit before i've hit the halfway mark. i still love them to death.
so the reason why i'm a bit on edge lately (had you noticed?) is because the nut is now 6 months old! 6 MONTHS! how did that happen? i'm such a proud mama of all the things she's accomplishing:
sitting up on her own,
playing in her exercauser (which she hated a couple of weeks ago),
eating solids (almost always three times a day! some video here),
and is really into electronics (wonder where she gets that from?)
still no teeth and still hates being on her stomach which means that she may not crawl for quite some time. she's also just now in the midst of her 6-month growth spurt. you know how much i hate growth spurts right? my god, she's fussy all of the time and wants to eat constantly. she also doesn't want to nap or go down to sleep at night. it's very frustrating. up until last night, she had dropped her night feeds and was sleeping through! but now not so much. maybe we'll have better luck tonight. *knock on wood*
oh sweet sleep
so four years ago when i started this blog, i was a single woman (just engaged to KP) and hadn't even thought about where i would be in four years. if you had told me then that i would start knitting, it would become my passion, i'd have a baby and quit my job to stay home, i would have told you you were nuts. i can hardly believe it myself most days how far i've come in a few years or how my life has changed since i moved to NYC in 2000. here's to another 4 happy years and many more!
p.s. it took me over a day to get this entry ready and post. sigh.
p.p.s. more photos at flickr and videos at vimeo!!
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